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2024 election results mega thread for reference. It will be updated as more studies of the 2024 election become available. Includes some comparisons to the 2020 election as well to help illustrate some points about the real world impacts of the electoral college and how Harris did vs Biden.
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Ashton Pittman
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Sounds like we need smarter executives who aren't so lazy.
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Ryan Goodman
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Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon âNo Quarterâ Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2
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pixelatedboat aka âmr blueskyâ
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With his new comedy show and debut novel, is it time to let Louis C.K. force women to watch him masturbate again?
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
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Guess this is going to turn into one of those posts that I have to repost every few months now as the United States government is fully rebuilding itself as a white power institution and setting the stage for mass ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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Annaleigh Watts đ˛đ˝
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Mind you, most of the Latin Americans these pigs are kidnapping are or have ancestry Indigenous to the Americas. We are way more American than Stephen Miller or Kristi Gnome or JD Vance.
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Mark Jacob
3 days ago
Homeland Security doesnât grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making âroom at the tableâ for European âinvaders.â
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Lee Knox Ostertag
3 days ago
My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy? Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy Nephew: How??? Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine Nephew: ⌠Nephew, bragging now: IâM a boy and I didnât even HAVE to go to the doctor
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regular meghan đ ëěě§ đľđ¸
3 days ago
after hours of burning the scaffolding is still standingâthe netting is toast. this is due to cutting corners re: fire retardant netting and other materials but it isnât the bamboo
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Emissary Of Night | ŮŮŮŮ
3 days ago
For the third time, Israeli Jews crossed further into occupied Syria, past the Israeli-occupied Golan into the rest of Israeli occupied Syria, and attempted to establish a settlement.
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Settler activists cross into Syria, are returned by IDF after brief pursuit | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/settler-activists-cross-into-syria-are-returned-by-idf-after-brief-pursuit/amp/
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Chad Loder
4 days ago
Politicians who make political decisions to deploy the military into situations that get service members killed for no good reason. They need to be held accountable.
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aziz
4 days ago
Truly bonkers stats that should give us pause
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Hagen Blix
4 days ago
"Actually, you harmed us by using our chatbot in a way that made us look bad" is straight out of the abuser's handbook
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ChatGPT firm blames boyâs suicide on âmisuseâ of its technology
OpenAI responds to lawsuit claiming its chatbot encouraged California teenager to kill himself
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/26/chatgpt-openai-blame-technology-misuse-california-boy-suicide
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Chantzy
4 days ago
Mystery why so many kids are struggling with mental health when we're doing the "let it rip" strategy for Covid transmission in schools
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Adam Isacson
4 days ago
Just posted this on Monday. As the sirens and helicopters sound off in the distance, I'm thinking about the young part-time soldiers I was just talking to. We must continue to insistâeven more forcefully todayâthat this is absolutely not an appropriate mission for U.S. military personnel.
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LittleKuriboh
4 days ago
If nearly everyone had an STD, Iâd still want people to disclose that shit.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton
4 days ago
I know if my family member was shot and killed because you wanted to drag the military on a civil rights violation tour to cities with black mayors you felt were too uppity, you would see me in court.
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"the animal". Ah yes, this dehumanizing language has been directed at a lot of groups, particularly by fascists.
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Mark Chadbourn
4 days ago
Suspect in custody so weâll see who they decide to blame.
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Kevin M. Kruse
4 days ago
Yeah, one of the real flaws with Bluesky is that if you make a post whose message is basically "hey, do the losers at this place still have a stick up their ass about my machine that steals their writing?" it attracts negative responses. It's a weird glitch, and it's certainly not *your* fault.
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Better Things Are Possible
4 days ago
Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against the demonic computers
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NY Times Pitchbot
4 days ago
I always say that it's better to hold off on blaming a particular political side for an act of violence. Here's why I'm blaming today's national guard shooting on the woke left.
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Chris Ingraham
4 days ago
From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.
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Paresh Dave
4 days ago
Amazon employees sound off on the alleged current harms of AI, including worsening the environment, fueling authoritarian behavior, and making work less fun
www.wired.com/story/amazon...
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Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Companyâs âAll-Costs-Justifiedâ Approach to AI Development
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising âserious concernsâ about the companyâs âaggressive rolloutâ of artificial intelligence tools.
https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-employees-open-letter-artificial-intelligence-layoffs/
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Saxxon Fox đ Furfest
4 days ago
nose down ass up that's the way we cyberstuck
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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name)
4 days ago
newsone.com/6640144/blac...
