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Hi! I'm Cosmo. 🌞🌍🪐💫⭐🌌 Thanks to my , I'm a and enthusiast, following in his footsteps. My first computer was an Apple ][+. I called BBS's and chatted on 300 bps D-Dial. I used to run a board in the early 90's called "Mission Control" in the area. I played MUDs. I had under construction signs on my Geocities pages in the late '90s. I was also friends with Tom on MySpace in the '00s and have had the same Gmail address since it was invite only during their Beta. Hashtags I follow:

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The Trump administration has launched a portal where you can report DEI in schools, "ensuring all students have access to meaningful learning free of divisive ideologies and indoctrination."

You know what to do: enddei.ed.gov/

Americans, Happy Economic Blackout Day!

My former U.S. Army home station, Fort Bragg, has had three different names in this decade.

In 2022, they renamed it Fort Liberty under a bipartisan agreement on Federal property having names honoring those who committed acts to overthrow the Federal government, to remove those names them from Federal properties. It made perfect sense. Don't honor or respect treasonous assholes and keep that shit in history class and museums instead to learn from their shitty actions. It's not rewriting history, it's de-honoring betrayal.

This year, among the elected president's brand new SECDEF's first actions were to rename it yet again, for no officially stated reason, and to a different person that had the same last name of Bragg. The new honoree is Private First Class Roland L. Bragg, not to be confused with the former naming of Fort Bragg which was after a Confederate war General Braxton Bragg.

They did this intentionally, while on the surface and in common vernacular it will sound the same, Fort Bragg, but they just couldn't tolerate the renaming to Fort Liberty. This renaming was to appease the right-wingers who often DARVO cry to left-wing "snowflakes" that want certain things for political correctness.

On the surface, they did it so it wouldn't be changed yet again because it was no longer named after the Confederate General, but we all know exactly why they did it. It's not a hard tell.

While Fort Liberty was the easiest of the recent renamings for them to target, as "Liberty" no longer honored any particular individual, but look for MAGA to keep seeking lame reasons to rename the other ones back in some way, shape, or form.

Since Meta has now green-lit hate speech, which is against both socially accepted norms and civilized social media:

I have officially deleted my Meta apps from my Smartphone, and will only keep the accounts to curb confidence scams from targeting my friends and family, and check them once in a while from only my home computer.

I really hate that the toxicity of that elected felon making all these toxic people bold enough to pressure major tech outlets to normalize that behavior.

If you want to read Twitter posts by someone - without generating the ad revenue for Elmo.

nitter.poast.org

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@adhdeanasl Every. Vote. Counts.

I'm in deep blue Maryland. I still voted for US Senate, President, Congress - even if my Senate race and District looks lopsided for the Dem, every vote matters cause you never know.

Also, and I know I don't need to tell you, but there are ballot initiatives everywhere. Abortion rights are literally on the ballot in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland (I voted), Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Nevada, and South Dakota.

Every. Vote. Matters.

That's Yurp, isn't it? And the people that live there are Yurpean?

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@GreenFire @KolaMagpie Fair. It is amazing how many times that the answer to the question "Why is thing X fucked in the USA" is "because of Ronnie".

When we preach "tolerance" on behalf of the Democrats, it's for FAIRNESS in our laws to treat citizens EQUALLY regardless of their race/gender/creed/sex/etc. It is most certainly not tolerance of abuse from people or our government. If you're a toxic person, or justify toxic laws, we're not going to "tolerate" that. We're not going to accept being gaslight or bulldozed over with that abuse and will fight like hell for equality.

#uspol 

washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

Yeah, and Republicans have only won the popular vote once in almost 36 years and it was only done by an incumbent president. See how I applied that logic of this article?

We've never had a felon running for office before. And before those 188 years it had happened 3 times in just under 100 years. Historical trends mean nothing, but policy and character are EVERYTHING.

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Just so we're clear, FOX/GOP are now attacking Kamala Harris for "delivering a stump speech in multiple cities" and Tim Walz for "serving honorably in the military for 6x longer than JD Vance and then retiring, as every veteran does at some point."

THEY'VE. GOT. NOTHING.

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Let this sink in - the current leader of the Taliban was released by Trump in exchange for NOBODY.

Canvassing #uspol 

This is a great watch.

Republican Canvasser vs. Progressive Voter
youtube.com/watch?v=j2OQQH0Wsw

My former home in far Northeast Philadelphia (3 bed / 1.5 bath) is up for sale and there will be an Open House this Sunday 12-2pm.

redfin.com/PA/Philadelphia/365

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Via Angry Staffer:

Hey so uh… pollsters largely said LePen was going to win in France and she just got blown out.

Polls don’t vote.

MeidasTouch:

Wow. That is very, very different than what the polls and pundits said was a sure thing.
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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise:

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I wish I lived in a country where Donald Trump raping and sexually assaulting girls within Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring was treated with at least half the outrage and gravity of Joe Biden having one bad debate night.

#uspol 

Trump said he wants to fight inflation by putting a 10% tariff on all imported foreign goods... AMERICANS PAY THAT. That would be raising taxes 10% on a shitload of sales at todays inflated prices, and do you think the ones selling domestic goods would keep their prices down? NO!

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Boom! 447 GW of new solar capacity installed in 2023. That's 87% more than in 2022.

Source is SolarPower Europe

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