John Skonieczny
johnnyskins.bsky.social
John Skonieczny
@johnnyskins.bsky.social
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Opposition Research, Old School Death Metal, and The Arsenal.
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I can confidently say no liberal lives in a bubble equivalent to just assuming everyone in the country reflexively associates white t-shirts with Charlie Kirk
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I had my political differences with Dick Cheney, but in person I found him warm, funny, a gracious host and surprisingly knowledgeable about music. Seeing The Jesus Lizard with him in 2009 was a blast, and he didn't hesitate to wade into the pit despite a few sidelong glances.
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Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,
NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.
The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies
Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.
www.theatlantic.com
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Third Way's Matt Bennett goes on record saying that Democrats must embrace corrupt sexual predators endorsed by Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Stephen Miller to expand their electoral map and win elections.
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War is hell.
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.

The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.

"I could smell the onions and mustard."
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we the people of the jury find the defendant not guilty of throwing a sandwich … however we find the border patrol agent guilty of being a giant baby that’s scared of his shadow
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.

The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.

"I could smell the onions and mustard."
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Just want to get on the record that I have not seen anybody of that name commit any sort of crime, felony or otherwise
OMG What Marvin Harrison Jr did to Daron Bland should be a felony
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Holy shit that sticker is incredible
Oh spectacular. I follow Cola but must have missed this one. Thanks!
How does one procure such a garment?!?
The CIA agent lecturing people on being honest? I've seen it all.
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there he goes, Spain's first astronaut
This but with a French dip
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It's election season in St Paul. Every few years the whole town gets together to debate the pressing political questions of our time -- Is a small business an autonomous nation? Do garbage cans have rights? If I'm rich enough, do I own the street in front of my house?
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I don’t disagree that Ben Shapiro is trying to kick Carlson out. But I still think the analogy here is fights between White Citizen’s Councils and the Klan. On most points, these folks agree. But the establishment prefers their bigotry thinly veiled and this is harder to maintain in the Trump era.
Ben Shapiro is outright trying to kick Tucker Carlson out of the conservative movement in this video. The right's civil war is truly here www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaRJ...
Tucker Carlson Sabotages America
YouTube video by Ben Shapiro
www.youtube.com
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The public-facing side of American conservative politics more or less amounts to crashing out constantly about a bunch of shit that either you or the weird liars you listen to uncritically have made up. The non-public part, from what we've seen of the chat logs and such, is somehow much worse.
"Not Like Us (in that we exist)"
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Chat, I'm not sure if a system that endlessly rewards being a cruel, dishonest, soulless hack and endlessly punishes doing something useful or good is a system that will survive, or a system that we want to survive.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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It’s truly scary how few mainstream publications are willing to publish working class voices and perspectives (let alone leftist ones), and every one we lose is yet another blow to the fragile hope for a better world
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Very divisive thing to say. How can we hope to win if we don't give up on everything we believe in?
It's a good thing to believe in ideals and fight for them.
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”