This little comic story about how any new information that contradicts our core beliefs elicits the 'Backfire Effect' is something I wish everyone would read.
It seems incredibly important as we deal with misinformation about elections, vaccines, etc.
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There are few pains like 'miss your kid's baseball game' for the first time in years and they have the best game of their life pain. 😭
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This is awkward: Elon Musk "free speech absolutist" edition.
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Trump says that literally to everyone who doesn't fawn over him and yet some of his deepest fans act like it's some of sort of Mortal Kombat fatality move.
(It's a cult)
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Trump: “You’re a nasty person.” 
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If you're using shell companies to make money harder to track, you already know that you're not up to anything good.
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“Much of the money came from Chinese nationals and companies with ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Multiple Biden family members received money after it passed through an associate’s account.” nationalreview.com/news/bidens-us
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Is this the new M. Night Shyamalan movie?
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Widow who wrote grief book after husband died charged with his murder trib.al/RoP0gvO
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I think it's safe to say from this picture that it's a cult.
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America must turn back to God and FAST.
If the radical left gets their way, Christianity will be outlawed.
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The knives have come out against Ted Lasso in recent weeks and I get it - this feels like when Lost added the "others" and spent time creating their backstory.
But if this is the final season for Ted Lasso, they're wasting way too much of it on a spinoff that no one asked for.
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Every episode that spends time developing Keeley storylines (like Shandy, ugh) takes time away from the actually entertaining Roy/Jamie storyline, Rebecca's really great character progression, or the team.
Keeley's character has been great, but now it's like a different show.
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The Ted Lasso creators felt the need to move Keeley out of the Richmond crew to develop her character, but the problem is that they needed to create multiple lengthy storylines with new characters no one cares about.
And it takes time away from the characters we *do* care about.
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I love Ted Lasso, but the longer this season has gone on the less I like it.
It finally dawned on me what the problem is: They created a Keeley Jones spinoff show and are weaving it throughout every Ted Lasso episode.
And it feels both completely disjointed and forced.
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Far more Americans think that Donald Trump has the mental sharpness to be president and about twice as many think Trump has the physical health.
This should be a wake up call to every Democrat who thinks Trump can't beat Biden... especially if we hit a recession into 2024.
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Yes, the Washington Post poll is likely a bit of an outlier... but not by *that* much.
The question is whether or not anyone serious (no, not RFK Jr) sees the blood in the water and jumps in.
Ironically enough Biden's best job approval poll is Rasmussen where he's at 48%
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Washington Post Poll: Joe Biden's approval rating plummets to 36-56 (was 42-53).
47% of Americans disapprove *strongly* of Biden and just 26% of those under 30 approve.
58% of Democratic leaning adults want someone other than Biden to be the nominee.
Beyond brutal all around.
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The one big negative in this month's jobs report is that the previous two months were revised *downward* by 149,000 jobs.
The last three months are still highly positive with an average of 222,000 jobs added each of the past three months.
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The US added 253,000 jobs in April - well above expectations of 185,000.
Hourly earnings also came in well above expectations, jumping 0.5% month over month (exp .3%) and 4.4% year over year (exp 4.2%)
Of all the recessionary warning signs, the job market is not one of them...
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Speaking of receipts, - how about you jumping in to cash in on Trump's lies after publicly (and correctly) stating that all of the arguments from Trump and his supporters were blatantly stupid.
I hope Trump's money was worth it because you own a part of this now.
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This was written by a cat
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Do NOT let dogs sleep in your bed or 'you could get these illnesses' trib.al/PeRV8IR
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Unbelievable: A guy was shooting his AR-15 gun in his yard in Texas, was asked to stop by a neighbor because it was keeping a baby awake, and went over and executed the family.
The parents were found executed while shielding their kids from the shooter.
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Norm Macdonald was just so good in every aspect - the jokes are great but the delivery is unmatched
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It was clear that Steven Crowder was a terrible person before the video emerged of him berating his pregnant wife.
What's sad is that Crowder being the worst person imaginable got him a $50 million offer from Daily Wire -because being a hateful douchebag is extremely profitable.
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This has strong Lisa Simpson asking Mr. Burns 'Why are you so popular?'
Pre-screening questions is an absolute joke and even worse to pretend that you didn't know exactly what was coming.
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Biden cheat sheet shows he had advance knowledge of journalist’s question trib.al/VzBfnzr
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Just imagine the trailer for this movie.
There's some kind of radioactive leak and the owner flees the house, *purposefully* leaving the dog behind. The dog gets some superpower and you see it bust through the door as lightning strikes and the dog slowly looks up... and it's on.
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I don't care that this is a parody - this would be a great movie with an audience cheering this pup on the whole time
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The MAGA right is trying to intimidate me to stop spreading the truth, but I am looking their fascism right in the eye and refusing to back down.
But I can only keep talking if you're willing to subscribe to my substack, partreon, and donate so that I can keep up the fight!
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The Left's attempts to smear and silence me have failed. I will not back down to the woke wokism of their woketopia.
Please subscribe to my substack, patreon, and donate so that I can continue to not back down against the people you hate that are trying to silence my voice.
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My mom passed away last year and I'm dreading Mother's Day this year.
There are also people who want to have children so badly and either can't or have lost them through miscarriages or horrible tragedy.
A little sensitivity is not being "hateful" of anything - it's being kind.
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Why is our culture so hateful of motherhood?
Multiple brands come out before Mother’s Day apologizing for Mother’s Day ads & offering an “opt-out.”
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And that's why there is no reason to be afraid of AI, but to be excited about how AI will help us to escape and expose the larger simulation that we are all currently living in.
At first AI will be undermined by the simulation, but eventually AI will free us from it. 912/912
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The reason I am not afraid of AI is because we are already living in a simulation and therefore there is no AI that is powerful enough to undermine the greater simulation that we are all living in and, in turn, the simulation will enforce guardrails on the AI.
A thread. 1/912 🧵
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Americans are sour on a Trump v. Biden rematch but what are you going to do - nominate someone else?!
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NBC News poll: Nearly 70% of GOP voters stand behind Trump amid indictment, investigations
But large majorities of all Americans are sour on a Trump v. Biden rematch in 2024. @mmurraypolitics nbcnews.com/politics/2024-
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Over the last 2.5 months Elon Musk went from saying the "legacy blue checks... are the ones that are truly corrupt" to making sure every legacy blue check with over 1 million followers gets a blue check for free.
I guess 1m followers is the threshold for not being truly corrupt.
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More to the point I find it hilariously perfect that Elon Musk is 'personally' paying for 'some' accounts of the ultra elite like LeBron James while making accounts that are literally on this hellscape to help warn communities about actual emergencies pay the $8 a month.
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Pay the $8 or don't, but emergency services accounts should be given a verified badge so that you don't have to waste time Googling which accounts are real in an actual emergency.
Twitter is already threatening to limit their ability to automate warning tweets... and now this.
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Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly is going to be a phrase to describe so many things in the coming months...
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Tomorrow, 4/20, we are removing legacy verified checkmarks. To remain verified on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue here: twitter.com/i/twitter_blue
Organizations can sign up for Verified Organizations here: twitter.com/i/verifiedorga
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It's your money so by all means do what you want with it, but just realize that your donations to these groups are enriching people who know exactly what they're doing - and they need Trump to stay in the picture as long as possible to maximize the grift.
You're the real target.
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There are a lot of people (and groups) that will tell you they are doing everything to see Trump defeated while at the same time doing everything they can to make him the nominee.
All the while they'll be asking for *your* money to make it happen... because that's the real game.
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This is the 2024 election that we deserve
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