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rayckeith

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writer, software developer, fan of "star (trek|gate|wars)", he/him, married, Esperantisto

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"The similarity of the comments suggests an organized campaign. Attorney Jeff Jacobovitz, in an appearance on MSNBC, suggested that Merchan may hold a hearing over whether Trump has violated the gag order by directing his surrogates to make these attacks on his behalf. Jacobovitz noted that "if Trump is feeding information" to his allies, it would violate the gag order."

https://popular.info/p/is-trump-orchestrating-a-new-criminal

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The problem with tv series is when it's interrupted by commercials, they sometimes seem to be part of the show's universe. (e.g., Tushy brand bidets.)

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"While corporate landlords have long owned apartment buildings and other multifamily housing, advocates worry that as they encroach on single-family homes, they take away opportunities for homeownership and raise new concerns for tenants.

Once they buy the homes, single-family rental companies often prove to be bad landlords, critics charge. A 2022 study by federal lawmakers found that five major rental companies hiked their fees by 40 percent over a three-year period and saw their tenants fall behind in rent. In California, the state’s largest corporate landlord, Invitation Homes, was forced to pay $2 million in sanctions after the state attorney general found it was charging tenants illegally high rents."
https://kolektiva.social/@EricLawton/112448328589005619

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Election Countdown, 176 Days to Go: ‘Hot dogs. Let's talk about hot dogs.’

"2) And speaking of a guy in a bar …

Among Donald Trump’s virtues is that he does not drink. That is useful to remember in considering his current speaking style. On Saturday night Deb and I sat through the nearly two-hour entirety of his rally performance at Wildwood, on the Jersey shore, as televised by Fox. The whole thing is archived here, courtesy of Right Side Broadcasting."
https://fallows.substack.com/p/election-countdown-176-days-to-go

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"But I find it hard to picture the voter who—if not already a member of the MAGA minority—will get a fresh look at today’s Trump and think: Yeah, I’d like the next few years of news to be all about this! Jerry Brown told me years ago that shrewd politicians know that the public doesn’t always want to hear from them. Less is more. This is not Trump’s approach."

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"Here are just a few samples of what Trump said this weekend. As far as I can see, they went unmentioned in mainstream stories about the event. (“That’s just Trump.”)

Trump claimed at the start of the speech that “over 100,000 people” were there. “You can’t even see the end of the crowd.” Fox had earlier placed the attendance at “thousands” and, briefly, at “tens of thousands.” A huge crowd for a beach event would have been around 30,000.

More than an hour into his talk, Trump said: “You guys! Not a single person has left.” Photos from that time showed that most of the crowd had long since bailed. (The screenshot below is from a Xitter video by Zac Anderson, showing the thinning crowd.)"

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"He riffed at length about hot dogs. Some parts of the speech included “policy points” and details; these Trump was obviously reading, reluctant-schoolboy style, from a prompter. But whenever a point struck him as interesting he would light up and freewheel into an aside like this one.

The hotdog section was a fair sample of his improvisations. This is my best effort at a cleaned-up transcription. What’s below was all part of the same continuous passage, with nothing cut out:"

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(Trump said)

"Hotdogs, let's talk about hotdogs. I just had one actually. I just had one. It was very good. I hope it was. You know it was very good.

"Frank Sinatra told me a long time ago, never eat before you perform. I said I'm not performing. I'm a politician. If you can believe it, I hate to be called a politician. I like ‘I'm a businessman’ much better. But I guess I'm a politician.

"Because we did great in 2016. We did much better in 2020 A lot better. We had millions more of votes. So I guess, and this time, and I will say this, this spirit that we have this time blows both of them away. You know why?

"Because you still like me. But you saw what the alternative is. The alternative. It's just, the alternative is not a good thing.

"But I just had the best hot dog, so I said, Frank, I'm sorry.""

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(Trump said)
"Now Pavarotti was a good friend. [Out of the blue,] He didn't have that same. He ate all the time. He didn't care.

"But I just had a hot dog and it was very good. So the price of hot dogs is up 22%, chicken’s up 32%. Hamburgers are up 37%. That's why I had the hot dog. It went up the least.

"Eggs are up 50%, gasoline’s up 50%. Bacon is up 79% Bacon! That's why I don't have bacon anymore. So expensive. Not one thing is cheaper.

"There's not one thing anywhere, there's not one item that's cheaper. Energy is way up. That's what caused the problem."
(End Trump quote)

"The whole speech was like this. And I’m not even getting into the parts about Hannibal Lecter. Again, think if you encountered a person like this on the street. Also, remember the front-page coverage Joe Biden got for saying “President of Mexico” rather than “President of Egypt.”"

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"OK, here is one other part. It’s about how Joe Biden is no longer up to the job. I’m presenting it as one long paragraph, verbatim, because that is how it came across:
(Trump said)
“He [Biden] doesn’t know what the hell he is saying. Don't forget, he can't put two sentences together. He can't find the stairs off the stage. Let's see this stage when I'm finished. I got stairs there. I got stairs there. I got a nice ramp there. I got stairs. If it got really dangerous, I could jump off the front. You ever seen him when he's finished? He finishes the speech which usually lasts about a minute and a half. And he always goes like this [looking around] and then he doesn't know where he goes."

