Heather Cox Richardson writes today about how Trump and MAGA are working feverishly to turn Comey's snapshot of some rocks on the beach into a sinister plot — working feverishly to distract us from Trump's glarding failure in so many ways. She says,
"In his newsletter today, retired entrepreneur Bill Southworth tallied the times Trump has grabbed headlines to distract people from larger stories…"
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MAGA world is performing over-the-top outrage over a photo former Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey posted on Instagram, where he has been teasing a new novel.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"Ich kenne auch nicht die Namen ihrer Mörder. Aber ich kenne die Namen der Generäle, Politiker und Staatsoberhäupter, die dies zugelassen haben."@yairwallach.bsky.social #Gaza #Israel
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Drivers at three busy intersections in Kingston, Ont., had no way of knowing they were being watched earlier this month, but high above them police hovered, zooming in to catch those using their phones while behind the wheel.
#technology #law #driving #Kingston #News #Canada
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La doppia morale dell’Occidente: volenterosi per l’Ucraina, vili su Gaza
L’esempio più clamoroso è quello dei “volenterosi”, la coalizione guidata dal presidente francese Macron e dal premier inglese Starmer di cui fanno parte tra gli altri la presidente Ue Von der Leyen e il segretario Nato Rutte.Claudio Visani (Globalist.it)
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Private Credit Strains Are Keeping Advisors Busy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-05-17/private-credit-strains-are-keeping-advisors-busy?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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following a bird
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kodak tri-x 400 (taken by praktica mtl5), film developed in perceptol (1:3, 16.5 min, 21°C), scanned and edited
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Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees | TechCrunch
Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees, after a previous attempt to hire one didn't go as planned.Julie Bort (TechCrunch)
È arrivato quel momento. Quella puntata. Oggi Be Radio compie ufficialmente 10 anni! E noi festeggiamo alla grande con una puntata spettacolare, ripercorrendo proprio quella prima, introvabile puntata, custodita solo in una cassaforte blindata nell'archivio di Andrea. Gli sketch del 2015 funzioneranno ancora adesso? Lo scopriremo assieme!
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A plataformas e ferramentas digitais impulsionam a gestão de projetos, tarefas e tomada de decisão coletiva, se consolidando como uma alternativa eficiente as Bigs Techs estrangeiras, colaborando diretamente para a segurança e soberania digital do Brasil.
INSCRIÇÕES 👇🏾
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Redes das Produtoras Colaborativas inicia Qualificação Digital Nacional dos Pontos e Pontões de Cultura - Colaborativas.NET
As formações começam segunda-feira (19), com o objetivo de apresentar tecnologias livres atualizadas pela Rede para utilização dos Pontos eSandro Barros (Colaborativas.NET)
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Il 15enne scomparso a Caserta nello scorso gennaio ritrovato morto nel torinese
Ne ha dato notizia il sindaco di Mondragone Francesco Lavanga sul suo profilo Facebook [.....]
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Il 15enne scomparso a Caserta nello scorso gennaio ritrovato morto nel torinese
Ne ha dato notizia il sindaco di Mondragone Francesco Lavanga sul suo profilo Facebook […..]Torino Notizie | Gaiaitalia.com Notizie
Join me at noon EST (just over an hour from now) for a live stream about the unscientific methods used in the poll industry, and how to fix them.
If you enjoy good science, or learning new things, you'll enjoy it
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LIVE SOON: How to Make Polling a Respectable Science
Starting May 17 at 12:00 PM EDTopen.substack.com
📸 Capturing life’s beauty through #Flower 🌻 #Photography: "A day of Smelling Flowers" - Wart-leaf Ceanothus
#flowers #Wart-leafCeanothus #flowerphotography #jlwerstroh #janetwerstroh #calgary #macro #nikon #macrolens #alberta #wildflowers #jlwalbertaphotography #canada #calgaryphotographer #flowerphotography
Hamas to the Arab Summit: Stop the genocide in Gaza and impose sanctions on the fascist [Israeli] occupation.
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حماس للقمة العربية: لوقف الإبادة في غزة وفرض عقوبات على الاحتلال الفاشي
حماس توجّه رسالة إلى القمة العربية تطالب فيها بالعمل على وقف الحرب المستمرة على قطاع غزة.الميادين نت (حماس للقمة العربية: لوقف الإبادة في غزة وفرض عقوبات على الاحتلال الفاشي)
Have you updated your iPhone yet?
Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #141 (05/15/2025) - Desk Chair Analysts
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#Tech #Gaming #Updates #Deals #Podcast
Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #141 (05/15/2025)
https://youtu.be/xbjxDMDTdEU Tech You can now claim your piece of Apple's $95 million Siri privacy settlement Panasonic will slash its global workforce by 10,000 Google settles lawsuit that accused it of fostering systemic bias against Black employee…MajorLinux (Desk Chair Analysts)
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#DOGE has turned its attention to small, #independent entities
NPR has identified close to 40 entities — inside, adjacent to & OUTSIDE of the #government — where DOGE & the #Trump admin have turned their attention in recent weeks.
