"Loomer isn’t the disease, she’s the product of a MAGA movement that both attracts and produces attention-hungry fantasists—a movement that routinely whips up threats against minority communities and—not so long ago—attempted an insurrection."
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A suspect was arrested after what the FBI is calling an assassination attempt at Trump's golf course in Florida.
A Jane's Addiction show in Boston was halted after an onstage scuffle between band members.
A Texas law that takes effect Nov. 1 will require some hospitals to ask patients about their immigration status.
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"Trump aides think it’s a net plus. The longer the discussion is about migrants, the less it is about tougher topics for them.
'We talk about abortion, we lose. We talk about immigration, we win,' said one Trump adviser."
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"But what about spreading an incendiary story for which there is no evidence?
'We’ll take the hit to prove the bigger point,' the adviser said."
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"Sending abortion 'back to the states' has proved wildly unpopular, particularly as conservative legislatures passed draconian bans with criminal penalties for health care providers."
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"These laws are an albatross around the neck of every Republican who hopes to carry a swing state, and none more than the presidential candidate who appointed the three Supreme Court justices who made it happen."
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"ProPublica obtained reports that confirm that at least two women have already died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state.
There are almost certainly others."
~ Kavitha Surana
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"I see covering abortion rights in this moment as covering democracy. Newsrooms need to be vigilant to not distort the fact that 65 to 70 percent of Americans support legal access to abortion."
~ Amanda Becker, author of You Must Stand Up
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"To give equal weight to each 'side' in coverage is already a distortion of the electorate that often fails to account for the anti-democratic forces at work in the anti-abortion movement's fringe."
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The same states that ban abortion provide absolutely no help for medical expenses, therapy, etc.
Republicans wage war on women, rape campaigns are part of that war.
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Republicans do not see women as human beings with agency or autonomy.
The GOP view women as livestock. They are breeding vessels. Merely a host for sons & heirs. A vehicle for eugenically-driven "make America white again" Christian Nationalism.
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Just a "vessel" in their creepy worldview.
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They are a source of low cost paid labor & unpaid societal labor.
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They are convenient scapegoats for the problems of America & serve as distractions from the truly culpable.
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While at the same time not recognizing that they are among the stupidest among us....................
Some brilliant minds were eugenicists.
It's a stupid idea that provides overly simplistic 'solutions' for bigotry.
Unfortunately, high intelligence in the service of evil...
RA Fisher
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Pete Buttigieg described in detail why the GOP are clinging to the malign influence narrative about immigrants & pets.
It's to hijack a news cycle after the debate where Trump was a failure & avoid focus on issues. It's a deliberate media strategy.
Issues like women's rights, climate, gun violence, taxes on the rich, Project 2025,
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Trump was uninjured. And never really in danger
Unlike the Haitian students in Springfield
So, let's drop this bullshit "assassination" nonsense, thoughts and prayers, walk it off, get over it, etc. And get back to the part where Trump and JD Vance are currently engaged in a deliberate campaign of stochastic terrorism against immigrants in this country, putting their lives and the lives of their children in danger from lunatics just like Ryan Wesley Routh
Don't let them change the narrative
Fuckin' life will fuckin' steal your fuckin' slack. Fuck.
Apologies for the negativity. But, damn, life has kicked me in the nuts lately, so sorry I haven't filled your days with random AI generated slackfulshit.
@johnhattan @bobcromwell don’t forget that KFC is a Christmas tradition in Japan.
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What's the deal with... KFC and Christmas in Japan?
Why the country known for its gastronomy flocks to Kentucky Fried Chicken for the festive seasonKirsty Bouwers (Time Out)
Needed It and Didn't Have It
This morning, after preparing the morning meal for Ben and Charlie, I decided to take them for their walk before the meal. It was spur of the moment decision, I was already outside, so off we went. I left my camera in the house. We got down to the end of the driveway and I noticed something in a bare tree across the way and seconds later realized it was a pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus). I ran back to the house, I'm not quite as feeble as I let on you see, and got my camera, but the woodpecker was gone. We continued our walk when I spotted the bird flying towards me and got this horrible picture.
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I see the pair here, now and then, but haven’t got a good close look since last year.
Grazie mille per quelle gentili parole. C’è molta fortuna nel catturare un uccello in volo, dipende da quanto sei veloce. È un po’ puntare e scattare e sperare. 😆
Thank you. I'm aware that I'm not a good judge of what other people might like. I don't dislike the composition or the subject. But I was too far away so therefore had to crop the image in a lot creating much noise that needed smoothing out leaving the image without much detail. Having said that, I post a bunch of images without detail simply because I think they look good from an artsy point of view.
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Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster: The constituency for trusted computing is fracturing.
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While I'd love to see remote attestation / trusted computing / DRM be eradicated from personal computing, I fail to see how anticheats/antimalware getting kicked out of kernelspace changes anything here.
In order for those softwares to keep doing what they currently do from userspace, Microsoft will have to implement new kernel APIs for them.
