New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt: MAGA is outraged over the Epstein files, but don't think they care about sex abuse.
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Amanda Marcotte's biweekly politics newsletter for Salon readers who like to be plugged in and a little bit rowdy.Standing Room Only
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Ozzy Osbourne, who led Black Sabbath and became the godfather of heavy metal, dies at 76
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Johnson said he wouldn’t allow a vote on a measure calling on the White House to release all the files until after Labor Day at the earliest to give President Trump “space” to release some of…Dave Goldiner (New York Daily News)
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Après les annonces de Bayrou : Ce qui vient n'a pas de nom. Ce n'est pas un remake. Un nouveau soulèvement qui portera tous les anciens en lui, et bien plus encore ?
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Un nouveau soulèvement pour l'automne 2025 ?! La révolution n'est pas à la mode et elle semble hautement improbable, même pour les minorités rebelles, et pourtant elle reste imprévisible,…Ricochets
The drip-drip has become a full-on fountain. Bombshell revelations are made almost every day, and it is harder than ever to keep track of it all.
In this article, I offer an overarching narrative that will help put everything in proper perspective, so we can make sense of each new day.
One harsh reality that many would rather close their eyes to is this:
Ideologies, in practice, never win based on their merits. They are violently enforced and expanded. There is violence of force and the threat of force, but there is also the violence of economics: depravation.
We have a very long way to go, and much suffering to experience, before people start to think honestly about power.
After that, we can stop being ineffective and build a better world, with clear vision.
Huge numbers of chemical discharges into our waterways are not being classified as a pollution incidents.The Conversation
Chiefs open training camp focused on Super Bowl redemption following humbling loss to Philadelphia
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Someday I will need to really reckon with the trauma of begging other Christian folls to give a shit about abuse.
I learned what domestic abuse, sexual abuse, etc. were and how prevalent they were in our midst, and I thought at first that if I could get people to understand, they too would be up in arms.
No. They didn't care to listen.
It's really hard to believe they care about Epstein when they don't even care about kids in their own church who are being raped.
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Trump rehashes years-old grievances on Russia investigation after new intelligence report
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“This makes Watergate look like small potatoes.” Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution. They are caught, irrefutable evidence. They should ALL go to jail, or it will never stop.Truth Social
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The NSA and FBI expressed "low confidence" that Russia hacked and leaked DNC emails to help Trump, documents show. US intelligence leaders concealed this dissent and told a different story.Aaron Maté (Aaron Mate)
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Anton Carniaux, directeur juridique de Microsoft France, a fait une révélation devant le Sénat français.
Interrogé sous serment sur la protection des données européennes contre l’espionnage américain, sa réponse est sans appel : « Non, je ne peux pas le garantir« . Cette déclaration confirme ce que beaucoup soupçonnaient : même stockées en Europe, vos données peuvent finir entre les mains du gouvernement américain. Le Patriot Act et le Cloud Act obligent tous les géants tech US à coopérer, même à l’étranger.
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@professionalbigot69 mutual consensus is necessary, and someone believing they're on the "right side of history" doesn't help the situation.
Conflicts like these don't get resolved until everyone gets so bloodied up that they come to the table out of exhaustion.
Europeans will welcome back an independent Scotland in to the EU
An independent Scotland asking to rejoin the EU would be welcomed by most Europeans. The latest YouGov EuroTrack survey asked people in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain about this, and between 63 and 75% say they will support an independent Scotland joining the EU.
In all of those countries, very few people, only about one in ten, said they would be opposed to Scotland rejoining.
“People die daily from malnutrition,” says Dr. Atef al-Ghoul, Director of Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis. “If we speak in the language of numbers, the numbers speak for themselves — hundreds of people have died in the past two months trying to get food for their families, only to return to their starving families in body bags.”
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Children in Gaza have begun to die of severe malnutrition in increasing numbers as Israel continues to starve the people of Gaza. Infants are the most severely affected, as hunger devours their bodies until they reach “a point of no return.”Tareq S. Hajjaj (Mondoweiss)
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the WSJ had been excluded from Donald Trump's upcoming Scotland trip for its "fake and defamatory conduct."Mahima Kapoor (Deutsche Welle)
More than 1,400 killed in sectarian violence in coastal Syria in March, report finds
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There are many illegal marijuana farms, but federal agents targeted California's biggest legal one
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Bradley Beal's unexpected gift to Chris Paul: A number with meaning
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“If the universities – or in this case a university press – are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?” – Thea Abu El-Haj
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As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedomAlice Speri (The Guardian)
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Whenever I post on Facebook I include the phrase "mass detention ends in mass death" because I don't want any of the "conservatives" I know who are justifying this bullshit to say they didn't know where it was going.
They'll say that anyway. But I'll know..
One thing I've learned from Facebook: the people from my previous life that I trust and respect & the people I don't.
Because the people I trust & respect say something about atrocities, & those who don't apparently either are happy about it or don't want to lose face among conservatives.
Facebook posts don't do much, but at least it's a chance to tell people that truth exists and that it fucking matters, & I appreciate that my parents and a few others of their generation are not silent.
I know vocalizing protest alone does not itself address the issues, but if we are going to address the issues, we need to protest loudly, so it is part of it.
And aside from anything practical, aside from convincing anyone or changing anything, it is simply *human* to express outrage & grief at atrocities.
I think that is the hardest thing about seeing all the people with nothing to say.
Like, news out of Gaza doesn't make you want to scream in unspeakable sorrow & anger?
Learning of ICE kidnappings & torture doesn't compel you to speak out?
If you're not boiling over with *something* to say about all the cruelty, violence, & death...how? What is wrong with you? Where tf is your humanity? Have you forgotten it? Lost it? Where is your compassion? Your sense of justice?
Aside: I just realized that nearly every person that I'm thinking of who is saying something is neurodivergent (ADHD &/or autistic), which I guess isn't surprising. We are known for having a rigid sense of justice & being non-conformist.
I'm starting to wonder if those "disorders" are an evolutionary feature that ensures *some* percentage of a population is harder to manipulate with social conditioning.
(obviously, you can also be neurotypical & resist conditioning—a lot of factors contribute)
I think the explanation for the latter is that most neurotypicality *is* just successful conditioning (dependent on innate capability and willingness to do so) to perform it.
Many of the same traits and behaviors that overlap with "neurotypicality" also lie on the vast spectrum of neurodiversity, and are not the product of conditioning. But most instances are probably the result of conditioning, to the degree that "neurotypicality" would not be a majority/default if you only included people who just happened to be that way without conditioning.
@dalias
I like that perspective. I frequently feel really, really cynical about humanity right now, but I am trying to hold that in balance with the fact that people are so manipulated, controlled, conditioned, indoctrinated, and misinformed.
It can feel like a lot of people choose that or are naturally that way, but that's frustration with how hard it is to deprogram people from something built into the social constructs we inhabit.
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And yeah, sometimes I get the sort of "are the straights ok?" feeling about "neurotypicality".
Example: when I talk to a "neurotypical" person I often get a strong sense they have buried their personality to conform with the group, and it's like... it's not that you don't HAVE unique interests or a desire to be yourself, you just don't seem to know that you can simply embrace those things.
Hiding who you are and what you like out of a desire to be perceived as "normal" is not innate.
YES @dalias I ponder this a lot!!
I also have spooky moments where I ponder how effective all these tyrannical regimes have (or have not) actually been at stamping the capacity for resistance out of populations-- from a cultural standpoint AND, spookier, from a eugenics standpoint. It would probably take thousands of generations to physically breed out independent minds and reduce default human behavior to placid submissiveness, if such a thing is even possible but lord knows they've been wanting to try and EW.
Nature, nurture, social engineering, yeeeeek
I mean, some of the neurodivergent 'moral rigidity' is really just because of a greater need for consistency. And a lot of instances of injustice have components of inconsistent applications of rules (not necessarily the whole of it though, and not necessarily all instances of injustice).
I don't really know enough to theorize on why there's a shared need for consistency - just some vague thoughts on consistency helping with cognitive processing efficiency - but it seems to be a shared feature across ADHD and autism.
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I wonder if there is a socialization component for this need for consistency.
Something ADHD and autistic folks have in common is being frequently misunderstood as children & being punished/corrected for things that don't make sense & aren't clear to them.
I think it makes sense to develop a need for consistency in that context. If people want us to abide by their rules, we would argue they had better spell them out and then abide by all the logical consequences of those rules.
