new jersey expatriate (18+) as a 4 year old I crawled under the preschool lunch tables and ate anything that looked like a potato chip
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People keep saying “did we learn nothing from Covid?” and what the ruling class learned is that the masses will happily engage in the politics of disposability when it comes to public health so here we are. Enjoy.
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Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.
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This is *insane.* Even if you are too tired to follow the news you have to understand this. The Louisiana governor has *suspended an active congressional election with 42k votes already cast* — it's insane.
NEW: By the time Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry suspended ongoing elections to give lawmakers time to redraw the state’s congressional map, roughly 42,000 Louisianans already cast their votes — and it’s likely many voted in the House primaries.
Now, their ballots are at risk of being thrown out. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
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This is some bullshit. If you are a Louisiana voter there is a recall petition being launched against Landry. This is tyranny. They are trying to steal your vote. Google Louisiana Landry Recall petition. You have to sign it in person, but this is time to stand up to this bullshit
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assisted suicide is one of those things where i very strongly agree in theory but in practice seeing people be told “well no we won’t cover this treatment for your disease but you CAN kill yourself” is absolutely fucking heinous
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In the Kunduz Hospital attack (2015), Barack Obama became the only Nobel Peace Prize winner to bomb another winner (Doctors Without Borders).
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americans are being observed beyond their wildest comprehension
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In the coming months congress will introduce legislation that bans this for national security reasons or some shit
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i do like to think about how Film Bro as a stereotype did used to have like actual meanings. kinda guy who only ever watched Nolan & Tarantino, annoying. now it's just used to insult anybody who watches stuff that isn't marvel lol
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it’s even worse than it sounds. this went on for two years, and ultimately they banned her from MSG for the crime of being trans in public (and potentially on broadcast television).
Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast
And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @NoahShachtman
& me @WIRED wired.com/story/madison-squa…
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They illegally stole YOUR money and now they’re giving it to the corporate donors who raised YOUR prices and made YOU pay for it. 🤬
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The promise of the early web was that all the world’s knowledge would be preserved and accessible. In the past several years we’ve seen attempts to destroy every major hub of the knowledge-based internet. The “information super-highway” is a dream that is nearly dead.
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. wired.com/story/the-internet…
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"ICE tried to identify a user without success. They approached Reddit, demanding identifying information on the user and refusing to specify the posts that caught ICE’s attention. Reddit has not identified the user."
This is why they're pushing age verification.
Today, The Intercept reported that the federal government is ordering Reddit to appear before a grand jury in connection with the anonymous speech of a user who criticized the Trump administration's deportation efforts.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement tried to identify a user based in the Pacific Northwest without success. They approached Reddit, demanding identifying information on the user and refusing to specify the posts that caught ICE’s attention. Reddit has not identified the user.
Reddit’s own attorneys reviewed the user’s posts for any speech not protected by the First Amendment, and found none.
Government critics are not suspects and free speech is not a crime. The First Amendment protects our right to criticize the government anonymously — an American tradition that dates back to the founding. So far, the government hasn’t been able to point to a single Reddit post that’s not protected by the First Amendment.
Not one.
By putting the administration’s feelings above the First Amendment, government agents are sending a deliberate message to each of us: Don’t criticize us — or else.
How we respond to this chilling moment matters. Today, lawmakers from both parties are busy promoting age-verification laws that would force each of us to reveal our identity before we speak online. If lawmakers had their way, the Reddit user would already be standing in court just for expressing his or her beliefs.
Who knows how many of us would be hauled up next?
