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acwhite

@acwhite@mastodon.social

He/him. Interested in tech privacy, security, Daoism, Buddhism, progressive politics, history, baseball, genealogy, space, stuff, and things. Former Stephentown Democratic Committee Chair. Former Vice Chair Rensselaer County Democratic Committee. Former President Democracy for the Hudson-Mohawk Region.

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MattMerk, to random
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I just had a conversation with a guy who said, “Yeah, well I’m a capitalist.”

So I asked, “Okay, how much capital do you have?”

Boy, oh boy, does that question put things in perspective. He became a caricature of an old Warner Brothers cartoon character, trying to compose himself as he fumbled for words, all while he avoided actually answering the question.

So I simply repeated the question. I highly recommend.

acwhite,
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@MattMerk Ah yes, the classic...

"... temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

GottaLaff, to random
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Lawrence O’Donnell:

“We had a monster in the presidency not because of Donald , but because of the people who voted for Donald Trump and because of the people who worked for Donald Trump’s campaign to get him there. You get monsters like Donald Trump thanks to people like Hope Hicks.”

https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-you-get-monsters-like-donald-trump-thanks-to-people-like-hope-hicks-210249285691

acwhite,
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@GottaLaff And George Bush and Karl Rove and Dick Cheney and Dick Armey and Newt Gingrich and Tom Delay and Pat Buchanon and Roger Stone and Ronald Reagan and Pat Falwell and Grover Norquist and... the list goes on.

Donald Trump is the symptom not the disease.

acwhite, to random
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And it is official. It is 5:31pm, the end of my last work day. I am officially retired (last actual workday was Friday, April 12).

YEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWW

GottaLaff, to random
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A group of House Republicans tanked a procedural vote to begin debate on a bill to reauthorize the nation’s warrantless surveillance powers, leaving the chamber scrambling on how to address the important spy tool -The Hill

acwhite,
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@PJ_Evans @GottaLaff Apparently Trump told them he wanted it tanked so the 19 right wing whackos joined with Democrats to tank it.

acwhite, to random
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HAHAHAHA!

Ken Buck announces he will resign from congress next week.

Buck had previously announced he would not run for re-election. Lauren Boebert announced she would run in Buck's district instead of her own.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/12/politics/ken-buck-leaving-congress-early/index.html

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acwhite,
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Colorado law requires the Governor now call a special election to fill Buck's seat. Whoever wins the special will have a leg up running as the incumbent in the fall. So... Boebert must either resign her seat to run in the special or run against an incumbent in the fall or switch again and run in her current district.

Buck's district is a safe republican seat. Boebert's is not. Buck screwed Boebert with this move.

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Teri_Kanefield, to random
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Trump filed his reply in the immunity issue in the Supreme Court.

It's so bad it is embarrassing. It is exactly how not to write a legal document.

To review: The issue now is simply whether the Supreme Court will put the trial DC-J6 trial hold while it considers whether to grant cert (hear his appeal.)

Ordinarily the order is this:

💠 Person loses and files a writ for certiorari (which means asking SCOTUS to hear the appeal.
💠 SCOTUS decides whether to hear the case.

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acwhite,
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@Teri_Kanefield They are trying to act as if impeachment is a criminal prosecution in lieu of the courts.

To the best of my knowledge there is no standing theory that impeachment is a criminal proceeding.

It is purely political and is only about removing someone from office due to their conduct.

There are no criminal penalties or charges or anything.

Ridiculous.

acwhite, to random
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Substack relenting to anti-Nazi pressure?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/09/tech/substack-removes-newsletters-for-pro-nazi-content/index.html

acwhite,
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@kcarruthers Yes, I was about to update my post with the following:

Let's be very clear that Nazism is inherently violent. A Nazi doesn't need to call for or promote violence explicitly. It is a violent and deadly ideology and to identify as a Nazi, explicitly, by symbolism, or by quotation and language appropriation is to declare your support for violence.

acwhite,
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@kcarruthers Yup.

acwhite, to random
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Nearing midnight and the end of the year. I’ve seen several people sharing their reading lists for the past year. I shared my summer time list back in September. You can find it somewhere back in my timeline.

Since then I have finished Propaganda by Eward Bernays mentioned at the end of that post. It was good and interesting but a bit dated (he wrote it in 1928) https://archive.org/details/BernaysPropaganda .

