@tomdurff.bsky.social
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The key to success in an authoritarian system is not competence but loyalty to dear leader, which is why so many staffers are not evil geniuses but bumbling lackeys.
This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
December 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The key to success in an authoritarian system is not competence but loyalty to dear leader, which is why so many staffers are not evil geniuses but bumbling lackeys.
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Our tax dollars could be going toward support systems for traumatized health care workers. Instead that money goes to ICE agents, who exist to cause more societal trauma.
it’s like the people in charge want everyone to be miserable.
it’s like the people in charge want everyone to be miserable.
My neighbor is a nurse who sees a lot of death and frequently comes home from her overnight shifts wrecked with trauma and I just think our health care workers need more support because they can’t be expected to carry all this while they all have PTSD from the pandemic
Why can’t we help them
Why can’t we help them
December 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Our tax dollars could be going toward support systems for traumatized health care workers. Instead that money goes to ICE agents, who exist to cause more societal trauma.
it’s like the people in charge want everyone to be miserable.
it’s like the people in charge want everyone to be miserable.
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I’m going to need to see the declination memos from DoJ where they declined to prosecute the Epstein co-conspirators, and I’m gonna need to see them for every single person they declined to prosecute.
December 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I’m going to need to see the declination memos from DoJ where they declined to prosecute the Epstein co-conspirators, and I’m gonna need to see them for every single person they declined to prosecute.
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Okay okay, by popular demand: Sean’s Ultimate Eclectic Xmas Xtravaganza playlist!
open.spotify.com/playlist/0jk...
open.spotify.com/playlist/0jk...
December 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Okay okay, by popular demand: Sean’s Ultimate Eclectic Xmas Xtravaganza playlist!
open.spotify.com/playlist/0jk...
open.spotify.com/playlist/0jk...
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I’ll listen to part of the deposition. The American people deserve to listen to it as well. Jack Smith is an American hero who has stood up for American values all his life.
December 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I’ll listen to part of the deposition. The American people deserve to listen to it as well. Jack Smith is an American hero who has stood up for American values all his life.
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Does our physical reality exist in an objective manner?
With quantum mechanics, we can keep the idea that an objective reality exists, Independent of observers, but there's a whole lot we have to give up if we do.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#physics #quantum #particle
With quantum mechanics, we can keep the idea that an objective reality exists, Independent of observers, but there's a whole lot we have to give up if we do.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#physics #quantum #particle
Does our physical reality exist in an objective manner?
We think of physical reality as what objectively exists, independent of any observer. But relativity and quantum physics say otherwise.
bigthink.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Does our physical reality exist in an objective manner?
With quantum mechanics, we can keep the idea that an objective reality exists, Independent of observers, but there's a whole lot we have to give up if we do.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#physics #quantum #particle
With quantum mechanics, we can keep the idea that an objective reality exists, Independent of observers, but there's a whole lot we have to give up if we do.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#physics #quantum #particle
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Spirituality for the science-spirited from the poetic physicist Alan Lightman www.themarginalian.org/2023/03/14/t...
The Transcendent Brain: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Spirituality for the Science-Spirited
A largehearted invitation to “stand on the precipice between the known and the unknown, without fear, without anxiety, but instead with awe and wonder at this strange and beautiful cosmos we …
www.themarginalian.org
December 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Spirituality for the science-spirited from the poetic physicist Alan Lightman www.themarginalian.org/2023/03/14/t...
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Are these the files you boxed up from the Biden era probe into Epstein co-conspirators and shipped off to DC after you killed the investigation and fired the prosecutors? You’ve had these since January. I call BS.
December 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Are these the files you boxed up from the Biden era probe into Epstein co-conspirators and shipped off to DC after you killed the investigation and fired the prosecutors? You’ve had these since January. I call BS.
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WHO GIVES A DAMN?
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
WHO GIVES A DAMN?
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
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Nat King Cole releases his 4th and most-famous recording of “The Christmas Song” today in 1961.
Years earlier, songwriters Mel Tormé and Bob Wells had taken it to Nat King Cole’s house.
“Play that again,” Cole said.
They did, but before they finished, Cole said, “Stop everything. That's my song.”
Years earlier, songwriters Mel Tormé and Bob Wells had taken it to Nat King Cole’s house.
“Play that again,” Cole said.
They did, but before they finished, Cole said, “Stop everything. That's my song.”
December 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Nat King Cole releases his 4th and most-famous recording of “The Christmas Song” today in 1961.
Years earlier, songwriters Mel Tormé and Bob Wells had taken it to Nat King Cole’s house.
“Play that again,” Cole said.
They did, but before they finished, Cole said, “Stop everything. That's my song.”
Years earlier, songwriters Mel Tormé and Bob Wells had taken it to Nat King Cole’s house.
