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msbellows

@msbellows@c.im

Twitter diaspora. Agamemnon sucks: we do the fighting, he gets the girls. (Oregonian. Mediator/lawyer/writer; bylines in The Guardian, Alternet, HuffPost/OffTheBus, more.)

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AxiosNews, to random
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Scoop: U.S. put a hold on an ammunition shipment to Israel
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/05/israel-us-ammunition-shipment-hold?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Israel @israel

msbellows,
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@AxiosNews @israel
"The Biden administration last week put a hold on a shipment of U.S.-made ammunition to Israel"

steve_zeke, to Israel
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The article is better than the headline. It highlights ’s journalistic malpractice.

As Peace Protests Are Violently Suppressed, CNN Paints Them as Hate Rallies - FAIR https://fair.org/home/as-peace-protests-are-violently-suppressed-cnn-paints-them-as-hate-rallies/

msbellows,
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@steve_zeke @GhostOnTheHalfShell If I owned a newspaper, the highest-paid job in the entire newsroom would be headline writer. I'd hire someone experienced and wise and clever and most of all HONEST, an old-school journo with ink for blood like Dave McLemore or Charlie Meyerson, and give them a research staff independent of the regular journos and fact-checkers, and the power to hold the presses, and then have every single hed reviewed before publication by a team of smart high school and college journalists. I'd pay everyone in the process really well, and also require that if a hed WAS misleading despite all that, no one would be fired, but the entire team would have to get drunk together that night on bottom-shelf tequila and cheap moscato then come to work or school the next day wearing Speedos, with "I COMMIT TO CONSTANTLY IMPROVING" scrawled on their torsos with grease pencil.

msquebanh, to random
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My baby nephew's first injury & post ER visit. He got some stitches. Ran & fell, face first, into concrete steps. Poor wee kid.

msbellows,
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@msquebanh @Fury When our kids were little, our family motto was: "Whoever has the most owies, wins."

blogdiva, to random
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just wanted y'all to know that american ketchup and charred meats are really an amazing combo.

msbellows,
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@kevbob @blogdiva Agree with you both except for any parts suggesting any sauce whatsoever conceivably might not be perfect on every fzcking thing.

msbellows, to portland
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I'm at a conference at the federal courthouse, and as I drove here l observed cops (not in riot gear) on every corner surrounding Portland State University (the urban campus downtown), and schoolbuses pulling up in front of the Schnitz and also backing up traffic on the freeway nearby. Looks like they're about to roust the antiwar encampment, and expecting multiple arrests.

Alice, (edited ) to random
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"Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack"

(1) Ask nicely
(2) Cracker Jack already comes with peanuts and the peanuts are the WORST part

msbellows,
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@Alice THE PEANUTS ARE SO NOT THE WORST PART WHICH OLD-TIME BASEBALL PLAYER HURT YOU ALICE?

Alice, (edited ) to random
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All of my talent is wasted on edibles.

msbellows,
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@Alice Define "wasted."

msbellows,
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@Alice I'm hoping you feel seen.

benroyce, to mastodon
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I need the help of #mastodon #philosophers.

Why the f*** would #Putin try to coopt the legacy of Immanuel #Kant?

It's probably not a serious question. Maybe it's just a silly immature dunk on #Germany / #German pride. Or maybe there's something darker in Kant's writings that #Russia thinks supports recent #Russian behavior (I have no reason to believe there is, I'm just openly musing).

Either way it's certainly a bizarre new front in the conflict: #philosophy war.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/german-chancellor-accuses-putin-of-misusing-philosopher-immanuel-kants-teachings/articleshow/109561696.cms

msbellows,
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@blogdiva @benroyce In tomorrow's edition of "Dictators Lecture on the Liberal Arts," Prof. Putin will explain that the great writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) was born to a Polish family in what is now Ukraine before emigrating to England, and that since both Poland and Ukraine are part of Russia, both the English language and the U.K. itself belong to Russia too.

smellsofbikes, to random
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A good friend just found out that genetic material she stored 5 years ago before starting to transition was destroyed 4 years ago by the company, Legacy, and they kept charging her for storage until they notified her last week about what they'd done, and in the meantime told her that everything was fine and being handled correctly. Just in case any y'all were thinking about this.

msbellows,
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@smellsofbikes @rose_alibi That's absolutely inexcusable, And also yeah, if like me you have backups of everything important both in the cloud and on a hard drive, maybe one should take a similar approach to genetic material. Honestly, using storage facilities at least a thousand miles apart would make sense.

GottaLaff, to Arizona
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Prosecutors said Monday they will not retry an rancher whose trial in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property ended last week with a deadlocked jury.

https://apnews.com/article/877c1740e69bb576717873fd31961309

msbellows,
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@GottaLaff Time for DOJ to bring it in federal court under federal civil rights law, like they've long had to do for lynchings in the South.

dlakelan, to random
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People seem to be confusing the ideas of with some of the stupidest straw men imaginable. At its core, modern monetary theory appears to say nothing more than that the amount of money in the system is the total amount spent by the govt minus the total amount taxed, maybe plus a constant.
The second part is that the price of a basket of consumer goods will increase when the quantity avg citizens demand given available money exceeds the quantity being produced.
@economics@a.gup.pe

msbellows,
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@dlakelan @economics@a.gup.pe But even proponents of MMR don't stop there, do they? Its relevance is in its supposed policy impacts.

shoq, to random
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For 15 years, I’ve been turning off the , even before Ana Marie Cox gave it a cutesy nickname that even further normalized a truly terrible tradition that is so emblematic of how much control the overlords have over journalism, and all of us. Fuck those people.

msbellows,
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@hankg @shoq I'm one of the few who thinks it's still valuable. We're humans; we need to connect; and the heart of the – roasting the most powerful person on Earth on live TV, in front of every powerful person in DC, as he just sits there and takes it – is a healthy levelling tradition that's been considered valuable literally for millennia, including medieval kings having jesters and Roman generals during parades being accompanied by a peon who keeps repeating "remember, thou art mortal."

