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Lasseter Castracane

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Mary Steenburgen is underappreciated and a goddamn national treasure.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/01/2025
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions:

1. Insults about:

Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality.

Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits.

2. Highlighted section:

The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Today is January 6th and no one is watching the Capitol be plundered, feces being smeared on the walls, and police officers being stabbed with American flags. Why? Because one side believes in democracy no matter what, and the other side only believes in it only when they win.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I don't where this all ends up, but I don't think a democracy in which only one of the two major parties is committed to peaceful transition of power is particularly sustainable!
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The husband of Republican senator Deb Fischer just refused to shake hands or make eye contact with Vice President Harris. The level of class you can expect from MAGA.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 05/01/2025
Jan 6th was a violent attack on our country, not a “day of love.” The truth is well documented, witnessed by dozens of GOP officials, it’s up to us to defend it against the relentless lies. My latest: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/defending-...
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Defending The Truth About Jan 6th
We must be relentless and never ceasing to fight the lies
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/01/2025
While we’re banning books… Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar. Be. Like. Finland.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Two disturbed guys rent trucks and commit public acts of violence to deliver explicit ideological messages: one gets the scare story about who radicalized him, the other gets a sympathetic, nonpolitical account of his trauma
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 04/01/2025
“He believed democracy was under siege from groups the FBI has said pose a major domestic terrorism threat. So he infiltrated the militia movement … He distrusted law enforcement and didn’t want to be an informant, he said. He told me he hoped to damage the movement by someday going public…”
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Everything stated in this post is a provable fact. You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts. Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes announces she's quit the paper because her editors wouldn't print a cartoon going after Big Tech and media oligarchs paying tribute to to Trump A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Judge Merchan: "Binding precedent does not provide that an individual, upon becoming President, can retroactively dismiss or vacate prior criminal acts nor does it grant blanket Presidential-elect immunity. This Court is therefore forbidden from recognizing either form of immunity."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/01/2025
If you need any more proof of the coordinated lies on the right, look no further—even AFTER they knew the New Orleans terrorist was an American-born citizen, they kept pushing the lie that it all happened because of our “wide-open border.” FACT: Unlawful border crossings are at a 4-year low.
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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 03/01/2025
In his opening speech, Speaker Mike Johnson just recited a long prayer attributed to Thomas Jefferson. As @jackjenkins.me and others have pointed out, Jefferson never said any of this: www.monticello.org/research-edu...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
My god… Trump won 91 percent of “news desert” counties by an average of 54 percentage points. localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2024/1...
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In news deserts, Trump won in a landslide
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Bravo to Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett for speaking out about how the delegates representing the US Virgin Islands, DC, Guam, and Puerto Rico are unable to vote for Speaker of the House.
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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Leader Hakeem Jeffries makes it fu*king clear: Dems will not allow billionaires & republicans take away earned benefits (Social Security & Medicare) from hard-working Americans
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The sad reality is, the overwhelming majority of Americans don't know there's a voter for the Speaker going on, don't care & won't be able to name him after the vote. This is what happens in a country where civics education is no longer universal. Its absence lets darkness settle in over democracy.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Guys, C-SPAN is momentarily in a state of lawless anarchy.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Amazon has denied a leave of absence to an Alabama woman who was struck by the New Orleans attacker’s truck and shot in the foot during the attack. She worried she won’t have a job to return to when she recovers. www.nola.com/news/crime_p...
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Alabama mom hit by truck, then shot in Bourbon Street attack: 'It's just so disturbing'
A night of revelry was coming to a close for Alexis Scott-Windham and her friends in the early hours of New Year's Eve after they came from Mobile, Alabama to
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Jessica: You are telling me that in the last year where we have gotten out over 700,000 people which is the most that we have deported since the year 2010, record seizures of drugs that are supposed to be coming across the border, that this is a wide open border?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Works for me!!
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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 03/01/2025
Meta is testing, or has started to ship, its AI generated profiles, here on Instagram www.instagram.com/himamaliv #SocialWeb
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
everything about this new Meta AI bot is so dystopian but for me the AI-generated images of nonexistent donated coats is up there
AI-generated image of boxes of coats for donation with a caption that reads “kicking off the new year in service of our community”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Exactly right. The Supreme Court shrugs off physical assaults against Congress, while insisting that the slightest verbal criticism of the Court itself is just beyond the pale.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/01/2025
This is a BFD
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 02/01/2025
Elon Musk is wrong. The main function of the H-1B visa program is not to hire “the best and the brightest,” but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad. The cheaper the labor they hire, the more money the billionaires make.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 02/01/2025
this trumplican ruling killing net neutrality doesn't just kill net neutrality, it delivers the final killing blow to any sort of coherent federal consumer broadband protection (corporate press outlets will skip over that last bit)
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US appeals court blocks Biden administration net neutrality rules
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday ruled the Federal Communications Commission did not have the legal authority to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 02/01/2025
Kyrsten Sinema's campaign spending looks fishy to us: $3,600 in the UK. $5,400 in France, including $2,800 at a castle in Burgundy. $3,120 to vendors in Italy. How does she explain that, when she's leaving office and not running again?
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In Waning Senate Days, Kyrsten Sinema Screwed Workers and Spent Campaign Cash on Stay at French Castle
