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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 1h

He’ll come away thinking we lay eggs and fertilize flowers.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

somebody please have the birds and the bees conversation with our duly confirmed HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr

Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 1h

With a perfect score from Bill Conti: m.youtube.com/watch?v=UAkn...

Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 3h

One imagines that at least Sinema used people to her own ends — I don‘t believe my Senator is with it enough to see how he is being used. Both disgusting, but one is rather more pathetic.

Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 3h

The Poilievre who lost his Carleton riding and had to go 3,255km away?

Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 16h

It has not worked out well in the States. Rather awful, to tell you the truth.

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Nero Wolfe @nero-wolfe.bsky.social · 17h

They appear to be trying to lay the groundwork for designating antifa a foreign terrorist organization, which would unlock enforcement authorities. Patel is now calling it an “international criminal enterprise” in the latest White House propaganda piece.

Screenshot of Patel from WH video

“They are an organized, systemic, international criminal enterprise.”

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 17h

If it’s the Jays, the Dodgers, the Cubs and the Mariners, is it an all-antifa Series?

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 20h

HA!

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 22h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 1d

going to assume Greg Bovino and Dan Bongino are the same guy

Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 1d

ps Love the contestant interviews - you make everybody shine and it’s a sweet thing to see that everyone has a story.

Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 1d

What is an AMA?

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 1d

This fanny-necked grifter wants to ethnically cleanse a people, so that he can wack up a couple tacky haunts.

Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 1d

Are we really pretending we don’t know what’s happening, even though Kushner talked about it a couple of years ago and Trump is all in?

For Pete’s sake, Aeschylus would’ve found it a bit cheery for his taste.

www.ft.com/content/0b1b...

10 Mega Projects for Gaza : Financial Times’ map of BCG’s proposal for Gaza, mirroring Trump’s language about “Trump Riviera & Islands”

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 1d

Il commence une guerre dans notre pays, menace le Canada, le Groenland et le Venezuela et commet des meurtres extrajudiciaires dans les Caraïbes. Non, il ne devrait pas gagner le prix de la paix.

Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 1d

Estragon: Well, shall we go?
Vladimir: yes, let’s go.

They do not move.

Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 1d

Watch Tapper bat down female reporters who brought up that it was odd that Melania was absent from the RNC.

Anyway, I came out of this thinking less of Tapper and believing he wants a job at CBS.

a man with a beard sitting in front of a map

ALT: a man with a beard sitting in front of a map

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 1d

Tapper spent the week of the RNC talking about Biden’s age & valorizing Trump.

“If you can’t even trust the President to know all the facts & have a handle on his job…” - Tapper on Biden, having ignored Trump confusing trade/ fiscal deficits at every Economic Club.

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 1d

@thebulwark.com disappointed to hear you pull punches with Tapper & ignore POTUS’ clear cognitive diminishment.

The man can’t remember which wars he’s lied about ending, couldn’t recognize Triple H … the list goes on. That he also lies doesn’t make him cognitively sound.

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 1d

I believe it’s based on the Brattle Group’s approach, combining a series of “quantifiable” damages (eg lost income & personal injury)and “unquantifiable“ damages (deprivation of citizenship). I may be wrong.

www.brattle.com/insights-eve...

Brattle Consultants Quantify Reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery in Pro Bono Paper - Brattle

The harm caused by transatlantic chattel slavery is vast, and its repercussions continue to resonate in the lives of the descendants of the enslaved.

www.brattle.com

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a classic fascist turducken!

ICE looks after CBP.
The National Guard protects ICE.
The 82nd Airborne babysits the National Guard.
Then, I guess, nuclear subs in Lake Michigan?

Live Updates: Trump
Officials Decry Protests and Demand Protection for ICE
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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 1d

Wishing you good news soon.

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 1d

Yo @governor.pa.gov! check out what the Governors from Maryland, Minnesota & Kentucky are doing in this moment, rather than just posting leaf peeper pics.

Please stand up for our democracy.

Governor Shapiro’s Instagram leaf peeping pics

Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 1d

A clanker-centipede, but I’m guessing the public is at the last spot?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 1d

The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown met Wednesday with Pope Leo XIV and brought him a packet of letters from immigrant families "terrorized" by fear that they and their loved ones will be rounded up and deported as the Trump administration's tactics grow combative.

El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown

The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown met Wednesday with Pope Leo XIV and brought him a packet of letters from immigrant families "terrorized" by fear that they and the...

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