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Doc Holliday 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@Snowshadow

Oh, Canada, my home and native land.

Showing after deck with Canadian flag waving proudly.

@Snowshadow

Melissa BearTrix 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I'm out, I have harpooned a bacon and egg roll and a coffee ... Just reeling it in ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

ashwin 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

If the eggs fight,
I'll crack 'em!
If the pig resists arrest,
We'll reel 'em.
And have a feasty-fest!

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Melissa BearTrix 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@ashwin

Nice ... Hugz

Hugz & xXx

@ashwin

K.R. O'Connell 🇦🇺 ✅I❌ 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

jumky ??

I will edit that later

Bruno J. Navarro 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

We may have suspected it already, but now the science backs it up: unmarried and childless women are the happiest subgroup in the population. And they are more likely to live longer than their married and child-rearing peers, according to a leading expert in happiness.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/25/women-happier-without-children-or-a-spouse-happiness-expert

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KevinFlynn :verified: 10 months ago (Received 2 months ago) • mastodon (AP)

@jerry @mekkaokereke
Mastodon does not suggest and push racist propaganda in your face, you choose who you follow, and that's what you see.

Are nazis using both twitter and mastodon? Of course. They're also using public restrooms, voting in elections, and hailing cabs on your curb. Fascists suck and eliminating their terrible traits is an endless battle we fight.

But at least mastodon isn't run by a nazi suggesting you follow other nazis and creating company policies designed to erode communities that nazis don't like.

Hi Mekka 😀 Nice to meet you

@Jerry Bell :bell: :llama: :verified_paw: :verified_dragon: :rebelverified: @mekka okereke :verified:

mekka okereke :verified: 10 months ago (Received 2 months ago) • mastodon (AP)

Quote from Chanda Prescod-Weinstein:
"Tweeps are *more likely* to think for two seconds before they explain to a Black person something that the Black person has been thinking about for 40 years and they've been thinking about for 5 minutes."

She was talking about the phenomenon of white Mastodon users earnestly trying to explain to Black users why the Black users are wrong about their own lived experience, and why Twitter is definitely worse.

https://x.com/IBJIYONGI/status/1590833026334064640

mekka okereke :verified: 10 months ago (Received 2 months ago) • mastodon (AP)

If you land on a good, well moderated instance, your experience is better than Twitter.

But if you land anywhere else, your experience is significantly worse than Twitter.

This is "instance roulette," and it sucks.

Most Fediverse instances don't block the most vile, racist instances on the Fediverse. So what happened to Chanda can happen to most Black women that try to join the Fediverse.

The Fediverse needs much better Blocklist and Moderation tools and services.

Kevin Leecaster 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Was not wearing my regular protest cap that day, but this is the anniversary of the time I brought my #ClimateStrike placard to the RockyGrass bluegrass festival.

Image of me at entrance to festival grounds with a golf cart and a cliff in the background

#climatestrike

Ramesh 🎵 Kamala La Bamba 🎶 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

⬆️ @GreenFire

That tie-dye shirt! Oof!!!

@Kevin Leecaster

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John Gordon 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Curious notification shown in my Gmail spam box:

“Why is this message in spam?

Lots of messages from
privaterelay.appleid.com were identified as spam in the past.”

I asked perplexity and appleid.com apparently belongs to Apple.

Any ideas?

“Why is this message in spam?
Lots of messages from
privaterelay.appleid.com were identified as spam in the past.”

Jeri Dansky 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I'm underwhelmed with the official Harris merch, but I did buy this T-shirt, thanks to @DrVeronikaCH who pointed me to it — and @jodystillwrites who created the store, with a number of great shirts.

"Proceeds go directly to Rock the Vote to help register and empower young voters."

https://www.bonfire.com/cat-ladies-for-democracy/

#uspol #cats #democracy

Seafoam-colored T-shirt that says Cat Ladies for Democracy below a drawing of a cat face.

Cat Ladies for Democracy | Bonfire

Proceeds go directly to Rock the Vote to help register and empower young voters.. According to a certain smug politician, the problem with the U.S. is that it's run by...