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(Trump said)
"But you know we have great people. Secret Service, they always run up on the stage and they lead him off the stage. But he wants to let our tax cuts expire. And I don't do that anyway. You know I don't imitate him anymore. Because I called my wife, our great First Lady, and I said: First Lady [he actually said this], we had a big speech. By the way, not as many people as this! This is like big record stuff on television. Even from the haters. They said this may be the biggest rally they've ever seen, a political rally.”"
(End Trump quote)

"We’ve all heard things like this. In bars. In public parks. In institutional care. We move away from people talking this way. Bill Barr, Mitch McConnell, JD Vance, the GOP as a whole think this person should be back in charge."

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Mike
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Hahahahahhaha someone parked their cybertruck at the coffee shop and every single person who comes in is talking about how dumb it looks and the guy is sitting there fuming this is the best morning ever

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Marc E. Elias & @marceelias
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BREAKING VICTORY: Supreme Court
BLOCKS conservative redistricting lawsuit.
Louisiana will use its congressional map with two majority-Black districts for the
2024 elections!

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Texas school board member disavows the far-right platform she campaigned on | The Texas Tribune

"After Gore reviewed hundreds of pages of the school curriculum, she was shocked that the pervasive indoctrination she had railed against as a candidate did not exist. She has since helped form a group that supports Republican candidates who have been alienated by the local GOP’s far-right faction. Shelby Tauber for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune normal
Gore’s open defiance of far-right GOP orthodoxy represents an unusual sign of independence in a state and in a party that experts say increasingly punish those deemed disloyal. It particularly stands out at a time when Republican leaders are publicly attacking elected officials who do not support direct funding to private schools."
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore/

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Todd Blanche’s opening gambit in his cross of Michael Cohen will go down in the annals of oratory, eclipsing Clarence Darrow, Daniel Webster—nay, Cicero himself:
“You went on Tik Tok and called me a ‘crying little shit,’ didn’t you?” 😂
https://x.com/rparloff/status/1790713961312067787?s=12&t=3d9pIKw692D3Dy-4Ms4pFA

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State attorneys general implore Congress not to preempt their privacy laws

"Fifteen state attorneys general on Wednesday called on Congress to prevent new federal comprehensive data privacy legislation from preempting 17 states’ existing or recently passed laws protecting consumer privacy.

The state attorneys general fear the draft federal American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) could wipe out existing, and in a few cases stronger, state data privacy laws. APRA currently includes language superseding those laws in the 17 states which have now passed comprehensive data privacy legislation."
https://therecord.media/state-attorneys-general-congress-preempt-privacy

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this outdoor episode of MacGyver is set in Oregon (maybe filmed somewhere else).

an IMDB "goof" criticizes the inconsistent weather, but that would be normal for spring in Oregon.

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WASP-193b, a giant planet with a density similar to that of cotton candy | ScienceDaily

"To their great surprise, the accumulated measurements revealed an extremely low density for the planet. Its mass and its size, they calculated, were about 0.14 and 1.5 that of Jupiter, respectively. The resulting density came out to about 0.059 grams per cubic centimeter. Jupiter's density, in contrast, is about 1.33 grams per cubic centimeter; and Earth is a more substantial 5.51 grams per cubic centimeter. One of the materials closest in density to the new, puffy planet, is cotton candy, which has a density of about 0.05 grams per cubic centimeter."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/05/240514141403.htm

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90% of Floridians believe climate change is happening | ScienceDaily

"The latest edition of Florida Atlantic University's "Florida Climate Resilience Survey," found that 90% of Floridians believe that climate change is happening. In comparison, a recent Yale University survey showed 72% of all Americans believe climate change is happening. The FAU survey includes questions on beliefs about climate change, experience with extreme weather events and support for climate-related policies.

The Florida Climate Resilience Survey also shows belief in human-caused climate change has surged among Florida Independents while slipping among Republicans in the state since last fall."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/05/240514141458.htm

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Leach Botanical Garden – Portland, Oregon - Atlas Obscura

"EVEN PEOPLE WHO HAVE GROWN up in the Portland metro area are often surprised to learn that there is a botanical garden in this outer southeast Portland neighborhood, and it’s been open to the public for 40 years.

There are magical trails, meadows for picnics, summer events like nature fairs, educational tours, and more. Often the first time someone finds this place is when they attend a wedding here. It may be known as a hidden gem, but it aspires to be a garden for all"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/leach-botanical-garden-portland

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Boeing violated deal that avoided prosecution after 737 Max crashes, DOJ says | AP News

"In a letter filed Tuesday in federal court in Texas, Glenn Leon, head of the Justice Department criminal division’s fraud section, said Boeing violated terms of the settlement by failing to make promised changes to detect and prevent violations of federal anti-fraud laws."
https://apnews.com/article/boeing-justice-department-737-max-82145b25ed988cd8cae0bce3de79ce9d

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In this episode of Amazon Prime series the main characters are stealing "gigabytes" from other uploaded dead people, to give to poor uploads who are rate-limited to 2 gigs/month. Then my tv lost its connection to the internet.

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The Lincoln Project & @Project.
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So good of pious Mike Johnson to show support for cheating on your wife with a porn star, paying her hush money to cover it up, and falsifying business records so America doesn't find out about it before an election.
C-SPAN
CSPAN v @cspan • 8h
@SpeakerJohnson: "The crime that they are accusing President Trump of is falsification of business records.
But I think everybody knows he is not the bookkeeper for his company.
President Trump is innocent of these charges."

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a video on how to stop procrastinating has been on my to-watch list for weeks.

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https://youtu.be/8aiHnTy2HRw?si=ygS4p5XxAoXMKUgl

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony with Quintessence Saxophone Quintet, I. Movement

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