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It also doesn't help that 1) a lot of people don't like or trust American auto manufacturers, and they often have good reason not to do so; 2) even GM seems to hate these cars, from consumer reports; and 3) why would someone buy a car they've already re-discontinued?

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I sometimes wonder what the auto markets would look like if we weren't all but completely required to go through dealerships.

Yep, this is even covered in the article.

These words should mean something. Something should only be "cheap" if some percentage of the population can easily purchase one. If they can't, it isn't cheap. $30000 isn't "cheap" just because every other car around is now $60000. "Cheap" shouldn't be comparative.

Brady! @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Part of the problem is that 30 grand isn't "cheap" to a lot of Americans. Maybe it's cheaper than other cars, but that isn't the same thing.

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this will be funny to like 3 people but I’m one of them and that’s all that matters

The poster for The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, but it’s been edited to include And Knuckles at the end of the title, and Knuckles has been edited into the photo of the cast

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This is not very Independent of you

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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 2h

So close to beating Olivia de Havilland's record.

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Once again I wish the Democrats were the people Republicans describe them as.

ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 2h

They don't want to say that they believe that queer existence itself is pornographic.

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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 2h

And always has been. The court has been all but openly of not actually openly hostile to the working class since the beginning. It is startling to look through history and see how many hideously bad anti-labor rulings they've handed down.

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My point was that someone will find an utterly monstrous argument to make in court. Maybe that wasn't clear.

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Honestly surprised it's that low.

Like, this isn't even your post. What are you even doing right now.

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You're free not to discuss it. You don't get to control others on this.

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 3h

Someone is going to try to argue in court that it doesn't count as cruel or unusual because she wasn't supposed to live so anything she's experiencing as an "unlawfully alive" person is moot, and that person should be skinned alive ("figuratively").

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oh all sorts of 8th amendment questions are about to pop off here • overall prognosis around any impact on neurocognitive unclear & if there has been a significant decline from this, would she be too disabled to put through execution again? • the state failed & death warrant expired; what next?

pbs.org

Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after failed execution attempt in Tennessee, her attorneys say

Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital as Tennessee officials attempted to put her to death.

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As if queer and pro-queer Christians and Christian denominations don't exist. I wonder what percentage of American Christians belong to denominations that welcome the queer community.

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I would love for people in the PNW to learn that passive aggression is never polite. It doesn't matter how tunefully or gently you speaking it—it's still impolite, and I will probably use aggressive aggression to respond to it.

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Conservative Christians: "Yo can't get married because that's a religious institution!" Liberal Christians: "Actually we're cool with extending this to queer couples" Conservative Christians: "SHUT UP YOU DON'T COUNT YOU EVIL HEATHENS"

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It doesn't help that basically no school in the US teaches the truth about this.

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This is why I am fully against all religious exemptions to laws. If a religious person can be allowed to circumvent a law, there is no reason a non-religious person shouldn't be allowed to, either. There is functionally no difference between their actions.

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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 5h

I can't imagine what will happen if they try to revoke the right to marriage. It'll make the AIDS protests look like a birthday party.

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It doesn't in any way encroach on religious liberty. Religious people don't have a "right" to harm others.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 7h

Religious liberty will always be framed as religious people’s right to freely oppress and exclude others

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i find it hilarious that the very people mad at me for shining a light on old guard, dubious backroom dealing have decided to attack me by doing even more obfuscation and committing crimes in the process. just come at me openly and on the merits guys.

portlandmercury.com

“DitchMitch” Billboard Campaign Violates Local and State Elections Laws, Complaint Says - Portland Mercury

A new complaint filed with the city, county, and state elections offices alleges multiple political action committees violated independent expenditure rules when they failed to properly report informa...

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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 6h

Especially as shown by the idiotic Tom Morello nonsense going on, the Democratic Party demands 100% fealty in *all* circumstances *and* they demand that you never, ever complain about any of it.

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josh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 7h

you may have noticed that animation has never been more in-demand & in the zeitgeist and yet, seemingly, never have media conglomerates been less willing to produce it. you may also notice these guys get multimillion dollar severance packages after they gut a studio. there is probably no connection

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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 6h

I'd been looking for it for weeks. Why was this share flagged as spam, when it's from the same person who's sent me files numerous times over the past few years? I don't need Drive to have a spam folder. Let me handle this.

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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 6h

Google Drive can eat shit. A director sent me music in Drive, which they've done for years. I kept looking for it and coming up empty. They sent me a direct link and Google said "You can't view this because it's in the spam folder." 1) why is it there and 2) Drive has a spam folder?

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 7h

The fascist monopolization of US media, intent on ending what's left of democracy on behalf of billionaire mobsters, was finalized by a Democratic-appointed SCOTUS justice.

Deadline&
@DEADLINE
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied a last minute
effort to halt Paramount's merger with Warner Bros.
Discovery, a transaction that is scheduled to close on
Tuesday.
See more details here: deadline.com/2026/10/paramo..
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 8h

kinda breathtaking to watch the U.S. media establishment lose its shit about one maybe-plague death in a Russian backwater town with 3,887 confirmed measles cases reported in the United States, SO FAR, in 2026

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bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 16h

Jimmy Carter tried and they all went insane

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Alternate Histories @alternatehistories.bsky.social · 13h

While I am certain that the Blocks will continue to find ways to stall payment, it is gratifying that literally every judge and court in this country has told these assholes to, and I'm paraphrasing here, eat shit. newsguild.org/post-gazette...

newsguild.org

Post-Gazette union-busters hit dead end at Supreme Court, must pay back millions to journalists | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Democrats aren't abandoning trans people! Maybe just one or two..." Here's every Democrat who's either voted to strip human rights away from trans people and/or has campaigned on anti-trans propaganda in the last year.

Amy Acton
Jamie Ager
Colin Allred
Angela Alsobrooks
Tammy Baldwin
Beau Bayh
Xavier Becerra
Richard Blumenthal
Lisa Blunt Rochester
Sherrod Brown
Chris Coons
Catherine Cortez Masto
Henry Cuellar
Don Davis
Dick Durbin
John Fetterman
Cleo Fields
Shomari Figures
Aaron Ford
Ruben Gallego
Sarah Trone Garriott
Blake Gendebien
Lauren Gillen
Kirsten Gillibrand
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Vicente Gonzalez
Adam Gray
Maggie Hassan
Martin Heinrich
John Hickenlooper
Mazie Hirono
Jeffrey Hulum III
Ben Ray Lujan
Tim Kaine
Marcy Kaptur
Mark Kelly
Angus King
Amy Klobuchar
Susie Lee
John Mannion
Seth Moulton
Gavin Newsom
Jon Ossoff
Mary Peltolta
Gary Peters
Bobby Pulido
Jack Reed
Jacky Rosen
Rob Sand
Kim Schrier
Chuck Schumer
Terri Sewell
Jeanne Shaheen
Elissa Slotkin
Tom Suozzi
James Talarico
Josh Turek
Eugene Vindman
Mark Warner
Raphael Warnock
Sheldon Whitehouse

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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 10h

Wait, her name is Ana Burn-a-bitch?