Margo Dunlap
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HORRIFYING -
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025
🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year
😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition
news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025
🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year
😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition
news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...
Expert insight: U.S. withdrawal from WHO could affect global health - Western News
History professor Mitchell L. Hammond explains how the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization could affect global health and disease threats.
news.westernu.ca
February 10, 2026 at 1:04 AM
HORRIFYING -
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025
🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year
😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition
news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025
🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year
😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition
news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...
God my last couple of tweets really do make me seem like a lib though
February 4, 2026 at 12:27 PM
God my last couple of tweets really do make me seem like a lib though
Amused by the discourse cycle and wish David Gra*ber were here to chime in since he called me a fascist on Twitter in 2016 for criticizing black bloc agitation performed by young white men during BLM and that is a salt I will never let go of
the asymmetry is wild, honestly. `lib` is inclusive and tacitly accepts that many of its nominal members hate its leaders and disagree with many of its tactics. `leftist` requires you to refrain from criticizing a wide range of things, or you aren't one
February 4, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Amused by the discourse cycle and wish David Gra*ber were here to chime in since he called me a fascist on Twitter in 2016 for criticizing black bloc agitation performed by young white men during BLM and that is a salt I will never let go of
I ID’d this a few years ago, drawing a line between people who were hipsters in the late aughts and Bernie purists, chapo listeners, etc around 2016
Reactionary leftists are also people who are perpetually positioning themselves in reaction to others in their own, often quite specialized social group, which is definitionally pretty exclusive, hence the reflexive suspicion of mass action today (as opposed to escatological mass action tomorrow.)
February 1, 2026 at 1:04 PM
I ID’d this a few years ago, drawing a line between people who were hipsters in the late aughts and Bernie purists, chapo listeners, etc around 2016
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Thinking this through out loud, I'd define a reactionary leftist as someone reflexively adopts the position of "I am smart and savy because I belong to the small clique of people who are correct, and everyone else is wrong, always."
January 30, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Thinking this through out loud, I'd define a reactionary leftist as someone reflexively adopts the position of "I am smart and savy because I belong to the small clique of people who are correct, and everyone else is wrong, always."
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Race as a construct is so powerful that only now are many people saying ‘they are killing us’.
They have been killing us. We have all been us the whole time.
They have been killing us. We have all been us the whole time.
January 27, 2026 at 5:46 AM
Race as a construct is so powerful that only now are many people saying ‘they are killing us’.
They have been killing us. We have all been us the whole time.
They have been killing us. We have all been us the whole time.
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I think opposition to abortion is actually a great place to situate a working definition of fascism. The baseless desire for control over the bodies of an underclass, reaffirmed as such by that control.
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January 25, 2026 at 8:12 PM
I think opposition to abortion is actually a great place to situate a working definition of fascism. The baseless desire for control over the bodies of an underclass, reaffirmed as such by that control.
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This bill by a Washington State Democratic legislator would prevent any law enforcement agency in the state from hiring anyone employed as a sworn ICE officer after January 20, 2025. A good start, I say. Make them outcasts.
Rep. Simmons introduces ICE Out Act of 2026 prohibiting hiring of ICE officers – Tarra Simmons
housedemocrats.wa.gov
January 24, 2026 at 4:35 AM
This bill by a Washington State Democratic legislator would prevent any law enforcement agency in the state from hiring anyone employed as a sworn ICE officer after January 20, 2025. A good start, I say. Make them outcasts.
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We should stop putting things in space because it personally frightens me
January 20, 2026 at 4:46 PM
We should stop putting things in space because it personally frightens me
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someone asked why I would appropriate an "evil" speech for the cause of woke, so I'll spell it out:
the speech exemplifies how confidently asserting your values has the power to define an entire cultural moment, and I want people in the service of good to think about how we can wield power that way
the speech exemplifies how confidently asserting your values has the power to define an entire cultural moment, and I want people in the service of good to think about how we can wield power that way
The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that woke, for lack of a better word, is good. Woke is right, woke works. Woke clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
January 18, 2026 at 8:37 PM
someone asked why I would appropriate an "evil" speech for the cause of woke, so I'll spell it out:
the speech exemplifies how confidently asserting your values has the power to define an entire cultural moment, and I want people in the service of good to think about how we can wield power that way
the speech exemplifies how confidently asserting your values has the power to define an entire cultural moment, and I want people in the service of good to think about how we can wield power that way
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I like that they’ve given up on even having immigration enforcement as a pretext for any of this. It’s just purely armed masked goons wandering around in the middle of intersections harassing U.S. citizens as a display of force now.
