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Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The Latest Defense Against ICE: 3D-Printed Whistles Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”

New from 404 Media: people are 3D-printing whistles to warn each other about the presence of ICE. Some people make designs and upload them; others are given a design and are printing hundreds and hundreds of whistles at home. It's been effective in Chicago

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I feel like Trump not only reversing all of the convictions from Jan 6; but also propagandizing that they were heros; and other GOP getting time on Fox to sell the vision that Jan 6 was a great patriotic moment is going to really haunt this country for a long while.

John Fetterman Tells Fox ‘No One Really Knows’ Who’s Running Democratic Party Fetterman said “no one really knows” who is running his party, denying reports that Schumer reached out to moderates in the party during shutdown negotiations.

Soon to be former Senator John Fetterman goes on Fox News to trash Democrats saying ‘No One Really Knows’ Who’s Running Democratic Party. Well don't worry about it John. A real Democrat will be taking your seat! www.mediaite.com/media/tv/joh...

to be fair “what’s the point of standards” is the motto of the free press

The Latest Defense Against ICE: 3D-Printed Whistles Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”

this is cool and people saying "just buy a whistle on amazon" did not read the story, have lost the light in their hearts, and will not enter heaven with that attitude www.404media.co/the-latest-d...

I've been reposting everyone replying to this post with their own ACA (and sometimes employer!) price hikes. Feel free to add yours. There is some comfort in knowing you aren't alone and knowing we'll all be voting on this issue in a year.

Chuck Schumer should be chucked out. #chuckchuck

A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.

Los Alamos and U of Michigan want to build a data center in the small town of Ypsilanti. The city's people don't want to help make weapons of mass destruction. The fight is only just starting

Tim Kaine says Republicans weren't going to cave

Mr Master Negotiator over here
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I should really have fit into this post that this county voted for Trump.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'

“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”

"If you’re a Republican official convicted of corruption, your odds of receiving clemency from Trump are roughly 100%...

"The latest move seems intended to deliver a political message: Those who assist Trump with his schemes need not worry about legal consequences..."

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Trump: "You have people in Chicago, beautiful Black women wearing a MAGA hat, red MAGA hat -- 'please come Mr Trump, president' -- they call me president, they call me mister, they can call me whatever they want. 'Please come President Trump, please come.' They're begging us to come."

If there's anything you get to do a lot of in America it's negotiating the price you pay for services. You have to be prepared to walk off the insurance lot and then the salesman will chase you with a better offer.

This hidden provision is so crooked and selfish, it doesn't even apply to US Representatives. Just US Senators.

If you're thinking, don't worry, they'll never win the suits, remember that they would be suing against the US in suits defended by Bondi's DOJ. The same DOJ that settled Ashli Babbitt estate's suit for $4.975M.

More fun with Trumpy numbers.

He's floated sending $2,000 checks to every household, "except rich ones," whatever that means, financed by tariff revenues.

It would cost $265 billion. Tariff revenue since Liberation Day has totaled $151 billion.

Bit of a shortfall.

The follow up is him literally conceding that he cannot trust the GOP not to ratfuck dems which means the immediate preceding posts are moot if you believe that the democrats had more leverage before caving than they will in December. This is olympian mental gymnastics.

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The claim in the article is much more narrow than the headline suggests.

"...he was privately cajoling a group of moderates not to fold before November."

That's in line with reporting that said Dems wanted to get to election day, Nov. 4, before folding.

I mean:

1. I don't believe this for one second and...

2. If it is true, @schumer.senate.gov is incompetent and should go retire and hang out with Andrew Cuomo, and let someone competent take over.

Progressive group MoveOn calls on Schumer to step aside "Inexplicably, some Senate Democrats, under Leader Schumer's watch, decided to surrender."

NEW: “Around 80% of MoveOn members that the group surveyed said that Schumer should quit his leadership position.”

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Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

Federal agents deployed tear gas against neighbors in Little Village and pepper sprayed a family driving in Cicero Saturday following the latest clash between immigration agents and protesters. blockclubchi.co/49KnNyq

Immigration Protections Are Uncertain in New Jersey even as Democrats Keep Governorship Advocates want to promptly codify the limits on immigration enforcement put in place by the outgoing governor. Mikie Sherill, Tuesday’s winner, has declined to say if she

Advocates in New Jersey say lawmakers should codify into state law a directive that restricts local collaboration with ICE.

“We need to do whatever we can in New Jersey to protect our people,” says the director of the ACLU in the state.

Dems Reward the Hostage-Taker Perhaps ending the shutdown was the responsible thing to do. But by caving, Democrats risk legitimizing Trump’s maximum-pain shutdown tactics.

What “concessions” did Democrats get for their cave? Not nothing. But by treating these things as “concessions,” Democrats are ultimately rewarding Trump for his bare-knuckle shutdown tactics.

Today's Morning Shots, featuring @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/dems-rewar...