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I maintain that the biggest problem with the 343 era is that they set up a genuinely interesting story in Halo 4, freaked out because of fan backlash, and have been stepping on rakes ever since because they're too scared to ever let their writers cook where anyone can see it
☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · yesterdayHalo 4 is deeply flawed but the relationship between John and cortana is the best it’s ever been
Democratic lawmakers are calling for an investigation into Eric and Don Jr.’s ties to 15 companies that have received $3.2 BILLION in defense contracts. Here's what you should know about their ongoing grifts.
like, I know people get mad when you say liberals prefer fascists to leftists but they keep saying it
Rav@rvbdrm.com · 4w ago⛔️ Democratic socialists who want free healthcare, better transit, human rights for all, and a government which works for the people 🫂 Republicans who orchestrated or supported the slaughter of over 1 million Iraqis
California is debating legislation right now that would ban all ICE employees from ever being hired by a public agency for life. This is good and next year's Democratic House needs to provide a full roster of ICE employees to help facilitate state efforts like this one.
I have received an update: This is being actively investigated as arson. Video security footage shows a woman pulling up and dropping a man off. After he was left there, the house went up in flames. A replacement car has been likely located.
Gleamy Dreams ~ ✨ 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🔜 Megaplex@gleamyd.bsky.social · 2mo agoHello, #brony and #furry community. I come to you today with very sad news about my Little Tikes car, and I may open a GFM later depending on the insurance coverage... A house fire claimed three of our vehicles, and the Little Tikes car was where the fire started. It is unable to be salvaged.
Why does it bother me when a manager or the CEO of my employer boasts about using Copilot to write their emails? This. This is why
The breathtaking drop of this graph is one of humanity's greatest achievements
Catherine Frieman@cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2mo agoOne reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth
It’s like we forget that ‘enshittification’ *retch* actually started before AI and was downstream of who knows how many scams there were on the internet casting it as The Place You Can Extract Passive Income From Forever
Luiza Jarovsky, PhD@luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 2mo agoSuraj has a point.
Count Dooku being venerated post hoc as the sort of Sun Yat-sen of the New Republic is an extremely funny ongoing bit, and Disney's refusal to embrace this is further evidence of their creative poverty and cowardice
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2mo agolive feed of liberal currents headquarters
Gotta eat my words—NYT and Washington Post ran amazing Sunday pieces on Gillibrand’s Cryptogate scandal today… Just kidding! Still no mention of the senator’s son scoring $30M less than a week after graduating. Washington Times covered it, though.
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 2mo agoFortune, Inc., the New York Post and the right-wing Daily Wire and Daily Caller have written about this. Pretty quiet elsewhere. Too bad New York doesn't have a major newspaper with social and political influence on an international scale.
“I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said ‘Welcome, Pope Leo,’ and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed. “As a Church, I say again: as a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war.” — Pope Leo XIV
A constant theme in my writing over the past 9 months has been that everything we think we know about federal education—from governance to oversight to funding—is changing. And it will outlast Trump. I’m going to keep urging preparedness. Opposition alone isn’t a plan.
Josh Cowen@joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 3mo agoI’m really worried that we aren’t internalizing enough what’s coming down the pike for all schools. Especially with federal funding—but even on the state side, too. We could be 3 years or less away from SCOTUS ending all Blaine Amendments. 1/3
Oh please spare me on this, oh moderate Republicans. Care to talk about Max Cleland, swiftboating, birth certificates, Vince Foster, or hell Nixon operatives rat ducking Muskie?
Dinosaur Bob@dinosaurbob.bsky.social · 2mo agoBig “You made me hit you” vibes.
NPR used to feature an array of Black staffers reading the Emancipation Proclamation for Juneteenth. I'm not sure if it is happening today. But in case it isn't, here's a link to hear me and several other staffers of color performing the reading from 2020: https://loom.ly/fBoaADE
Celebrating Juneteenth: A Reading Of The Emancipation Proclamation
On this Juneteenth, NPR is marking the day in 1865 when Union forces arrived in Texas with the news that slavery had been abolished two years earlier with a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.
npr.org
this is what Kingdom Hearts looks like to normal people
eman™ (Commissions Open!!!)@emanisfun123.neocities.org · 2mo agodawg i been staring at this for a solid 10-15 minutes this doesnt feel real
"Dem tea party" is correct enough to be an acceptable term despite the fact that it will not look the same as the GOP tea party for a lot of factional and structural reasons and it will likely not lead to the same outcome
The reason "pallettes of cash" became such a sticky anti-JCPOA talking point is because it's vivid - you can hold an image of it in your mind's eye. "$300 billion" sounds like a lot of money but doesn't connect with people the same way. Dems should consider this in crafting talking points
we're giving iran about as much money as all the gold in fort knox
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe reason "pallettes of cash" became such a sticky anti-JCPOA talking point is because it's vivid - you can hold an image of it in your mind's eye. "$300 billion" sounds like a lot of money but doesn't connect with people the same way. Dems should consider this in crafting talking points
By summer '47, most of the bulldozers have broken down, so they push on with converted Sherman Tanks, known as the Vickers Shervicks, shown here by three guys look as late 1940s as possible.
Just a reminder that Dana White was promising Super Bowl-type numbers for the White House UFC event. Instead, they pulled in less than a typical '60 Minutes' episode.
We're at the stage of the AI grift where major companies like Epic are openly using it... but aren't calling it "generative AI" because they know the majority hates it. They use euphemisms like "emerging technologies" now; be on the lookout for those, and call them out for what it actually is.
"What makes liberal democracy a superior system of government is that electeds live in fear for their jobs. If they are not constantly looking over their shoulder and anticipating the moves of some rival, their vision shrinks and contentment with mediocrity grows until it swallows them entirely."
Blue on Blue
Why one-party dominance is bad for Democrats and the places they run
everyoneiswelcome.substack.com
I feel like there's some hay to be made for Democrats challenging incumbent Republicans by pointing out that all of them were perfectly to hand their Congressional war powers authority over to Trump only for him to get our asses kicked by Iran.
HuffPost@huffpost.com · 2mo agoSen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) called the deal "completely out of step" with U.S. goals.
