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‘As If She’d Have a Crystal Ball’: Supporters Race to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ Defense As MAGA Critics Make Her the Scapegoat for Wildfires atlantablackstar.com/2025/01/0…

‘As If She’d Have a Crystal Ball’: Supporters Race to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ Defense As MAGA ...

As wildfires raged uncontrollably across the Los Angeles area, forcing tens of thousands to evacuate and leaving at least five dead, conservatives within the MAGA
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I think Trump is trying to make a political statement. As a protege of Putin, his philosophy of international politics is a post-Westphalian "might makes right" type world order. The Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) case in particular, is a taunt. The island is a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, with ambitions for full independence. To someone like Trump, independence is not a status under international law, but the ability to hold one's own against rivals. If Trump were to annex Kalallit Nunaat, what are its 58,000 inhabitants (or even Denmark) going to do, fight back? He's trying to beclown the system of sovereign nation states, which includes a lot of small and/or weak ones that used to be part of empires, as something only fools or idealists believe in. At least Putin is picking on someone 1/4 his size. Trump is a bully in the most pathetic sense of the term.

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I don't do volunteer work for for-profit entities.

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Looks like NPR's "The Daily" is normalizing fascism, trying to paint a human face on DJT's "hostages". The walls keep closing in around me. Keep reminding me that I have allies.

#NPR #jan6 #jan06

#Jan6 #jan06 #npr

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Black and Decker is the #vim of microwave ovens. Would recommend.
#vim

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Can #anagorism survive #panarchy?

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Can anagorism survive panarchy? — In Defense of Anagorism

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#anagorism #panarchy

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Why is the "Judge Judy" character being rebranded as "Judy Justice"? Is she being groomed for a seat on the Supreme Court?

#tv #law #SCOTUS

#tv #law #scotus

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In the age of GagaMAGA you might think it were possible. But it's just a spinoff of "Judge Judy".
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On November 1, 2021, Sheindlin launched the ***spinoff streaming series Judy Justice*** on IMDb TV (now Amazon Freevee), another arbitration-based reality court show in which she handles legal disputes. After winning the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program in 2022 for the first season of Judy Justice, she became the only television arbitrator to have won the award for more than one court show: three for Judge Judy and one for Judy Justice.
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American television judge

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Too old. tfg likes them younger, prettier and more pliable.

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Why are all my Codeberg repositories marked as updated 3 weeks ago? Did Codeberg perform some kind of hard reset?

#Codeberg

#codeberg

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Is newmibridges.michigan.gov going with a dodgy #SSL cert provider, or is #Firefox just being pissy? #Michigan
#michigan #firefox #SSL

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it's using SSL but without any certificate at all. I don't even know how you could set up a server that badly by mistake.
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dan
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MI Bridges’ certificate has been iffy since 2023, if I recall correctly. Though I’ve set up my Firefox install to not load sites with imperfect SSL.

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Yahoo!.GeoCities/SiliconValley.....Christmas - 1999!

SiliconValley Christmas - 1999.
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Freedom of religion is enjoyed by individuals, not businesses (as should be the case), which I think is why the conservative movement invented the "religious freedom" branding for an adjacent-but-not-the-same cause.

#FreedomOfReligion #ReligiousFreedom #USpol

#uspol #FreedomOfReligion #ReligiousFreedom

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“A country that displays an almost ruthless commitment to efficiency and performance in every aspect of its economy–a country that switched to Japanese cars the moment they were more reliable, and to Chinese T-shirts the moment they were five cents cheaper–has loyally stuck with a health-care system that leaves its citizenry pulling out their teeth with pliers.”–Malcolm Gladwell (2005)

#MoralHazard #dental #DentalCare #insurance #USPol

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The Moral-Hazard Myth

The bad idea behind our failed health-care system.
Malcolm Gladwell (The New Yorker)
#uspol #insurance #dental #dentalcare #MoralHazard

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Cat addiction is caused by toxoplasmosis. Dog addiction is caused by dogs. If you have a nanochip in your body, your body will dissolve into gray goo.

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