The Mark Lettieri Band Feat. Zach Brock: “Supernova”

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“The final baritone song of the night features Zach Brock (Snarky Puppy) on a blazingly adventurous violin solo. Melding some Soundgarden-esque riffage over a 90’s R&B groove, it’s one that hasn’t been in the live set very much, but probably should have been.” - Mark Lettieri

Mark Lettieri - Supernova
From Out by Midnight: Live at the Iridium - Out 8/25/23
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Baritone Guitar: Mark Lettieri
Drums: Jason “JT” Thomas
Bass: Wes Stephenson
Keyboards: Daniel Porter
Violin: Zach Brock

Written and produced by Mark Lettieri

Live sound engineer: Erik Kolhoff
Mix engineer: Joey Lomas
Mastering engineer: Dave McNair
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2nd camera: Jeff Rubinm

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1
Dave In Austin  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:38:22am
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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:39:25am
Property watchers have done a double-take after former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was listed as sold on Zillow as he fights four separate indictments.

Hours after Trump was booked in Georgia on charges that he unlawfully tried to overturn the Peach State’s 2020 election results, real estate mavens noted that the Zillow listing for the sprawling Palm Beach resort indicated it had been “sold” on Aug. 4 for a whopping $422,000,000.

nypost.com

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:41:22am
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goddamnedfrank  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:44:53am

bsky.app

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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:45:16am

New conspiracy theory is that the ACLU cancelled absentee ballots for Trump in Fulton County.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:50:46am

re: #5 No Malarkey!

”[…]thousands of absentee ballots that are shown turned in, that are cancelled.” And? If you voted in person, your absentee ballot was canceled. This is probably fairly prevalent among Trump voters in 2020, given how their mango Messiah urged them to vote same-day at the polls, even if they had already voted absentee, to “make sure their vote got counted” (read: “We plan to declare victory at midnight, and we’re going to do a coup if they keep counting votes and ‘steal’ the election from us, so do your part to make sure we’re actually winning”).

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:54:22am

re: #5 No Malarkey!

Why is ACLU GA involved in that?

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:57:04am

re: #7 Shropshire Slasher

Why is ACLU GA involved in that?

Are you seriously asking why the ACLU is involved in helping citizens effectively navigate the electoral system to make sure they get their vote counted properly?

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:59:16am

re: #8 goddamnedfrank

Are you seriously asking why the ACLU is involved in helping citizens effectively navigate the electoral system to make sure they get their vote counted properly?

Is that what they are doing?

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:00:59am

re: #9 Shropshire Slasher

Is that what they are doing?

Yes. They were helping people who wanted to void their mail in ballot so they could vote in person instead, as allowed by law.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:01:08am

re: #2 Shropshire Slasher

nypost.com

What does the doc stamps on the warranty deed say?

$422,000,000 gonna create a hell of a annual Palm Beach County property tax bill.

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:03:31am

re: #10 goddamnedfrank

Yes. They were helping people who wanted to void their mail in ballot so they could vote in person instead, as allowed by law.

According to the email, the subject line on October 8th is “cancelling absentee ballots at poll” What kind of credentials did they need to cancel?

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Unabogie  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:03:53am

His kid will claim a huge business loss and get a tax rebate.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:04:26am

Here’s the thing: Large scale election fraud is hard. There’s a reason why the Republican strategy has been to rig elections by rigging the rules; they’ve tried, and failed, to rig elections the “old-fashioned” way, stuffing ballot boxes and other such stuff. If the ACLU-GA actions weren’t on the up-and-up, somebody would have pointed out that there were canceled absentee ballots that had no corresponding in-person ballot.

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:06:07am

re: #12 Shropshire Slasher

According to the email, the subject line on October 8th is “cancelling absentee ballots at poll” What kind of credentials did they need to cancel?

Georgia is a voter ID state, so they needed a valid ID.

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:06:44am

re: #15 goddamnedfrank

Georgia is a voter ID state, so they needed a valid ID.

Why is the ACLU doing it?

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:07:05am

re: #7 Shropshire Slasher

Why is ACLU GA involved in that?

Read and learn.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:07:31am
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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:08:47am

re: #17 Charles Johnson

Read and learn.

Immaterial. Why are they doing it and not Georgia?

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Captain Ron  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:09:19am
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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:09:30am

re: #19 Shropshire Slasher

Immaterial. Why are they doing it and not Georgia?

Because it’s one of the MAIN THINGS THEY DO.

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:09:51am

re: #16 Shropshire Slasher

Why is the ACLU doing it?

Because voting is civil right, and protecting civil rights is the ACLU’s core mission.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:11:33am

re: #14 Nerdy Fish

Here’s the thing: Large scale election fraud is hard. There’s a reason why the Republican strategy has been to rig elections by rigging the rules; they’ve tried, and failed, to rig elections the “old-fashioned” way, stuffing ballot boxes and other such stuff. If the ACLU-GA actions weren’t on the up-and-up, somebody would have pointed out that there were canceled absentee ballots that had no corresponding in-person ballot.

You mean like they audit this stuff as a matter of procedure?
Huh

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:11:34am
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Captain Ron  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:12:06am
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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:12:28am

Current fired up mood of the Republicans.

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BeachDem  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:12:40am

re: #11 BeenHereAwhile

What does the doc stamps on the warranty deed say?

$422,000,000 gonna create a hell of a annual Palm Beach County property tax bill.

Rumors That Trump ‘Sold’ Mar-A-Lago To Don Jr Debunked

crooksandliars.com

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:12:48am

For the delusional right, all you have to do is show the ACLU is involved with something and it immediately becomes suspect. THE DREADED ACLU!

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:13:50am

re: #28 Charles Johnson

For the delusional right, all you have to do is show the ACLU is involved with something and it immediately becomes suspect. THE DREADED ACLU!

It bears noting that the people doing the absentee vote canceling were trained as deputy registrars, which necessarily means that they were also deputized by the state to do that work. It’s not like Joe Random from off the street could just grab an iPad and get to cancelin’.

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:13:52am

re: #28 Charles Johnson

For the delusional right, all you have to do is show the ACLU is involved with something and it immediately becomes suspect. THE DREADED ACLU!

Is that like the fourth branch of government?

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:15:55am

re: #30 Shropshire Slasher

Is that like the fourth branch of government?

LOL

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:16:50am

re: #31 Charles Johnson

LOL

I know!

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:17:26am

re: #4 goddamnedfrank

bsky.app

[Embedded content]

Who could have predicted that a Pepe crypto scam would be potentially fraudulent?

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Mike Lamb  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:17:42am

re: #5 No Malarkey!

New conspiracy theory is that the ACLU cancelled absentee ballots for Trump in Fulton County.

[Embedded content]

I mean, that chicken won’t fuck itself, so…

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Thanos  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:18:50am

re: #28 Charles Johnson

For the delusional right, all you have to do is show the ACLU is involved with something and it immediately becomes suspect. THE DREADED ACLU!

The right was all for the ACLU when they were supporting the Nazis in Skokie.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:19:21am

Looks like all 19 have surrendered

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:19:25am

Anybody need/want a invite code?

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:20:27am

re: #19 Shropshire Slasher

Immaterial. Why are they doing it and not Georgia?

Because Georgia ISN’T doing it, and they should.

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The Squire of Logos  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:20:45am

re: #37 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Anybody need/want a invite code?

I’ll take it, thanks! I have been resisting since I can’t stand Jack Dorsey but I suppose I can at least try it out.

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:20:55am

re: #38 Backwoods Sleuth

Because Georgia ISN’T doing it, and they should.

Thank you.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:21:10am

re: #11 BeenHereAwhile

What does the doc stamps on the warranty deed say?

$422,000,000 gonna create a hell of a annual Palm Beach County property tax bill.

.  .  . In a statement released to the Palm Beach Daily News, a Zillow spokeswoman said the information about the sale “provided” to the site appeared to be erroneous.

[…]

Mar-a-Lago stands on 17.5 acres of land stretching between the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway.

[…]

In October, the Palm Beach Daily News queried Palm Beach real estate experts about the value of Mar-a-Lago and its real estate. They spoke about Mar-a-Lago and Trump only on condition of anonymity.

Another didn’t hesitate to provide a number: “I’d put Mar-a-Lago’s value (conservatively) at $450 million,” the real estate agent said.

For tax purposes, the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser figures the value of Mar-a-Lago using a formula called an “income approach,” a process dictated by longstanding deed restrictions that prevents Mar-a-Lago from being redeveloped or used for any purpose other than a club, according to the property appraiser’s office.

To determine the value, the property appraiser estimates the club’s revenue and expenses and determines its net operating income based on confidential information the club provides. That income is then “capitalized” using a rate that translates it into value.
For the 2023 tax rolls, the county appraisal team this month assigned Mar-a-Lago an estimated market value of $37 million and a preliminary taxable value of about $33.4 million, up from $31 million and $30.36 million, respectively, last year.

palmbeachdailynews.com

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:22:08am

Here’s How Georgia’s New Voting Law Harms Voters With Disabilities
aclu.org

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:22:55am

re: #37 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Anybody need/want a invite code?

Depends on what you’re making…

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:24:04am

re: #39 The Squire of Logos

I’ll take it, thanks! I have been resisting since I can’t stand Jack Dorsey but I suppose I can at least try it out.

Here you go.

NEk5b3BuMVNwbmU5aktQL2UwZVJmL2ExKzdiYVFQRmxSbVE4a1dLZThzaz06OpRXA7cHE4AdNlf5AhIdCek=

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:25:34am

re: #43 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Depends on what you’re making…

Banana bread here in a few.

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The Squire of Logos  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:26:25am

re: #44 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:28:33am

re: #39 The Squire of Logos

I’ll take it, thanks! I have been resisting since I can’t stand Jack Dorsey but I suppose I can at least try it out.

The only reasons I eventually joined despite my protestations were:

1. Someone here mentioned the product was very like Twitter so not really a new interface to master.
2. No way to look at posts there if you aren’t a member.

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The Squire of Logos  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:29:47am

re: #47 Hecuba’s daughter

The only reasons I eventually joined despite my protestations were:

1. Someone here mentioned the product was very like Twitter so not really a new interface to master.
2. No way to look at posts there if you aren’t a member.

I’m still afraid it will eventually attract Nazis and other low life vermin but I’ll give it a shot. It is very ‘twitterish’.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:30:02am
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jaunte  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:35:23am

re: #49 Backwoods Sleuth

“Our private club must be completely unconstrained in accumulating public power.”

