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Charlie Kirk When a moral enemy is murdered, processing the events and emotions one is feeling is… complicated.

This Charlie Kirk assassination is… complicated…

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“And I will stay here in comfortable silence
I won't talk 'bout myself in violence”

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@mcuban.bsky.social I’m certainly not opposed to a third party- but does it have to be by teaming up with the guy who tried to destroy the federal government with the resulting death toll here in Texas at at least 80 dead? Plenty of other great third party people.

On Protests, Violence, and Changing What We've Become Look at what's happening in our country, this isn't who we are. It's time for a serious conversation before it gets worse.

Its time to have a serious conversation about who we are.

There’s a crown covered in glitter and gold, and I’m gonna wear it whether you like it or not.

“I forgive you” by Kelly Clarkson is the song we need to heed once the dust has settled. Whatever we do to fix all this shit, we need to make sure it doesn’t turn into a cycle of hate and oppression.

We know where it will end. We know they want it to end there. It’s time we all stop pretending they’re any different than the Nazi Regime of 1930’s Germany.

To be clear. This demonstrates that it was never about illegal immigration, drugs, or whatever other excuse can be conjured up. This was a legally immigrated green card soccer dad with no criminal history who happened to be Latino.

To be clear… there are 13 million + lgbtq people in the United States. When they go after other undesirables, they’re going to use the same logic. “There’s too many lgbtq people, we think they’re bad, and so, they don’t deserve due process.”

This. Is. Evil.

We live in this great big, beautiful world. Niagara Falls, Cape Town, the Himalayas, the Amazon - it’s a beautiful world. Yet we petty tribes of humans seek to destroy it while discovering new ways to be cruel to each other instead of enjoying this veritable paradise amongst the stars.

Dear President Trump,

Instead of destroying our federal workforce, the budget, our allies relationships, and the overarching world order, could you please focus on destroying a single thing?

Daylight Savings Time

Leave the rest alone please.

@maddow.msnbc.com does anyone know if FEMA is able to get to the wildfires in SC? Reports on Reddit are saying they can’t because of Doge’s credit card restrictions.

Going Private in the Cloud In a world where our tech overlords have betrayed us... how do we improve our privacy while maintaining the kind of lifestyle we're used to with cloud tech?

How about a little privacy content for your Monday morning reading?

Kash Patel Wants to Work From Home for FBI. But Who Does He Live With? The new FBI director says he plans to WFH and run things remotely from Las Vegas. But why won’t he answer about who else lives in his house?

If gov employees who work from home are government waste and getting fired for it… then this guy has to go too.

Destroying the Melting Pot I grew up a conservative - and later built my variant of liberalism on the core values I was taught. What we are seeing isn't that, and it should horrify every conservative that taught me as a child.

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FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.

“It’s a bad day for infectious diseases,” said Dr. Ofer Levy, director of the precision vaccines program at Boston Children’s Hospital, who has advised the FDA on vaccines.”

This is incorrect… it’s the best day for infection diseases in a long time. But for the rest of us… not so much.

You can always choose an alternative option in an organized society. As long as you accept the consequences of your actions.

Society starts breaking down when people or classes start becoming exempt from the consequences.

The answer to that is not giving everyone freedom from consequences.

And yet, whether people believe it or not, it’s a terrible idea to defund the government. Freedom isn’t found in anarchy.

@mcuban.bsky.social thanks for being a voice of reason in a pretty dark time

It’s a “get lost in music while I make powerpoints" kind of day

In case you missed it… this is the actual White House twitter account, reposting something Trump wrote about himself on truth social. “LONG LIVE THE KING”

This is quite literally what we revolted against, so that we would never again have anyone who fancied themselves a King ruling over our nation.

Oh man. I’ve got a giant headache today - and not just because I read the news this morning.

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

I get what they’re going for, but honestly this #apple invites icon just looks like a polka dot pair of briefs. Especially when it’s a tiny icon on my phone screen. 😂

@adamkinzinger.bsky.social
Do you know if Republicans are going to hold Elon Musk accountable for his brazenly illegal and unconstitutional actions? This is getting to be major Bond Villain territory, and I’m worried.

Federal Workers Ordered to Remove Gender Identity From Email Signatures The instructions to employees aimed to fulfill orders from the Trump administration, which told agency heads to remove all references to gender identity from official materials by 5 p.m. Friday.

This purge is sick, it’s twisted, and it’s absolutely diabolically evil. One day we are going to look back at this era and ask why we didn’t stop the inevitable march towards committing atrocities when we had the chance as a nation.

It wasn’t about the cost. It was the projection of power and casting them as prisoners.

This is a thing of beauty. I love the active cooler design, and POE + m.2, this may be my favorite #raspberrypi build yet. If this does well, I plan on building a couple of duplicates and start experimenting with kubernetes for my #homelab

Legit!