Muninsdad
@muninsdad.bsky.social
Animal lover - anti authoritarian - Lunar Paleontologist - DIY till I D I die - interested in countering extremism and disinformation
To DSA members who want to run on their own ballot line: Here’s what that actually looks like
A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
Boots theory doesn't work for boots. The primary thing I thought reading this was, oh this guy have never actually had a pair of boots. There are not boots that magically last forever - once you start resoling you aren't really saving money. You are better off buying modern material construction
A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · yesterdaySince I guess we're doing Pratchett Discourse, boots theory works for some goods - durable assets, etc - and not for others, but also the modern economy is Genuinely Fucking Weird historically.
Without reading it, I’mma tell you the answer: As a foreigner in China, you have no right to privacy. In fact, you are required by law to register yourself with the local police within 24hrs every time you change addresses or take a trip. You think they’re hiding this tracking? Lololololololololol
My kingdom for leftists that wouldn't be incredibly easy to affinity scam.
Dead Carl@deadcarl.bsky.social · 2d agoCrank convergence theory means Democrats need to be actively adversarial to conspiratorial thinking
Just stop oil
NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · 2d ago❗️Russian oil refining fell to 3.6 million barrels per day in July, down 150,000 bpd from June, according to Bloomberg. The report says this is Russia's lowest monthly refining rate since May 2002. For comparison, July 2021 averaged 5.59 million bpd. #Russia
Piker is just flat out lying, the New York Times is not openly covering Ceuta as having been encouraged by Israel, and normalizing brain worms conspiracy theories does nobody any favors. Don't care whether you like him, he does too much rancid campist bullshit to be tolerable.
Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · 3d agoThis guy has anti-Semitic brain worms (among many other species of brain worm) and he needs to be treated as radioactive by every Democrat.
NYPD not only harvests DNA from adults charged with crimes, but surreptitiously gathers it from those merely being questioned, even choosing to trick children. Second Circuit should protect privacy rights by requiring a warrant. [Matthew Cavedon on Cato amicus brief in Leslie v. City of New York]
Leslie v. City of New York Brief: NYC's "Suspect Index" of Secretly Harvested DNA Is Unconstitutional
The NYPD routinely collects DNA samples in an orchestrated surreptitious manner through ruses involving straws, bottles, or even cigarettes, without the knowledge or consent of the searched individual...
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Not a big slotkin fan but come on - this is like such small potatoes wrt a Republican tracker I can't even believe people care.
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 3d agoAlso, I'm kind of surprised that it wasn't a bigger deal when she tried to scare off a tracker from an opposing campaign in 2018 by telling him she knew his dogs' names youtu.be/_KTKYIwc5oE?...
I was Rania’s first editor. One of the dumbest people I’ve ever known. She was working as a medical records clerk when my lecherous boss hired her because he thought she was hot.
G. Digital@gdigital.bsky.social · 2y agoAssadists coping and seething.
"journalist" is a really weird way to frame someone who is responsible for someone of the ugliest disinformation about war crimes in recent memory
Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · 3d ago“They’re attempting to criminalize dissent and an independent press,” says journalist Rania Khalek about Republican politicians' attacks on independent outlet BreakThrough News.
NEW: Corporate media zero in signs of antisemitism on the left. Meanwhile, one of Rep. Haley Stevens's most powerful backers in her Senate race attends a Bible study that teaches that the Jews killed Jesus...
Stevens Backed by Dem Leader who Attends Antisemitic Bible Study
Michigan Senate primary coverage has focused on left-wing antisemitism while ignoring it on the right
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The conservative outlets I follow are strenuously avoiding any mention of most of the entrants promptly going back, with or without prodding from the Spanish military. Doesn't fit the Camp of the Saints narrative.
Lol I don't even know how this makes sense to people who believe it - the data centers are needed to check debt?
@migas7.bsky.social · 4d agoInteresting take about uses for data centers. Not benign.
We should be moving in the opposite direction towards heroin assisted treatment - pure product at cost in measured doses with drug testing and wrap around services.
Rowdy@r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 4d agoArguing for mass incarceration and heavy law enforcement to deal with drug abuse is the social equivalent to “just bomb them until we win the war” You don’t care about a solution, you just have blood lust
pet peeve but red herring does not mean something which proves guilt it's the opposite - something which misleads
Jonathan Jarry@jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 5d agoThe tell was a red herring. In a Ask-Hank-Anything video, he was reading from his script and he said, “A better way to say it—and I appreciate the pushback—is a word is a human invention….” Some people thought “I appreciate the pushback” was a leftover from his chat with an AI agent.
I almost got thrown out of the house after I read demon copperhead and kept narrating things
SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · 5d agoyou should hear how i sound after reading a book with a distinctive voice. it is fucking obnoxious. much sympathy to others with this issue
I still gotta vote for him but it is legitimately a horrible pick and the last thing he should be doing.
Kerr Avon ♨️@kerravon.bsky.social · 5d agoOkay, I was willing to bite my tongue on AES and say that people should still vote for him in the general election, but agreeing with a likely-foreign-funded tankie ratfucker like Katie Halper is legitimately disqualifying. As with Platner, VBNMW no longer applies to this race if he wins.
I really wish that KA would not say "AIPAC bought our election" when the winner was a candidate that AIPAC opposed, but it just wasn't her It's implying that anyone who did vote Biss (or Amiwala) was a stooge
Wanna see a dead body? Damn well said
George Pearkes@peark.es · 5d agoFinal ruling: the source is not describing what you said, leaving aside concerns about the fact that it's not reliable to begin with. I wish people like you didn't make the rest of us on the left look so bad, it's unbearable getting your stink on us.
Trump 2 has shown that the bulk of federal, state, and local "law enforcement" don't perform any useful functions at all. If they did, it would not be so easy to re-task them to brainless gestapo work like rounding up whole neighborhoods and waiting outside public buildings.
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 6d agoI wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
The common thread with these people is basically dark personality triad traits combined with a feeling of righteousness and in group solidarity via performance
Rachel Navarre@rnavarre.bsky.social · 6d agoI have discovered that accounts being weird about Will Stancil is a very good danger indicator. Because why? Just stop following him.
Weird she doesn't post this here?
@thejrocktv.bsky.social · 6d agoShe knows she’s losing so she said let’s just go mask off.
Good video to watch if you don't know what "weinering" means
Daniel Suitor@danielsuitor.com · last wk.Since no one else seems interested in bringing the report from Lou Raguse (KARE) over, there are additional allegations against Mayor Kaohly Her that she "commented on the breasts" of an SPPD deputy chief in a locker room and then "asked her opinion of the Mayor's own breasts."