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Black Womenâs Unemployment Rate Rising Disproportionately
Rep. Ayanna Pressley has continually pressured the Federal Reserve into taking action to combat the rise in Black womenâs unemployment.
https://newsone.com/6640144/black-women-unemployment-rate-rising-disproportionately/
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
4 days ago
Trump v. United States remains a uniquely, historically terrible decision John Roberts remains a uniquely, historically terrible Supreme Court justice
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
4 days ago
"I begin the process of evaluating this case with a basic truth: It is not illegal to question or challenge election results" bitch, what about telling Georgia's Secretary of State to "find 11,780 votes" ?
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Salt M. Bank đľđ¸
4 days ago
Walking back into a party I stole all the drinks and snacks from: is this place open minded about innovation yet?
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Josh Sternberg
4 days ago
MGT has seen her networth jump from $700k to $25 million since joining Congress in 2021. And she served juuust long enough to get a lifetime tax payer-funded pension. She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke
What the Georgia representative learned in Washington
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
4 days ago
fuck you the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
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Simply Having A Wonderful Breakdown Of Society Time
4 days ago
Saying Bruna Fereira had a âfamily connectionâ to Karoline Leavitt is like saying Nicole Brown had a family connection to OJ Simpson.
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Raimo Kangasniemi
4 days ago
"The study... was published in the peer-reviewed journal Population Health Metrics. The researchers estimate that between 99,997 & 125,915 Palestinians died in
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between 7 October 2023 & 6 October 2025, with a median estimate of 112,069."
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251126-wit...
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With over 112,000 killed, new study links Gazaâs massacre to past genocides
A devastating new study has found that more than 112,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Israel launched its assault in October 2023. This figure, drawn from the most extensivâŚ
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251126-with-over-112000-killed-new-study-links-gazas-massacre-to-past-genocides/
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Paul Rietschka
4 days ago
If AI use weâre soaring youâd see people like me, a data scientist, have substantively altered workflows. Thatâs not been the case, and note Iâm not some Luddite hiding out in a back office still lamenting the decline of Perl. The cycle Iâve seen is rollout-then-abandonment, esp. w/agents.
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NY Times Pitchbot
4 days ago
Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Princeton graduate, was unable to comprehend that photographs create mirror images of their subjects. Here's why affirmative action has lowered the standards of Ivy League admissions.
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Simply Having A Wonderful Breakdown Of Society Time
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1. Bruna Fereira is not a Leavitt 2. She did nothing to deserve this 3. If youâre going to use xenophobic memes to blame for what is very American propaganda, use alt text
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton
4 days ago
I cannot even imagine a joy like this.
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weeder
4 days ago
Computing going well, good computing everyone
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Radley Balko
4 days ago
Update: Despite the best efforts of the local prosecutor, Duncan is getting out as I type this. First day of freedom in three decades. Hereâs a text from his aunt.
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If your employer uses Benevity, Native Organizers Alliance is a participating organization. In the case of my company, my donation will be matched 100%, doubling the impact!
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The Lever
4 days ago
đ¨ BREAKING: Days after Exxon asked SCOTUS to give corporations a First Amendment right to hide pollution, RealPage is now arguing that AI companies have a First Amendment right to help landlords collude to raise rents.
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Tessa Duvall
4 days ago
That kind of behavior gets you nominated for an award in Louisville:
www.courier-journal.com/story/news/p...
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The Author, SĂŠamas O'Reilly
5 days ago
Is this seat that looks like it has a Derry accent conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person, perhaps one of your da's mates saying "Did ye aye mucker, right enough?". Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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Solomon
4 days ago
The parts of Christianity we've invested ENTIRELY too much time in Who going with who where do they "be" putting "it" who gets to preach the sermons which method of baptism How many ethically consenting and informed "boos" you running none of which make you a better Christian
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Keyah
7 days ago
Short documentary about Keira and her family, and two other Greenlandic families that have had their children forcibly removed by Denmark based off the FKU test.
youtu.be/kzTmuc23cFI
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Aparna Nair
5 days ago
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levelsâthey want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
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Emily Atkin
5 days ago
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water. What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains. And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
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AIâs water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregonâs nitrate pollution crisis.
https://heated.world/p/data-centers-arent-just-guzzling
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That Erin
5 days ago
Hey folks, if you arenât already vaccinated, or donât know your status, get vaccinated and protect babies who may be too young to get their shots. Itâs easy and painless, and mine was free with my insurance, so talk to your healthcare provider and do the thing!
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Carl Quintanilla
5 days ago
Yikes. (via
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đ§Zombuddyđ§ââď¸
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Woah hang on. He's actually spitting here.
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