There's this dude that plays the trumpet everywhere Bolsonaro goes.

Recently he has been seen playing Chopin - Marche Funèbre.

he is a local hero per se.

ramps up in direct proportion to how little they can actually do. the call center guy has no way to get info about your outage to an actual technician anymore, but they've got a script to walk you through the stages of grief until you reach acceptance that they can't close your account either

To this day, no Democratic candidate for president has won a majority of the white vote since LBJ signed the Civil Rights act in 1964.

When Civil Rights laws were being passed and the National Guard was sent in to enforce desegregation, the majority opinion among ALL white people was not (to say the least) enthusiastically supportive.

These were concessions, extracted reluctantly, due to fear of continued massive social unrest.

That sounds so delicious. Where can I get it?

After frantic searching you find out that this week is severe weather awareness week. You have never felt more aware.

There is a quasi-religion in Silicon Valley that views AI as godlike. This faith has always been parallel to Evangelical Christianity: salvation (transhumanism), the rapture (the technological singularity), and demons (Roko's Basilisk)

Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country.

We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one.

I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.