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@GottaLaff@mastodon.social The "best and the brightest" aren't working for Frump.
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Amateur political junkie, believer in democracy
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@mcnado@mstdn.social The reason right-wing asshats often give about why we "don't need universal healthcare" is that everyone gets treated in the ER (at a minimum.) None of them are talking lately about how ERs stay afloat. ERs are cost centers, required to be there for the building to be called a hospital, but if you starve them for money, for-profit hospitals will starve them for resources. And more people will die. And oligarchs will drink champagne and see their concierge doctor on a yacht call.
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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social I'd like to think these are the same people who think Sikhs are Muslim and the world is flat, but I feel like there's plenty of ignorance to go around.
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@Npars01@mstdn.social @Skepticat@mstdn.social The RWNJ base is going to vote for Trump unless bows out to serve his sentence. Even without Trump, if they knew her name is really Nimrata they'd never vote for her in a million years, but MAGAts are the poster kids for "low-information voters" so they just know what Fox and Newsmax and Russian twitter-bots tell them.
@HarriettMB@beige.party @Nonilex@masto.ai Is there a betting pool on Putin agreeing that the RUSSIANS will observe the cease-fire, while planning to throw DPRK mercs at Ukranian civilians?
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@SMarsching@social.anoxinon.de @lilianedwards@someone.elses.computer For a while it felt like Twitter was randomly resetting back to the "home" thing. I'd see NOTHING from anyone I was following and all sorts of other random junk and then realize it had gone to the algorithm-driven "Home." I think it increases "stickiness" for a lot of users because it's all hot-topic crack for the addicts.
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@GottaLaff@mastodon.social That is absolutely a master-class slam. A judge telling a lawyer they not only don't understand the law but don't seem to be able to read is SAVAGE. 💙
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@MeidasTouch@mstdn.social A classy response to #FatNixon's classless, crass, false and defamatory attacks. I think he needs to lose another defamation suit. Fulton County could own Frump Tower and charge big bucks for renting him that gauche gilt gulag he calls an apartment.
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@rossbright@mastodonapp.uk huh... There really IS a "special relationship" between UK and US! Conservatives are greedy, destructive, and bad for society on both sides of the Atlantic.
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@normative@mastodon.social MuskmElon has always been anti-press unless it's the fawning tech press telling all his Muskrats that he's the greatest. Intentional anti-press tactics at Tesla because he only wants the Muskmythical version told, etc.
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@Stefan_S_from_H@mastodon.social @davew@mastodon.social It may be a little "inside baseball" for non-USA ppl but it's not all that obscure.
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@Stefan_S_from_H@mastodon.social @davew@mastodon.social I do actually think having access to dozens of mentions in a search result and being able to select one from a source with which you're familiar or which may relate the reference to some cultural reference closer to your experience is likely more useful to you than me saying "It's about Trump crimes", because outside of some very techy things or vintage cars I'm not that great an educator.
I'm going out of the country this summer. Super-privileged as a white cis guy, native-born citizen. Even so, I'm removing social media from my devices before I come back here. The border jackals aren't looking for me, but they are looking for excuses.
@mcnado@mstdn.social Well obviously, if you can't afford chemo at market prices, the market intended for you to die.
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@mikeabney@hachyderm.io @brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org I'm not sure they've seriously considered sunshine yet... they're still working (hard!) to corner the market on water. It's anyone's guess if they'll go for sunlight or air next...
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@Stefan_S_from_H@mastodon.social @davew@mastodon.social a google search of:
I just need 11780
returns relevant info on each hit in the first page.
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@Stefan_S_from_H@mastodon.social @davew@mastodon.social Intuition in search formulation is a valuable skill, but brute-force methods can also be of service.
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@Stefan_S_from_H@mastodon.social @davew@mastodon.social I wasn't being flippant in my response, btw, and I think someone blocking you about your question is ridiculous. I try to hit news sources outside the US bubble to be less of the insular American, and I often need to search around to figure out what's meant by references that seem arcane to me but are natural to people living in the context from which the reference was made.
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@drewharwell@mastodon.social @donieosullivan@mastodon.ie Unless the MuskmElon is going to suspend his own account for doxxing some poor guy from Connecticut who happened to be on the same road as X and his ex, he's even more full of shit than I imagined.