It's the latest example of how DOGE is attempting to expand its reach beyond high-profile Cabinet agencies, & in some cases far beyond the #ExecutiveBranch & the #FederalGovernment entirely.
#law #SeparationOfPowers #AmericanAutocracy
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"and interviews with employees who were granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly and fear retaliation from the Trump administration."
I don't get it, how else will they retaliate but cutting their jobs, which they are slated to do anyway.
All they need to do is dox them. The gaggle of thugs will take it from there.
They have families to consider.
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Physically, I’m nearly his age, and I remember Man-Tan coming out when I was a teenager.
Old 60s civil-rights song:
“Well, there’s just one thing, / I don’t understan’: / Why the Southern Whites / Use Man-Tan.”
But the thing about Man-Tan is that’s not traditional make-up. It’s a chemical lotion that turns skin dark. And if you abuse it, it turns skin orange. It appears that, after about 60 years, the Syphilitic Orangutan hasn’t yet worked that out.
The Disney-ABC-Time-Warner-Microsoft machine -- exists only because we turn it on. If enough of us turn it off, it is gone. Think of it: It is in your power to plunge Bill Gates into poverty, to send Peter Jennings off to 'Good Morning, Saskatchewan,' to rid the world of Disney-licensed products, to see Martha Stewart and Jerry Springer reduced to talking only to each other. Disconnect now!
-- Michael Kelly (Editor-in-Chief, National Journal)
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MichaelKelly #Microsoft
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Hello Fedi friends!
I'm preparing a presentation for a conference. The title: "The Rebellion will be self-hosted: Resisting the Digital Coup with #YunoHost"
I'm trying to describe how @yunohost has had a positive impact on my life. It's so hard to do so in 10 minutes or less 😅
A routine reminder that #YunoHost has a fundraising drive for the year so if you self-host through them and can afford to donate, any euro / dollar / yen counts: yunohost.org/donate.en.html Their volunteers are amazing ❤️
YunoHost: garden your own piece of the Internet!
YunoHost is a system that installs itself on a server and allows you to install and maintain - with very little technical knowledge - digital services (apps) that you control.yunohost.org
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I'm using yunohost within political collectives to bootstrap independent organizational infrastructure (mostly nocodb+n8n for custom systems, mattermost for chat, plus nextcloud for file sharing).
If you ever want to produce content, either educational or agitprop, about similar stacks, feel free to reach out. I have an endless backlog of stuff I have no capacity to self-produce.
"Former White House lawyers, diplomatic protocol officers and foreign affairs experts have told the Guardian that Donald Trump’s receipt of overseas gifts and targeted investments are 'unprecedented', as the White House remakes US foreign policy under a pay-for-access code that eclipses past administrations with characteristic Trumpian excess."
~ Andrew Roth
#Trump #corruption #bribery #Qatar #SaudiArabia
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‘Very disturbing’: Trump receipt of overseas gifts unprecedented, experts warn
White House remakes foreign policy under pay-for-access code that critics say could violate US constitutionAndrew Roth (The Guardian)
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💻 La fine di un'era? Surface Laptop Studio 2 chiude la linea innovativa, lasciando un segno indelebile in global tech. #SurfaceLaptopStudio2 #TechNews
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Surface Laptop Studio 2: la fine di una linea innovativa
Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio verso la fine: l'innovativo portatile con cerniera dinamica potrebbe non avere una terza generazione.Andrea Maiellano (Tom's Hardware)
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Bienkov “nails” the “empty suit” known as Sir Keir Starmer!
“The Founding Myth of Morgan McSweeney”
by Adam Bienkov in Folded With Adam Bienkov on Substack
“If it was in any way clear what Starmer actually believes in and wants to do with the job, then it would matter far less which advisers he does and doesn’t choose to hire”
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#Press #UK #Labour #Starmer #KidStarver #BenefitsHarmer #McSweeney #Austerity #Factionalism #FarRight #Election #Results #Farage
The Founding Myth of Morgan McSweeney
Reports of Keir Starmer's chief adviser's supposed campaigning genius do not appear to match up with the factsAdam Bienkov (Folded with Adam Bienkov)
Self-Hosted Software and Apps
A directory of self-hosted software and applications for easy browsing and discoveryEthan Sholly (selfh.st)
Le maestranze tutte della #mastofficina si riuniscono in un caloroso abbraccio collettivo per ringraziare @rapitadaglialieni per questo splendido cartello 😍
Secondo me ne servirebbe uno pure nella #mastocartoleria …
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Mark Squires
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Well, they are obsessed by conspiratorial narratives. But on the merits, through my life "86" didn't mean anything but "jettison."
"86 the mayo in that sandwich."
I can't recall a single instance off hand where it had anything to do with violence. Has it mutated with the 20-somethings? Dunno. But Comey is not a 20-something.
This is just another example of abrogating the 1st amendment and making Americans afraid.
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in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Southworth calls this 'narrative warfare,' and while it is true that Republican leaders have seeded a particular false narrative for decades now, this technique is also known as 'political technology' or 'virtual politics.' This system, pioneered in Russia under Russian president Vladimir Putin, is designed to get people to vote an authoritarian into office by creating a fake world of outrage."
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