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:35:51am

re: #48 The Squire of Logos

I’m still afraid it will eventually attract Nazis and other low life vermin but I’ll give it a shot. It is very ‘twitterish’.

The current users of Bluesky are extremely oppposed to Nazis and their fellow right wing travelers, which gives me hope after years of Twitter tacitly welcoming them. Jack Dorsey is very unpopular, hasn’t posted in months, and has no influence on the Bluesky team.

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Jay C  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:36:21am

re: #11 BeenHereAwhile

What does the doc stamps on the warranty deed say?

$422,000,000 gonna create a hell of a annual Palm Beach County property tax bill.

Except Merde-a-Lago is probably zoned as a “church” or “cemetery” or “charitable foundation” or whatever (virtually-certainly bogus) classification the Trump Orgs’ RE lawyers* have gotten it re-zoned as to ensure that its tax bill will drop firmly into the range between “bupkis” and “squat”. This is a Trump property after all….

*probably the only ones who get paid well.

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Jay C  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:39:23am

re: #33 darthstar

Who could have predicted that a Pepe crypto scam would be potentially fraudulent?

Their apparent valuation of the $PEPE at a million to the dollar might have been a clue.

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:45:28am

re: #51 Charles Johnson

The current users of Bluesky are extremely oppposed to Nazis and their fellow right wing travelers, which gives me hope after years of Twitter tacitly welcoming them. Jack Dorsey is very unpopular, hasn’t posted in months, and has no influence on the Bluesky team.

The Bluesky cultural development is a good example of the importance of initial conditions in chaos theory. By controlling growth through invites the early selection process keeps conservative toxic colonies from becoming dominant.

There is a bit of a tankie problem however, but so far it’s navigable.

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Captain Ron  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:48:22am
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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:50:53am

re: #19 Shropshire Slasher

Immaterial. Why are they doing it and not Georgia?

Has anyone else said he’s sealioning?

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:51:03am

Mastodon

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:52:15am

re: #57 Belafon
see below buddy
re: #24 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:00:30pm

Driftglass:

Both Siderist Jesus, Take The Wheel!

“…And in his 71st year on this Earth, that is where we still find John Kasich. Still a member of the American Fascist party, still mindlessly inching forwards along the mighty Both Sides Do It highway, which has been created and maintained for just this purpose by 10,000 New York Times and Washington Post op-ed columns, and 10,000 episodes of Morning Joe, and 10,000 Sunday Shows and 10,000 billionaire-funded white papers.

Like so many other cowards — even cowards I keep being told are now my “allies” — on some deep, biological level Kasich is incapable of just saying, “Donald Trump and my Republican party are the problem. And I accept my full measure of responsibility for what my party has become. Period. Full stop.”

Because then someone might mistake him for a dirty partisan Liberal! Oh noes!

And so, instead, it’s “nobody” and “everybody” who are at fault.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:00:48pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

For the delusional right, all you have to do is show the ACLU is involved with something and it immediately becomes suspect. THE DREADED ACLU!

And really, only the paranoid Right would think that the ACLU could recruit hundreds of people for the purpose of canceling Trump votes and it would be kept secret for nearly three years. The revelations about Trump’s efforts to reverse the election show that large scale conspiracies like that can’t be kept under wraps.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:03:19pm

Mastodon

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:04:15pm

re: #61 No Malarkey!

And really, only the paranoid Right would think that the ACLU could recruit hundreds of people for the purpose of canceling Trump votes and it would be kept secret for nearly three years. The revelations about Trump’s efforts to reverse the election show that large scale conspiracies like that can’t be kept under wraps.

Thwarted finally by a foia request of all things

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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:06:12pm

re: #60 jaunte

Driftglass:

Both Siderist Jesus, Take The Wheel!

“Donald Trump and my Republican party are the problem. And I accept my full measure of responsibility for what my party has become. Period. Full stop.”

To his credit, Joe Walsh has said that.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:07:48pm

Mastodon

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:08:17pm

re: #49 Backwoods Sleuth

[Embedded content]John Eastman claimed that he had no time for his disbarment hearing.

imagine a run of the mill street thug trying that “i’m too busy…”

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:08:35pm

re: #58 jaunte

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we said this at the time!

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The Squire of Logos  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:08:51pm

re: #51 Charles Johnson

The current users of Bluesky are extremely oppposed to Nazis and their fellow right wing travelers, which gives me hope after years of Twitter tacitly welcoming them. Jack Dorsey is very unpopular, hasn’t posted in months, and has no influence on the Bluesky team.

Thanks Charles. I’m normally a pretty glass half full kinda guy, but Dorsey is a creep and dudebro. I don’t trust him as far as I can throw him. However, if he stays away from BSKY and moderation is good, then yes, it too will give me hope.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:11:06pm

re: #45 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Banana bread here in a few.

fires up bike. oh wait, i sold it
fires up TR-6. oh wait, i sold it
fires up volvo. nah it’ll never make it
enjoy

i’ll have to satisfy myself with no bake banana cookies
(banana, peanut butter, coconut)

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:17:00pm

re: #49 Backwoods Sleuth

That’s not a good way to woo the judge.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:18:41pm

I don’t even know what most of that stuff is

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:19:01pm

But this is a kind of revisionist history.

