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D. Gaking @gakingmusic.bsky.social · 4h

ISRAEL SHOULD RECONSIDER HAVING A WAR CRIMINAL AS ITS LEADER

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D. Gaking @gakingmusic.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t think they are keeping a lot of copies of the Constitution around that building these days.

D. Gaking @gakingmusic.bsky.social · 18h

Black out Black Friday, and then only do your Christmas shopping at local small businesses.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 4d

They want a fight.
inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

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D. Gaking @gakingmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Go ahead and ban the books. Now the kids will read them even harder!🙃

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them

Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

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D. Gaking @gakingmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Due to the negative effects #amazon has on small businesses, etc., I am using reading alternatives that support independent booksellers:

Audible ➡️ Libro.fm
Kindle ➡️ Bookshop.org
Goodreads ➡️ StoryGraph

🎧📚💙

Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores

Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.

Libro.fm

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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 2d

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D. Gaking @gakingmusic.bsky.social · 2d

I heard a few clips of him on NPR 11 years ago, and I was immediately like “this guy is a high-functioning sociopath. We cannot let him be president.”

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D. Gaking @gakingmusic.bsky.social · 2d

It’s like they put the Nazi propaganda directly into the AI prompt.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

But don’t call them Nazis

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Paul Lieberman @paullieberman.org · 2d

You might like this sign my friend made.

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D. Gaking @gakingmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously, if they say that on the web site, you wouldn’t do this. I suggested a potential strategy that might help candidates in some situations. I don’t understand why you need to be confrontational about it.

D. Gaking @gakingmusic.bsky.social · 3d

“Genocide is bad” getting classified as “misinformation.”

an elderly woman says that 's a bit uhmmmm

ALT: an elderly woman says that 's a bit uhmmmm

media.tenor.com

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D. Gaking @gakingmusic.bsky.social · 3d

Nah state politicians are too busy attacking unions and gutting public schools. They don’t have time for justice.

D. Gaking @gakingmusic.bsky.social · 3d

LAW & ORDER!

D. Gaking @gakingmusic.bsky.social · 3d

Mail your cover letter and resume to the offices of anyone who might be involved in hiring or to the manager you might end up working for. If you are really serious, comb bind w/ a cover page and add some portfolio materials.

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D. Gaking @gakingmusic.bsky.social · 3d

I saw them at Warped Tour 2003 in Cleveland. I was right by the main speakers. My ears are still ringing.

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D. Gaking @gakingmusic.bsky.social · 3d

Tacos gonna taco

D. Gaking @gakingmusic.bsky.social · 4d

Nobody does this without strings attached. Read Confessions of an Economic Hitman.

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D. Gaking @gakingmusic.bsky.social · 4d

I finally ditched Audible and switched to Libro.fm. They have a promo offering 2 free audiobooks rn, and some of my subscription $ will go to a local indie bookstore I chose.

Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores

Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.

Libro.fm

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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D. Gaking @gakingmusic.bsky.social · 6d

So he admits that the biggest threat in Portland isn’t violence, it’s the existence of weird people.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6d

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

D. Gaking @gakingmusic.bsky.social · 6d

GDP grows, and corporate profits grow, but your pay and job opportunities do not. Welcome to the oligarch economy.

BizToc @biztoc.com · 6d

GOLDMAN: 'Jobless Growth' Signals New Normal for U.S. Labor Market — Goldman Sachs economists say the U.S. labor market is shifting into a persistent 'jobless growth' phase where output expands without proportional hiring. They warn this new normal could reshape wage dynamics, consumer…

GOLDMAN: 'Jobless Growth' Signals New Normal for U.S. Labor Market

fortune.com

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D. Gaking @gakingmusic.bsky.social · 6d

Most of the media does it, unfortunately.

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D. Gaking @gakingmusic.bsky.social · 6d

Why are they called prisoners when Israel takes them and hostages when Hamas takes them?

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