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Hey, have you ever wondered how it got to the point where GOP electeds all unite around the same policy preferences regardless of how any given issue actually polls in the state or district they supposedly represent?

Here's a hint: it rhymes with "schmurity schmests".

that andrew wakefield isn’t sitting in a british prison and is still, to this day, inflicting harm on children represents a complete failure of our medical, science, and political classes.

btw we must make sure that hilary cass doesn’t escape justice. she has perpetrated a similar medical fraud.

Every smartphone in the world contains a CPU descended from one designed by a trans woman in the 1980s. The Matrix is one of the most influential movie franchises of all time. Electronic music was pioneered and popularized by a trans woman. I could go on

So sick of these Nazi-ass losers terrorizing our city.

There's too much to focus on here in Chicago to be on my "Amazon is even worse than you think" soapbox this week, but here's a sample of the ways that they are profiting off of genocide and occupation, both here and abroad. Kill the cop on your doorstep (your Ring camera).

Still a less embarrassing Eric Adams connection than that Nate Silver tweet!

I know there's a lot to keep up with but someone has ALREADY been killed by ICE in Chicago, its not a theoretical question, and folks are dying in ICE detention and being disappeared constantly, when you say "someone's gonna get killed" youre actually washing the blood from their hands 😘✌️

I was gonna ask if anyone has used it to deepfake Altman himself, but like, what would you even have it say that would be more embarrassing than usual?

"I'm not evil! I'm just profoundly incapable of meaningful thought."

The Case for the Forever Shutdown Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.

🔥 As you may have seen, in recent days, I've been going to the Broadview ICE facility near where I live. For @vanityfair.com I wrote about those protests & the hell that the Chicago area is being put through thanks to ICE/DHS. I hope you'll read this & share it. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Looks like was half right; while they are fellow travelers of the far-right on many issues, they are just as legally inept attacking other satanists as they are challenging conservative religions. queersatanic.com?s=Temple

With the caveat that I don't think she is uniquely or deliberately villainous, I always think of Oprah as basically the biggest example of how moderate liberals just are not equipped to recognize right-wing thought processes until they've been formally announced with a little (R) next to the name.

As I understand it, allegedly the Satanic Temple are grifters who love donations and publicity, but don't actually oppose conservative policies and therefore half-ass whatever legal proceedings they do get around to initiating.

I'm sure it's a good film, but it might be more instructive to examine how much violence Palestinians have suffered, and how well that has been documented, and how casually the proponents of that brutality still "can argue with it".

I guess this was always gonna be the next step for "originalists". Why stop at imagining "what the Framers might have believed" when you can also imagine "who is or isn't being harmed" instead of having to actually look at the world that exists.

You don't have to defer to government statements in the first place, any more than you would to a pop-up browser ad or an unsigned fax. For an industry supposedly built on careful observation, you sure don't seem to have any clue what's actually happening around you!

Blockin' AI Slop Enthusiasts, blockin' TERFs, blockin' IDF Apologists. Can't trust blocklists not to get nuked, gotta block 'em all by hand like grandpappy used to do.

Heavily compressed Bad Luck Brian meme that states "Tries to do away with it entirely / Lives as an inversion of it, thus continuing to refer to it indirectly"

LaVeyan Satanism is just hyper-Randian libertarian quackery (see: Social Darwinism) with a church that welcomes neo-Nazis, The Satanic Temple is run by a litigious control freak with a history of antisemitic remarks, and theistic Satanism is basically this Bad Luck Brian meme:

I understand what this order - & JB allowing ISP to intercede in Broadview - are trying to do. They are making a show for the courts that federal interference in IL is illegal because IL officials are managing the situation.

But at some point, it becomes collaboration. And that line is...close.

Are they going to change the actual model every time a company opts out? Or just block copyrighted keywords in prompts and hope that "cartoon mouse wizard 1940s animation, red robe, blue hat with white stars" doesn't turn out looking too much like The Sorcerer's Apprentice?

Tbh, if it weren't for the environmental and personal cognitive costs of slop, I would probably be quite happy to churn out slop that causes net negative cash flow for these losers *and* exposes them to IP liabilities.

If your Urban is a pope
Any of the six, just say "nope"

I hope you love it as much as most of us do!

I was asking, not asserting, because of all the possible reasons for you to not understand the current moment, that theory seemed the most generous.

Joke's on you, I loved A DARK SONG so you just sold me on BRING HER BACK!

A favorite of mine!

Are you too young to remember BLM and Defund? We tried so hard to get Democrats to use *any* leverage to make police less bad, and they categorically refused.

Illinoisans are doing things. What I'm not doing is waiting for some hypothetical "good guy with a badge" to do them for us.