The Arizona senator’s campaign spending in global wine hot spots can’t possibly be related to the campaign she’s not running, says an ethics complaint.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Agree or disagree?
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 02/01/2025
"The only clue that users seemingly had of Siri's alleged spying was eerily accurate targeted ads that appeared after they had just been talking about specific items like Air Jordans or brands like Olive Garden"
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Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M
Apple users may get $20 each for up to five Siri-enabled devices.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/01/2025
Two separate terror attacks in the last 24 hours by, apparently, two former US Army soldiers. And the far right is talking about immigration.
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm. And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...
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High-speed Paris-Berlin daily train service debuts
The route is the first directly linking the two capitals' city centres.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/01/2025
HERE IT IS: Why Elon Musk is pushing so hard to increase H-1B visas. Back in April 2024, Tesla had massive layoffs—but at the same time, they requested over 2,000 H-1B visas. For context, the U.S. caps H-1Bs at 65,000 a year, and Tesla tried to grab more than 3% of them. There’s more… (1 of 2)
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/01/2025
Today, President Biden announced that he will be awarding the Presidential Citizens Medal to 20 individuals, including former Congresswoman Liz Cheney and Congressman Bennie Thompson. The medal is one of the highest awards that a President can grant to a civilian.
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President Biden Awards Presidential Medals To Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson
The two led the charge on the January 6th Committee.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/01/2025
Shamsu-Din Jabbar was born in the United States. REPEAT: Jabbar was a U.S. citizen. He was born here and did not cross the border. Any post claiming otherwise is straight-up disinformation.
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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
i made this point four years ago: when the GOP agenda is focused only on executive power, shaping the judiciary, and cutting taxes, the filibuster only hurts Democrats
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The filibuster doesn't hurt Republicans anymore — only Democrats
The numbers don't lie.
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Not looking to politicize what happened in New Orleans in any capacity, however the lead in the investigation is none other than the outstanding men and women of the FBI. The same organization that Kash Patel is nominated to lead and wants to abolish. Think about that for a moment.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
FBI officially identifies Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas, as the driver in the New Orleans ramming attack. An ISIS flag was in the vehicle, where weapons and a potential IED were found, the Bureau says.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/01/2025
🚨 Reports indicate that the attacker responsible for driving into a crowd in New Orleans’ French Quarter, resulting in 10 deaths and 30 injuries, is 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, an American citizen and U.S. Army veteran born and raised in Texas.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
1/Earlier this month, and largely unnoticed by the national media, a man from southern Virginia was arrested with what has been called the largest cache of explosives ever, perhaps 150 devices. And it's a very curious case. www.smithfieldtimes.com/2024/12/30/f...
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Foursquare Road suspect in largest-ever FBI seizure of homemade explosives granted $25,000 bond - Smithfield Times
A federal judge set a $25,000 bond for an Isle of Wight County man facing a federal weapons charge in connection with a Dec. 18 FBI raid at his Foursquare Road home that the case prosecutor called the...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
John Roberts is very upset that the public has lost confidence in John Roberts and the institution John Roberts leads following a series of confidence-cratering actions by John Roberts and his colleagues, and therefore would like everyone to know that this is not John Roberts' fault, it's yours.
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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Alabama sends $ 1.75 per day to counties to feed prisoners. Steve Bright tells us how the Morgan County Sheriff actually *made* money: by serving incarcerated people nothing but corn dogs. #DemandTheImpossible
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Ah yes, I see it's the time of year when the Philanthropy Industrial Complex (Big P for short) seeds negative stories about Mackenzie Scott because everything about the way she gives money undercuts their entire model... fortune.com/article/mack...
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MacKenzie Scott's game-changing philanthropy still mystifies nonprofits: 'Her gifts are super generous, but unfortunately, they don’t provide long term sustainability'
"What they are saying with trust-based philanthropy is to offer support beyond a check," Indiana University's Pamela Wiepking says, "and that’s typically not what she is doing.”
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
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Connie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
New York Times Editor’s note: “Jimmy Carter died on Dec. 29, 2024. Roughly a year before he entered hospice care, he wrote his final New York Times Opinion essay. In it, he looked back on the Capitol riot and explained why he was so worried about American democracy.” www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/o...
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Opinion | Jimmy Carter: I Fear for Our Democracy (Gift Article)
Even established democracies can fall to military juntas and despots. We can’t let that happen here.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
This is a national security issue. It's not that the two men sound exactly alike and have the same opinions and mannerisms—or even that the fake identity often slips and admits to being Elon—it's that Elon's a DoD contractor who abuses drugs, has a fake identity and secretly communicates with Putin.
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Who is Adrian Dittmann? Why some X users are convinced it's Elon Musk
The long-simmering mystery of Adrian Dittmann's identity has come to a boil during the H-1B visa debate.
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Grassroots North Shore @grns1.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/u.... The right continues to create false narratives to further divide us.
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The Number of Murders Kept Falling This Year, But Fear of Crime Persists (Gift Article)
Crime was a talking point on the presidential campaign trail. But after a spike during the pandemic, murders have been dropping steadily, including in big cities like Chicago and San Francisco.
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NPR @npr.org · 30/12/2024
Carter leaves behind a legacy of tackling diseases affecting the poor in remote areas — notably Guinea worm disease. "He really put Guinea worm and other neglected tropical diseases on the map," says Adam Weiss of the Carter Center.
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Jimmy Carter took on the awful Guinea worm when no one else would — and he triumphed
Carter leaves behind a legacy of tackling diseases affecting the poor in remote areas — notably Guinea worm disease. "He really put Guinea worm and other neglected tropical diseases on the map," says ...
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