Tom Richardson Ph.D.
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Runner, mathematician, invented Filbert matrix. Founding member of Kado Brothers Band. Third Coastal Elite. http://c.im/@CascadeTommy on Mastadon
Two coaches in the AFC North have been coaching the same team for almost two decades, one since 2007, one since 2008. Both have won a Super Bowl and have career winning percentages over 0.600. They have one losing season between them. This article is plain idiocy.
From @theathletic.com: Mike Tomlin and the New York Giants would be a perfect fit, our columnist writes. The Steelers coach needs a fresh challenge, and New York could use a tough guy with Super Bowl pedigree.
Why the Giants and Mike Tomlin would make for a perfect marriage
Tomlin, an experienced winner, would be a home run hire for a franchise that has been serving up disastrous seasons to its paying customers.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Two coaches in the AFC North have been coaching the same team for almost two decades, one since 2007, one since 2008. Both have won a Super Bowl and have career winning percentages over 0.600. They have one losing season between them. This article is plain idiocy.
A tax on the Forbes 400 of all but $100 million each would raise $6.56 trillion, (Forbes estimate of F400 net worth $6.6 tril. - 400*$100 mil.) This is 17% of total Federal debt, 22% of debt held by the public.
Tell this to billionaires who demagogue the debt
(2025 edition)
Tell this to billionaires who demagogue the debt
(2025 edition)
A tax on the Forbes 400 of all but $100 million each would raise $4.46 trillion, (Forbes estimate of F400 net worth $4.5 tril. - 400*$100 mil.) This is 12.8% of total Federal debt, 16.2% of debt held by the public.
Tell this to billionaires who demagogue the debt
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Tell this to billionaires who demagogue the debt
fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1upRb
November 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A tax on the Forbes 400 of all but $100 million each would raise $6.56 trillion, (Forbes estimate of F400 net worth $6.6 tril. - 400*$100 mil.) This is 17% of total Federal debt, 22% of debt held by the public.
Tell this to billionaires who demagogue the debt
(2025 edition)
Tell this to billionaires who demagogue the debt
(2025 edition)
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Stocks Aren't Salvation
Political consequences of the ownership society
www.hamiltonnolan.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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No, false.
This wasn’t about a mere “policy agenda”—pre-Trump shutdowns were, which is also why they were much shorter—it was about egregious lawbreaking.
No one explained how it could’ve gone any other way? I did.
Just put on the red hat and say you like the serially lying authoritarian, Josh.
This wasn’t about a mere “policy agenda”—pre-Trump shutdowns were, which is also why they were much shorter—it was about egregious lawbreaking.
No one explained how it could’ve gone any other way? I did.
Just put on the red hat and say you like the serially lying authoritarian, Josh.
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
No, false.
This wasn’t about a mere “policy agenda”—pre-Trump shutdowns were, which is also why they were much shorter—it was about egregious lawbreaking.
No one explained how it could’ve gone any other way? I did.
Just put on the red hat and say you like the serially lying authoritarian, Josh.
This wasn’t about a mere “policy agenda”—pre-Trump shutdowns were, which is also why they were much shorter—it was about egregious lawbreaking.
No one explained how it could’ve gone any other way? I did.
Just put on the red hat and say you like the serially lying authoritarian, Josh.
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Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.
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Actual criminals terrorizing innocent people under the guise of keeping Americans safe from the terror inflicted by criminals.
Think ICE’s tactics are bad now? Recruits “have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources told NBC News.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Actual criminals terrorizing innocent people under the guise of keeping Americans safe from the terror inflicted by criminals.
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It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.
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Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%.
policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...
policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...
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Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term.
In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.
In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.
two contradictory ideas that i hold in my head at the same time: 1) i think the threat to both SNAP recipients and federal workers is significant enough now that even bad deals are worth making to prevent further harm, and, 2) everyone who caves now should retire in shame
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term.
In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.
In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.
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Republicans waged a relentless, decades-long campaign to privatize Medicare and Medicaid
They fought even mild efforts to expand public insurance
Now they are objecting to extending extra ACA subsidies, supposedly because money flows to private insurers
We are supposed to take this seriously?
They fought even mild efforts to expand public insurance
Now they are objecting to extending extra ACA subsidies, supposedly because money flows to private insurers
We are supposed to take this seriously?
November 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Republicans waged a relentless, decades-long campaign to privatize Medicare and Medicaid
They fought even mild efforts to expand public insurance
Now they are objecting to extending extra ACA subsidies, supposedly because money flows to private insurers
We are supposed to take this seriously?
They fought even mild efforts to expand public insurance
Now they are objecting to extending extra ACA subsidies, supposedly because money flows to private insurers
We are supposed to take this seriously?
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Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways:
First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.
Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.
First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.
Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways:
First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.
Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.
First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.
Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.
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We've spent years and years snd years litigating "wokeness" and "critical race theory" and "DEI" and "political correctness" and spilling untold gallons of ink explaining how complicated and nuanced it is, and it always seems to turn out to be exactly what you'd expect.
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We've spent years and years snd years litigating "wokeness" and "critical race theory" and "DEI" and "political correctness" and spilling untold gallons of ink explaining how complicated and nuanced it is, and it always seems to turn out to be exactly what you'd expect.
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just not getting a good feeling from this whole weird sports betting push
November 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
just not getting a good feeling from this whole weird sports betting push
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Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”
Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”
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📢🗞️1/ EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! Mamdani coverage in print in his hometown—we don’t get to experience an editor’s layout choices much anymore, but placing Mamdani’s rise on the left and Cheney’s death much smaller on the right is a banger for the ages, a Ward Harkavy level underhanded troll 👏🏽📰
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
📢🗞️1/ EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! Mamdani coverage in print in his hometown—we don’t get to experience an editor’s layout choices much anymore, but placing Mamdani’s rise on the left and Cheney’s death much smaller on the right is a banger for the ages, a Ward Harkavy level underhanded troll 👏🏽📰
A man born in a former British colony, whose parents were born in a different former British colony, moves with them to a third former British colony, 400 years after the first colonists arrived, and is elected mayor of its largest city.
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
A man born in a former British colony, whose parents were born in a different former British colony, moves with them to a third former British colony, 400 years after the first colonists arrived, and is elected mayor of its largest city.
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Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
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Just a reminder of the type of coverage @teenvogue.com could have given us on Cheney if they hadn’t fired all their political staff
War Criminal Responsible for Millions of Deaths Dies at 100
Henry Kissinger was one of the US empire's proudest, most prolifically murderous foot soldiers.
www.teenvogue.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Just a reminder of the type of coverage @teenvogue.com could have given us on Cheney if they hadn’t fired all their political staff
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'I could smell the onions and the mustard'
November 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
'I could smell the onions and the mustard'
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PUBLIC HEALTH ENEMY
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
PUBLIC HEALTH ENEMY
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Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
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One of the most heartbreaking things I learned about while writing my book was the stories of families starved in Mississippi during the Greenwood Food Blockade in white supremacists denied food to Black families. It’s terrifying to thing of this level of starvation on a national scale
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
One of the most heartbreaking things I learned about while writing my book was the stories of families starved in Mississippi during the Greenwood Food Blockade in white supremacists denied food to Black families. It’s terrifying to thing of this level of starvation on a national scale