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@BlueWall

A filibuster-proof majority in House and Senate, unless they come to their senses and reform the filibuster.

@mvario @Strandjunker

@ScottSoCal @mvario @Strandjunker

Again, requires a Democrat House and Democrat Senate, (without Manchin and Sinema,) and a Democratic President.

@Defiance

It's a reference to the human flesh embedded in the "truck" after those sharp edges peel the skin off line personnel.

People dunk on how fugly the #Cybertruck looks, and rightly so. But the name is just as bad. Cyber?!! πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

@theintercept

That's exactly the same thing they did in Citizens United - rejected it, but spelled out step-by-step how to do it so they'd rule the way the PACs and corporations wanted.

@GottaLaff

He can't legally run a business in the state he used to call home. He and his children can't legally run a *charity* because of their past crimes.

8/ Biden: The only convicted criminal on that stage was Trump. When I thought about his 34 convictions, his sexual assault on a woman in a public place, his being fined for business fraud.. I thought to myself Trump is not just convicted felon, he’s a one man crime wave

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@tusk81

Saw it during the Duhbya years. I was living in a remote and deeply agricultural rural county, where all the farmers and ranchers were pumping their fists in the air because their boy had finally done something to hurt the illegals. Then they suddenly had nobody to work their crops. There were large hand-sprayed plywood signs by the highway promising twice the previous year's wages, begging somebody, anybody, to apply. They all took a major bath.

These are the same people who can't wait for Donald Trump to become king. Because they're not very bright.

@Autisticaurochs

Yes, all of that, plus more. Writing fan fiction, just sitting and pondering, online forums.

I'm a Trekkie, and I stumbled across a site that had the extrapolated external dimensions of a starbase, so I calculated the internal. Took 2 years to refine it, off and on.
Those things are (would be) HUGE! A potential population of about 2,000,000 people. Deck space measured in hundreds of square miles.

@actuallyautistic

@bryan

My problem is, my music tastes are eclectic, to the extreme. I can and have enjoyed every genre except the really twangy country & western. What I want to listen to is very mood-dependent, and no AI is going to know what I'm in the mood to hear.
Speaking of "in the mood"...
youtube.com/watch?v=aME0qvhZ37

The shockwaves from this week's events, culminating with the relatively less-consequential immunity decision on Monday, will be felt for the rest of our lives and likely into our childrens' dotage. Plan accordingly.

Anyone voting for #Trump?

Hold up your hand. In about a 45 degree angle

Cause you're voting for a fascist

My husband and I are trans. My family is full of queer people.

Trump has explicitly and repeatedly promised to use the apparatus of the federal government to go after families like ours.

He'll be aided by a state government in #Indiana that has shown that it has the appetite to help.

My family is so terrified right now. We're making plans in case we have to flee to someplace safer.

I’m struggling because I am angry.

I’m angry that these people who are in a field that has a complete disconnect with the type of problem they are claiming to solve, have had so much influence and power.

Every single regular person understands how this is bullshit, they just wrapped it up in stuff that sounded complicated, mathy, scientific and rigorous.

Try to ask any woman on the planet what are the considerations (variables) affecting if, how and when she would leave her abusive husband. She could write you a whole paper, it would have so many variables. One single decision. So many possible outcomes and blowbacks. So much risk to be managed. One single action in a relatively small part of a complex adaptive system. And she knows it in her bones.

And these assholes make a childish formula and fuck up real peoples lives over it.

Via Angry Staffer:

It’s disappointing watching people call for #Biden’s head after one off night, especially when he was the clear winner in actual substance.

Besides, Biden could be an *actual* potato sitting on a podium, and he would still be the correct choice over Trump’s Project 2025 bullshit.

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