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🤔 Trump Keeps Attacking Americans. Why Does He Get Away With It?

The New Republic

And the media, with its long-standing bias toward treating Republican grievances as more legitimate than Democratic ones, follows the lead of whichever party is making the most noise. Republicans scream about ā€œdeplorablesā€ for weeks, so it becomes a story. Democrats shrug at Trump’s latest attack on blue America, so it doesn’t.

Trump and his administration (and minions) are all guilty of basically everything they accuse democrats of doing. They’re the biggest snowflakes there are.

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šŸ‚ Takeaways from the Bulls season opener

Noh

The most glaring thing is how often he is scoring off cuts this year. Synergy had 22 percent of his possessions coming off cuts in this game as compared to around 7 percent last season. He has gotten MUCH better at timing those plays out, and he’s pretty devastating when changing directions on a dime.

The NBA is back! And Buzelis seems to be catching up to the NBA game this year. I wasn’t able to watch it, but even from Noh’s clip you can see how active he is on both sides of the ball.

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A system to organize your life

Johnny.Decimal

Johnny.Decimal is designed to help you find things quickly, with more confidence, and less stress. You assign a unique ID to everything in your life. These IDs help you stay organised. They impose constraints that make it harder to get lost. And you create your own index to link everything in your life together. The system is free to use and the concepts are the same at home, work, or that club you manage.

I've followed this project for many years. I was immediately drawn to the sheer ambition to organize everything, helping you ā€œfind things quickly,

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šŸ’¼ Personal Business

Are.na

My motivation throughout the ups and downs was not that Are.na would one day make me rich, it was that we had to keep Are.na alive because it, the service itself, was part of how I understood (and still understand) myself.

One of the best things I’ve read in awhile. Loved the Kinopio shout-out too. While not software, the sites I’ve been spinning up like this, Foofaraw, the upcoming Quotidian Bagatelle, and maybe one other come from a similar place of wanting to bootstrap the things I want to see in the world.

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šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø No Kings Day Pt. 2

Letters from an American

In fact, protesters turned out waving American flags and wearing frog and unicorn and banana costumes and carrying homemade signs that demanded the release of the Epstein files and defended Lady Liberty. They laughed and danced and took selfies and sang. City police departments, including those of New York City, San Diego, and Washington, D.C., said they had made no protest-related arrests.

You absolutely love to see it.

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šŸ“ŗ Watching Apple TV in Apple TV on the Apple TV

Birchtree

In the 6 years we’ve been making these TV+-on-TV-on-TV jokes, I haven’t seen any evidence that this has caused any actual pain for users. Maybe it’s out there and I’m just blind to it, but I just haven’t seen it myself.

100% — I tried to say something similar on Mastodon when this news broke and everyone was making unfunny jokes about it, but Matt says it much better than me. It just doesn’t matter.

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