The Bob Cesca Podcast: Incarceratory Punishment

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Incarceratory Punishment — Trump guilty of contempt. Judge Merchan warns of jail time. Joyce Vance and Brian Beutler on Judge Chutkan and immunity. Kristi Noem’s puppy murder has uncovered something both sides can agree on. Republicans react to the Noem story. About that CNN poll and putting it all into perspective. People who read newspapers are far more likely to vote for Joe Biden. The TIME magazine story on Trump’s plans for the country. Republicans want to ban democracy. Nicolle Wallace’s warning. Good news for the trans community. With Buzz Burbank, music by Daffo, Samantha Emme, and more!

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348 comments
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nines09  Apr 30, 2024 • 2:06:03pm

cl’d….

Fentanyl

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2024 • 2:16:06pm

re: #83 jaunte

[Embedded content]. Mr. Trump wants him to attack witnesses, attack what the former president sees as a hostile jury pool*, and attack the judge, Juan M. Merchan.

*anyone who wont acquit me

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 30, 2024 • 2:19:18pm

re: #2 Dangerman

*anyone who wont acquit me

You roll over for the narcissistic sociopath, or in his mind, you’re persecuting him.

Trump’s a clown. The problem is that millions of Americans are also clowns, so the massive dysfunction seems OK to them.

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William Lewis  Apr 30, 2024 • 2:21:30pm

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William Lewis  Apr 30, 2024 • 2:21:42pm

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garzooma  Apr 30, 2024 • 2:21:54pm

Fox News Quietly Deletes Hunter Biden ‘Mock Trial’ Series

Fox News appears to be taking Hunter Biden’s lawsuit threat quite seriously.

The network has quietly pulled down its six-part “mock trial” series from its digital streaming service Fox Nation after lawyers for the presidential scion warned the network of their intention to sue for defamation.

Maybe Geragos knows his stuff

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 30, 2024 • 2:24:16pm
Chicago 2024 Sees Steven Spielberg On Board With Joe Biden For DNC & Reelection Campaign

Steven Spielberg has made no secret of his support for Joe Biden’s reelection, and now the Oscar winner is rolling up his sleeves for the team.

Spielberg is involved strategically in the incumbent’s campaign and even the specifics of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August, Deadline has confirmed.

“Steven wants to be as helpful as possible to the president,” a well-placed source says. “He believes this is one of the most important elections in the nation’s history.”

The filmmaker is unlikely to helm a short movie at the DNC about Biden this year the way he helped do for John Kerry in 2004, and again at the 2008 convention when Barack Obama was nominated. However, Spielberg has been working with key advisors on how to “convey the president’s successes and his vision for the country” to viewers and delegates, I’m told.

Representatives for Spielberg had no comment on reports of the director’s participation in the Biden campaign when contacted by Deadline.

deadline.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2024 • 2:40:04pm

re: #7 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

I’m just saying I would totally watch a DNC that included dinosaurs.

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nines09  Apr 30, 2024 • 2:42:45pm

I had promised these. Here they are. A store that was a friends fathers general store in a small town. I moved here and found people who found me.
Time.
The Dutch and Amish and the Mennonite all meet out back and work deals.
Enjoy.

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KGxvi  Apr 30, 2024 • 2:43:24pm

re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m just saying I would totally watch a DNC that included dinosaurs.

/

(insert Biden age joke here)

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2024 • 2:59:21pm

I haven’t been able to move for over an hour.

Mastodon

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sagehen  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:02:26pm

re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m just saying I would totally watch a DNC that included dinosaurs.

/

Aliens. Bullwhips and archaeologists. But really I could do without the sharks and Nazis.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:06:00pm

re: #4 William Lewis

I love train bridges, you captured this one beautifully.

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:07:06pm

re: #9 nines09

I had promised these. Here they are. A store that was a friends fathers general store in a small town. I moved here and found people who found me.
Time.
The Dutch and Amish and the Mennonite all meet out back and work deals.
Enjoy.

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this is a lot like my grandfather’s store

i’ll try and dig out some pix.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:07:51pm

This is how your email finds me

— Comfortably Numb (@ygalanter.bsky.social) 2024-04-30T22:06:25.423Z

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:09:24pm

re: #11 darthstar

I haven’t been able to move for over an hour.

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YouTube

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:10:21pm

re: #10 KGxvi

(insert Biden age joke here)

That Biden would go along with.

He should be on a raptor with a gun and an American flag.

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:18:54pm

re: #14 Dangerman

this is a lot like my grandfather’s store

i’ll try and dig out some pix.

this is either floral park, new york or merrick, ny
i’m guessing the late 1940’s or early 50s

in the center is grandpa selling…
grandma to his right - cashier, kept the books, paid the bills, etc

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nines09  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:20:24pm

re: #18 Dangerman

Nice.
Tin ceiling too!

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:21:00pm

Yep, it looks like Bluesky will soon have a direct message/chat ability.

github.com

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nines09  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:21:58pm

re: #11 darthstar

I haven’t been able to move for over an hour.

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You have not uttered the magic words.
“TREATS? WHO HAS TREATS?!!??!”

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:24:08pm

re: #19 nines09

Nice.

Eddie and “Mrs Eddie”
almost like they knew LGF would be coming down the road one day

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:24:29pm

re: #21 nines09

You have not uttered the magic words.
“TREATS? WHO HAS TREATS?!!??!”

Eartha doesn’t do treats. She likes her kibble and her can of wet food at night. Dogs just got home and drove her off the second couch…then she was back up and in the same spot with the sun on it a few seconds later.

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jeffreyw  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:24:52pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

Yep, it looks like Bluesky will soon have a direct message/chat ability.

github.com

I’ve already edited my profile to say “No DMs”.

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:31:58pm
Drenda Keesee is a right-wing pastor, broadcaster, Seven Mountains dominionist, and conspiracy theorist who appears poised to become a county commissioner in Knox County, Ohio, after winning the Republican primary last month.
…
Keesee claimed that she was hosting a women’s conference of her own last year and in between speaking engagements, she was lying down backstage when Jesus appeared to her.

“He was holding my cheeks, and I was holding his cheeks and it was darkened but I could see him,” Keesee said. “He was there and we were holding each other’s face.”

Link

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nines09  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:35:46pm

re: #25 Dangerman

That was Juan. Juan Carlos. He’s likes to do that, and they let him. He’s happy, you happy, we happy…and what cheeks was he grappling?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:36:41pm

Yah. No shit.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:36:59pm

re: #9 nines09

WHOA!!!!!!

Do my eyes deceive me and I see BOKAR Coffee?

That was Dad’s favorite from A&P before Grandpa tempted him with YUBAN!

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:38:24pm

The Jerk - Cat Juggling

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nines09  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:38:52pm

re: #28 Joe Bacon ✅

WHOA!!!!!!

Do my eyes deceive me and I see BOKAR Coffee?

That was Dad’s favorite from A&P before Grandpa tempted him with YUBAN!

So much in there. They kept a lot, after the store closed. I saw some things that rang bells for me too.

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nines09  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:45:56pm

What America thought of Columbia before nose candy and the rest is history…

Classic Juan Valdez Colombian Coffee (1982)

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:47:12pm

re: #26 nines09

That was Juan. Juan Carlos. He’s likes to do that, and they let him. He’s happy, you happy, we happy…and what cheeks was he grappling?

No, it was his twin brother Jesus Carlos.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:47:34pm

re: #31 nines09

Don’t forget the emeralds. ::: huge grin :::

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:50:48pm

re: #9 nines09

I had promised these. Here they are. A store that was a friends fathers general store in a small town. I moved here and found people who found me.
Time.
The Dutch and Amish and the Mennonite all meet out back and work deals.
Enjoy.

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Nice pictures. There was a place just outside of my hometown that had that kind of stuff at the back of the country store. Town is even smaller than my hometown. Nice place with Amish and Mennonite’s. They went out of business about 15 years ago. It is now a Mennonite church. I don’t know if the church kept all the old grocers stuff in the back.

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nines09  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:53:06pm

re: #32 Belafon

No, it was his twin brother Jesus Carlos.

JC then needed protection as the Columbian Coffee Cartel found him a threat. So Juan Carlos reached out to strongmen in Cartagena, and then the Medellin cartel burned his villages and mountain side…

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steve_davis  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:53:14pm

re: #28 Joe Bacon ✅

WHOA!!!!!!

Do my eyes deceive me and I see BOKAR Coffee?

That was Dad’s favorite from A&P before Grandpa tempted him with YUBAN!

and it was “ground to order” because people back then weren’t barbarians and they knew damned well people generally didn’t want their coffee ground like it was gonna get turned into turkish espresso.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:54:47pm

re: #19 nines09

Nice.
Tin ceiling too!

My favorite bar in town still has the tin ceiling. Owner painted over them a couple years ago. Just wasn’t worth the bother of trying to clean decades of smoke film off them.

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William Lewis  Apr 30, 2024 • 3:56:02pm

Another MicroSFF story:

2023-08-02
“Ah,” the robot said, “now I understand.”
“Understand what?”
“The concept of ‘uncanny valley’, where something is
subtly wrong, unnatural, but you can’t pinpoint why.
I’ve experienced that now.”
“Oh? How?”
“I talked to ChatGPT.”

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:05:04pm

re: #71 goddamnedfrank

The reason I post stuff like this, in such intentionally harsh terms, and am willing to eat the occasional down ding over it is because you can draw a straight line from the culture and conditions that allowed the killing of those three hostages to the murder of the WCK relief team and from that to the famine in Gaza.

Like, it’s not even subtle, just a steady drumbeat of dehumanizing rhetoric with one explicitly straightforward goal.

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Captain Ron  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:12:29pm

“We don’t believe it’s an appropriate role of Congress to mandate the inclusion of a century-old technology in 21st century cars,” said Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Technology Association.

AM radio signals can interfere with how electric vehicles operate, Shapiro pointed out, which is why some automakers are considering abandoning the technology. Forcing automakers to include AM receivers will increase development costs for electric vehicles, add unnecessary weight and force design tradeoffs, he said.

The solution would be to not operate an AM radio broadcast station in your Tesla. An AM receiver won’t do shit to the electronics.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:12:33pm

re: #25 Dangerman

No disrespect to religious people but delusions that you touched your god’s cheeks sound crazy to nonbelievers. If I said that I was holding the Tooth Fairy’s cheeks in my hands, you all would recommend that I see a therapist.
Just saying.

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retired cynic  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:12:45pm

re: #11 darthstar

I haven’t been able to move for over an hour.

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That’s where my little tuxie sleeps, but only at night.

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:13:52pm

re: #29 Charles Johnson

Roll the ugliness.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:14:19pm

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William Lewis  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:14:35pm

This just falls into “cute”. Would probably make a good meme 😈

2023-11-15
Its origin is lost in the mists of mystery, but throughout
the galaxy there is no war cry more feared than
Humanity’s “It’s find-out time!”

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:18:09pm

re: #40 Captain Ron

Whoa, wait a minute. Are Republicans, the party of limited government, trying to mandate AM radios be installed in all new cars? In a way I want to laugh my ass off, because I know why they are doing this. They think their geriatric base still listens to the wackos on actual terrestrial radios.

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William Lewis  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:22:39pm

re: #46 Ace Rothstein

Whoa, wait a minute. Are Republicans, the party of limited government, trying to mandate AM radios be installed in all new cars? In a way I want to laugh my ass off, because I know why they are doing this. They think their geriatric base still listens to the wackos on actual terrestrial radios.

And that they’re buying Elmo’s toy cars.

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Jay C  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:23:45pm

re: #46 Ace Rothstein

Whoa, wait a minute. Are Republicans, the party of limited government, trying to mandate AM radios be installed in all new cars? In a way I want to laugh my ass off, because I know why they are doing this. They think their geriatric base still listens to the wackos on actual terrestrial radios.

