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Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?
A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.
October 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?
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today's newsletter: a consideration of the many wonderful cars in One Battle After Another, in particular Willa's 2005 Yaris, Sensei's T-Bird Super Coupe and Bob's boosted 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R
The Oscar Should Go to Bob Ferguson's 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R
'One Battle After Another' as a car movie
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October 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
today's newsletter: a consideration of the many wonderful cars in One Battle After Another, in particular Willa's 2005 Yaris, Sensei's T-Bird Super Coupe and Bob's boosted 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R
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New baby red pandas at the Buffalo Zoo being inducted into Bills traditions.
September 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
New baby red pandas at the Buffalo Zoo being inducted into Bills traditions.
Watched the first 45 min of Warfare (til I couldn't), then a video of a whale and giant squid and other scrolling on this app. Should make for some ... dreams.
September 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Watched the first 45 min of Warfare (til I couldn't), then a video of a whale and giant squid and other scrolling on this app. Should make for some ... dreams.
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Steely Dan releases “Aja” 48 years ago today — their most commercially successful album, which now sits in the Grammy Hall of Fame.
It’s fun to watch Jay Graydon replicate his guitar solo from “Peg”. 🎸
It’s fun to watch Jay Graydon replicate his guitar solo from “Peg”. 🎸
September 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Steely Dan releases “Aja” 48 years ago today — their most commercially successful album, which now sits in the Grammy Hall of Fame.
It’s fun to watch Jay Graydon replicate his guitar solo from “Peg”. 🎸
It’s fun to watch Jay Graydon replicate his guitar solo from “Peg”. 🎸
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Common theme of people I've interviewed recently. At universities, in research centers, in diplomacy, in the legal system, dealing with refugees or immigrants:
The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.
The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.
September 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Common theme of people I've interviewed recently. At universities, in research centers, in diplomacy, in the legal system, dealing with refugees or immigrants:
The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.
The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.
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450 were napped by ICE at a Hyundai construction site in Georgia, where 3 workers had been killed.
Workers complained about the deaths to Trump's OSHA, which did nothing.
Instead, ICE showed up in an act viewed as retaliatory.
paydayreport.com/450-napped-b...
Workers complained about the deaths to Trump's OSHA, which did nothing.
Instead, ICE showed up in an act viewed as retaliatory.
paydayreport.com/450-napped-b...
450 Napped by ICE at Hyundai Georgia Plant, Where 3 Workers Were Killed Previously
Since the Trump Administration took over and began cutting back on federal workplace safety enforcement, two workers have died at the plant in just two months.
paydayreport.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM
450 were napped by ICE at a Hyundai construction site in Georgia, where 3 workers had been killed.
Workers complained about the deaths to Trump's OSHA, which did nothing.
Instead, ICE showed up in an act viewed as retaliatory.
paydayreport.com/450-napped-b...
Workers complained about the deaths to Trump's OSHA, which did nothing.
Instead, ICE showed up in an act viewed as retaliatory.
paydayreport.com/450-napped-b...
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"Bustillo-Chinchilla moved to North Carolina from Honduras when she was 8 years old. She graduated from Crest High School in Shelby and earned a scholarship to attend Gardner-Webb University, with hopes of becoming a nurse."
What is the sense in imprisoning and expelling this person?
What is the sense in imprisoning and expelling this person?
August 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"Bustillo-Chinchilla moved to North Carolina from Honduras when she was 8 years old. She graduated from Crest High School in Shelby and earned a scholarship to attend Gardner-Webb University, with hopes of becoming a nurse."
What is the sense in imprisoning and expelling this person?
What is the sense in imprisoning and expelling this person?
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We are living in a post-truth society. Don't like the jobs numbers? Call them fake. Crime stats aren't alarming enough for you? Say someone's making them up. Basically, believe whatever you want to believe. We'll program AI to tell you that you're right anyway.
August 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
We are living in a post-truth society. Don't like the jobs numbers? Call them fake. Crime stats aren't alarming enough for you? Say someone's making them up. Basically, believe whatever you want to believe. We'll program AI to tell you that you're right anyway.
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Record demand for food and shaky economy leave $891K budget gap at AFAC
www.arlnow.com/2025/08/11/r...
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Record demand for food and shaky economy leave $891K budget gap at AFAC | ARLnow.com
Record demand has left Arlington's largest food pantry with an $891,000 hole in its budget this fiscal year -- and it may only get worse. Almost one out of every 10 Arlington residents, 23,190 people,...
