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How did Americans allow the institutions that made the country peaceful and prosperous to be dismantled in one year?

And yes we did. Voters, government employees, politicians, judges, the press, all together made the destruction possible. How, it's a question for future historians to answer.
NSF Update

Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.

Now by Directorate...

1/11
February 14, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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NSF Update

Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.

Now by Directorate...

1/11
February 13, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Diálogos ocultos: Srikant e o Tigrão. test0pait.wordpress.com/2020/07/17/d...

Essa crônica é engraçada. Ninguém leu, quem leu não vai entender, mas é engraçada.
February 14, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Posting for no reason. Actually for good reasons. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_R...

Also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_R...

Color revolutions didn’t start after the fall of the Soviet Union.
White Revolution - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 14, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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Most delicious lead in drinking water award.

Flakiest asbestos in your home award.

and of course...

Most robust greenhouse gas emissions award!

Mazel tov.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump named ‘undisputed champion of beautiful clean coal’ by industry group
Award was presented as president directed Pentagon to buy billions of dollars’ worth of energy from coal plants
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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What a day of good trouble with great partners raising our voices to protest authoritarianism and the ICE invasion of our cities.

MORE PHOTOS: dayenu.org/media/jews-a...
@truahrabbis.bsky.social @bendthearc.bsky.social
February 12, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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Rallying with hundreds outside the ICE facility in Burlington, MA to say ICE OUT NOW.
Thanks to great partners bringing the moral might and people power of American Jews to these rallies today!
@bendthearc.bsky.social @truahrabbis.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 7:14 PM
...conference in São Paulo, Brazil. So I was met at the airport and given a ride in a helicopter that landed on the hotel’s roof... I was provided with a car and driver to take me back to the airport.

Note however that the train to the airport is now faster.

open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Seduced by the Louis XIV Treatment
What JD Vance and his entourage in Milan teach us about Epstein’s magnetism
open.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:48 PM
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

Parties hollowing out, fact. I don’t know about any aspect of the analysis. The Tories being the 1st mass membership party, that’s interesting!
Opinion | They Used to Rule the West. Now They’re Dying.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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Desinformação é um problema de demanda. As pessoas querem informações assustadoras, negativas que alimentem a sua visão de mundo.
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Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.

He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.

Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
February 8, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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This a word cloud from the titles of ~1100 terminated NSF grants.

It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.
February 7, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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It’s just a bad look no matter which way you cut it, it’s not like Corbyn could have known about any of that stuff, so why delete it? It’s a much bigger moral stain that these guys supported Chomsky after Bosnia & Cambodia. Everyone knew about that stuff & loved him for it!

bsky.app/profile/padr...
I was just thinking this morning that myriad parts of the left could spend the next decade expunging Chomsky from open letters, endorrsements, honorary board membership etc and still barely scratch the surface. Just leave him there for God’s sake
Jeremy Corbyn’s “Peace and Justice Project” have just memoryholed Noam Chomsky out of existence and purged mentions of him from their website.
February 5, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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Will Stancil is putting his safety on the line confronting ICE while Putin bootlicker Ryan Grim pals around with Steve Bannon on his podcast.

You aren’t fit to lace Stancil’s boots Grim.
Will Stancil getting thrown out of the ICE signal chat for being annoying (and apparently not following the rules?) was always the way this was destined to end
February 5, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Que coisa.
⚠️ The CIA World Factbook has been shut down.

(link: www.cia.gov/stories/stor...)
February 5, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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Unbelievable
February 4, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Que coisa.

Bezos despediu metade dos jornalistas.
February 4, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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New illustration by my friend Steve Cousineau. Who else will come slithering out of that box?
February 4, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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👀 "Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics" techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/h...
Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics | TechCrunch
The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts docu...
techcrunch.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
February 4, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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Agora o Xandão foi longe demais
February 3, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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this guy was also an economic advisor to george w. bush, john mccain, and mitt romney, which helps illustrate that the rot is not just within maga but runs deep throughout the republican party
Kevin Hassett: "We are reordering the world order"
February 1, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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The kids can spread the diseases that kill off the retirees. It’s the Florida circle of life!♻️
February 1, 2026 at 11:35 PM