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Epistemic Fracture
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Just another big Redhead. The Gaelic word for doppelganger is fetch. So...
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"That's what I mean" = as close to a concession of a semantic error as you will ever enjoy. Take what satisfaction this offers and run like hell before your mother is made relentless and your father is obliged, nay delighted, to watch.

I am, as always, a giver. At least initially.
January 9, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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11. Dennis Goris
January 9, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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2. Michael de Adder
January 9, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread)

1. Pat Bagley
January 9, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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I think engineers are especially prone to Trumpism, for reasons that are complex but have to do mostly with narrow expertise and a belief in yes/no, right/wrong solutions. I wrote about this problem in The Death of Expertise:
December 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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2025 Headline of the Year nominee (July)
December 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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2025 Headline of the Year nominee (November)
December 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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2025 Headline of the Year nominee (August)
December 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees

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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required.

www.404media.co/flock-expose...
December 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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This was a good headline.
December 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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LOTS of people need to read more Twain. He's got things to say about that whole "God on our side" thing.
Like Anne Lamott said: "You can assume that you've made God in your image if he hates all the same people you do." warprayer.org
The War Prayer
by Mark Twain
warprayer.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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🎵 Elle Cordova & Toni Lindgren singing "Mr. Oil Man" in the style of Mr. Sandman.

A song about the EPA not regulating pollution and PFAS. 🎵
December 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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America, It's Not You, It's...
November 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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There might be no better example of the war coming home than a CIA trained teen death squad recruit getting asylum in the US and then shooting a bunch of soldiers who were deployed to DC for no reason other than Kabuki Security Theater
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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This and this and this and this and this and this.
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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I don't care how Schumer himself votes. The bottom line is that as Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson would have last night had on his desk eight sealed mason jars with the severed hands of every senator who even thought about raising them to vote yes. As a majority leader should.
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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SCOOP --> Major new Bidenworld autopsy just dropped: 45 former Biden officials candidly assess their mistakes and failings in new Roosevelt Institute report. They lay out the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda to reverse authoritarian tide.

Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer.
A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future.
newrepublic.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
October 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Two months after the Aug. 27 mass shooting that left the Twin Cities shaken, five first responders shared, for the first time, their accounts from that chaotic day.
The heroes of Annunciation
First responders recall the chaos and trauma of Aug. 27, when a mass shooting at Annunciation Church in south Minneapolis killed two children and wounded more than two dozen others.
bit.ly
October 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Godfrey doing his Trump impression with Dr. Dre in the studio 🤣💀
October 24, 2025 at 2:14 AM