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· Mar 19
First Amendment states:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
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You almost have to feel bad for an ugly old man with no family or friends to keep him company on Christmas Day that he makes 200 crazy posts ranting about everything under the sun.
Almost.
Almost.
December 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
You almost have to feel bad for an ugly old man with no family or friends to keep him company on Christmas Day that he makes 200 crazy posts ranting about everything under the sun.
Almost.
Almost.
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Most of the people in this scene would be unable to enter the US under current policy. Madeleine Lebeau pretty much just crossed the border, stayed, and shot the greatest scene in history.
December 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Most of the people in this scene would be unable to enter the US under current policy. Madeleine Lebeau pretty much just crossed the border, stayed, and shot the greatest scene in history.
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Recreating this legendary Peanuts scene. Yeah hoe!
December 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Recreating this legendary Peanuts scene. Yeah hoe!
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Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA
Although health care expenditure per capita is higher in the USA than in any other
country, more than 37 million Americans do not have health insurance, and 41 million
more have inadequate access to c...
www.thelancet.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Take me back to the real world, Clarence. Please!
December 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Take me back to the real world, Clarence. Please!
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Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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If you want to get a sense of how far CBS News has fallen under the ownership of centibillionaire Larry Ellison and dictatorship of Bari Weiss, watch “Good Night and Good Luck.” You won’t regret it.
If you missed tonight’s EXCELLENT live telecast of George Clooney’s Broadway play Good Night and Good Luck, you can rent the original 2005 movie version on streaming. It’s about CBS and Edward R. Murrow standing up to Sen. Joe McCarthy — and winning. It’s eerie how relevant the plot is today.
Good Night and Good Luck - Original Theatrical Trailer
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December 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
If you want to get a sense of how far CBS News has fallen under the ownership of centibillionaire Larry Ellison and dictatorship of Bari Weiss, watch “Good Night and Good Luck.” You won’t regret it.
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Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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Everyone in the federal government and the media only has one job and it's frantically running around and trying to hide evidence of the president's many crimes. They are so tired and all they want is for him to at least pause the crimes for a minute but he keeps on doing new ones
December 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Everyone in the federal government and the media only has one job and it's frantically running around and trying to hide evidence of the president's many crimes. They are so tired and all they want is for him to at least pause the crimes for a minute but he keeps on doing new ones
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
December 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
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Kevin with a nice thread about going where the archives lead you
Absolutely right.
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
Not a historian but like to research. The AI might summarize what I'm looking for, but it doesn't find what I'm *not* looking for. The book on the shelf next to the one I wanted. The insight in chapter 6 based on the quote I needed from chapter 4.
December 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Kevin with a nice thread about going where the archives lead you
People seem to forget that "classical" music was the often the hip hop of its day.
December 20, 2025 at 5:15 AM
People seem to forget that "classical" music was the often the hip hop of its day.
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the number one requirement for the next Dem president is that they are willing to look back
with a flamethrower
with a flamethrower
There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
The president's name was added to the sign outside the performing arts center.
December 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
the number one requirement for the next Dem president is that they are willing to look back
with a flamethrower
with a flamethrower
@firefox.com trust + AI = oxymoron. I've been using Firefox since???? So long I can't remember, an early adopter. I will be saying sayonara if your AI plans come to pass.
Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
December 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
@firefox.com trust + AI = oxymoron. I've been using Firefox since???? So long I can't remember, an early adopter. I will be saying sayonara if your AI plans come to pass.
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The Illinois ACA exchange site is actually really good and I was surprised that my premium didn't skyrocket as badly as I was anticipating. If you haven't gotten it done yet and you're in IL, you still got a little time (like, hours) to be covered Jan 1: getcovered.illinois.gov
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Explore Get Covered Illinois, the official health insurance marketplace for Illinois. Compare health plans, estimate costs, enroll in coverage, and get financial help. Open Enrollment starts November ...
getcovered.illinois.gov
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The Illinois ACA exchange site is actually really good and I was surprised that my premium didn't skyrocket as badly as I was anticipating. If you haven't gotten it done yet and you're in IL, you still got a little time (like, hours) to be covered Jan 1: getcovered.illinois.gov
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Appreciate this letter from MN State Sen Jim Abler (R-Anoka) to POTUS
December 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Appreciate this letter from MN State Sen Jim Abler (R-Anoka) to POTUS
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wearing motorcycle helmets is woke
December 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
wearing motorcycle helmets is woke
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I'm going to float this nuclear take: maybe students are increasingly turning to ShitGPT and other deskilling devices because the structure of the modern university has made it impossible for them to acquire skill in a deep way.
Let me paint a picture for you.
Let me paint a picture for you.
December 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I'm going to float this nuclear take: maybe students are increasingly turning to ShitGPT and other deskilling devices because the structure of the modern university has made it impossible for them to acquire skill in a deep way.
Let me paint a picture for you.
Let me paint a picture for you.
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One of my many issues with people on the right like Chris Rufo attacking higher ed is how crabbed, joyless, and resentful of learning they are.
It's not about DEI or woke, it's about being so utterly calcified that you're incapable of viewing anything new with curiosity instead of anger.
It's not about DEI or woke, it's about being so utterly calcified that you're incapable of viewing anything new with curiosity instead of anger.
December 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
One of my many issues with people on the right like Chris Rufo attacking higher ed is how crabbed, joyless, and resentful of learning they are.
It's not about DEI or woke, it's about being so utterly calcified that you're incapable of viewing anything new with curiosity instead of anger.
It's not about DEI or woke, it's about being so utterly calcified that you're incapable of viewing anything new with curiosity instead of anger.
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For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...