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Website behind widely shared fake election polls run by 21-year-old

This is distressing but not at all surprising. Real polls take real time and real money. Journalism is dying. If someone offers up a poll that looks ok enough, some desperate media companies are going to take the bait. Once one does, others are more likely to follow.

As a related aside, remember it was just a few months ago or something that we found out that some media are using AI to "simulate" polls and reporting on that.

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After Supreme Court immunity ruling, Biden draws sharp contrast with Trump on obeying rule of law

Fuck that. Biden should make them regret this decision. If his candidacy is as DOA as everyone is pretending it is, then there's no incentive to play by the rules. Move fast and break stuff and get some shit done for a change.

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Biden, under intense pressure after his disastrous debate performance against Trump last week

They just had to get it in there. Not a mention of Trump making shit up the whole time, or the raving lunatic shit he's saying on the campaign trail. 90 minutes of Biden being low energy and it's all over. "The other guy is too old, maybe we can do a little fascism. That will be OK, right?"

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The story is a bit more complicated than the meme lets on.

First, while she was certainly very ill after 2 heart attacks, it is unclear if his wife was terminally ill. She was disabled and had mental illness. The husband says that she wanted to die so she left the nursing home. Second, the drug binge went on for 5 days and her condition deteriorated throughout. While she was presumably doing large amounts of meth amphetamines, she also was not taking her prescribed medications. Third, at least in the article that I linked above, the sex occured at the very end and he said that she was unable to speak at that point and she died more or less immediately after. Finally, she died of a meth overdose, and not of her other illnesses.

I'm all for dying on your own terms, and if this was truly her idea or she was fully on board, more power to them. However, the wife can't speak for herself and all we've got is this guy's word.

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If you count incarceration, same as it ever was.

Yeah, no. Segregation magically ending in 1954? The Civil Rights struggles of the 60s didn't happen? Redlining and Ghettoizing of Black communities? Destruction of Black families by mass incarceration of Black males and forcing families to stay apart to collect benefits, while vilifying single Black mothers as "welfare queens"? We have never, ever been in the green.

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After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts

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He posted a picture on his stream of the error message "There's a problem here" over the Biden/Harris campaign page, so at very least he's trolling instead of taking his job seriously. Twitter is his private platform so whatever, but it's another reminder that Musk will not be impartial and is actually pouring millions into the Trump campaign, so if you're still there now would be a good time to leave.