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My social media interests include humor, current affairs, politics (we live in interesting times), history, art, cinema, and technology.
Joined Apr 2022
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MAGA Stalwart Sought For Top Trump Administration Job Has A Shocking Agenda
Mike Davis, a potential attorney general pick by Donald Trump, has outlined extreme policy positions, though it's hard to tell if some of them are jokes.
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Estonians prepare to defend themselves against Russia https://p.dw.com/p/4lXr6
Trump suggests heckler should ‘get the hell knocked out of her’ after rally
The remarks were part of a dark speech at a California rally where Trump called the United States an "occupied country."
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Name calling, calls for violence, extreme vilification of immigrants, and threats are the honey that attracts MAGA in 2024.
#Politics #Trump #MAGA #Election2024
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3:25 min. video by The Economist tracing the origin of the bogus story about Olena Zelenska, wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, supposedly spending $1 million at Cartier in New York.
It starts with an Instagram video, the origin of which we learn at the end.
#Ukraine #OlenaZelinska #Disinformation
https://youtu.be/Cqw0QuCRPNY
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John Roberts Has Lost the Public.
Does He Care?
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Cory Doctrow describes the process of Internet platform decay "ensh*tification" as:
"Here is how platforms die: [1] first, they are good to their users; [2] then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; [3] finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. [4] Then, they die."
At what stage is the Google search engine?
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U.S. officials are coming to a troubling realization about Iran’s repeated threats to kill Donald Trump and some of his former top generals and national security strategists: Tehran isn’t bluffing — and it isn’t giving up anytime soon.
Roughly a dozen national security aides from the Trump White House are feared to be Iran’s hit list. It’s hard to protect them all.
#News #Security #Defense #Politics
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/11/iran-trump-assassination-plans-00183488
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Germany: Large WWII bomb detonated in Cologne https://p.dw.com/p/4lhZ0
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Dark MAGA Nazi Dork's robotaxi event gets panned and stock price goes down. Love it!
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/10/elon-musk-makes-bold-claims-about-tesla-robotaxi-in-hollywood-backlot/
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Justice Department Sues Virginia for Violating Federal Law’s Prohibition on Systematic Efforts to Remove Voters Within 90 Days of an Election https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-virginia-violating-federal-laws-prohibition-systematic-efforts
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@Alfred Why do people consider Joshua to be a christ?
Graph Shows How Americans' Trust in SCOTUS Is Falling
#SCOTUS #Poll #Abortion #Politics #SupremeCourt
https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-scotus-trust-politics-roe-v-wade-1965108
Who was the immigrant man on the beach at Coney Island?
Fascinating background to the famous 1960 New Yorker photograph by Diane Arbus. "I found my father-in-law in The New Yorker," New York Post, 2016.
https://nypost.com/2016/07/07/i-found-my-father-in-law-in-the-new-yorker/
An Old Clash Heats Up Over Oppenheimer’s Red Ties
As Harvard and a top biographer square off, proponents of a middle path see a tangled life in which the superstar of science was, and was not, a true Communist at the same time.
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Openheimer as Schrödinger's cat.
#Politics #Openheimer /nosanitize
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Russia's intelligence agency has been on a mission to generate "mayhem on British and European streets", the head of MI5 has said, as he warned the UK faces the most "complex and interconnected" threat it has ever seen.
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To understand JD Vance, you need to meet the “TheoBros” https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/theobros-jd-vance-christian-nationalism/ via @MotherJones
No time to read? Google’s new AI will turn anything into a podcast
The new podcast craze is two AIs talking about anything you want. Should you trust it?
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Do you do this? What's it like?
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My social media interests include humor, current affairs, politics (we live in interesting times), history, art, cinema, and technology.
Joined Apr 2022