“The West” has collaborated with Putin…who was always, obviously, a dictator…because they needed LNG and liked handling oligarch money. “The West” also collaborated with Russia for anti-terrorism purposes. So what we’re watching isn’t really a betrayal, it’s making explicit and enthusiastic what was previously realpolitik and embarrassing.

Trump and Ramaswamy are expressing one vision of sustaining American interests by simply doing openly what was previously done through plausibly-deniable sources. This is the inverse of condemning multilateralism and institutions like the UN: why have a diffuse coercion system when you can have an explicit one? Why play at international law to entrench neocolonial exploitation when you could just have an empire and client states?

Trumpism’s international policy can be seen as a response to the failure of neocolonial strategies deployed in Iraq. Everyone with power knew that privatizing that oil was the goal, but developed a circuitous ideological justification that meant incorporating inefficient multilateral strategies of getting that oil…the pretext of WMDs, the pretext of a just war, the pretext of a development plan that necessarily incorporated privatization of oil resources. This system failed and failed in a way that poured cold water on inflamed nationalist sentiment, and the result is a longing for a foreign policy that is explicit in its revanchism and pillage.

Trumpism proposes that nationalism be naked in its hierarchy: inside the country there are the deserving that should get more; outside the country everyone should be fucked over unless they have power to give us what we want. The Russian Federation, which is explicitly built to service a tiny constituency at the cost of a captive citizenry and whatever small, poor country they work over, is aspirational. None of this has to arise from foreign “indoctrination,” it’s just a call back to buying the Philippines and then getting revanchist when the locals did insurgency.

And that’s a really important thing to acknowledge, because it explains both why they have a constituency in general but in particular why they have a constituency of elites willing to dump money on them: the capital holders don’t fucking care how the sausage is made, they want more sausage, faster. This isn’t a fight over right versus wrong, it’s a fight between the existing exploitation system and a worse one, and the supporters of the former desperately, desperately need to deny that their upstart opponents have been part of the system all along.

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Mattand  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:19:05pm

re: #60 jaunte

Driftglass:

Both Siderist Jesus, Take The Wheel!

Thank you for posting this. This is pretty much my mindset over the last 12 years or so.

Kinda nice to know I’m not the only thinking this.

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Mattand  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:22:35pm

Fucking Politico…

The current top story looks like a Kevin McCarthy tongue bath that is working overtime to portray him as actually playing 5D chess.

At least I think it is, based on the subhead. I really don’t care to read it. I should, but, you know: Politico.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:22:40pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:24:25pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:25:17pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:25:43pm

Bluesky tip: I’ve found that my Following feed is much more interesting when I go into Settings -> Home Feed Preferences and drag the slider for “Show Replies” all the way to the left, so it says “Show all replies.” The default is to only show replies that have at least two likes, and that means you’ll almost never see them because the original scrolls off before they can get those likes.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:26:08pm

re: #75 Backwoods Sleuth

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:26:35pm

re: #76 Backwoods Sleuth

I find it really interesting that it’s the Biden-Harris administration when they say it.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:27:34pm

re: #77 Backwoods Sleuth

If he hadn’t punched welfare recipients, he wouldn’t be in this mess.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:30:31pm

re: #77 Backwoods Sleuth

[Embedded content]

I don’t have the spoons to look into this, but I think there’s a distinct possibility that the singer/songwriter composed something that wasn’t meant to be generalized, that he was expressing something very distinctly his…

…but it’s the nature of conservatives to see impressions as truths and anecdotes as data, and they just don’t care what he intended because they don’t care about meaning at all. They take all things and turn them into the same thing: an excuse for the hierarchy.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:31:14pm

re: #82 The Ghost of a Flea

I don’t have the spoons to look into this, but I think there’s a distinct possibility that the singer/songwriter composed something that wasn’t meant to be generalized, that he was expressing something very distinctly his…

…but it’s the nature of conservatives to see impressions as truths and anecdotes as data, and they just don’t care what he intended because they don’t care about meaning at all. They take all things and turn them into the same thing: an excuse for the hierarchy.

+1

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:33:08pm

re: #30 Shropshire Slasher

Is that like the fourth branch of government?

I was judge of elections at my precinct for 4 years. I was elected, but many of the helpers were just volunteers helping voters with any questions they had. You know, people helping people vote rather than hindering them from voting.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:33:21pm

re: #71 Backwoods Sleuth

I don’t even know what most of that stuff is

[Embedded content]

Put a spork in him. He’s done.

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steve_davis  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:35:07pm

re: #76 Backwoods Sleuth

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the sad thing about that advert is that at the time of that Matthews interview, Trump actually was able to think for a moment before spitting out his position. It was a stupid position, but it wasn’t just a wonderwall of bullshit.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:36:31pm

Something the readers might enjoy:

bsky.app

Never thought I’d be interacting with PBR on Bluesky, but Thomas Ligotti got my attention. I wrote The Nightmare Factory graphic novel adaptations of Ligotti’s work some years back for HarperCollins, along with some of the greatest artists on the planet (who did brilliant work).

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:36:49pm

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:38:51pm

Same energy.

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:39:28pm

re: #86 steve_davis

He got to the truth of the ‘pro-life’ movement right away. “We’ll punish the women!”

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:43:09pm

Vladimir Putin is about to experience a whole new level of partisan activity in his country.

Mastodon

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:45:18pm

re: #72 The Ghost of a Flea

There was always a way to not empower Vladimir Putin: just don’t build you infrastructure around Russian LNG, don’t have your labor systems rely on cheap migrant labor from the Eastern Bloc, and have some kind of accountability system such that your banking institutions weren’t laundering money.

But all of those things would require doing civic investment—putting money into the country in ways that generally benefit people by making their labor valuable and their needs less precarious; it would cost money up front. What was done instead was to scrape in as much cash as possible in ways that wedded the kleptocracy of Russia to the nominally democratic/”free” states of the West because that enriched the kind of people that make money through financial speculation and landlording.

(colonial and post-colonial history is packed with “the West” handling money for and giving aid to dictators)

So the pertinent question is why our elites keeps letting scorpions ride on the back of the frogs we depend on for river-crossing…but then those same elites go into paroxysms of shock and offense when the number of dead frogs becomes embarrassing and gross.

“Number go up” says the scorpion
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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:45:28pm

re: #91 darthstar

Vladimir Putin is about to experience a whole new level of partisan activity in his country.

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Okay, so I murdered your boss and now I paved over your fallen brothers… how about enlisting?

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:47:12pm

India’s lunar rover keeps walking on the moon, days after spacecraft’s historic touchdown
apnews.com

“The rover has successfully traversed a distance of about 8 meters (26.2 feet),” ISRO said Friday. “All payloads on the propulsion module, lander module, and rover are performing nominally.”

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:49:12pm

Mastodon

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HypnoToad  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:00:57pm

OK, aviation buffs. A couple of months ago, I saw a Lockheed Super Connie fly over my house. My report here was somewhat controversial as they are super rare. However, it was confirmed to be a recent restoration on a test flight out of Chino airport.

Today at 12:42, I saw what appeared to be a Boeing 707 fly past at a very low altitude and distance. It had an all white paint job, I did not see windows, and it may have been reengined, the nacelles were larger than the originals. It was headed East at about five to six hundred feet AGL, going two to two fifty mph, and around 1,000 feet north of my house. It had to be even closer to the substantial hills less than a half-mile north on the other side of San Dimas canyon.

This is why I like being in southern California; I’ve seen a lot of weird aviation sights over the years.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:04:03pm

re: #94 jaunte

India’s lunar rover keeps walking on the moon, days after spacecraft’s historic touchdown
apnews.com

“The rover has successfully traversed a distance of about 8 meters (26.2 feet),” ISRO said Friday. “All payloads on the propulsion module, lander module, and rover are performing nominally.”

Hope they find something cool, like frozen water in a crater pit.

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dharmamark  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:04:53pm

re: #96 HypnoToad

Round here it’s all military. We had a 130 circling all day a few weeks ago. Couldn’t tell if it was an AC or some other config. It was low enough that I could almost see the pilot. We get Blackhawks, Chinooks and the occasional C-17. Have to go a bit north to see the Ospreys.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:05:21pm

re: #97 Eventual Carrion

Hope they find something cool, like frozen water in a crater pit.

A black obelisk.

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:06:47pm

re: #99 Belafon

“We were no where near Europa!”

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HypnoToad  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:07:40pm

re: #99 Belafon

A black obelisk.

That’s actually not too far away from where they landed; it’s in Tycho crater.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:08:33pm

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:11:13pm

CNN is saying we’ll have updated COVID vaccines in mid-September. I expect that I’m not the only one here waiting for the new version to get another booster.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:12:17pm

re: #102 Backwoods Sleuth

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

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Dinesh even sounds like a clueless dip. People have to be desperate to be lied to, to turn to him.

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KingKenrod  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:13:22pm

re: #102 Backwoods Sleuth

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

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They desperately want to turn the mug shot into a “win” somehow.

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Captain Ron  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:15:19pm
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Eventual Carrion  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:17:14pm

re: #98 dharmamark

Round here it’s all military. We had a 130 circling all day a few weeks ago. Couldn’t tell if it was an AC or some other config. It was low enough that I could almost see the pilot. We get Blackhawks, Chinooks and the occasional C-17. Have to go a bit north to see the Ospreys.

We have C-130’s go over all the time here from the Youngstown Air Reserve Station. They come in low and loud in formation. I think they are C-130H type.

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TedStriker  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:23:09pm

re: #106 Captain Ron

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Quelle surprise…

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:24:27pm

Mastodon

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:24:28pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:25:59pm

re: #109 darthstar

Gah… image

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Egregious Philbin  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:26:04pm

re: #96 HypnoToad

It could have been a DC-8 that was re-engined. Did you check Flight24/7?

As for the Connie….prettiest airliner ever, I’ve been on one, on the ground, and there are 3 of them in Tucson at the museum and a beautiful Super-G at the museum in Seattle.

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:26:11pm

They left off 3 words from this “Nobody Wants To Work” trope which are FOR SHIT PAY.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:29:15pm

re: #111 darthstar

Mastodon

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:29:32pm

One loaf of banana bread heading for the oven.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:29:47pm

re: #110 Vicious Babushka

We are supposed to work for the moral virtue of work itself, pay is optional.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:30:09pm

re: #110 Vicious Babushka

Plenty of people want to work.

What we don’t want is to be EXPLOITED.

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retired cynic  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:30:37pm

I am so slow. I wondered where my invite codes were. Well, I have three blue sky invite codes available. Just DM me if I don’t respond quickly!

