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I wrote about the cronyistic TikTok deal, and how it once again shows the U.S. is too corrupt to function in the public interest, despite a whole lot of pretense to the contrary
TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…
www.techdirt.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I wrote about the cronyistic TikTok deal, and how it once again shows the U.S. is too corrupt to function in the public interest, despite a whole lot of pretense to the contrary
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As measles rages in S Carolina notice that those responding to this outbreak on the frontlines are pediatricians, family med practitioners, nurses and local public health officials.
Not the wellness influencers and podscasters who discourage vaccination.
Arsonists NEVER put out fires they start
Not the wellness influencers and podscasters who discourage vaccination.
Arsonists NEVER put out fires they start
December 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
As measles rages in S Carolina notice that those responding to this outbreak on the frontlines are pediatricians, family med practitioners, nurses and local public health officials.
Not the wellness influencers and podscasters who discourage vaccination.
Arsonists NEVER put out fires they start
Not the wellness influencers and podscasters who discourage vaccination.
Arsonists NEVER put out fires they start
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The endgame here is getting the Supreme Court to declare that the entire civil service system is unconstitutional. Which is to say, this administration does not want us to be a modern, efficient, globally competitive nation-state.
Supreme Court Poised to Vastly Expand Presidential Power, Again
The 90-year-old precedent protecting independent agencies is likely on its way out.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The endgame here is getting the Supreme Court to declare that the entire civil service system is unconstitutional. Which is to say, this administration does not want us to be a modern, efficient, globally competitive nation-state.
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
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Serious Pac Man vibes...
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Serious Pac Man vibes...
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
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I distinctly hope that the judges, the lawyers, the bureaucrats, the people who do this will never see heaven. I hope their guilt devours them, because if they do this and just go home and forget about it, they're monsters.
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I distinctly hope that the judges, the lawyers, the bureaucrats, the people who do this will never see heaven. I hope their guilt devours them, because if they do this and just go home and forget about it, they're monsters.
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Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute
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I don't give a fuck, I love our woke military
November 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I don't give a fuck, I love our woke military
Cool Amsterdam tour boats today
November 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Cool Amsterdam tour boats today
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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Paul Krugman only reads blogs and that is why he, unlike everyone else who has been in punditry for decades, has never lost his mind
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Paul Krugman only reads blogs and that is why he, unlike everyone else who has been in punditry for decades, has never lost his mind
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Genuinely: this is a perfect encapuslation as to how Paul Krugman remains one of the most clear-eyed of his colleagues about events. He just looked at the Journalist Brain-Cooking Devices and Apps and said "that seems like a terrible idea, no thanks" and consequently he never suffered a digital TBI.
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Genuinely: this is a perfect encapuslation as to how Paul Krugman remains one of the most clear-eyed of his colleagues about events. He just looked at the Journalist Brain-Cooking Devices and Apps and said "that seems like a terrible idea, no thanks" and consequently he never suffered a digital TBI.
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In this paper, I estimate* that if methane emissions from US natural gas infrastructure were a country, they'd be the 8th-highest greenhouse gas emitter in the world.
*Using methane's 100-year GWP and likely underestimating downstream emissions from electricity/industry/transport.
*Using methane's 100-year GWP and likely underestimating downstream emissions from electricity/industry/transport.
New paper. I wish this wasn't the case, but most progress on reducing US greenhouse gas emissions is likely spurious. Why? EPA underestimates methane emissions from oil and gas. Relevant today as Repubs vote to gut IRA's methane monitoring/mitigation program. 🧵
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lL4K_6se4...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lL4K_6se4...
June 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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"To continue protecting birds in an age of chaos is an act of defiance against cynicism"
An important and very relevant opinion:
theornithologist.org/in-defence-o...
🪶🌎 #ornithology #conservation
An important and very relevant opinion:
theornithologist.org/in-defence-o...
🪶🌎 #ornithology #conservation
In Defence of Bird Conservation in a Broken World
In a world torn by wars and crises, bird conservation can seem irrelevant. Yet to protect life itself is not indulgence – it’s resistance.
theornithologist.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
"To continue protecting birds in an age of chaos is an act of defiance against cynicism"
An important and very relevant opinion:
theornithologist.org/in-defence-o...
🪶🌎 #ornithology #conservation
An important and very relevant opinion:
theornithologist.org/in-defence-o...
🪶🌎 #ornithology #conservation
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despite everything i believe there is a critical mass of americans that want fair play, love their neighbors, believe in the immigrant dream of america, and don’t give a shit who you marry.
they just haven’t been mobilized. maybe they will be. i dunno. but tonight did not suck.
they just haven’t been mobilized. maybe they will be. i dunno. but tonight did not suck.
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
despite everything i believe there is a critical mass of americans that want fair play, love their neighbors, believe in the immigrant dream of america, and don’t give a shit who you marry.
they just haven’t been mobilized. maybe they will be. i dunno. but tonight did not suck.
they just haven’t been mobilized. maybe they will be. i dunno. but tonight did not suck.
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Yes, Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for child pedestrians—great advice from @mcbazacophd.bsky.social
(It’s also our kid’s birthday)
(It’s also our kid’s birthday)
October 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Yes, Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for child pedestrians—great advice from @mcbazacophd.bsky.social
(It’s also our kid’s birthday)
(It’s also our kid’s birthday)
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IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:51 AM
IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
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Not to be cringe, but I'm surprised I am emotional seeing the East Wing demolition. My first job in DC was interning and going to meetings there regularly. I learned everything about it while giving guided tours. The beauty of the East Wing is that everyone can go there. It's America's house.
October 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Not to be cringe, but I'm surprised I am emotional seeing the East Wing demolition. My first job in DC was interning and going to meetings there regularly. I learned everything about it while giving guided tours. The beauty of the East Wing is that everyone can go there. It's America's house.
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free line for democrats to use on the white house shit: donald trump has done what the flight 93 hijackers couldn’t
October 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
free line for democrats to use on the white house shit: donald trump has done what the flight 93 hijackers couldn’t
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Is there any indication at all that they did any conservation of this interior or did they literally take the wrecking ball to it all?
October 23, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Is there any indication at all that they did any conservation of this interior or did they literally take the wrecking ball to it all?
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Just a reminder that this 8th attack, just the first 7, is illegal:
1. Not self-defense
2. No (or any) Congressional authorization
3. No evidence of criminal wrongdoing
4. Int'l waters
5. No open state of hostility
6. Criminal groups are not terrorists legally
7. No id on people or group targeted
1. Not self-defense
2. No (or any) Congressional authorization
3. No evidence of criminal wrongdoing
4. Int'l waters
5. No open state of hostility
6. Criminal groups are not terrorists legally
7. No id on people or group targeted
U.S. Strikes Boat in Pacific, Expanding Operation Against Drug Running Suspects
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Just a reminder that this 8th attack, just the first 7, is illegal:
1. Not self-defense
2. No (or any) Congressional authorization
3. No evidence of criminal wrongdoing
4. Int'l waters
5. No open state of hostility
6. Criminal groups are not terrorists legally
7. No id on people or group targeted
1. Not self-defense
2. No (or any) Congressional authorization
3. No evidence of criminal wrongdoing
4. Int'l waters
5. No open state of hostility
6. Criminal groups are not terrorists legally
7. No id on people or group targeted