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Trump said he didn’t know who’s behind the blueprint for his return. He just hired the authors for key roles

And a refreshed on top priorities of Project 2025.

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Christian nationalists have made inroads in Texas with their push to eliminate the separation between church and state.

I peeled and diced 8 potatoes, 3 onions, a parsnip, 3 cloves of garlic and a thumb-sized piece of fresh ginger.
Put all of it in a pot with 3 table spoons of sunflower oil, and let it braise till the veggies browned a bit.
Then I deglazed it with 200g of crème fraîche, 4 tea spoons of vegetable broth powder, and boiling water till it was all covered.

Added copious amounts of freshly-ground black pepper, nutmeg, turmeric, and something a Moroccan street trader sold to my sister-in-law as "lazy wives' spice" ("you won't need anything else to make your husband happy").

When the potatoes were boiled soft, I blended the soup to a creamy consistency and served it with a dash of Sriracha sauce.

They liked it.

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Yes, yes they've "always turned on minorities"..... I'm talking about the kayfabe, you know that thing that quite successfully co-opted and dismantled the 2020 rebellions, the thing leftists have been smashing their faces into since Bernie ate shit in 2016, that THING that makes liberals bold enough to even come in here and talk to us as if we're fellow travelers

Well liberals in their mindless arrogance and racism have handed leftists the greatest recruitment tool since 2016, in fact probably since the civil rights era

Their continuing hate campaign against minorities for the failure of Genocide Joe and his zooted-out apprentice Harris is not showing signs of losing steam, this is the dems decided response to Trump's victory and the new "Russiagate"

As time moves on they will consolidate and expand these racist narratives, because for DNC elites this is the path of least resistance (at least that's what think) in reality liberals are actively pouring acid on the binds that hold the Democratic coalition together

Naturally even if leftists generally remain in "woes is me" mode and feign undue shock at liberal racism, the reality is millions of POCs will still bear witness to this disgusting liberal hate campaign and make up their own minds accordingly

Our job is to seize this opportunity and leverage this mass mask-slip for the sake of generating a grassroots recognition of the fundamental difference between liberalism and the left, i.e. turn this shit into a popular meme that haunts the dems and libs for the rest of time and never let them get out from under it

Cross-post da: https://feddit.it/post/12439548

In the wake of Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat, recriminations have flourished inside the Democratic Party with different factions blaming different policies or groups to explain the loss. Critics, however, describe a deeper structural problem with how the modern Democratic Party runs campaigns, which lines the pockets of party insiders, bloats campaign budgets and boxes out influences from outside party elites.

The Harris campaign broke campaign finance records, raising nearly a billion dollars, but ending the race $20 million in debt, spending millions on consultants and hundreds of millions of dollars on paid media.

According to Shakir, Democratic strategists often see cutting a new 30-second ad as a sort of cure-all to a campaign’s problems and a way for campaigns to address a weakness without re-evaluating the message or stances they’ve taken. “There’s no room you walk into in which saying we should run an ad sounds like bad advice," he said. “The bigger problem to me is when there is a flaw or problem in the campaign it often wrongly becomes understood that there is a 30-second ad that can cure it. If we have a problem with Latino men, or young people or working-class people in Pennsylvania, how about another 30-second ad for that?”

According to Shakir, it doesn’t have to work this way but media firms and campaigns often push for more expensive production strategies like more shoots, or oversaturating airwaves, because it’s an opportunity for everyone to get paid. In some cases, Shakir said, even senior campaign staff will get a cut of ad spending.

President’s holiday event for the birds as Trump plans to hammer America’s democratic institutions come January

Recently Christine Lemmer-Webber shared this on Mastodon:

Here is your recipe for making the "Correct Fediverse IMO (TM)":

• Integrate ocaps, which is possible because actor model + ocaps compose
• Content addressed storage!
• Petname system UX
• Better anti-spam / anti-harassment using OCapPub ideas
• Improved privacy with E2EE ("encrypted p2p" even a better goal)
• Decentralized identity (notice the *y*, I did not say DIDs) on top of ~mutable CAS storage

In this post I'm going to explore how Leaf stands up to these goals!

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