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:32:09pm

re: #117 Eclectic Cyborg

Plenty of people want to work.

What we don’t want is to be EXPLOITED.

Republicans absolutely insist that we be exploited. It’s what they want. They should explicitly tell their supporters that they exist to be exploited. They won’t even get mad if they blame some outgroup.

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The Squire of Logos  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:33:35pm

re: #120 Vicious Babushka

Trump hopes his mugshot will intimidate his enemies.

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It makes him look constipated.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:34:47pm

re: #120 Vicious Babushka

Trump hopes his mugshot will intimidate his enemies.

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I’d think that no one would want to watch this crook shit his pants, but authoritarians have very different interests than the rest of us have.

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Unabogie  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:36:08pm

I am not being paid to advertise this!

But we recently got a Ninja Creami Breeze ice cream maker, and it has been absolutely amazing.

The last batch I made was only these ingredients:
1/3 cup almonds, soaked and peeled
1 cup homemade soy milk (we have a machine that makes it)
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 tsp orange extract
1 tsp chai powder

The Creami process is just mixing the ingredients in the little pint containers they include then freezing until the next day. When it’s time to eat it you just run it through the machine, which takes 2 minutes. But the results are beyond belief and so good. I’m getting into all kinds of weird flavor combos that you can’t buy.

Highly recommend. That last pint cost us probably 30 cents and was delicious.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:36:26pm

re: #113 Vicious Babushka

They left off 3 words from this “Nobody Wants To Work” trope which are FOR SHIT PAY.

“No one wants to work” bit has also always been applied to slaves, prisoners, and the colonized.

It’s almost like the core conceit is an unstated right to coerce others to labor, that their bodies are not their own.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:37:35pm

re: #109 darthstar

[Embedded content]Gotta laugh at all the con media falling all over themselves to call Trumpy’s mugshot “iconic.”

there is no way to spin a mug shot

it means what everybody knows it means; what everybody knows is behind it

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:39:22pm

re: #125 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

there is no way to spin a mug shot

it means what everybody knows it means; what everybody knows is behind it

That the great leader is being persecuted by tricksy Democrats for rejecting their politics?

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DodgerFan1988  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:40:16pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:41:39pm

re: #117 Eclectic Cyborg

Plenty of people want to work.

What we don’t want is to be EXPLOITED.

“You want to be wage slaves? Well what makes a wage slave? WAGES.”

The Cocoanuts - Wage Slaves

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:47:06pm

re: #78 Charles Johnson

Bluesky tip: I’ve found that my Following feed is much more interesting when I go into Settings -> Home Feed Preferences and drag the slider for “Show Replies” all the way to the left, so it says “Show all replies.” The default is to only show replies that have at least two likes, and that means you’ll almost never see them because the original scrolls off before they can get those likes.

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Thank you, I’ve adjusted my settings accordingly.

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A Three Hour Tour  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:52:35pm

re: #102 Backwoods Sleuth

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

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Dinesh D’Weenie says what, now?

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:53:35pm

re: #112 Egregious Philbin

It could have been a DC-8 that was re-engined. Did you check Flight24/7?

As for the Connie….prettiest airliner ever, I’ve been on one, on the ground, and there are 3 of them in Tucson at the museum and a beautiful Super-G at the museum in Seattle.

Prettier (IMO & all that) and still flying cargo up north…the DC-6

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:55:49pm

re: #120 Vicious Babushka

Trump hopes his mugshot will intimidate his enemies.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:59:18pm

re: #132 jaunte

Trump hopes his mugshot will intimidate his enemies.

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That look only intimidates the person who changes his diaper.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:59:32pm

re: #132 jaunte

Trump hopes his mugshot will intimidate his enemies.

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The Internet is going to be very boring if we have to talk about Trump all the time. Hopefully we will find new topics next week.

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Egregious Philbin  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:00:31pm

re: #131 William Lewis

I’ve been on a few junked 6’s, 7’s and 4’s that were left out in the desert south of Phoenix, they were converted to be pesticide sprayers. One got hit with a missile in Ethiopia and managed to land, and get patched up enough to make it back to Chandler, the pilots painted “African Queen” on the nose of it. They saved part of it, its at the museum at Falcon Field in Mesa.

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Mattand  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:01:15pm

re: #103 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

CNN is saying we’ll have updated COVID vaccines in mid-September. I expect that I’m not the only one here waiting for the new version to get another booster.

Yeah, I’ve grown accustomed to not dying from a disease that is easily blunted by a vaccine that, on most accounts, can truly be considered a medical miracle.

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Teukka  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:01:15pm

Let’s talk about Houston, water, and Texas….

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:01:47pm

re: #134 darthstar

The Internet is going to be very boring if we have to talk about Trump all the time. Hopefully we will find new topics next week.

It’s going to be all Trump at least until he’s convicted. He’s gotten his desire. He’s the center of attention.

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gwangung  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:02:24pm

re: #102 Backwoods Sleuth

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

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Oh, god, I could barely restrain my laughing….even I have more credibility using those terms than he does…

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Mattand  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:05:08pm

re: #120 Vicious Babushka

Trump hopes his mugshot will intimidate his enemies.

I’m gonna start my own coup, with blackjack and hookers! You know what? Forget the coup!
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Mattand  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:10:32pm

re: #132 jaunte

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Ace Rothstein  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:12:14pm

re: #75 Backwoods Sleuth

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Markm1960  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:13:47pm

re: #142 Ace Rothstein

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Reminds me of trumps face in the pic of trump having dinner with Romney.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:14:19pm

Mastodon

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mmmirele  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:14:41pm

re: #45 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Banana bread here in a few.

My brother made banana bread and it was VERY good, but I’m kind of pissed off at him.

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Yeah, I’m annoyed.

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Mattand  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:15:48pm

re: #144 Charles Johnson

Trump and his cronies are such amateurs. This is how you do the Kubrick face for real.

Now every time I see one of those mugshots, I’m gonna have “Singing in the Rain” stuck in my head.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:18:38pm

Mastodon

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retired cynic  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:22:31pm

Where did the height and weight on Trump’s booking record come from?
The president’s height was listed at 6-foot-3 and his weight at 215. But based on some of his co-defendants, the numbers may not be accurate.
wapo.st (gift link)

TFG’s were not the only measurements that were strange.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:23:01pm

re: #148 retired cynic

Where did the height and weight on Trump’s booking record come from?
The president’s height was listed at 6-foot-3 and his weight at 215. But based on some of his co-defendants, the numbers may not be accurate.
wapo.st (gift link)

TFG’s were not the only measurements that were strange.

They’re self-provided, or possibly based on the driver’s license. He was neither measured nor weighed.

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retired cynic  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:23:43pm

re: #149 Nerdy Fish

Don’t match driver’s licenses, either.

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Axolotl  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:25:35pm

re: #76 Backwoods Sleuth

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This should have ended with “…It’s your choice”

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:26:00pm

re: #137 Teukka

Time to shut down bitcoin mining.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:26:53pm

re: #145 mmmirele

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:27:48pm

re: #137 Teukka

Texas state government is a great example of regulatory capture.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:29:02pm

re: #148 retired cynic

Where did the height and weight on Trump’s booking record come from?
The president’s height was listed at 6-foot-3 and his weight at 215. But based on some of his co-defendants, the numbers may not be accurate.
wapo.st (gift link)

TFG’s were not the only measurements that were strange.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:30:24pm

And now cooling down.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:30:31pm

re: #148 retired cynic

Where did the height and weight on Trump’s booking record come from?
The president’s height was listed at 6-foot-3 and his weight at 215. But based on some of his co-defendants, the numbers may not be accurate.
wapo.st (gift link)

TFG’s were not the only measurements that were strange.

I was listening to a podcast of this morning’s Scarborough and they said that the information was provided by his staff; they were joking that maybe the origin was from some 1970’s document. Joe thought it was off by 70 pounds or so.

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:36:25pm

@ronninator.bsky.social

The San Antonio Zoo’s newborn Secretary Bird is a mood

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:38:30pm
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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:38:41pm

re: #155 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

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Just give him a Size L orange jumpsuit with a 32 inch waist and see how well he squeezes into it.

When I was 215 I wore a 42 Regular suit. He’s not even close to a 42 Regular. 52 Long maybe.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:41:42pm

re: #160 darthstar

Just give him a Size L orange jumpsuit with a 32 inch waist and see how well he squeezes into it.

When I was 215 I wore a 42 Regular suit. He’s not even close to a 42 Regular. 52 Long maybe.

I was going to say, I’m 6’1” and 230 lbs, and I can more or less squeeze myself into size 44s. So that pretty much tracks.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:48:41pm

For years I was using one of the last non-subscription versions of Adobe Photoshop and their other apps on my 2008 Mac Pro. But moving to the M1 iMac meant those apps were now defunct. Devoid of funk. Never to run again. I paid a fair amount of greenbacks for that CS5 package, but I did get a lot of use from it.

I thought maybe I could get by with GIMP on the new computer, but after trying it for a while, I’m missing Photoshop more than ever. GIMP’s OK for basic things, but lacking when it comes to more sophisticated masking and layering operations. And the new Photoshop has some AI features I want to try out, to do things like masking out features and filling the backgrounds realistically.

So I just signed up for Adobe’s cheapest “Photography” subscription, $10 a month. Installing all their stuff now.

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:56:31pm

re: #162 Charles Johnson

I kept a separate workstation with non-subscription versions of Illustrator and Photoshop,
Because I had gotten used to those versions, I was twice as fast working on the earlier system than with the new, and the added bloat of “this is how this tool works” panels in Photoshop especially was annoying.

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:58:57pm

re: #162 Charles Johnson

For years I was using one of the last non-subscription versions of Adobe Photoshop and their other apps on my 2008 Mac Pro. But moving to the M1 iMac meant those apps were now defunct. Devoid of funk. Never to run again. I paid a fair amount of greenbacks for that CS5 package, but I did get a lot of use from it.

I thought maybe I could get by with GIMP on the new computer, but after trying it for a while, I’m missing Photoshop more than ever. GIMP’s OK for basic things, but lacking when it comes to more sophisticated masking and layering operations. And the new Photoshop has some AI features I want to try out, to do things like masking out features and filling the backgrounds realistically.

So I just signed up for Adobe’s cheapest “Photography” subscription, $10 a month. Installing all their stuff now.

