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The thing about "we need to learn how to talk to each other again" pablum is sometimes it's "I believe trans kids deserve the world" against "children are their property to do to as they see fit" so no, there is not going to be friendly disagreement over that, nor should there be.
December 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The thing about "we need to learn how to talk to each other again" pablum is sometimes it's "I believe trans kids deserve the world" against "children are their property to do to as they see fit" so no, there is not going to be friendly disagreement over that, nor should there be.
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Subtext: This entire family *is* vaccinated, and the mom got a booster while pregnant. Their child was just 2 weeks old when she contracted whooping cough -- too young to be vaccinated.
But experts say if vax rates drop, this kind of infection becomes more common -- bc the disease is just around.
But experts say if vax rates drop, this kind of infection becomes more common -- bc the disease is just around.
Vaccination rates are plummeting across the country, as part of a larger, troubling trend of growing vaccine hesitancy that is fueling a resurgence of preventable diseases, an NBC News and Stanford University investigation found.
Whooping cough cases soar as vaccination rates drop
In an NBC News data investigation of 31 states, about 70% of counties and jurisdictions fell below the target vaccination rate needed for community protection.
nbcnews.to
December 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Subtext: This entire family *is* vaccinated, and the mom got a booster while pregnant. Their child was just 2 weeks old when she contracted whooping cough -- too young to be vaccinated.
But experts say if vax rates drop, this kind of infection becomes more common -- bc the disease is just around.
But experts say if vax rates drop, this kind of infection becomes more common -- bc the disease is just around.
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I do want to know what, if anything, is going on inside Tom Kean Jr.'s brain the way he never joins in any of this stuff. I suspect it's just a howling, whistling wind that used to just fill the void left by the absence of his father's love but slowly grew to encompass his entire brain
FOUR REPUBLICANS just signed the House Democratic discharge petition to force a House vote on the Hakeem Jeffries bill to extend health care tax credits for 3 years: Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Mike Lawler (NY), Rob Bresnahan (PA), and Ryan Mackenzie (PA). Gives it the required 218 signatures. Huge news
December 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I do want to know what, if anything, is going on inside Tom Kean Jr.'s brain the way he never joins in any of this stuff. I suspect it's just a howling, whistling wind that used to just fill the void left by the absence of his father's love but slowly grew to encompass his entire brain
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Lets take just one example of the conflict between the idea that Trump is showing progressives how to govern, and the need for accountability, which is the role of DOGE with USAID. From Trump’s Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/democrats-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/democrats-...
December 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Lets take just one example of the conflict between the idea that Trump is showing progressives how to govern, and the need for accountability, which is the role of DOGE with USAID. From Trump’s Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/democrats-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/democrats-...
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"Because the District of Columbia is a federal district created by Congress, rather than a constitutionally sovereign entity like the fifty States..." statehood please
A unanimous D.C. Circuit panel clears the way for Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., staying a lower court's order that foudn the deployment illegal. The panel
Millett: Obama
Rao: Trump
Katsas Trump.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Millett: Obama
Rao: Trump
Katsas Trump.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"Because the District of Columbia is a federal district created by Congress, rather than a constitutionally sovereign entity like the fifty States..." statehood please
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if capital can't justify the operating costs of a newspaper in every city over a few hundred thousand people (even though this worked profitably for decades) i think it's up to the federal government to fund them and if red states don't like a bunch of big city libs reporting on them, all the better
"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
if capital can't justify the operating costs of a newspaper in every city over a few hundred thousand people (even though this worked profitably for decades) i think it's up to the federal government to fund them and if red states don't like a bunch of big city libs reporting on them, all the better
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“How do I explain trans people to my kids”
mate, what are you explaining? “Kids, this is Mr Jay, would you like to wave or fistbump or shake hands?”
what is there to explain beyond “here’s a person”
mate, what are you explaining? “Kids, this is Mr Jay, would you like to wave or fistbump or shake hands?”
what is there to explain beyond “here’s a person”
December 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
“How do I explain trans people to my kids”
mate, what are you explaining? “Kids, this is Mr Jay, would you like to wave or fistbump or shake hands?”
what is there to explain beyond “here’s a person”
mate, what are you explaining? “Kids, this is Mr Jay, would you like to wave or fistbump or shake hands?”
what is there to explain beyond “here’s a person”
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I am not, by any means, claiming to be a perfect or omniscient parent. but this shit is just really not that hard to teach *if you have an understanding of it yourself*
December 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I am not, by any means, claiming to be a perfect or omniscient parent. but this shit is just really not that hard to teach *if you have an understanding of it yourself*
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hi, this is super fucked up
New Kindle feature offers instant spoiler-free answers to questions about your books
“Ask this Book” is now available on the Kindle iOS app in the U.S. for thousands of English-language books.
www.aboutamazon.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
hi, this is super fucked up
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Every time there is a conversation about the STEM vs Humanities folks seem to forget which department Philosophy is in, and the incredibly brutal standards that field holds for its communication and writing.
