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I don't know anything, but I can look it up.

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GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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💥🔥

TO REPEAT,

GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS!!!!!!!!

jhavok,
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@GottaLaff Thank you for your work digesting the live tweets for us. You gave me a much deeper knowledge of the trial than any news stories.

RickiTarr, to random
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This was a fun one, so let's do it again. What is something you've learned that seems unlikely, even though you know it's true? Here's one I think about a lot:

Sight, while being something something many people are born with, is not an innate ability, but something we learn to do. People who were born blind or were blind for a long time, who get sight, have to learn to see.

jhavok,
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@RickiTarr I had a friend who had to learn how to smell. She was hit by a car and got a head injury, losing her sense of smell and taste. After a couple of years, she began experiencing them in musical terms (she was a pianist) e.g. Chocolate was bluesy. After another couple of years of this synesthesia, she didn't even notice it, she just tasted and smelled as before.

CelloMomOnCars, to food
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#ClimateInflation, 2023 #Food edition

"The #PeachState lost more than 90% of this year’s crop after a February heat wave followed by two late-spring frosts.

#Farmers and agricultural groups said they can’t remember a more devastated #peach crop.

Peach prices climb"

#Georgia
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/15/business/georgia-peach-shortage/index.html

jhavok,
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@CelloMomOnCars Cavendish bananas were on their way out anyway. They only exist because they ship well, and they are victims of a blight that the climate crisis is only incidental to. We need to give up on bananas outside the tropics...although the hardiness zone for bananas may well be moving north.

GottaLaff, to random
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supporters try to doxx jurors and post violent threats after his conviction

On social media and web forums, users called for jurors, judges and prosecutors to be killed after the former president was found guilty on 34 felony counts.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-supporters-try-doxx-jurors-violent-threats-conviction-rcna154882

jhavok,
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@GottaLaff Jail them all.

RickiTarr, to random
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It's so weird that we are all supposed to be ashamed for burping and farting. I deeply apologize to everyone for keeping my body from literally exploding, so uncouth.

jhavok,
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@RickiTarr I've gone the other way. Farts are celebrated with a triumphant cry (mine or anyone else's), burps are extended as long as possible though I never think to say something with them until it's too late .

StillIRise1963, to random
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"Clarence Thomas, who penned a solo concurrence demanding a radical move: The Supreme Court, he argued, should overrule every precedent that limits gerrymandering — including the landmark cases establishing 'one person, one vote' — because it has no constitutional power to redraw maps in the first place. And he places much of the blame for the court’s allegedly illegitimate intrusion into redistricting on a surprising culprit: Brown v. Board of Education," wrote Stern.”

https://www.rawstory.com/clarence-thomas-2668366791/

jhavok,
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@StillIRise1963 Clarence Thomas truly believes that the Jim Crow era was the glory days of Black America, because the racism was overt. This is why he is Republican, as well, the racism is overt. The side money he makes is just icing on the cake. https://coreyrobin.com/enigma/ https://slate.com/podcasts/slow-burn/s8/becoming-justice-thomas

jhavok,
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@StillIRise1963 Corey Robin did a deep dive into Thomas's past. He's not right in the head. He believes that saying "hard times make hard men" devoutly. That podcast is pretty long, but it's worth it. Or there's Robin's biography of Thomas, athenEnigma of Clarence Thomas. Weird fact: When he was in college, Black women wouldn't date him, and he wrote a poem cursing them for dating white men.

arstechnica, to random
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NC Senate passes bill to make it illegal to publicly mask for health reasons

Senators skeptical of legal trouble for harmless masking after moving to make it illegal.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/nc-senate-passes-bill-to-make-it-illegal-to-publicly-mask-for-health-reasons/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

jhavok,
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@arstechnica plague rats in the legislature.

mondoweiss, to Palestine
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Joe Biden's claim that Hamas’s October 7 attacks were “driven by ancient desire to wipe out the Jewish people" is ahistorical and dangerous. In fact, Jewish history shows that antisemitism is a Western problem.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/the-ancient-desire-to-kill-jews-is-not-hamass-its-the-wests/


@palestine @israel

jhavok,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel I'm sad that Biden has been so hasbaraed. I hope some of the more sensible folks in his administration can set him straight...although Kirby seems to be equally a victim of the lies.

jhavok,
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@jeremy_pm @mondoweiss @palestine @israel Resigning is a way of sending a message.

tzimmer_history, to random
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Weekend reading: I wrote about how mainstream commentators constantly raise the specter of 1968 to denounce the student protests - willfully ignoring the long pattern of leftwing student movements acting as an indispensable corrective.

Some thoughts from this week’s piece:

🧵1/

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-students-have-never-been-the

jhavok,
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@tzimmer_history This was exactly my take on youth movements at that time: we were demanding that society live up to its ideals, not pretend that lip service was sufficient.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Hey literature people--

So, I was reading HG Wells and I noticed something I hadn't thought about. He writes in a style that's very weird, and but for the Victorian/Edwardian language might even be considered experimental now? Like, in The War in the Air, it regularly alternates between goofy comedic scenes and scenes of horror and violence. And in between THAT there are digressions about economics and engineering technology. (1/n)

jhavok,
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@ZachWeinersmith I read Wells at 12 years old so I missed that. I think I'll revisit.

jhavok,
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@ZachWeinersmith @Lyle Melville justifies his argument quite well.

tzimmer_history, to random
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The Anti-Liberal Left Has a Fascism Problem

Prominent leftwing intellectuals are allowing their singular, disdain-driven focus on (neo-) liberalism to completely distort their perspective on the Right.

