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Reed the Frog
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Co-host on Barking Points Memo; Extremely Gay; Partnered to MxAsher and @lunostophiles
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You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ.

We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights.

Help us win this fight by chipping in at katforillinois.com/legal
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A key aspect of authoritrianism is the targeted persecution of political enemies.
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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Kat is being federally charged by the FBI for protesting at Broadview.

This is a flagrant political prosecution by the Trump administration, which is trying to prevent free speech and free association.

I am proud of Kat. Her movement is being targeted by the government. She needs your support.
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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Just thinking about how Nintendo/The Pokémon Company will sue literal children over fan art and free community ROM projects but won't take action against the government using unlicensed Pokémon IP in Homeland Security propaganda videos.
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it’s kind of funny that the New York Times, which is probably at least 50% Ivy League on the editorial side, is one of the primary drivers of contemporary anti-intellectualism, but not really funny in a good way
What Zohran Mamdani Learned as an Africana Studies Major at Bowdoin
www.nytimes.com
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I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
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The delight I felt when I saw this post and rushed to watch! So good!
To bring his iconic films to life, director James Whale had to fight Hollywood censors, Wall Street, and Adolf Hitler (yes, really) ... my new video about his incredible life goes live now, join us for the live premiere! youtu.be/2hU9jiUTFLo
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YouTube recently added an artificial intelligence thing on the creator dashboard, and at one point it "suggested" I make a video about "The Whale," which it indicated was a literal gay marine mammal that once lived in Hollywood. I think it mixed up James Whale and the movie The Whale??????
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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This gets at the core problem the Democrats have right now: Consultants keep telling them to focus on ‘kitchen table issues’ but they don’t have an inspiring kitchen table agenda! ‘Expanding drug price negotiation’ is technocratic and taxing the wealthy is something they refuse to deliver on.
Okay, let's get into the text...

Here are their bullet point recommendations: Talk about the economy! Don't talk about immigrants or climate or "social issues!" Criticize the ultra-wealthy, but in a very-not-socialist sort of way!

This is... just popularism? Didn't we already do this?
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NIMBYing green energy infrastructure is quickly going to become (already is?) the main climate policy fight. Almost all the fossil fuel infrastructure that has ever been built already exists, so they and their Republican allies can just keep throwing up barriers and stand to profit.
BREAKING from @jael.bsky.social: New York's largest battery project has been canceled.

Swiftsure, a planned 650-megawatt development on Staten Island, was quietly sunset in August, after facing opposition from, among others, Republican NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa.

The story:
New York’s Largest Battery Project Has Been Canceled
Fullmark Energy quietly shuttered Swiftsure, a planned 650-megawatt energy storage system on Staten Island.
heatmap.news
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You will suffer the curse of caw!
Share if you care to spread the curse even further! 
#fishcrow #art
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huge: new york’s largest battery project has been canceled.

would’ve stored enough energy to power more than half a million homes.

why’d it die? a protest movement in NYC against battery storage, backed by curtis sliwa & national GOP politicians.

my latest for @heatmap.news #greensky
New York’s Largest Battery Project Has Been Canceled
Fullmark Energy quietly shuttered Swiftsure, a planned 650-megawatt energy storage system on Staten Island.
heatmap.news
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If any other industry was bleeding jobs like this, elected leaders would be running around like their hair was on fire to help it.
A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Just about spit out my coffee when I saw this in my morning newspaper @theonion.com
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This is an excellent point. Zohran ran a textbook campaign that the centrists are always talking about, just talking about rent control and free buses and cost of living, and the centrist Dems tried to make it all about Israel/Palestine and other identity issues (his Muslim faith) to smear him.
centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
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Everyone involved in that “report” are a buncha grifters, imo.
how many of these "Democratic policies" were in the 2024 Democratic Party platform document? 1? maybe 2?

compare that to the list of unpopular Republican policies, 13 of which Trump has accomplished since taking office, and most of which have been floated by admin officials as possible priorities
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You know how ICE has recruiting problems? Seeing multiple prominent media outlets interested in the services of Olivia Reingold—someone I just heard of—made me wonder if so much US media going right-wing and untethering further from factual reality is leading to similar personnel difficulties.
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