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Regardless of shooter ideology (though shooters often share a stated ideology that gets overlooked by initial reporting), mass shootings have an ideological form, which is that agency belongs to those willing to do violence, that the dead deserve their fates, that this is the point of gun power.
August 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Regardless of shooter ideology (though shooters often share a stated ideology that gets overlooked by initial reporting), mass shootings have an ideological form, which is that agency belongs to those willing to do violence, that the dead deserve their fates, that this is the point of gun power.
Stop calling them Plantations or 'wedding venues' and start calling them what they actually were: forced labor farms no different in kind or brutality than Dachau or Buchenwald.
Ferocious evils occurred in these places. Call things by their proper names.
And when these places burn, let them burn.
Ferocious evils occurred in these places. Call things by their proper names.
And when these places burn, let them burn.
May 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Stop calling them Plantations or 'wedding venues' and start calling them what they actually were: forced labor farms no different in kind or brutality than Dachau or Buchenwald.
Ferocious evils occurred in these places. Call things by their proper names.
And when these places burn, let them burn.
Ferocious evils occurred in these places. Call things by their proper names.
And when these places burn, let them burn.
Dr. Toni Morrison diagnosing the disease. I really miss her living voice and am so grateful that she left behind such a volume of novels, stories, essays, and interviews for us to follow.
May 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Dr. Toni Morrison diagnosing the disease. I really miss her living voice and am so grateful that she left behind such a volume of novels, stories, essays, and interviews for us to follow.
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You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
April 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
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It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.
February 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.
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New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.
February 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.
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The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
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There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.
February 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.
President inflicts 25% tax on US consumers who buy coffee and cut flowers.
Trump orders tariffs, visa restrictions on Colombia over rejection of deportation flights
Trump made the announcement Sunday on his social media platform Truth Social.
apnews.com
January 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
President inflicts 25% tax on US consumers who buy coffee and cut flowers.
THIS.
1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.
I also keep thinking that we have to support our libraries.
January 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
THIS.
People in CancerLand also are reporting that ongoing scheduled cancer trial treatments at NCI suddenly have been canceled, leaving desperately ill people with no alternatives. People will die from this, and years of human trial data will be ruined from this.
Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.
January 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
People in CancerLand also are reporting that ongoing scheduled cancer trial treatments at NCI suddenly have been canceled, leaving desperately ill people with no alternatives. People will die from this, and years of human trial data will be ruined from this.
Two things I’m hearing nothing about today: Leonard Peltier and Palestinian prisoners reunited with their families.
January 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Two things I’m hearing nothing about today: Leonard Peltier and Palestinian prisoners reunited with their families.
Great point. Akamai and Oracle are betraying in futures here, and banking on Trump’s extralegal capacity. Obeying in advance, in so many words.
I'm told TikTok's host (Oracle) and CDN (Akamai) brought it back online today because Trump assured them they'd not be subject to penalties - something he can't entirely promise.
Whatever one's feelings on the ban's merit, they're defying federal law based on a not-yet-president's word. Huge gamble
Whatever one's feelings on the ban's merit, they're defying federal law based on a not-yet-president's word. Huge gamble
January 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Great point. Akamai and Oracle are betraying in futures here, and banking on Trump’s extralegal capacity. Obeying in advance, in so many words.
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in a world of Donald Trumps, be a Jimmy Carter
December 29, 2024 at 9:28 PM
in a world of Donald Trumps, be a Jimmy Carter
Reposted by James Atkinson
As of yesterday booksellers at The Strand are on strike. Solidarity with them. Don’t cross the picket line, even virtually.
Local 2179's Strand Booksellers on Strike
After months of stalled negotiation and three separate contract extensions, UAW Local 2179 members at the Strand Bookstore walked off the job today, December 7, marking the first strike at the iconic ...
region9a.uaw.org
December 8, 2024 at 4:03 PM
As of yesterday booksellers at The Strand are on strike. Solidarity with them. Don’t cross the picket line, even virtually.
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Partner spotted this in a New York City bookstore.
December 7, 2024 at 6:35 AM
Partner spotted this in a New York City bookstore.
It’s time to start paying attention to the end of the Ba’athist regime in Syria.
Assad apparently has fled. Rebels are moving into Damascus, the prison gates have opened, and the Syrian military is reported to have stood down and gone home.
