@austinlisa.bsky.social
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in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.
Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
February 22, 2025 at 4:55 AM
in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.
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Once upon a time, these were actions by a private company. Now they are actions being undertaken by a high-ranking government official, in connection with his public activities. This raises 1A issues that didn’t exist before.
Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE
February 21, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Once upon a time, these were actions by a private company. Now they are actions being undertaken by a high-ranking government official, in connection with his public activities. This raises 1A issues that didn’t exist before.
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That New Orleans press conference -- specifically the conduct of the Republican Senator & Governor -- should send a chill down the spine of every American regarding any emergency or disaster going forward.
Attacking the press for doing its job & Kennedy hinting the Feds hiding something, scary AF.
Attacking the press for doing its job & Kennedy hinting the Feds hiding something, scary AF.
January 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
That New Orleans press conference -- specifically the conduct of the Republican Senator & Governor -- should send a chill down the spine of every American regarding any emergency or disaster going forward.
Attacking the press for doing its job & Kennedy hinting the Feds hiding something, scary AF.
Attacking the press for doing its job & Kennedy hinting the Feds hiding something, scary AF.
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A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.
January 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.
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The FBI found the largest stockpile of "finished explosive devices" in the bureau's history from Virginia man Brad Spafford.
Investigators found "a stockpile of more than 150 homemade improvised explosive devices" and he was using pictures of President Biden as target practice.
MAGA is silent.
Investigators found "a stockpile of more than 150 homemade improvised explosive devices" and he was using pictures of President Biden as target practice.
MAGA is silent.
January 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The FBI found the largest stockpile of "finished explosive devices" in the bureau's history from Virginia man Brad Spafford.
Investigators found "a stockpile of more than 150 homemade improvised explosive devices" and he was using pictures of President Biden as target practice.
MAGA is silent.
Investigators found "a stockpile of more than 150 homemade improvised explosive devices" and he was using pictures of President Biden as target practice.
MAGA is silent.
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AI data centers are multiplying across the U.S. and sucking up huge amounts of power.
New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans
New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans
AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse
There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas
www.bloomberg.com
December 27, 2024 at 8:30 PM
AI data centers are multiplying across the U.S. and sucking up huge amounts of power.
New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans
New evidence shows they may also be distorting the normal flow of electricity for millions of Americans
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One way you know "RFK Jr. is a good dude who just wants people to exercise and eat nutritious food" is bullshit is that Michelle Obama quite famously encouraged people to exercise and eat nutritious food and was quite famously relentlessly attacked for it by many of the same people who love RFK Jr.
There's a bizarre and ongoing mainstream effort to launder RFK Jr into someone who just wants to get Americans eating nutritious food and exercising again but that is not evidenced anywhere in his public statements or career in public life.
He is a liar and conspiracist.
He is a liar and conspiracist.
December 13, 2024 at 10:05 PM
One way you know "RFK Jr. is a good dude who just wants people to exercise and eat nutritious food" is bullshit is that Michelle Obama quite famously encouraged people to exercise and eat nutritious food and was quite famously relentlessly attacked for it by many of the same people who love RFK Jr.
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No he didn't. The actual figure was more than $44 billion: prospect.org/power/2024-1...
December 6, 2024 at 4:05 AM
No he didn't. The actual figure was more than $44 billion: prospect.org/power/2024-1...
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Can't a member of the House simply read it into the record? Say, a member who's not returning next session and has zero fucks to give?
The House voted 204-198 to block release of the Gaetz ethics report. All Dems present voted to release, along with Republican Tom McClintock of CA. Every other Republican present voted to keep Gaetz's violations covered up.
Again, Gaetz is accused of sex trafficking and statutory rape.
Again, Gaetz is accused of sex trafficking and statutory rape.
December 6, 2024 at 1:40 AM
Can't a member of the House simply read it into the record? Say, a member who's not returning next session and has zero fucks to give?
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In a 24-hour span, Trump announces jobs for the fathers-in-law of both of his daughters
December 1, 2024 at 4:02 PM
In a 24-hour span, Trump announces jobs for the fathers-in-law of both of his daughters
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As I’ve been saying for over a year:
If your business model doesn’t work without violating the law, you’re not in business — you’re in organized crime.
Great reporting by @elainelow.bsky.social. theankler.com/p/tv-writers...
If your business model doesn’t work without violating the law, you’re not in business — you’re in organized crime.
Great reporting by @elainelow.bsky.social. theankler.com/p/tv-writers...
TV Writers Found 139,000 of Their Scripts Trained AI. Hell Broke Loose
It's 'organized crime,' says one, as scribes from Shonda Rhimes to Robert King face a system where studio policy and law remain murky
theankler.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:44 PM
As I’ve been saying for over a year:
If your business model doesn’t work without violating the law, you’re not in business — you’re in organized crime.
Great reporting by @elainelow.bsky.social. theankler.com/p/tv-writers...
If your business model doesn’t work without violating the law, you’re not in business — you’re in organized crime.
Great reporting by @elainelow.bsky.social. theankler.com/p/tv-writers...
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"Elon Musk, whose companies have received nearly $8 billion in government funding through an assortment of federal grants, tax breaks, government subsidies and contracts, proposed today that senior citizens need to 'tighten their belt' to help balance the national budget."
See? It's not hard.
See? It's not hard.
Here one of Elon Musk's lickspittles explains their plan: Persuade regular Americans to accept huge cuts to Social Security and Medicare so that billionaires can get gigantic tax cuts. I don't think they'll be able to pull it off, but we'll see.
November 23, 2024 at 8:07 PM
"Elon Musk, whose companies have received nearly $8 billion in government funding through an assortment of federal grants, tax breaks, government subsidies and contracts, proposed today that senior citizens need to 'tighten their belt' to help balance the national budget."
