It's not good. Wondering if it was a live snippet that escaped containment?
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Cathy Gellis
Профиль VivelyLawyer, writer, all-around-great person I mostly post about technology, law, and civil liberties (especially free speech), and how they intersect. And mostly at Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/user/cathy/ I also post silly things too.
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1. Contrary to the implication here, AIPAC strongly opposed the candidate who defeated Kat (Biss). 2. Kat still implies here that Biss beat her due to AIPAC's help. 3. Biss also happen to be Jewish. I'm sure that's all just coincidence.
Kat AbughazalehAIPAC may have bought our election in Illinois, but we're not going to let that happen in Michigan. 5 days left to make them panic. Vote for Abdul on or before August 4th.
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As U.S. attorney, Jay Clayton subpoenaed journalists for reporting embarrassing information about the president's new plane.
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“They’re both kind of similar because when I walked into prison my first day, I was like, ‘Damn, man, you are a fucking loser.’ And I had the same damn feeling every day I walked through the door with the Jets.” — Plaxico Burress. www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...
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If you post survey data, news articles, etc. without a link back to the source whenever possible, you are weakening the informational chain of custody and making it harder for other people to confirm that they're seeing accurate information. This holds even if you're mad at whatever it is.
Zach WeinersmithDo you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
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Friends I tell you Nate is underselling how awful this course is. Every word I read caused my eyes to widen and jaw to drop.
Nate ODecided to look at the classes taught at West Virginia University ’s Washington Center for Civics, Culture and Statesmanship (the one with one enrolled student) and it turns out it’s teaching classes on the wonders of fascism
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Of note, if these university classes require purchasing textbooks, most of these books are only available through Arktos Press, which is a fascist press that almost exclusively publishes fascist propaganda from, and I’m not being hyperbolic here, fascists that called themselves fascists
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A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.
Lucas TiemanThere would be more pushback if folks left of center were more serious about outreach. But folks aren't despite the fact that our system does give disproportionate power to rural areas. But instead of taking that as the rules of the game as it exists, and actually organizing, we complain about it.
I'm really done with her. She's no liberal hero. She's at best immature but I'm losing faith she has the capacity to grow into an actual leader.
Opinionated TerranFor context: Kat lost to a Jew in IL who was opposed by AIPAC but that doesnt matter to a gutter Antisemite like her Now shes thrown in with another, different Antisemite to see if the AIPAC smear will work in Michigan, where her preferred candidate is polling 10 points below their GOP opponent
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Dems are quite strong in many rural areas! East NC & south VA. The Mississippi Delta. 4 Corners. Tribal lands in the Plains & Basin. Rural Hawai'i. Most of the entire landmass of Alaska. The deep south's Black Belt. Southern TX & central CA are swingy but WAY more blue than people think they are.
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Wow! ICE’s airport arrests of people seemingly waiting in government immigration backlogs caught up a Fulbright scholar and public health researcher working at Johns Hopkins in their public health department. Not exactly the “worst of the worst”! Yet they threw her in detention anyway.
Baltimore BannerICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests
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Once again I'll reiterate that the way AIPAC has been transformed into this creeping villain behind every unwanted election result is feeding a resurgence of antisemitism, and that goes triple if the winner is Jewish and was opposed by AIPAC. Please please think about your words here!
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Reiterating that Musk's literal voter bribery last time was an unambiguous go-directly-to-jail felony, for which people have been successfully prosecuted over vastly smaller amounts. It wasn't just pouring money into a PAC, whatever one thinks of that. It was a black-letter plain-as-day crime.
Musk got away with his $1 million vote-buying scheme in 2024. Why wouldn't he try something similar this November?
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I'm sorry, but this is tremendous content
Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her)One of these preacher types got kicked off the plane. She called her disruption “spiritual warfare”. Flight attendant is like call it whatever, it’s illegal; get your stuff and get off the plane. 😂 www.threads.com/@alanafm411/...