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it's also of course congruent with his own recorded boasts about how he sexually assaults women by leveraging his wealth, fame, and power.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 6h

it is very similar to both his rape of E. Jean Carroll and the account of his affair with Stormy Daniels, which she did not describe as sexual assault, but which which had the same elements of him escalating while making promises/threats, etc.

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TIL Christopher Lloyd came from Money: "My parents’ wealth was inherited. My mother’s father was Lewis Henry Lapham, who helped found the Texaco Oil Co. in 1902." www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

wsj.com

Before ‘Back to the Future,’ Christopher Lloyd Lived a Gilded Age-Style Childhood

The Emmy-winning actor recalls growing up on a Connecticut estate, his boarding-school bullies and how theater gave him a sense of community

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h

In other news, Reflect Orbital is still completely dangerous and useless, and everyone knows it: skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/…

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I cannot express how satisfying it would be for Callais to result in Black D senators in MS and/or LA.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6h

I'd still say Rs are favored, but if Ds were going to win, it would look something like what we're seeing now.

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Great interview by @perrybaconjr.bsky.social of @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social, on the subject -- dear to my heart -- of how people come to their political positions. (Hint: it's not through rational thought & argumentation, but through emotion, affiliation, & identity.)

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Transcript: What Actually Changes People’s Minds About Politics

Author Sarah Stein Lubrano says that communities and relationships shape our political views far more than op-eds and debates.

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 6h

there's something pretty incredible happening in LA. not an expert and don't know if this is anywhere near enough to win any statewide races. but holy shit.

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Out for a walk looking at all the regular houses. Certainly no deranged wizards would be secretly living in this neighborhood

A house with a strange painted face on the facade with windows forming the eyes and mouth. There’s lots of odd art about

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it's possible that the GOP will avoid complete wipeout, but if they do it will be for reasons completely unrelated to anything they do in the next week. results are pretty much baked in at this point.

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I think "the gop is running out of time" is pretty funny. it's a week before the election. millions of people have voted. you do not in fact have time to explain why we've been at war with Iran for months (nor to explain that we've lost that war.)

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Big Lebowski: Out Of Your Element, Donny!

the FEC keeps track of campaign contributions. it doesn't count votes.

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Alt: Big Lebowski: Out Of Your Element, Donny!

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 7h

All those two syllable names are really hard to pronounce.

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JD Vance, a rich guy Ivy League elite who cosplays as a Dumb Guy, campaigning for an actual Dumb Guy

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 7h

This is pretty wild, too. Again, this guy is *running for congress straightfromthehut.substack.com/p/a-rebrand-...

When you’re learning about how Congress works, what’s your understanding of things like the difference between mandatory spending and discretionary spending?

Mandatory means mandatory, and discretionary means discretionary.

Well, right, but what do those terms actually mean? Do you know which kinds of spending fall under each, just to name a couple?

You tell me.

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Republicans really turning up the racism dial in the last days of the mid-terms.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7h

Constantino is the guy who didn't know the largest city in the congressional district he is running to represent and said "I don't know, ask Grok." straightfromthehut.substack.com/p/a-rebrand-...

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As the midterms approach, I would just remind everyone that US politics has become increasingly parliamentary and that what matters most is the *number* of Ds or Rs, not the idiosyncrasies or ideological quirks of individual candidates. If you want D outcomes, vote D up & down the ticket.

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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 7h

House Judiciary Democrats call for: - An independent special counsel to investigate Epstein accomplices and a possible DOJ cover-up. - Complete disclosure to Congress of the records required by law. - Cooperation with state and foreign prosecutors, including access to evidence. #OpDeathEaters

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 7h

as i get older, i've come to place greater importance on not minimizing crimes and harm to society. but part of that is that in order to properly grapple with harm, you cannot feed perpetrators into a gratuitous torture engine. it eclipses the gravity of the crime and obscures the debt to others

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 7h

tangentially, i think the nathan fielder doc is interesting in part because of quickly your sense of justice and reality warps around how obviously inhumane the criminal justice system is

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bundle it with lowering tariffs, message it as lowering taxes on the middle class and raising them on billionaires. seems pretty straightforward!

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Aram Sinnreich @aram.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 7h

Ds should pass a massive tax hike on billionaires and then dare Trump to veto it. get elon musk and zuckerberg and bezos and altman running to every outlet whining about how Ds want to raise their taxes.

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Me and @dunia getting our enfranchisement on

Two very good looking and civic minded people dropping a ballot in a box

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h

good lord. NJ results in 2025 were apocalyptic for gop. and now they're looking even bluer. a lot bluer.

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This goes to the heart of the MAGAt fever dreams behind this case: Grassley, Johnson, and John Solomon are all furious that they weren't allowed to use Andrii Telizhenko bc of this briefing. They're trying to rehab him. But if they say it pertained to the laptop, then the laptop is RU disinfo.

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 8h

So we're going to be openly harboring a fugitive?

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 8h

The degree to which Flavor Flav has become one of our best civic leaders is a testament to him and an indictment of so many currently employed in those roles.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h

A nice profile of the technocratic Dem who found himself running against rabid racist Bo French.

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Gina Häußge @foosel.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h

I would be very grateful if people out there could stop saying that "every FOSS project is turning towards AI" just because some prominent examples are. My projects are not. And for OctoPrint I'm actually doubling down on the "made by humans" point in the upcoming website relaunch and am also […]

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Original post on chaos.social

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8h

Highly recommend this essay from climate economist Noah Kaufman -- a needed corrective to the misguided arrogance that most economists bring to the subject of climate policy.

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What economists just don’t get about climate change

The case against cheap climate policy

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 8h

Justin Pearson's response: "Men of faith––let alone men who are married, in their fifties, and in public office––have no business sending unsolicited nude photos to women."

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Charles Ghoul-ba 🎃 ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 8h

Mar-A-Lago beckons

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Every time I feel pangs of concern about voting for Abdul, Rogers will do something unbelievably stupid & awful to remind me of why I did so.

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Let’s not forget that little Marco Rubio endorsed and implemented it

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 8h

Greenblatt has systematically destroyed the credibility of the ADL

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oh my god the notes penn jillette added to this piece are very funny and a lot of them seem to be basically criticizing the original edit lol

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Opinion | Penn Jillette: Bob Saget Was as Beautiful as His Comedy Was Filthy

The magician and comedian reflects on what he wrote in The Times about Bob Saget’s death.

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