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Michael Carvin
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Married to a saint. Socially awkward. Liberal. Focus, attention = kryptonite Learning→trying→failing→repeatedly to develop an app for dog owners. Mostly politics and movies. Sometimes both. Movies @ https://letterboxd.com/mcarvin
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I didn't have anything re: CSCW on my bingo card today.

I really wasn't expecting to see 5 very interesting papers on the intersection of CSCW with real world social, political and/or legal matters.

Thanks for sharing and thanks to @migueldeicaza.bsky.social for reposting this!
Th Washington Times: for those who think the Washington Examiner is too liberal.
If I had a conspiracy streak in me, I'd look at this guy and MTG and Thomas Massie, and wonder if this were a test to see if Dems can get behind that flavor of politician.
And not for nothing, the $40B isn't because an economically-failed Argentina would have ripple effects across South America and you help your neighbor when their house is on fire.

It's in no small part to help Scott Bessent's buddy, which I learned weeks ago from some article in some magazine.
Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire
A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
www.motherjones.com
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I feel like people are sort of sleeping on the US Attorney for EDVA clarifying—to a reporter!—that she did indeed intentionally violate the Federal Records Act by setting the Signal messages to auto-delete
who “could in fact treat their slaves the way the Bible tells them to treat their slaves,” and that although he condemns slaveowners who “actually engaged in real abuse,” Christians “cannot condemn the entire institution of slavery outright.”

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that it’s “not inherently evil to own a human being,” and that “every Christian in today’s society should be able to defend” those claims, Right Wing Watch noted. Haymes said it was “chronological snobbery” to condemn the United States’ slave-owning founders,

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Joshua Haymes — a far-right podcast host and former pastor at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s church who argued that the fall of the pro-slavery Confederacy inflicted longterm damage to the nation — went on a rant last week saying “the institution of slavery is not inherently evil,”

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www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

tl;dr: Former pastor of Hegseth's church says slavery is a-okey-dokey.

Between this and the dynamic duo of Chip Roy and Tommy Tuberville...fuck it, they're just racist fucking clowns.

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These pro-Trump influencers are all-in on chattel slavery
MAGA influencers and a GOP operative have been offering defenses and outright endorsements of slavery in recent weeks.
www.msnbc.com
Hmm, yeah, I see.

High Anxiety seems to be popping up a lot for me the past week. It was on Movies! and I think TCM had it on. Sign from above.

Also: The In-Laws with Peter Falk. Airport ‘75 and bask in George Kennedy’s “range”. Pre-code DeMille for that special kind of cray cray.
Is it all Come and See, Uncut Gems, Threads, etc?
Northern District of Illinois: “Chicago’s not burning down. Please stop misrepresenting things.”

7th Circuit: “Again with you and the bullshit. Please stop.”

SCOTUS: “Not only is Chicago burnt to a crisp, we should have really brought in UN peacekeepers to help the entire armed forces!”
It's like some people have a perception of Catholicism based on:
1) The Crusades
2) The Inquisitions
3) The Prophecy with Christopher Walken
a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in a dark room .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in a dark room .
media.tenor.com
And is living his truth by not seeing a woman get paid for doing nothing.
See, this is what you get when you have a Republican who doesn’t want to see an American woman of Mexican heritage get paid for doing nothing because the House is out of session.
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The Chicago Pope is gonna excommunicate the Supreme Court majority so they’ll feel even more persecuted
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
That might be the coolest thing someone said since I joined this place!
Look around…can you make a rudimentary lathe?
Speaking of concerned sons, I found this candid behind-the-scenes photo of the sons looking at their father.
15 paragraphs in, and The Hill just about gets there.

"That too remains a jump ball, especially as Democrats continue to cry foul over the possibility of the Trump administration taking more steps to claw back on a partisan basis funds that had passed the Senate with bipartisan support."
Senate GOP, Thune throw curveball into shutdown fight — The Hill
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is throwing a curveball into the shutdown fight as he plans to bring a full-year spending bill for the Pentagon to the floor on Thursday, effectively daring ...
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this is the dumbest shit i have ever read
"[Rep. Dave] Taylor believes it is the result of “foul play or vandalism,” the spokesperson said."

Yes. Foul play. Vandalism. Sure.