New piece:

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-anti-liberal-left-has-a-fascism

jhavok,
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@tzimmer_history Romantic revolutionaries are in love with chaos, and therefore covertly in league with the chaotics of the right. They believe fascism will lead to revolution, and therefore embrace the accelerationist tactic of hobbling not-left-enough politicians, often by repeating right-wing disinformation verbatim.

The case of Spain, where the united front was ditched by the communists, leading to a long generation of fascist rule with no revolution, is dismissed.

GottaLaff, to random
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Cowards.

Senate Republicans block bill to protect Americans' access to contraception https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-republicans-block-bill-protect-americans-access-contraception-rcna155448

jhavok,
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@GottaLaff Losing the Senate.

jsrailton, (edited ) to Health
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Even for cancer and transplant patients.

We are speeding into idiocracy.

jhavok,
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@jsrailton Death cult. No exceptions.

DrALJONES, to Israel
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Analysis

"The ICC was built for Africa & for thugs like Putin... not for western & west-backed leaders", a senior US politician told ICC prosecutor Karim Khan.

This is the first time the ICC has sought to prosecute senior officials from a US ally.

Republicans earlier told Khan, if he applied for warrants against Israeli leaders, he would be barred from the US.

Potentally, also, the US could pressure the PA to stop cooperating with the ICC.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/24/us-pressure-could-derail-icc-arrest-warrants-for-israeli-leaders

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jhavok,
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@DrALJONES Perfect example of: "There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

randahl, to random
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While some American universities remove peace demonstrators by force, Chancellor of UC Riverside, Kim Wilcox, peacefully reached an agreement with protestors, on how to ensure university investments and university study abroad programs are brought in line with university ethics standards. An agreement which specifically mentions the ending of programs in Israel.

The students have decided to end their protest, as can be seen in the attached video. Full agreement text:
https://documents.ucr.edu/chancellor/May_3_ammended-agreement.pdf

video/mp4

jhavok,
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@FrankFrank @randahl Are you describing committing genocide as a Western value? I guess there is a long history of European colonizers committing genocide on the indigenous people of areas they want to annex, so I have to give that one to you.

jhavok, to random
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@GottaLaff always has informative commentary. Her digests of live-xitting from the Trump trials has been both informative and entertaining. Her blog EmptyWheel.net covers legal issues in an extremely clear manner.

DrALJONES, to random
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Analysis

"Nearly 100% of Campus Gaza Protests Have Been Peaceful"

Of 553 US campus protests, 97% remained non-violent.

Of the 3%, half were from clashes with police sent in to clear peaceful protests.

"If someone is speaking more about 'violent encampments' than they are about violent genocide of the Palestinians, they have a problem reflective of deep and dangerous biases."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-peaceful-protests?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=143332069c-Top+News%3A+Fri.+5%2F10%2F24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-3b949b3e19-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

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jhavok,
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@DrALJONES 97% of BLM demonstrations were peaceful, the ones that weren't were mostly the victims of attacks, but that has had no effect on the rhetoric about cities in flames which we are still seeing.

randahl, to random
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Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani: Indicted.

Trump's lawyer John Eastman: Indicted.

Trump's CFO Allen Weisselberg: Jailed.

Trump's adviser Peter Navarro: Jailed.

Trump's adviser Steve Bannon: Going to jail.

Trump's fixer Michael Cohen: Already went to jail.

— If you still think Trump is innocent, you are in for a surprise.

jhavok,
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@randahl Making MAGA come true: Make Attorneys Get Attorneys

thejapantimes, to worldnews
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Hamas would demand a permanent end to the war in Gaza and for an Israeli withdrawal as part of a cease-fire plan, the group's leader said, dealing an apparent blow to a truce proposal U.S. President Joe Biden touted last week. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/06/world/politics/biden-hamas-gaza-war/

jhavok,
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@thejapantimes Hamas works for Likud.

br00t4c, to random
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'Solidarity over hatred': the small band of Israelis stopping settlers obstructing aid trucks

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/31/solidarity-over-hatred-the-small-band-of-israelis-stopping-settlers-obstructing-aid-trucks

jhavok,
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@br00t4c That is courage. Those people attacking the aid trucks are murderous psychopaths.

jhavok, to random
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Encountered a Magat at work today. He walked over to my station, and as soon as he saw my mask he started crapping. Came up and asked me why I was wearing mask, I said "If I get sick I don't want to spread it to other people." He said "Even incompetent senile Joe Biden doesn't wear a mask blah blah blah..." so I said "How can I help you?" "I don't want a lunatic helping me, you're insane I don't want your help" "Then get the fk out" I said.
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gfarrell, to random
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jhavok,
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@gfarrell You left out one word: Republican. Everything a Democrat President does is illegal, right down to choosing his mustard.

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