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bencollins.bsky.social
This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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andrewpaul.bsky.social
Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford in All The President's Men with the caption "Holiday travelers deserve better than inadequate and unsanitary hand dryers."
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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ceej.online
isaac chotiner came to my house and tricked me into admitting we weren’t out of ice cream in front of my five year old daughter
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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remymura.bsky.social
Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.

"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
The cover of One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This. Simple red background, with bold black all caps letters, and the drawn silhouette of a bomb plummeting towards a child. The gold "National Book Award Winner" sticker is on the upper right.
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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ceej.online
the universe may be dying. entropy will probably win. but I exist at the same point in space time as cool ranch doritos. I wonder what other snacks I’ll get to eat
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
I read every Cather book in order last year because I love them so much and I would, uh, not say that My Antonia has similar themes to Lolita
timdickinson.bsky.social Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 8d
Well this is gross.
Harvard prof. Writing Jeffrey Epstein about reading Lolita and recommending a similar text...
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say

"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
Look yes it’s funny and I’ll read the rest but also my god get these people out of public life and give journalism jobs and money to people who could identify a moral compass when it hit them in the face
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
to safely dispose of these hats, eat them. natural fibers — such as cotton, wool, silk, and linen — breakdown in the digestive track. synthetics do not. thus, if you eat your hat, the synthetics will pass through the other side. smush through the poop to find the synthetic fibers and recycle them.
November 16, 2025 at 1:42 AM
paulpfixion.bsky.social
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melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 11d
Gut-punched by news of Todd Snider's death. I can't do justice to the vernacular power of his voice, his writing, and maybe above all his persona.

So now I shall listen to "Looking for a Job" four or five times, one of the greatest, funniest songs ever about worker power.
November 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
You'll ignore this, but every time you tweet angrily about crap like that Nuzzi piece you're confirming NYT editors' intuitions/incentivizing more of it. The entire intellectual/journo model here is, "Does this person get people angry? Yes? OK they're provocative/get talked about. Write about her."
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
This is a very dangerous moment for the country and the world. A cornered rat will do anything to escape.
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13d
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
A photo of Texas A&M University’s logo
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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cethanleahy.com
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
I don't think legacy media is reading the room correctly on the Epstein Files. Many of us are asking why they have ignored this story for the last decade? Why did they dismiss all of us who were concerned that Trump might be compromised? And where is their fucking contrition and apology now?
November 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
here at the Paper of Record, when an open white supremacist leaks someone's college application in an attempt to imply he got unfair race-based special treatment, even though he was rejected, we know what to do: publish it immediately prospect.org/2025/07/09/2...
Much more interesting than the story was its source: Jordan Lasker, who got the Columbia data from a hacker. The Times initially identified him only as “Crémieux,” his Twitter handle, describing him as “an academic and an opponent of affirmative action” and even linking to his (incredibly racist) Substack. But not only had Lasker’s name already been published by The Guardian in an article about a “natalism” conference full of racists (sensing a theme here), one of his few published articles—another piece of “scientific” racism—was also so atrocious it got his co-author, Bryan Pesta, then a tenured professor at Cleveland State University, fired. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported the story back in 2022. Pesta published the article, “Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability,” he co-wrote with Lasker in the first issue of a new journal of which he was the editor in chief. The entire issue was nothing but racist pseudoscience, but worse, it turned out that Pesta had gotten the data for his article by lying to the National Institutes of Health about what he intended to do. That got him canned, and deservedly so. There’s a reason why race “science” is on the fringes of academia: It’s complete nonsense, the province of freaks, liars, and failures. None of this was in the Times article. Either the authors and editors knew about it and chose to whitewash a racist troll, or they did no investigation whatsoever of their only source—perhaps because they were worried about being scooped by Chris Rufo. Their only concession was a stealth edit adding that Lasker “writes often about I.Q. and race.” Oh really? What, pray tell, does he write exactly?
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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lockheedmartin.bsky.social
Unreal bangers in this one
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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paulgp.com
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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rmayemsinger.bsky.social
Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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sesmith.lol
This is a VERY interesting read, now that I've had time to sit down with it, and it has me thinking about the interactions of learning abilities, especially dyslexia, with how we teach reading.
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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bloomlove.bsky.social
The “Tech Bros” map of who’s who
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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jamellebouie.net
bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Read @alexzfinley.bsky.social on the fine upstanding characters who showed up the latest RT gala.

alexzfinley.substack.com/p/trump-russ...
Papadopoulos wasn’t the only American stooge paraded by Russia at the event. Scott Ritter, convicted child sex predator who fled to Russia and now spreader of Kremlin lies, attended the celebration, as did Tara Reade, who once falsely accused Joe Biden of sexual harassment then defected to Moscow where she was greeted by convicted Russian agent Maria Butina and handed Russian citizenship. Also in attendance were Errol Musk, Elon’s daddy, and former far-left British MP George Galloway, as well as a few European “journalists.” NewsGuard has a great breakdown.
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM