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Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦

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Twitter exile, 🏳️‍🌈 and married 👨‍❤️‍👨, anti-fascist, Trans-rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️ News, politics, philosophy, religion, bourbon 🥃. 🇨🇦&🇺🇲, live on unceded land of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish). "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."

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Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @kvynall.bsky.social · Jun 8

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2h

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Democracy Americana

A newsletter on U.S. politics and history - and the ongoing struggle over how much democracy, and for whom, there should be in America

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2h

Vought is at war with large swaths of the population, with the very idea of a society defined by democratic pluralism. If you have correctly identified that this guy is now in a really powerful position, that people like him are in control of the government, how is that not the main story?

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2h

Vought’s ideology of “radical constitutionalism” captures the defining sensibility on the Trumpist Right: “The Left,” he believes, has command of America, there is nothing left to conserve, nothing short of a radical “counter-revolution” can now save the nation.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2h

Vought is not interested in “normal” democratic politics: He seeks to “traumatize” civil servants, use the military to suppress protests, and sees Trump as an agent of God’s will. He is convinced to be fighting a noble war to defend his “real America” of white Christian patriarchal rule.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @kvynall.bsky.social · 13h

No apologies for being comfortable

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 22h

What happened at WaPo matters because it captures a broader rightward shift in elite business and media circles - a pervasive tendency of civic institutions to accommodate and acquiesce the regime, to choose appeasement and even active complicity.

That is how authoritarian rule is consolidated.

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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 20h

Paging the Anti-Christian Bias Task Force

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 22h

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @kvynall.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Coming Out Day! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Fit gAHHHymer @gaymer.fit · 1d

Happy National Coming Out day

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes….Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
—Anne Frank, 1943

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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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...

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 1d

HEALTHCARE OVER BILLIONAIRES. Thanks to everyone who rallied with us + educated our community on what’s going on right now. We have an authoritarian President that shutdown the government in order to take away your healthcare. Why? To give billionaires and mega corporations a massive tax break. 👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾

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Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @kvynall.bsky.social · 1d

They are finding out Trumpism has very little that will benefit them and much that hurts them.

Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @kvynall.bsky.social · 1d

Great podcast on Thiel. His thoughts are more complex and strange than I expected.

Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Thiel’s theology is a strange materialist techno mashup, heavy on Armageddon with a hint of a savior who saves the kings, and not the rest of us. I explain here.

www.youtube.com/live/GiBhzOA...

The Gospel of Peter Thiel (Part I)

YouTube video by Straight White American Jesus Podcast

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Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @kvynall.bsky.social · 1d

spongebob from spongebob squarepants is standing in front of a rock and says phew .

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Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @kvynall.bsky.social · 1d

I guess I'm Gen Z now 🤣

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judithbolyard.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social · 1d

Red, White, and Blue !

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 1d

The destruction of America continues because white people with all the power and all the money want to play victim.

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Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @kvynall.bsky.social · 2d

I take bupropion (Wellbutrin) and clonazepam (klonopin) for my depression and anxiety. Clonazepam helps me sleep too

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8647 Nous Defions Mortus Discriminatus @ralphfh.bsky.social · 2d

two major risks that the Federal Reserve and financial markets are downplaying
AI investment bubbl

two major risks that the Federal Reserve and financial markets are downplaying
AI investment bubble
Threats to the Fed's independence

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @kvynall.bsky.social · 2d

C-sections
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 2d

This is a federal agent pointing a weapon at a person recording them.

ICE has become Trump’s personal military that he is using to terrorize communities and cities that don’t support him. And some say we shouldn’t call him a fascist? Open your eyes.

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Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @kvynall.bsky.social · 3d

The article didn't say. However, the engineers believed they were 20% more productive with AI.
I guess they were hallucinating. Lol

Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @kvynall.bsky.social · 3d

OpenAI would suck up all the available private capital to build its "plain" 10gw of data centers. AI is sucking investment capital away from other more productive uses.

Did u see the study that showed software engineers were 20% less productive using AI than without it?

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