1. TBH, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that eliminating AM radios from cars IS considered as some sort of sinister discrimination by the RWNJs; “silencing” the Voices Of Wingnuttia, or whatever…

2. These are car radios, right? How much more extra “weight” or “design tradeoffs” are needed to add an AM capability to a receiver? Am I missing something?*

*(quite likely)

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KGxvi  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:25:27pm

re: #40 Captain Ron

Ted Cruz is the bill’s Senate sponsor. Republicans claim that removing AM radios as standard equipment is a covert leftist attack on right wing talk radio.

shocking that Senator Pendejo Uno is leading the way on this

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:28:54pm

re: #18 Dangerman

That looks a lot like my great-grandfather’s store in St. Louis. I can’t find the interior shot at the moment.

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gocart mozart  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:31:38pm
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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:34:16pm

re: #51 gocart mozart

Don Blankenship demonstrating live Clutch Cargo animation.

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KGxvi  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:35:02pm

so according to this article from November, the issue isn’t that AM radios interfere with EVs but actually that EVs can mess up AM signals:

In its report, CAR researchers said EVs depend on high-voltage electrical components that generate electromagnetic interference on AM radio band signals, causing distortion and static. While it’s possible to mitigate that interference, the researchers said it is most effective when engineered into vehicles’ designs.

Calling it both “challenging” and costly for automakers, they said modern vehicles of all kinds have complex onboard electronics systems controlling everything from brakes and adaptive driver assistance systems to infotainment and safety, all of which can distort AM signals depending on their proximity to the radio receiver.

And apparently several manufacturers have started removing AM receivers from their newer cars. Though it appears the answer may just be digital AM radios in lieu of broadcast AM radios.

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:36:08pm

Drunk Michigan teen pulls into gas station and passes out. It seems he hit a tree at some point during his romp but apparently forgot it was stuck in his truck.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:39:25pm

re: #54 sizzzzlerz

Drunk Michigan teen pulls into gas station and passes out. It seems he hit a tree at some point during his romp but apparently forgot it was stuck in his truck.

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That took some skillz.

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Jay C  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:40:33pm

re: #54 sizzzzlerz

Drunk Michigan teen pulls into gas station and passes out. It seems he hit a tree at some point during his romp but apparently forgot it was stuck in his truck.

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At least it may add a bit of atypical credibility to the story he’s likely to come up with, i.e. “I was just driving down the street, and this tree jumped out and attacked me!!”

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:41:04pm

re: #54 sizzzzlerz

Triffids!

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:43:47pm

Columbia:

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retired cynic  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:43:57pm

re: #51 gocart mozart

I read about that ad with RFK2. It was from many years ago, just before the Blankenship mine disaster that killed a bunch of miners. And that one phrase is the only thing of the “debate” between Blankenship and RFK2 that was usable. Unbelievable.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:46:23pm

re: #58 jaunte

Columbia:

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Looks like they’ve got a few hundred police lining up. I’ve seen this movie…it never ends well.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:46:26pm

re: #57 jaunte

Triffids!

The full movie!

The Day of the Triffids (1962)

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:47:24pm

I’d love some Spine Chilling Terror.
But I haven’t botany.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:48:09pm

re: #60 darthstar

Looks like they’ve got a few hundred police lining up. I’ve seen this movie…it never ends well.

Somebody is going to die.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:48:10pm

re: #51 gocart mozart

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Blankenship is not a Democrat; he ran as a Republican against Manchin in 2018 and he is now trying to make sure that whoever is elected in West Virginia is a Republican. Does West Virginia even have a legitimate Democratic candidate for the office?

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:48:35pm

re: #61 Charles Johnson

I jumped right to the eye operation patient having a smoke in the hospital.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:49:50pm

re: #63 Nerdy Fish

Somebody is going to die.

People protesting for peace are always more severely policed than, say, people trying to overthrow the fucking US government.

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Unabogie  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:50:25pm

I wonder if people who are currently supporting RFK Jr. (W - Wacko) know how terrible he is on abortion?

politico.com

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:51:50pm

re: #66 darthstar

People protesting for peace are always more severely policed than, say, people trying to overthrow the fucking US government.

Well, of course. Police are, by and large, friends with those people.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:52:22pm

re: #65 jaunte

I jumped right to the eye operation patient having a smoke in the hospital.

41 minute mark has some good Triffid combat.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:53:12pm

re: #57 jaunte

Triffids!

Nah. Proper Triffids from the book are much less resilient. The movie was an abomination.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:54:01pm

re: #61 Charles Johnson

Blegh. Horrible.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:54:08pm

re: #69 darthstar

He seems to have gotten hold of Ahab’s harpoon.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:55:23pm

This crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters, by the way, is why we should be abso-fucking-lutely terrified of giving the state constitutional powers to suppress speech. Right now, what they’re doing is a violation of First Amendment rights. If we start making carve-outs that let the government determine what is and isn’t a violation of free speech - if the government gets to say, “This person is a stochastic terrorist because we think what we’re saying inspires violence” - this whole crusade becomes legal, and there’s not a damn thing anyone can do about it. Much as we may hate the Chaya Raichiks and Donald Trumps of our time, we need to keep that in mind when we talk about what solutions to those problems might entail.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:55:59pm

@sleestak.bsky.social
“Sir, this is a [howling shrieks of the damned].”

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:56:26pm

re: #74 jaunte

That sign has seen some things.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:57:24pm

re: #75 Nerdy Fish

Looks like a Fallout prop.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2024 • 4:58:15pm

re: #76 jaunte

Looks like a Fallout prop.

Just watched episode 5 of that today.

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mmmirele  Apr 30, 2024 • 5:06:56pm

How can I tell it’s the end of the month? Because I have gotten dozens of text messages asking me for money. Most of these are falling into the bit bucket. I check to make sure they’re not from Republicans first, because those numbers need to be blocked with impunity.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2024 • 5:10:09pm

Mastodon

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silverdolphin  Apr 30, 2024 • 5:12:15pm

IN response to a post on the last thread.

re: #37 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

I grew up with “Through Children’s Eyes” I was six when it came out and I still remember singing along to it (it was one of the forst LPs to have the lyrics on the record cover the LP went into).

My parents lived in the Bay Area and had seen Lou Gottleib and the Gateway Singers at the Hungry i in San Francisco in the 50s. She kept up with him and when the Limeliters were formed got every one of their albums. And played them until they wore out.

She hated the Kingston Trio because of their copyright antics. So folk in our house was the Limeliters (and some Odetta).

I actually bought an 8-track recorder to put their albums on, along with Tom Lehrer, to play in my car before cassettes took over. Such great driving music.

I was lucky enough to see them while I was going to Caltech, in a reunion concert I think in 76 or 77. Front row seats. With the original 3, I believe, althoug I think one of their sons was also covering on guitar. It was amazing.

I always thought the Folksmen seen in A Mighty Wind were a reference to the Limeliters. They played the same instruments (long-necked 5 string banjo used by Alex, stand up bass by Lou and guitar by Glenn; that trembling vibrato by Guest was an obvious nod to Glenn; and sing the same mix of songs).

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2024 • 5:12:46pm

Y’all ever noticed that many of the worst people in the world are old white guys?

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silverdolphin  Apr 30, 2024 • 5:21:44pm

My mother, the Limeliter fan who gave me a lifelong interest in them (See #80), lived long enough herself to see one of the songs off their debut album be used in one of the best openings on the best show on TV, Breaking Bad.

Breaking Bad Goodbye to everyone

Glenn’s pure whistle was iconic. And every one gets the name of the song wrong. It’s “times are getting hard”.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2024 • 5:37:42pm

re: #48 Jay C

1. TBH, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that eliminating AM radios from cars IS considered as some sort of sinister discrimination by the RWNJs; “silencing” the Voices Of Wingnuttia, or whatever…

2. These are car radios, right? How much more extra “weight” or “design tradeoffs” are needed to add an AM capability to a receiver? Am I missing something?*

*(quite likely)

Ford is eliminating the automatic parking feature they have which will save them $40 per car. You know, out of a $30K car.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2024 • 5:39:27pm

re: #58 jaunte

Columbia:

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Eric’s vying for that Republican party nomination.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2024 • 5:40:05pm

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2024 • 5:42:03pm

re: #83 Belafon

Ford is eliminating the automatic parking feature they have which will save them $40 per car. You know, out of a $30K car.

But the money they’ll make in replacement parts will move than make up for it.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 30, 2024 • 5:42:22pm

You know what day this is??

296B - The Death of Adolf Hitler - WW2 - April 30, 1945

..

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Apr 30, 2024 • 5:43:16pm

re: #58 jaunte

Columbia:

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This will be a preview of Project 2025.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Apr 30, 2024 • 5:45:49pm

re: #88 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

You know what day this is??

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..

Also on this day:

YouTube

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2024 • 5:46:45pm

re: #82 silverdolphin

The perfect song choice for the moment. That episode is absolutely devastating, much like “Plan & Execution” in Better Call Saul.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2024 • 5:47:31pm

re: #74 jaunte

@sleestak.bsky.social
“Sir, this is a [howling shrieks of the damned].”

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That is a great thread to scroll through.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2024 • 5:48:12pm

re: #83 Belafon

Ford is eliminating the automatic parking feature they have which will save them $40 per car. You know, out of a $30K car.

Never underestimate how much companies will penny pinch. I once worked with a guy who would only give his employees yellow lined notepads (instead of white) because the yellow ones were like 0.40 cheaper. No blue pens allowed either. Only black.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 5:48:27pm

re: #88 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

You know what day this is??

Memorabilia day!
..

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A Three Hour Tour  Apr 30, 2024 • 5:49:39pm

re: #84 Belafon

Eric’s vying for that Republican party nomination.

IIRC, Eric Adams’ party affiliation is - on paper, at least - Democrat.
In reality, his political affiliation is … COP.

Of course he’s going to escalate and make the situation worse.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2024 • 5:56:49pm

re: #92 Belafon

Like this one:

bsky.app

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2024 • 5:59:51pm

bsky.app

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:04:34pm

“…Columbia is a far different place today than it was in the spring of 1968 when protesters took over University buildings amid discontent about the Vietnam War, racism and the University’s proposed expansion into Morningside Park. After a weeklong standoff, New York City Police stormed the campus and arrested more than 700 people. The fallout dogged Columbia for years.

It took decades for the University to recover from those turbulent times. Columbia now has one of the most socio-economically diverse student bodies among its peer institutions. It has added a new campus designed to be open to the community and pursues fields of inquiry unheard of a half-century ago. Columbia is commemorating the 50th anniversary of those long-ago events with a deep dive of scholarship and exhibits chronicling what happened then and its effects today.”
news.columbia.edu

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:10:34pm

re: #97 Belafon

Is that from that Bruce Willis movie with the monks and the opera singer with stones in her belly?

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:11:11pm

Fun flick. Forgettable name.

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:11:15pm

re: #93 Eclectic Cyborg

10 years into owning the company my boss is only beginning to understand how his money is being spent. It’s kind of nice, he’s only discussed money with me in that he wanted to pay me more. He hired some good people this winter to right the books and keep track of things better (including keeping me around, who cares about the company). Things are on the up and up, and

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:14:17pm

re: #101 teleskiguy

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:16:45pm

re: #102 darthstar

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:18:59pm

That said, there are folks in Australia and New Zealand who have bought stuff from the company I work for. And China too! Shipped skis and bindings to Hong Kong back in November. Sure, he was an American expat, whatever…

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danarchy  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:20:34pm

re: #100 darthstar

Fun flick. Forgettable name.

5th Element, the character is Leeloo, played by Mila Jovavich. I think Mila pulled that outfit off a bit better.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:23:13pm

re: #88 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I started watching this and couldn’t turn it off. These two guys are very into this shit.

Happy Dead Hitler Day to those who celebrate.

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:23:31pm

re: #99 darthstar

Is that from that Bruce Willis movie with the monks and the opera singer with stones in her belly?

Yes it is.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:30:56pm

re: #88 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

A prediction that has a chance to come true unless we can stop it.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:32:27pm

Happy Dead Hitler Day to those who celebrate.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-01T01:23:46.000Z

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:33:31pm

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social

2m
NYPD has started tear gassing inside Hamilton Hall at Columbia, per student radio WKCR

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:35:07pm

re: #110 jaunte

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social

Yup. Somebody’s going to die today. The NYPD came prepared for war.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:36:03pm

Columbia is at 138’ elevation. Anything lower in the surroundings will also be gassed.

