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[DukeTrout]

A jolly Jen Psaki sings Happy Birthday in the press room while a stony Kayleigh McEnany looks on

That’s Harvard Law School grad Kayleigh McEnany. Another one of the right wing hacks with an inside track at Harvard, along with Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Kris Kobach, Elise Stefanik… Harvard’s affirmative action for miserable people with no unique ideas, no character, and no intellectual heft sure is reflecting well on them. Harvard rationalizes these goons on the grounds that they somehow add to the diversity of ideas and promote deeper intellectual development all around. What’s clear is that …

Damn. That’s poetry.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Donald Trump sues Facebook, Twitter, Google and CEOs

Tobacco lawyers, famously known for their incredible diligence at holding large corporations accountable for their misdeeds and actions.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Watch: Every year since 2017, Trump has led his CPAC crowd in chanting "lock her up"

Two cents from a (former) music teacher – The content of the chant is not the point. The point of chanting is what it does to your brain as you’re participating. To the primal part of your brain, it absolutely doesn’t matter what the words are; it could be (especially in elementary music class) complete non-sense and still be effective at uniting and energizing a group. What I don’t get, is why aren’t democrats chanting more? Not everything has to be a thoughtful, nuanced position statement.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Florida cops use AI to target people for a new "enhanced scrutiny" program

The thing about it is that victims of abuse probably are more likely to commit abuse later in life. There is good reason to want to have a proactive response to this to try to avert the cycle of abuse. The police are not the right tool for the job. They are hardly ever the right tool for the job. If a county were saying, we are sending out extra welfare workers and social workers to parts of the community where AI is letting us know that they can be of extra benefit, I don’t know that I’d h…

[chgoliz]

People who’ve been abused as children are more likely to be abused as adults. Most victims do not grow up to abuse others.

[prooftheory]

So much the more argument for sending a social worker for checking on them later.

[fiddlingfrog]

Watch this incredible NY pizza parlor brawl that looks like a bar fight you'd see in a movie

When a patron fights a patron in a parlor with a paddle it’s called a “Pizza parlor table ladle lay-down paddle battle.” [image]

[Sally_Mahoney]

Lindsey Graham's Covid infection may have come from Joe Manchin boat "gathering" he insists wasn't a party

It was a jamboree, a shindig, a soiree, a bacchanal, a carousal, a bash, a do, a regular saturnalia, a gala, a kaffeeklatsch - but it was under no circumstances a party.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Top Cuomo aide resigns after victim speaks out

Before we get into “See, the Dems are just as bad as the Republicans!” which seems to be inevitable, in situations like this we tend to turn on the abusers with some ferocity rather than covering up and excusing. While it would be unquestionably better to, you know, not be an abuser, I guess next best is to assure that abusers face consequences. This is very not “just the same.”

[anon33932455]

South Carolina county Republican party leader dies from Covid-19

Just saw a headline saying he “lost his battle with Covid-19.” Dude, they were on the same side. If anything he died of friendly fire.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Watch Jen Psaki call out Peter Doocy for "irresponsible" statement that Americans are "stranded" in Afghanistan

“Some people are saying that somewhere in America there is a demonic monster eating school children. Why has the Biden Administration chosen to tacitly support the consumption of school children by demonic monsters by not coming out and saying that you oppose demonic monsters eating school children? The silence is deafening!”

[Sally_Mahoney]

After locals complain of poor signal, California cops raid home to find 5G jammer device

and It seems to me that the guy who lives in the house with the big black box that has a half dozen antennas sticking out of it and is labeled “Signal Jammer” might be a good person to investigate. But maybe that just comes from me watching too many cop shows on TV.

[KathyPartdeux]

Continuing coronavirus happenings (Part 3)

Hey, we finally may see some action against assholes who use their credentials to spread dysinfo! Latest News • Sept. 9, 2021 • www.aapnews.org Board-certified physicians who spread COVID vaccine misinformation risk certification by Alyson Sulaski Wyckoff • Associate Editor Physicians certified by the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP), American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) or American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) who provide misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines could risk losing t…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Teacher resigns after school backs parent complaining he might “teach their child to be gay” with his classroom Pride flag

Our deep American nightmarescape in a nutshell: Someone said “you have to be middle-of-the-road on human rights”, out loud, to another person.

[GoatCheezInfrno]

Discover the hilariously epic failure of a crypto-fueled libertarian cruise

“That’s libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.”

[Sally_Mahoney]

Watch this J6 rally participant's astounding reaction to a CNN reporter showing him video of the attack on the Capitol

Kudos to the reporter for saying this: “So many people who just believe their own thing. Nothing is based on fact, on truth, reality, just people who wanna believe what they want to believe whether it is real or not.”

[Sally_Mahoney]

Students don't organize files anymore

People think that librarian is a dying job, but just wait until you need to find some bit of information and have no clue how to begin your search. “Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don’t ever piss one off. ” ~~Spider Robinson

[Immutable_Mike]

Lil Nas X covers "Jolene," gets nod from Dolly herself

They aren’t really on a pedestal at all, they just stand tall. It’s like they are on a pedestal because they pull others up.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Enjoy this gallery of memes celebrating Facebook and Instagram outages

This type of utilization and disruption clearly shows that whatever Facebook was or likes to describe itself as - it functions as a utility. And should be regulated as a utility.

[Sally_Mahoney]

I unclogged my sinuses using this technique

Could be. But I think it is vital to separate out the sense from the nonsense - and that is what science is for, to separate what is actually true from what seems to be true. Otherwise we are like pigeons in a Skinner box, dancing and spinning thinking we have the moves that make the box dispense treats when, in fact, the treats are given out at random, causing us to waste a great deal of time on delusions. I’d say that chiropractors as a group, though, are not known for their scientific rig…