ColinSense
@colinsense.bsky.social
Buckling in for next 4 years.
Longhorns & Indian Cycles.
Don't like Liars or Orange.
Longhorns & Indian Cycles.
Don't like Liars or Orange.
Ok, thx for coming out, the refreshments are almost ready....
People reacting to the new Japanese Maglev bullet train passing right by them during a test run.
January 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Ok, thx for coming out, the refreshments are almost ready....
#trumpydump just mocks people.
Michael J. Fox receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his advocacy in Parkinson’s research - January 4th, 2025
January 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
#trumpydump just mocks people.
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This is how billionaires pay their taxes.
January 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This is how billionaires pay their taxes.
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Donors to Trump's inaugural fund:
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: $1M
- Amazon: $1M
- Meta: $1M
- Uber & its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi: $1M each
- Apple CEO Tim Cook: $1M
This is chump change to the tech oligarchs, but it sends a clear message that they will do Trump's bidding.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: $1M
- Amazon: $1M
- Meta: $1M
- Uber & its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi: $1M each
- Apple CEO Tim Cook: $1M
This is chump change to the tech oligarchs, but it sends a clear message that they will do Trump's bidding.
Donald Trump's inaugural fund is getting almost $150 million. Here are some of its donors
Tech giants and Wall Street leaders are writing million-dollar checks despite past conflicts with the president-elect
qz.com
January 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Donors to Trump's inaugural fund:
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: $1M
- Amazon: $1M
- Meta: $1M
- Uber & its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi: $1M each
- Apple CEO Tim Cook: $1M
This is chump change to the tech oligarchs, but it sends a clear message that they will do Trump's bidding.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: $1M
- Amazon: $1M
- Meta: $1M
- Uber & its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi: $1M each
- Apple CEO Tim Cook: $1M
This is chump change to the tech oligarchs, but it sends a clear message that they will do Trump's bidding.
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imo the two entities that come out of this looking the best are a) the J6 committee and b) state courts
Ultimately, the reason Donald Trump never faced any consequences for January 6th wasn’t incompetence. It was inconvenience.
Everyone in Congress knew what happened that day. But no one with authority was willing to bear the costs of confronting it.
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Everyone in Congress knew what happened that day. But no one with authority was willing to bear the costs of confronting it.
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
Someone Else's Problem
Ultimately, it just would have been too inconvenient to deal with the January 6th attack.
open.substack.com
January 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
imo the two entities that come out of this looking the best are a) the J6 committee and b) state courts
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“your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery…”
Frederick Douglass, 1852
Frederick Douglass, 1852
Vice President Harris: "Today, America's democracy stood."
January 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
“your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery…”
Frederick Douglass, 1852
Frederick Douglass, 1852
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THIS is how you “stand up to big pharma,” not by taking fluoride out of the water or making children sick.
January 7, 2025 at 1:19 AM
THIS is how you “stand up to big pharma,” not by taking fluoride out of the water or making children sick.
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no counternarrative is being offered so the gop narrative, no matter how dumb, wins.
the economy is rebounding and without an actual opposition party, the american people are going to credit “anti woke” policy if there is zero pushback bc that is what republicans will say and the media will parrot
January 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
no counternarrative is being offered so the gop narrative, no matter how dumb, wins.
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Really any woman of childbearing age now has to take on risk to be on this team. Just what you want to avoid bias
Zuck is citing an explicitly political justification to require large numbers of workers to relocate to a state where abortion and youth gender affirming care are illegal. That’s quite a statement on who belongs on your trust and safety team.
According to Mark Zuckerberg, people who live in California are biased but people who live in Texas are objective
January 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Really any woman of childbearing age now has to take on risk to be on this team. Just what you want to avoid bias
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A sharp new analysis of the 2024 vote count reveals the real reason Trump won: Millions of voters, mostly Dems, who showed up to toss DJT in 2020 stayed home on their couch this time
Why Team Harris failed to rouse cynical voters, and what to do now. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Why Team Harris failed to rouse cynical voters, and what to do now. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Revealed: The real reason that Trump won | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, backstory on the implosion of the Washington Post.
www.inquirer.com
January 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A sharp new analysis of the 2024 vote count reveals the real reason Trump won: Millions of voters, mostly Dems, who showed up to toss DJT in 2020 stayed home on their couch this time
Why Team Harris failed to rouse cynical voters, and what to do now. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Why Team Harris failed to rouse cynical voters, and what to do now. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Maybe we should all open a school....
