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In 2008, Sarah Palin had 11 years more experience in government than JD Vance currently does.

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LOlolgop.bsky.social

Really hard to describe all the needless misery that would ensue if MAGA is allowed to hollow out the government of anyone who thinks science is real and worth studying.Really hard to describe all the needless misery that would ensue if MAGA is allowed to hollow out the government of anyone who thinks science is real and worth studying.

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Sschooley.bsky.social

It’s just weird that DJ Trump didn’t debut at Coachella.

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Sgoldengateblond.bsky.social

[very david byrne voice] same as it ever was

tweet of mine from september of 2018 reading “Donald Trump is what would happen if an email with the subject line FW: FW: FW: FW:
FW became president.”
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Definitely feels like Leonard Leo is running a taxpayer-subsidized kickback scheme: the money he raises are then filtered to conservative orgs, which in turn redirect some of that money back to Leo's for-profit firm. (Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/o...)

The tax filings from 2020 to 2023 show, for example, that Leo’s donor groups gave Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America at least $12 million. In its most recent tax filing, the Anthony group reported that it paid CRC Advisors $543,821 for “public relations consulting.”

Leo’s charities have given the Foundation for Government Accountability at least $2 million. From 2020 to 2022, the accountability foundation told the I.R.S. that it paid CRC Advisors $640,000 for “public relations.”

Or take the Federalist Society, the conservative legal think tank. Leo was formerly the vice president and is now a co-chairman of its board. His donor nonprofits have given it at least $15.5 million during the 2020s, according to tax records. In its most recent filings with the I.R.S., the Federalist Society reported paying CRC Advisors $4.78 million from 2020 to 2022.
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Kamala Harris has arrived at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to begin today's campaign bus tour in SW Pennsylvania, and she is wearing her Chucks! (photo via Darlene Superville, AP)

Kamala Harris, wearing casual black pants (jeans?) and black top and royal-blue blazer, greets two uniformed offices on the tarmac
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HOLY HELL YOU FUCKING MORONS!!! Trump used Brand Woodward--an absolutely crucial team on Trump's criminal defense--to do their VP vetting. If they got OTHER docs from Woodward, Trump could be wildly exposed--& it would explain why Trump didn't tell FBI. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

On Thursday, The Washington Post was also sent a 271-page document about Vance from a sender who called himself Robert and used an AOL email account. Dated Feb. 23 and labeled “privileged & confidential,” the document highlighted potential political vulnerabilities for the first-term senator. Two people familiar with the document confirmed it was authentic and was commissioned by the campaign from Brand Woodward, a law firm that represents a number of prominent Trump advisers in investigations by state and federal authorities.
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what's also a bit sad is valid uses of machine learning have basically been drained of resourcing and hung out to dry by the chatbot/bullshit engine hype and its done real damage to the tech industry by draining resources from focusing on real/useful things and injecting garbage into useful products

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