Assad apparently has fled. Rebels are moving into Damascus, the prison gates have opened, and the Syrian military is reported to have stood down and gone home.
DAMASCUS:
1000s of prisoners have been freed from Sednaya prison, now flooding the streets, an monumental moment.
For many, the frantic search begins, desperate to know if their loved ones are among the living or the lost.
Either way, the "human slaughterhouse" is no more.
1000s of prisoners have been freed from Sednaya prison, now flooding the streets, an monumental moment.
For many, the frantic search begins, desperate to know if their loved ones are among the living or the lost.
Either way, the "human slaughterhouse" is no more.
December 8, 2024 at 2:44 AM
It’s time to start paying attention to the end of the Ba’athist regime in Syria.
Assad apparently has fled. Rebels are moving into Damascus, the prison gates have opened, and the Syrian military is reported to have stood down and gone home.
Assad apparently has fled. Rebels are moving into Damascus, the prison gates have opened, and the Syrian military is reported to have stood down and gone home.
I see what he did there.
No, one is above the law.
November 25, 2024 at 7:41 PM
I see what he did there.
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The Nazis were HUGE on pseudoscience. And they definitely leaned into charlatans and randos that had no business in politics or power positions. The specifics differ slightly but it’s the same playbook. This is an interesting interview that covers some of it.
science.thewire.in/society/hist...
science.thewire.in/society/hist...
Interview: How Pseudoscience Became Central to Nazism
The author of a new book offers a closer look at the specific influence pseudoscientific ideas had on the emergence and consequences of Nazi ideology.
science.thewire.in
November 19, 2024 at 9:05 PM
The Nazis were HUGE on pseudoscience. And they definitely leaned into charlatans and randos that had no business in politics or power positions. The specifics differ slightly but it’s the same playbook. This is an interesting interview that covers some of it.
science.thewire.in/society/hist...
science.thewire.in/society/hist...
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Starter Pack of follows from elections/polls/data twitter. an attempt to reproduce the "Numbers Peeps" list I curate at Twitter. go.bsky.app/UN6Atu7
November 18, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Starter Pack of follows from elections/polls/data twitter. an attempt to reproduce the "Numbers Peeps" list I curate at Twitter. go.bsky.app/UN6Atu7
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What I love about this Officially Verified Bluesky Press Lists is it includes a real mix of people at major legacy media outlets, independent organizations, and freelancers.
We can promote a diverse media when billionaires don't control what you see.
Let's keep it growing!
go.bsky.app/U9juDW4
We can promote a diverse media when billionaires don't control what you see.
Let's keep it growing!
go.bsky.app/U9juDW4
November 19, 2024 at 2:55 AM
What I love about this Officially Verified Bluesky Press Lists is it includes a real mix of people at major legacy media outlets, independent organizations, and freelancers.
We can promote a diverse media when billionaires don't control what you see.
Let's keep it growing!
go.bsky.app/U9juDW4
We can promote a diverse media when billionaires don't control what you see.
Let's keep it growing!
go.bsky.app/U9juDW4
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Our paper quantifying the negative effects of urban freeways on local neighborhood quality of life appears in the September issue of REStat. doi.org/10.1162/rest...
Freeway Revolts! The Quality of Life Effects of Highways
Abstract. Why do freeways affect spatial structure? We identify and quantify the local disamenity effects of freeways. Freeways cause slower growth in central neighborhoods (where local disamenities e...
doi.org
November 19, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Our paper quantifying the negative effects of urban freeways on local neighborhood quality of life appears in the September issue of REStat. doi.org/10.1162/rest...
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Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research
Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it
www.nber.org/system/files...
Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it
www.nber.org/system/files...
November 18, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research
Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it
www.nber.org/system/files...
Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it
www.nber.org/system/files...
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Discussing Bluesky migration in terms of liberal flight misses the simple fact that most people use social media for fun not influence and this platform, unlike X and cruddified Facebook, doesn’t feel like you’re wading through shit to reach your friends. It’s not that deep.
November 16, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Discussing Bluesky migration in terms of liberal flight misses the simple fact that most people use social media for fun not influence and this platform, unlike X and cruddified Facebook, doesn’t feel like you’re wading through shit to reach your friends. It’s not that deep.