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How to Get Rid of “Citizens United”
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How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
How to Get Rid of “Citizens United”
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
Which wind to believe?
The straying polar vortex
Or southern Fall heat?
The straying polar vortex
Or southern Fall heat?
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Which wind to believe?
The straying polar vortex
Or southern Fall heat?
The straying polar vortex
Or southern Fall heat?
I like to have thirty or forty different wallpapers of castles and fantasy-themed landscapes. The unfortunate side-effect is a powerful but futile urge to play my wallpaper. 😉
November 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I like to have thirty or forty different wallpapers of castles and fantasy-themed landscapes. The unfortunate side-effect is a powerful but futile urge to play my wallpaper. 😉
The Velveteen Football
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The Velveteen Football
When we were younger, we sat by the waters of Babylon, and wept when we remembered Zion. Now it’s
By the counter, the counter Of my own kitchen
We stood there and wondered, and wondered
What we were doing
We remember, we remember
We remember trivial stuff
By the counter, the counter Of my own kitchen
We stood there and wondered, and wondered
What we were doing
We remember, we remember
We remember trivial stuff
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
When we were younger, we sat by the waters of Babylon, and wept when we remembered Zion. Now it’s
By the counter, the counter Of my own kitchen
We stood there and wondered, and wondered
What we were doing
We remember, we remember
We remember trivial stuff
By the counter, the counter Of my own kitchen
We stood there and wondered, and wondered
What we were doing
We remember, we remember
We remember trivial stuff
It’s funny how much I agree but don’t agree with this guy. What he calls “The Machine,” I call the tendency of cultural evolution to create self-organizing cultural systems that are about their own perpetuation, growth, and reproduction, not about human… 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...
Opinion | The Machine Wants to Kill Us
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It’s funny how much I agree but don’t agree with this guy. What he calls “The Machine,” I call the tendency of cultural evolution to create self-organizing cultural systems that are about their own perpetuation, growth, and reproduction, not about human… 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...
Maybe Congress is making a mistake by trying to make things like the CFPB’s funding “insulated from partisan swings.” In a democracy, there is no way to take decisions about how to govern outside of politics. Telling voters we’ve done so just gives them the… 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...
As Consumer Bureau’s Cash Dwindles, Trump Administration Declares Its Funding Illegal
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Maybe Congress is making a mistake by trying to make things like the CFPB’s funding “insulated from partisan swings.” In a democracy, there is no way to take decisions about how to govern outside of politics. Telling voters we’ve done so just gives them the… 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...
“Rather, his life seems a case study in the way ideology often follows self-interest.”
Sounds Marxist! 😱 Physics departments don’t teach Einsteinism 101, biology departments don’t teach Darwinism 101, and nobody but dogma-ridden ideologues should say “Marxism.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Sounds Marxist! 😱 Physics departments don’t teach Einsteinism 101, biology departments don’t teach Darwinism 101, and nobody but dogma-ridden ideologues should say “Marxism.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Opinion | Alex Karp Went From Biden Donor to Trump Enabler. Why?
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“Rather, his life seems a case study in the way ideology often follows self-interest.”
Sounds Marxist! 😱 Physics departments don’t teach Einsteinism 101, biology departments don’t teach Darwinism 101, and nobody but dogma-ridden ideologues should say “Marxism.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Sounds Marxist! 😱 Physics departments don’t teach Einsteinism 101, biology departments don’t teach Darwinism 101, and nobody but dogma-ridden ideologues should say “Marxism.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Just imagine a society where the only thing people wanted Gates’s opinions on were questions about operating systems and monetizing IT innovations. Read the study: we live in an oligarchy. We will always live in an oligarchy until we realize that billionaires and monopolies kill equal rights.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Review of evidence showing how the issue of the massive inequality of wealth and income are kept off the menu of ‘reasonable’ political discussion. And yet it’s the key to where our major problems come from and what can be done. But money talks, gold rules
Review of evidence showing how the issue of the massive inequality of wealth and income are kept off the menu of ‘reasonable’ political discussion. And yet it’s the key to where our major problems come from and what can be done. But money talks, gold rules
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Just imagine a society where the only thing people wanted Gates’s opinions on were questions about operating systems and monetizing IT innovations. Read the study: we live in an oligarchy. We will always live in an oligarchy until we realize that billionaires and monopolies kill equal rights.
If the workplace is ruined, where does the buck stop? At the CEO’s desk. CEO’s are, with overwhelming disproportion, men. If they don’t control the workplaces they’re nominally in control of, what are we paying them millions and billions of dollars for? CEOs did it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
If the workplace is ruined, where does the buck stop? At the CEO’s desk. CEO’s are, with overwhelming disproportion, men. If they don’t control the workplaces they’re nominally in control of, what are we paying them millions and billions of dollars for? CEOs did it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
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10% of Meta's 2024 ad revenue came from outright frauds and scams; the platform shows consumers 15 billion ads for fraud and scams every single day. This doesn't even include agitprop and AI slop.
the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
10% of Meta's 2024 ad revenue came from outright frauds and scams; the platform shows consumers 15 billion ads for fraud and scams every single day. This doesn't even include agitprop and AI slop.
the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
I voted! Since the highest office I was voting for was mayor of little old Marietta, and the blasted school board incumbent was running unopposed, voting didn’t exactly sate my hunger for change. I guess I’ll go home and eat some ice cream instead.
