There's a lot of unwarranted smugness that Kamala Harris has this election in the bag. It's not. It's pretty much a toss-up, and that's scary.
#Politics #Election2024

The Facts of #history

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Smore

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.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-davis-donald-trump-white-house-administration_n_670a89e1e4b04266ae8512fc

It's genuinely frustrating how The Dems continue to fumble when it comes to building momentum during election years.

How the hell did we go from "Republicans are weird" to "We gotta meet these weirdos halfway" this fucking quick?!

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

Gift article
https://wapo.st/3NndYtN

Meta’s Surveillance Glasses, Synthetic Data, and why bigger isn't always better

#Meta #Untangled

https://open.substack.com/pub/untangled/p/metas-surveillance-glasses-synthetic

Meta released new augmented reality glasses — called Orion — two weeks ago. While it’s unclear what exact problem the glasses are solving, it’s obvious why Meta is pursuing this strategy: they want to become their own platform

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Estonians prepare to defend themselves against Russia https://p.dw.com/p/4lXr6

Night CoSo! 💜 Sweet dreams.

Spanish Dancer Spiral Galaxy

Thor's Helmet

Robin's Egg Nebula

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

Now don't y'all go anywhere either...

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Teddy bear sunflowers are a real thing
Yup. I googled it. You can buy them for as little as $3.99 for the seeds. 😍

It would really suck to have to raise my Native American daughters in another country but I get the feeling they might be better off if Trump is elected. Tired of Natives being sidelined when natives are dying out and have fought for hundreds of years in our own homelands.

#climatechange