The fact that Trump cancelled it (not because of COVID, but because his fragile ego couldn't handle it) says much about how important and valuable it is.

jwildeboer, to mastodon
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. opens 503(c) in the US and invites controversy with its board member:

"Biz Stone is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Twitter, one of the world’s leading social media platforms."

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

msbellows,
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@jwildeboer @mapache They do have a good reason for incorporating in the U.S., though. It's regrettable that they had to do so, but it isn't nefarious.

msbellows, to random
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The scummiest thing we learned from David Pecker's testimony today has nothing to do with Trump.

It's that sometimes the National Enquirer will get dirt on a celebrity, such as an affair, then blackmail them into agreeing to be on the cover or do an interview in exchange for suppressing the story. Gross.

historyofpunkrock, to punkrock
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40 years ago
Lux Interior and Nick Cave - giving their best mischevious looks - backstage at Perkins Palace in Pasedena when Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds opened up for The Cramps on June 22nd, 1984.

📸 by Chris Amouroux

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msbellows,
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@historyofpunkrock I graduated from a California high school in 1980 and my yearbook quote was some bullshit from Kenny Rogers, and yet I love and identify with everything you post as if I were a punker back then because it's so fucking real. THANK YOU for what you do. It actually helps. It actually matters.

silentbeauties, to random
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The Way Women Love (USA,1920)

IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157178/

Rubye De Remer (January 9, 1892, Denver, Colorado - March 18, 1984, Beverly Hills, California) was an American dancer and actress in silent films

Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubye_De_Remer

msbellows,
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@silentbeauties I need this poster to give to my daughter.

msbellows,
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@silentbeauties Have you done "The Winning of Barbara Worth" yet? It's my favorite silent so far.

msquebanh, to acab
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People who like are never gonna be my friends. I have far higher standards of personal association.

https://youtu.be/fF3aPT7C51Y?si=O-q1Lkzeyzw-KK75

msbellows,
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@msquebanh It sorry if since when a lesbian poly schoolteacher friend invited a local cop to her party and he was ridiculously nice and I hated it.

SharonCrockett, to random
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What I don't understand is why the Supreme Court can't just lift the stay on the Judge Chutkin case from proceeding while it goes about its business debating "for the ages" (per Gorsuch) the merits of presidential immunity for "official acts"? The Supremes know this specific case does not concern official acts by Trump. So, why not just let the trial in DC with Jack Smith proceed while it fiddles with the bigger issues that are not being tested in Trump's specific case (as Jackson noted)?

msbellows,
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@SharonCrockett Except arguably some were. Talking with DOJ about investigating election fraud, for example.

msbellows,
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@SharonCrockett Sure, but determining that requires figuring out his state of mind, and the kind of immunity Trump's arguing for is absolute.

msbellows,
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@SharonCrockett

msbellows, to random
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Trump's lawyer arguing for additional proceedings in the lower court, and Gorsuch apparently liking the idea.

This case is all and only about delaying the Jan. 6 trial until after the election.

msbellows,
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@heafnerj Agreed. With the right coordination, there could be six openings on the Supreme Court overnight.

msbellows,
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Now that I've awakened from my four-hour post-rage nap (seriously), I'd like to apologize to everyone for using so many F-bombs while live-commenting this morning's SCOTUS hearing on presidential immunity.

I'd like to apologize.

But I won't, because these fucking "conservatives" are destroying every fucking institution of any fucking value, from the faith of Jesus H. "Love Thy Neighbor" Christ, to the Supreme Court of Thurgood Marshall, and everything in between, and just, you know, fuck those fuckers fuckingly. Fuck.

I'm sort of conservative myself, in the way that I believe America is A Good Thing At Heart™ and I believe in institutions and in classical truths and immutable moral principles and especially in the proud and fair-minded and intellectually rigorous traditions of the American legal system I have dedicated my adult life to–

– and then these fucking fuckhats blithely tear down every fucking good thing there is, while pretending to uphold them, and then smirk at their cleverness exactly like Brett fucking Kavanaugh slurping a Jagermeister shot from the navel of an unconscious Delta Gamma sophomore while his buddies cheer.

It's fucking exhausting.

Racoon Screaming GIF

msbellows,
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Multiple really smart commentators including Larry Tribe and Neil Katyal have suggested it would be OK if SCOTUS tried to delay the trial by requiring the trial court to first hold a hearing to determine which Trump acts were "official" and which were "personal," because then Judge Chutkan could call witnesses and all the ugly facts would be revealed even without a jury trial.

And I now realize that, in part, they're all trying to make the Court's fascists think twice before imposing such a requirement, because Trump's arguably safer with a random jury than he is with a brilliant Black female federal judge.

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