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:38:02pm

Shit flows downhill.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:42:23pm

Ari Fleischer now calling to “arrest, imprison, expel, and deport” protestors.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:43:53pm

WKCR: NYPD has locked all of the gates, so that even student journalists cannot get out; and has barricaded students in other halls surrounding the one that is occupied by student protestors (Hamilton)

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:47:02pm

re: #81 Eclectic Cyborg

Y’all ever noticed that many of the worst people in the world are old white guys?

Yes.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:47:14pm

Setting off tear gas inside a locked building means you intend to cause as much harm as you can get away with to the people trapped inside.

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EstebanTornado1963  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:47:45pm

The Jan 6ers insurrectionists will be treated better that the Columbia students

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:47:54pm

Josh Meader’s take on a classic Pat Metheny solo. The most amazing picking style I’ve ever seen.

Minuano - Pat Metheny Group || Josh Meader

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:48:26pm

re: #81 Eclectic Cyborg

Y’all ever noticed that many of the worst people in the world are old white guys?

Usually wearing expensive suits.

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:49:12pm

I read that Trump interview in Time. It’s fucking terrifying.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:49:37pm

re: #117 jaunte

Setting off tear gas inside a locked building means you intend to cause as much harm as you can get away with to the people trapped inside.

CN, CS and similar tear gases have a fatality rate. It’s worse in confined spaces.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:50:17pm

re: #117 jaunte

Setting off tear gas inside a locked building means you intend to cause as much harm as you can get away with to the people trapped inside.

I’m waiting for a hot canister or a flashbang to start a fire. The NYPD don’t give a fuck about people’s lives, and the university administrators are responsible for allowing this complete travesty to occur. What the fuck is wrong with people, that they fetishize violence in such a way that they think this is a good response to a non-violent, if somewhat belligerent, protest?

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:51:10pm

Trump said he’s fine with states monitoring pregnant women to make sure they don’t get abortions. People, WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!!!

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sagehen  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:55:32pm

re: #114 jaunte

Ari Fleischer now calling to “arrest, imprison, expel, and deport” protestors.

Aren’t most of them Americans? You can’t deport Americans.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:56:05pm

re: #125 sagehen

He left out the step where they get turned into non-Americans.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:56:13pm

re: #125 sagehen

Aren’t most of them Americans? You can’t deport Americans.

That is not going to stop them from trying. See, e.g., Rishi Sunak and the UK passing legislation to deport all illegal immigrants to Rwanda, regardless of their country of origin.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:56:50pm

re: #124 Ace Rothstein

Trump said he’s fine with states monitoring pregnant women to make sure they don’t get abortions. People, WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!!!

He also attempted a coup, something that’s supposed to be utterly disqualifying, and that should disqualify anyone who went along with it from holding office.

It’s possible that nothing matters anymore for those of us without the resources to flee, but overturning Roe v Wade instead of just using the desire to do so to hold their shitty subculture together after racism stopped being entirely effective, is very likely to have saved us. Republicans have not been doing well since the inmates took over the asylum and they went ahead and caught that car.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:57:59pm

Sick to my stomach by all of this, but proud of the WKCR kids.

— Ben Collins (@bencollins.bsky.social) 2024-05-01T01:42:31.770Z

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:58:21pm

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
*

now
Breaking: Columbia University has requested ongoing NYPD presence on campus through May 17, 2024, per WKCR, which just read the university statement with that information on the student radio station.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2024 • 6:59:15pm

re: #130 jaunte

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
*

Jesus H. Fucking Christ, it’s a fucking occupation. They’re literally asking for armed forces of the State of New York to invade and occupy Columbia University.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:00:17pm

re: #131 Nerdy Fish

I doubt the war and famine will be over by May 17.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:02:14pm

This is literal insanity. The whole world’s gone fucking nuts. How do people think this shit is not only acceptable, but encouraged?

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:02:27pm

@donmoyn.bsky.social

I wrote last week: “The student protestors are not sufficiently violent, but the images of police or soldiers wading in to crack a few heads creates its own justification.”
This is what we are seeing play out: crackdowns will be used to justify crackdowns.
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/manufacturing-dissent

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Decatur Deb  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:03:41pm

re: #132 jaunte

I doubt the war and famine will be over by May 17.

Semester probably will be. Then they have an epic graduation.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:05:13pm

Things to come if Trump succeeds in stealing the White House and unleashes his mob on us.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:06:02pm

re: #135 Decatur Deb

May 15.

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mmmirele  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:06:48pm

I sat down this afternoon and did what they said was going to be a 23 minute interview process. Basically, it was recording my answer to six questions, five of which were related to Incident or Problem Management and the sixth was asking if I would be willing to relocate to Phoenix. I was given a minute for each response.

It took WAY longer than 23 minutes. First I thought I’d do it on my phone, but then I thought I’d be fancy and do it on my iPad. However, SparkHire did not like either my Chrome or Safari browsers. Weird. Back to my phone, which had no problems.

The questions were along the lines of:

“What’s a root cause analysis and why is it important?”
“What are three critical elements during an incident?”
“Name three success factors for a Major Incident Management program.”
“What is the purpose of problem management in the incident lifecycle?”
“Describe the difference between an event and an alert, and how would you ensure alerts and events are working as expected?”

Yeah, I wrote out my answers and practiced them, but they were up on the big screen behind the phone as I was recording my answers.

Allegedly I will hear back from them in a week or two. We’ll see.

I am so tired.

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TedStriker  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:06:50pm

re: #74 jaunte

@sleestak.bsky.social
“Sir, this is a [howling shrieks of the damned].”

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Dark Wendy.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:09:42pm

RFK Jr. hires GOP operative who called Jan. 6 ‘Democrat misdirection’

More proof that Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs is a GOP ratfucker.

The Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaign hired the firm of a former top spokesperson for GOP candidates Vivek Ramaswamy, Blake Masters and Kelli Ward.

Campaign finance records show Kennedy’s independent campaign first hired Zach Henry’s firm Total Virality for “influencer engagement” in March, two months after Republican Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out of the race for his party’s presidential nomination. Henry had been Ramaswamy’s deputy communications director.

“J6 was no MAGA insurrection Just more Democrat misdirection,” he posted on X in March 2023, seemingly embracing the conspiracy theory that the riot was provoked by left-wing antifa agitators, not Donald Trump supporters.

“Mentally readying myself for the ‘I’m having traumatic Jan 6 flashbacks’ from cringe congressional staffers tomorrow,” Henry posted in 2022 ahead of the annual anti-abortion-rights demonstration in Washington.

Just over a week later, he called the House committee investigation into the attack a “witch hunt of patriots” that “must face a reckoning.”

In other posts, he expressed opposition to vaccine mandates and wrote, “Alex Jones is a national treasure,” referring to the preeminent conspiracy broadcaster.

Henry declined to comment, while the Kennedy campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

nbcnews.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:13:13pm

re: #133 Nerdy Fish

This is literal insanity. The whole world’s gone fucking nuts. How do people think this shit is not only acceptable, but encouraged?

Which shit?

Honest question. There’s so much fucked up stuff going around now I don’t know what you mean.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:15:27pm

re: #141 Eclectic Cyborg

Which shit?

Honest question. There’s so much fucked up stuff going around now I don’t knwk what you mean.

I mean, I see your point, but my focus in this thread has been on the invasion of Columbia University. University administrators are losing their goddamn minds, all in the name of trying to “prevent antisemitism.”

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:17:32pm

@josie.zone
[WCKR] Reporters are pointing out that, if there were indeed “outside agitators” in the occupied hall, they must have gotten in during Columbia’s total lockdown of campus buildings, which either means the lockdown wasn’t even working, or the university is lying

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:17:56pm

re: #142 Nerdy Fish

Yeah, it drives me nuts too.

Protesting used to be a protected right in this country.

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mmmirele  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:20:13pm

re: #90 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

Also on this day:

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Video

This day lives in my memory because my uncle Floyd stopped by our house on his way back to Oklahoma on leave (he was Air Force) and he and my dad absolutely GOT INTO IT. There was no winner, of course, but Floyd couldn’t accuse my dad of not knowing what war was about, since Dad had gone to Korea.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:23:19pm

re: #144 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah, it drives me nuts too.

Protesting used to be a protected right in this country.

College kids protest things. They’re young, they’re passionate, they may not know the full ramifications of what they’re protesting but by God, they are dedicated to the cause. Just let them do their thing, they’ll be protesting something completely different in the fall.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:25:37pm

If this happens to you, go to your History page at YouTube and delete (there’s an X in the upper corner) the video that started it. And any similar videos. This usually stops the algorithmic madness.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-05-01T01:42:28.000Z

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:29:11pm

We should admit that the video of the NYPD setting up this whole operation was very funny, in that they fucked up & set the ramp too high, drove into position that way, then refused to reposition and lower the ramp so they all had to squeeze through an artificially narrowed opening. Real clown shit.

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank.bsky.social) 2024-05-01T02:28:44.439Z

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Decatur Deb  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:29:13pm

In 1968 Columbia was under a protest siege. WBAI, the wildest radio station EVER, maintained a daily live broadcast of events for the duration. IIRC, that was the year a very large number of graduates took transistor radios to the graduation. When WBAI put The Times They Are A’Changing on the air, they walked out en masse.
en.wikipedia.org

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piratedan  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:32:20pm

re: #143 jaunte

does kind of feel like there’s a fulcrum of events happening, Fascism on trial, and yet Fascist elements trying to shut down free-speech, right to protest, while also acknowledging that the people protesting are shot thru with a certain number of bad faith actors and leaving us with the nuanced position of supporting a Palestinian right to exist and a two-party solution while the current leader of Israel is number one, a criminal, number two, a fascist and number three, if he’s removed from power is going to jail, so he’s got zero interest in cooperating and if the Right in Israel is going down, they’re going to shit on everything regarding any kind of legitimacy in the eyes of western democracy, no matter the guilt post WWII.

How the fuck do you thread that needle? Does Biden go old school and overthrow the current Israeli government? How will that look if he does? How do the millions of Israelis who are sick of what their government is doing kick his ass out?

I sure as fuck don’t have the answer and I am positive, no matter the answer, there’s going to be a whole lotta folks unhappy with it. I say this knowing full well that Hamas started this but the fact that Netanyahu has no concern about making his nation state a pariah is a step I am not sure many anticipated.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:33:40pm

re: #146 Nerdy Fish

You don’t need to tell me. These photos are from an Iraq War protest I participated in while I was in college (aged 21 at the time).

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:35:09pm

@bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
*
2m
WKCR reporting NYPD threatened to arrest Columbia Journalism School dean Jelani Cobb for attempting to make room for his students to report on the police activity.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:36:16pm

re: #150 piratedan

the fact that Netanyahu has no concern about making his nation state a pariah is a step I am not sure many anticipated

I think, like Trump, he has no concern for anyone but himself.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:38:35pm

re: #150 piratedan

Netanyahu has no concern about making his nation state a pariah is a step I am not sure many anticipated.

He is acting in concert with the GOP to bring down Biden.

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danarchy  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:41:37pm

re: #144 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah, it drives me nuts too.

Protesting used to be a protected right in this country.

Protesting is protected, occupying a building that doesn’t belong to you, has never been protected.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:42:36pm

re: #154 Joe Bacon ✅

He is acting in concert with the GOP to bring down Biden.

He probably wouldn’t mind, but that’s too risky to be his main driver. The survival of Israel is at stake, and the election is a coin flip.

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:44:27pm

re: #154 Joe Bacon ✅

He is acting in concert with the GOP to bring down Biden.

He’s acting solely to try and salvage his domestic “”“”legacy”“”” while stalling as long as he can in order to remain in power to get it done. With nearly 80% of the country blaming him for the failure that made it possible for Hamas to pull off its October 7 massacre, he knows he’s definitively toast once the Knesset parliament is dismissed and early elections are called - meaning he’ll never get another chance.
“Acting in concert with the GOP to bring down Biden” is giving the f&cker far far far too much credit.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:44:36pm

re: #156 Decatur Deb

He probably wouldn’t mind, but that’s too risky to be his main driver. The survival of Israel is at stake, and the election is a coin flip.

Just remember how that thug treated Obama with utter contempt.

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wrenchwench  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:45:34pm

Mastodon

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:46:27pm

re: #155 danarchy

Protesting is protected, occupying a building that doesn’t belong to you, has never been protected.

And yet, very much like Netanyahu, the school, college, and state decided to overreact with their superior force.

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:49:06pm

re: #142 Nerdy Fish

all in the name of trying to “prevent antisemitism.”

Far too f*cking late at this point. Jewish students have been targets for far too long on their watch without them doing a f*cking thing. “No f*cking Jews”, “We are Hamas”, “Kill all Zionists”, Jewish students being targeted, blocked and threatened just for being Jews on campus and more, all have been going on for weeks. Jews around the world have been seeing incident after incident, hate followed by hate while the campus authorities did next to nothing.

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A Cranky One  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:54:41pm

Willie Nelson just turned 91 so I hope someone warns him that weed’s a gateway drug to heroin before it’s too late. - John Fugelsang

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Apr 30, 2024 • 7:55:54pm

re: #151 Eclectic Cyborg

You don’t need to tell me. These photos are from an Iraq War protest I participated in while I was in college (aged 21 at the time).

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These are from a Gulf War protest in Seattle in 1991. I was 28 at the time.

(Photo quality was hampered by the darkroom door going ajar when I thought it was fully closed. Thank God for digital. Film is still superior to digital, in my view, but I don’t miss the sometimes painstaking efforts to develop and print photos).

SPD officers blocking ramp to I-5 to prevent freeway takeover

Protesters on the Ave.

More protesters on the Ave.

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William Lewis  Apr 30, 2024 • 8:01:35pm

re: #90 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

Also on this day:

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Video

Did my take on THAT this morning.

Damn. It’s actually in the top 10, if you missed it… Huh.

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wrenchwench  Apr 30, 2024 • 8:08:03pm

Mastodon

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 30, 2024 • 8:24:33pm

re: #123 Nerdy Fish

I’m waiting for a hot canister or a flashbang to start a fire. The NYPD don’t give a fuck about people’s lives, and the university administrators are responsible for allowing this complete travesty to occur. What the fuck is wrong with people, that they fetishize violence in such a way that they think this is a good response to a non-violent, if somewhat belligerent, protest?

Miami PD cops that I knew - bragged to me that they set drive-by fires in black businesses during the 1980 McDuffie riots, once they discovered an activated CS gas canisters would start a fire.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 30, 2024 • 8:35:36pm

2024: Santa Barbara Botanical Garden

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2024 • 9:23:22pm

Mastodon

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2024 • 9:28:48pm

#NowPlaying Fugazi > In On The Kill Taker > Sweet And Low youtu.be/eqiYAmivBPk

— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness The Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy.bsky.social) 2024-05-01T04:28:26.709Z

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 30, 2024 • 9:29:04pm

Dunno if jaunte already posted this:

(GA gov Kemp will be a scary consummate GOP presidential candidate)

Reposted by jaunte
borderless @borderless…. • 6h
Georgia bail fund restrictions:
- 30 charges now “cash bail only”,
most protest related - indiciduals / orgs can only bail 3 people out per year
- orgs have to register as a bail bondsman… sherrifs grant these licenses
- more poor people going to be stuck in pretrial detention

borderless @borderle… • 6h
Damn just found out that Georgia passed a bill outlawing bail funds.
It was sent to Governer Kemp’s desk on April 1st, and will come into effect in July.

atlpresscollective.com

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2024 • 9:29:37pm

re: #169 teleskiguy

Mastodon

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2024 • 9:30:49pm

I know I posted the same shit like four times. Charles does this all the time, I’m absolved.

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TedStriker  Apr 30, 2024 • 9:34:55pm

re: #165 wrenchwench

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silverdolphin  Apr 30, 2024 • 9:36:57pm

‘Solid use of public funds’: Republican mocked for flying to NY to ‘stand with Trump’

Thinking Paxton is auditioning for VP. Best way to get out from under his own indictment.

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2024 • 9:42:32pm

Carry Stress In The Jaw

Carry Stress in the Jaw

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2024 • 10:09:02pm

You first, asshole.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 30, 2024 • 10:31:48pm

re: #161 (((Archangel1)))

Far too f*cking late at this point. Jewish students have been targets for far too long on their watch without them doing a f*cking thing. “No f*cking Jews”, “We are Hamas”, “Kill all Zionists”, Jewish students being targeted, blocked and threatened just for being Jews on campus and more, all have been going on for weeks. Jews around the world have been seeing incident after incident, hate followed by hate while the campus authorities did next to nothing.

What exactly do you think the campus authorities should have done?

Because we’re actually running a live A/B test and so far the data is paradoxical; the administrators who have reacted negatively to the protests have only managed to escalate tensions to a breaking point, while the Universities whose administrations have either (gasp) negotiated, or taken a hands off approach are all managing peacefully.

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Lancelot Link Returns!  Apr 30, 2024 • 10:34:33pm

re: #175 teleskiguy

Oddly enough, Trevor Dunn (who composed this) played some stand-up bass on one of our albums about this time.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 30, 2024 • 10:55:31pm

Need to get my mind off of the news.

Recipe Time—Gelson’s Flourless Chocolate Cake

Video:

Flourless Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

½ stick unsalted butter, diced, plus more for greasing pan
¾ cup plus 2 Tbsp granulated sugar, divided, plus more for coating pan
10 ounces bittersweet chocolate, roughly chopped
2 Tbsp vegetable oil
4 large eggs, separated
2 large eggs
2 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
¾ tsp kosher salt
1 cup chilled heavy cream
½ cup mascarpone
3 Tbsp confectioner’s sugar

Directions

To make the cake: Preheat the oven to 350°.

Lightly butter the springform pan and dust it with sugar, tapping out any excess.
In a large, heatproof bowl, combine the butter, chocolate, and oil.

Set the bowl over a saucepan of simmering water and heat, stirring often, until melted. Remove the bowl from the saucepan and let it cool for 10 minutes.

In a large bowl, combine the egg yolks, whole eggs, cocoa powder, vanilla extract, salt, and ¼ cup of the sugar, and whisk until the mixture is smooth.

Gradually whisk the yolk mixture into the melted chocolate mixture, blending well.

Using a stand mixer on high speed, beat the egg whites until they’re frothy. With the mixer running, gradually beat in ½ cup of the sugar.

Continue beating until stiff peaks form.

Gently fold the egg whites into the chocolate mixture in 2 additions, folding just until incorporated.

Transfer the batter to the prepared pan, smooth the top, and sprinkle on the remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar.

Bake until the top is puffed and starts to crack and the cake pulls away from the edge of the pan, 35 to 45 minutes.

Transfer the cake to a wire rack and let it cool completely in the pan.

The cake will collapse in the center as it cools.

Note: The cake can be made 1 day ahead. Cover the pan in plastic wrap and store it at room temperature.

To make the topping: In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat together the whipping cream, mascarpone, and powdered sugar on medium-high speed until soft peaks form.

Remove the sides of the springform pan.

Mound whipped cream topping in the center of the cake and serve immediately.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 30, 2024 • 11:05:50pm

edited

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No Malarkey!  Apr 30, 2024 • 11:07:43pm

re: #180 No Malarkey!

I’m almost sure I saw this on Fallout.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 30, 2024 • 11:33:53pm

This is the face of a man who’s under a great deal of stress - and he knows it. He’s well aware of the fact that he’s in deep shit this time and he might not be able to get out of it.

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 30, 2024 • 11:49:39pm

re: #182 Dr Lizardo

He looks like he took a load from Putin, but he doesn’t want to swallow.
///

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Dr Lizardo  May 1, 2024 • 12:01:50am

re: #183 Sherlock Hound

He looks like he took a load from Putin, but he doesn’t want to swallow.
///

Heh.

To me, it’s the face of a man whose lawyers probably told him, “You’re fucked.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 1, 2024 • 12:39:39am

re: #182 Dr Lizardo

This is the face of a man who’s under a great deal of stress - and he knows it. He’s well aware of the fact that he’s in deep shit this time and he might not be able to get out of it.

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It’s the face of a puffer-fish, trying to hide from certain doom.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 1, 2024 • 2:35:55am

Trey for days…

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I’m sleeping in this morning and it’s glorious.

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Eventual Carrion  May 1, 2024 • 2:39:08am

re: #88 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

You know what day this is??

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..

The day Hitler did the only good thing he did

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William Lewis  May 1, 2024 • 2:41:18am

Youtube Video

Don’t you love when you cut and paste the wrong thing?

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William Lewis  May 1, 2024 • 3:09:39am

edit error :D

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Dr Lizardo  May 1, 2024 • 3:10:26am

re: #188 William Lewis

“Regrettably, the villagers had to be executed for their own safety.”

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  May 1, 2024 • 3:18:47am

re: #186 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Trey for days…

Moi aussi.

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SibData: 3,4,4,4,4 - the last one reported in after 10pm.

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Dangerman  May 1, 2024 • 3:23:54am

re: #121 Ace Rothstein

I read that Trump interview in Time. It’s fucking terrifying.

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Eventual Carrion  May 1, 2024 • 3:35:56am

re: #191 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Moi aussi.

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Decatur Deb  May 1, 2024 • 3:36:08am

Louisiana mom says she put bags of cocaine in her kindergartener’s backpack by mistake
al.com

Good thing it wasn’t a regular lunch thing. The same drug everyday gets boring.

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steve_davis  May 1, 2024 • 3:36:31am

re: #138 mmmirele

I sat down this afternoon and did what they said was going to be a 23 minute interview process. Basically, it was recording my answer to six questions, five of which were related to Incident or Problem Management and the sixth was asking if I would be willing to relocate to Phoenix. I was given a minute for each response.

It took WAY longer than 23 minutes. First I thought I’d do it on my phone, but then I thought I’d be fancy and do it on my iPad. However, SparkHire did not like either my Chrome or Safari browsers. Weird. Back to my phone, which had no problems.

The questions were along the lines of:

“What’s a root cause analysis and why is it important?”
“What are three critical elements during an incident?”
“Name three success factors for a Major Incident Management program.”
“What is the purpose of problem management in the incident lifecycle?”
“Describe the difference between an event and an alert, and how would you ensure alerts and events are working as expected?”

Yeah, I wrote out my answers and practiced them, but they were up on the big screen behind the phone as I was recording my answers.

Allegedly I will hear back from them in a week or two. We’ll see.

I am so tired.

Yeah, I got that with the “onboarding test” which I took because they paid me for it. “Estimated time 4 hours.” 10 hours and a legal pad full of notes later, I passed, thankfully.

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Shropshire Slasher  May 1, 2024 • 3:38:24am

Humpday drive time music!

Cole Swindell - She Had Me At Heads Carolina (Official Music Video)

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  May 1, 2024 • 3:38:35am

re: #186 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Par today.
Wordle 1,047 4/6

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William Lewis  May 1, 2024 • 3:44:18am

re: #194 Decatur Deb

Louisiana mom says she put bags of cocaine in her kindergartener’s backpack by mistake
al.com

Good thing it wasn’t a regular lunch thing. The same drug everyday gets boring.

Could be wanting to give the kid some weed edibles if they need to gain weight - munchies after all…

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William Lewis  May 1, 2024 • 3:45:01am

re: #190 Dr Lizardo

“Regrettably, the villagers had to be executed for their own safety.”

That one was funky too…

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Decatur Deb  May 1, 2024 • 3:58:32am

re: #198 William Lewis

Could be wanting to give the kid some weed edibles if they need to gain weight - munchies after all…

Do munchies work on cafeteria and mess hall food?

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Shropshire Slasher  May 1, 2024 • 4:05:25am

LOL, dude, you are so in the doghouse!

