Parker
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Yeah, the only reason we're hearing about this person is because they (might) be trans. The press is just bringing this up to try to tie trans people to something we had nothing to do with.
Have you *ever*, in all the thousands of shootings in America, heard a word about a friend, roommate or partner of a shooter?
September 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Yeah, the only reason we're hearing about this person is because they (might) be trans. The press is just bringing this up to try to tie trans people to something we had nothing to do with.
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man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger
Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
September 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger
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The simple fact of the world is that the vast majority of mass shooters fit a fairly basic profile: Cishet white men with right leaning but completely incomprehensible politics, bigoted in ways that don't super make sense and driven mostly by delusions of grandeur and petty slights.
September 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The simple fact of the world is that the vast majority of mass shooters fit a fairly basic profile: Cishet white men with right leaning but completely incomprehensible politics, bigoted in ways that don't super make sense and driven mostly by delusions of grandeur and petty slights.
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"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
September 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
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Essentially, when you install a Ring you’ve become a volunteer cop.
ICYMI: Amazon still doing Amazon things
The company is not only reintroducing new versions of old features that allow police to access footage from Ring users
Amazon is introducing a new Ring feature that will allow police to request *livestream* access to our home security devices.
@eff.org
The company is not only reintroducing new versions of old features that allow police to access footage from Ring users
Amazon is introducing a new Ring feature that will allow police to request *livestream* access to our home security devices.
@eff.org
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 devices....
www.eff.org
August 2, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Essentially, when you install a Ring you’ve become a volunteer cop.
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this is interesting but not for the reason anti-bluesky people think because threads, having far more “active users” than bluesky, has half the cultural impact it does. does anything come from threads other than brand posts?
I dunno y'all. This site is 12 liberals who agree with each other about everything shouting at one another. Is there any reason to think it will evolve into anything different?
techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/t...
techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/t...
July 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
this is interesting but not for the reason anti-bluesky people think because threads, having far more “active users” than bluesky, has half the cultural impact it does. does anything come from threads other than brand posts?
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Spectacular news - the Medicaid ban for transgender care is OUT as a result of the Byrd rule.
HUGE NEWS: The Senate Parliamentarian has struck the ban on Medicaid dollars for gender-affirming care trans people from the One Big Beautiful Bill!
www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
Byrd Rule Violations Continue to Mount on the Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill” | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget
The Official U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget
www.budget.senate.gov
June 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Spectacular news - the Medicaid ban for transgender care is OUT as a result of the Byrd rule.
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"B-b-but the public disapproves of Trump's policies!"
Yes, which is why it's insane that Dems are unable to capitalize on that.
Yes, which is why it's insane that Dems are unable to capitalize on that.
June 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"B-b-but the public disapproves of Trump's policies!"
Yes, which is why it's insane that Dems are unable to capitalize on that.
Yes, which is why it's insane that Dems are unable to capitalize on that.
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Anybody with any self respect who had a boss treat them like this in public would resign immediately.
Reporter: What intelligence do you have that Iran is building a weapon? Your intelligence community said they have no evidence that they are at this point.
Trump: My intelligence community is wrong. Who said that?
Reporter: Your director of national intelligence Gabbard.
Trump: She is wrong.
Trump: My intelligence community is wrong. Who said that?
Reporter: Your director of national intelligence Gabbard.
Trump: She is wrong.
June 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Anybody with any self respect who had a boss treat them like this in public would resign immediately.
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One bright spot for trans people in Montana: Today's SCOTUS decision does not touch Montana. That's because Montana overturned its gender affirming care ban through the state Supreme Court. States are allowed to have protections that go beyond the US constitution, and thus that ruling is unaffected.
June 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
One bright spot for trans people in Montana: Today's SCOTUS decision does not touch Montana. That's because Montana overturned its gender affirming care ban through the state Supreme Court. States are allowed to have protections that go beyond the US constitution, and thus that ruling is unaffected.
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MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States.
A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports.
This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.
A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports.
This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.
June 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States.
A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports.
This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.
A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports.
This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.
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FTC's latest move is to see how many trans kids they can kill. This is dangerous and beyond stupid, and way beyond anything the FTC is supposed to have authority over.
June 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
FTC's latest move is to see how many trans kids they can kill. This is dangerous and beyond stupid, and way beyond anything the FTC is supposed to have authority over.
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I'll never forget that Linda Tirado lost an eye and is dying from TBI-induced dementia caused by a cop shooting her in the face by a rubber bullet at the George Floyd protests.
protect your eyes, protect your head. "less lethal" munitions are lethal when fired directly at a human being and cops love to use them this way. pepperballs will take your eye out, a tear gas canister can fracture your skull.
cops will kill you on purpose and by accident, all with impunity.
cops will kill you on purpose and by accident, all with impunity.
June 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I'll never forget that Linda Tirado lost an eye and is dying from TBI-induced dementia caused by a cop shooting her in the face by a rubber bullet at the George Floyd protests.
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I can't believe any Democrat would THINK of allying with Elon Musk.
I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.
I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.
June 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I can't believe any Democrat would THINK of allying with Elon Musk.
I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.
I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.
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I still think this is one of the most gutting notes I’ve ever read.
June 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I still think this is one of the most gutting notes I’ve ever read.
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1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.
So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
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So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
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Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow
Organizers demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.
www.erininthemorning.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.
So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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private equity taking over and immediately creating Discorb, the real life texting micro transaction that everyone will hate, is a little too on the nose
May 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
private equity taking over and immediately creating Discorb, the real life texting micro transaction that everyone will hate, is a little too on the nose
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I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.
I wrote a bit about the misguided effort by Democrats to replicate Joe Rogan the right-wing podcast ecosystem.
May 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.
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Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
NEWS:
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democrats Throw Money at a Problem: Countering G.O.P. Clout Online
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
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motherfuckers, we have to pay for DRINKING WATER. but the AI bros don’t think they have to pay for intellectual property to build fancy shit-machines no one wants.
Their logic seems to be that copyrighted content is an essential input for AI, for which they should escape paying because AI is essential for our futures. But if they are right should we not simply expropriate the benefits of AI without paying for it?
May 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
motherfuckers, we have to pay for DRINKING WATER. but the AI bros don’t think they have to pay for intellectual property to build fancy shit-machines no one wants.
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It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.
May 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.
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i want a covid booster tbh
FDA Commissioner Makary: "By the way, America doesn't want covid boosters."
May 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
i want a covid booster tbh