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If I'm silent, I'm judging. She/her. Likes to read. Watches too much TV. Excessively tired.
Currently inspired to take up a new hobby: Pre-writing obits of horrible people. 💕
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Currently inspired to take up a new hobby: Pre-writing obits of horrible people. 💕
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I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
July 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
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When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.
July 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.
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I am no parliamentarian but if you can just hold the vote open indefinitely after the votes are in until you get the outcome you want that feels uhhh
not democratic
not democratic
July 3, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I am no parliamentarian but if you can just hold the vote open indefinitely after the votes are in until you get the outcome you want that feels uhhh
not democratic
not democratic
Correct! More of this from elected officials. React appropriately to abuse and fascism and DON'T apologize for it.
Yes, I flipped off a bigot harassing toddlers at a drag queen story hour. No, I won't apologize for it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXd7...
June 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Correct! More of this from elected officials. React appropriately to abuse and fascism and DON'T apologize for it.
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Beyoncé won Best Country Album and the Grammys really said time for a separate but equal category 😭
June 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Beyoncé won Best Country Album and the Grammys really said time for a separate but equal category 😭
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I love Kat, she's a STAR
Follow and support her, she's running for Congress
@katmabu.bsky.social
katforillinois.com
Follow and support her, she's running for Congress
@katmabu.bsky.social
katforillinois.com
June 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I love Kat, she's a STAR
Follow and support her, she's running for Congress
@katmabu.bsky.social
katforillinois.com
Follow and support her, she's running for Congress
@katmabu.bsky.social
katforillinois.com
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What the Grok 'disrobe' feature means, on an app, and in a world, that may as well be an inescapable ball pit when it comes to access to nudity/partial nudity, is that the demand that it is satisfying is specifically for, what *all* tech people AND evil people desire; universal violation of consent.
May 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
What the Grok 'disrobe' feature means, on an app, and in a world, that may as well be an inescapable ball pit when it comes to access to nudity/partial nudity, is that the demand that it is satisfying is specifically for, what *all* tech people AND evil people desire; universal violation of consent.
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If you take anything away from my post, I hope it's this:
April 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
If you take anything away from my post, I hope it's this:
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"White people have a bad habit of only recognizing Black people's work when it happens in white people's spaces and with whites people's approval"
I said "Whew SHIT" out loud at that line. He spittin.
I need some folks on this app to pass this video around.
I said "Whew SHIT" out loud at that line. He spittin.
I need some folks on this app to pass this video around.
PSA: How Black people protest is Black people’s business.
TikTok video by Garrison Hayes
www.tiktok.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"White people have a bad habit of only recognizing Black people's work when it happens in white people's spaces and with whites people's approval"
I said "Whew SHIT" out loud at that line. He spittin.
I need some folks on this app to pass this video around.
I said "Whew SHIT" out loud at that line. He spittin.
I need some folks on this app to pass this video around.
This is batshit
This is profoundly, the most disturbing story I've ever read. Elon Musk believes his children are a legion and he needs to make as many babies as possible before the apocalypse.
He has a breeding fetish mixed with a messianic doomsday cult obsession.
archive.ph/H7U2a
He has a breeding fetish mixed with a messianic doomsday cult obsession.
archive.ph/H7U2a
April 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This is batshit
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UPDATE: El Salvador’s brutal far-right dictator, Trump and Musk friend Nayib Bukele, has confirmed that he will never return any person sent to him from America. And Trump has confirmed he wants American citizens sent to El Salvador to die in a foreign gulag. This is a five-alarm fire for democracy.
Yes, Donald Trump is Planning to Send U.S. Residents En Masse to Death Camps in El Salvador Run By Dictator Nayib Bukele
The White House meeting on Monday between Trump and Bukele isn’t quite a Hitler-Stalin summit, but in the context of this century’s politics and America’s descent into fascism, it approaches it.
sethabramson.substack.com
April 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
UPDATE: El Salvador’s brutal far-right dictator, Trump and Musk friend Nayib Bukele, has confirmed that he will never return any person sent to him from America. And Trump has confirmed he wants American citizens sent to El Salvador to die in a foreign gulag. This is a five-alarm fire for democracy.