^Bonfire

#cats #democracy #uspol @Veronika Cheplygina @Cat Ladies for Change

Europe Says 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://www.europesays.com/1363044/ Hardest Pic #Altius #Citius #CitiusAltiusFortius #Fortius #Olympiad #Olympics #Olympics2024 #Paris2024

Hardest Pic - EUROPE SAYS

Hardest Pic Posted by patrick_thementalist

^{EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)}

#olympics #paris2024 #olympics2024 #altius #citius #citiusaltiusfortius #fortius #olympiad

NorCal Lynne 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

A nice vantage point to survey her domain. #Gardening #Invertebrates

A brown and tan female Praying mantis standing atop the curved stem of a sunflower, in the background are trees.

#gardening #invertebrates

Martin in Toronto 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Random audio post of my teenage years game that I conquered purely on sound. It sounds utterly boring now. Lol! In this short bit, I get attacked by 2 or 3 snakes, 2 giants and the last one kills me. Oh and the tick tick tick is supposed to be your heart.

Bruce Toews 2 months ago • hometown (AP)

Do you remember when you first heard that Stephen Wright immitation of bowling? You rewound it and replayed it and rewound it and replayed it incessantly.

StillIRise1963 for HARRIS 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The head of the FBI said it wasn’t clear that a bullet struck Trump. The NYT, of course, said it WAS a bullet.🙄

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StillIRise1963 for HARRIS 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@sphinx Yep. They’re shameful and I don’t miss them. I feel better about myself for ditching them.

@Sphinx of Black Quartz

Aviva Gary 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Who to believe... Who to believe 🤔

ErosBlog Bacchus 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Yeah, no, I'm hoping/assuming that somebody has put it into a plugin already, but serious searching for WordPress plugins is quite hard because the searchable Automattic plugins directory is choked with minimal-functionality free versions of aggressive upgrade-demanding paid plugins. "Tesseract" gives me another helpful keyword; I was aware that there was a FOSS OCR engine but am not enough of a programmer to have ever needed to find out what it was called. Thanks!

ErosBlog Bacchus 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Lazyweb question for y'all:

What if I've been spoiled by the ability of the Mastodon web client to do a one-push-of-a-button optical character recognition operation on images, as part of the alt-text entry interface?

I know NOTHING about the back-end software, services, or APIs that power that. But I want it in WordPress -- a plugin to grab text from an image as part of "Add Media" operation.

FOSS if possible; sustainable software always preferred!

#WordPress #Plugin #OCR #FOSS #Alt #AltText

#FOSS #wordpress #OCR #alttext #plugin #alt

ErosBlog Bacchus 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

(I almost never say/request this, but boosts very much welcomed, especially if your followers are WordPress smart.)

Norcal Gma 2 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Summer is practicing her superhero dog look.
She is a high flying dog.
Getting a little exercise in before we go back to our indoor chores.
#Summer #DogsOfMastodon

Golden Labrador retriever jumping over a short fence. She is in mid-air coming towards the camera.

#summer #dogsofmastodon

Norcal Gma 2 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Our oldest grandson modified the photo and sent it back.
#Summer #Superdog

Golden Labrador retriever jumping a short fence, she is in mid-air and has added hand drawn red cape.

#summer #superdog

Stationkeeper 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Yup. Vance caught searching for dolphin porn.

The link he ended up posting had "dolphin" and "woman" highlighted, which means those are the search terms he used.

Self owned looking for Dolphin Porn.

What would Flipper say, JD?

No scandal is complete without a good limerick.

To reach a strange state of elation
A man sought the help of cetaceans
Was he caught in a crouch
With a consenting beige couch
Or just lost in a sea of sensation?

https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-dolphin-search-history/

George Snorewell 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

JD #Vance is perfect: he says the same stupid shit #Trump says, but somehow breaks the spell.

If Trump talked about never fucking a couch or racist Diet Mountain Dew or childless cat ladies, no one would bat an eye.

Vance does it and suddenly people are like "wait, uh..."

Vance is actually too "on-brand." Trump needed a Pence -- someone who looked "normal" to the disengaged middle

#Trump #vance

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Kevin LaRose He/Him 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@gwaldby As I recall Trump wanted to pick the plain vanilla North Dakota governor, Doug something, but both his sons did the macho bro thing and he picked JD instead. He’s going to live to regret it, so it seems.

@Gail Waldby

Laffy 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

“On Friday, Vice President Kamala #Harris called the family of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who was shot by a sheriff’s deputy in her Illinois home, according to Massey’s family members who spoke to NBC News.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/kamala-harris-calls-sonia-massey-family-rcna163881

Harris calls Sonya Massey's family

On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris called the family of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who was shot by a sheriff’s deputy in her Illinois home, according to Massey’s family members who spoke to NBC News.