See? It's not hard.
See? It's not hard.
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Fluoridated water
1)Reduces tooth decay by ~25% in kids and adults.
2) For every $1 spent, communities save up to $38 in dental costs.
3) Benefits everyone, regardless of income or access to dental care.
4) Over 75 years of research shows it’s effective and harmless.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
1)Reduces tooth decay by ~25% in kids and adults.
2) For every $1 spent, communities save up to $38 in dental costs.
3) Benefits everyone, regardless of income or access to dental care.
4) Over 75 years of research shows it’s effective and harmless.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Florida health official advises communities to stop adding fluoride to drinking water
Florida's surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, cited developmental concerns from higher levels of fluoride than are found in most U.S. water supplies.
www.npr.org
November 23, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Fluoridated water
1)Reduces tooth decay by ~25% in kids and adults.
2) For every $1 spent, communities save up to $38 in dental costs.
3) Benefits everyone, regardless of income or access to dental care.
4) Over 75 years of research shows it’s effective and harmless.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
1)Reduces tooth decay by ~25% in kids and adults.
2) For every $1 spent, communities save up to $38 in dental costs.
3) Benefits everyone, regardless of income or access to dental care.
4) Over 75 years of research shows it’s effective and harmless.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Behold the face of government censorship in Trump’s America
Trump's FCC nominee Brendan Carr is on Fox News threatening to harass NBC and CBS over MAGA conspiracy theories
November 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Behold the face of government censorship in Trump’s America
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100% but imho the difference now is that you're watching a sports podcast, but, independent of whatever the hosts are doing, you start being fed other videos that are increasingly radical. Tuning into Limbaugh is an active choice, an algorithmic feed that gets you to Nick Fuentes can be less so.
Some analysts are focusing on the part in Pew's new study noting the majority of news influencers are conservative men. But that's been true for many years in AM talk radio and cable TV news, as I noted in my book, "Race-Baiter." Seems to be a decades-long trend in American media: loom.ly/kkWHGAg
The majority of news influencers are conservative men, study finds
The latest Pew Research report on news content creators paints a damning picture of our skewed information ecosystem
loom.ly
November 19, 2024 at 7:04 PM
100% but imho the difference now is that you're watching a sports podcast, but, independent of whatever the hosts are doing, you start being fed other videos that are increasingly radical. Tuning into Limbaugh is an active choice, an algorithmic feed that gets you to Nick Fuentes can be less so.
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Russia did exactly this to HRC in 2016, aiming to suppress her vote, and probably did. Musk no doubt did suppress Harris voting as well with these demotivation techniques. This should be illegal.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Inside the Republican false-flag effort to turn off Kamala Harris voters
A multi-pronged dark money effort by advisers to Elon Musk targeted liberals, Jews, Muslims and Black voters with ads that were not quite what they seemed.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 16, 2024 at 1:56 AM
Russia did exactly this to HRC in 2016, aiming to suppress her vote, and probably did. Musk no doubt did suppress Harris voting as well with these demotivation techniques. This should be illegal.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump is now < 50%, and leads Harris < 2%. This election was extremely close.
That margin will have enormous consequences. But it’s small enough that instead of debating which vulnerable groups and standards of decency Dems should abandon, they could just focus on how to better defend both.
That margin will have enormous consequences. But it’s small enough that instead of debating which vulnerable groups and standards of decency Dems should abandon, they could just focus on how to better defend both.
November 16, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Trump is now < 50%, and leads Harris < 2%. This election was extremely close.
That margin will have enormous consequences. But it’s small enough that instead of debating which vulnerable groups and standards of decency Dems should abandon, they could just focus on how to better defend both.
That margin will have enormous consequences. But it’s small enough that instead of debating which vulnerable groups and standards of decency Dems should abandon, they could just focus on how to better defend both.
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The same people who’ve spent the last several years decrying “unqualified DEI hires” are now shoehorning through Cabinet nominations who can’t even pass a basic background test.
November 15, 2024 at 10:10 PM
The same people who’ve spent the last several years decrying “unqualified DEI hires” are now shoehorning through Cabinet nominations who can’t even pass a basic background test.
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Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops.
They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.
Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .
Thank you.
They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.
Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .
Thank you.
November 15, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops.
They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.
Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .
Thank you.
They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.
Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .
Thank you.
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The reason we know about RFK Jr’s brain worm is that he mentioned it during a divorce deposition, to argue that he was cognitively impaired and therefore had limited earning potential.
Now he’s up for a cabinet post
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/u...
Now he’s up for a cabinet post
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/u...
November 15, 2024 at 12:00 AM
The reason we know about RFK Jr’s brain worm is that he mentioned it during a divorce deposition, to argue that he was cognitively impaired and therefore had limited earning potential.
Now he’s up for a cabinet post
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/u...
Now he’s up for a cabinet post
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/u...
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NEW: Trump has tapped for his cabinet, two GOP legislators—Rubio & Stefanik—who have each confirmed that Putin attacked the 2016 election to help Trump. In 2020, Rubio even produced a 966-page report detailing this. So there's no hoax, and they know Trump's lying.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump cabinet picks Rubio and Stefanik once confirmed Putin attacked the 2016 election to help Trump
So much for the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
www.motherjones.com
November 14, 2024 at 3:32 PM
NEW: Trump has tapped for his cabinet, two GOP legislators—Rubio & Stefanik—who have each confirmed that Putin attacked the 2016 election to help Trump. In 2020, Rubio even produced a 966-page report detailing this. So there's no hoax, and they know Trump's lying.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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