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"Polarization" is simply pretending our problems don't have a clear, recognizable origin: the fascist faction coming for our freedoms.
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"Polarization becomes a way to talk about politics without talking about politics at all..." That's it exactly. Explains why "we're so polarized" is so popular with the press. From an interview @PaulHRosenberg did with scholar @kreissdaniel. salon.com/2023/04/29/pol
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The time for something like this is past. What the court fails to understand, is that a statement like this only works if the public has confidence in them and their integrity. The public no longer does.
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A new statement signed by all nine Supreme Court justices stressing their commitment to ethics principles has come under immediate fire for failing to respond to recent calls for the court to adopt a binding code of conduct. nbcnews.com/politics/supre
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Shout out to all the folks who promised that this outcome would never happen and implied that those of us who fought to protect working people in NYC from getting fleeced by Amazon were “economically illiterate.” I look forward to your next analysis! 🙂
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Amazon is postponing much of HQ2 in Arlington VA and many of its new hires there are still working largely remote, yet it's about to collect its first tranch of $152 million in taxpayer subsidies from the state of Virginia. @teoarmus: washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/
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This is beyond party or partisanship. This degree of corruption is shocking - almost cartoonish. Thomas must be impeached. Barring some dramatic change, this is what the Roberts court will be known for: rank corruption, erosion of democracy, and the stripping of human rights.
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NEW BLOCKBUSTER: Private jet travel. Superyacht Island-hopping. Stays at a private resort. For decades, Justice Clarence Thomas accepted luxury gifts from a billionaire. Appears he broke the law. @js_kaplan & @JustinElliott: propublica.org/article/claren
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As I’ve said before: when the director of Children of Men was asked how he made his future fascist Britain feel so grounded and authentic, he said he looked at the country in 2005 and asked himself - what would happen if it continued just like this, on this precise trajectory.
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BREAKING: The government is expected announce plans to move all migrants and asylum seekers out of hotels and in to military bases and potentially disused ferries @robpowellnews has the latest trib.al/0lW6hra 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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We're closing applications for this dope job shortly. Apply (or share) if you're interested and haven't already! brooklynmuseum.org/about/careers/
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Pls share widely: We're hiring a digital content associate at the @brooklynmuseum to help continue fleshing out our art-sharing, community-building, inspiration-giving social and email programs. Is it you or someone you know??? brooklynmuseum.org/about/careers/
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i want a mystery bus 😩
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not only is public transport free in Brussels, but they even have a bus called "Not The 48" which takes you to a mystery location if you're feeling a bit down or you just don't have anything to do that day something for other cities to consider
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Mystère is a bus stop on the Route 48 bus in Brussels, named for the intersection between Av. Victor Rousseau and Rue de Mystère. Google Maps: maps.app.goo.gl/Q9pL84VgWpPbbR…
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I didn’t know until my LATE 20S that the books being burned in those infamous photos were Hirschfeld’s medical and social research. When we say anti-trans bigotry is fascism, we mean it very literally.
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Adolf Hitler declared Magnus Hirschfield "the most dangerous Jew in Germany" because he was a gay man who did extensive medical and social research based around trans people and provided them resources to transition. In case there was any doubt who these people are emulating.
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All of the "debate" of the last few years has been a deliberate effort to distract you from the fact that the substantive case for trans rights is unassailable.
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yes, surely true. better to think of trans-persons as refugees to be welcomed, not shunned. their experiences are not identical with ours but must surely be harrowing, difficult, each in their own unique way. not long ago just to be a woman uninterested in marriage was aberrant. twitter.com/benryanwriter/…
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Truly, this man’s greatest innovation is how to be a total loser while also one of the richest people alive
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Elon Musk ordered major changes to Twitter this weekend after ... President Biden's tweet about the Eagles got higher engagement than his did. Inside the secret system that's showing you all his tweets first, from @zoeschiffer and me. platformer.news/p/yes-elon-mus
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At 2:36 on Monday morning, James Musk sent an urgent message to Twitter engineers. 

“We are debugging an issue with engagement across the platform,” wrote Musk, a cousin of the Twitter CEO, tagging “@here” in Slack to ensure that anyone online would see it. “Any people who can make dashboards and write software please can you help solve this problem. This is high urgency. If you are willing to help out please thumbs up this post.”

When bleary-eyed engineers began to log on to their laptops, the nature of the emergency became clear: Elon Musk’s tweet about the Super Bowl got less engagement than President Joe Biden’s.
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hold on a sec, are you telling me the entire conservative media apparatus is controlled and propped up by billionaires who see value in targeting vulnerable groups as scapegoats for societys ills to distract from the systemic failures the rich use to enrich themselves?
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Here is The Daily Wire explaining how many billionaires have owned Steven Crowder while he's claimed to be independent.
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“The money lost from fare evasion is said to be an urgent crime problem in need of more policing & tougher sentencing. No such framing exists for the NYPD deciding to unilaterally [take] $366 million from ‘taxpayers’ without any approval from their duly elected representatives.”
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NYPD is going $366M over its allotted OT budget this year––greater than the military budget of Albania. This has generated zero outrage in NY media which routinely gins up anger over "fare evasion" "costing taxpayers". so I wrote about the double standard thecolumn.substack.com/p/despite-cost
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lol anything bad happen after that level of dysfunction?
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MCCARTHY just said he'd be comfortable setting a record for most floor votes for speaker. Currently, the record is from 1855, when it took two months and 133 floor votes before members agreed to pick by a plurality. history.house.gov/Historical-Hig
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