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All of this. It doesn't have to be this easy. We let this happen.

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Cadet Bone Spurs.

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Dolly is a national treasure

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Not writ MAGA criminals see jail time.

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A pair of climate scientists at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science ETH Zurich, working with a colleague from Stripe Inc., has found evidence suggesting that the only way to prevent the planet from continuing to grow warmer is to use 1000-year carbon sequestration strategies. In their paper published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, Cyril Brunner, Reto Knutti and Zeke Hausfather suggest their research has shown that short-term carbon sequestration strategies will lead to the release of captured carbon before the planet can recycle the carbon in the atmosphere naturally.

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The best people. Next week Trump will say he's never heard of the guy.

Trump hires the best people.

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(via Week 2— The Return – The Weekly List)

This week opened with President Joe Biden meeting with Trump, after inviting the incoming president to the White House. This transitional meeting had been a normal part of protocol up until 2020, when Trump refused to concede his loss and invite Biden to the White House. Although former President Barack Obama had invited Trump in 2016, it was at best an awkward and visibly uncomfortable meeting. Biden drew criticism for smiling alongside Trump — seemingly acting deferential to a man who had sullied the tradition.

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This letter’s clear call to action  is commendable, but its cautious tone may belie the severity of what I believe has happened. In my view it is a near certainty the results have been changed at a scale which reversed the US Presidential Election.  They imply there is a chance a hand-recount will show you won more votes.  I am stating a hand recount will most likely show you did win.  Both letters call on you to act. In my view, a capable and skilled series of exploits, electronic tools and hacks were used to change the Presidential vote in all seven swing states.  These activities have reversed the outcomes in at least Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, and Wisconsin.  I will lay out the basics of the attack, starting with unusual elements within the results.  I will then outline two processes which could have been followed to insert these false results into the system.  Finally I will outline how I would recommend investigating.

Duty to Warn Letter - to VP Harris - Re: Election 2024

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(via The Appeasers - The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump)

What a bunch of sad fucks! What a fucking failure!

“Of course, the appeasement, or as scholars of authoritarianism call it, anticipatory obedience, by certain outlets began well in advance of the election. Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong, owners of The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times’ respectively, refused to allow the papers’ editorial boards to endorse Kamala Harris.The most embarrassing current example of this appeasement was the spectacle of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinksi of MSNBC’s Morning Joe announcing on live television that they had visited Donald at Mar-a-Lago. Brzezinksi said the following:For those asking why we would speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, I would ask back: Why wouldn’t we? It’s time to do something different, and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but talking with him.Why wouldn’t you? Because, if you have integrity, if you believe your own warnings, you do not ever make common cause with fascists. That’s why.“

Fuck the media. We’ve watched them fail for the past 10 years. Why? $$$

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(via ‘No man will touch me until I have my rights back’: why is the 4B movement going viral after Trump’s win? | US elections 2024 | The Guardian)

“McKenna, who did not want her last name published for privacy reasons, first heard about 4B a few months ago, via a TikTok video referring to the South Korean social movement. The basic idea: women swear off heterosexual marriage, dating, sex and childbirth in protest against institutionalized misogyny and abuse. (It is called 4B in reference to these four specific no-nos.) The mostly online movement began around 2018 protests against revenge porn and grew into South Korea’s #MeToo-esque feminist wave.

In the wake of Trump’s victory, 4B is once again on McKenna’s mind – and she’s not the only one.”

This is a tough one, but I get it, and I support it. It definitely makes sense, and women need to stand up for themselves, given how few American men will, as seen in the voting for Trump and his parade of misogynists and rapists. “Go Fuck Yourself because you’re not fucking me.”

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(via November 19, 2024 (Tuesday) - by Heather Cox Richardson)

“It is for us the living,” Lincoln said, “to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.” He urged the men and women in the audience to “take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion” and to vow that “these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

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A Thousand Days

The situation is so dire for Russia now that, after losing 10,000 troops in the first week of November, the country brokered a deal with Kim Jong-Un to supplement its losses. Ten-thousand North Korean troops were sent into Kursk to assist the beleaguered Russian army.

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Money, power, and selflessness are all useful tools in the right hands, but the world is messed up in all sorts of ways that can’t be legislated against, bought off, or undone with a hunger strike. When we focus on just two avenues for making the world better, we exclude almost everybody, leaving most of us with a kind of constipated altruism—we’ve got the urge to do good, but nothing comes out.

I don’t know all the ways to get our good intentions unblocked. That’s why, whenever I spot someone changing the world via a righteous road less taken, I write it down on a little list. I glance at that list from time to time as a way of expanding my imagination, and now I’m sharing it in the hopes that it’ll do the same for you.

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