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Minister Denby
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Union officer, diplomat. Evansville, Peking, Tientsin.
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“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”

@reuters.com #Chicago
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Thread.
A Nancy Pelosi story:

After she left leadership, she was flying out of Dulles. Security would drop her at a place you wouldn't expect... for security reasons.

I was picking up my parents who were visiting and...
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The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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I’m like radically opposed to most of his policies but he was up against ghouls and deserved to win. But that resume is thin and we gotta watch how it goes.
I think the morality of generative image AI is directly proportional to the extent to which the user is using AI for a profit.

For example,

Generating AI images for NPCs in your homebrew = acceptable (sorry Bsky!)

Selling that homebrew = unacceptable

Publishing your own book with it = fuck off
Alternatively, The Open Society and Its Enemies — and other books Trump has never read.
clearly trump has read leszek kolakowski and is following his attribution of the origins of communism to plato
Marx, Engels, and Lenin, famous political philosophers of the Byzantine Empire
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Still drives me fucking bonkers how much of a thing this became
Checking in on these dudes, brb.
The anti-Trump vibe is real, the Dems have an actual political party, while the Republicans have jailed all the doctors and let the Red Guards run the hospitals, politically speaking.
I suppose my lingering off-year-election vibe is that the Dems got carried forward by a wave of anti-Trump fury at a time when pretty much all of the potential movement for Trump is down.

The economy has room to fall, but not rise. ICE has space for catastrophic failure, but not notable success.
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ACAB and Defund The Police -- the two most destructive messaging efforts from sloganeers who don't actually want to fix a fucking thing and will, at every opportunity, alienate the entire electorate from actual police reform for the sheer pleasure of their own self-regarding purities.

Eat a dick.
Okay but ACAB includes David Simon.
Hard, fast rule from a veteran police reporter: Excepting anyone engaged in infiltrating a criminal conspiracy in an undercover capacity, any law officer who hides his identity from the public is a shitheel is doing vile shit and is, in fact, actively destroying the credibility of law enforcement.
“This isn’t rocket surgery here.”
its honestly remarkable how this administration is truly the Ministry of All Talents but the dumbest, worst people in the country
Oh, Dort. GWOT vet here. The kick in the nuts was a President attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order, not citizens freely casting votes for their preferred candidate, regardless of my desired outcome. Might want to dust off that oath you claim to live by.
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Nigel Farage's favoured Mayoral candidate for Doncaster said black people cannot be English.

Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’.

The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times

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Nigel Farage's Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English
The party's candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon 'lineage' and attacked 'third world cultures' in now-deleted posts
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Horrific.
Update: The UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, Ky., killed at least 11 people and injured several others, Gov. Andy Beshear said, adding that he expected the death toll to rise to 12 or 13. A young child appears to be among the fatalities, he added. on.wsj.com/4hKVL7R
Death Toll in UPS Cargo-Plane Crash Climbs to 11, Workers Still Missing
The Honolulu-bound aircraft hit two local businesses close to Louisville airport.
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Armed ICE officers arrested a teacher early Wednesday in Chicago after chasing her onto the grounds of a private preschool and grabbing her as parents and students looked on, according to a local official and witnesses.
Armed ICE officers chase teacher into preschool in Chicago
The arrest appears to be among the first in which in which immigration officers entered school grounds as part of an enforcement operation during Trump’s second administration.
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To recap: A party devoted to servitude of their CHUD God-King will not get out the vote.
Tuesday just goes to show that when you restructure your political party into a personality cult built around the current occupant of the White House, you don’t really have a political party any more.
Black Trump and Italian-American Bill Clinton much less classy than Warriors Cosplay Beret. Who knew?
Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night.

He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.
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to quote @slacktivistfred.bsky.social, vampires fear the cross *because* it is powerless.
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racist tradcath has to be seen, I think, as its own form of heresy
It's quite fascinating how tradcath converts like JD Vance and Kevin Roberts are increasingly at war with much of a more liberal Catholic Church hierarchy in the United States
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It is somewhat fitting that local GOP logo looks like a blast radius because last night was a blowout and this party is radioactive.
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To be clear, I think both Schumer and Jeffries preferred Cuomo
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imo socialist and capitalist are 0% technical meaning at this moment, and 100% vibes / group identification. Trump is attempting a command economy fever dream built on coercion and grift, but is nominally the "capitalist" guy.
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Frankly I'm shocked (complimentary)
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one thing that other candidates need to learn from mamdani is how to deliver the most cold blooded attacks on an opponent with a smile on your face