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Home Despot, LCSW

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Anti-Racist Narrative Therapy and Baseball Snark. Lawful Good doesn’t mean Lawful Nice.

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Home Despot, LCSW @chinmusiclcsw.bsky.social · Apr 9

We’re wasting a lot of time with the mental masturbation of figuring out WHY he’s off-road and mowing pedestrians.

Take his keys.

Want the market to stabilize?
Take his keys.

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Home Despot, LCSW @chinmusiclcsw.bsky.social · 7h

Once upon a time there were (vinyl?) pop-up city playsets that folded up like a briefcase; for use with little toy cars. Also popular at that time was a McDonald’s playset

“was given control”

Home Despot, LCSW @chinmusiclcsw.bsky.social · 15h

Did we ever get an explanation as to why Wisconsin has not brought charges on his election cash splash there?

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16h

This is chilling.

"Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact, Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime. Rather, the Trump administration is alleging he’s 'glorifying terrorism' via social media posts."

When Storytelling Is Called ‘Terrorism’: How My Friend and Fellow Journalist Was Targeted by ICE

As a DACA recipient, Ya'akub Ira Vijandre’s arrest holds drastic implications for the state of free speech in America.

thebarbedwire.com

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Home Despot, LCSW @chinmusiclcsw.bsky.social · 15h

but he’s not on the ballot lol

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation.

If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.

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Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s hear it for JD Vance’s half brother getting rinsed in the Cincinnati mayoral race

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d

Specifically, the fear of God comes from GOP uncertainty with rejiggering maps after Virginia turned into practically a supermajority state overnight. You might redistrict yourself right out of a job

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

Historical perspective on Virginia election results-

Abigail Spanberger is on track to win by the largest margin of any Democratic candidate for Governor since 1961, before the integration-era party realignment.

Democrats will win their largest House of Delegates majority since 1987.

A BIG night.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like a good time for the Speaker of the House to swear in Rep. Grijalva.

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 1d

2/ From statement by The FBI Agents Association: “Director Patel has disregarded the law and launched a campaign of erratic and arbitrary retribution. FBI Agents deal in facts, and we urge Director Patel to do the same”

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grateful gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d

Put this one on upset watch. This is a Trump +20 district.

grateful gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d

In Fort Worth, Democrat trade unionist Taylor Rehmet is ahead in the race for Texas Senate District 9 over his two Republican opponents, former Southlake mayor John Huffman and the chief comms officer of Patriot Mobile, a Christian right wing cellphone company, Leigh Wambsganss

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 1d

A hill I will die on is that a central pillar of the next Dem platform is the establishment of a Fed Reserve (but more independent) like anti-Corruption bureau that has the power to indict anyone including those in office.

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 1d

A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees

Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 1d

Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · Jun 25

If you're about to post something mean about Andrew Cuomo, I urge you to pause, take a deep breath, and think of something even meaner.

andy™ @andylevy.net · Jun 25

i think cuomo did well considering he couldn’t campaign while the sun was up

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1d

that weird orc from Lord of the Rings: "Looks like woke's back on the menu, boys"

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Home Despot, LCSW @chinmusiclcsw.bsky.social · 2d

The Charles Manson Republicans.

No. Really.

Home Despot, LCSW @chinmusiclcsw.bsky.social · 2d

I couldn’t imagine a better medicare expansion campaign than the one the GOP is running right now.

Home Despot, LCSW @chinmusiclcsw.bsky.social · 2d

IDK first photo is how I look at someone holding a copy of The Post

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Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 2d

Dia de los Muertos at Hollywood Forever. Absolute bummer this year. I'm glad they didn't cancel it, I'm glad people showed up, I'm glad ICE didn't raid. Still, it was a shell of itself. Hardly any food vendors or ofrendas. Timed entry so very few people attending. No stages or live bands. 🧵💀

I like this photo I got of the back of ladies carrying baskets of offerings on their head.

I don't totally get the curio setup but it's cool and creepy. At night the lights under the donkey were lit up and flickered, maybe somebody took video.

This elderly man posed for an impromptu photoshoot at this ofrenda, seemed lovely.

Depsite the low turnout, still lots of people who busted their ass at crafting showed up.

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Home Despot, LCSW @chinmusiclcsw.bsky.social · 2d

when there is so very much to grieve

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 3d

A reminder that less than two months ago, the Trump administration abruptly ended the federal government's 27-year practice of collecting data on hunger and food insecurity.

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Home Despot, LCSW @chinmusiclcsw.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine being in the group trying to explain the distinction between narcissistic and antisocial.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 2d

And for posterity, Mamdani's last name 「曼達尼」can be interpreted as "the long, graceful path to peace".

There you have it, a noble man with an incorruptible spirit, who puts down fame and fortune to take the long, winding road towards peace, despite the cold winter ahead.

That's a hell of a name

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Home Despot, LCSW @chinmusiclcsw.bsky.social · 2d

Speak Legal and Enter

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 2d

seems bad!

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Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don’t want to formally take on debt—that is, directly ask investors for loans—because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell—a bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this: Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence, issuing bonds backed by Meta’s rent. And multiple data-center leases can be combined into a security and sorted into what are called “tranches” based on their risk of default. Data centers represent an $800 billion market for private-equity firms through 2028 alone. (Meta has said of its arrangement with Blue Owl that the “innovative partnership was designed to support the speed and flexibility required for Meta’s data center projects.”)

In this way, the data-center financing ends up being a real-estate deal as much as an AI deal. If this sounds complicated, it’s supposed to: The complexity, investment structure, and repackaging make exactly what is going on hard to parse. And if the dynamics also sound familiar, it’s because not two decades ago, the Great Recession was precipitated by banks packaging risky mortgages into tranches of securities that were falsely marketed as high-quality. By 2008, the house of cards had collapsed.

Data-center build-outs aren’t the same as subprime mortgages. Still, there is plenty of precarity baked into these investments. Data centers deteriorate rapidly, unlike the more durable infrastructure of canals, railroads, or even fiber-…

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Home Despot, LCSW @chinmusiclcsw.bsky.social · 2d

The Times is so underhanded that it used “Lob” when there was no perceptible arc.

He applied it.

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