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Matunos

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🧙‍♂️These three things, monks, are conducted in secret, not openly. What three? Affairs with women, the mantras of the brahmins, and wrong view.

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Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 14d

Remember this

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 5h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 59m

Perennial political adage: Comments made by Democrats in private will always be deemed more worthy of rebuke than comments made by Republicans in public.

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Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 56m

not in my experience

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 57m

And I said nothing, because lol, lmfao even

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 1h

i wish that it was possible to truly enjoy the utter comedy in the juxtaposition between this and the way the president is describing this

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts.

For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

(Published June)

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts

We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4h

If you’d like a more realistic assessment; I wrote about it today. www.pbump.net/o/dethawing-...

Thawing out ‘Arctic Frost’ and the new Biden-was-worse argument

A recent American presidency, you may be alarmed to hear, engaged in an action that was "arguably worse than Watergate" — an event still positioned in some circles as the gold-standard of presidential...

www.pbump.net

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Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 1h

maybe it's just me but it seems like the "emergency vehicles" they wouldn't let pass were police cars that had come to break up their protest

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According to police, about 200-to-300 protesters were on the Boston Common just before 7 p.m. when they moved to Tremont Street and blocked it off, *prevent police cruisers from getting in.*

In a statement Wednesday, police said many of the protesters had covered their faces, interlocked their arms, and chanted over "amplified bullhorns."

"When officers attempted to move the group to the sidewalk to *allow emergency vehicles to pass*, protesters surrounded police cruisers, kicked vehicle doors, and resisted dispersal efforts. Several officers were assaulted during this period, including one struck in the face. Protesters also ignited smoke devices and flares, further endangering officers and bystanders," police said.

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 1d

If Democrats want to stop fascism, they have to stop their cops from beating & arresting anti-fascism protesters in their own cities

Why is that a thing I have to say out loud

13 arrested, 4 police officers injured during pro-Palestinian protest in Boston

Thirteen people were arrested, and four police officers were injured during a pro-Palestinian rally in Boston Tuesday night.

www.cbsnews.com

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 1h

Turning Point USA is a domestic terrorism organization, and unlike "Antifa," it's an organization that actually exists, with leaders and funders and members and everything—people who can eventually all be tracked down and prosecuted for their crimes.

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 1h

it'll be funny if some actual right wing J6ers get thrown back in prison for this

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 1h

Brett Kavanaugh deserves to have all of this happen to him (except maybe the being released part):

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 4h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 2h

maybe he means politically homeless

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Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 2h

Also ironic because the original Antifa, Antifaschistische Aktion, was controlled by the KPD, the Communist Party of Germany, which was closely aligned with Stalin (not shown in the above graphic).

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 3h

This is probably the best time to be in organized crime since before the repeal of prohibition in 1933. I mean if you wanted to commit high level non-immigrant related crime, now is the time to go hog wild.