Mark Consuelos kissed and told.

During Tuesday’s episode of “Live with Kelly and Mark,” the actor admitted to his wife and co-host Kelly Ripa that he planted a wet one on a fan while celebrating fourth-tier Italian soccer team Campobasso 1919’s championship victory over the weekend.

“In the adulation, in the celebration, on the field, when we found out that the other team tied and we are champions … we ran over to our fans,” he enthusiastically recalled.

“I’m running … and I see this lady, let’s call her my aunt — maybe someone else’s aunt — and we look at each other and we’re so excited and there’s this [plexi]glass and we come to the glass, and you know what? I kissed her.”

Warning, Mayday!
pagesix.com

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Nerdy Fish  May 1, 2024 • 4:11:05am

This should not have taken me this long.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  May 1, 2024 • 4:20:55am

re: #192 Dangerman

Not reading the comments is self-care. 100% of the people lauding that idea have no idea what civil servants do.

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William Lewis  May 1, 2024 • 4:28:23am

re: #200 Decatur Deb

Do munchies work on cafeteria and mess hall food?

Uhm… well, since I’m no longer wearing that green, I’ll simply say that the chow hall in Germany in 83 & 84 could work. Especially the soft serve ice cream machine … 😈

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Patricia Kayden  May 1, 2024 • 4:34:32am

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Belafon  May 1, 2024 • 4:35:01am

re: #203 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Not reading the comments is self-care. 100% of the people lauding that idea have no idea what civil servants do.

Yeah, that’s not actually a good question given most people don’t actually have a good idea of how government works.

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jeffreyw  May 1, 2024 • 4:35:30am

navy beans, kicked up a notch

Good morning!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 1, 2024 • 4:40:07am

re: #203 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Not reading the comments is self-care. 100% of the people lauding that idea have no idea what civil servants do.

That goes along with politicians should be business people, the government can’t help, all the republican bullshit for decades designed to damage government and what people think of government.

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Shropshire Slasher  May 1, 2024 • 4:43:05am
Sometimes Connie Bolle wonders if her husband, Jeff Bolle, 60, would still be alive if things had been different last spring.

After being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, the high school football coach and counselor started chemotherapy in 2023, but he had to stop abruptly when the drug he received, cisplatin, became harder to find as part of a nationwide shortage of chemotherapy drugs.

“I just keep wondering, ‘What if we had gotten the cisplatin? Could it have slowed his cancer down?” she tells TODAY.com. “Would he have been able to coach even more? Would he have been stronger? Would he have felt better? … It’s always a second guess.”

today.com

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Nerdy Fish  May 1, 2024 • 4:43:12am

re: #208 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That goes along with politicians should be business people, the government can’t help, all the republican bullshit for decades designed to damage government and what people think of government.

A lot of people already think that the President or other executive administrators can hire and fire civil servants at will, because they’re all political appointments. It’s a misconception that has a grain of truth (top-level civil servants are appointed, some of them can be replaced at the administration’s discretion), and is purposefully cultivated by Republicans because it serves their purpose in dismantling the administrative state.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  May 1, 2024 • 4:45:52am

re: #210 Nerdy Fish

A lot of people already think that the President or other executive administrators can hire and fire civil servants at will, because they’re all political appointments. It’s a misconception that has a grain of truth (top-level civil servants are appointed, some of them can be replaced at the administration’s discretion), and is purposefully cultivated by Republicans because it serves their purpose in dismantling the administrative state.

Republican/Conservative political power relies on keeping people stupid.

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lawhawk  May 1, 2024 • 4:51:53am

re: #79 darthstar

Cohen could double down on that and indicate that Trump wants his lawyers to be assholes who ignore the rule of law and push the boundaries of what is legal, moral, and acceptable, so as to get what he wants. It’s why he filed so many lawsuits over the years to silence critics, bankrupted small businesses because he refused to pay them what was contractually obligated, and has since run through all these lawyers representing him in dozens of court cases because he thinks they’re not aggressive enough.

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lawhawk  May 1, 2024 • 4:52:38am

re: #212 lawhawk

In other words, Trump’s lawyers could open the door to Cohen diving into Trump’s reprehensible conduct outside of this particular case in the name of being “aggressive”.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 1, 2024 • 5:09:15am

One of my namesakes:

Sisyphus and Thanatos | Greek Mythology



..

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Shropshire Slasher  May 1, 2024 • 5:18:47am

Now where did I leave my knee pads?

[FAIL PROOF GUIDE] for Any Size Vinyl Plank Installation|DIY Friendly

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jeffreyw  May 1, 2024 • 5:21:07am

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Shropshire Slasher  May 1, 2024 • 5:22:57am

Do I need this? Yes!

Panera has made its signature bread bowl into a fashion statement. And not a quiet one.

The bakery company launched a limited-edition “Bread Head” hat on Monday. The horse-racing and fascinator-style cap combines a 3D-printed bread bowl replica with vibrant ostrich feathers, complete with and a gold spoon sticking out.

As Eater wrote, the hat “kind of looks like a bird tried to make a nest out of stale leftovers.”

The hats were priced at $21 a piece at ThePaneraShop.com but sold out as of Monday afternoon. Those who still want to buy their own can request to be notified via email if there are more.

usatoday.com

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Dr Lizardo  May 1, 2024 • 5:35:50am

Yet another reason I make sure to pay my internet bill on time…..

18. Egypt - Fall of the Pharaohs

If you’re into history, this is one of the best YouTube channels to be found.

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Dangerman  May 1, 2024 • 5:36:02am

re: #215 Shropshire Slasher

Now where did I leave my knee pads?

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‘fail proof’ guides arent

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Dangerman  May 1, 2024 • 5:39:31am

re: #218 Shropshire Slasher

Do I need this? Yes!

usatoday.com

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darthstar  May 1, 2024 • 5:41:40am

re: #220 Dangerman

‘fail proof’ guides arent

Why is he covering hardwood with vinyl?

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 1, 2024 • 5:47:16am

I wake up and look to see the first thing in my e-mail and it’s…Louisiana moving to criminalize the abortion pill…

rollingstone.com

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Dangerman  May 1, 2024 • 5:48:12am

re: #220 Dangerman

‘fail proof’ guides arent

also, it is a mistake to assume that youtube ‘how-to’ videos are first takes

more than likely they are 10th takes or 15th or 50th

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Shropshire Slasher  May 1, 2024 • 5:51:04am

re: #222 darthstar

Why is he covering hardwood with vinyl?

Luxury vinyl.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 1, 2024 • 6:04:50am

re: #222 darthstar

Why is he covering hardwood with vinyl?

I have a 100 year old house and will likely be doing just that. The wood has settled and will likely require a lot of fillers to make somewhat level. That and my one dog took to peeing in a place we didn’t see for some time which darkened the woods in that spot (damn dog). So this will likely be what we do (tho I’m considering epoxy because my friends did an epoxy floor with gold flakes in it and it was absolutely beautiful).

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lawhawk  May 1, 2024 • 6:07:34am

Kansas legislature overrode governor’s veto of H2465. The bill provides exemptions for pregnancy crisis centers and also for certain adoption expenses. The veto specifically pointed out that the pregnancy crisis centers are unregulated and are part of antiabortion extremists efforts to divert women who are in need of reproductive care options that include abortion from that care.

The legislature overrode that veto, despite state voters overwhelmingly rejecting an antiabortion amendment that would have ended reproductive care options for women in the state.

The misogynstic fascist GOP is intent on treating women like chattel.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 1, 2024 • 6:10:48am

re: #227 lawhawk

No doubt Trump and his Pulpit Pimp Posse cheer the gerrymandered Kansas legislature’s override…

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 1, 2024 • 6:24:43am

Ain’t that a shame!

Josh Mandel, the former Ohio state treasurer and multiple-time U.S. Senate candidate, is facing a threat of jail time due to his years-old and increasingly contentious divorce case.

cleveland.com

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Dr Lizardo  May 1, 2024 • 6:24:51am

LOL, Empty-G is really gonna do it! 🤡

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced on Wednesday that she will move ahead with her attempt to oust Speaker Mike Johnson from the House’s top job — though her plan seems doomed to fail.

The Georgia Republican, who first introduced a motion to vacate the speaker’s chair in March, said in a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol that she will call up her motion to the House floor for a vote next week.

abcnews.go.com (autoplay vid embedded at link)

A top Republican National Committee official asked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene not to move against Speaker Mike Johnson in a face-to-face meeting Tuesday, as top allies of former President Donald Trump seek to head off what they see as a pointless and distracting internal battle.

The meeting between Greene (R-Ga.) and RNC co-chair Michael Whatley came just hours after she accused Johnson of cutting a “slimy back room deal” with Democrats and promised to force a vote ousting him.

Whatley, who is less than two months in the job, met with Greene in his office after she had skipped his briefing of House Republicans that morning, where he had emphasized the importance of party unity. He said much the same to Greene.

politico.com

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Nerdy Fish  May 1, 2024 • 6:27:03am

re: #230 Dr Lizardo

Please, proceed.

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gocart mozart  May 1, 2024 • 6:31:59am
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gocart mozart  May 1, 2024 • 6:32:49am

I Feel Much Better (2012 Remaster)

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 1, 2024 • 6:32:51am

re: #230 Dr Lizardo

Old Yeller is screaming on the Capitol steps.

Meanwhile the New York Times will continue to bury the GOP Clown Show deep in their propaganda rag.

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lawhawk  May 1, 2024 • 6:32:59am

re: #230 Dr Lizardo

The sabotage and delay is purposeful and intended to delay and sabotage US foreign policy and domestic policies.

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darthstar  May 1, 2024 • 6:35:27am

I’d be willing to bet a lot of these ‘counter protesters’ have khaki pants and tiki torches at home.

Mastodon

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gocart mozart  May 1, 2024 • 6:38:53am
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Dr Lizardo  May 1, 2024 • 6:41:08am

re: #235 lawhawk

The sabotage and delay is purposeful and intended to delay and sabotage US foreign policy and domestic policies.

I think her little clown show won’t last long. If the Democrats step up and save Speaker Moses Johnson, it’ll all be over in a day or so.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 1, 2024 • 6:44:09am

New York Judge Juan Merchan found the ex-president in contempt of court Tuesday and fined him $9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order, and Trump’s allies and advisers are hatching a plan to keep him out of jail if the judge eventually determines it’s necessary to keep him in line, reported Rolling Stone.

Two sources familiar with the matter told the magazine that several Trump advisers and attorneys have discussed the plan - which they call the “jailbreak” strategy - with the former president, saying they would file and emergency writ of habeas corpus they feel certain would win an emergency stay of a contempt order.

rollingstone.com

Let me guess—they will go to a certain Federalist Society Asshole in Texas to get that order…

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darthstar  May 1, 2024 • 6:48:20am

re: #239 Joe Bacon ✅

They’ve had that writ drafted since his first day in Judge Chutkan’s courtroom.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 1, 2024 • 6:49:17am

Submitted for your reading pleasure.

The DC Bar butt bongoes Jeffrey “Shorts” Clark

documentcloud.org

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Dangerman  May 1, 2024 • 6:50:02am

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lawhawk  May 1, 2024 • 6:59:24am

Trump’s Aggressive New Attorney

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 1, 2024 • 7:00:26am

I do miss the wisteria:

Blue Sky and Full Bloom Wisteria.青空と満開の藤 Ashikaga Flower Park 2024. #4khdr


…

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darthstar  May 1, 2024 • 7:03:11am

One nice thing about two days of gastric distress and a reduced appetite is that it’s a good way to drop a couple of pounds…probably mostly water weight, but inspiration to not dive back into loaded breakfast burritos and afternoon quesadillas before dinner.

Though I do loves me some sausage, cheese and egg wrapped in a flour tortilla. Fuck.

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darthstar  May 1, 2024 • 7:07:34am

re: #243 lawhawk

Good. Trump asking his attorney to be aggressive will be a great line for the prosecution to use when Michael Cohen takes the stand.
“Mr. Cohen, you’ve been accused of being harsh and dishonest.”
“I was just following orders.”
“Orders?”
“Trump likes aggressive lawyers and he fires them when he doesn’t think they’re mean enough on his behalf…just look at defense counsel.”

