Pat
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Pat
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the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction
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we in the profession refer to this as the “No Takesie Backsie” rule
Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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it's so offensive that they're tearing down the white house in the most loser way possible. i don't even like the fucking thing and this pisses me off
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
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the big problem with an image like this is that in a different context it would be utterly thrilling
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"the speaker of the House is refusing to seat a duly elected member of Congress to protect the president from a vote to investigate his extensive connections the world's most notorious human trafficking pedophile" is one of those things you simply cannot put into New York Timesese
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is there any profession in 2025 with more insufferably obtuse losers than western mainstream journalism? the ultimate view from nowhere
The media is even hedging its description of that diarrhea plane video as "seemingly AI generated."

That whole "the job of the media is to look out the fucking window and find out" has very clearly stopped being a thing.

"Seemingly" as if maybe that did happen, who is to possibly say it did not
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The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.
Fate smiled upon you and your excellent journalism
Publishing this on a day where AWS broke was very funny
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Ooooh is your internet broken. Did someone's immaterial web of financial speculation and surveillance turn out to have a failure point in material infrastructure
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The default assumption around the world is that we're broken-spirited cowards, too afraid to go outside, too afraid to help each other, too afraid to fight the fascists. The reason No Kings was important was to prove to each other, and to the millions more people who drove by and saw, that we're not
the AWS outage is affecting Ring doorbells. Sky News says “some users can’t see outside their house, definitely scary”

just look outside your window 😅
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my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract
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imagining paying for a service where i want to search something on google and it tells me no, it’s too tired to do that
This person is paying OpenAI two hundred dollars a month to have a chatbot gaslight them about making an excel spreadsheet
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they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade
BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ
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I think its genuinely a virtue to accept that you could be wrong about anything and kill the part of yourself that needs to always be seen as correct and smarter than others on any given topic
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
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the reason you can't say "sexual assault" or "rape" on so many major platforms is because the christofascists demanding this censorship from tech companies want to keep wielding sexual violence in the dark as a tool of power
the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
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the degree to which the NYT has become an institution not just uninterested in reality but actively antagonistic to it still manages to shock me every once in a while
The largest mass protests by number of participants in US history happened yesterday and the only mention on the front page of the NYT is Jamelle Bouie's opinion column: no diner-diving for sentiments of the unheard masses, no coverage of the Trump video, no sense for what it says about the moment.
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the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
Ah, of course. Thank you for your humility and your wisdom
Did they get a chihuahua man to impersonate an animal chihuahua?
The Taco Bell dog... is still a dog in an animal world? Was he a celebrity? Is he still around?
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your daily reminder that Obama continuously drone striked innocent civilians all across the MENA region. he also used ICE to enforce record breaking numbers of deportations against innocent migrants here in the US, enabling and laying the path for exactly what we’re seeing Trump carry out today.
Gotta invest in a kiln (or pizza oven?)
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Oh, right, the AI Trump dive bombing shit on protests video:
At the exact same time Gamergate was happening, I was in an undergrad history class on Interwar Europe, in which we learned about Nazis interrupting jazz performances, something Black and foreign, by dumping buckets of feces down the aisles.
The impulse was already there and had been for a while, white nationalism isn’t new. GG caused the creation/expansion of online infrastructure for networking, community building (mainly among young online people) and spreading/testing of tactics and propaganda. But it didn’t invent the fasc wheel.