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August 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Record demand for food and shaky economy leave $891K budget gap at AFAC
www.arlnow.com/2025/08/11/r...
www.arlnow.com/2025/08/11/r...
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pro soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios followed all the rules when he came to the US. His lawyer told took his asylum case bc it seemed like a "slam dunk. Then US officials sent him to CECOT, where he was told he'd spend the rest of his life
w/@mattshuham.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...
w/@mattshuham.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...
Pro Soccer Player Who Spent 125 Days At CECOT Gives Chilling Account Of His Time There
“Both the physical and mental abuse doled out by the officers made me think sometimes that I would never leave that place,” Jerce Reyes Barrios said.
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August 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
pro soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios followed all the rules when he came to the US. His lawyer told took his asylum case bc it seemed like a "slam dunk. Then US officials sent him to CECOT, where he was told he'd spend the rest of his life
w/@mattshuham.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...
w/@mattshuham.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Someone (@lewfoo) posted a long thread on the THREADS app about this. I’m posting the @npr.org story on which her thread was based here. PLEASE READ & SHARE. It’s so important.
@cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social
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@cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social
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When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.
www.npr.org
July 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Someone (@lewfoo) posted a long thread on the THREADS app about this. I’m posting the @npr.org story on which her thread was based here. PLEASE READ & SHARE. It’s so important.
@cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social
www.npr.org/sections/the...
@cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social
www.npr.org/sections/the...
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Man all that shit they threatened to do my whole life … they’ve pulled off a lot more of it than I thought reasonably possible.
July 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Man all that shit they threatened to do my whole life … they’ve pulled off a lot more of it than I thought reasonably possible.
Tractor and trailer not supposed to be separated but that's what happened under the NE rail bridge on DC295 n/b this aftn. Holy cow what a diversion for me, what an utter nightmare for anyone caught behind the closure n/b. All the way down to 695. Having no emergency cuts in the medians mean doom.
June 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Tractor and trailer not supposed to be separated but that's what happened under the NE rail bridge on DC295 n/b this aftn. Holy cow what a diversion for me, what an utter nightmare for anyone caught behind the closure n/b. All the way down to 695. Having no emergency cuts in the medians mean doom.
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Bro is so locked in he is doing the Canadian thing where they post in two languages.
El Senador Alex Padilla es una de las personas más decentes que conozco.
Esto es indignante, dictatorial y vergonzoso.
Trump y sus tropas de asalto están fuera de control.
Esto debe terminar ya.
Esto es indignante, dictatorial y vergonzoso.
Trump y sus tropas de asalto están fuera de control.
Esto debe terminar ya.
June 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Bro is so locked in he is doing the Canadian thing where they post in two languages.
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This is a pretty important point!
The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.
June 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This is a pretty important point!
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Ominous juxtaposition
June 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Ominous juxtaposition
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SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
May 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
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Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
www.npr.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
Destroying govt workers AND putting us at greater risk. So MAHA, eh? They'll burn out and impoverish current inspectors til they quit. What private co's will be hired to do these critical inspections? Who owns travel mgmt firms our govt will contract to handle this?
While Food and Drug Administration inspectors who make sure food and drugs meet quality standards were spared in recent cuts, key support staffers were dismissed.
How FDA cuts could make the food and drug supply less safe
While Food and Drug Administration inspectors who make sure food and drugs meet quality standards were spared in recent cuts, key support staffers were dismissed.
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April 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Destroying govt workers AND putting us at greater risk. So MAHA, eh? They'll burn out and impoverish current inspectors til they quit. What private co's will be hired to do these critical inspections? Who owns travel mgmt firms our govt will contract to handle this?
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Again, we're witnessing a near-total comprehensive failure of the leaders of our societal institutions to overcome basic collective action problems & speak out against the lawless authoritarianism. By the time everyone decides to speak up, it will be too late.
“.. Asked how much the stock market would need to decline for them to speak out collectively, 44% said it would have to fall 20%. Another 22% said stocks would have to fall 30% before they would take a stand.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/business/ceo...
@wsj.com
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March 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Again, we're witnessing a near-total comprehensive failure of the leaders of our societal institutions to overcome basic collective action problems & speak out against the lawless authoritarianism. By the time everyone decides to speak up, it will be too late.
Never seen such a bevy of rumpled bumblesharts holding court in a joint session address as these ghoul gopers are displaying rn.
But that's who we are, now.
But that's who we are, now.
March 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Never seen such a bevy of rumpled bumblesharts holding court in a joint session address as these ghoul gopers are displaying rn.
But that's who we are, now.
But that's who we are, now.