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@dmfarley.com

Late '70s born, antitheistic, politically ornery, doctorally degreed American engineer, now in Deutschland. From Buffalo. And DC, kinda.

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might I again humbly suggest the following to everyone who cares about journalistic integrity

Nitish Pahwa@nitishpahwa.com

the latest NYT "report" on Mamdani isn't just a bad-faith smear job—it's blatant cover for well-known liars and bigots. Ben Ryan couldn't be bothered with a simple Google regarding his "source." everyone involved in this should be embarrassed and ashamed.

The number of people in this world who will still, in the year of our non existent lord 2026, try to get on a plane before their "boarding group" is called continues to baffle me.

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It’s a decision to spend fewer dollars on SNAP while funding random elective wars and ICE and ads for Trump

PBS News@pbsnews.org

More than 5 million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits since President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year. That has meant many more people are turning to food banks for support. https://to.pbs.org/47Sb4rd

They keep saying the "quiet part out loud" and they keep winning anyway and if they are not stopped the entire frog will be boiled and children will be goose-stepping through the streets as people say "well the other candidate just wasn't likeable" and I will go insane

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

"Hey could you check on that thing? They're in the middle of a war" "......ehhhhh maybe I'll get around to it."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Have you told Elon Musk to stop messing around with Ukraine's Starlink connection? TRUMP: I have not spoken to him. I might have to, but I have not. I've heard it was fixed, but if it's not, I'll speak to him

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Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

Excited for new reasons to hate the Browns and Bengals.

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social

Via @popular.info, here are the corporations backing the pro-child rape Ramaswamy: substack.com/inbox/post/2...

BUT I WAN' IT WAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social

Metaphor for our time 2: Whiskey Pete demands Eisenhower's globe but refuses to wait until the experts can help move it, so he damages the globe and has to give up the conceit. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Me, to my German grandkids: "gather 'round, let me tell you about growing up in Plbam, New York City... on the shores of the Finger Lakes river."

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS@dankaszeta.bsky.social

*waiting for the AI partisans to tell me LLM maps are better than actual ones

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Dissent Magazine@dissentmag.bsky.social

For the first time since the Second World War, the far right will form a government in Germany. But the rot in Saxony-Anhalt stems from decades of neglect. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

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As one of the candidates featured in these polls - the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) - here's the impact of this "experiment"

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It would be useful, too, to point out that Elon's robot has been used to turn children's school photos into child sexual abuse material.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social

“Republicans are creepy as hell. Democrats need to grow a spine and call Republicans out for their creepy fetish of monitoring children’s bathrooms.” The correct response. thehill.com/homenews/cam...

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Bridge is it. National story, ignored by MI media. "The claims have gone well beyond Michigan, with President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and other prominent conservatives fanning the flames on El-Sayed’s Muslim identity." Press won't address GOP Islamophobia, and it's a huge problem.

bridgemi.comAbdul El-Sayed disavows Muslim Brotherhood, responds to claims - Bridge MichiganDuring a weekend town hall, US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said he ‘absolutely’ disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood. Republicans have increasingly attempted to connect him and his family with the gro...

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Me coming home from kindergarten

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The first one is they show you a lion, a bear, a snake, and a giraffe. And they say, 'Which one is the giraffe?' I got a perfect score."

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Replying to @journodale.bsky.social

weird they didn't mention she's on a fascist podcast bsky.app/profile/thep...

The Progress Report@theprogressreport.ca

In a remarkable omission, this article on young people involved in Alberta separatism shouts out the podcast of two young women interviewed—but fails to mention what sort of programming they produce! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I just got a notice from Google that a review I posted in 2017 of some restaurant on the Ammersee, is being taken down by the restaurant's request, for "legal reasons". I wrote "the service was not good". And they took it down.

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washington dc is not trump’s personal property and must be given statehood to prevent this kind of abuse in the future

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

This design appears to completely eliminate the much-beloved loop road and public park at Hains Point, and cut down the cherry trees which line the road. The park is a public space used by tens of thousands of Washingtonians and heavily visited by tourists. /photos not my own.

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Midweek update. This is the week when trusting the USA was shown to be a catastrophe. The second part has a detailed primer on the Starlink/Starshield sabotage of Ukraine. This is US being a fully fledged Putin ally and will cause many Ukrainian deaths phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-up...

phillipspobrien.substack.comMidweek Update #31: Paying The Price For Trusting The USAThe Spacelink/Spaceshield Sabotage of Ukraine: A Primer; A Warning to Europe and the World.

oh look another republican shitbag.

Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com

Republican Rep. Andy Harris incorrectly told a reporter they were breaking the law as the reporter and others recorded an exchange with him last night. Harris had just wrapped up a debate with Democratic challenger Dan Schwartz.

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It’s hard to think of a better definition of a traitor to the West than someone who deliberately sabotages a European democracy’s military operation against a barbaric Russian invasion.

I'm old enough to remember the "how can you hate Musk, he gives people internets" days. Yeah and then he taketh away when he wants to punish you, is that a position you want to be in?

Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social

Trump and Musk going all out to protect Putin

It's definitely great that the last Android update completely broke the Google Family Link on the "supervised account" for my kid on my tablet so that the time limit doesn't apply anymore. fucking irresponsible, careless people.

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I left x despite having a large following bc I don’t want to make free content for the world’s wealthiest racist. It’s not worth it to me.

This explains so much. I was floored when I saw Trejo was attached to that hot garbage.

scott daGHOSTtino@scottdagostino.ca

Everyone’s mad at Danny Trejo for signing on to Ben Shapiro’s pro-ICE movie but now his son reveals how Shapiro’s team tricked an old man into doing this 😡

Guys if the universe is unmade tomorrow it *may* be because my wife shredded Bergkäse and Gouda and mixed it together today. Man that joke is so layered I think I hurt myself.

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We've been boiled frogs for so long this never gets mentioned. But this violates DOJ policies that have been in place for decades, ones that Defense Attorney Todd Blanche said should have extended for the entirety of the time his client had declared his candidacy. (Tho I think this was DHS.)

Meg Kinnard@megkinnardap.bsky.social

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents searched Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say.