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Ellis begins by quoting from Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Chicago
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Ellis begins by quoting from Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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Dick Cheney died? Been waiting a decade plus to bring this out.
November 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Dick Cheney died? Been waiting a decade plus to bring this out.
“The report argues that future Democratic administrations must “flip the risk profile and prioritize fights worth having,” including “leaning into controversy” to facilitate “breaking through” and demonstrating that government is “on the side of regular people.””
Best analysis I’ve seen so far on the Democratic autopsy, from @gregsargent.bsky.social: Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer. newrepublic.com/article/2023... via @newrepublic.com
Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer.
A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future.
newrepublic.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“The report argues that future Democratic administrations must “flip the risk profile and prioritize fights worth having,” including “leaning into controversy” to facilitate “breaking through” and demonstrating that government is “on the side of regular people.””
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Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto
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Fifth-Grade Science Paper Doesn't Stand Up To Peer Review
Fifth-Grade Science Paper Doesn't Stand Up To Peer Review
DECATUR, IL—A three-member panel of 10-year-old Michael Nogroski’s fellow classmates at Nathaniel Macon Elementary School unanimously agreed Tuesday that his 327-word essay "Otters" did not meet the r...
theonion.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Fifth-Grade Science Paper Doesn't Stand Up To Peer Review
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Gray-Lipped RFK Jr. Touts Body’s Natural Ability To Transmute Lead Into Gold
Gray-Lipped RFK Jr. Touts Body’s Natural Ability To Transmute Lead Into Gold
WASHINGTON—Praising the process as yet another miracle of biology that modern medicine chooses to ignore, a gray-lipped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke at a press conference Wednesday during which he tout...
theonion.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Gray-Lipped RFK Jr. Touts Body’s Natural Ability To Transmute Lead Into Gold
Is that…Alice Cooper? No thank you, I shall decline to google. m.youtube.com/watch?v=XDUo...
October 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Is that…Alice Cooper? No thank you, I shall decline to google. m.youtube.com/watch?v=XDUo...
Woof. Rough one. archive.ph/2025.10.28-1...
October 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Woof. Rough one. archive.ph/2025.10.28-1...
All muppets except for ONE human actor.
The lil french Netflix movie about the louvre heist is going to be excellent.
October 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
All muppets except for ONE human actor.
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
Some deeply telling quotations in here, such as “During the interview, Bovino said, “I take my orders from the executive branch.” That statement, according to the court filing, “suggests disdain for this Court’s authority to enjoin his unlawful conduct.””
There are other, more disturbing quotes. :(
There are other, more disturbing quotes. :(
Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino is set to appear before U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis.
What you need to know, for @wttw.bsky.social:
What you need to know, for @wttw.bsky.social:
Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino, Who Fired Tear Gas at Little Village Crowd, Set to Face Federal Judge
U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis ordered Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino to appear in her courtroom at the Dirksen Federal Building in downtown Chicago at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
news.wttw.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Some deeply telling quotations in here, such as “During the interview, Bovino said, “I take my orders from the executive branch.” That statement, according to the court filing, “suggests disdain for this Court’s authority to enjoin his unlawful conduct.””
There are other, more disturbing quotes. :(
There are other, more disturbing quotes. :(
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right. given the numbers, “how to win back the working class” should be as much about care and service workers as hard hats. and yet.
October 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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#tdih 1947
The NAACP sent the UN an appeal to redress human rights violations by the U.S. against African-Americans including lynching, segregation, & gross inequalities in education, housing, health care, & voting rights.
Drafted by W. E. B. Du Bois & more. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ap...
The NAACP sent the UN an appeal to redress human rights violations by the U.S. against African-Americans including lynching, segregation, & gross inequalities in education, housing, health care, & voting rights.
Drafted by W. E. B. Du Bois & more. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ap...
Oct. 23, 1947: An Appeal to the World
The NAACP sent to the U.N. a document titled “An Appeal to the World,” to redress human rights violations the United States committed against its African-American citizens.
www.zinnedproject.org
October 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
#tdih 1947
The NAACP sent the UN an appeal to redress human rights violations by the U.S. against African-Americans including lynching, segregation, & gross inequalities in education, housing, health care, & voting rights.
Drafted by W. E. B. Du Bois & more. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ap...
The NAACP sent the UN an appeal to redress human rights violations by the U.S. against African-Americans including lynching, segregation, & gross inequalities in education, housing, health care, & voting rights.
Drafted by W. E. B. Du Bois & more. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ap...
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Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It
He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.
futurism.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
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Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
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CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by
October 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by
No kings except for Bubbles
October 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
No kings except for Bubbles
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I think to make it more fair Ohtani should go play for the Brewers for the last two innings.
October 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I think to make it more fair Ohtani should go play for the Brewers for the last two innings.
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Pro-voting groups warn that if the Supreme Court rules to strike down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, it could give the GOP at least 19 more U.S. House seats — seats that were directly created by the provision. https://bit.ly/4q7aQ7D
GOP Could Lock in House Control for a Generation if SCOTUS Ends Key VRA Protection, Report Warns
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.
October 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.
YOU’RE GONNA LOOK AT ME AND TELL ME THAT I’M WRONG?! GROW UP. GET EDUCATED BRO.
Max: So you’re saying -
Cody: Look. Bro. One more time. The Pillsbury Doughboy’s got a chef’s hat. What’s he baking? Dough. What’s he made of? Dough. He’s a cannibal, bro.
Cody: Look. Bro. One more time. The Pillsbury Doughboy’s got a chef’s hat. What’s he baking? Dough. What’s he made of? Dough. He’s a cannibal, bro.
October 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
YOU’RE GONNA LOOK AT ME AND TELL ME THAT I’M WRONG?! GROW UP. GET EDUCATED BRO.
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October 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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NEW: Nine months ago, Elon Musk's nascent, DOGE effort killed off a beloved pediatric cancer initiative in the govt funding fight. I circled back to see where those bills now stood. What I discovered was less scandalous but no less depressing.
www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-...
Elon Musk Torpedoed a Beloved Pediatric Cancer Bill. It’s Yet to Recover.
Sometimes, a good piece of legislation fails to become a law for one simple, stupid reason: congressional inertia.
www.thebulwark.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: Nine months ago, Elon Musk's nascent, DOGE effort killed off a beloved pediatric cancer initiative in the govt funding fight. I circled back to see where those bills now stood. What I discovered was less scandalous but no less depressing.
www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-...