@KHOU I don't know how the "organizer's" do math, but i saw one middle-aged man in shorts and flip-flops with a hand made sign in one hand & doomscrolling on his phone with the other. Highly effective.
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Alan Michaels
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Alan Michaels
@JorumOf
Atheist (but nice!), Retired, Trade stocks and options for fun, Music lover and audiophile, dislike both Democratic and Republican parties- a skeptic by nature.
Lost in Texas Beigetreten Ağustos 2019
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Organizers estimated a massive turnout for the latest “No Kings” day of action. khou.com/article/news/n…
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@peterbakernyt @YLindaQiu How does one document voter fraud when there is no ID required (or even allowed in CA)? You can only accurately document something when DOCUMENTS EXIST.
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Fact checking fraud claims: Heritage Foundation documented 1,620 cases of voter fraud from 1982-2025, including 100 cases of noncitizens voting. That's about 0.000008% of more than 1.3 billion votes cast in presidential elections in that time. @YLindaQiu nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/…
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@jasonjhamiltonX @alexisohanian @LamarMK Well, we've done it. Twice on long trips. And then there's the Frunk for an overnight bag plus laptop and camera bags.
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@JorumOf @alexisohanian @LamarMK No way. Two overnight bags maybe with the 3rd row up. We were very disappointed in the available space.
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A 7 seater Cyber SUV would break the internet.
Three full rows. Real legroom. Real headroom. No compromises.
Every family SUV on the market makes you choose. Space or safety. Tech or comfort. Tesla wouldn't make you pick.
Built on the Cybertruck platform, this would be the safest family vehicle on the road.
Tesla would have to build an entire new factory just to keep up with demand.
Would you trade in your car for this?
Lamar MK@LamarMK
People have been asking Tesla for years to build the perfect family SUV. Now Elon hints something cooler than a minivan is coming. Many are hoping it's a Cyber SUV built on the Cybertruck platform. Same durability. Same safety. Same futuristic design. If this is what we think it is, it's going to bring a whole new wave of customers to Tesla. Families want safety and reliability above everything else. This could be the one. Who else is ready to order theirs?
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@jasonjhamiltonX @alexisohanian @LamarMK You must have big strollers! We fit 3 suitcases back there with the 3rd row up and 6 with the 3rd row down!
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@JorumOf @alexisohanian @LamarMK Third row is tiny and there’s no space behind the third row seat. We need enough space to fit two strollers.
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It doesn't have FSD if that is the level you are referring to but it is improving with software updates and is expected to have the ability to do point-to-point driving by the end of the year.
Rivian is playing catch-up with Tesla since it is a much younger company, but they have made drastic improvements and continue to update the functionality with frequent OTA updates. With the expanded data coming from the new R2 launch, especially next year when the R2 with Lidar ships, they will catch up to Tesla FSD probably sometime late next year and may eclipse FSD.
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@alexisohanian @LamarMK Hmmm... Sounds like you actually need a 3-row Rivian R1S which will do point-to-point later this year. You can buy it today while you wait for that non-existent cybertruck variation. (BTW, the R1S is a Top Safety pick, too.)
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@LamarMK Yes. This. Love my cybertruck but businessdads need 3 rows for all the fam.
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@shellenberger Oh, they haven't all disappeared yet.
ground.news/article/ee3115…
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Many scientists and members of the public believe “we are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster” and that “much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled.”
The UN Secretary General says climate change is a “time bomb” ticking toward detonation. Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, warns that six of nine “planetary boundaries” have been transgressed and that humanity is approaching “irreversible tipping points.”
The World Economic Forum reports that climate change may cause an additional 14.5 million deaths by 2050, citing research suggesting one billion deaths are possible by 2100 if warming exceeds two degrees Celsius.
The public has received the message. A study of 10,000 people in 10 nations found that 56 percent said “humanity is doomed” and nearly half said climate change had negatively impacted their daily life.”
And yet the apocalypse described in these warnings bears little resemblance to the one revealed by the data.
In 2024, approximately 16,753 people died from natural disasters globally, well below the twenty-year average of 65,566, continuing a long-term decline of roughly 90 percent over the past century.
U.S. crop yields set records in 2024. Rockström’s planetary boundaries lack any objective biophysical threshold and instead reflect subjective political judgments about how much of nature humans should use.
A NASA-funded study found that between 25 and 50 percent of the world’s vegetated area has grown greener over the past four decades, with CO2 fertilization accounting for approximately 70 percent of the greening. Global warming projections have fallen from 3 to 3.5 degrees Celsius in 2015 to 2.6 degrees....
