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Seth Anderson, a Chicago based photo and politics enthusiast, secular humanist, liberal, yadda yadda

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#TrumpTrial #Trump #legal 🧵starts HERE.

REMEMBER: I can’t/won’t reply while live-posting. Please use NFL (Not For Laffy) so I can skip your reply, but NO hashtag on that. Thx.

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Tyler McBrien::

Necheles rises to renew Trump's objection to Daniels testifying about any "sexual details," which she says has no relevance and is prejudicial.
By details, Merchan asks, more than just "we had sex"? Yes, Necheles says.

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@GottaLaff
NFL
but why would anyone not being paid to read them bother? Trump's books always seemed like infomercials for his "brand" more than anything legitimate

swanksalot , to random
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"traffic between Snapchat users & servers was encrypted, it required that Facebook effectively develop spyware capable of accessing this data before it was encrypted and transmitted over the internet" https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/29/details-emerge-of-facebooks-long-history-of-spying-on-encrypted-user-communications-across-different-apps-and-service/

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/29/details-emerge-of-facebooks-long-history-of-spying-on-encrypted-user-communications-across-different-apps-and-service/

Assume this is one of those stories that will inexplicably never appear on FB

GottaLaff , to random
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The Federal Trade Commission sued to block Kroger’s $25 billion bid for Albertsons, throwing into uncertainty one of the largest supermarket deals in history - WSJ

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@GottaLaff Good!

GottaLaff , to random
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More than 83 million people in US currently exposed yearly to "unhealthy' air quality as defined by EPA created by , according to a new report on Monday.

..represents 25% of the U.S. population..

..the air for 10 million falls in the "very unhealthy" levels and another 1.5 million are at "hazardous" levels” https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/02/12/air-quality-study-unhealthy/3301707744468/

swanksalot ,
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@GottaLaff in Chicago, I obsessively look at our AQI and gnash my teeth at our neighbor, Indiana, with its lax EPA

GottaLaff , to random
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So now I'm getting:

How DARE you not want to talk about something here? You're a political commentator! You're required to talk about what I want to talk about!

Not if it results in troll swarms I don't.

Not if I choose not to I don't.

Not if I don't feel qualified to I don't.

Not if it brings out the worst in people I don't.

Nor do I demand that others discuss what I want to discuss.

Kthxbye.

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@GottaLaff Undoubtedly you are sick of discussing trolls, but this does remind me of people who get mad at musicians for not playing their "hits" or whatever. Famously like when Bob Dylan went electric and people would boo. Humans should not be considered puppets that others can control

swanksalot , to random
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Goodbye Ron "DeSantis spent some $150 million to try to win one primary. If you do the math, that’s around $6,400 for each vote he actually received on caucus day. That’s more than 10 times the previous record set by Michael Bloomberg, who spent $450 per voter only to come up similarly empty." https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/goodbye-ron-good-luck-nikki/

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