I fail to see why such APIs couldn't include remote attesation, and in fact, I'm really expecting them to include it. (sadly)
Nice biography, sad ending
Drone view of graves submerged by floodwater at a cemetery in Brzeszcze, #Poland. Agencja Wyborcza/Jakub Wlodek
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The neighborhood resource hub is expected to launch in early 2025 and will link those in need to critical services such as housing, healthcare, job services and help with credit card debt
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"We should be reminded on this day and every day between now and the election that political leaders at the highest levels have a fundamental responsibility to discourage a climate of violence."
~ Steven Beschloss
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"Instead, we are forced to deal with a radicalized culture fueled by irresponsible Republican leaders who are abusing their powerful platforms to spread lies, sow division and create a climate where everyday people just trying to live their lives face bomb threats, school evacuations and hate crimes."
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"Violence and instability have become a feature, not a bug, of US political life. ...
Trump encouraged strongarm tactics against protesters at his rallies. He mocked Pelosi over the hammer attack. He called for shoplifters to be shot and disloyal generals to be executed for treason. He warned of a “bloodbath” if he is not elected and claimed that undocumented people in the US are 'poisoning the blood of our country.'"
~ David Smith
In demonizing and dehumanizing migrants, Trump and Vance are not just seeking to win over a few wavering voters across the nation or making a play for control of the Senate. They are trying to scare America into becoming a more fearsome, more racist nation."
~ Robert Reich
"There no justification whatsoever for violence or threats of violence in our democracy. While utterly despicable, yesterday’s second apparent assassination attempt on Trump can be seen as a symptom of the hate-filled politics he and Vance are peddling."
"I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!"
~ Donald Trump yesterday morning
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"Hours after what the F.B.I. called a second attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump, Elon Musk wrote on his social media site — and then deleted — a post suggesting it was odd that nobody had tried to kill President Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris.
Mr. Musk said the post on X had been intended as a joke."
~ Matthew Mpoke Bigg
#violence #guns #Trump #AssassinationAttempt #hate #PoliticsofHate #ElonMusk
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He’s a putz and his posted THREATS and his calls to action for white supremacist, so-called “home grown terrorists” aren’t funny.
"Vance’s politics are the politics of hate. Perhaps he once read The Education of Henry Adams and learned that, 'Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.' Or perhaps he just watched Trump’s success and internalized its lessons. But in any case, for Vance it’s all about hate."
~ William Kristol
#violence #guns #Trump #JDVance #AssassinationAttempt #hate #PoliticsofHate #ElonMusk
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"Reporter: Do you denounce the bomb threats in Springfield?
Trump: I don't know what happened with the bomb threats. I know that it's been taken over by illegal migrants, and that's a terrible thing that happened."
~ Acyn as quoted by David Kurtz
#violence #guns #Trump #JDVance #AssassinationAttempt #hate #PoliticsofHate #ElonMusk
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"Hate is now the primary driving force within today’s Republican Party, so it shouldn’t surprise us that — as they slip in the polls — Trump and Vance would follow the examples of Nixon, Reagan, and GHW Bush’s 'Willie Horton' strategy and fall back on naked appeals to the most destructive forms of racism."
~ Thom Hartmann
#violence #guns #Trump #JDVance #AssassinationAttempt #hate #PoliticsofHate
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"Trump’s lies have repeatedly resulted in domestic terrorism and violence that put American lives at risk.
And it’s not just Donald we’re facing. We’re also up against the corporate media, who continues to report on MAGA lies as if they are the truth. They refuse to pin the blame on Trump for these violence-stoking lies. It’s zero accountability."
~ Scott Dworkin
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"America’s news companies know they’re giving Trump and Vance exactly what they want — because JD Vance said so on national television.
The question is whether they’ll change their approach, and cover this story the way they always should have been covering it:"
~ Jamison Foser
#violence #guns #Trump #JDVance #AssassinationAttempt #hate #PoliticsofHate #media
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"Not as an immigration story, but as a story about Donald Trump and JD Vance being dishonest to their core and flagrantly racist — and intentionally trying to divide Americans against each other and incite violence against immigrants."
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"Note that the second would-be assassin is, like the first, also a white male. He is not an immigrant, a Haitian or a drag queen. He’s a gun enthusiast who voted for Trump in 2016 but soured on him by 2020, and whose social media indicates he is a vaccine conspiracy theorist while supporting a Haley/Ramaswamy GOP ticket. Not exactly a stable individual."
~ Jay Kuo
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"Once again, the perpetrator, however unstable is a statistically predictable outgrowth of the very toxic political environment that Trump himself created. Like his second indictment, this second attempt feels like more of the same, with Trump himself to blame for much of it."
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If the Harris campaign somehow actually could "groom" people into political violence, wouldn't that be an argument FOR better gun control?
You wouldn't want a bunch of unstable easily swayed people running around with semi-automatic weapons would you?
Oh, wait, that's the Dems position.
@noodlemaz You say, "I'm glad it's not what you meant in this case."
You're responding to an excerpt from an article by Jay Kuo who used the word "unstable."
I'm not the one who used it.
William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Trump hardly needs Loomer to encourage him to spread hateful lies about marginalized people. He has spent years doing that himself without her help.
Nonetheless, having someone as hateful as Loomer so close to Trump is disturbing and dangerous. Trump is notoriously easy to influence. He has no knowledge of and very little interest in policy and a bottomless need for flattery."
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