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Hecuba's daughter  May 1, 2024 • 7:19:37am

re: #186 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Trey for days…

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3 here too, after yesterday’s dismal 5.

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darthstar  May 1, 2024 • 7:26:55am

re: #247 Hecuba’s daughter

I got a par…again. Will probably journal about it later…not.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 1, 2024 • 7:27:10am

re: #244 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

That’s a big old wisteria:

Ashikaga Wisteria April 2024
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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 1, 2024 • 7:30:07am

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 1, 2024 • 7:35:41am

re: #202 Nerdy Fish

This should not have taken me this long.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 1, 2024 • 7:39:01am

re: #249 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

That’s a big old wisteria:

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sagehen  May 1, 2024 • 7:45:17am

re: #212 lawhawk

Cohen could double down on that and indicate that Trump wants his lawyers to be assholes who ignore the rule of law and push the boundaries of what is legal, moral, and acceptable, so as to get what he wants. It’s why he filed so many lawsuits over the years to silence critics, bankrupted small businesses because he refused to pay them what was contractually obligated, and has since run through all these lawyers representing him in dozens of court cases because he thinks they’re not aggressive enough.

Where is my Roy Cohn?!?

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Hecuba's daughter  May 1, 2024 • 7:46:57am

re: #205 Patricia Kayden

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TBF — It’s not clear that Amy Coney Island (as my sister calls her) shares those views.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 1, 2024 • 7:47:31am

re: #254 Hecuba’s daughter

TBF — It’s not clear that Amy Coney Island (as my sister calls her) shares those views.

Lol.

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sagehen  May 1, 2024 • 7:47:43am

re: #220 Dangerman

‘fail proof’ guides arent

Constants aren’t.
Variables don’t.

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lawhawk  May 1, 2024 • 7:54:05am

While Trump’s criminal trial proceeds in NY, in another courtroom in the building they’re holding a hearing on Trump Media insider trading (that case is US v. Garelick).

Trump’s biggest success is keeping the legal industry well employed. /half

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sagehen  May 1, 2024 • 7:57:51am

I’ve been called to jury duty next week in that same courthouse. What are the odds it’ll be another Trump-related case?

(unlikely. I’ll probably get a slip ‘n fall, or medical malpractice, or burglary.)

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Nerdy Fish  May 1, 2024 • 7:58:28am

The Libertarian-Republican wingnut convergence is finally complete.

I guess this was always the logical conclusion of the LP’s current trajectory. But HOLY SHIT.

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) 2024-05-01T14:56:21.843Z

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Unabogie  May 1, 2024 • 8:02:02am

re: #259 Nerdy Fish

The Libertarian-Republican wingnut convergence is finally complete.

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Libertarians believe in maximal freedom, which is why they support a guy who wants to ban protests, track women who may be pregnant, and force Christian religion on people who don’t believe in it.

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wrenchwench  May 1, 2024 • 8:03:17am

re: #260 Unabogie

Libertarians believe in maximal freedom, which is why they support a guy who wants to ban protests, track women who may be pregnant, and force Christian religion on people who don’t believe in it.

Wasn’t Balko a participant in that trajectory?

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BeenHereAwhile  May 1, 2024 • 8:13:52am

re: #261 wrenchwench

Wasn’t Balko a participant in that trajectory?

He went thru a career change and moved to Nashville.

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Dr Lizardo  May 1, 2024 • 8:15:11am

It’s a good day when BAND-MAID drops a new video.

BAND-MAID / Bestie (Official Music Video)

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Unabogie  May 1, 2024 • 8:16:21am

re: #261 wrenchwench

Wasn’t Balko a participant in that trajectory?

I think a lot of people were part of it when they thought they could tame the dragon. They saw the religious right as people who were easily swayed and could be made into a reliable voting block. They were right, but before too long the easily swayed became members of the government, and now we’re being controlled by them.

I think about this a lot when I listen to folks like Tim Miller. He’s part of the Bulwark, and I genuinely appreciate the fact that there are conservatives who reject this kind of fascism. If all conservatives were like Tim, I could see myself having good conversations about the role of government in schools, and the right level of taxation, etc. But Tim Miller worked for Jeb Bush, who presided over the abominable Terry Schiavo campaign. He still supported Jeb even after Jeb injected his religion into the private life of an innocent guy who was trying to care for his dead wife.

So I think there’s enough blame to go around.

They all played a part if it made them rich enough.

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Romantic Heretic  May 1, 2024 • 8:16:23am

re: #230 Dr Lizardo

And Margie’s reply was, “Get bent, RINO!”

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 1, 2024 • 8:16:25am

re: #259 Nerdy Fish

The Libertarian-Republican wingnut convergence is finally complete.

So are they going to nominate Trump as well?

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Unabogie  May 1, 2024 • 8:18:17am

re: #266 Joe Bacon ✅

So are they going to nominate Trump as well?

If they do, it’s a gift to Trump, right? Removing the small fraction of voters who vote LP?

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rhuarc  May 1, 2024 • 8:20:22am

re: #261 wrenchwench

Wasn’t Balko a participant in that trajectory?

Not going to pretend I know all of Balko’s history, but I’ve always looked at him as basically anti-cop / anti-police state. Whenever I saw stuff from him it was always highlighting the injustices and excesses being exercised by police departments and other government agencies who can very easily remove freedom from people either through incarceration, legal robbery, or even death.

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Romantic Heretic  May 1, 2024 • 8:21:20am

re: #260 Unabogie

Libertarians believe in maximal freedom power for themselves, which is why they support a guy who wants to ban protests, track women who may be pregnant, and force Christian religion on people who don’t believe in it.

It’s always about power.

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Florida Panhandler  May 1, 2024 • 8:25:13am

re: #264 Unabogie

I’ve said this a lot before, but here we go again.

Conservatism, masked by a Libertarian label, has always been a vector, not a fixed ideology.

The vector is directed towards more and more nationalist tribal fascism, elimination of “the other” and concentration of wealth and power at the very top. It has always used democracy itself to undo democracy.

The George Will-types were intellectuals overconfident in their own mental acuity and ego and therefore easily bamboozled by the con men who have always driven and acted upon the actual vector to where we are now, and the much worse future potentially in 2025.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 1, 2024 • 8:25:30am

re: #269 Romantic Heretic

It’s always about power.

Oh don’t forget the selfishness. Lots of selfishness when it comes to Libertarians!

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 1, 2024 • 8:26:04am

re: #239 Joe Bacon ✅

Wait a minute. These are NY state charges. SCOTUS or some asshole federal judge in Texas couldn’t intervene even if Trump got jailed.

Could they?

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wrenchwench  May 1, 2024 • 8:29:21am

re: #268 rhuarc

Not going to pretend I know all of Balko’s history, but I’ve always looked at him as basically anti-cop / anti-police state. Whenever I saw stuff from him it was always highlighting the injustices and excesses being exercised by police departments and other government agencies who can very easily remove freedom from people either through incarceration, legal robbery, or even death.

I’ve seen good work in his anti-police state stuff, but Reason magazine and the Cato Institute are big hurdles for me to get over to have any trust in him.

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BeachDem  May 1, 2024 • 8:29:30am

re: #254 Hecuba’s daughter

TBF — It’s not clear that Amy Coney Island (as my sister calls her) shares those views.

I cprefer Amy Boney Carrot.

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Randall Gross  May 1, 2024 • 8:29:47am

If you want to see some libertarian angst, this thread’s for you this morning:

I guess this was always the logical conclusion of the LP’s current trajectory. But HOLY SHIT.

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) 2024-05-01T14:56:21.843Z

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 1, 2024 • 8:40:37am

re: #260 Unabogie

Libertarians believe in maximal freedom, which is why they support a guy who wants to ban protests, track women who may be pregnant, and force Christian religion on people who don’t believe in it.

The problem with party platforms in general is that each person is carrying around a personal definition of “freedom” and it’s only when the bullet hits the bone that you find out exactly how much they value their personal “freedom to…” relative to other’s “freedom from.”

Since libertarians really lean into individual freedom as the basis of their beliefs, that mated with terminal capitalism brain rapidly becomes “I need a state structure exclusively to enforce my property rights, which coincidentally looks a lot like an oligarchy.” When a libertarian is formed, the heavens flip a coin.

But also I’d observe that fascism has broad-spectrum appeal because it’s not an ideology, it’s a cocktail of magic thinking and heightened emotion that provides “solutions” for whatever ails you. “We can solve problems by throwing somebody in the Moloch, trust us you wouldn’t like them anyway and they deserve it” is built into the world order already, so it’s not super hard to elaborate on that process— if Omelas had four tormented children you wouldn’t have a mortage to service.

All fascists, regardless of their starting point, have decided that they’d rather win then stay consistent*, and because ideas are infinitely mutable they can take whatever they believe in and glue on fascism. A bunch of British suffragettes became Black Shirt auxillaries. Communazis aren’t just a joke from The Simpsons. Lots of liberals go fash because they feel their normal lives have been threatened and decide “the smart thing” is to back somebody that will put the steel toe into people that scare them and/or scrape back the money being handed out to people with low SAT scores.

[stares in Patriot Act, but also in welfare job requirements, but also The War on Terror]

If you want to fash libertarians, you lean into their hyperindividualism and present all alternatives as dangerous collectivism…ironically selling collectivism of the inherently superior as the only remedy. It doesn’t have to make sense, it just has to feel comfortable. And if you’re willing to squint you can turn Donald Trump into a rugged individualist: he doesn’t moderate what he says, he respects property rights, he’s a supporter of free markets, etc.

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DodgerFan1988  May 1, 2024 • 8:41:18am


The Libertarian Party is now the United Russia Party of America.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 1, 2024 • 8:41:18am

re: #272 Eclectic Cyborg

Wait a minute. These are NY state charges. SCOTUS or some asshole federal judge in Texas couldn’t intervene even if Trump got jailed.

Could they?

I have always thought “no”.

But with things being what they are now, I can see some of the Justices being convinced that a State should not interfere in a Federal election and that means that Trump, the nominee by math if not yet by convention, should not be incarcerated.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 1, 2024 • 8:42:58am

Well this is interesting. Five human skeletons, missing hands and feet, found outside house of Nazi leader Hermann Göring

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  May 1, 2024 • 8:44:03am

I just heard a story about a zombie fungus carried by cicadas that feminizes the males. I think we need to ensure that this story gets out into MAGAt world.

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Florida Panhandler  May 1, 2024 • 8:45:23am

re: #280 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

I just heard a story about a fungus carried by cicadas that feminizes the males. I think we need to ensure that this story gets out into MAGAt world.

“Soy Cicadas” about to go viral in the MAGA-verse.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 1, 2024 • 8:46:52am

re: #276 The Ghost of a Flea

Lots of liberals go fash because they feel their normal lives have been threatened and decide “the smart thing” is to back somebody that will put the steel toe into people that scare them and/or scrape back the money being handed out to people with low SAT scores.

[stares in Patriot Act, but also in welfare job requirements, but also The War on Terror]

I think you’ve gone a bit off the rails there. Work requirements are no more fascistic than anything else having to do with being part of a society.

And the Patriot Act is authoritarian but authoritarianism is widely implemented in societies, not just fascist governments.

The War on Terror was the the typical war drums that leader like to beat. Again, not fascist.

And of the “liberals” that I know, none of them have done what you assert.

I’m not saying those people are not out there, but it has not been my experience.

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danarchy  May 1, 2024 • 8:48:42am

re: #272 Eclectic Cyborg

Wait a minute. These are NY state charges. SCOTUS or some asshole federal judge in Texas couldn’t intervene even if Trump got jailed.

Could they?

Habeas Corpus is a constitutional right, so I assume a federal judge could stay a state incarceration until they determine if it is lawful.

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lawhawk  May 1, 2024 • 8:54:26am

re: #283 danarchy

I’m not sure they can go to just any circuit court, but to the circuit where the alleged malfeasance occurred. There’s definitely a jurisdiction question here, and the new circuit court rules for forum shopping may also play a role here.

