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I play guitar, watch MLR and NHL, enjoy live music and travel, and practice sarcasm. He/him

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flexghost, to random
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The GOP just caused America to get our credit downgraded

They’re doing to blame Dems so let’s do the numbers:

R’s:
Nixon went from a $3.2B surplus to a $6.1B deficit
Reagan took the deficit from $70B to $175B
H.W. Bush took the deficit to $300B
Dubya took 0 deficit and turned it into $1.2T deficit
Trump grew the debt by $7.8T

D’s:
Clinton created a $128.2B surplus
Obama cut the deficit by 1/2
Biden cut the deficit by more than $1.7T far

Democrats grow the economy. Bigly.

ahaaparanta, to random Finnish
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Astley Paradox

mcnado, to random
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“If they can do this to him, they can do it to anyone!”. Yes! That’s how it works. The law is supposed to apply to everyone. If you break the law, as the former guy is alleged to have done, you should in fact be charged and face trial. Being a famous douchebag doesn’t absolve someone of responsibility.

Chron, to news
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Donald Trump has been charged by the Justice Department for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

https://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/prosecutor-involved-in-jan-6-cases-says-18272991.php

GrrlScientist, to random
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    Chron, to news
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    A volunteer with Foods Not Bombs who was ticketed for feeding the unhoused was found not guilty by a unanimous jury decision.

    https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/houston-food-not-bombs-texas-18270531.php

    PDFlynn, to random

    For decades, the U.S. exported jobs and imported products, while other countries surpassed us in critical sectors like infrastructure, clean energy, semiconductors, and biotechnology. Thanks to President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda – including historic legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden such as the American Rescue Plan, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, CHIPS and Science Act, and Inflation Reduction Act – that is changing.

    President Biden’s Investing in America agenda is mobilizing historic levels of private sector investments in the United States, bringing manufacturing back to America after decades of offshoring, and creating new, good-paying jobs, including union jobs and jobs that don’t require a college degree. His Investing in America agenda is rebuilding our roads and bridges using Made in America materials, built by American workers. And it’s transforming our country for the better – reaching...
    https://www.whitehouse.gov/invest/?utm_source=link

    dgar, to random
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    rbreich, to random
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    Let me get this straight. Republicans are banning books, drag shows, and life-saving gender-affirming care, all to "protect children"

    But they're also rolling back child labor laws, blocking gun reform, and passing laws to force adolescents to give birth.

    Do I have that right?

    TexasObserver, to news
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    “Big corporate lobbies do not want our to work for working people. And they don’t want any examples that can show that democracy can work for working people.”

    Senior Staff Writer @gusbova digs into the , 'Death Star' bill and finds a “a laser beam aimed at a small group of progressive ordinances improving worker and tenant protections”: https://www.texasobserver.org/death-star-hb-2127-democracy/

    nocontexttrek, to StarTrek
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    MarkIngs, to Astronomy
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    The first anniversary image from the James Webb Space Telescope - the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth

    Credit: NASA ESA CSA STScI Klaus Pontoppidan (STScI)

    sonyasteele, to random

    Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson 🔥

    Slate:
    Jackson may have helped stave off disaster in a handful of key cases, steering the court away from hard-right results through tactical deployment of originalist and textualist arguments. Unlike Breyer, she expertly wielded the conservatives’ own tools against them. She spoke the language of the right to promote left-leaning principles. And from time to time, she beat the 6–3 supermajority at its own game.

    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/07/supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson-originalism-jujitsu.html

    JoParkerBear, to random

    I was born in Houston and lived in it, or just outside of it, for most of my life. 35 years. I’m HORRIFIED— but people need to know:

    Houston is NOT doing this. The state of Texas took over the Houston Independent School District some months ago, appointed its own superintendent, and he is the monster doing this shit. The city is against this bullshit.

