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I used to get so panicky and sweaty whenever I did this but now I got 'em all on speed-dial LOL

Jot down a few notes of what you want to cover, don't be hysterical or rude but do be firm and passionate, tell them you vote, and just remember they're hearing a thousand more insane calls than yours 😉

Eh.

There are a lot of Americans who cheered Maduro's capture, too.

Trump's administration does this stuff in part to win over people who are attracted to him playing at being Bonaparte or Tamerlane. It's charisma farming on a level Mussolini would envy, and we shouldn't fall for it.

Israel closed the crossings into Gaza on Saturday, despite already severe restrictions on assistance entering the enclave after two years of genocide and amid a fragile ceasefire, as Israeli and US forces launched attacks on Iran.

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People who don’t even remember 9/11 — who weren’t actually alive in 2001 — are now major (social) media figures egging on the Trump government to bomb us foreigners.

Really makes you feel old.

You genuinely do not have to let things beyond your control squat in the front room of your mind all day. Check in. See if there's anything you need to do, anyone you need to communicate with.

No?

Move on for now. What CAN you make better right now?

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What kind of advice do you think decision makers are getting when half the guys in the room bet their mortgages on strikes happening 36 hours from now

I’m not optimistic about the state of the world, but I am hopeful

there’s a reason it was hope, not optimism, hidden at the bottom of Pandora’s box

hope doesn’t require one to believe that a good outcome is the most rationally likely outcome, it just requires you to work towards it anyway

What did he do now?

Florida declared an "emergency" so they could use special powers to issue a rule this Tuesday which takes effect tonight at midnight. The "emergency" as far as I can tell was that on Wednesday they were going to lose a lawsuit www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/h...

Anyway here’s one of the videos that I was going to post earlier before the news cycle put me off

It really bothers me when I tell people this they're like "Who is John Thune?"

And like I think Thune should be as well-known as Schumer. He is the Senate Majority leader. That man should never know peace.

Put them in your contacts, local offices and DC office.

As an aside, Melania Trump will be presiding over Monday’s security council meeting, no doubt to offer us her learned legal perspective on Iranian civilian casualties. She couldn’t actually do worse than Mike Waltz, who made no effort to justify Maduro’s abduction under international law last month

impeach him. try to do it once a month, if necessary. build the case over and over to not just the American people but to the world that this isn’t the way things should be here, that this isn’t the way we should use our power abroad.

How US tech giants supplied Israel with AI models, raising questions about tech's role in warfare U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services.

I would like to remind people that AI has already been used to kill people

OpenAI and Microsoft supplied Israel with AI models to track and kill people in Gaza which led to increased civilian deaths

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Probably because *marketing* the war would get pushback from the isolationists and the antisemites.

Better in their eyes to do it before a broad spectrum of dissenters condemn it. Maybe some Trump fans will accept it because it's him, but this is just playing to the old "bomb Iran" crowd.

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

Not to pick on people who say to join a communist party, but socialism isn't a panacea.

The 1970's saw hot wars between Chinese and Russian clients.

hard not to think that undermining the very concept of international negotiations and cooperation might be the point of doing this

these fascists simply do not believe in mutually beneficial arrangements

the beating sticks yearn for fascist blood

Oof

This is a good non-rotating photo. Did you take it?

Yeah, you're not a politician. You don't have to be nice to these people.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright giving a sermon in 2003 where he said “No, no, no, not God bless America. God damn America!”

Also the only really smart critique in a movie of violent video games which is not that they make kids violent but that the military would use gaming to recruit kids and the intentional blurring of gaming and drone warfare would intentionally blur war. bsky.app/profile/maxk...

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