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♲ BoltsMag.org (bolts@journa.host)2025-09-02 19:00:18: An Australian scholar explains the idea that drove Australia to adopt compulsory voting: “You would know that the government that was elected had the support of the majority of voters in the electorate—not just the majority of the people who turned up.”https://boltsmag.org/compulsory-voting-australia-election/ Read the original post and comment stream on Friendica. Continue reading

♲ George Conway (gtconway3@threads.net)2025-09-03 04:47:54: Read the original post and comment stream on Friendica. Continue reading

Apparently real ♲ Kaiju Expert (Thomas@laserdisc.party)2025-09-02 22:42:58: Just say you don’t understand Frankenstein Read the original post and comment stream on Friendica. Continue reading

Well, trump said there would be some pain. Look, this way they go out of business, and the land gets purchased by big agribusiness. Then they hire someone else to run the day to day. It’s a win for trump’s base, the millionaires and billionaires that own everything. The farmers are finding out who the Continue reading

The republicans went nuts over Jimmy Carter’s brother starting a beer in his name I did not forget about the 6 months of hearings into the Carter peanut farm ♲ Madeleine Morris (Remittancegirl@mstdn.social)2025-09-02 22:00:02: Obscene https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/02/trump-world-liberty-financial-cryptocurrency Read the original post and comment stream on Friendica. Continue reading

I am not seeing “Constitutional amendment reversing Citizens United” on any of these New Reconstruction wishlists folks are circulating https://sharkey.world/notes/ac6c4lgidnp8e1jx Read the original post and comment stream on Friendica. Continue reading

Do the right thing and get shit No good deed goes unpunished ♲ David Roberts (volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy)2025-09-01 19:12:09: A pre-dog-walk 🧵 on the pandemic. To me, the lesson of the pandemic is a very familiar one, although as far as I can tell, no one is talking about it or learning it (which is also familiar). Continue reading

♲ UNREAL (noondlyt@hellions.cloud)2025-09-02 00:29:01: No one ever complains about the boost guy …except the reply guy Read the original post and comment stream on Friendica. Continue reading

♲ B Kahn (bkahn@beige.party)2025-09-01 23:13:08: Coming soon? META announces that it no longer needs all those new data centers. Why? Because all the AI programmers it has hired have quit and without them, META can’t create its SuperIntelligentAI bot thingie, and without that, the future isn’t so close after all and neither is all that Continue reading