Charlotte
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Cat wrangler. Amateur German speaker. She/her. Live, laugh, lesbian. 🏳️‍🌈 Minneapolis
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I DO NOT WANT INTERNET OF THINGS I WANT INTERNET WITH THINGS AND THOSE THINGS ARE MY FRIENDS WHO MAKE INCREDIBLE ART AND JOKES AND SHARE WHAT MAKES THEM FIND BEAUTY IN THIS GODFORSAKEN WORLD. DEATH TO CONTENT LIFE TO ART DEATH TO ALGORITHMS LIFE TO SHOWING ME YOUR COOL THING.
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Since it looks like we're going to be talking about "general strikes" a lot in the coming weeks/months/years/oh God oh God, let's clear a few things up.

General strike? YES GOOD!!!

If--and this is a huge if--the purpose of the strike is clearly defined and communicated to all parties.
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Nobody wants to know who tells Trump to say things like that one president invoked the Insurrection Act 28 times during his presidency?
Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."
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Facts

For folks who think of themselves as great drivers, I promise you you're probably a shitty driver from a pedestrian/cyclist perspective.

It wasn't until I started to experience life outside a car again that I began to see how shitty and unqualified I was to drive.
I don’t think most people should be allowed to drive cars.

I’m on the list
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
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I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
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Real life Bird/Rabbit illusion
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Prof. David Noll joins me to talk about the growing threats to American democracy, the rise of authoritarianism, and how Trump’s second term agenda could erode the rule of law. He unpacks the dangers of state-sponsored vigilantism, election subversion, and the weaponization of the legal system.
Is Trump Planning a Military Takeover? | Professor David Noll
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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A Border Patrol agent in Round Lake Beach on the morning of Friday 10/18 tells the person filming his license plate, "we change plates out every day."
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So this is what's above the fold in today's NYT, while the protests get two photos below the fold and a piece on A23. I know I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but damn.
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“I’m going to stop dunking on the NYT as much, it’s too obvious and - “

OH COME ON
So this is what's above the fold in today's NYT, while the protests get two photos below the fold and a piece on A23. I know I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but damn.
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Protesters are reporting today that state troopers at Broadview were exceptionally violent last night, lots of baton strikes including at heads and faces. Everyone arrested has been released.
Chaos. ISP just made a charge, pushing people back east toward 25th Ave., right into cars pulling out of the parking lot. I hear people talking about arrests but it's too dark to see. People panic, run.
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It's not a ceasefire if they're sending air attacks. What is wrong with everyone
BREAKING: The Israeli military says it has begun a wave of air attacks on southern Gaza as the precarious ceasefire comes under threat.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7g8svh
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A leftist's head would explode if they had to watch sports with such an incredibly shitty setup
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it's crazy that this guy can just refuse to do his job and there's apparently nothing anyone can do about it
KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right?

MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.
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I’m on an eerie hot streak of inquiring about when things will happen only for them to happen immediately after I ask, so here I present an open-ended question. Apply it as needed.

Will today be the day?
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The vice president is a literal shitposter.

I guess this is the only job they think he's capable of handling.
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Almost all modern social problems in America can be linked to car dependent infrastructure
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Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
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It’s been a month since Adelita Grijalva won—and Mike Johnson still won’t swear her in. 18 days of shutdown. No more lies. No more delays. Swear her in NOW. The Epstein files aren’t going anywhere—the cover-up is cracking, and the victims deserve justice.
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What makes something a heist as opposed to a theft? Is it simply how cool it is?
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As soon as rain started clearing, Border Patrol began terrorizing Mount Prospect and Rolling Meadows
Never been more thankful for gloom and rain (ICE is quiet right now)
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If you were one of the millions of people at No Kings who has a subscription to the NYT that diminishes your number to thousands. Now would be a good time to cancel your subscription
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For the “aha, but will those protesters get involved in other organizing??” skeptics…Boston No Kings had a big row of booths providing info + sign-up sheets for a bunch of local activism and political organizations. I have seen similar at other 50501 events.

(Which you’d know if you went to one..)
I think some of the people on social media sneering at the No Kings protesters are just mad that those normies with signs are way better shitposters than they are
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We should talk more about how getting through this is going to involve rebuilding most of our information institutions completely from the ground up (at the very least news media/journalism, universities, and the entire technology sector; libraries seem fine). Whole scale capture by disinformation.