They seem to forget linguistics is what gave a lot of the formal rigor to computer science!
They seem to forget linguistics is what gave a lot of the formal rigor to computer science!
December 12, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Every time there is a conversation about the STEM vs Humanities folks seem to forget which department Philosophy is in, and the incredibly brutal standards that field holds for its communication and writing.
They seem to forget linguistics is what gave a lot of the formal rigor to computer science!
They seem to forget linguistics is what gave a lot of the formal rigor to computer science!
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The obscenely rich are especially vulnerable to llms because llms sound like *literally every single interaction* they have had with their entourage of sycophants for decades, and they also have not ever had to actually learn or think in that same span of time.
At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The obscenely rich are especially vulnerable to llms because llms sound like *literally every single interaction* they have had with their entourage of sycophants for decades, and they also have not ever had to actually learn or think in that same span of time.
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The delta between what Biden did and how much anger he got for it and the absolute crickets Trump has gotten for making the student loan landscape *magnitudes worse than it was before* is absolutely one of the most enraging things about this entirely enraging era.
Congrats again to the people who continuously said Biden did nothing about student loans for four years! www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/s...
Trump officials move to end student loan payment pause for millions of borrowers
The Trump administration announced a proposed joint settlement with Missouri that would soon force millions of student loan borrowers into repayment.
www.cnbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The delta between what Biden did and how much anger he got for it and the absolute crickets Trump has gotten for making the student loan landscape *magnitudes worse than it was before* is absolutely one of the most enraging things about this entirely enraging era.
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“You know all that obvious bullshit me and my buddies have been feeding you forever? Turns out it was obvious bullshit! Now GIVE ME MORAL CREDIT for telling you it’s obvious bullshit, I DESERVE IT"
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me.
The spirit of association remains alive in unexpected places.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
“You know all that obvious bullshit me and my buddies have been feeding you forever? Turns out it was obvious bullshit! Now GIVE ME MORAL CREDIT for telling you it’s obvious bullshit, I DESERVE IT"
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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don't worry, john roberts says this is a legitimate exercise of presidential power and if we did anything to curb it, we would be robbing the executive of the energy he needs to do his job
Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.”
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
December 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
don't worry, john roberts says this is a legitimate exercise of presidential power and if we did anything to curb it, we would be robbing the executive of the energy he needs to do his job
@premeemohamed.com hey I just wanted to say I really enjoyed These Lifeless Things and I'm looking forward to reading more of your work!
December 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
@premeemohamed.com hey I just wanted to say I really enjoyed These Lifeless Things and I'm looking forward to reading more of your work!
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“the USPS must turn a profit” makes me want to set things on fire
they put a clause in the fucking constitution about postal service, that’s how important it is
nothing in there about “only if you can make money on it”
they put a clause in the fucking constitution about postal service, that’s how important it is
nothing in there about “only if you can make money on it”
🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“the USPS must turn a profit” makes me want to set things on fire
they put a clause in the fucking constitution about postal service, that’s how important it is
nothing in there about “only if you can make money on it”
they put a clause in the fucking constitution about postal service, that’s how important it is
nothing in there about “only if you can make money on it”
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yeah like I’m perfectly fine charging every living USA president with war crimes, let’s goooooo
O’Neill is a dipshit. We did make a big hullabaloo about Obama’s use of targeted drone killings of US citizens without due process.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Osama bin Laden Navy SEAL brags he’s ‘killed more people than Jeffrey Dahmer’
Robert O’Neill, the former U.S. Navy SEAL who was part of the elite military unit responsible for assassinating Osama bin Laden, clashed with guests on Morgan’s show
www.independent.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
yeah like I’m perfectly fine charging every living USA president with war crimes, let’s goooooo
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She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
Ilhan Omar denounces Donald Trump for calling Somali immigrants ‘garbage’
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
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Imagine being a goy and standing up and telling Jewish people they don’t know or understand their own fucking history. That Jews are ignorant and too uneducated to have correct opinions about the Jewish issue of our time that has broken families and communities. You absolute piece of trash.
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Imagine being a goy and standing up and telling Jewish people they don’t know or understand their own fucking history. That Jews are ignorant and too uneducated to have correct opinions about the Jewish issue of our time that has broken families and communities. You absolute piece of trash.
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They were 8 and 11 years old
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
They were 8 and 11 years old
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
7
Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
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From the crazed hyperbolic radical alarmists at… The Brennan Center:
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
From the crazed hyperbolic radical alarmists at… The Brennan Center:
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop