The measure would solidify parents’ right to send their kids to any public school, charter school, private school or homeschooling program. Opponents say it would pave the way to a state voucher program.
Game: Inspector Gunner 2 With Critic (2018)
Song: Gadget's Labyrinth (Feat. HET and Grand Dad)
#music #videogames #gaming #gamemusic
Fun fact:
"Did you know that Hamish Marshall, former #Conservative leader Andrew Scheer's campaign manager, was director of public affairs at #AngusReid Public Opinion.
Mr. Marshall also a board member for The Rebel, the far-right propaganda outlet helmed by Ezra Levant. Mr. Levant & current Con leader Mr. #Poilievre have been friends for over 20 years.
Marshall was also involved in campaigns for Wildrose Party in #Alberta. Same party Tamara Lich belonged to.
Funny little connection eh?"
9 October 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Judit Erdos, was born in Miskolc.
In 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
"Nobody can control the weather."
~ North Carolina Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards
#hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
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"This tweet format has become conspicuously popular on the redpilled internet. The formula is simple: 1) Post a screenshot of a supposedly genuine text message, 2) express outrage, 3) ask if it’s true without really caring whether it is, and 4) do no further investigation into the matter. It’s a newfangled incarnation of a classic, the chain email. Pass it along or else no one will know the 'truth.'”
~ Scott Nover
#hurricane #Milton #Trump #lies #disinformation
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"The scale and speed of conspiracies about Hurricane Milton being orchestrated and controlled by the deep state is incredible to watch."
~ David Gilbert quoted by Brian Stelter
#hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
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"Politicians and right-wing influencers have spread conspiracy theories online suggesting that Hurricane Milton has been geoengineered by nefarious forces, with the end goal of preventing Republicans from voting in the presidential election."
~ Tess Owen
#hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
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"I do think there is something about religiosity that makes religious populations easier to manipulate. …
Reality-denial has been baked into conservatism for a very long time. It is certainly baked into conservative Christianity. Anecdotally, I’ve seen the most conspiracy-theorizing in other conservative religious societies, and certainly not just Christian ones."
~ Jill Filipovic
#hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
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Looking at the AI "slop" circulated on social media — the little girl with her pup — Jason Koebler says,
"Something very disheartening is happening with this particular image, however. A specific segment of the people who have seen & understand that it is AI-generated simply do not care that it is not real & that it did not happen. To them, the image captures a vibe that is useful to them politically."
#hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation #AI
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"The attacks, which include wild claims that Jewish officials are conspiring to orchestrate the disasters, sabotage the recovery or even seize victims’ property, are being fomented largely on Elon Musk’s X."
~ Will Oremus and Maxine Joselow
#hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation #ElonMusk #Twitter #X #antisemitism
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"Antisemitic tropes have commingled on the site with false rumors and conspiracy theories amid the chaos of the recovery effort, according to a report released Tuesday by the nonprofit Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)."
#hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation #ElonMusk #Twitter #X #antisemitism
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Writing from her perspective having grown up in rural Missouri, Susan Niemann says,
"Perhaps by better understanding them, we can reason with them? Nah. The vitriol has reached a fever pitch now. The cult mentality of Trump supporters is strong. VERY strong.
People have been told who to hate and that it’s ok to do so. No matter what facts are presented to them, they refuse to hear it."
#hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
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"They’ve left normal life behind and are now lost. Gone.
There is no reasoning with these people.
The primitive way people are behaving may well be the undoing of America.
The Republican Party has worked diligently over the years to create this anger and division."
#hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
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In Oliver Willis' view, what Americans are now dealing with is "disinformation terrorism" on the part of the Republican party, and the Democratic response so far has been weak tea.
#hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
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Historically the Democrats have been super bad at playing offense. Their defense is hard to even judge since you can't win a game on defense alone.
It's part of why we all freak out over Republican advances even if they're small, we see the ball get past our defense and we know the Democrats aren't up to evening the score.
"A wave of antisemitic rhetoric and online threats has been leveled at state and federal officials in North Carolina in recent days as they respond to the destructive aftermath of Hurricane Helene, according to a report released on Tuesday by a nonprofit research group that studies online platforms."
~ Eduardo Medina
#hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation #ElonMusk #Twitter #X #antisemitism
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Jonathan V. Last says one reason normalization of the unthinkable happens is that we're not wired to live with constant abnormality:
"If you create a constant stream of abnormalities, then eventually people accept them as normal.
Which is why authoritarians, like Trump, provoke. They seek to accelerate the neurological process, thus normalizing the authoritarian project and creating pathways to power."
#Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation #authoritarianism
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"For decades, it has been a GOP mantra to deny and denigrate reality—whether it’s calling climate change a hoax, claiming Obamacare has death panels, arguing that tax cuts for the wealthy trickle down, insisting that immigrants hurt the economy, or denying gun violence as a public health crisis.
In recent years, these lies have clearly escalated."
~ Elliot Kirschner
#hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
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"[Meterologist Matthew] Cappucci says that he’s noticed an enormous change on social media in the last three months: 'Seemingly overnight, ideas that once would have been ridiculed as very fringe, outlandish viewpoints are suddenly becoming mainstream and it’s making my job much more difficult.'"
~ Lorena O'Neil
#hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
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"'I’ve been doing this for 46 years and it’s never been like this,' says Alabama meteorologist James Spann. He says he’s been 'inundated' with misinformation and threatening messages like 'Stop lying about the government controlling the weather or else.'”
#hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
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I tend to take a few risks that people will know that I'm either open, snarky, tongue-in-cheek, playful, or just damned pissed off.
But it's always OK to ask/ check, and if you need me to make fewer presumptions, I can do that, too! 🤭
I'm honored to be connected to you. You need to change nothing as far as I'm concerned! And as Yom Kippur arrives, I want also to wish you Yom Tov.
P.S. If you haven't seen Benjamin Wittes on Yom Kippur and atonement, you may find his essay worth a read. I like him a lot, both his courage in constantly needling the Russians about Ukraine, and also his wry sense of humor.
And thank you for a kind but undeserved "honor". I feel I'm the one who should be honored to be noticed - there are some very brilliantly noteworthy folks here, and you're a bright light. Yom Tov! (I'm more likely to try to repent accidentally stepping on the dog's toes, or absently brushing away a dragonfly). 🫢
"No matter what facts are presented to them, they refuse to hear it."
Gammons just don't do facts.
They don't consider things like "facts", "truth", "logic" as relevant to their lives. They don't use such things as inputs to their decision making processes.
non-paywalled link to article
"Hurricane Helene and the ‘Fuck It’ Era of AI-Generated Slop"
by Jason Koebler
Oct 8, 2024 at 9:56 AM
@the5thColumnist Yet as Karen Armstrong, an astute scholar of world religions, says, the word "belief" is etymologically rooted in the word "love" — and properly understood, religious belief is not about doing something with one's head, but setting one's foot in a path towards love.
The fundamental frame to understand belief in the Abrahamic religions is Abraham's willingness to walk into the desert — to journey. Not to do something with his head.
I grow tired of people describing claims as "conspiracies".
These claims could generously be described as "conspiracy theories", which are "theories" about the existence of "conspiracies".
But these claims are often so outlandish that there's no science to back them up, so they're not even so much "theories" as they are just "claims".
So let's call out the whack-a-doodle claims as what they are. If the term must be shortened, then let's call them whack-a-doodles.
@Tooden I'd be hard-pressed to vote for her. Only yesterday, I quoted to someone words that ring in my ears from hearing my mother and her sisters say them over and over: "Pretty is as pretty does."
I really don't mean to criticize someone's appearance. But I do think how we behave ends up shining out in our faces, and how Ms. Taylor Greene behaves is not pretty to me.
Trump’s abortion stance is killing women and dreams. Your daughters, your sisters. “It Couldn’t Happen Here”, examines reproductive rights and how recent legislation has destroyed hopes and dreams of women.
youtube.com/watch?v=Djwp6dIErY…
#HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlueToSaveWomen #KamalaBringsUsJoy #Abortion #WomensRights #NeverAgainTrump #VoteBlue #TrumpWillLose2024 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
MOSCOW & TRAITOR TRUMP
On June 18, 2013, Donald Trump had some exciting news: He would soon be whisking dozens of the world’s most beautiful women to Russia.
“The Miss Universe Pageant will be broadcast live from MOSCOW, RUSSIA on November 9th,” Trump tweeted that day
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking
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"Former developers from Bethesda, BioWare, and Naughty Dog bring you a sandbox RPG realm of anthropomorphic animals and fairy creatures."
That has some promise. Interesting to see where it goes.
Israeli forces have committed 3 massacres against Palestinian families in Gaza.
Hospitals have so far reported it has received at least 45 dead and 130 injured in the last 24 hours. And in central Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp, seven people including a child, are killed after a house is targetted.
The death toll from Israel's war on Gaza has now surpassed 42,000. UNRWA's chief says at least 400,000 people are trapped in northern Gaza..
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Are there any RSS readers out there that can synchronize read/unread state _without_ using a central server? Like, maybe with some common structure in a folder that you can replicate everywhere with a sync tool of your choice? Top of head says something like
subscriptions.opml
UrlHash1/read/ItemHash1/item.html
UrlHash1/read/ItemHash1/cleaned.html
UrlHash1/read/ItemHash1/img1.png
UrlHash1/unread/*/*.*
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Tropical Depression #Barijat has developed in the western Pacific Ocean.
Track in real-time here: zoom.earth/storms/barijat-2024…
Code Lines, Union Pacific Railroad, Harvard, CA, 2010.
Too many pixels at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/46…
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Captured with a DSLR and 24mm shifting lens (vertically shifted just a bit) on a hot day in the Mojave desert.
This is a simple composition, characteristic of the early 20th century Precisionist school. There's little in the frame that isn't essential. The pylons, wires, and tracks all converge at a vanishing point at the edge of the frame, suggesting, but not showing, a more expansive network of wires, tracks, and, for better or worse, human dominance over nature.
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Telegraph poles with multiple "code lines" were once a common feature along American railroads. They are distinguishable from ordinary power or telephone lines by their multitude of cables, often occupying several crossarms. The wires typically include a power bus plus separate leads for the signals along the route, with various more efficient encodings used as technology improved.
They've been mostly supplanted by more modern SCADA systems that don't require so many individual wires.
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ej bo znowu napisałem coś na bloga, o alkoholu na stacjach benzynowych, zapraszam 👉 👈
Trump has long blasted China's trade practices. His 'God Bless the USA' Bibles were printed there (Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/trump-god-b…
memeorandum.com/241009/p18#a24…
Governor Ron DeSantis Issues Updates on State Preparedness Efforts for Hurricane Milton (Florida Governor Ron DeSantis)
flgov.com/2024/10/08/governor-…
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