^{Yamiche Alcindor (NBC News)}

#Harris

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Chuck Darwin 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

J.D. Vance in Hot Water for Praising Book Calling Liberals “Unhumans”

Donald Trump’s running mate praised a book riddled with conspiracies and calling to “crush” non-Republicans.

♦️Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them) ♦️was written by the #Pizzagate guy,
Jack #Posobiec,
and ghostwriter Joshua #Lisec,
with a foreword by the recently imprisoned MAGA movement architect Steve #Bannon.

The book supposedly tracks the opponents of conservatism throughout history and endorses a modern-day
#McCarthyism to root out the “radicals” from American institutions.

“On a base level, unhumans seek the death of the successful and the desecration of the beautiful,” Posobiec and Lisec claimed.

When comparing the Black Lives Matter movement to the French Revolution, they wrote: “There is no way to reason with those who manipulate the have-nots en masse to loot and to shoot. They simply hate those who are good-looking and successful.”

#Vance provided a glowing promotional blurb about the book, which is included on the website of right-wing publisher Skyhorse Publishing.

“In the past, communists marched in the streets waving red flags.
Today, they march through HR, college campuses, and courtrooms
to wage lawfare against good, honest people,” wrote Vance.

“In Unhumans, Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec reveal their plans and show us what to do to fight back.”

Of course, their far-right screed has dark implications.

After Trump was indicted in May on 34 criminal charges, Posobiec advocated for violent revolt against progressives.

“Take the path of the hunter, and with one singular voice, we are going to make them the prey,” he said.

Since accepting the nomination at the Republican National Convention last week,
Vance has been consistently embroiled in controversy over his past statements,
including his blatantly sexist comment about “childless cat ladies”
and humiliating rumors about having sex with a couch.

Beneath it all, Vance is still part of the intellectual
“new right” movement,
influenced by pronatalism,
techno-authoritarianism,
and conservative economic populism.

Evidently, his reading list also includes extremist, conspiratorial material
—if he even bothered to read it, before lending his name to it.

Either way, Vance gave Posobiec, and all of his dangerous and ridiculous ideas, a boost.
https://newrepublic.com/post/184271/jd-vance-trouble-blurb-book-unhumans

J.D. Vance in Hot Water for Praising Book Calling Liberals “Unhumans”

Donald Trump’s running mate praised a book riddled with conspiracy theories and calling to “crush” non-Republicans.

^{The New Republic}

#bannon #pizzagate #McCarthyism #posobiec #vance #lisec

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Bruce Toews 2 months ago • hometown (AP)

If Freedom Scientific ever does produce a Focus 40 Sixth Generation display, I want them to discover the secret to perpetual batteries.

Robin Frost Has Moved 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Or at least make them hot swappable so one can just keep going and going and while I'm at it I want QWERTY as an option. However, I have a suspicion that hardware just isn't their primary focus these days but that's just my thought and based on nothing outside of my own mind which is not worth much tonight.

Bruce Toews 2 months ago • hometown (AP)

@mcourcel That's a very good idea. I marvel at your innovativeness.

@Martin in Toronto

Bytes Europe 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

russia is returning bodies of Ukrainian POWs without internal organs.

read this sentence again and let it sink in for a second. every russian behind this must be punished. https://www.byteseu.com/289854/ #Ukraine #Україна

russia is returning bodies of Ukrainian POWs without internal organs. read this sentence again and let it sink in for a second. every russian behind this must be punished.

russia is returning bodies of Ukrainian POWs without internal organs. read this sentence again and let it sink in for a second. every russian behind this must be punished.https://x.com/saintjavelin/status/1816786263246012578Posted by Espressodimare

^{BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)}

#Ukraine #україна

Tracy Rosenberg 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

#Texas judge shuts down Ken Paxton's interrogation of Catholic Charities by ruling that the McAllen, TX director does not need to provide a deposition to the Texas Attorney General on the charity's work with #migrants. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/24/texas-border-charities-migrants-attorney-general-investigation-court-r/

Judge says Ken Paxton can’t question migrant service provider

Wednesday’s ruling is the second time a Texas judge has ruled against the attorney general for investigating shelters helping migrants.