What are you actually using it for? For photography - post-processing my Leica and Nikon RAW files - I use Another Raw Therapee (ART) currently version 1.20.1 from ART

OTOH, it’s just a photo program so if you’re doing other stuff it may not be any good for you. Personally I like anything that allows me to avoid giving any coin to Adobe.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:05:45pm
“Three Georgia Republicans who falsely claimed to be electors for Donald Trump — and are now charged alongside him in a sprawling racketeering indictment brought by local prosecutors — say they took the steps they did because Trump, then the sitting president, told them to,” Politico reports.

“In a series of court filings this week, those false electors, who became part of Trump’s last-ditch bid to subvert the 2020 election, said it was Trump and his campaign lawyers who urged them to sign the false documents, claiming they were necessary to preserve Trump’s flailing court efforts to reverse his defeat to Joe Biden.”

i’d say all those who acted BOLDLY are now screwed

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retired cynic  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:09:31pm

re: #162 Charles Johnson

The newest Photoshop really is something. Amazing tools. Still understandable, and basic shortcuts work the same.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:18:17pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:19:42pm
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DodgerFan1988  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:20:10pm


Thug Life

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:28:45pm

Qasshole asked where is Obama’s mugshot.

Well Jumpin’ Jee-Ho-So-Fat I found it!

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:32:17pm

LOL here is Joe Biden’s mug shot.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:37:24pm

Oh my bunch of folks quitting CPAC. Is it because of the naughty things Matt Schlapp does with Mr. Twinkee?

PAC vice chair resigns amid turmoil

politico.com

Charlie Gerow is calling for investigations into the group’s top leader and its financial practices.

The vice chair of the Conservative Political Action Coalition has resigned from his longtime position on the organization’s board and is calling for investigations into the group’s top leader and its financial practices, among other issues.

Charlie Gerow, an attorney and communications executive who has served on the board of CPAC and its parent organization, the American Conservative Union, for nearly two decades, submitted his letter of resignation on Friday.

“The situation at CPAC has become such that I felt compelled to resign,” Gerow said when reached afterward.
Gerow’s resignation follows months of turbulence at the prominent conservative organization, where Chair Matt Schlapp earlier this year was sued by a former Herschel Walker Senate campaign staffer over allegations of sexual assault. Board member and treasurer Bob Beauprez resigned from his position in May, citing concerns over the organization’s financial reports, while Randy Neugebauer and Mike Rose also stepped down from the board earlier this year.

Just last week another board member, Timothy Ryan, also resigned, according to a person with knowledge of the organization’s operations. Ryan’s resignation has not previously been reported.

The series of departures by longtime board members — as well as high staff turnover within the organization in the last year — have not prompted any meaningful changes at CPAC, Gerow said.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:45:34pm
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wrenchwench  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:47:26pm

Mastodon

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HypnoToad  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:53:12pm

My white airliner just went by on a reciprocal course to the West a couple of minutes ago, a few hundred feet higher than last time, but still fairly low & slow. Got a good long look this time—it could be a DC-8.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:57:17pm

hi

Denmark to introduce new blasphemy law prohibiting burning religious texts.

Danish government to put forward law making burning Quran and other religious texts illegal (Euronews, August 25, 2023)

The Danish government is set to propose a law which would make it illegal to desecrate any holy book in Denmark.

This comes after a string of public desecrations of the Quran by a handful of anti-Islam activists sparked angry demonstrations in Muslim countries.

Denmark has been viewed as a country that facilitates insult and denigration of the cultures, religions, and traditions of other countries, the government said.

The proposal by the government is to extend Denmark’s existing ban on burning foreign flags by also “prohibiting improper treatment of objects of significant religious significance to a religious community,” Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard said.

“The bill will make it punishable, for example, to burn the Quran or the Bible in public. It will only aim at actions in a public place or with the intention of spreading in a wider circle,” Hummelgaard said, adding that it would be punishable by fines or up to two years in prison.

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Jail for insulting someone’s religious sensibilities. Very free speech.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:58:49pm

just, wow

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HypnoToad  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:02:37pm

re: #175 HypnoToad

Got it. It’s a DC-8, NASA817. According to FlightRadar, it’s been orbiting over Pasadena for the last hour or so, with a few excursions along the San Gabriels to the East to orbit over Redlands. The picture on the web showed a black fuselage stripe; I didn’t see that at all.

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:05:28pm

re: #173 Backwoods Sleuth

Alpine has seen things. But is hanging on to his innocence.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:06:58pm

re: #179 jaunte

Alpine has seen things. But is hanging on to his innocence.

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Looks a bit like Ashley Parker at a Trump presser.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:09:17pm
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retired cynic  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:13:39pm

re: #177 Backwoods Sleuth

just, wow

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I am boggled.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:17:13pm

re: #176 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Jail for insulting someone’s religious sensibilities. Very free speech.

Denmark is one of a few nations which uses the principle of “parliamentary supremacy.” That principle means, with very few exceptions, a law which is adopted by Parliament cannot be challenged in a court.

It took decades for activists in Denmark to get rid of their blasphemy laws, and it looks like their Parliament wants to “correct” that.

Muslims and Christians: Our books say to kill atheists and LGBT+ people.
Atheists and LGBT+ people: Your books are cruel and evil.
Denmark: Two year jail sentence for the atheist and LGBT+ people.

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sagehen  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:17:40pm

re: #177 Backwoods Sleuth

just, wow

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when they first started, I thought they were going to plant a tree.


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