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Where are you on the political scale? Please boost wildly!* 😃​

(*) Yes I mean Wildly not just widely

He’s not wrong:

“over the last 15 to 20 years, there are now incredibly powerful media companies who masquerade as journalists and who have, quite literally, hijacked journalistic privileges for their own personal gain and agenda. It’s an unbelievably dangerous place”.

bylinetimes.com/2023/06/06/pri

These are just a small subset of examples of Russia accusing the US of developing bioweapons to target specific ethnicities. It’s one of the most common but also most specific Russian disinformation narratives in this area, and it can be traced at least as far back as Operation Denver, when Russia orchestrated an extensive disinformation campaign accusing the US of creating HIV as a bioweapon.

This is an anti-American campaign that Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. are spreading.

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Astrud Gilberto has died. One of the musical styles that defined my generation was bossa nova. The most famous song in that style is The Girl from Ipanema. The song was written by Joao Gilberto, who is considered the father of bossa nova. Astrud was his wife.

The Girl from Ipanema is sung by Astrud, a girl who is not a professional singer. How did this happen? On the day the song was recorded, the intended singer didn't show up and Joao asked Astrud to have a go at it. The result is epic because the song benefits enormously from her innocent, ordinary, non-flashy singing.

nbcnews.com/news/latino/brazil

Is it some kind of fad now that web sites have to have a video that plays automatically, blasting out, scaring the crap out of you, and waking up everyone around you?

Conservative parents are like "Yes my child is totally straight, I just need to shield their sensitive eyes from any books and/or rainbows because I know for a fact that will immediately turn them gay. The kid is straight as an arrow though."

Governor DeSantis used fraud and deception to lure vulnerable people from San Antonio and dump them in a remote island community that scrambled to care for them.

This was human trafficking — and the people who perpetrated this crime must be held responsible.

twitter.com/expressnews/status

Please help us in Ohio. We have a special election Aug 8 to drown democracy and need help to drive turnout to vote NO on their scheme to make it almost impossible to get citizen led issues on the ballot.
Please go to postcardstovoters.org and choose the Ohio campaign!
WE NEED YOU!!
This will help protect choice in November! The August election is a way for our corrupt Rs to subvert democracy.

Pretty neat how Jack saw Elon make an ass out himself and decided that, instead of using the opportunity to rebrand himself the smart one, he would loudly declare "I also have shit for brains" and endorse an anti-vax grifter nepobaby for President.

In times like these, I wish more people had a clue what Evangelicals are taught to believe, and act on.

Assuming they do things out of well-meaning but misguided or ignorant faith rather than actual imperialist malice and greed is a giant mistake.

They talk openly in churches about sedition, treason, genocide, collusion with foreign agents, groom children into militias, and hang the Christian flag higher than the US flag on purpose, friends.

Please pay attention.

A new GLAAD study finds Americans overwhelmingly think LGBTQ people should be free to live their lives. Attacking LGBTQ rights is a losing game. #pridemonth #velshi msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/vel

Have you noticed that in the endless array of prescription drug commercials even for serious diseases they routinely show people busy doing all sorts of exciting family outdoor activities when in reality most people are just sitting around staring at their phones whether they're sick or well?

@Npars01 @dyckron @business

Good on Joe:

"Many on Wall Street don’t believe that the Biden White House has been very easy to navigate.

"Biden's administration has not hired Democrats with ties to Wall Street and business in the same way Bill Clinton and Barack Obama did. On the campaign trail, Biden made a point of saying, "Wall Street didn’t build this country."

#JoeBiden #darkbrandon

Journalists: Mastodon seems great...BUT CAN IT SCALE?

*A few months go by. Mastodon gains millions of new accounts. Everything is still fine.*

Journalists: Mastodon seems great...BUT CAN IT SCALE?

The first National Spelling Bee was held in Cleveland in 1908. The winner was a 14 year-old black girl and it caused quite a sensation.

npr.org/2023/06/02/1179460206/

In 2016, the Republican Party nominated the only person in U.S. history to have attempted a coup d'état. It was an incredibly desperate attempt to hold onto power by preventing a peaceful transition, for the very first time in history. And to this very day, he's the leading presidential candidate in the GOP.

I wouldn't vote for ANY Republican if my very life depended on it. And I'm not exaggerating one bit. The GOP is full of bigots and fascists. America elects ANY of them at its peril.

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