    The state of TEXAS is going after MY CITY. They’ve been winning too many damn elections for the “wrong” candidates and they don’t like it. They’re scared. The bulk of Dem votes come from Houston. Look at the numbers.

    Archive/free: https://archive.ph/Da8nQ

    TheMetalDog, to random
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    The 22 Best Female Heavy Metal Singers Of All Time
    Who are the best female heavy metal singers of all time? Here are the 22 best female heavy metal singers of all time.

    https://metalshout.com/female-heavy-metal-singers-of-all-time/

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    SavahRellcast, to trans
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    dialogcrm, to random
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    Brian Klass "One of my biggest pet peeves is when journalists frame stories not with objective facts, but by acting as stenographers who parrot what politicians say. This is what NYU professor Jay Rosen calls the “view from nowhere”

    https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=1184530&post_id=135493368&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMzY5NDc1LCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxMzU0OTMzNjgsImlhdCI6MTY5MDUzODI0NywiZXhwIjoxNjkzMTMwMjQ3LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTE4NDUzMCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.ciCj19G4su_aUgtBFFLDLoVBwCGIUycD56XQpvuTueY

    dialogcrm,
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    "Here’s where old school journalistic norms collide with objective reality. Too many journalists still wrongly believe their goal should be “balance.” It shouldn’t. It should be objectivity. If something is untrue, the press needs to say so, in clear language, even if one partisan group wrongly believes the lie to be true."

    kevinrns, to climate
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    Canadian Wildfire Crisis July 29 🇨🇦 🔥

    South Korean Fire Fighters find shocking 🇨🇦 fires are difficult to extinguish.

    "None of us believed it at first. But putting out fires here, 👉 we saw how the fires are burning through the roots of the trees,"👈 said Jang Puruensol, a 28-year-old firefighter.

    "We're used to going several kilometres, putting out fires as we go"

    Jang says Quebec's forest fire prevention agency warned them they'd only be able to advance around 600 metres in a day.

    kevinrns,
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    All life in the solar system, all life in the galaxy, all life that we have even a HINT about is contained in a thin coating on a dead rock hanging in space.

    The thickness of a coat of paint on a basketball. That's us. Mostly water and gas. Thin, fragile, self supporting in complexity.

    There's no other 'place'

    EVERYWHERE else you are in the Titanic sub waiting for a failure of your bubble.

    This place could not just get 'bad' - but "fail" stop working, like every other planet in the Universe.

    neurovagrant, to random
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    One of the hardest lessons I’ve had to learn, but it changed everything.

    selzero, to random
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    Isaac Newton inventing the woke agenda in 1669.

    flexghost, to random
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    Corrupt Justice Samuel Alito says Congress has no power over the Supreme Court

    Let me translate that from Republican to English:

    Congress is the only democratically elected branch of our federal government

    He says the people are not be able to take the power the Supreme Court gave itself away

    He is saying the people have no authority over an oligarchy

    Unacceptable.

    Helderweb, to random
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    These ladies rescued the 2020 ballots from trumps MAGA thugs.

    Thank you ladies.

    georgetakei, to random

    Did you know that in the US, labor unions began forming locally in the mid-19th century in response to the social and economic impact of the Industrial Revolution?

    With unions at the forefront of everyone’s minds right now, it’s important to understand the history of unions and why we’re seeing such a strong (and necessary) resurgence: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/usa-labor-unions-worker-rights

    The_Whore_of_Blahbylon, to random
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    Too right.

    TexasObserver, to journalism
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    The July/August issue is reaching mailboxes and select newsstands now!

    Digital subscribers: Watch your email for your copy, coming later today. Enjoy, and share it with a friend who needs to discover why !

    Become a member to get our magazine 6 times per year: https://texasobserver.org/join

    TexasObserver,
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    Maternal mortality rates are too high in and the U.S. in general. For every Dutch mother who dies, 50 Black American mothers die.

    In our magazine, an experienced midwife explains how we could fix this crisis: https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-maternal-mortality-racism-midwife/

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