November 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I voted! Since the highest office I was voting for was mayor of little old Marietta, and the blasted school board incumbent was running unopposed, voting didn’t exactly sate my hunger for change. I guess I’ll go home and eat some ice cream instead.
Holy cow! Turns out, we couldn’t even believe him when he said “China… China…China.”
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The Real Worry About Trump’s Deals With China
Today he’s resolved little more than a crisis of his own making. What might he trade away later for such negligible gains?
www.theatlantic.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Holy cow! Turns out, we couldn’t even believe him when he said “China… China…China.”
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
That’s why Holsey resigned. He didn’t want to face trial for murder.
Someday there will be a reckoning for the serial killings that the US government is engaged in on the oceans. Another admin should not refuse to extradite indicted officials to Intl Criminal Courts and senior military officers “just following orders” should not be exempted.
November 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
That’s why Holsey resigned. He didn’t want to face trial for murder.
I agree with a lot of what Klein says in this article. Think back to the marriage equality movement in the decade right before we won. What role did electoral politics play in its success? I’m going to say zero. Obama was campaigning on “marriage is for normies.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
Opinion | This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I agree with a lot of what Klein says in this article. Think back to the marriage equality movement in the decade right before we won. What role did electoral politics play in its success? I’m going to say zero. Obama was campaigning on “marriage is for normies.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
I’m sorry— really , I am sorry— but your problem isn’t a broken insurance market. Your problem is climate change burning down large areas of California. You can’t fix it by fiddling with insurance rates or subsidies. No one can afford to replace all those houses.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
California Promised Insurance Relief, But Delivered Loopholes
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I’m sorry— really , I am sorry— but your problem isn’t a broken insurance market. Your problem is climate change burning down large areas of California. You can’t fix it by fiddling with insurance rates or subsidies. No one can afford to replace all those houses.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
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Police killed 152 people during routine traffic stops in 2024.
To save lives and protect our constitutional rights, cities must listen to the majority of voters who support limiting or ending police enforcement of certain minor traffic violations.
To save lives and protect our constitutional rights, cities must listen to the majority of voters who support limiting or ending police enforcement of certain minor traffic violations.
Why Police Traffic Stops Are Dangerous and Ineffective | ACLU
Millions of drivers are pulled over every year for minor violations like broken taillights or tinted windows. Data shows these stops rarely make roads safer, and instead lead to racial disparities, violence, and loss of trust in police.
www.aclu.org
November 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Just when you think you’re never going to get through that giant Costco package of cream cheese… Surprise! Pop-up weekend bagel bakery down the street!
November 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Just when you think you’re never going to get through that giant Costco package of cream cheese… Surprise! Pop-up weekend bagel bakery down the street!
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Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories.
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories.
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
“…convinced itself that George W. Bush had come to grief only because he was a big-government liberal, and what the country really wanted was a more rigorous form of government-cutting conservatism.”
The Republican Party didn’t move more toward the center… 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...
The Republican Party didn’t move more toward the center… 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...
Opinion | It’s Obvious Why Harris Lost in 2024. But Can Democrats Accept It?
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“…convinced itself that George W. Bush had come to grief only because he was a big-government liberal, and what the country really wanted was a more rigorous form of government-cutting conservatism.”
The Republican Party didn’t move more toward the center… 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...
The Republican Party didn’t move more toward the center… 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...
Be honest: did you *really* know enough about exactly what the SS Totenkopf symbol looks like, that you could look at the blurry still from a video showing Platner’s tattoo, and judge for yourself whether it was that Totenkopf or just some piratey skull and… 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Be honest: did you *really* know enough about exactly what the SS Totenkopf symbol looks like, that you could look at the blurry still from a video showing Platner’s tattoo, and judge for yourself whether it was that Totenkopf or just some piratey skull and… 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
The blindness is amazing! When this was our flag, the people waving it and founding our nation were the only “them” that had a “back” to be sent to. But fine, whatever, send them back! America for the Indians!
I want you to pause for a moment. The Steady State...former officers of the CIA, NSA, DIA, State Department, and other national-security agencies posted this earlier. They shared a post made by the Department of Homeland Security.
Ladies and gentlemen, friends and neighbors...this...is not a drill.
Ladies and gentlemen, friends and neighbors...this...is not a drill.
When the state begins speaking in the language of purity and duty, history warns what comes next.
#authoritarianism #DemocraticDecline #SteadyStateAssessment
#authoritarianism #DemocraticDecline #SteadyStateAssessment
October 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The blindness is amazing! When this was our flag, the people waving it and founding our nation were the only “them” that had a “back” to be sent to. But fine, whatever, send them back! America for the Indians!
Fact checked, although it actually happened in 1935.
October 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Fact checked, although it actually happened in 1935.