^{Berenice Garcia (The Texas Tribune)}

#texas #migrants

Today I learned 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

TIL the first depiction of backward time travel is believed to be in the Chinese novel "Supplement to the Journey to the West" (1640) by Dong Yue, which features magical mirrors and jade gateways that connect various points in time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ed0lbj/til_the_first_depiction_of_backward_time_travel/

#TIL #todayilearned

Bill Jorth 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Project 2025 leads to an American Dark Age. https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/112854827229149285

William Lindsey :toad:

2024-07-26 21:06:43

Andra Watkins writes about what it was like growing up in a white Christian nationalist culture in which "every accomplishment that did not lead to me marrying a Good Christian Husband and producing as many Good Christian Babies as God gave me was met with admonitions, guilt trips, and raging disapproval."

She says,

"I’m not sharing stories from 100 years ago. It was the mid-1980s, not the dark ages."

#WhiteChristianNationalism #women
/30

https://project2025istheocracy.substack.com/p/project-2025s-war-on-women

Bruce Toews 2 months ago • hometown (AP)

But now I must experiment. I promise you I won't bore you for sixteen or twenty-four thousand characters. I'll abridge the boredom considerably.

Bruce Toews 2 months ago • hometown (AP)

Now this is volume 2 of my adventure in boredom. Did you know that ecosystems are composed of biotic and abiotic mater? The science ook I'm proofreading told me so. One more piece of mindless drivel, and that will be it.

Bruce Toews 2 months ago • hometown (AP)

And why is this nutbar doing this, you cry. Because I want to see if they'll come out in the right order.

Robin Frost Has Moved 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

They seem to have for me anyway.

The Bitchin' Witches 🐕‍🦺🧙‍♀️ 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Abiotic mater? The person writing this text book obviously needs more tea ha ha ha see what I did there.

Bruce Toews 2 months ago • hometown (AP)

@Pawpower Either that, or I have an infuriating habit of typing double letters too quickly. I wonder which it is. <GRIN>

@The Bitchin' Witches 🐕‍🦺🧙‍♀️

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"I revere this office, but I love my country more. It's been the honor of my life to serve as president but in the defense of democracy, which is at stake, I think it's more important than any title... Nothing, nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy. That includes personal ambition. So I’ve decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation. It’s the best way to unite our nation.”

~ President Biden

#Biden #KamalaHarris #democracy
/1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-24-2024

July 24, 2024

Tonight, President Joe Biden explained to the American people why he decided to refuse the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination and hand the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris.

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

#Biden #democracy #KamalaHarris

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William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"President Biden’s speech isn’t the only thing that has registered lately. Vote.org announced a nearly 700% increase in daily voter registrations in the 48 hours following President Biden’s announcement on Sunday that he would step down. That’s more than 38,500 newly registered voters, and younger voters, those between 18 and 34, make up 83% of them."

~ Joyce Vance

#KamalaHarris #Biden #YoungVoters
/2

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/registered

#Biden #KamalaHarris #YoungVoters

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Andrew Torrez on why the Republical complaint to FEC that Kamala Harris is illicitly taking over Biden's campaign coffers is "horseshit":

"Harris’s name has been on the FEC documents for more than four years, through nine separate filings by the Biden-Harris campaign, which is why virtually every election lawyer agrees that the move is entirely kosher."

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Trump #FEC
/3

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/gop-whines-that-its-no-fair-kamala

GOP Whines That It's NO FAIR Kamala Gets Joe's Money

Oh, yeah, the FEC will get right on that ...

^{Andrew Torrez (Law and Chaos)}

#Trump #Biden #KamalaHarris #fec

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William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"The coordinated Harris campaign reported Wednesday morning that they had raised more than $126 million from 1.4 million donors between Sunday afternoon ... and Tuesday evening. FF PAC, also known as Future Forward, the largest outside group supporting Biden, announced $150 million in commitments in the first 24 hours after Biden’s Sunday afternoon announcement."

~ Michael Scherer, Gerrit De Vynck and Maeve Reston

#KamalaHarris #Biden
/4

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/23/kamala-harris-donations-election/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzIxNzA3MjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzIzMDg5NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MjE3MDcyMDAsImp0aSI6IjcyOWYzNjE4LTc4NTctNDQ4Mi04N2JiLTY0MWFlNjNjYWFiNiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI0LzA3LzIzL2thbWFsYS1oYXJyaXMtZG9uYXRpb25zLWVsZWN0aW9uLyJ9.hHmas7GgO13_Tsjjpge36Am8fZygmZ96ZOXbj38yazE&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

#Biden #KamalaHarris

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

As Lisa Needham reports, FEC chair Sean Cooksey is a Trump appointee, and has made noises about welcoming Trump's FEC complaint. And:

"The FEC took no action against [Trump] for routing payments through his former campaign manager, Brad Parscale, and refused to open an investigation into his hush money payments to Stormy Daniels."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #FEC
/5

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-legal-challenges-harris-candidacy-bunk

The GOP's legal challenges to Harris's candidacy are bunk

They're also amazingly hypocritical.

^{Lisa Needham (Public Notice)}

#Trump #KamalaHarris #fec

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"Musk and Trump seem on the way to merging into a single vortex of wealth and power.

Maybe we should call it the Mump — the joining together of two rich and famous narcissists who crave attention, lie through their teeth, enjoy provoking critics, hate labor unions, refuse to be held accountable for anything, and have utter contempt for democracy."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #ElonMusk
/6

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/beware-the-mump-0ee

#Trump #ElonMusk

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"Speaking of JD Vance—or James Donald Bowman and James David Hamel as he was previously known—Axios reported that Elon Musk lobbied heavily for Trump to pick Vance. When Musk was lobbying for Vance, Musk reportedly offered to provide $45 million per month to a Trump Super PAC."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

Musk now denies having committed $45 million/month to Trump.

#Trump #ElonMusk #JDVance
/7

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-sacred-task-of-perfecting-our

“The sacred task of perfecting our union.”

July 24, 2024

^{Robert B. Hubbell (Today's Edition Newsletter)}

#Trump #ElonMusk #JDVance

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"I do not have an opinion on who V.P. Harris should select. The good news is that she has a very deep bench to choose from. That should give us confidence—especially compared to the rogues gallery that competed for the Republican vice-presidential nomination."

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Trump #JDVance
/8

#Trump #Biden #KamalaHarris #JDVance

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The Political Humor site has gathered a nice selection of commentary and memes centering on reports that because J.D. Vance is so spectacularly unpopular, Trump is trying to replace him.

#Trump #JDVance
/9

https://politicalhumor.substack.com/p/jd-vance-is-so-bad-trump-is-panicking

JD Vance is so bad, Trump is panicking and wants to replace him already!

So cringe and awkward.

^{Political Humor}

#Trump #JDVance

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"CNN aired 18 minutes of Donald Trump's lie-filled rally Wednesday evening, in which he launched attacks on 'radical left lunatic' Kamala Harris, repeatedly whipped up attacks on the 'fake news media,' and falsely claimed the 2020 election was rigged."

~ Oliver Darcy

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #CNN #FoxNews #MSNBC
/10

https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17218764480833b411e33298e/raw

#Trump #CNN #media #MSNBC #KamalaHarris #foxnews

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"The network, which had moved away after 2016 from airing Trump's rallies at length, later brought on Daniel Dale for a brief on-air fact check. Fox News also aired the rally, sans the fact-checking. MSNBC opted not to broadcast Trump's rally at all."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #CNN #FoxNews #MSNBC
/11

#Trump #CNN #media #MSNBC #KamalaHarris #foxnews

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"The forces propelling Biden’s decision were less the gales of the past than the headwinds of the future. We are at a juncture where the very sustainability of the United States as a vibrant democratic republic will be contested at the ballot box. One could imagine that if the stakes weren’t so existential, Biden might have continued to run, or perhaps he would have decided to forgo reelection in the first place."

~ Elliott Kirschner

#Biden #KamalaHarris
/12

https://elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/mr-president

Mr. President

An address to the nation

^{Elliot Kirschner (Through the Fog, by Elliot Kirschner)}

#Biden #KamalaHarris

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Wajahat Ali on the stark contrast between Biden's speech last evening and Trump's at the RNC:

"If there ever was an argument to end the dangerous 'both sides'' false equivalence, it was surely tonight. Just compare the speeches of both men. Put the transcripts side by side. Look at the words, the tone, the substance, and the messages of the speeches. There’s no 'both sides.'"

#Biden #Trump #democracy #BothSides
/13

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-kid-from-scranton-makes-good

The Kid From Scranton Makes Good

President Biden's address to the nation should be applauded as a hopeful act of selflessness for the greater good of our nation, which is fighting against the forces of hate and authoritarianism.