“Arizona does no vetting of new voucher schools. Not even if the school or the online school ‘provider’ has already failed, was founded yesterday, or is operating out of a strip mall, living room, or garage, or offers just a half hour of instruction per morning.”
www.propublica.org/article/ariz...
www.propublica.org/article/ariz...
Arizona Regulators Closed a Failing Charter School. It Reopened as a Private Religious School Funded by Taxpayers.
Arizona’s acclaimed voucher program provides zero transparency into private schools’ history, academic performance or financial sustainability to help parents make informed school choices.
www.propublica.org
January 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Maybe we should all open a school....
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Reminder that Facebook's failure to crack down on extremist content a few years back facilitated the Rohingya genocide. They made a show of contrition over that but clearly they don't give a shit.
Meta is getting rid of factcheckers, recommending political material and “dramatically reducing the amount of censorship” (of Far Right material), Zuckerberg has just announced.
Welcome to the new Twitter.
Welcome to the new Twitter.
Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content
Mark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Reminder that Facebook's failure to crack down on extremist content a few years back facilitated the Rohingya genocide. They made a show of contrition over that but clearly they don't give a shit.
Gonna be bribe driven
to get into the oval,
which #trump will rename to something less foreign sounding...
to get into the oval,
which #trump will rename to something less foreign sounding...
In an effort to tighten lines of communication with President-elect Trump, the transition team is cutting back on the number of staff members given the privilege of walking into the Oval Office and bringing nonstaff guests in to meet with the president.
Trump White House seeks to limit staff who have direct access to the president
Fewer people will be given the title of "assistant to the president," a designation that comes with increased access to the president.
www.nbcnews.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Gonna be bribe driven
to get into the oval,
which #trump will rename to something less foreign sounding...
to get into the oval,
which #trump will rename to something less foreign sounding...
A sexual assault in broad daylight. A police officer hoisting the suspect from atop one of the victims, the suspect’s pants still around his knees. Corroborating DNA evidence. Yet it took 7+ years for the case to go to trial. In that time, both victims died. www.propublica.org/article/anch...
Anchorage Police Say They Witnessed a Sexual Assault in Public. It Took Seven Years for the Case to Go to Trial.
In Alaska, where the time to resolve most serious felony cases has nearly tripled over the past decade, one case was delayed so long that both victims died. A former prosecutor called it “a travesty o...
www.propublica.org
January 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
But by all means be a "leader" in FREE SPEECH, magat.
Sounds like time for some concerted activity!
NEW: On the same day Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta's new commitment to "Free Expression," internal employee dissent and criticism is being censored
www.404media.co/facebook-del...
www.404media.co/facebook-del...
January 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
But by all means be a "leader" in FREE SPEECH, magat.
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the entire "pivot to video" strategy that destroyed many of the sites you used to love was based on Facebook lying about video metrics, convincing everyone that was the only way their content was getting shared
they half-heartedly "apologized" for this years later, leaving burning wreckage behind
they half-heartedly "apologized" for this years later, leaving burning wreckage behind
As a reminder, Facebook had a giant hand in the death of online journalism in the mid 2010s because they inflated metrics that caused publications to crash and burn. Many of us haven't trusted it in a long, long time.
January 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
the entire "pivot to video" strategy that destroyed many of the sites you used to love was based on Facebook lying about video metrics, convincing everyone that was the only way their content was getting shared
they half-heartedly "apologized" for this years later, leaving burning wreckage behind
they half-heartedly "apologized" for this years later, leaving burning wreckage behind
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The last decade in US politics
November 20, 2024 at 3:21 AM
The last decade in US politics
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January 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Been fascinating to watch America take the "slowly, then all at once" approach to fascism
Huge changes across Facebook's platforms coming soon. Mark Zuckerberg says the recent elections "feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech..." www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/...
53K views · 1.3K comments | It's time to get back to our roots around free expression. We're replacing fact checkers with Community Notes, simplifying our policies and focusing on... | By Mark Zuckerb...
It's time to get back to our roots around free expression. We're replacing fact checkers with Community Notes, simplifying our policies and focusing on...
www.facebook.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Been fascinating to watch America take the "slowly, then all at once" approach to fascism
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Proudly a member of the party who will not be carrying Confederate flags and defecating in the Capitol today.
January 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Proudly a member of the party who will not be carrying Confederate flags and defecating in the Capitol today.
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Honestly would have been more appropriate for Zuckerberg to have made his announcement yesterday so it was on the anniversary of an event his social media platforms helped foment.
January 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Honestly would have been more appropriate for Zuckerberg to have made his announcement yesterday so it was on the anniversary of an event his social media platforms helped foment.
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x
X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m.
Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app?
If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.
X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m.
Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app?
If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.
January 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM