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Shaun Manning
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Co-founder and former owner of Booksweet, your community bookstore in Ann Arbor. Writer of things, mostly comics. Open for work. He/Him. shaunmanning.com
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lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight
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George I need you to do to these companies what you could never do to your books and finish them.
Massive win and beginning of the end for generative ai
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From the chat from other callers, everyone is having their own experience, but fwiw the biggest thing I'm getting from people is they don't know where their early voting location is, and were planning on heading to their regular location. They're different! iwillvote.com/locate/?addr...
I Will Vote
Be a voter. Find everything you need to vote in your state’s next election.
iwillvote.com
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My gut sense here is that Rs didn't think this would become an issue, then got pot committed to a terrible precedent just so they won't admit they were wrong.
Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has now been waiting 36 days to be sworn in to office — setting a new record that any member of Congress has had to wait following a special election.
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"The removal eliminated a passage that read, “Our founders established ADL with the clear understanding that the fight against any one form of prejudice or hate cannot succeed without countering hate of all forms.”"
ADL removes ‘Protect Civil Rights’ from website as it narrows its mission amid right-wing attacks - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The removal took place after FBI Director Kash Patel said he would cut ties with the ADL, though it is unclear if that has happened.
www.jta.org
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they can't think of anything better to do with the plagiarism robot

they're just boiling the ocean to pass time
Youtube has announced that all low-res videos (i.e. older ones) are to be automatically AI upscaled to HD.
Creators can opt-out on a per video basis (but the channel may be long abandoned).

When researching props or behind the scenes, old videos are useful, but not if upscaling produces artefacts.
But think of how dope this costume looks in the Metaverse
Mark Zuckerberg dressed as John Wick for Halloween.
Thought he was Tommy Wiseau.
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‘This community is not the enemy’: Hillsboro [Oregon] teachers form neighborhood ICE watch

ICE watch happens during school drop-off.

Photo: "Izza Dye, dean of students at J.W. Poynter Middle School, communicates with other volunteers during the ICE watch." 📸 Saskia Hatvany.
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America right now is an airplane that the crew is actively trying to dismantle mid-flight while at least half the passengers are sitting bare-knuckled just hoping we somehow eke out a survivable landing. (The other half are, inexplicably, rooting for the dismantling.)
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Sarkozy is going to jail but he’s not the first one. In our new dataset we track modern leaders who have been prosecuted by their own states. There are 215 of them. Turns out leader prosecution is a common & healthy practice in democracies. Full access link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d...
Prosecuting the Powerful
Historical data shows putting leaders on trial is a healthy democratic practice.
foreignpolicy.com
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I know there's a lot going on, but it's crazy that Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who won her election on Sept. 23.

He could have done this at any time, even amid the government shutdown. But he won't.

Unprecedented.
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"In less than 36 hours since we announced that we will be sending payments to disabled SNAP recipients in the South—$100 to individuals and $250 to households—we have received more than 12,400 applications, totaling $2.7 million in requests." - they have to close the form tomorrow... no way to cover
We are offering one time payments to disabled folks in the South who will not receive their SNAP benefits this month. If you need help, please find more information and details at ndsdj.org/snaphelp.

If you’d like to donate to the fund, go to ndsdj.org/snapdonate

We take care of each other ❤️
Those monkeys need to be more careful in several different ways
BREAKING | Truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi
Truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi
www.independent.co.uk
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shame on this schmuck.

none of us are free until all of us are free.
gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california
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Zohran Mamdani told a believable and common story when discussing the harms of post 9/11 Islamophobia. Yet he refuses to provide one measly vial of aunt blood, so experts can determine if that woman is really his aunt. Mamdani can only prove Islamophobia exists by delivering the aunt blood.
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Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations
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I really like how we've reclaimed the frog from the Pepe misappropriators
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Cookie Monster’s date: Can we talk about something else
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Biden 2020 won but he won by very explicitly incorporating the left into the coalition and they (centrists) spent the next four years trying to sabotage that, including trying to will a 2022 red wave into being
*Democrats run centrists three elections in a row*

Centrists: We need to run a centrist. That's the solution