^{THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)}

#Trump #Biden #democracy #BothSides

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"ONE STRIKING THING ABOUT political talk shows on Kremlin-run television these days is the extent to which they mirror the American right-wing media ecosystem. Clips of Joe Biden stumbling or looking befuddled? Check. “Laughing Kamala” supercuts and clips of Harris saying things that, at least out of context, sound cringe or inane? Check. Snide references to woke identity politics in the Democratic camp? Check."

~ Cathy Young

#Biden #Trump #Putin #Russia
/14

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/bidens-exit-views-from-moscow-and

Biden’s Exit: Views from Moscow and Kyiv

Commentators in Russia and Ukraine were quick to draw lessons about democracy itself.

^{Cathy Young (The Bulwark)}

#Trump #Biden #russia #putin

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Helen Lewis brings the shade about Trump and J.D. Vance"

"[Trump's pick of Vance] looks less like a masterstroke and more like the impulse purchase of a luxury good—an expensive handbag bought on a credit card the day before its owner gets fired. Trump should have kept the receipt."

#Trump #JDVance
/15

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/regrets-about-jd-vance/679220/

J. D. Vance, Trump’s Regrettable Impulse Buy

J. D. Vance brought nothing to the ticket—the GOP already had the internet-edgelord vote sewn up.

^{Helen Lewis (The Atlantic)}

#Trump #JDVance

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

And:

"Biden’s departure allows the Democrats to turn their opponents’ best attack line back on them: Maybe old men whose sentences go off on weird tangents shouldn’t run for president?"

#Trump #Biden #age
/16

#Trump #Biden #age

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

As Maya Boddie reports, lifelong Republican and former Lt. Gov. of Georgia Geoff Duncan, who publicly stated in May that he could not vote for Trump and was supporting Biden, has now come out for Kamala Harris, stating,

"I’m committed to beating Donald Trump….. If that requires me to vote for, speak for, or endorse @KamalaHarris then count me in!"

#KamalaHarris #Trump
/17

https://www.alternet.org/geoff-duncan-kamala-harris/

'Lifelong Republican' ex-GA lieutenant gov. endorses Kamala Harris

Former Georgia Lieutenant Governor explained in an op-ed published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution earlier this year why he was supporting President Joe Biden in his bid for reelection.

^{Maya Boddie (Alternet.org)}

#Trump #KamalaHarris

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"Just because Musk says he’s not funneling money to Trump doesn’t make it true. …

Republicans don’t like EVs. Democrats do. And Musk has done everything he can to piss off his customer base.

The problem for Musk is that very few Democrats are now willing to buy a Tesla following Musk's endorsement of Trump in May."

~ Mark Sumner

#Trump #ElonMusk #Tesla
/18

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/24/2257628/-Why-Elon-Musk-suddenly-wants-to-mask-his-Trump-support

Why Elon Musk suddenly wants to mask his Trump support

During a live-streamed interview Monday evening, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that he will not be donating millions of dollars every month to Donald Trump, rejecting reports like one that appeared in ...

^{Daily Kos}

#Trump #Tesla #ElonMusk

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Charles Blow on why we all, and not just Black people, have to form a line of defense for Kamala Harris as she's attacked by racists and misogynists:

"That line of defense, has to be a political force far broader than the Black community because her candidacy, a contest against a man who tried to overturn the results of the last presidential election, represents nothing less than the preservation of our constitutional order."

#KamalaHarris #racism #misogyny
/19

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/opinion/kamala-harris-maga.html?unlocked_article_code=1.900.YPpC.jv1X60r6o9Pd&smid=url-share

#Racism #KamalaHarris #misogyny

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William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"If we end up sliding over the cliff into a uniquely American form of fascism, I want it to be unmistakably clear to historians and everyone who comes after us that we knew what was happening. We saw it. We endeavored to prevent it, to arrest the slide, to warn of the perils. We had eyes wide open. We were not blindsided. If it happens, it happened despite our best efforts."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism
/20

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/at-least-we-wont-have-sleepwalked

At Least We Won’t Have Sleepwalked Our Way Into Authoritarianism

INSIDE: Joe Biden .. Kamala Harris ... Donald Trump

^{David Kurtz (Morning Memo)}

#Trump #fascism #Republicans #authoritarianism

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William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"The warnings have come from sitting federal judges, from highly respected longtime Republicans cast out by their party, from conservatives who were previously villains in the progressive firmament, and now from President Biden sitting in the Oval Office having made a substantial personal sacrifice of his own as a way of further sounding the alarm

History will show that we knew."