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Here is the situation if I’m understanding it correctly:
1. They are deporting lawful immigrants erroneously to prisons overseas
2. They are claiming no recourse to return these individuals
3. They say they are open to deporting citizens in the same way
1. They are deporting lawful immigrants erroneously to prisons overseas
2. They are claiming no recourse to return these individuals
3. They say they are open to deporting citizens in the same way
April 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Here is the situation if I’m understanding it correctly:
1. They are deporting lawful immigrants erroneously to prisons overseas
2. They are claiming no recourse to return these individuals
3. They say they are open to deporting citizens in the same way
1. They are deporting lawful immigrants erroneously to prisons overseas
2. They are claiming no recourse to return these individuals
3. They say they are open to deporting citizens in the same way
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Surely, it won't be lost on the courts that if Donald Trump has the influence over El Salvador President Nayib Bukele to persuade Bukele to get on a plane to come to the United States, he has the influence over Bukele to get him to put a kidnapped prisoner on a plane to come to the United States.
April 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Surely, it won't be lost on the courts that if Donald Trump has the influence over El Salvador President Nayib Bukele to persuade Bukele to get on a plane to come to the United States, he has the influence over Bukele to get him to put a kidnapped prisoner on a plane to come to the United States.
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Just thinking about a crazy student who immigrated to America, matriculated at King’s College, and helped lead a revolution.
Rubio: "If you come to this country as a student, we expect you to go to class and study and get a degree. If you come here to vandalize a library, take over a campus, and do all kinds of crazy things, we're gonna get rid of these people. And we're gonna continue to do it."
April 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Just thinking about a crazy student who immigrated to America, matriculated at King’s College, and helped lead a revolution.
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maybe we shouldn't be disappearing students via secret police for opposing the actions of a state that behaves in this way
Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
maybe we shouldn't be disappearing students via secret police for opposing the actions of a state that behaves in this way
I just donated and hope you will too. More of this.
FEC reports are how the donor class chooses our candidates. I think that's stupid. So here's what happens behind the scenes of a congressional campaign at the end of the quarter.
Oh, and why I think we should focus much more on grassroots donors rather than corporate cash:
Oh, and why I think we should focus much more on grassroots donors rather than corporate cash:
March 31, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I just donated and hope you will too. More of this.
Netflix, my god. I know the world seems to be ending, but can we at least give it 30 years before we start categorizing stuff as "Retro TV"?
March 25, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Netflix, my god. I know the world seems to be ending, but can we at least give it 30 years before we start categorizing stuff as "Retro TV"?
More of this in coming elections, people! I want more ACTUAL progressives with courage running for office in every state.
March 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
More of this in coming elections, people! I want more ACTUAL progressives with courage running for office in every state.
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AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense.
I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense
I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...
I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense
I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...
March 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense.
I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense
I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...
I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense
I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...
Excellent talk between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Joy Reid
March 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Excellent talk between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Joy Reid
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When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.
Leavitt: "We are encouraging illegal immigrants to actively self-deport to maybe save themselves from being in one of these fun videos."
March 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.
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Justice reporter @elienyc explains how a Karen winning a reverse racism lawsuit might not be so bad
http://dlvr.it/TJQRgM
http://dlvr.it/TJQRgM
A Straight White Woman Should Win 'Reverse Discrimination' Case: But That's Not the Worst Outcome
In Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, there are darker anti-DEI forces in play that make a narrow Supreme Court ruling more appealing.
dlvr.it
March 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Justice reporter @elienyc explains how a Karen winning a reverse racism lawsuit might not be so bad
http://dlvr.it/TJQRgM
http://dlvr.it/TJQRgM
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AOC was right.
It's probably the right time for a lot of people to start entering the fray and running establishment Dems out of office.
It's probably the right time for a lot of people to start entering the fray and running establishment Dems out of office.
March 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
AOC was right.
It's probably the right time for a lot of people to start entering the fray and running establishment Dems out of office.
It's probably the right time for a lot of people to start entering the fray and running establishment Dems out of office.
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Somewhere, Jeff Bezos is angrily clicking “track shipment” to see what happened to his new editorial page.
March 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Somewhere, Jeff Bezos is angrily clicking “track shipment” to see what happened to his new editorial page.