Down in a K Hole

Down in a K Hole

@flameacolyte.bsky.social

Tesla Cybertruck - now coming to your local parking lot! https://www.vice.com/en/article/unsold-cybertrucks-are-piling-up-at-a-decaying-us-shopping-mall/

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About 15% of the 2016 referendum electorate is dead. Makes me wonder about what % of the electorate from 92/96 pres elections is dead - even as MSM insists Dems must copy the 90s GOP-lite playbook

Ian@luci70.bsky.social

I found this today (from Peter Kellner/YouGov) which answers part of your query.

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If Netanyahu is crushed today, don't be surprised if he eventually flees to the United States. He needs the office to stay out of jail. That's what this is all about.

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* BRAZIL SENATOR FLAVIO BOLSONARO MISSES SUPREME COURT DEADLINE TO HAND IN PASSPORT TO FEDERAL POLICE -- SOURCE * BRAZIL FEDERAL POLICE CANCEL SENATOR FLAVIO BOLSONARO'S PASSPORTS AFTER DEADLINE MISSED -- SOURCE @reuters.com $EWZ

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Fascists around the world are building cross-country partnerships. Any competent pro-democracy effort at home would do well to partner with and learn from pro-democracy movements abroad. So congrats and appreciation to the democratic movement leaders in Hungary, Serbia, and Brazil!!!

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

Yes well it does require things like “empathy” and possessing a basic understanding that all of our lives are interconnected

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it is my deepest and most fervent wish that the tech oligarchs suffer consequences for openly allying with fascism the world over maybe we can extradite zuck in 2029

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

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someone really wants to join his dad in jail and/or the hospital

Faytuks Network@faytuksnetwork.bsky.social

Flávio Bolsonaro refuses to concede after losing Brazil's presidential runoff to Lula. "It is impossible to acknowledge the election results. We will ask for the elections to be annulled."

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pretty clear evidence that republicans in the US losing any election going forward are going to always beg for a coup if they lose. lots of people will have to go to jail

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Flávio Bolsonaro's campaign chief, Rogério Marinho, is setting the propaganda narrative in case of a Lula victory, calling extended voting hours a “judicial coup.” Far-right congressman Nikolas Ferreira is also crying interference. Both Lula and Bolsonaro campaigns requested extensions.

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Stuff that Vivek is willing to do is why I just don’t want them to lose. They need to be punished, they need to suffer. Pound for pound. Every single one of these fascist rats has to be tossed out seat by seat. Call it god’s wraith but we’re the tool for his anger

What if James Buchanan but with dementia

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But it's never been my thing. But I looked at his ass. I said, 'His ass, shit, it's like a pile of muscle.' Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.'"

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Unacceptable. Meta took down the No Kings Instagram today and kept it offline for well over an hour. Censoring free speech to appease Donald Trump? We the people deserve answers, but regardless, we will not be silenced.

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As we try to restore access to the No Kings instagram today, this is what I am thinking about.

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social

😡😡😡 “Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian ​President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by ‌restrictions during [Brazil’s] election” & that Meta “recommended the profile ​of challenger…Flavio Bolsonaro” & “his ​WhatsApp channel…” 1/

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every democrat in the us senate voted to confirm marco rubio

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

Did ya know Marco Rubio's brother-in-law had a $75M drug ring? And now— "Rubio is helping carry the torch for a now decades-old U.S. foreign policy: claiming to fight drug trafficking while in fact tolerating, protecting, or even cooperating with…the criminality Rubio purports to be concerned with."

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There has never been a "cultural consensus", there has always been a push-and-pull of disparate groups and viewpoints and biases and arguments, and the efforts to retroactively construct one are almost entirely censorious in nature---as well as being stupid.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

i think it is fun when people write things that are just totally in tension with easily observable reality. like, this is “charlie brown had hoes” levels of nonsense: “in his first term Trump largely respected the cultural consensus of the Obama years.” www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

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They show you a lion, a bear, a giraffe, and a snake and they say, "You just had lunch with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., do you remember which one he ate?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "It's called a coganative [sic] test. It's a very standard test, but very tough. There are few people in this audience that can -- once you get past the first question. They show you a lion, a bear, a giraffe, and a snake and they say, 'Which one is the lion?' Biden was unable to answer that"

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it turns out that “optimize for engagement” and “optimize for societal best outcomes” are opposing goals and if you look at the entire history of the tech industry you can see which of those two wins out

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social

Facebook back in 2021 temporarily turned off the “drive people insane” setting and it completely changed what people were seeing. They turned it back on when engagement dipped by like 1 percent.

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Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations. Because there were fewer bots. It’s pretty clear where those bots were."

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Oracle, 29th largest company in the world, led by Larry Ellison, books looking bad, bet huge on AI, tens of billions in negative cash flow, and if the company goes down, there’s a good chance it takes the AI bubble and Skydance down with it.

Tough times for Mr Bone Saw

Shibley Telhami@stelhami.bsky.social

"Saudi officials said they are running low on interceptors needed to fend off further strikes... The 41-year-old crown prince is shuttling between heavily guarded palaces equipped with bunkers and is guarded by a handpicked security team" www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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Ukraine losing access to Starlink would cause months of extreme hardship, but it would force Kyiv to finally break its reliance on the US, which has proven unreliable under Trump. It would be absolutely horrible now, but it may be the only way to end that dependency

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It is, in fact, possible to impeach and remove President Trump from office next week. It won't happen, however, because Republicans also support Putin and Russia and agree with Trump.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

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“WE WILL BURN THEIR REFINERIES.”

Maria Drutska@mariadrutska.bsky.social

Putin has bought Trump with Russian diesel. Just before the US elections. Meanwhile, Russia keeps killing our children while they sleep at night. So Americans are now funding Russia’s war machine? I’m sorry, guys, but WHAT A FUCKING DISGRACE.

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Didn't take long for our newly Saudi-owned monopoly media conglomerate to expand their content franchise to their new territory.

Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social

What a select club Hegseth has us joining.

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it’s worth noting that Zohran has made major policy reforms to legalize development of more market rate housing. On the other hand, New York republicans are super NIMBY and want the government to regulate new housing out of existence with excessive red tape

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social

If care about free markets, you not only get more from center-left Dems than the party of Trump, you get more *from professed democratic socialists* like Mamdani than you do from the party of Trump. Those who deny this only think of it as an anti-left cultural totem and not a real policy agenda.