#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism
/21

#Trump #fascism #Republicans #authoritarianism

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Wow.

Kamala Harris' first campaign ad.

#KamalaHarris
/22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWarVaHd8h4

Kamala Harris Releases First Presidential Campaign Ad

And she's off! Kamala Harris officially hits the campaign trail with her first political ad.» Sign up for our newsletter KnowThis to get the biggest stories ...

^YouTube

#KamalaHarris

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"Yesterday FBI Director Christopher Wray said, ironically in response to a question from Rep. Jim Jordan, that it’s not clear whether Trump was hit by a bullet or debris kicked up by the gunfire. I think in context that’s likely a bureaucratic and gentle way of saying Trump probably wasn’t hit by a bullet. But let’s stick to the precise words. 'There’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear.'”

~ Josh Marshall

#Trump #media
/23

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/finally-word-from-the-fbi-about-the-trump-story-the-press-has-refused-to-question

Finally Word from the FBI -About The Trump Story The Press Has Refused To Question

As you know, I’ve been on this story for a while: why...

^TPM

#Trump #media

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Josh Marshall says that, despite the fact that Pennsylvania State Police briefed reporters that Trump had been hit by flying debris and not a bullet, when Trump said a bullet hit his ear, "that was the story followed universally in the press."

Wonder why that would be? Why would the media discount out of hand testimony of eyewitnesses who were on the scene? And why they did no investigating?

I suspect a lot of us know why they allowed Trump to frame the story with a lie.

#Trump #media
/24

#Trump #media

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William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"The broken mainstream media machine has gone so far past normalizing this fascist menace, they simply cannot be trusted with our time or treasure. I implore you from this little corner of the World Wide Web, to tune them out.

They are up to no good."

~ D. Earl Stephens

Stephens offers a screenshot with two Wall Street Journal headlines, both of pieces by Jason L. Reily, 9 and 23 July 2024: see below. See the media game here?

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media
/25

https://dearlstephens.substack.com/p/new-day

Two Wall Street Journal headlines of statements by Jason L. Reily, 9 and 23 July 2024

NEW DAY

Kamala Harris is coming in hot, and our broken media is feeling the heat

^{D. Earl Stephens ✍️ (Enough Already)}

#Trump #media #KamalaHarris

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Bruce Mirken 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Bear in mind that the #WallStreetJournal opinion page has been screechingly right-wing since basically forever.

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@BruceMirken Yes, that's well-known, of course. I also think that Stephens is correct to characterize WSJ as mainstream media. To me, it has never appeared much more than a right-wing rag. But to many "centrists," it's a credible, respectable publication — capable of the highly unethical practice of publishing these two editorial statements by the same hack within weeks of each other. Shameful and shameless, as if we don't have eyes to see and heads on our shoulders….

@Bruce Mirken

Kevin Leecaster 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@BruceMirken
Even prior to Rupert Murdoch buying the Wall Street Journal, they were clearly a rightwing rag based on their denial of climate science.

That anyone still treats them as an honest information broker says a lot about the people still doing that imo.

@Bruce Mirken

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William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@GreenFire @BruceMirken I agree.

@Bruce Mirken @Kevin Leecaster

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"Let’s stop repeating the lie that Biden’s age was anything more than a fabricated issue, because if Trump wasn’t too old then how could that apply to Biden? And let’s stop repeating the lie that Biden wasn’t fit for a second term based on a bad 90-minute debate when clear and far more bountiful evidence of Trump’s madness and deranged mental state – "

~Keith Owens

#Biden #Trump #media
/26

https://wearespeaking.substack.com/p/kamala-will-win-lets-try-and-treat

Kamala will win. Let’s try and treat her better than we did Joe.

Joe is one of the most transformative presidents in American history.

^{Keith Owens (We Are Speaking)}

#Trump #Biden #media

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William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"including during that same 90-minute debate – can be found in footage of just about every Trump campaign event this year. …

Wasn’t it strange that hardly any of those calling for Biden’s removal noticed that there was a fully qualified Black woman who happened to be the Vice President of the United States sitting right there in plain view? I mean, oh sure, now everyone is chanting Kamala’s name as the Second Coming and the Chosen One."

