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Manjushri

@ Manjushri @piefed.social

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  • 'Organized People Won': Aisha Wahab Defeats Millions in AIPAC Spending to Win US House Race

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  • Why do we not have more challengers?

    Probably because until now it there wasn't a reasonable expectation to win. Before the last cycle or two, the few progressive candidates that had the resources to run tended to get plowed under in the primaries and rarely saw the light of day by the time the general elections rolled around. That will hopefully change now because of victories like this and the fact that progressives are now seen to be winning in primaries around the country, even against established, old-guard democrats. Many more progressive hopefuls may now see a realistic path to office and throw their hats into the ring allowing even more establishment dems to be rousted from office.

    As you can see, I'm very hopeful that this is the start of something big. I know that there are many things that could derail this, not the least of which is the authoritarian take over of the federal government, but hope is what I got, so I'm clinging to it. If the nation survives another election or two, we could see huge changes in this country.

  • Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera

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  • I was surprised too. According to this site, in Ohio, vandalism is a fifth-degree felony when the damage is "$1,000+ on business property or serious physical harm to government/school/cemetery property." The penalty for a fifth-degree felony is 6-12 months in prison, plus fines. Any charge that can result in 1 year or more in prison has to go before a Grand Jury.

  • What's your favorite song lyric?

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  • Hmmm, right you are. I blame my oncoming senility. Thanks.

  • What's your favorite song lyric?

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  • From the Eagles, The Last Resort. I love the whole song but this verse hits me hardest. 

       
        
Who will provide the grand design?  
What is yours and what is mine?  
'Cause there is no more new frontier  
But we have got to make it here  
We satisfy our endless needs  
And justify our bloody deeds  
In the name of destiny  
And in the name of God

  • Justice Department to send a record 1,000 monitors to polling places in midterm elections

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  • A department official added that the recruitment will target DOJ employees,

    Read: ICE agents.

  • Democratic socialist Angie Nixon clinches surprise primary win in Florida US Senate race

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  • Yes, because they need to maintain the narrative that progressive candidates are 'fringe' and only ever win by chance or cheating. That way when the general election comes around, potential progressive voters will be disinclined to vote for the progressive candidate, or they may just not go vote at all, because they have been convinced that the progressive can't really win.

  • ‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit / ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 millio…

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  • I agree. If you use a gun to kill someone, then you are the killer, not the gun. If you use an AI to lie in court, then you are the liar, not the AI, and you should be charged accordingly. The AI, like the gun, is just the tool used by a person to commit the crime.

  • DeSantis appointee Michael Caruso arrested on child sex abuse charges

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  • Minnesota attorney general sues Texas governor to compel extradition of ICE agent for trial

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  • Ellison told a news conference that unless he’s extradited, Castro could be released from jail as early as next week — 90 days since he was detained — under Texas law. And if he’s freed, Castro could slip into Mexico from the border town where he’s being held, Ellison said. The lawsuit said Castro has been making calls from jail to a woman in Mexico, talking “about marrying her and buying a house in Mexico when he is released.”

    So a former ICE officer is going to go to Mexico to hide from American law enforcement after shooting and brutalizing Mexican immigrants in the USA? I'm thinking that Castro may not have thought his cunning plan all the way through. There are going to be a lot of people down there who have family members who have been, or are currently being abused by ICE. I suspect he is going to disappear one evening and they'll never find all of him to bury. It may not be the justice we want, but it may be all the justice we're going to get.

  • New CNBC Generation Lab poll shows almost half of 18- to 34-year-olds favor democratic socialism

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  • Right? With the media shit talking Bernie and AOC and the rest, I'm honestly surprised it's as high as they say it is.

  • rice crispy box

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  • Well that's a funny name for a cat, but I like it. Carry on. Nice box.

  • USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying

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  • And this is the real reason he's doing it. Maybe, just maybe, the orange turd isn't an enemy agent, but that doesn't matter. The simple fact is, there is almost nothing an enemy agent could do to hurt this country that our current president isn't already doing. Having an actual card-carrying Russian plant running the white house would not be measurably worse for the USA than having Trump in there.

  • USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying

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  • The party of white-life.

  • Chuck Schumer's future in doubt—Full list of Democrats rallying against him

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  • No he's on their side. It's pretty clear from his description of them that the Baileys vote republican.

  • Tim Hortons employee won’t face criminal charges in death of customer

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  • 100% correct. Back in the late 70s/early 80s I had an uncle, technically my grandmothers brother. He'd never married and she was widowed so they shared a house together. In retrospect, I think he was probably a closeted gay man.

    Anyway, All through my young years he was a very kind and generous man. Smart too. He bought a Commodore home computer when they first came out and let me play games on it. He used it to write up a family history of everything he knew about our family's past. He also make a cookbook of all my grandmother's recipes. He printed both of those out and gave a copy to every household in the family. He had a shocking level of technological aptitude for a 60ish year old man in the early 80s.

    Then one day he changed. I was young and nobody told me exactly what it was. Maybe a stroke or something. From that day on he was as mean as a snake. He'd rip into anyone over anything. Not violently, I don't think, anyway. But he'd scream and swear and slam things and be generally viscous. It was as if my uncle just died and was replaced by a scary, mean old-man who looked just like him.

    While this woman may have been a bitch all her life, I've known plenty of healthy, young people who were no better than this. She might also have been emotionally disturbed and no longer the person that she was. Without more information, we'll never know.

  • Critter admiring his shadow

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  • I'm glad you are appeasing Bob Barker's ghost. Better that than taking the chance that your little guy might someday mate and add to the avalanche of hundreds of thousands of cats and kittens euthanized every year? And that's just in the United States.

  • ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks

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  • ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices” for officers and agents by March

    Distraction and de-escalation? Gee that sounds very reasonable.

    Compliant Technologies says the devices function as a normal pair of patrol gloves until officers press a switch to activate their electrical mode. The gloves must be applied directly to someone’s skin to deliver a pain stimulus that typically helps an officer gain compliance within seconds, according to the company.

    Ah, so not so much a de-escalation tool as a compliance enforcement device. I'll give ten to one that within a month of deployment we hear stories of them grabbing some poor sod by the nuts with them to make him unlock his phone.

  • uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook

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  • Fascinating. After reading your post I went back and tried it. When I tap Reader Mode, it switches over fro just a second or so and then switches back to the regular page. I've never seen that before.

  • Every generation believing they are the first generation to be fed up with the way things are

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  • To paraphrase a commenter under that video; If you told me in 1985 that this song would bring a tear to my eye in 2026, I would have laughed at you, but here we are.