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Just a few years ago, millions took to the streets to demand action on climate change. But now, even though Trump eviscerated their agenda, they are oddly silent. It turns out that sustaining faith in the climate apocalypse required a constant stream of government funding.
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@C__Herridge @Comey Comey and Brennan are simply following in the footsteps of Hoover and Angleton. The corruption has been there from the start and they inherited the same corrupt impulses.
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As @Comey is subpoenaed in Florida as part of the Trump conspiracy probe which includes former CIA Director John Brennan, longtime Trump advisor Michael Caputo says “John Brennan, to me, he’s the definition of government gone wrong,”
“To me, he's also the definition like Comey of a demon prowling around the world, seeking the ruin of souls. Brennan is a bad man”
@thelatmg @latimesstudios_
Catherine Herridge@C__Herridge
BREAKING: Longtime Trump Advisor @MichaelRCaputo Shares Never-Before-Seen FBI Subpoena And Search Warrant Targeting Him During Biden Administration; Alleges Biden Era Weaponization Continued at DOJ During Trump’s Second Term This week on Straight to the Point I sat down with Michael Caputo, a longtime confidant and advisor to President Trump. In this exclusive interview, Caputo shares a never-before-seen FBI subpoena and sweeping federal search warrant that targeted him during the Biden Administration. Caputo details the horrifying fallout of the secret Biden-era investigation over his Ukraine reporting and anti-weaponization policy work that stayed active even inside the Trump administration and the devastating toll it took on his family. @thelatmg @latimesstudios_ Straight to the Point: FBI’s Secret Targeting of Team Trump 00:35 Michael Caputo: Biden Era FBI ‘Surveilled’ Dozens of Trump Associates 01:28 Caputo Says He Was Targeted Over His Investigation Into Bidens and Anti-Weaponization Initiative 02:12 How Did the Biden-Era Investigation Continue Under AG Bondi? 03:10 Google Alert: FBI Subpoenaed His Records 04:29 Caputo Says He Was Working In Same DOJ Building As DOJ Investigation Targeting Him 06:00 August 2024 Susie Wiles Calls With Shocking News 06:40 Before Presidential Election, FBI Laid A Trap? 07:58 Federal Warrant Wanted Information About Caputo’s State of Mind 09:30 FBI Should Be Shattered: ‘Russia, Russia, Russia All Over Again’ 10:42 FBI File: Caputo Called A Radical Traditionalist Catholic (RTC) 11:30 Caputo 'Had To Go To The Highest Authority’ To Get Case Closed 12:44 Russia Gate Cost Caputo’s Family Everything 13:55 Threats To Caputo And Family 16:10 Accountability For RussiaGate 18:00 If Democrats Win Mid-Terms: Weaponization Will Increase 10x 19:50 Caputo: Task Force For Americans Who Were Harmed By Weaponization 20:50 Response to Critics Who Say Caputo Sees Conspiracies 21:43 Independent Journalism
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@ClimateAudit @walterkirn Re: Draft number - absolutely correct! I was # 3! Nixon ended the draft a few months before I graduated so I am grateful to him for that!
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you're a half-generation younger than me. There were a lot of changes in that half-generation, but we get lumped into "Boomers". Every American who's my age still remembers his draft number. The Vietnam war was a central issue for them, but presumably not for students of your vintage. You're also a bit too young to have been scarred by the inflation of the 1970s and the brutal (20+%) interest rates of the early 1980s - this was the introduction to the working world of the half-generation older than you.
Also the society of the late 1940s and early 1950s wasn't nearly as affluent as the 1970s.
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I was around NYC in the 80s & the fetish for grit & crime I saw then & detect again now is, often, a style of decadent affluent narcissism. The fetishists rate their personal chances of being seriously harmed as rather low but they gain immediate psychic behefits from imagining themselves as -- and being seen by others as -- cool cats of the street. They also tend to have escape routes & pressure valves.
I'm reminded of the wealthy Bob Marley fans at Princeton who summered on "the Cape."
Not Kingston, Jamaica.
Because when you can have the music of the slums and the fresh salt air of the Cape at the very same time, it's, well...
Jammin'
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@ggreenwald Glenn, she should still stay. Her efforts on document declassification, from JFK and RFK to the internal FBI documents that still need to be found and made public are materially important enough to hold her nose and keep her head down. For now.
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I get that someone might stay in an administration to use their influence to steer it in a better direction.
But Tulsi has zero influence. She's a joke. Trump said he didn't give a shit what she thinks. And worse, she's dumping on Joe Kent for his act of conscience and courage.
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@ClimateAudit god, you put the two of them together and I wonder how many people they have killed from their safe sidelines over the course of their careers.
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an acerbic comment from an unexpected source: Victoria Nuland's husband.
Max Blumenthal@MaxBlumenthal
The Iran war is so bad that PNAC co-founder Robert Kagan now describes Israel as a strategic liability leading the US into a quagmire “It’s kind of like saying South Vietnam was a great ally in the fight against North Vietnam.” Bill Kristol nods along
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Lots of very psy-op-looking stuff bouncing around on this site about Iran's supposed new leader, sourced to US intelligence.
1) Dad may not have seen him as a worthy successor.
2) Trump was told he might be gay.
3) He may very well be dead, disfigured, maimed.
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No, it was the sycophantic journalism from some that made monetizing the excellent parts of journalism impossible to sustain. Philip Bump, in particular, comes to mind.
Washington Post Stands by Philip Bump’s Claims on Lafayette Park, the Hunter Biden Laptop, and Other Controversial Claims – JONATHAN TURLEY
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This is correct. The problem was never the journalism. It was monetizing the journalism AND adapting to an environment in which competition is “anyone posting anything on the Internet.”
Shane Harris@shaneharris
His big idea remains the (only?) one he has had for years: Produce more stories. But now he wants to do that with half the staff. A.) Good luck. B.) This is an outdated traffic play. This is not how you grow paying audience and get to profitability. We learned this as an industry already. Bezos has not.
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I just learned I'll be on a panel with Michael Mann at the University of Colorado Conference on World Affairs
April 14th, 3:30pm
Don't miss it!
colorado.edu/cwa/
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@itskyleconner @RJScaringe Seeing contradictory info. Does every R2 ship with the in house chip or not until Lidar?
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I’m filming a quick conversation with @RJScaringe tomorrow afternoon.
I’m planning to ask him whatever *you* want me to.
Submit your questions below, I’ll sort through them, and directly ask him what you want to know.
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@ClimateAudit It shows that it isn't genetic issues that separate them.
It is their blinded belief in different invisible gods and 'scriptures' scribed by illiterate sheepherders.
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Here's an interesting analysis from the recent (very large) drop of ancient DNA data. Genetic distances from a "Roman-era Galilean Jew to nearest modern populations"!
Virtually indistinguishable from Palestinian Christian, Lebanese Christian and Lebanese Shia (Hezbollah).
So here's a strange irony: Hezbollah, currently reviled as US enemies and Iranian "proxies", are genetically almost indistinguishable from "Roman-era Galilean Jews".
Miro C@MiroCyo
Genetic distance of a Roman-era Galilean Jew to the nearest modern populations Pretty close to Jesus' hometown and around the time he lived! Sample date range is 70 BC - 324 AD. Video provided scrolling through all modern groups.
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When I was there it became a rant box exclusively on one side. At least here I can see all perspectives and frankly I do like being able to click the Grok button to do a quick reality check. The Secular Talk post would be an interesting test since it probably was identically posted on both sites.
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@JorumOf @DanLamothe I have a bsky account but am basically never there.
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This post, with nearly a million views, is in no way based in fact.
The "Doomsday" plane has an eye-grabbing name, but does not carry heavy ordnance. It carries the secretary of defense.
Wading through X these days is an insanely dense minefield.
Secular Talk ([email protected])@KyleKulinski
🚨🚨 THERE ARE REPORTS THAT TRUMP HAS SENT 'DOOMSDAY' NUCLEAR PLANES TO THE MIDDLE EAST
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@OKnox @DanLamothe I am no longer on bsky but undoubtedly the original post was on both X and bsky. I wonder how the response differs between the two. Here at least the first few posts show some fact checking and correction. Is that true on bsky?
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As a follow-on comment, we really need to get open primaries with ranked choice voting. Texas, like most states, will now spend additional millions on a run-off election that even fewer people will vote in. That's millions in attack ads coupled with millions of taxpayer money to administer the run-off election.
What a waste!
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@surveyguy2 @TheLibPatriot Yep. I'm in Texas and for the first time that I can recall, I didn't vote in the primary yesterday. There was maybe one candidate that I would vote "FOR". The rest I would be holding my nose if I voted for any of them.
Long past time for the duopoly to be destroyed.
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"They will resent the two choices forced on them and will be open to alternatives should they emerge. Republicans & Democrats yelling at these voters to get in partisan line won’t work. We may be in for one wild and quirky presidential election season in due time" @TheLibPatriot
Paul Thoresen@surveyguy2
..."But anyone who has followed politics and voter trends closely for the past decade knows that a potential AOC-Vance battle in 2028 is not going to please millions of independent, moderate, and patriotic but not traditionally partisan Americans". ~ @TheLibPatriot
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