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Trump
/27

#Trump #Biden #KamalaHarris

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William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"Except that no. It wasn’t. The most obvious choice for a replacement, if that was truly the way to go, barely got a mention. A white woman from Michigan, admittedly popular but hardly a national household name, got all kind of love. A white man with roughly the same credentials – and lack of same – also got love.

But the Black woman already in the co-driver’s seat, ready to go at the drop of a hat, kept getting mostly overlooked."

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Trump
/28

#Trump #Biden #KamalaHarris

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"Donald Trump held no elective office before running for president and filed for bankruptcy six times before becoming a reality TV star. JD Vance has only been in elected office for less than two years, backed by his Silicon Valley benefactor, Peter Thiel. Nothing in their backgrounds suggests serious qualification of any kind for the jobs of President or Vice President of the United States.

So what makes Kamala Harris a 'DEI' hire?"

~ Jay Kuo

#KamalaHarris #DEI
/29

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/kamala-harris-racist-misogynistic-attacks

Donald Trump And Republicans Use Racist And Misogynistic Attacks Against Kamala Harris

Republicans are coming for Kamala Harris, and it’s getting ugly.

^{The Big Picture}

#KamalaHarris #dei

William Lindsey :toad: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Yes, and the shocking thing about his being a total idiot and how so many of us can see that is that people, especially white men, who have lots of money keep being praised as better and more intelligent than the common lot, when we can all see with our own eyes that this is simply not the case.

mos_8502 :verified: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Uspol

ParzivalWolfram 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

my copy of PC Interrupts came with an interesting stamp.

Image depicts the edge of a book. Stamped on the edge: "Property of PKWare, Inc."

Tofu Golem 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6yQOs93Cgg

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-seen-in-public-without-ear-bandage-after-assassination-attempt?ref=home?ref=home

It's a fake!

Senator Vreenak in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - DS9 S06E19 - "In the Pale Moonlight"

^YouTube

EAS Watcher 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

#EAS #WEA for CA Butte County: Fire Warning Source: 200450,CA Butte County, ** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***

#eas #wea

Sue Stone 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

'Just a lie': Fox gets shreds claim that Kamala Harris is to the left of Bernie Sanders - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-kamala-harris-2668820562/

FeralRobots 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

yeh Bernie would find that claim pretty surprising.

Thunderstrike 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I only *wish* she was to the left of Bernie Sanders. She was the attorney general of my state--I *know* she's not more liberal than Bernie, but nevertheless don't threaten me with a good time.

EAS Watcher 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

#EAS #WEA for CA Butte County: BCSO is issuing an evacuation ORDER for Zones 235 in Butte Meadows due to fire. For more information visit buttecounty.net/sheriff or call 833-512-5378 Source: 200450,CA Butte County, ** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***

#eas #wea

BakersRelay 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

#CAwx #ParkFire #EAS #WEA for CA Butte County: BCSO is issuing an evacuation ORDER for Zones 235 in Butte Meadows due to fire. For more information visit buttecounty.net/sheriff or call 833-512-5378 Source: 200450,CA Butte County, ** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***

#eas #CAwx #wea #parkfire

The Eldritch Rain :Eldritchness: 12 months ago (Received 2 months ago) • iceshrimp (AP)

The Phanpy experience with Iceshrimp is quite nice! I might just continue hosting it!

#iceshrimp#phanpy

#phanpy #iceshrimp

BakersRelay 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

#SinnottFire #AKwx #Alaska @AlaskaWx

From Alaska Wildland Fire information: Firefighters taking measures to protect properties, Eagle from Sinnott Fire

https://akfireinfo.com/2024/07/26/firefighters-taking-measures-to-protect-properties-eagle-from-sinnott-fire/

Firefighters taking measures to protect properties, Eagle from Sinnott Fire

Size: 1,000 acresPersonnel: 41Start Date: July 21, 2024Cause: Lightning FAIRBANKS, Alaska – Firefighters are installing protection measures for structures along Mission Creek and …

^{Alaska Wildland Fire Information}

#Alaska #akwx #sinnottfire @Rick Thoman

unusual_whales 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Americans are suddenly finding it harder to land a job — and keep it, per CNN.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

#Finance #News #Stocks #Economics #options

unusual_whales 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The median duration of unemployment jumped higher last month, to 9.8 weeks from 8.9 weeks in May, and landed at a level not seen since January 2023, Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows.

Read more: https://t.co/lhi66iLD42

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options