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This is one of the clearest examples of a disordered counterpublic capturing an institution I've seen. It's nice to have your work proven on a regular basis, but also very bad.

demos.co.uk/research/ver...
November 20, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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my wife and her entire team were fired over Zoom from their program manager jobs at a local nonprofit Seattle hospital this Spring because Trump just stopped paying Medicaid reimbursements. and this is a relatively affluent urban center

we're really not prepared for what's coming
As a direct result of President Trump's Big Ugly Bill, almost 300 jobs will be cut from Providence Swedish's First Hill, Cherry Hill, Ballard, and Issaquah hospitals and clinics. These are not the only layoffs we've seen in our health care system in Washington state in recent months.
Providence Swedish to eliminate nearly 300 positions
The cuts will affect jobs at Providence Swedish’s First Hill, Cherry Hill, Ballard and Issaquah hospitals and nearby clinics.
www.seattletimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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So here’s what apparently happened: they tried to indict Comey on the last day of the statute with a three-count indictment. The grand jury rejected one. Rather than cross it out or indicate on the indictment that only two of the three counts were voted upon, Halligan creates…/1
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.

Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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lot of people on this app seem really committed to the notion that nothing damaging will come out of the Epstein files.

let yourself hope a little! it’s free!
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Will is generally great but he makes a classic geography mistake here, one that has infected many experts on national issues:

Housing is a national problem, but its pricing is not national. While it's true that, nationally, most Americans are spending 30% of income on rent/mortgage ...
I absolutely am a YIMBY, but I believe in being honest about data even more than I believe in YIMBYism. There hasn’t been an acute increase in housing costs as a share of income! There just hasn’t. I don’t know what to tell you. I won’t lie about it just because everyone enjoys the false narrative.
Maybe I’m crazy but I would presume Will Stancil is fairly YIMBY pilled so these takes on housing affordability drive me fucking crazy. It’s a pretty serious problem if housing is unobtainable to most people in the metros where basically all our wealth creation is happening!
November 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
2025 and Slack still doesn't have an API to just let me look up the channel ID of a known channel by name. The "right way" to do it seems to be to list all channels and hope you don't get rate limited to hell?

I feel like they did this to annoy me personally.
November 18, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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In 2028 I will vote for whoever will send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Absolutely cannot wait to bust down the doors for a drink made by a company whose unionized workers are on strike in a store that doesn’t want to hire minorities anymore.
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.

The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.

🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how it’s been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.
www.krqe.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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A lot of people are going to walk away from the Ghislaine Maxwell coverage with the impression that our prison system isn’t punitive enough but I’d say it highlights how most everyone else is treated with *deliberate* cruelty.
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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People are roasting this lede, but NYM is actually correct to print it. Toilet paper is so scarce in prisons that it is sometimes used as a currency.

It shouldn't be restricted, for any person, but the fact that it isn't for her (and her alone) is a sign of extremely special treatment.
Apparently, Ghislaine Maxwell is living it up in prison with unlimited toilet paper. Here’s what we know about her alleged special privileges at her new federal prison camp in Texas.
Ghislaine Maxwell Is Living It Up With Unlimited Toilet Paper
What we know about the special privileges Epstein’s accomplice is reportedly receiving at her new federal prison camp in Texas.
nymag.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Bury every single one of them in Epstein’s tomb like unwilling cats with a pharaoh.
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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This is all with no senate confirmed SOUTHCOM commander btw
November 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.

A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Is human preference towards emergent vs trained properties a form of anthropomorphization? The greatest thread in the history of forums,
with the vibe they like being a completely emergent property, i.e. no training to reinforce what vibe they should and should not like
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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The “Carter invented shutdowns” folklore isn’t true.

Prior to Carter, sometimes agencies largely stopped doing new work, sometimes they continued work — extremely illegally.

The Civiletti memo rightly acknowledged that most of that work was illegal & created a new method, also illegal, but less so
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Jesus F Christ.
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM