Amy

I hated this show.

I hated “Miss Teen USA” in particular and all pageants in general.

I hate Seventeen Magazine with its theme that all girls were learning to do makeup to eventually become models in New York.

I was considered a contrarian for this.

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MS NOW confirms Corey Lewandowski is also out at DHS.

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

I believe a road was just named for Jesse Jackson somewhere in the upstate.

But yeah, this is a travesty.

After a lawsuit, USDA agrees to share climate risk data with farmers Now, even if the webpages come down again, the data can remain public.

The USDA has settled a lawsuit with a group of agricultural and environmental nonprofits, agreeing to make its climate data and tools available to farmers. By Friday Garza for @grist.org:

Over 160 schoolgirls are dead. Anthropic and Palantir executives must immediately testify and tell the public whether their AI is responsible.

Fiddler-crab-ass layout, ffs

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

Karpf: "If you think Claude Code is a better social scientist than you, then you’re probably right. But that means, at some point, you stopped trying to answer interesting/puzzling questions and started trying to win the publish-the-most-articles race." davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

These stories are amusing. No Democrat is telling themselves “Rahm Emanuel is who I look to for leadership.” Probably no one in the current generation of lefties could even tell you what this guy stands for.

Orwell never said this and Noem knows it. Her "attributed to" is her attempt to give the illusion that she's fighting fascism/fighting for the common person. Her false-quote also allows her take public joy-pleasure in the violence & death she has perpetrated (classic Sadistic Personality Disorder).

I mean…

I recently met Newsom and thought, “I’d have a beer with that guy! Very diverting.”

It’s not a high enough bar to be President.

But you are right. Likability is very important.

Cool. Thanks.

Seems sort of funny and charming, too?

I’m still sizing up the potential candidates. What’s you elevator pitch for him?

Markwayne Mullin has to get confirmed by the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which is chaired by Rand Paul, who Markwayne Mullin recently called a “snake” & said he sympathized with Rand Paul’s neighbor who beat him up.

How fast is she going to have to clear all her stuff off the planes?

I bet that’s a stressful afternoon.

… challenging one voter after another to slow up the line at mostly Black polling locations.

-Tea Party characters menacingly sitting near the doors of mostly Black polling locations with tea bags hanging off their hats.

These days, the efforts are mostly digital.

Remember that.

“Reduce the vote” efforts here.

-Fliers put on doors in mostly Black neighborhoods claiming the election is the day after the actual date.

-an abandoned rental truck parked at the entrance of a mostly Black polling location so cars couldn’t easily enter the parking lot.

-“Poll Watchers”…

… out of a sense of fairness, to tell them about the election, too. “Because EVERYONE should vote!.” 🙄

Sure, but we don’t have to remind them if we’re really certain it won’t be for our candidate.

Two very different groups, to be sure.

I’m pretty sure I have seen the clumsy outcomes of GOP…

He was so surprised that we don’t have that.

“Like, why not?”

We do design campaigns that remind OUR voters TO vote while pointedly not going out of our way to remind THEIRS to vote.

Even that is too much for some Democratic volunteers.

We had one follow our canvassers to knock the GOP doors…

One time, years ago, I was a poll watcher seated next to a young GOP poll watcher all day.

He loved to talk.

Among the things I learned from his is that Republican campaign plans have a section Democratic plans don’t. It’s the opposite of get out the vote. “How to reduce Democratic turnout.”

The guy on the left was arrested and convicted for illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan Administration. The guy on the right is a Fox News "military analyst" who thinks Iran shouldn't have missiles

Yes, same guy.

All good info. Thank you.

Right???

Just out of curiosity, and I might have a moment to do some research myself later, what do you know about Bodner?

Is he Dem-adjacent enough for Democrats to donate to?

Quite the brewing political story!

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The boycott of OpenAI(ChatGPT) has now surpassed 4 million. We’re also seeing many small businesses (and even some mid-sized companies) cancel their subscriptions. One of the most amazing things over the past year has been watching consumers remind big corporations just how much power they have.

I gather that everyone here is 100% certain JD Vance is racist.

So, who here actually knew that Vance's wife isn't white?

And how does that influence your certainty?

I’m not familiar enough with Montana politics to know if there is a probable and credible Democratic candidate in place.

But, yeah, maybe!