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mekkaokereke, to random
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The T Pain live cover of War Pigs is fire 🔥🔥🔥

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=91ck0vJBygo&t=48m56s

acwhite,
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@mekkaokereke Oh yeah! That's happenin'!

acwhite, to random
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There are reasons why ancient peoples believed dragons existed.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/11/world/skull-pliosaur-fossil-documentary-intl-scli-scn/index.html

GottaLaff, to random
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Not everyone’s welcoming back Tom Suozzi - https://www.politico.com/newsletters/new-york-playbook/2023/10/12/not-everyones-welcoming-back-tom-suozzi-00121143

acwhite, (edited )
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@GottaLaff Suozzi is a self promoter that wants to be Governor and has for years now. He's never struck me as being that much different than Andrew Cuomo.

Anna Kaplan would have my support.

acwhite,
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@GottaLaff There are far worse but I wouldn't trust him farther than I can throw him.

acwhite, to random
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23andme breach is worse than originally reported.

https://www.wired.com/story/23andme-breach-sec-update/

br00t4c, (edited ) to random
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From Pixels to Punches: Geolocating a neo-Nazi and White Nationalist Combat Event in Los Angeles

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/11/16/from-pixels-to-punches-geolocating-a-neo-nazi-and-white-nationalist-combat-event-in-los-angeles/

acwhite,
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@br00t4c

heidilifeldman, to random
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Wow. How entitled do you have to be to keep arguing to a court that you are too busy to testify midweek because of childcare when a) your husband, the other parent of your child, is on the scene and b) you have plenty of money for a sitter and c) probably have a nanny? Ivanka, like her father, clearly thinks legal obligations are for other people. Appellate court didn’t buy it. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/03/ivanka-trump-must-testify-trump-organization-fraud

acwhite,
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@heidilifeldman

If you can't do the time (in court) don't do the crime.

realTuckFrumper, to random
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Republicans legislators claw back control of elections in key states https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/01/republicans-elections-key-states-2024-00124734?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

acwhite,
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@realTuckFrumper

"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes." - Joseph Stalin

acwhite, to random
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Now order it in North Carolina where they just gerrymandered a 50-50 state into an 80% Republican representation state.

"A federal judge on Thursday ordered Georgia to draw new congressional and state legislative maps, ruling that state legislators improperly diluted the political power of Black voters in establishing those boundaries following the 2020 census. "

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/26/politics/georgia-legislative-maps-order/index.html

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Scott MacFarlane

I asked Rep Don Bacon (R-NE) if the House GOP requires any to be a 2020 election denier. He said no… but then acknowledged it remains a divisive issue that is splintering the House GOP.

Bacon says he believes the results of the 2020 election

Yes, Rep Bacon says he’ll vote for Rep Johnson to be speaker. Other House Republicans, including Rep Ralph Norman (R-SC) predict overwhelming, if not unanimous, GOP vote for Johnson

acwhite,
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@GottaLaff Over three quarters of the way through and no Republican defections. Have to agree. Extremist election-denying Johnson will be the next Speaker.

emmreef, to random
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Has he claimed he doesn't know yet?

acwhite,
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@emmreef He was just the coffee boy.

acwhite, to random
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"‘This is her opportunity’: governor Kathy Hochul could forever unmask New York’s financial criminals

"A first-in-the-nation transparency act on Hochul’s desk would name those involved in financial crimes and potential money laundering"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/22/kathy-hochul-new-york-finance-real-estate-shell-corporations-llcs

acwhite,
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"A corporate lobbying group backed by Koch Industries is quietly pressing the Democratic New York governor, Kathy Hochul, not to sign a landmark transparency bill unmasking the owners of shell corporations involved in financial crimes, wage theft and tenant abuses."

maxkennerly, to random
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A big problem right now is how Netanyahu can't be PM without the support of the right-wing, and so, because Bibi's future is more important to him than Israel's, every important post has to go to an incompetent, corrupt, delusional, right-wing crank. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-22/ty-article/.premium/netanyahus-hostage-envoy-endangers-the-lives-of-all-those-kidnapped-by-hamas/0000018b-538a-df6e-a5db-77eec70e0000

acwhite,
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@maxkennerly

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