Jeevmon

Jeevmon

@jeevmon.bsky.social

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Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

Ya got trouble, right here in River City.

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz.bsky.social

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Today, we remember Ed Stevens, who lost his job as the Dodgers’ first baseman 79 years ago today because of DEI. (Sarcasm/ satire, at least until Harmeet posts it on the USDOJ OCR socials).

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The “fun” thing about the kennedy center freakout is that conservatives have been carving out “creative” exceptions to anti discrimination laws so they can be bigots to ordinary people just trying to make a purchase, but if actual artists don’t want to perform for the god king they must be punished

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The only things that have kept the United States out of being a major global coffee supplier are climate, altitude, and soil, and fortunately we have a 50% tariff on Brazil which will solve these, reducing our dependence on foreign beans.

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man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

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SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

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It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives

Ken Tremendous@kentremendous.bsky.social

There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.

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Replying to @jamellebouie.net

*i* think that the issue isn’t the words, it is the substantive positions. no amount of language self policing will satisfy someone who just disagrees with, say, legal protection from gender discrimination

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The interesting process here is that Elon wants his LLM to, essentially, believe racist things but also, paradoxically, know not to say them and how to talk about them politely... Which is a revealing set of desires.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social

Lol

This is literally the dumbest darkest timeline.

Katherine the Sixth@luigithirty.bsky.social

So Rufo's article is based on the claim that Mamdani got 2140, an "89th percentile" score, below the median for acceptance to Columbia. 2140 out of 2400 is 89%. That's not how SAT percentiles work. A 2140 is a 97% percentile score for that year. This man runs a college in my hometown.

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I don't mean to sound hysterical but there are some pretty clear historical examples of "force the urban-dwellers to the farms," and none of them are great.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."

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Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's. And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today. Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill

Actual text from Google AI: "The Doctors who never had a Cybermen-centric episode in the main show are the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee), the Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann), and the Ninth Doctor (Chris Eccleston). Pertwee also never faced The Master." The late Roger Delgado would like a word.

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It isn't the content that's the problem. It's the way that center and left discourse is stuck behind paywalls while rightwing discourse is pushed out free, bankrolled by billionaires, and distributed like wildfire across social networks. We aren't failing at ideas, we're failing at spreading them.

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social

The Democratic Party doesn't need its own Joe Rogan. They need a vision for the future that actually addresses the existential crises of the moment and they need to get comfortable with being criticized for how monumentally they've screwed up. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-whole-...