To me, it’s clear that the habeas corpus motion could be filed in the SDNY, but far less so in TX (or other circuit). It’s also clear that Trump and GOPers think Trump is above the law and cannot be held to account on any charges, state or federal. They’ll pull some stunt to claim he can’t be incarcerated for violating state law and felony conduct like contempt of court (which is lawful and constitutional and a proper ruling when a defendant violates the terms of his bail).

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 1, 2024 • 8:54:38am

Josh Reed Eakle, looking at his tweets, is dumber than a post, though.

Like, if you encounter a person that can’t conceptualize that modern Russia isn’t the Soviet Union and has been given great license to use power abusively because the former is a petrostate oligarchy servicing capitalists, and the latter was a communist autarchy…

..that person has dogshit for brains.

Like, you don’t hear shit about Vietnam’s communism because they serve an industrial function within the world economy that’s compatible with market needs. The people mad at Communist China and predicting it’s downfall are the same people that got thirsty at the idea of an open-but-unfree China that was just a giant market for cheap labor.

The minute the guys running Russia switched from Communist to fossil fuel capitalists we started treating them like other petrostates: ignoring their basic inequalities and authoritarianism because cheap oil is the hall pass to get out of human rights.

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Captain Ron  May 1, 2024 • 8:57:17am
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Joe Bacon ✅  May 1, 2024 • 9:00:21am

re: #272 Eclectic Cyborg

Wait a minute. These are NY state charges. SCOTUS or some asshole federal judge in Texas couldn’t intervene even if Trump got jailed.

Could they?

Let’s ask Leonard Leo. I’m sure he’s got six stooges on the corrupted court who will figure out a way to allow that.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 1, 2024 • 9:03:09am

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Dangerman  May 1, 2024 • 9:04:52am

re: #256 sagehen

Constants aren’t.
Variables don’t.

dont get me started on ‘easy to open’

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wrenchwench  May 1, 2024 • 9:04:54am

re: #282 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Work requirements are no more fascistic than anything else having to do with being part of a society.

That might be true if they were applied across the population. They are not. Only to recipients of life-sustaining aid, not to recipients of giant tax cuts.

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darthstar  May 1, 2024 • 9:12:39am

Mastodon

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Dr. Matt  May 1, 2024 • 9:14:55am

SMOTI/Gateway Pundit warned by its own lawyer it was using ‘a damned fraud’ as a source: report

A new filing in a defamation lawsuit filed by Georgia poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss against the conspiracy theory website Gateway Pundit reveals that workers at the site feared for their credibility, reported The Guardian — and their own attorney warned them that the source for their claims was not to be trusted.

The site’s founder, Jim Hoft, has earned the nickname “The Dumbest Man on the Internet” for years of strange and sloppy claims. Despite this, former President Donald Trump has been reported to be an avid reader of the site.

“Attorneys for Freeman and Moss … said in their filing that John Burns, a lawyer for Gateway Pundit, had warned the site about relying on Kevin Moncla, a source in Georgia who fed the site information on Freeman and Moss, including their non-public personnel files, according to the filing,” said the report.

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wrenchwench  May 1, 2024 • 9:16:22am

Oh, yeah. Birbie on the books. Wordle 1,047 3/6*

Click to Reveal

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Dr. Matt  May 1, 2024 • 9:18:21am

re: #277 DodgerFan1988

Is the Libertarian National Convention held at a Super 8 or a Days Inn?

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 1, 2024 • 9:21:25am

re: #292 Dr. Matt

SMOTI/Gateway Pundit warned by its own lawyer it was using ‘a damned fraud’ as a source: report

Despite this, former President Donald Trump has been reported to be an avid reader of the site.

Trump looks for less and less reliable people, so that he can be told what he wants to hear as he circles the drain. SMOTI was a great fit for this.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 1, 2024 • 9:22:30am

This is just too motherfathering delicious!

Gateway Pundit warned by its own lawyer it was using ‘a damned fraud’ as a source

A new filing in a defamation lawsuit filed by Georgia poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss against the conspiracy theory website Gateway Pundit reveals that workers at the site feared for their credibility, reported The Guardian — and their own attorney warned them that the source for their claims was not to be trusted.

Hey gang! Did I tell you how much I love Miss Ruby and Shaye?

The site’s founder, Jim Hoft, has earned the nickname “The Dumbest Man on the Internet” for years of strange and sloppy claims. Despite this, former President Donald Trump has been reported to be an avid reader of the site.

“Attorneys for Freeman and Moss … said in their filing that John Burns, a lawyer for Gateway Pundit, had warned the site about relying on Kevin Moncla, a source in Georgia who fed the site information on Freeman and Moss, including their non-public personnel files, according to the filing,” said the report.

“‘Moncla is a known fabricator. I wouldn’t touch/publish anything he produces,” Burns reportedly wrote, while also calling Moncla “a g———-d fraud.”

Oh it get’s more delicious!

As if that weren’t enough, Freeman and Moss’s attorneys also unearthed messages from Moncla said in which he said of their clients, “I will help you nail these b——s.”

Oh Ruby and Shaye gonna smack the shit out of SMOTI and it’s so satisfying seeing them deliver the karmic retribution to SMOTI!

And now for the chef’s kiss!

According to the report, Moncla was charged with voyeurism and ordered to pay $3.25 million after filming guests in the bathroom at his house.

rawstory.com

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 1, 2024 • 9:24:43am

re: #282 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I think you’ve gone a bit off the rails there. Work requirements are no more fascistic than anything else having to do with being part of a society.

And the Patriot Act is authoritarian but authoritarianism is widely implemented in societies, not just fascist governments.

The War on Terror was the the typical war drums that leader like to beat. Again, not fascist.

And of the “liberals” that I know, none of them have done what you assert.

I’m not saying those people are not out there, but it has not been my experience.

I didn’t say they were fascist, I was saying that you can eventually nudge liberals into fascism by playing on the underlying assumptions that lead to liberals supporting bad, dumb policy because liberals want to be safe and want there to be a meritocracy.

Which I think is true from my experience: you can absolutely convince liberals to abrogate freedom in general by threatening their status quo, and you can convince liberals to do fascist things by presenting it as necessary self-defense.

Fascism is the return of the coercive structures directed toward the periphery to the metropole: the state learns to manage and coerce people at the edge of the empire, and then imports those strategies to the center when social disorder increases. If I only use the recent twenty-year occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan as peripheries…then my point is that liberals regularly vote for policy, and supporters of policy, that facilitate an internal unaccountable authority that matched the external unaccountable authority wielded in those nations.

I chose the things I chose carefully, although I was being jocular.

The War on Terror is sold as self-defense which allows people to overlook that it has constantly involved stripping rights, specifically the right to privacy and the right to speech, from people in general but Muslim specifically because they’re treated as the host population for terrorists. Hateful speech is bad if it’s Muslim-derived hateful speech, so it’s suddenly not-curtailing-freedom that we police fundamentalist Muslims differently than we do other hate groups. Furthermore, the entire notion that there is an acceptable amount of side-death to the War on Terror…implicitly, only in black and brown countries…functionally amounts of collective guilt: the words matter less the decision over and over to kill people for being near targets.

The exact same “well, we must be given allowances to do excess death to keep people safe” is now a standing part of cop operations, and it is de facto deployed unequally.

Downstream of that, The Patriot Act is a thing that a bunch of liberals supported as an act of self-defense that also amounted to a giant curtailing of civil liberty and also restructured state enforcement agencies to give them broad ability to track and monitor people with no pretext…implicitly mostly directed against Muslims, but now expanded to police leftists organizations that are labelled “terrorists” far faster than rightists ones.

I bring up work requirements because they represent a liberal concession to what amounted to a Stab-in-the-Back myth perpetrated by Ronald Reagan. They exist because of the notion that black people don’t work and just get welfare: caving to this—a worldview in which people are unequal and the state exists to sort people and uplift only the worthy—is a step towards the fascist worldview.

And plenty of weak libs have gone fash: that’s what stuff like Gamergate was, successful entryism into normal, center-left spaces and creating reactionary outrage while using the language of liberalism…reform, meritocracy, accusations of cheating, inverted idpol in which “gamer” is a protected identity…resulting in an entire wing of people that are now fascists.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 1, 2024 • 9:24:49am

re: #277 DodgerFan1988

They’ve been an extremely authoritarian party for a while now, rather than just the dummies they once were, maybe because of the influx of temporarily embarrassed Republicans who brought their brain worms with them.

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wrenchwench  May 1, 2024 • 9:32:00am

re: #294 Dr. Matt

Is the Libertarian National Convention held at a Super 8 or a Days Inn?

4 Seasons Total Landscaping. They want Republicans to feel comfortable.

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Dr. Matt  May 1, 2024 • 9:33:19am

re: #299 wrenchwench

4 Seasons Total Landscaping. They want Republicans to feel comfortable.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 1, 2024 • 9:35:57am

DW does a documentary on the far right and neo-Nazis:

The far right and neo-Nazis - An increasing terrorist threat | DW Documentary

..

The comments are going how you’d expect, e.g.:

Sample Comment from DW documentary on neo-Nazis
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Joe Bacon ✅  May 1, 2024 • 9:36:32am

This is where the Libertarian Convention should be held!

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 1, 2024 • 9:39:01am

MUST-SEE: Jamie Raskin drops WORST NEWS on Trump

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wrenchwench  May 1, 2024 • 9:39:37am

re: #300 Dr. Matt

[Embedded content]

I’ve been meme-dinged! Thank you!

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goddamnedfrank  May 1, 2024 • 9:40:07am

So this morning it turns out the NYPD was just lying their asses off, again:

the Adams administration lied and the media ran with it

the NYPD now admits there was no “wife of a terrorist” at the Columbia protests after the Mayor used this as cover to assault student protesters last night

— Matt Binder (@mattbinder.bsky.social) 2024-05-01T14:51:36.044Z

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) 2024-05-01T14:19:06.959Z

It’s weird that the NYPD is so bad at lying considering how much of it they do

— Ian Boudreau (@iboudreau.bsky.social) 2024-05-01T16:30:06.775Z

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Decatur Deb  May 1, 2024 • 9:44:33am

re: #305 goddamnedfrank

So this morning it turns out the NYPD was just lying their asses off, again:

[Embedded content]

The fact that NYPD removed occupiers is a lot less worrisome than the fact that LAPD permitted a self-appointed group to attack protestors.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 1, 2024 • 9:46:02am

re: #306 Decatur Deb

The fact that NYPD removed occupiers is a lot less worrisome than the fact that LAPD permitted a self-appointed group to attack protestors.

But that’s par for the course for LAPD. When that thug Tony Moon had his Proud Babies thugs trigger disturbances in Koreatown the LAPD sided with them as they assaulted LGBTQ people and their supporters.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 1, 2024 • 9:46:54am

re: #306 Decatur Deb

The fact that NYPD removed occupiers is a lot less worrisome than the fact that LAPD permitted a self-appointed group to attack protestors.

bsky.app

The NYPD tried to sell that the occupiers weren’t dumb kids but some kind of terrorism-related action.

The LAPD just let goons hit kids.

These are not things you can weigh against one another because they’re two lobes of the same tumor: the pretext for violence and the violence.

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Decatur Deb  May 1, 2024 • 9:47:53am

re: #307 Joe Bacon ✅

NY cops are even-handed—they hate everyone.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 1, 2024 • 9:48:25am

re: #309 Decatur Deb

NY cops are even-handed—they hate everyone.

Stop and Frisk suggests otherwise.

So does that 1992 riot.

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Decatur Deb  May 1, 2024 • 9:51:37am

re: #310 The Ghost of a Flea

Stop and Frisk suggests otherwise.

So does that 1992 riot.

It’s coming from top-down.

