Edward Faulkner
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I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-)
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
The Democratic Party Needs to Learn from Zohran Mamdani's Guts and Backbone
Zohran Mamdani did something different, and it made all the difference.
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-)
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
Halloween when your city is walkable.🎃
November 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Halloween when your city is walkable.🎃
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happy 12 years since dorkq, the best bug github.com/gruntjs/grun...
Home page shows the project title as "dorkq" on some Android devices · Issue #81 · gruntjs/gruntjs.com
See here: http://www.browserstack.com/screenshots/2308d26f99f0b5915b53829c4ae5f9567b2d84be I haven't tried to figure out why. @practicum noticed that the letters are all 3 off and lowercase. G-3=d,...
github.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
happy 12 years since dorkq, the best bug github.com/gruntjs/grun...
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"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
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Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!
Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
/1
Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
/1
October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!
Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
/1
Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.
/1
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Big Brother wasn't an actual person leading the Party and orchestrating the Two Minutes Hate. He was a symbol. A face.
Cults of personality usually die off when the personality does, or at least substantially reduce. But will they still when a facsimile of the central figure lives on as AI slop?
Cults of personality usually die off when the personality does, or at least substantially reduce. But will they still when a facsimile of the central figure lives on as AI slop?
Churches showing an AI Charlie Kirk telling congregants, through an artificial voice, not to let evil win is a new level of instrumentalizing the dead.
When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.
When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.
I wrote about how MAGA is being shaped by a politics of immortality, how Charlie Kirk’s martyrdom reflects this, and what it could mean for the future of Trumpism. Read at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-last-ene...
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-last-ene...
October 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Big Brother wasn't an actual person leading the Party and orchestrating the Two Minutes Hate. He was a symbol. A face.
Cults of personality usually die off when the personality does, or at least substantially reduce. But will they still when a facsimile of the central figure lives on as AI slop?
Cults of personality usually die off when the personality does, or at least substantially reduce. But will they still when a facsimile of the central figure lives on as AI slop?
It’s wild to me how normalized it is among Americans that living like all our ancestors did — in small homes where a family has to share space — is impossible. This story is the metastasized version of that, weaponized against poor people.
“These kids just sit in foster care,” a family law attorney said, “because mom and dad are working at Subway and can’t afford a four-bedroom house.”
With @wabe.org
(Published April 2024)
With @wabe.org
(Published April 2024)
When the Number of Bedrooms in a Home Keeps Parents From Getting Their Kids Back
Even after resolving other safety concerns, parents in Georgia can wait for months to be reunited with their children, often because of what advocates say are stringent requirements sought by the stat...
www.propublica.org
October 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
It’s wild to me how normalized it is among Americans that living like all our ancestors did — in small homes where a family has to share space — is impossible. This story is the metastasized version of that, weaponized against poor people.
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A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.
She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!
Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!
Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
October 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.
She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!
Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!
Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
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CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
October 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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This is the lesson of 2025
he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity
October 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is the lesson of 2025
The traditional checks and balances that rely on ordinary people are doing a lot better than the ones that rely on elites not capitulating.
A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters
A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.
news.bloomberglaw.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The traditional checks and balances that rely on ordinary people are doing a lot better than the ones that rely on elites not capitulating.
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“You must be careful with these students,” one department chairman told her. “You must not give them a glimpse of a world they will never see or give them a false sense of hope for what their lives could be like.”
She didn’t like that advice, apparently. A local Boston hero:
She didn’t like that advice, apparently. A local Boston hero:
Eileen Brown, founding president of Cambridge College, dies at 87 - The Boston Globe
Fresh out of college in the late 1950s and teaching at an inner-city high school in Philadelphia, Eileen Brown advocated relentlessly on behalf of Black students who were facing constant racist hurdle...
www.bostonglobe.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
“You must be careful with these students,” one department chairman told her. “You must not give them a glimpse of a world they will never see or give them a false sense of hope for what their lives could be like.”
She didn’t like that advice, apparently. A local Boston hero:
She didn’t like that advice, apparently. A local Boston hero:
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“All this started over a lost sponsorship”
That was me. I rescinded a six-figure grant because the org invited DHH, a white supremacist, to speak. We cannot tolerate hateful people as leaders in our communities.
That was me. I rescinded a six-figure grant because the org invited DHH, a white supremacist, to speak. We cannot tolerate hateful people as leaders in our communities.
show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic
DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
jakelazaroff.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“All this started over a lost sponsorship”
That was me. I rescinded a six-figure grant because the org invited DHH, a white supremacist, to speak. We cannot tolerate hateful people as leaders in our communities.
That was me. I rescinded a six-figure grant because the org invited DHH, a white supremacist, to speak. We cannot tolerate hateful people as leaders in our communities.
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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This is some wicked clever stuff from BTD. Looking forward to seeing these tactics used in the field soon! Seems like such a win for the region. www.boston.gov/departments/...
Better Buffers
We’re switching out materials to enhance safety for all travelers.
www.boston.gov
September 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This is some wicked clever stuff from BTD. Looking forward to seeing these tactics used in the field soon! Seems like such a win for the region. www.boston.gov/departments/...
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This whole ICE nonsense quota based racist policing is so useful for illustrating so many Black civil rights concepts that people have been confused about for decades.
People used to ask me, "Why do Black folk cheer when they see a man successfully run from the cops? He's a criminal!"🤡
No.
People used to ask me, "Why do Black folk cheer when they see a man successfully run from the cops? He's a criminal!"🤡
No.
ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
September 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This whole ICE nonsense quota based racist policing is so useful for illustrating so many Black civil rights concepts that people have been confused about for decades.
People used to ask me, "Why do Black folk cheer when they see a man successfully run from the cops? He's a criminal!"🤡
No.
People used to ask me, "Why do Black folk cheer when they see a man successfully run from the cops? He's a criminal!"🤡
No.
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Such language model, big smart.
September 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Such language model, big smart.
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The scientific method took a long time to take hold because it’s upside down from how we primates are wired to come to consensus about stuff that was important to our primate predecessors.
We’re wired to ask ‘why is the bigger, confident primate right?’
Science asks ‘how might I be proven wrong?’
We’re wired to ask ‘why is the bigger, confident primate right?’
Science asks ‘how might I be proven wrong?’
Podcasts and "deep dive" media will try to convince you that you *now* know things, thanks to them.
A PhD, especially one with archival, observational, or observational components, will definitely convince you that you know next to nothing, thanks to the available resources & one's predecessors.
A PhD, especially one with archival, observational, or observational components, will definitely convince you that you know next to nothing, thanks to the available resources & one's predecessors.
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The scientific method took a long time to take hold because it’s upside down from how we primates are wired to come to consensus about stuff that was important to our primate predecessors.
We’re wired to ask ‘why is the bigger, confident primate right?’
Science asks ‘how might I be proven wrong?’
We’re wired to ask ‘why is the bigger, confident primate right?’
Science asks ‘how might I be proven wrong?’
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what this latest episode shows is that like all fascists before them these assholes are highly afraid of being ridiculed so therefore we should ridicule them a hell of a lot more
September 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
what this latest episode shows is that like all fascists before them these assholes are highly afraid of being ridiculed so therefore we should ridicule them a hell of a lot more
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Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.
Stephen Miler is open about what's coming: a federal law enforcement crackdown on its political opponents
September 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.
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It might be smarter to declare war on an American city that isn't literally characterized by how much the people who live there make their entire personalities about how much they love it. Have you even seen my timeline? We've basically been training for this for years.
September 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
It might be smarter to declare war on an American city that isn't literally characterized by how much the people who live there make their entire personalities about how much they love it. Have you even seen my timeline? We've basically been training for this for years.
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If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:
FHP also arrested a man at a crosswalk near Pulse in Orlando last night. The bizarre story of the arrest is related below by Fox35 Orlando.
This is so pitifully embarrassing for the state.
via www.fox35orlando.com/news/man-arr...
This is so pitifully embarrassing for the state.
via www.fox35orlando.com/news/man-arr...
August 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:
This is when it would be nice if Massachusetts had a less dysfunctional state house, because we should be hurrying to fix this.
Not trying to call this individual out in a quote post, hence the crop, but I've seen several versions of this sentiment and it's wrong. The list is red and blue; it literally includes Massachusetts and New York. The distinguishing factor is esoteric laws on pharmacists' scope of practice.
August 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This is when it would be nice if Massachusetts had a less dysfunctional state house, because we should be hurrying to fix this.