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[??? @wereturtle]

Go Ahead #bingo #ask

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

The Onion: “DNC Vows To Replace Graham Platner With Establishment Rapist”

[onion person @CantEverDie]

another example of a centrist accidentally making incredible leftwing propaganda

[victryena 🪾 @victryena]

push day ✧ʕ ˵ •`ᴥ´•˵ ʔᕤ

[Basel Musharbash @musharbash_b]

Something remarkable about the Democratic establishment current campaign against the left insurgency is that they aren't just waging a rhetorical fight, they're acting strategically and using all the power they can wield to try to destroy the underlying institutions of the Left insurgency — Leftist consulting firms, Leftist ad-makers, Leftist campaign operatives, Leftist donor networks, Leftist think tanks, etc. — in a way that the Democratic establishment has never acted in their fights with Republicans.

https://t.co/2jYc0QvyI8

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

The reaction from establishment Democratic operatives to the simple act of reporting news about a story of major consequence is to engage in the most vile name calling. This stuff will not work, people see through it. The party leadership is feeling extremely good this week after suffering defeat after defeat at the ballot box, but this feeling of theirs will be short lived because the structural causes of their decline haven’t changed.

And of course @neeratanden shared this post too:

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

“Maybe he will be next” is such a disgusting thing to say about Abdul El-Sayed with nothing but insinuation. Could not be more clear how little Neera actually cares about the facts here.

[Hasanabi Productions (fan account) @HasanabiProd]

The Huffington Post published the rumours of Hasan Piker and Mitch McConnell reportedly having phone sex

Mitch McConnell could not be reached for comment 🤔

[Margaret Zaknoen DeReus @mzdereus]

Yes please people stop trying to wrest control of the Democratic Party by fielding candidates who win elections by offering something people want to vote for. Can you remember the Party belongs to corporate donors & special interests and just show up and vote blue no matter who!

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I’ve watched exactly two interview clips of this woman in my life and both times she’s brought up unprompted the fact that her kids think she’s a genocidal right wing monster.

[おいしい笹茶* @oishiisasa]

ナヒーダのデコピン最強説

[みくろ @mikuroron]

雷電将軍 お誕生日おめでとう〜

[Keep Our Republic @keep_republic]

That’s a wrap on day 2 of the Justice in Motion Tour. Thank you Columbus and Wooster for such an enthusiastic welcome! Tomorrow: Cleveland
#justiceinmotion

[Danny Miller @DanielMillerEsq]

This is so powerful. Inspired by the March of a Thousand Robes in Poland, retired and sitting judges in the United States walked down the streets of Columbus to stand up for the Rule of Law. @DemRisingCollab @keep_republic

[Hugh Dragon🐉 @TheHugeDude]

All big yaoi is evil support your local small yaoi

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Today is a dark day for freedom and democracy in Europe. General chat surveillance has been implemented in Brussels. A disgrace.

The so-called Chat Control 1.0 cleared a crucial hurdle in the European Parliament today. This means platforms may once again be allowed to scan private messages, officially on a “voluntary” basis, but in practice this marks the return of indiscriminate monitoring of private communication.

What makes this especially bitter is that a majority of the MEPs who voted were reportedly against it. According to Patrick Breyer, 314 MEPs voted against the regulation, 276 voted in favor and 17 abstained. And yet the rejection failed because it was not enough to have a simple majority of those voting. An absolute majority of all MEPs would have been required.

That is the democratic scandal.

When a majority of those present votes against a proposal and it still passes because a formal threshold is not reached, it does not feel like democratic decision-making to many citizens. It feels like a procedural trick.

And it becomes even more problematic when you look at the context: Chat Control had already been rejected before. Yet the issue was put back on the agenda shortly before the summer break, through an urgent procedure, at a time when absences could become decisive.

This is not just some technical regulation. It goes to the very core of private communication. It is about whether digital messages remain fundamentally private or whether platforms may systematically scan content again, without concrete suspicion, without a court order and without any individual cause.

A free society must not turn private communication into a potential surveillance zone. Anyone who takes digital fundamental rights seriously cannot accept millions of innocent people being placed under general suspicion.

Today, a dangerous signal was sent: fundamental rights can be hollowed out through procedural logic, timing and political tricks. Not through an open, clear and honest majority, but through a system in which absence effectively helps the supporters.

This is a dark day for Europe.

Not because the fight is over, but because today showed how easily digital fundamental rights come under pressure when surveillance logic, symbolic politics and institutional tricks come together.

Anyone who wants a free internet, anyone who wants to protect private communication and anyone who takes democracy seriously should talk about this.

Share this issue. Inform yourself. Look at who voted how. And never forget: freedom rarely disappears all at once. It disappears step by step, often in technical details, often in complicated procedures and often exactly when too few people are watching.

[Marshall Steinbaum 🔥 @Econ_Marshall]

A few years ago in my inequality class I was teaching about interfirm heterogeneity in labor standards & the wage/turnover tradeoff. A student asked why more firms didn’t use the Costco model instead of Walmart’s. I asked him if he knew who founded Costco.

[Fiona Small @FionaSmall]

The discourse about Evangelicism in Brazil being the reason for their soccer team being crap now is producing some incredible lines

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final in-person. The orange dots are the midterm scores and the gray dots are the final scores. Looks like all but 3 cheated on the midterm.

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

It’s literally the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative.

[Clipping Wings @ClippingWings]

Joy Reid says "It is not Vote Blue No Matter Who. It Matters Who" replaces Platner

"The people of Maine said we want a progressive. They did not say we want an AIPAC moderate"

"If the DNC shoves an AIPAC candidate down your throat, you have my permission to not vote for them"