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Husband, dad, internist, damn good canoeist. He/him.
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BREAKING: The U.S. Coast Guard just announced they won’t classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols anymore they’re calling them ‘potentially divisive.’ Potentially divisive? Listen, a noose isn’t a conversation starter. A swastika isn’t a debate topic. They are dangerous hate symbols. Full stop
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.

We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
For whatever reason I’m very prone to cough near-syncope which makes having Covid extra fun.
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This one is such a daddy’s girl—when I’m pissed at her all I have to do is look at her and in a quiet voice say “I’m not mad, I’m just very disappointed”
November 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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I would like everyone who's been pearl-clutching about the hopeless and terminal descent into fascism in my replies to take a moment, look around, and think twice before telling me these guys are unstoppable.
November 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I usually prefer In Walked Bud sparse, like this Helen Sung and Ron Carter version (www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_2h...). I mean just watch Carter and how he weaves in and out of the piano. But man, when the vocal's right, it's on. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozfV...)
Isis Damil "In Walked Bud"
YouTube video by Isis Damil
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November 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
OK, so covid kinda sucks. Back to work tomorrow though. The US medical system doesn't have enough redundancy built in to take a couple extra days to just make sure i feel awesome.

Sense of taste down about 30%, smell down bout 80%. Happens to me with other viruses historically tho.
November 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Looking to finish what they started.
November 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
This is a really bad person. This isn’t doxing. He told the news.
'Reckless and distressing': Allston Car Wash responds to BU student taking credit for ICE raid
“Publicly labeling our workforce as ‘criminals’ without any knowledge of who they are is reckless and distressing,” the car wash said.
www.boston.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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$143 million in taxpayer money has gone to a mysterious company created just days before it got the money to create a Homeland Security ad campaign starring the deeply corrupt Kristi Noem. A firm with close ties to Noem is secretly cashing in on the deal, according to ProPublica.
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Why do you work so much?
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Morning mirepoix— ok not really from this morning.
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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OVERT ACT 125 In additional furtherance of the conspiracy, DEFENDANTS met on November 12, 2025 to discuss ways to wield official government power to prevent further news of the child sex trafficking ring from becoming public.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 10d
Exclusive: Top Trump administration officials plan to meet today to discuss House efforts to force the release of the Epstein files. https://cnn.it/3WSyk2Y
November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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/3 Meanwhile, she actually gives a shit about carceral culture and has used fame and influence to try to encourage clemency in actual cases impacting actual lives. I have the bog-standard old man view of Kardashian Kulture, but her heart seems to be in the right place on this.
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Don't call the cops on someone in a mental health crisis unless you want them dead.
Three former San Antonio police officers were acquitted on Monday of all charges related to the fatal shooting of a woman who appeared to be having a mental health crisis when they were dispatched to her apartment in 2023. nyti.ms/4qRnvvT
3 San Antonio Officers Acquitted in Fatal Shooting of Woman in 2023
Melissa Perez, 46, swung a hammer in their direction and appeared to be in distress in her home when the officers arrived, officials said.
nyti.ms
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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It's that time of year again. When we all pause and take a moment to appreciate that even The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald has a couple of lines in it that fall comically flat.
October 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
No I am not taking you on another walk!
November 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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I don't think people realize how much a trillion dollars is.

Let's say you get paid a million dollars per day. That's a lot, right?

If you spend none of it and pay no taxes, you'll have a trillion dollars in approximately two thousand seven hundred (2700) YEARS.

No one should have that much.
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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The New York Times is going through some things, although not, regrettably, a woodchipper.
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

(Published February)
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
www.propublica.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM