Paul Barrett

Didn't need to read the quote post. You had me at Jeffries needs to fucking go. Now let's organize and make it happen.

Jerry Siegel's 2024 photograph of South Carolina basket-weaver, Mary Jackson. Jackson sits with a large basket in progress in her lap, with other large baskets on square black pedestals behind her. She is a Black woman with glasses and long white hair wearing a long-sleeved apricot-colored blouse.

"A lifelong southerner himself, photographer Jerry Siegel is known for his ability to empathetically connect with subjects from all walks of life."

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US supreme court rejects call to overturn decision legalizing same-sex marriage Justices turn away appeal from former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples

Good.

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YouTube video by The Humanist Report WATCH: Mamdani Win Triggers the Most Hilariously Hysterical Meltdowns of the Year

I endorse this message. Cope and seethe, republicans.

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Superlative self-indulgent shitstorm? Sleazy self-defeating spiraling? So many questions about what you mean, and all of them valid.

Whenever these "master strategists" are mentioned in the news, I'm always disappointed it's not an obituary.

Probably the same reason the National Enquirer used to have such high sales numbers. People don't care about truth if they're entertained. Facts stopped mattering years ago. We're in a post-truth world, and it's got to be the stupidest timeline in the quantum universe.

Mamdani’s Speech About Being Muslim Resonates Beyond New York City

“...he’s saying this to Muslims very publicly, that I see you, this is the experience that you’ve had, too. And so it is sending that message not just to Muslims, but to non-Muslims, which hopefully makes more visible what’s been so invisible for so long.”

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The Golden Toilet Returns as a Sotheby’s Headliner, for $10 Million

Shame the Lincoln Bathroom renovation is already complete. Maybe the Epstein Ballroom could use it?

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An Alabama College Sells its Famed Hale Woodruff Murals In an innovative partnership, three institutions are buying Hale Woodruff's best known works from Alabama's struggling Talladega college.

Alice Walton continues her tradition of preying on distressed institutions to strip them of their cultural heritage. I want to vomit.

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So it wasn't the refusal to print the Editorial Board's endorsement of Kamala Harris, or the purge of people of color, or the blatant endorsement of Nazis, but the demolition of a historic building that made you see they weren't worth supporting with your cash? WTH?

So clever to snark without engaging the question!

Assuming Graham Platner is a stealth Nazi poised to destroy everything American progressives hold dear, how is he worse than Susan Collins?

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech

After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

It'll be the Epstein Ballroom until we tear it down and rebuild the East Wing and the Rose Garden.

YouTube video by Techlore Big Tech Just Sued Texas Over Age Verification Law (We Called It)

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Fallen Confederate Statues Take Center Stage in the Year’s Boldest Show

"The year’s most audacious and contentious new show brings out — after years of wrangling, and with heightened security — nearly a dozen Confederate memorials removed from view in the last decade."

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Hyperbole aside, any large number of his works in one site is a great opportunity to experience trends that have been celebrated over the last 50 years or contemporary art.

YouTube video by VideoBytes He Doesn't Like You...I Don't Like You - Star Wars Episode IV

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Meet Mr. Brady and Mr. Giglio These two Supreme Court cases form the foundation of a dual guarantee in criminal law: defendants’ right to exculpatory evidence and to information bearing on witness credibility.

Some of the basics of criminal law that will come to play in the Comey & other Trump revenge prosecutions: Meet Mr. Brady & Mr. Giglio. cafe.com/notes-from-c...

YouTube video by Bellular News Discord Just Proved What EVERYONE Feared

I don't endorse the sponsor, but the data breach is important to know about.

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YouTube video by Techlore Texas Age Verification Starts Jan 1: ID Required for ALL Apps

Parental controls are already built-in and effective.

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Artist Gao Zhen, detained in China since August 2024, is in deteriorating health, supporters warn The 69-year-old artist, known for satiric works made in collaboration with his brother, has been charged with “slandering China’s heroes and martyrs”

"To remain completely silent is to willingly surrender the right of free expression that artists ought to have, and the right to freedom of speech we are all entitled to."

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YouTube video by Techlore The End of Android Freedom: Google's 2026 Plan

Ugh. More things to watch out for.

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Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

The more you know.

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"As part of the legendary Broadway songwriting team with composer Rodgers, Hart was responsible for matchless numbers like The Lady Is a Tramp, Manhattan, My Funny Valentine and of course Blue Moon."

YouTube video by Let's Talk Elections The Supreme Court Is Gearing Up to RIG the 2026 Midterms

What to do?

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"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

Is Greene really any worse than Liz Cheney? If the money looks right they'll say and do anything, and because liberals are so starved for validation they'll pay through the nose for it. See also: Joe Scarborough, Nicolle Wallace, Michael Steele, et. al.

I'm not qualified to run CBS News either, but then neither is Bari Weiss.