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Longtime maker of content who, the whole time, thought he was a writer, editor, broadcaster and podcaster. Can still do those things. Now mostly a musician named The King Teen. See links. Bio photo is a famous person who isn't me.

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futurebird , to random
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In Oklahoma they are passing a law to mandate a Bible be in every classroom.

I don't have as much of an issue with this as I do with hanging the (Protestant Evangelical) ten commandments on the wall. The Bible, like many other religious texts is an important book...

Just one little question:

Which Bible?

Ya'll say "The Bible" like you have a Pope and there is only one. That's not true. So... which one?

If you don't know then maybe you are not qualified to make such mandates.

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kingkaufman ,
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@futurebird

If I were a teacher there I would teach about nothing but the Sermon on the Mount.

OK, we're starting a 3-week unit on "Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven."

Then we'll have 4 weeks on "Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you."

And then we'll have 2 weeks on "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them," which is about infallibility, because if you've ever watched how hard birds work you know that Jesus didn't know fuck-all about birds, so what else was he ignorant about hmm?

Let's see, then 2 weeks on "Do not judge, or you too will be judged ..."

kingkaufman , to random
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Daniel Dale is CNN's fact checker. He's fact-checking the debate in real time on his Twitter feed.

There are a couple things Biden's said that Dale says are not quite right, or need some context explained to be technically true.

Other than that, it's dozens and dozens of tweets pointing out Trump's bald-faced lies.

Some reason CNN isn't running this as a Chyron on the broadcast?

luckytran , to random
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Your regular reminder that COVID is a bipartisan failure.

kingkaufman ,
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This is a misleading chart. The death toll re-set to 0 in January 2021?

futurebird , to random
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So of ya'll talk about "reply guys" on Mastodon. And yeah that exists, but it's like the least annoying of the gruesome menagerie I used to deal with every day on X social media.

There were:

  • Stalker
  • Mr. Race Science
  • Always Wrong, Thinks He's Right
  • Mr. I'm Making This About Politics
  • Ms. Gender(ing everyone for no reason)
  • Mr. Just Plain Racist
  • Mr. I thought I blocked you?
  • Mr. "I know where you work"

and on and on

kingkaufman ,
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@futurebird @sinituulia @tob

What app do you use that lets you quote boost? I use web on desktop and Metatext on iPhone, both choices I made the day I signed up and haven't thought about since, as is my wont. I miss quote-posting.

kingkaufman ,
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@futurebird @sinituulia @tob

Oh wait I think I misread and you can't do it and miss it too.

kingkaufman ,
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@futurebird @sinituulia @tob

Yes I agree. And I agree with you that, given the quotee doesn't object, quote-boosts are an actively positive feature.

wdlindsy , to random
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"Americans are woefully ill-informed. That’s the only conclusion one can reach from a bunch of new polls that are chronicled in the links section below.

According to a new Harris poll for the Guardian, 55% of respondents think the economy is shrinking, 56% think the U.S. is in a recession, 49% believe the S&P 500 stock market index is down for the year, and 49% believe that unemployment is at a 50 year high."

~ Brian Rosenwald


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https://brianrosenwald.substack.com/p/what-you-need-to-know-about-politics-02a

kingkaufman ,
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@wdlindsy

They're not ill-informed. They're disinformed.

kingkaufman ,
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@wdlindsy

Sorry didn't see it. My brain stopped seeing hashtags a long time ago.

GottaLaff , to random
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lol

kingkaufman ,
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@GottaLaff

NFL
To be fair, the best possible scenario of a Situation Room in a Trump administration is Trump being sleep.

GottaLaff , to random
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It's like has a fascist checklist.
"Gaslighting: ✔️
Authoritarianism: ✔️
Political dissident: ✔️"

Via Ruth Ben-Ghiat:

Going strong since Mussolini: the tyrant as victim. Now Trump is a dissident persecuted by the "Biden regime."

: I stand before you today not only as your past and hopefully future president. But as a proud political dissident, I am a dissident.

kingkaufman ,
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@GottaLaff

You realize he's started saying this because, in the wake of Navalny's death, he's learned the word "dissident."

GottaLaff , to random
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1/… Klasfeld:

has entered the courtroom.

He surveyed the gallery and making no eye contact with before reaching the defense table and sitting down, between his lawyers.

kingkaufman ,
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@GottaLaff

I'm reasonably sure you're statistically more likely to get shot in the state of Florida than you are in New York City.

Someone less lazy than I would have to run down the numbers, but I'd be willing to bet real money on that proposition.

kingkaufman , to random
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Late last night, I checked the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, the three major legit networks news sites. None of them were treating this as a big story.

The NYTimes and CNN had it near the top of their front page, but with several stories played bigger. None of the others even had the story on their front pages.

A candidate for president, and a former president, saying he would encourage Russia to attack our allies. Not news.

You know what was big news, presented as a bigger story than this, by orders of magnitude? Trump asking where Nikki Haley's husband is.

Your liberal media at work.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68266447

wdlindsy , to random
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A thread of commentary today on the ugly games Congressional Republicans are playing as Trump pulls their strings and they block aid to Ukraine and torpedo the border bill they claim desperately to want. Heather Cox Richardson quotes Senator Brian Schatz,

“I’ve never seen anything like it. They literally demanded specific policy, got it, and then killed it.”


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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-5-2024

kingkaufman ,
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@wdlindsy

Inability is a flamboyantly wrong word choice here, but I admire the cockeyed optimism of people who say things like "When future historians ..."

kingkaufman , to random
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We no longer have political coverage.

We have an extended immersive theater performance of Waiting for Godot.

Screenshot of the top of the Washington Post website the morning after the 2024 Iowa caucuses. Text visible is the Washington Post flag at the top, with the slogan Democracy Dies in Darkness, then below that an "Election 2024" logo and the top story headline: The Take Analysis Iowa was always Trump’s. Can anyone stop his march to the nomination? By Dan Balz
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