@samsherwood.bsky.social
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Fourteen years later, I *still* think one of the best ways for us to repudiate Cheney's legacy of torture would be to recognize and honor the courageous soldiers and public servants who exposed the torture policies and tried to end them. www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/o...
November 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Fourteen years later, I *still* think one of the best ways for us to repudiate Cheney's legacy of torture would be to recognize and honor the courageous soldiers and public servants who exposed the torture policies and tried to end them. www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/o...
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i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
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My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
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The manager of Windows on the World survived 9/11. Seventy-nine of his employees died. "To tell Glenn’s story … is to share an uncomfortable truth: 9/11 was not the worst day of his life," Tim Alberta wrote in 2021.
https://theatln.tc/kBJO2mqs
https://theatln.tc/kBJO2mqs
September 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The manager of Windows on the World survived 9/11. Seventy-nine of his employees died. "To tell Glenn’s story … is to share an uncomfortable truth: 9/11 was not the worst day of his life," Tim Alberta wrote in 2021.
https://theatln.tc/kBJO2mqs
https://theatln.tc/kBJO2mqs
Thank you, Foundry UMC!
Washington DC - the bells of this church are ringing in support of the protest! 😁
September 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Thank you, Foundry UMC!
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One big question here is how Bill Pulte has gotten access to individual mortgage records — and if that itself is a legal violation
Via Adam Levitin:
www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
Via Adam Levitin:
www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
August 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One big question here is how Bill Pulte has gotten access to individual mortgage records — and if that itself is a legal violation
Via Adam Levitin:
www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
Via Adam Levitin:
www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
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SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.
August 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.
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absolutely loved this @albertburneko.bsky.social blog on art, AI, and a matte black monk
defector.com/whats-monch-...
defector.com/whats-monch-...
August 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
absolutely loved this @albertburneko.bsky.social blog on art, AI, and a matte black monk
defector.com/whats-monch-...
defector.com/whats-monch-...
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BREAKING: Trump’s masked D.C. officers tase delivery man
August 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
BREAKING: Trump’s masked D.C. officers tase delivery man
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This is such an important piece, by @jamellebouie.net. As I mentioned elsewhere, he has an uncommon ability to write essays that are erudite and informative, while also being easy and enjoyable to read.
This one puts the current moment and what's at stake in historical context.
Gift link.
This one puts the current moment and what's at stake in historical context.
Gift link.
Opinion | The Death of the Fourth American Republic
www.nytimes.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
This is such an important piece, by @jamellebouie.net. As I mentioned elsewhere, he has an uncommon ability to write essays that are erudite and informative, while also being easy and enjoyable to read.
This one puts the current moment and what's at stake in historical context.
Gift link.
This one puts the current moment and what's at stake in historical context.
Gift link.
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Jesus, this is awful.
The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.
June 3, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Jesus, this is awful.
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nathan fielder (narrating): to understand what it’s like to be in a plane crash, i needed to experience one myself. but i would have to defeat the god of death to return to the world of the living. so in a studio warehouse, i recreated the shadow realm of duat and the twelve gates of the underworld,
May 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
nathan fielder (narrating): to understand what it’s like to be in a plane crash, i needed to experience one myself. but i would have to defeat the god of death to return to the world of the living. so in a studio warehouse, i recreated the shadow realm of duat and the twelve gates of the underworld,
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Read Nicole Krauss on why the end of reading and writing signals the end of human freedom. Gift link wapo.st/4kujPfo
Opinion | The end of writing and reading will be the end of freedom
Why graduation season is so heartening to me.
wapo.st
May 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Read Nicole Krauss on why the end of reading and writing signals the end of human freedom. Gift link wapo.st/4kujPfo
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
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Don’t look away. This is what Libya’s migrant detention facilities look like. This is what Trump is doing.
Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.
Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.
May 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Don’t look away. This is what Libya’s migrant detention facilities look like. This is what Trump is doing.
Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.
Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.
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“I’m one of the good people,” I say as I drag an unaccompanied 4-year-old girl into an immigration court. “People will remember this as a *good* thing I’m doing. Not, like, evil.”
April 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“I’m one of the good people,” I say as I drag an unaccompanied 4-year-old girl into an immigration court. “People will remember this as a *good* thing I’m doing. Not, like, evil.”
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i have been joking that their plan is for your kids to grow up to work in a textile mill but they are serious
MacCALLUM: Will American workers make shirts and garments for the same--? Obviously the labor costs are so much cheaper overseas in those places
CHAVEZ-DeREMER: We're gonna onshore, repatriate some of these companies to invest in America directly so that we can build that workforce
CHAVEZ-DeREMER: We're gonna onshore, repatriate some of these companies to invest in America directly so that we can build that workforce
April 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
i have been joking that their plan is for your kids to grow up to work in a textile mill but they are serious
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It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.
April 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.
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I have this fight with folks about FORTRAN all the time.
If something is running in an oldass programming language there is probably a really good reason.
If something is running in an oldass programming language there is probably a really good reason.
First off, they will almost certainly discover that COBOL is hard to improve on
Old COBOL often runs *great*
COBOL systems are very often fast as hell -- they're torqued specifically for the hardware they run on
This is why banks today still rely on COBOL bank-end systems:
They *rip*
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Old COBOL often runs *great*
COBOL systems are very often fast as hell -- they're torqued specifically for the hardware they run on
This is why banks today still rely on COBOL bank-end systems:
They *rip*
2/9
March 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I have this fight with folks about FORTRAN all the time.
If something is running in an oldass programming language there is probably a really good reason.
If something is running in an oldass programming language there is probably a really good reason.
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Feel like this piece, which I wrote a year ago, is holding up pretty well. Which is unfortunate for my 401(k).
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Those who would trade democracy for economic gain would get neither
The business community should beware helping put an authoritarian figure back in office.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Feel like this piece, which I wrote a year ago, is holding up pretty well. Which is unfortunate for my 401(k).
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
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I recorded a special episode of my Bulwark podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social this morning to discuss Paul, Weiss’s appalling capitulation to the First Extortionist of the United States. I didn’t mince words. Link below.
@thebulwark.bsky.social
@thebulwark.bsky.social
The MOST DISGRACEFUL Action By A Law Firm EVER (w/ George Conway)
YouTube video by The Bulwark
youtu.be
March 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I recorded a special episode of my Bulwark podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social this morning to discuss Paul, Weiss’s appalling capitulation to the First Extortionist of the United States. I didn’t mince words. Link below.
@thebulwark.bsky.social
@thebulwark.bsky.social
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These are the principles, set out by the great Judge Simon Rifkind, that once governed Paul Weiss.
They should take his name out of the firm’s name out of respect for his memory.
They should take his name out of the firm’s name out of respect for his memory.
March 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
These are the principles, set out by the great Judge Simon Rifkind, that once governed Paul Weiss.
They should take his name out of the firm’s name out of respect for his memory.
They should take his name out of the firm’s name out of respect for his memory.