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peter hess
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science and health writer // nissan driver // please consider the environment before printing my posts!
i hate when people who haven't smoked crack say donuts aren't like crack! they are! you have one and then want more and then you have more and you feel bad. they're just like crack!
December 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
i didn't realize just how bad things have gotten in the USA: Pantone's color of the year is white
December 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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This this this
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
locking in my prediction that marjorie taylor greene gets a job at cbs news before the new year
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
unfortunately i'm trapped and can't stand up for the rest of the day
November 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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"What strong views on diversity?"

"Ohh you know the ones..."
"The hiring of a former opinion journalist with strong views on Israel and diversity, equity and inclusion"

get out of journalism, you're all fucking useless
‘I Wanna Blow This Up’: How Bari Weiss Is Trying to Overhaul CBS News
The new editor in chief is personally recruiting potential anchors, booking guests herself and asking staff what they do.
www.wsj.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
it actually makes so much sense that George Miller wrote and directed both of these movies
November 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Breaking: After years of being worshipped by bad engineers, elon finally falls to last place in the global musk rankings. A huge win for jōvan musk, who has held the bottom spot since 2012 when I had to stock hundreds of bottles as a Walmart Associate. #jōvan #elon #musk
March 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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This is terrible. Every single person they kidnapped belongs in NYC a million times more than these brownshirts and, in case, you think the city isn’t actively a part of it, here’s some photos from where they’re holding folx just filled with NYPDs. Every single one of these guys is a city cop
October 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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ICE/Feds targeting a pastor in prayer outside their facility. Looks like they may have shot the pastor in the head and even with less lethal ammo, could easily be fatal. Truly insane where things have gotten.

www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...
From the illinois community on Reddit: Chicago’s Broadview ICE Targets Pastor in Prayer: Opens Fire from Rooftop, Shooting Him and Causing Him to Collapse
Explore this post and more from the illinois community
www.reddit.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
free podcast idea for Haliey Welch if she decides to rebrand as pro-gun: Hawk 2A
September 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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As I believe a French European Affairs delegate put it last year, their security cannot be left to how personally racist voters in Wisconsin are feeling every four years
September 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Not covering trans issues like this is a choice, and one that could still be rectified at any time
After Trump's announcement about tylenol and autism, the NYT assembled a panel of experts, including an autistic person and a parent or an autistic person, to assess and debunk the claims.

It's a good model. I'd like to see them use it more often on more topics.
Opinion | ‘This May Be the Most Difficult Day in My Career’: Experts React to Trump’s Autism Remarks
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Interesting paragraph on the Jewish response to the 1967 murder of the US neo-Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell, who was shot by a disgruntled member of his own movement.
September 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Hate when 'The Internet' stokes baseless conspiracy theories about a president's health
September 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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September 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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"Mariam Dagga, a visual freelance journalist for The Associated Press, chronicled the stream of wounded and dead"

"She followed doctors as they struggled to save starving children."

"Dagga was killed Monday by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital"

Her photographs:

apnews.com/photo-galler...
August 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
i had a lovely tinned fish potluck picnic in the park today with my friends

i love my friends and we all love food

i think there's like a dozen tins of fish in this photo
August 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
i hope DHS brings them phone chargers!!

nypost.com/2025/08/22/u...
August 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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The Center Gets A New Publication Dedicated to Scolding Leftists
August 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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After seeing public officials nationwide quiet as church mice after those two lawmakers in MN were politically assassinated, shrugged shoulders at congresspeople held hostage by their colleagues & strongly worded letters in response actual Hitlerian rule I can’t help but wonder if help ain’t coming
August 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
the replies are a steady stream of "wow, how can he think he's the master race when he's so clearly genetically inferior!"

so many folks have absolutely lost the plot
August 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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The man isn't even a liberal. Liberal pluralism depends on accepting that beliefs we disagree with can be held earnestly. Liberal rationalism depends on insisting that they must be met on their merits. Yglesias is incapable of interacting with the left in this way.
August 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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you always hear about the broadband gap in distant, difficult-to-reach places that have been neglected by ISPs. it's even more astounding when it's so many people in the biggest city in the country
gothamist.com/news/its-202...
It’s 2025, but a quarter of Bronx families don’t have broadband internet at home
The digital divide in the Bronx is the worst among all the boroughs, a new report found.
gothamist.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Chaos on New York’s Streets, Brought to You by the NYPD
theintercept.com/2025/08/16/n...
Chaos on New York’s Streets, Brought to You by the NYPD
The police seem to run reds whenever they feel like it — and only they could say whether it’s a real emergency.
theintercept.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM