"Palantir is not just a problem of profiteering from our national healthcare system— it's a fundamental threat to the democratic control of our public infrastructure + the privacy of every citizen. By giving our taxes to this company, we are aiding their operations everywhere."
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Behind every vote shaming politician or pundit is a belief in a magical fantasy. It assumes that somehow we can coordinate the moral behavior of millions of people spanning thousands of miles to all adopt the same moral framework. It’s an impossibility. The onus is on the candidate to win voters.
it’s what you chose to focus on everyday bc it’s a centrist attacking the left. and you love that
exactly. none of this is backed up by any facts. just centrists feelings that can’t explain why their shitty candidate couldn’t beat trump
Simply filing this lawsuit is an impeachable offense.
TMZ setting up in DC to follow politicians around is FINALLY the appropriate lowbrow "news" coverage this administration has merited all along.
Exactly one year ago today:
As I’ve said before: methane is not the climate system’s long-term problem, but anyone sufficiently worried about short-term warming to be contemplating solar radiation management should be advocating far more heavily for methane reductions.
For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.
Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread:
Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.
but he keeps saying shit like the above…. hence the ratios
this is why will gets picked on…takes like this
Again, even Viktor Orban & Fidesz make the Republican Party, as it actually & currently exists, look unbelievably extremist in both absolute & relative comparison:
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oh look - a genocide defender
facts don’t bear that out at all though - not that it will stop you all from saying it. shitty candidates with no support from their base as the problem
Orban lost despite
“eliminating many checks and balances by stacking the judicial system…, and taking control of most news media outlets. He also worked to export his model of ‘illiberal democracy,’ promoting himself as an invincible guru…”
How many tens - hundreds - of thousands more similar stories of unimaginable sorrow, anguish, and fury has #Israel caused during its genocidal rampage?
#Palestine
#Lebanon
nothing says skilled diplomacy like spending a single day laying out your terms and then going home when they’re not immediately and unilaterally accepted bsky.app/profile/atru...
based on their actions over my lifetime I have zero confidence Democrats will do even a tenth of what's required to repair all this, let alone inoculate the country against a recurrence
The USPS can't "run out of money," the sole question is the people in charge of the federal government believe delivering mail is worth funding the same way they already fund armed kidnapping gangs, concentration camps, and blowing up girls' schools.
Once again, I implore you to change your news diet to include LOCAL and INDEPENDENT, non-billionaire-owned outlets. Here's a starter pack of local journalists and news outlets.
go.bsky.app/FzSc9z
I think the quote about Greta Thunberg may be the whole bag: teenagers and young adults can't get all up in your shit about the genocide you're generously funding and providing cover for if they never hear about it.
that their democratic congressional leaders either cheered on or stayed silent on
It might be all the criminal charges against them that lawyers like me are STILL defending pro bono as they can't get housing or jobs or healthcare because everyone smeared them as terrorism supporters. Or maybe that the ones who do try protesting are immediately arrested too.
Might be that.
Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news
Screenshot of a tweet by Rep. Ted Lieu stating that U.S. military law prohibits war crimes, including strikes on civilian infrastructure that cause disproportionate harm. The tweet warns that service members must disobey illegal orders and could face prosecution by a future administration if they commit war crimes.
Rep. Ted Lieu isn't backing down.
It is, of course, a one-way ratchet. If Mark Carney or Emmanuel Macron cut ads and gave stump speeches saying vote for Democrats, they'd wail and gnash their teeth about how it was the second Pearl Harbor.
kinda feels like there should be a very very very large gap in offensive vs defensive orders.
This has been an issue the military avoided confronting for decades. It was asked in the 70s. "What if I believe the person issuing a command to use nuclear weapons is not sane?" The answer was to drum the questioner from the service.
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This is a far simpler answer than people would like to believe.
Trump issues the order via the National Military Command Center to the commander of Strategic Command, and then STRATCOM carries it out directly. There is no second vote, no veto, no check-and-balance.
