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· Nov 23
You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.
Reminder that my book is seven years old BUT YOU CAN STILL BUY AND READ IT or get it from the library or something and sequels/prequels at my website and IT'S NEW TO YOU!
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Social burnout doesn't go far enough to describe the despair and helplessness instilled in oneself by the repeated message from the power-holders in our societies that the voices of anyone younger than 70 don't matter and there's no place in government for us. That's profoundly discouraging.
November 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Social burnout doesn't go far enough to describe the despair and helplessness instilled in oneself by the repeated message from the power-holders in our societies that the voices of anyone younger than 70 don't matter and there's no place in government for us. That's profoundly discouraging.
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Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
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And I swear, once again, this is not dunking on kids. We are seeing this at all levels--even grad students. AI + social media has had a profound impact on how we think and process our world, and we can't stop to reflect on it, because billionaires keep hurling addictive tech at us.
November 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
And I swear, once again, this is not dunking on kids. We are seeing this at all levels--even grad students. AI + social media has had a profound impact on how we think and process our world, and we can't stop to reflect on it, because billionaires keep hurling addictive tech at us.
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When I ask them: "What are you reading? What are you watching? What are you listening to?" Often, the answer is: nothing. Which has a direct effect on their over-use of prompts and AI, because they can't think of ideas, because they are literally not engaging with a single figurative thing.
November 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
When I ask them: "What are you reading? What are you watching? What are you listening to?" Often, the answer is: nothing. Which has a direct effect on their over-use of prompts and AI, because they can't think of ideas, because they are literally not engaging with a single figurative thing.
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Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Everyone should read this terrifying thread about Hegseth’s published views wrt war crimes. It’s pretty fucking radical …. We needed to hear about this in his confirmation hearing.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
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Five-byline alert: 🚨
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Five-byline alert: 🚨
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
“.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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I’m not an expert in the law of war, but an order to kill injured people who were not posing a single threat to anyone would seem to me to be a possible war crime.
November 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I’m not an expert in the law of war, but an order to kill injured people who were not posing a single threat to anyone would seem to me to be a possible war crime.
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Sarah Beckstrom seems like she was a wonderful person who had a bright future ahead of her. Such a tragedy.
Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Sarah Beckstrom seems like she was a wonderful person who had a bright future ahead of her. Such a tragedy.
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Also, Nuremberg references are a great way to remind people that in the 1940s SCOTUS justices thought their job was to PROSECUTE war crimes, not enable them.
The Roberts Court will clearly be remembered as one of, if not the, worst SCOTUS in US history. Remind them TODAY of how pathetic they are.
The Roberts Court will clearly be remembered as one of, if not the, worst SCOTUS in US history. Remind them TODAY of how pathetic they are.
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Also, Nuremberg references are a great way to remind people that in the 1940s SCOTUS justices thought their job was to PROSECUTE war crimes, not enable them.
The Roberts Court will clearly be remembered as one of, if not the, worst SCOTUS in US history. Remind them TODAY of how pathetic they are.
The Roberts Court will clearly be remembered as one of, if not the, worst SCOTUS in US history. Remind them TODAY of how pathetic they are.
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I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
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The journalist who got this scoop and reported it is a former U.S. Army infantry soldier and Iraq War vet
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The journalist who got this scoop and reported it is a former U.S. Army infantry soldier and Iraq War vet
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When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.
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This is one of those why!? moments. The Trump administration abruptly halted an FDA effort that was designed to keep asbestos out of talc-based cosmetics.
November 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is one of those why!? moments. The Trump administration abruptly halted an FDA effort that was designed to keep asbestos out of talc-based cosmetics.
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It's cute, reading all these anguished cries: "when this is all over, these guys need to go to jail!" I remember saying that during Bush I crimes, and during Bush II crimes, and during Trump I crimes.
Guess how many of those guys went to jail.
Guess how many of those guys went to jail.
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It's cute, reading all these anguished cries: "when this is all over, these guys need to go to jail!" I remember saying that during Bush I crimes, and during Bush II crimes, and during Trump I crimes.
Guess how many of those guys went to jail.
Guess how many of those guys went to jail.
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Stopped by REI this week to pick up a couple of Coast Guard approved distress whistles. Equally good for when you're lost in the wilderness or dealing with masked thugs abducting people from your neighborhood.
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Stopped by REI this week to pick up a couple of Coast Guard approved distress whistles. Equally good for when you're lost in the wilderness or dealing with masked thugs abducting people from your neighborhood.
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Had my hair done today. I’ve been going to the same small-town stylist for a decade. Want to know the topic of conversation in the ENTIRE salon?
Insurance premiums. Every one of us has been impacted.
Insurance premiums. Every one of us has been impacted.
November 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Had my hair done today. I’ve been going to the same small-town stylist for a decade. Want to know the topic of conversation in the ENTIRE salon?
Insurance premiums. Every one of us has been impacted.
Insurance premiums. Every one of us has been impacted.
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I am saddened to hear about the National Guardsmen who were shot today…
Even sadder because they were dispatched to DC for no other reason than a photo op for Trump.
These brave men and women should be at home celebrating the holidays with their families and loved ones.
Even sadder because they were dispatched to DC for no other reason than a photo op for Trump.
These brave men and women should be at home celebrating the holidays with their families and loved ones.
November 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I am saddened to hear about the National Guardsmen who were shot today…
Even sadder because they were dispatched to DC for no other reason than a photo op for Trump.
These brave men and women should be at home celebrating the holidays with their families and loved ones.
Even sadder because they were dispatched to DC for no other reason than a photo op for Trump.
These brave men and women should be at home celebrating the holidays with their families and loved ones.
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To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
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As a comfortably well off retiree, this post is an eye opener. What kind of income does it take to ba full participant in society. And how bad the turbulence is if you’re near the boundary. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-... @charlesgaba.com
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 PM
As a comfortably well off retiree, this post is an eye opener. What kind of income does it take to ba full participant in society. And how bad the turbulence is if you’re near the boundary. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-... @charlesgaba.com
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I'm not saying that throwing David Sacks into a volcano would prevent a recession. I'm just saying we haven't ruled that out yet.
James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
November 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I'm not saying that throwing David Sacks into a volcano would prevent a recession. I'm just saying we haven't ruled that out yet.
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WHAT THE FUCK
November 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
WHAT THE FUCK
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Before I left, I had to work with a DOGE bro on a project, and the one PR of his I looked at was full of AI-hallucinated code. He very obviously just pointed AI at it, and shipped it without checking any of it. They‘re not sending their best.
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Before I left, I had to work with a DOGE bro on a project, and the one PR of his I looked at was full of AI-hallucinated code. He very obviously just pointed AI at it, and shipped it without checking any of it. They‘re not sending their best.
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Everything that DOGE touched, they added visible evidence of their assumption that there is a real live DEI conspiracy which can be fought with lawyers and funding cuts
Here it is at the top of the DOJ Civil Rights Division website
Here it is at the top of the DOJ Civil Rights Division website
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Everything that DOGE touched, they added visible evidence of their assumption that there is a real live DEI conspiracy which can be fought with lawyers and funding cuts
Here it is at the top of the DOJ Civil Rights Division website
Here it is at the top of the DOJ Civil Rights Division website