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Arkansas banned paying for AP African history tests—but pays for AP European history TX banned abortion b/c a fetus has rights—but reject liability for a stillbirth b/c a fetus has no rights N Dakota GOP banned free school lunches—but gave themselves free lunches For the GOP, hypocrisy isn’t a bug—it’s the feature. Vote them out.

Isn't it weird how the corrupt deep state only targets the Republicans who happened to have committed the most egregious crimes?

The same people who act like a commercial real estate crash would be an economic apocalypse are weirdly quiet about Elon Musk—maybe the most famous lessee of office space in the world—refusing to pay his rent. #ReturnToOffice #RemoteWork #RealEstate

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that when TFG accused the Democrats of stealing the election what he really meant was that his team had actively tried to steal the election by hacking into voting systems in Georgia and possibly elsewhere but failed.

Can we even say "indictment day" anymore? It's more akin to a season now.

He gets a New York charge, he gets a Florida charge He gets a DC charge, he gets a Georgia charge He enters the pleas that remind him of the good times He enters the pleas that remind him of the better times

Funny how people always go with the classic, "If you're not doing anything wrong, you should have nothing to hide." over a far more sensible: "If I'm not doing anything wrong, you should have no reason to spy on me." #privacy #surveillance

I think the funniest thing about the current strain of rabid conservatism in the States is how much these chucklefucks are hurt that people think they're creepy and uncool, so instead of trying to become interesting/decent humans, they just resort to trying to force everyone to pay attention to them, while doing spiteful shit to make themselves feel better.

I am really, really, REALLY irritated by what I just saw. The #ImageDescription function of Microsoft's #Bing is outright lying to people with vision impairments about what appears in images it receives. It's bad enough when an #LLM is allowed to tell lies that a person can easily check for veracity themselves. But how the hell are you going to offer this so-called service to someone who can't check the claims being made and NEEDS those claims to be correct? How long till someone gets poisoned because Bing lied and told someone it was food that hasn't expired when it has, or that it's safe to drink when it's cleaning solution, or God knows what? This is downright irresponsible and dangerous. #Microsoft either needs to put VERY CLEAR disclaimers on their service, or just take it down until it can actually be trusted. #Blindness #VisualImpairment #Accessibility #AccessibilityMatters #Disability #DisabilityRights #CorporateResponsibility #LargeLanguageModels #MoralHazard

Inflation has gotten so out of hand that billionaires have to pool resources to buy a Supreme Court Justice these days.

Big Tech Company: "What, you want to edit key biographical details of your profile such as gender and name because you had an awakening and would like to express your true self without losing all the social connections you've made on our platform? That's stupid." Big Tech Company: "Also we just rebranded so please stop using our old name."

The people who want you to believe that unelected Hunter Biden working with an energy company is an unforgivable ethics scandal for Joe Biden—also want you to ignore the $2B MBS gave to the former guy's daughter & the 4 billionaires lavishing undisclosed gifts on Justice Thomas. Rules for thee but not for me is the right wing mantra. Don't fall for it. Organize. Activate. Vote them out.

Attached: 1 image Even the Bible is too "#woke" for #Republicans now! I guess some of them finally got around to reading it. https://www.rawstory.com/trump-evangelicals-2663078391/

Politico reports on Republicans in disarray after Ohio voters denied their attempt to stop voters from changing their Constitution. But everything they’re saying is about messaging and not the actual policies. Because that’s all Republicans do. They literally believe elections are a sham and our democracy is a time-limited dictatorship where you trick people into voting for you and then do whatever the hell you want. Then they act surprised at how unpopular they are. https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-abortion-movement-clashes-over-083000473.html

I reallyyy thought that we moved past the "Republicans and Dems are both the same" discourse after these past 7 years. Like, yes, the Democratic Party is still very shitty (although less so in many ways than they were a decade ago but that's a low bar) but like, we have Republicans sending lawyers to right wing indoctrination classes and forcing children to be taught that slavery was a good thing.

There's a decent chance Republicans start a civil war if Trump is imprisoned. But there's also a decent chance they'll start a civil war if Fritos does a brand deal with RuPaul.

Facial recognition products are a public menace -- but law enforcement (and private companies) are moving full speed ahead to ruin lives. Because they can. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/technology/facial-recognition-false-arrest.html

I assume you get why it's not a nice thing to say that "slavery helped black people in some ways" but I think some people miss why this particular idea is *exceptionally* racist. One of the main arguments to justify slavery was that it "civilized" black people by making us Christian & teaching us obedience to our "betters." Black people were "lucky" or "better off" as slaves. It assumes that when people were enslaved they had no skills, nothing to offer, that they were basically animals.

“I’m having more ‘rational Republicans’ coming up to me and saying, ‘I just don’t know how long I can stay in this party,’” said Sen. Murkowski (R-AK). “[...] no one is taking us seriously anymore." THIS JUST IN: LEOPARDS ARE EATING FACES. THERE WAS NO WAY TO EXPECT THIS OUTCOME. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4098609-gop-senators-rattled-by-radical-conservative-populism/

I know and respect the fact that people have widely divergent opinions about the importance of lawyers in the U.S., but I will say this - knowing that (at least some of) the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court can be bought off makes being a #lawyer in the U.S. something I'm far less proud of than I used to be. I'm no longer able to say with any sincerity that we are a country that respects the Rule of #Law. I really hope that at some point in the future I can say that again...