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Ertebolle

@ Ertebolle @kbin.social

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  • Tim Scott, lone Black Republican in US Senate, ends White House bid

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    Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all counts at fraud trial over crypto exchange FTX

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  • Jonah Hill. Or Josh Gad. Or Daniel Day-Lewis comes out of retirement and acts the fuck out of a fat 30-year-old man-child crypto scammer.

  • Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis

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  • xkcd still has the best approach to this; four random common words

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    Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all counts at fraud trial over crypto exchange FTX

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  • Being incredibly guilty and having a jury that's going to have to come back next week if they don't finish by 8pm is a dangerous mix.

  • Tuberville staffer asks anti-abortion groups to float primaries against Republicans who oppose military holds

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  • This... doesn't seem like it would work - "Senator blahdeblah voted for 300 military promotions and also abortions are bad and for some complicated reason we can't explain in a 30-second clip those two things have something to do with each other, so anyway please vote for me, a sentient pair of truck nuts, instead"

  • New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels

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  • Me fail English? That's unpossible!

  • Geordie, er, Han shot first

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  • And this was only like the 3rd worst thing to happen to O'Brien that day

  • Democrats say they won’t save McCarthy Speakership

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  • Well that's why they demand the Republicans hold up their end first - the would-be Speaker and a couple of his/her allies sign a discharge petition to implement whatever it is they agreed to, and only after that passes do the Democrats support them.

  • Democrats say they won’t save McCarthy Speakership

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  • An under-appreciated point here is that with McCarthy gone, the math for somebody else to become Speaker is that much harder, and the odds of that person needing to rely on Democratic votes - and to make major, major concessions to get them - commensurately higher; in other words, just because McCarthy wouldn't make a deal with Democrats to remain Speaker, it doesn't mean that somebody else won't eventually make one to become Speaker.

  • "The Trump empire ... will fold like a stack of cards," says former prosecutor

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  • Checkmate.

  • Exclusive: John Kelly goes on the record to confirm several disturbing stories about Trump | CNN Politics

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  • That train left the station a loooooong time ago, Johnny boy

  • A riled Trump sounds off outside the New York fraud trial that accuses him of lying about wealth

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  • I think the judge gives him an extremely stern last-chance warning tomorrow and if he does it again, he gets cited for contempt. Doesn't have to be much, chuck him in a private cell in the Manhattan Detention Center for 1 night with Secret Service outside the door, but it seriously hurts the rule of law to have him able to get away with this sort of crap with no consequences.

  • Could airlines be forced to stop charging for carry-on bags?

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  • There's legitimately not enough space for everyone to bring a carry-on, especially on smaller planes; until that changes, carry-on fees are as good a way to allocate that space as any.

  • Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines

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  • This is great + well-deserved, plus it has the side benefit of making some of the world's worst people really, really mad.

  • Gaming out Matt Gaetz’s bid to oust Kevin McCarthy

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  • The other side of the argument is that McCarthy is the GOP’s greatest fundraiser, and getting rid of him would help Democrats take back the House. No replacement for McCarthy would have the same set of relationships and the donor network and political operation.

    This is, to me, the winning argument - it hurts them politically, both by taking away their best fundraiser and by replacing him with somebody who's likely to be even more extreme and so do even more dumb things the Democrats can campaign against. A McCarthy replacement is even likely to shut down the government in 45 days than McCarthy is, and for Democrats that's probably a good thing - Republicans screwing up air travel right before Thanksgiving and taking away government employees' paychecks right before Christmas.

    Is it good for the country, maybe not, but Republicans losing the House in 2024 will do several orders of magnitude more good for the country than whatever harm might be done by that short-term idiocy.

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    GOP senators say they won't stop Democrats from replacing Feinstein on Judiciary Committee

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  • My point is that the likelihood of the Democrats immediately turning around and using that new standard themselves is quite high here. It would be equivalent to what would happen if Thomas or Alito dies in the next few months and the Democrats promptly announce that they're going to go ahead and confirm his replacement in an election year just like Republicans did for Ginsburg, except with the actuarial odds of a 90 year old instead of a 75 year old.

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    GOP senators say they won't stop Democrats from replacing Feinstein on Judiciary Committee

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  • Chuck Grassley is 90, and he was just re-elected in 2022, which means he'll still be there when he's 95. The life expectancy of a 90-year-old man is 3.72 years. And, thanks to Senate seniority bullshit, he's on Judiciary.

    So it is more likely than not that Grassley will keel over (or resign) before he completes his term, which means that breaking this precedent now would have almost certainly backfired on them in the next few years.

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    First Trump RICO defendant takes plea agreement

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  • Congratulations to rat #1, may your journey away from the sinking ship be slightly less cold and wet and miserable than the next rat's.

  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Planning to Announce Independent Run

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  • 41 percent of Democrats have an at least somewhat favorable view of Kennedy

    Yeah, no. I'd guess that only a single-digit % of Democrats - mostly Extremely Online ones - have any idea who he is; this is a survey where they pressed for lukewarm responses from mostly-uninformed voters and then pretended that it actually reflected public opinion in a meaningful way.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Sen. Dianne Feinstein, an 'icon for women in politics,' dies at 90, source confirms

    abc7news.com /senator-dianne-feinstein-dead-obituary-san-francisco-mayor-cable-car/13635510/
  • Games @sh.itjust.works
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    Starfield Bug Forces Players to Change Gender to Fire Guns

    www.404media.co /starfield-bug-forces-players-to-get-change-gender-to-fire-guns/
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Italians cope with invasion of blue crabs this summer

    www.boston.com /news/food/2023/08/20/italians-cope-with-invasion-of-blue-crabs-this-summer/
  • News @kbin.social
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    UPS reaches contract with 340,000 unionized workers, averting potentially calamitous strike

    apnews.com /article/ups-teamsters-strike-labor-logistics-delivery-a94482dbff7bfb67ad82f607ab127672
  • World News @beehaw.org
    Ertebolle @kbin.social

    UPS reaches contract with 340,000 unionized workers, averting potentially calamitous strike

    apnews.com /article/ups-teamsters-strike-labor-logistics-delivery-a94482dbff7bfb67ad82f607ab127672
  • Reddit @lemmy.world
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    After spending the last day as a rocket ship, there's now an active effort underway to reconstruct the /r/place guillotine

  • Reddit @lemmy.world
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    /r/place going full-on French Revolution now

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    As long as we're reviving old memes...