@dartigen
We also are forced to explain our actions and justify our choices significantly more often than others, so we probably are more likely to approach a question like "what should I do about x thing?" from the existing mental framework that we use to try to convince others to treat us fairly & with consistency.
I think about how I would justify my actions to others to the point it is unhealthy, but I have always had to explain my choices to people who misinterpreted or misunderstood them
This could be a big component of it, yeah!
I was thinking more along the lines of how moral rules, like lots of other rules and rule-like frameworks, help to provide a cognitive shortcut. If it's always right to refill the coffee pot if you used the last of it, for example, you don't have to waste any cognitive energy considering if it's good in this instance to refill the coffee pot - it's always good, therefore refill coffee pot. Or if you always eat soup for lunch on Wednesday, you can cut down on the cognitive energy needed to decide on what to eat for lunch on Wednesday - you can bypass all other food categories and jump straight to deciding what kind of soup, instead of having to start from 'all possible lunch foods' and drill down to 'all possible types of soup'.
I feel like some of it may also run into empathy as well though - or maybe we all take the 'imagine yourself in this person's situation' description of empathy way too literally, and actually do that, and figure that we'd find that situation upsetting or infuriating and would probably react similarly, or we can at least understand how that person came to that reaction.
Heuristics, yes!
A lot of organized religions really lean on this "we did the heavy thinking so you don't have to / because you can't be trusted to" thing where they hand down dogma you're just supposed to default to without actually analyzing it in depth or even questioning it at all.
I was always an instinctive questioner (me at like 6 in Sunday school: "the Lord is my shepherd?? Shepherds EAT sheep!") so it's hard for me to wrap my head around the way so many people are much more comfortable following rules and really really don't WANT to look deeper because it genuinely freaks them out.
Yes, that is something very basic in the relationship between sheep and shepherds that xtians completely fail to grasp.
So I'm reading Skunk Works by Ben R. Rich, it's a book about the formation of the first stealth bomber program and the trials and tribulations associated with getting the first stealth bomber off the ground and all the headaches it entails.
About fifty or so odd pages in and the author talks about working on this program while under many various government laws such as the EEOC, affirmative action, having to employ a certain amount of X or Y kinds of people.
So even back then you had these laws severely limiting and threatening the very existence of a technology which changed the aerospace industry forever.
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Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne dies aged 76
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A statement from his family says Osbourne was with them and "surrounded by love" when he died this morning.BBC News
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Blip: Peer-to-Peer Massive File Sharing by Former Dropbox Engineers
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Send big files with no size limits, at full quality, across platforms, directly to other people and devicesBlip
Video shows Florida deputies punching and dragging a Black man from his car
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Olkhon Island is the sacred centre of Lake Baikal. Sean Thomas travels to the world’s deepest lake to learn more about the history and traditions of this mysterious place.Odysee
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Kson quits VShojo and calls the JP branch CEO (for now) live on stream
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Seems to be a similar reason to Ironmouse, not getting paid what she is owed since SEPTEMBER.
Michi is also out.
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so much joy.
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like, nearly bouncing off walls overexcited from the elation.
definitely a bad design to route the - or + BMS power connection anywhere near the proximity of the bare battery surface.
I bet they were dropped by the user to exacerbate the bad design, though.
I wonder if robots did the assembly or did slaves?
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For those wondering how Trump got elected: wokeness was a godsend… the perfect fuel for his bullshit tractor.
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The organ harvesting racket is coming to light in the US too:
As has become clear in the UK, COVID atrocities were not the first time that hospital murder became the standard of care.
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Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller *Red Team Blues* and now I'm selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11:
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Ozzy Osbourne, pioneering heavy metal singer and Black Sabbath frontman, dies at 76
Very sorry to see this. We're glad that he got to experience his final show and the love of his fans. Makes it all the more poignant.
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Iconic heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne, who became a huge solo success and later a reality TV star after being fired from Black Sabbath, has died.Ethan Sacks (NBC News)
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Ascending to 14,410 feet above sea level, Mount Rainier stands as an icon in the Washington landscape. An active volcano, Mount Rainier is the most glaciated peak in the contiguous U.S.A., spawning five major rivers.www.nps.gov
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Gorgon City - Imagination ft. Katy Menditta (Official Audio)
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