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RIFfed HHS civil servant.
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in a country where virtue and knowledge prevail. ~Samuel Adams
This is my substitute for pistol and ball. — Ishmael, Melville
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in a country where virtue and knowledge prevail. ~Samuel Adams
This is my substitute for pistol and ball. — Ishmael, Melville
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I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
December 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
Books are keeping me sane. Read more last year than any previous period of my life, and I was a lit major in university.
January 5, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Books are keeping me sane. Read more last year than any previous period of my life, and I was a lit major in university.
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witnessed class warfare today (robot vacuum got stuck on a broom)
January 5, 2026 at 2:42 AM
witnessed class warfare today (robot vacuum got stuck on a broom)
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Buy one, get tu?
January 4, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Buy one, get tu?
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Denmark PM Mette Frederiksen: “I would therefore strongly urge the United States to stop the threats against a historically close ally & against another country & another people who have very clearly said that they are not for sale"
Denmark handles foreign policy for Greenland
Denmark handles foreign policy for Greenland
January 4, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Denmark PM Mette Frederiksen: “I would therefore strongly urge the United States to stop the threats against a historically close ally & against another country & another people who have very clearly said that they are not for sale"
Denmark handles foreign policy for Greenland
Denmark handles foreign policy for Greenland
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We cannot become numb to the outrage of this. The wife of the President’s Senior Advisor threatens a sovereign nation.
January 4, 2026 at 11:45 PM
We cannot become numb to the outrage of this. The wife of the President’s Senior Advisor threatens a sovereign nation.
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January 4, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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How should America's occupying forces govern Venezuela? We asked four unvaccinated MAHA moms at an Amway party in Jacksonville.
January 4, 2026 at 3:27 AM
How should America's occupying forces govern Venezuela? We asked four unvaccinated MAHA moms at an Amway party in Jacksonville.
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You know what? This year has actually gotten off to a pretty low-key, no breaking news, stress-free start wait nevermind
January 3, 2026 at 7:19 PM
You know what? This year has actually gotten off to a pretty low-key, no breaking news, stress-free start wait nevermind
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if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
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Do I dare to skeet "impeach"?
January 3, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Do I dare to skeet "impeach"?
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go Robert Mueller and the rule of law
January 3, 2026 at 1:12 PM
go Robert Mueller and the rule of law
I mean, given that Congress and the Supremes aren’t up to the task, maybe our best hope for justice is The Hague. I welcome intervention by foreign governments— come get him and his brownshirted lackeys. Please! Any day now would be fine.
January 3, 2026 at 1:32 PM
I mean, given that Congress and the Supremes aren’t up to the task, maybe our best hope for justice is The Hague. I welcome intervention by foreign governments— come get him and his brownshirted lackeys. Please! Any day now would be fine.
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Most of the derangement about Mamdani is for the obvious reasons but part of it is also that a surprising amount of people were committed to the Cuomo rehabilitation project because they hated the idea that anything could have consequences for men of the right class.
January 2, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Most of the derangement about Mamdani is for the obvious reasons but part of it is also that a surprising amount of people were committed to the Cuomo rehabilitation project because they hated the idea that anything could have consequences for men of the right class.
Perfect description of my people. I may have grown up by the ocean in So Cal, but my parents *never* went to the beach. Too busy fixing the car or whatever. We did not talk about messy things like emotions.
i don’t remember compliments or insults. i was raised lutheran in the upper midwest. dwelling on what other people think about you takes away from time you could be spending doing valuable physical labor.
Forget insults, what’s the most unhinged *compliment* you’ve ever received?
January 2, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Perfect description of my people. I may have grown up by the ocean in So Cal, but my parents *never* went to the beach. Too busy fixing the car or whatever. We did not talk about messy things like emotions.
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The pod save crew is wholly irredeemable braying jackasses, but Stewart is frustrating because he consistently leads the horse to water, but then says "What can be done about thirst, really?" and shoos the horse away.
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The pod save crew is wholly irredeemable braying jackasses, but Stewart is frustrating because he consistently leads the horse to water, but then says "What can be done about thirst, really?" and shoos the horse away.
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Extreme wealth begets a political power that begets policy choices that lead to even more extreme wealth concentration.
Unless basic U.S. tax policy changes, we are mathematically certain to reach a point where oligarchy becomes unbreakable.
Unless basic U.S. tax policy changes, we are mathematically certain to reach a point where oligarchy becomes unbreakable.
January 2, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Extreme wealth begets a political power that begets policy choices that lead to even more extreme wealth concentration.
Unless basic U.S. tax policy changes, we are mathematically certain to reach a point where oligarchy becomes unbreakable.
Unless basic U.S. tax policy changes, we are mathematically certain to reach a point where oligarchy becomes unbreakable.
My parent lived for 18 months *on hospice* so I’m not holding my breath. (Hoping, sure.)
Some health experts are saying that *it* could happen in the March to May timeframe. I hope it's the Ides of March, so I can say "Et tu, Tupée."
January 2, 2026 at 4:08 AM
My parent lived for 18 months *on hospice* so I’m not holding my breath. (Hoping, sure.)
Starting the year with insights and renewed vigor for the fights ahead.
(One of the few authors who should do all their own narration.) share.libbyapp.com/title/9777677
(One of the few authors who should do all their own narration.) share.libbyapp.com/title/9777677
Divine Might
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora’s Jar.Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Gre...
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January 1, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Starting the year with insights and renewed vigor for the fights ahead.
(One of the few authors who should do all their own narration.) share.libbyapp.com/title/9777677
(One of the few authors who should do all their own narration.) share.libbyapp.com/title/9777677
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Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.
January 1, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.
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Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
Last year I read 275 titles. More than usual, because I have to turn myself into an entrepreneur thanks to Trump/Vaught pushing me into a dissatisfying early retirement. (Wow, do I have things to say about business books!)
Happy New Year! We love sharing these pro-book posters from the Works Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.
January 1, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Last year I read 275 titles. More than usual, because I have to turn myself into an entrepreneur thanks to Trump/Vaught pushing me into a dissatisfying early retirement. (Wow, do I have things to say about business books!)
When he says it’s a massive dose, you know that’s because he cannot say “baby” aspirin. Put this together with the one-sided facial droop, and he has already had (at least) TIAs.
President Trump tells the Wall Street Journal that the large dose of aspirin he chooses to take daily has caused him to bruise easily. www.wsj.com/us-news/as-signs-...
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In an interview, President Trump—the oldest man to assume the office—said he has eschewed some advice from his doctors and regrets getting advanced imaging.
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January 1, 2026 at 1:17 PM
When he says it’s a massive dose, you know that’s because he cannot say “baby” aspirin. Put this together with the one-sided facial droop, and he has already had (at least) TIAs.