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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3h

we’re gonna nazi so much harder at you for correctly identifying that we’re nazis

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 4h

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That group chat was tame.
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 3h

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 19h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 10h

Sorry didn’t mean to sound doomed and gloomy obviously we can win if we can change the game. Tax the rich; abscond with their disproportionate wealth/power. Etc.

David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 10h

Which is part of why everybody rolled their eyes when scotus outlawed race based preference. Because we all know they can just find new ways to act for or against protected classes.

But what we cant do is live forever so the team with the most money to litigate will win.

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 10h

That’s the whole point of affirmative action at work or school where it was already illegal to discriminate on race but was legal to discriminate on ability to pay or work for free aka socioeconomic status which “just happened” to correlate with race.

(It didnt just happen)

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

"The richest man in the world and the owner of the most influential social media site in US politics is a nazi who openly supports and amplifies other nazis" would, on its face, seem to be rather newsworthy!

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Hey news people: I know you like to pretend this doesn't exist, but you need to pay attention to the Nazi drama on Twitter. Basically, it seems as if Elon just restored two major neo-Nazi accounts that were banned by his product head, and might be about to fire the product head for banning them

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 1d

Signs his name little tsu っ

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 1d

I got one of those out of the blue texts, trying to catfish me or pig butcher me or something and when I wouldn’t join them on telegram they just ghosted me.

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Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi @roywoodjr.bsky.social · 1d

The homie Steph Curry’s new book ‘Shot Ready’ is out now. Great conversation with him at the Brooklyn Paramount about his book that walks us through the pain of preparation in the quest for perfection.

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Jalopnik @jalopnik.bsky.social · 1d

Tesla Cybertruck Sales Are In The Toilet

Remember Elon Musk's ambitious sales promise for the Cybertruck? Yeah, that didn't happen.

www.jalopnik.com

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Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 1d

Struzan’s work was the first art I saw as a kid that made me feel like I saw a magic trick. Like, I knew it wasn’t a photograph, but I just couldn’t work out exactly how it was a painting, either. A true instance of “how is this possible??”

Even after seeing footage of him working it’s still magic

Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve lost Drew Struzan. A modern master, who by all accounts was a humble, sweet, loving, dedicated man. His work influenced culture itself, & we’ll be seeing that influence until the end of the modern world. What a legacy. What a body of work. May he rest well, & may his memory be a blessing.

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 1d

NO!!

James Whitbrook @jwhitbrook.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck. A generational loss.

Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died

The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.

gizmodo.com

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry they lumped you in with walker “trump is the peace candidate” bragman

A screenshot of Walker Bragman‘s work for salon during the 2016 election. It’s showing Hillary the hawk Donald the dove energy.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Be thankful I've instructed my ICE agents to treat immigrants like violent criminals. I could have said to treat them like puppies.

by Kristi Noem

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 1d

Just saying it’s a solved problem that just needs money and will.

David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. :( bad alt text isn’t helping. Just gotta get robots to do it.

A server gpu could do on average 2000 facial rec inferences per second. Probably more these days. So your instance would need that much compute times whatever your posters rate of images is.

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 1d

If only i kept scrolling sorry!!

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David Rolfe @dorolfe.bsky.social · 1d

Fwiw alt text would do this if the apps or servers looked at images without alt text or bad alt text and included identifying information.

It could also be solved if we all did our part when posting images (and video).

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Shani 🫧 @blerdmommy.blacksky.app · 2d

All US police are unaccountable.

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 2d

The plan to send in unaccountable agents to kidnap your neighbors *might* have overplayed its hand when they've lost the people on the "I Saw A Person I Didn't Recognize In My Neighborhood And I Want The Cops To Come Take Them Away" social media app.

Super Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 2d

It’s happening on Nextdoor too

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 2d

The plan to send in unaccountable agents to kidnap your neighbors *might* have overplayed its hand when they've lost the people on the "I Saw A Person I Didn't Recognize In My Neighborhood And I Want The Cops To Come Take Them Away" social media app.

Super Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 2d

It’s happening on Nextdoor too

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 2d

soooo my Chicagoans, has anyone else's neighborhood facebook group gone from desperately apolitical (regarding federal politics) to at least 40% about ICE/DHS activity and organizing against it? like it's hard to overstate this shift

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 2d

more and more are saying

Katherine the Sixth @luigithirty.bsky.social · 2d

lmao even my nextdoor is full of "ice activity at..." messages instead of "I saw a black person and called the cops" messages

they have lost the normies

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 2d

soooo my Chicagoans, has anyone else's neighborhood facebook group gone from desperately apolitical (regarding federal politics) to at least 40% about ICE/DHS activity and organizing against it? like it's hard to overstate this shift

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Shani 🫧 @blerdmommy.blacksky.app · 2d

👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

For my newsletter today, I wrote about the American police state and how Democrats are going to have to kill it if they have any hope of rebuilding from the authoritarian Trump regime. www.burnsnotice.com/democrats-mu...

Democrats Must Kill Their Inner Cops

Who needs the National Guard when your state troopers are perfectly willing to crack protester skulls all on their own? Listen, Illinois governor JB Pritzker is not perfect, but he's my guy. Or at le...

www.burnsnotice.com

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