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empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 14m

She is just as racist as ever. You can be a racist and be in favor of a social safety net. That is what the Dixiecrats were after all.

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empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 16m

People really need to be shouting from the rooftops that you can’t trust video, _today_ because there is going to be an absolute torrent of this stuff soon.

empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 17m

I have been playing around with Sora for a few days and it is scary what it can come up with with a few sentences of prompting. If anybody ever publishes a no-guardrails version we are cooked.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 14h

"there are fires all over the place"
~the president of the united states with absolutely zero clue what is going on

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 15h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 18h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 16h

I think miller will attempt to take over the government if trump is incapacitated.

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empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 16h

Is stephen miller the president? Many people are asking.

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empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 20h

I love that you seem to be able to think more than two steps ahead unlike some of your colleagues. Don’t make any deal at all, IMO. Just keep the government shutdown until trump is ready to negotiate seriously.

empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 22h

We need to be thinking “Hamilton” and not “Mr Smith Goes to Washington”

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empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 22h

Not that it justifies anything, but that is literally exactly the theory that she used in the case against trump.

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empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 1d

I am still waiting for the Krull sequel

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Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social · 1d

the defining image of the early 21st century is an agent of the state pointing a gun at a person, and a citizen pointing a smartphone camera back at them

we see this scene reenacted every day, around the world

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empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 1d

This is a rare case of them being overly prescriptivist.

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empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 1d

All of this is happening because congress refuses to protects its own power and remove trump from office.

empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 1d

I absolutely hate that they are using polls to decide what to do even if it right now is the right thing to do.

empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 1d

“I think for far too long we’ve tried not to lose, as opposed to figuring out how to win.” — the problem with the democratic party in a nutshell.

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empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 2d

That said, if this norm exists, people will exploit it and there is a point where people have to be prosecuted and that is when their crimes are incredibly egregious or are a threat to the democratic process itself.

empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 2d

Another reason is that politicians represent people and even if they are crooks, their voters are not and will be greatly displeased if their candidate is removed as an option and will act out accordingly, in sometimes destabilizing ways /3

empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 2d

Once this is a tool that politicians feel they can use, they will use it. And once it’s expected that people will be charged after leaving office, politicians will start getting desperate to hold on to power, including using that same toolbox to target their future opponents while they have power /2

empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 2d

There are few reasons why a norm of not charging the previous administration with crimes _even if they committed crimes_ is a good thing to maintain. One is that it is pretty easy to find a charge to lay on someone. There are a lot of laws and everyone breaks some of them from time to time. 1/

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empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 2d

Trump should have been in jail the day after biden took office and charged with treason. Going after his followers was a pointless waste of time.

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empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 2d

Bondi should appoint a special counsel to investigate her investigations of the previous special counsels

empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 2d

I wish insurance companies spent as much money lobbying for vaccinations as they did on lobbying to stop single-payer.

empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 2d

I hope he looks scared when he is in prison with the rest of them.

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empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 2d

The rules are nobody can complain about being in a dictatorship until it is too late to complain.

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