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
January 13, 2026 at 8:52 PM
I like that they’ve given up on even having immigration enforcement as a pretext for any of this. It’s just purely armed masked goons wandering around in the middle of intersections harassing U.S. citizens as a display of force now.
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Please donate to Keith Porter's family.
He was killed by an off-duty ICE agent in LA earlier this month.
He was killed by an off-duty ICE agent in LA earlier this month.
January 10, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Please donate to Keith Porter's family.
He was killed by an off-duty ICE agent in LA earlier this month.
He was killed by an off-duty ICE agent in LA earlier this month.
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Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
August 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
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the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
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The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
January 3, 2026 at 9:32 PM
The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
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This is a neat new study using LIDAR to document pre-colonization raised agricultural beds along the Menominee River that separates Wisconsin from Michigan, north of Green Bay.
“massive field systems like these were much more common than previously recognized”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
“massive field systems like these were much more common than previously recognized”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
December 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This is a neat new study using LIDAR to document pre-colonization raised agricultural beds along the Menominee River that separates Wisconsin from Michigan, north of Green Bay.
“massive field systems like these were much more common than previously recognized”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
“massive field systems like these were much more common than previously recognized”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
I had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...
"Horrible", "boring", and "cheap": Experts pan new chatbot NPCs, but some leave room for optimism
We speak to a collection of developers and AI experts about the potential impact of LLM-powered NPCs in videogames.
www.rockpapershotgun.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
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I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for
December 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for
Incredibly useful tool for bad, lazy researchers and those who need to make a pretense of research
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
December 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Incredibly useful tool for bad, lazy researchers and those who need to make a pretense of research
I don’t even know off the top of my head what the alternative to birthright citizenship is. Like what the fuck are you talking about.
December 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I don’t even know off the top of my head what the alternative to birthright citizenship is. Like what the fuck are you talking about.
Since everyone’s talking about disability right now something I think about is in college one guy had an adderall scrip and all the women who bought study buddies off him for like $10-20/pill have all since been diagnosed with adhd. So just funneling money from undiagnosed women to diagnosed men
December 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Since everyone’s talking about disability right now something I think about is in college one guy had an adderall scrip and all the women who bought study buddies off him for like $10-20/pill have all since been diagnosed with adhd. So just funneling money from undiagnosed women to diagnosed men
Is there a word for this reason from/reason to concept?
I often have thought this way about race, and that I am where I am because as a naive child I accepted those elementary school civil rights history premises that black and white people were equal, and when that premise became dissonant…
I often have thought this way about race, and that I am where I am because as a naive child I accepted those elementary school civil rights history premises that black and white people were equal, and when that premise became dissonant…
this is something they reason from, not reason to
it's a bit like you can't reach the conclusion that there is no god within an orthodox christian framework, god is a premise of that worldview, not a conclusion of it
it's a bit like you can't reach the conclusion that there is no god within an orthodox christian framework, god is a premise of that worldview, not a conclusion of it
November 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Is there a word for this reason from/reason to concept?
I often have thought this way about race, and that I am where I am because as a naive child I accepted those elementary school civil rights history premises that black and white people were equal, and when that premise became dissonant…
I often have thought this way about race, and that I am where I am because as a naive child I accepted those elementary school civil rights history premises that black and white people were equal, and when that premise became dissonant…
Testing out flashes’s grid. Hello world I’m a wild girl. This is an Andy Warhol piece I saw at the museum in Pittsburgh last week. It turns out I don’t like Andy Warhol that much but I liked this a lot.
April 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Testing out flashes’s grid. Hello world I’m a wild girl. This is an Andy Warhol piece I saw at the museum in Pittsburgh last week. It turns out I don’t like Andy Warhol that much but I liked this a lot.