Of the entire 33,536-member police force in 2023: 47% are white and 53% are members of minority groups. Of 21,603 officers on patrol: 43% are non-Hispanic white. 57% are black, Latino (of any race), or Asian or Asian-American.

en.wikipedia.org

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 1, 2024 • 9:52:23am

re: #297 The Ghost of a Flea

Fair enough, but I posted a link to that DW documentary, and the comments, to illustrate that the ideas of fascism are peculiar to any society but at the core is an ideology of the volk, and the need to preserve that identity.

Sure, the history of fascist nations shows clearly they were authoritarian (to the max), but all (real) theocracies are also, and (real) monarchies, and all the declared Communist countries.

The parameter at stake with authoritarianism is liberty.

Many monarchs are quite fine with whoever can live in their realm, as long they kiss the ring.

The Romans were specialists at that.

Fascism of the 20th century (and the current revival) is about dredging up old ideas of race, identity, purity, etc. Add in a strong measure of revanchism, and one has the problems of the 20th century.

That we still have to deal with this a quarter of the way through the 21st century tells me that we are going to head to even more wars in the not too distant future, wars about identity.

On top of all the resource wars …

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ipsos  May 1, 2024 • 9:57:00am

re: #281 Florida Panhandler

“Soy Cicadas” about to go viral in the MAGA-verse.

Isn’t that just how the Spanish-speaking cicadas introduce themselves when they arrive?

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Decatur Deb  May 1, 2024 • 9:58:16am

re: #313 ipsos

Isn’t that just how the Spanish-speaking cicadas introduce themselves when they arrive?

My first read..

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Jay C  May 1, 2024 • 10:00:37am

re: #313 ipsos

Isn’t that just how the Spanish-speaking cicadas introduce themselves when they arrive?

Wouldn’t Hispanophone cicadas say “Somos cicadas”, rather?

You know there’s NEVER just one….

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goddamnedfrank  May 1, 2024 • 10:00:53am

FYI my question in re: #177 actually wasn’t rhetorical. It had a question mark and everything.

I think if you’ve spent months vilifying protestors and your thesis is that this all escalated out of control because “campus authorities did next to nothing” then you really owe it to yourself if nobody else to flesh out the argument by explaining what you think should have been done that would have worked. Again, keeping in mind that we have plenty of counter examples where administrators who negotiated or did nothing are leading peaceful campuses with minimal disruption.

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Decatur Deb  May 1, 2024 • 10:01:32am

re: #315 Jay C

Wouldn’t Hispanophone cicadas say “Somos cicadas”, rather?

You know there’s NEVER just one….

1,000 cicadas in a skinsuit.

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jaunte  May 1, 2024 • 10:01:35am

re: #305 goddamnedfrank

I’ve been out mowing all morning, wondering what the captured outside agitator count was so far.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 1, 2024 • 10:02:03am

re: #222 darthstar

Why is he covering hardwood with vinyl?

Exposed wood lets the wood fairies into your home. It’s very dangerous.

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wrenchwench  May 1, 2024 • 10:06:27am

re: #317 Decatur Deb

1,000 cicadas in a skinsuit.

Ted C.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 1, 2024 • 10:07:49am

So Trump is now mad at his lawyer and wants someone competent to join his team.

I hear Orly Taitz is available! 😏

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Dangerman  May 1, 2024 • 10:11:00am
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Joe Bacon ✅  May 1, 2024 • 10:12:05am

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Dangerman  May 1, 2024 • 10:14:57am

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wrenchwench  May 1, 2024 • 10:18:13am

re: #324 Dangerman

[Embedded content]

‘Scarred! I found out we’re British when my kid asked for a biscuit!’

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IngisKahn  May 1, 2024 • 10:22:42am

re: #325 wrenchwench

That and daddy being a necrophile.

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wrenchwench  May 1, 2024 • 10:24:25am

Mastodon

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goddamnedfrank  May 1, 2024 • 10:26:54am

The Israeli government warned the Biden administration that if the International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, it will take retaliatory steps against the Palestinian Authority that could lead to its collapse, two Israeli and U.S. officials said.

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Jay C  May 1, 2024 • 10:27:58am

re: #316 goddamnedfrank

FYI my question in actually wasn’t rhetorical. It had a question mark and everything.

I think if you’ve spent months vilifying protestors and your thesis is that this all escalated out of control because “campus authorities did next to nothing” then you really owe it to yourself if nobody else to flesh out the argument by explaining what you think should have been done that would have worked. Again, keeping in mind that we have plenty of counter examples where administrators who negotiated or did nothing are leading peaceful campuses with minimal disruption.

Not just “administrators”: intelligent action by local Law Enforcement can certainly help: this piece from Pittsburgh (via Balloon Juice) - localized as it may be - illustrates that protests don’t HAVE to escalate into violent confrontation.

Though yeah, it’s the “intelligent action by LE” part that’s the difficult bit.

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prairiefire  May 1, 2024 • 10:28:19am

re: #327 wrenchwench

Crunchy!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 1, 2024 • 10:29:03am

You’ll need this some day:

Why you should shuffle 7 times


..

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 1, 2024 • 10:38:49am

re: #328 goddamnedfrank

Like funding Hamas?

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goddamnedfrank  May 1, 2024 • 10:39:32am

re: #328 goddamnedfrank

Threatening to collapse the civilian government that did not attack you if your leaders are held to account for committing the war crime of intentional starvation of a civilian population is one hell of a look.

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wrenchwench  May 1, 2024 • 10:47:09am

Mastodon

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jaunte  May 1, 2024 • 10:49:38am

@josephcox.bsky.social

Scoop from 404 Media: National Archives is banning employees from using ChatGPT. Agency is tasked w/ preserving history; leaked email says “NARA has determined that ChatGPT’s unrestricted approach to reusing input data poses an unacceptable risk”
https://www.404media.co/national-archives-bans-employee-use-of-chatgpt/

Trying to keep the gray goo from reassembling recorded history.

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jaunte  May 1, 2024 • 10:50:40am

re: #333 goddamnedfrank

Seems both overtly gangsterish and self-defeating.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 1, 2024 • 10:56:53am

re: #336 jaunte

Seems both overtly gangsterish and self-defeating.

I don’t know if Israeli politics was always going to end up here, but I do wonder why people decades ago, in Israel, did not set up their institutions to not make it possible for a cabal to willingly make Israel a pariah state.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 1, 2024 • 10:57:28am

Trump’s Pulpit Pimping Posse in action…

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jaunte  May 1, 2024 • 10:58:24am

“…The morning after New York City police flooded Columbia University and arrested at least 100 students and faculty for trespassing on their own campus, Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard — who rode into the scene last night on top of an armored military vehicle — got on a morning talk show to claim that protestors brought a heavy duty chain to barricade doors.

“This is not what students bring to school,” Sheppard said, holding the chain to the camera. “These are heavy industrial chains that were locked with bike locks, and this is what we encountered on every door inside of Hamilton Hall.”

But this is exactly what students bring to school, and it’s a bike lock chain that’s recommended to them through the Columbia University website. As journalist Aric Toler and several others have pointed out on social media, this exact Kryptonite brand lock was recently on sale through Columbia’s Public Safety department, as part of its “Crime Prevention Discount Bike, Locker and Laptop Lock Program.”
https://www.404media.co/nypd-bike-lock-chain-kryptonite-columbia-university-protests/

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 1, 2024 • 11:01:37am

re: #312 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Fascism of the 20th century (and the current revival) is about dredging up old ideas of race, identity, purity, etc. Add in a strong measure of revanchism, and one has the problems of the 20th century.

It’s hard to define fascism, and I switch between definitions because it’s like going up and down magnifications on a microscope. I tend to fall into two: Aime Cesare’s position, often called Foucault’s Boomerang—the bit about the violence of the periphery returning to the center—and the phrase “the socialism of fools.” Eco’s checklist is useful as how to vibe out an idea that can foster fascism, but the “fascism” that results is still ultimately a “socialism of fools.”

20th century fascism elaborates on 19th-century nationalism. Nationalism creates and justifies exclusion: these are the insiders, here are the shared traits of the insiders, the inside is a function of place and custom and bloodline in ways that can be discerned only by insiders, and states should be built to serve insiders who have common needs because of that shared place/custom/bloodline mix. That admixture of justifications is deliberately vague—this not an good faith attempt to determine identity with precision, but a kind of rhetoric in which the point is to establish collectivity by picking and choosing and occasionally just…lying outright. Done succesfully this solidifies a notion of who are the volk and what are their traits, establishing or forcing a collective identity as a necessary capstone to the reification of borders and the enclosure of people within a state.

What fascism adds to this is an explanation for failure: socialism for fools is needed when it becomes clear that the volkisch conceit of nation doesn’t actually reward the volk, and an alternative explanation to “people with power took most of the wealth and were never going to share with you, regardless of shared identity” must be generated. This results in proposing that outsiders and deviants have damaged the stability and goodness created by volkisch collectivity, and the solution to material problems is to use the state to redistribute value exclusively to the volk. This is a stupid idea because the volk is itself a fiction, and people with power can simply change the definition of the volk as they need…in the past they kept adding groups, in the present they can subtract infinitely.

Addendum: This means that fascism’s rhetorical power is inverse to it’s explanatory power: it exists precisely as an alternative to the proposal that the declining status quo is a product of the systems that make up the status quo. The reason anyone can go fascist is that anyone can accept the lazy conceit that their goals would be reachable if just the right group of powerless people were gotten out of the way.

The history of Spain, and especially the Basques not playing along ever is actually a really great demonstration of how identities that feel solid today actually required work and infrastructure to create, how 20th century fascism depended on existing national definitions, and how as capitalism erodes the ability of nation states to assert collective uplift as a possibility a modern state can break back into it’s constituent parts; the fiction of shared heritage isn’t enough.

In the 21st century identity is now constructed within a marketplace of identities, mostly via consumption, and this transformation has taken familiar identities, like “citizen of a nation” or “volk” and transformed them in ways that are hard to index because effectively everyone can create a bespoke gin of identity. Each generation on the internet is more and more able to define themselves with a precious of language that disrupts old ideas of collectivity while maintaining the border-policing and in-group bias that we associate with ethnic distinction.

The myth of the volk is alive and well…but 21st century fascism also exploits the capitalist brain worms that convince people that their identities as consumers matter* by asserting that society’s disappointment are the result of malefic others forcing their way in to exclusionary interests groups. Gamers, people scared of eating more vegetables, people uncomfortable with media involving more diverse characters, are engaging with a purely consumerist “socialism of fools” where the state must act to preserve the ephemeral meaning of their consumption by empowering exclusionary practices.

* a thing deliberately induced by companies, who through advertising and media splash have worked very hard to suggest their products signify qualia of their end-users, effectively creating a nationalism of product lines.

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Vicious Babushka  May 1, 2024 • 11:08:01am

re: #337 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I don’t know if Israeli politics was always going to end up here, but I do wonder why people decades ago, in Israel, did not set up their institutions to not make it possible for a cabal to willingly make Israel a pariah state.

The same people who decided to give an entire demographic a free “get out of the army” card because “they’re going extinct anyway.”

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 1, 2024 • 11:11:20am

re: #338 Joe Bacon ✅

A hedge, huh?

Tim Hawkins - Hedge of Protection

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lawhawk  May 1, 2024 • 11:11:48am

re: #338 Joe Bacon ✅

Too bad that crap has no effect on the current prosecutions since they’re all based in fact and law. The people who are currently subverting the justice system are GOP/MAGA extremists from the seditious six on SCOTUS on down appointed by Trump and other right wingers.

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Teukka  May 1, 2024 • 11:18:22am

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 1, 2024 • 11:22:42am

re: #344 Teukka

I have heard that comment before but with the picture of the cat, it made me laugh.

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DodgerFan1988  May 1, 2024 • 11:27:05am


Go back to Al Capone’s vault and stay there, Geraldo.

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BeachDem  May 1, 2024 • 11:37:48am

re: #311 Decatur Deb

It’s coming from top-down.

en.wikipedia.org

And let us not forget—(and Patrick Lynch remained Union president until June, 2023)

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William Lewis  May 1, 2024 • 12:53:16pm

re: #291 darthstar

[Embedded content]

That would also explain why it runs cross platform so well.


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