“Play that again,” Cole said.
They did, but before they finished, Cole said, “Stop everything. That's my song.”
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If she’d been a better swimmer, she’d be much poorer today.
But MAGA is a grift machine for losers
But MAGA is a grift machine for losers
NEW: Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer turned right-wing media figure, made $474,313 last year from the conservative nonprofit org, the Leadership Institute. More striking than her total comp was the way it was structured.
For @sportico.bsky.social 👇
www.sportico.com/business/med...
For @sportico.bsky.social 👇
www.sportico.com/business/med...
Leadership Perks: Riley Gaines Scored Big Bonus From Nonprofit
Gaines, the former Kentucky swimmer turned OutKick commentator, banked $474,313 from the conservative political organization in 2024.
www.sportico.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
If she’d been a better swimmer, she’d be much poorer today.
But MAGA is a grift machine for losers
But MAGA is a grift machine for losers
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The nautilus, the leopard, and the spirituality of wonder www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/25/w...
December 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The nautilus, the leopard, and the spirituality of wonder www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/25/w...
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Do you remember the famous #Earthrise photo from #Apollo8? On Christmas Eve in 1968, William Anders turned his camera toward Earth and captured the legendary photo. It showed humans a new perspective, with the moon in the foreground and Earth floating in distant space. 🌎🚀🔭📸
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📸 NASA.
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📸 NASA.
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Do you remember the famous #Earthrise photo from #Apollo8? On Christmas Eve in 1968, William Anders turned his camera toward Earth and captured the legendary photo. It showed humans a new perspective, with the moon in the foreground and Earth floating in distant space. 🌎🚀🔭📸
buff.ly/s01u0Ww
📸 NASA.
buff.ly/s01u0Ww
📸 NASA.
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Worth repeating this with every new Epstein document drop. The party of Denny Hastert is the party of Jim Jordan is the party of Matt Gaetz is the party of Donald Trump. Looking the other way and protecting child predators from the law is their brand.
December 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Worth repeating this with every new Epstein document drop. The party of Denny Hastert is the party of Jim Jordan is the party of Matt Gaetz is the party of Donald Trump. Looking the other way and protecting child predators from the law is their brand.
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"All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.
God
Is Change."
Christmas with Octavia Butler www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/22/o...
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.
God
Is Change."
Christmas with Octavia Butler www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/22/o...
Octavia Butler on the Meaning of God
On change, the measure of intelligence, the courage to take responsibility for our own lives.
www.themarginalian.org
December 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.
God
Is Change."
Christmas with Octavia Butler www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/22/o...
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.
God
Is Change."
Christmas with Octavia Butler www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/22/o...
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How recently have we understood the Universe?
The Universe has been around for 13.8 billion years.
But it's really only over the most recent millennia, centuries, and decades that humanity has understood it at all.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #universe #cosmos #astro
The Universe has been around for 13.8 billion years.
But it's really only over the most recent millennia, centuries, and decades that humanity has understood it at all.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #universe #cosmos #astro
How recently have we understood the Universe?
While humanity has been skywatching since ancient times, much of our cosmic understanding has come about only recently. Very recently.
bigthink.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
How recently have we understood the Universe?
The Universe has been around for 13.8 billion years.
But it's really only over the most recent millennia, centuries, and decades that humanity has understood it at all.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #universe #cosmos #astro
The Universe has been around for 13.8 billion years.
But it's really only over the most recent millennia, centuries, and decades that humanity has understood it at all.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #universe #cosmos #astro
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The truth is rationed and obscured while the women who survived these horrors are dragged back through them yet again. Predators remain protected. Evidence is hoarded, withheld, erased. The truth is being smothered in real time & witnessing it is fucking horrific.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
What Was Stolen
Survivors, Silence, and the Injustice of It All
open.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The truth is rationed and obscured while the women who survived these horrors are dragged back through them yet again. Predators remain protected. Evidence is hoarded, withheld, erased. The truth is being smothered in real time & witnessing it is fucking horrific.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
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I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The plain fact is that child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has leverage over the convicted felon who is the president of the United States.
December 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The plain fact is that child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has leverage over the convicted felon who is the president of the United States.
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So last night as I was wondering why Pam Bondi diverted almost 200 National Security attorneys who should be chasing hackers and spies to redact the Epstein files, I remembered that John Eisenberg, who heads it, is the guy who altered the Trump-Zelenskyy transcript.
December 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
So last night as I was wondering why Pam Bondi diverted almost 200 National Security attorneys who should be chasing hackers and spies to redact the Epstein files, I remembered that John Eisenberg, who heads it, is the guy who altered the Trump-Zelenskyy transcript.
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Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
December 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
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Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas...$70 per ticket.
December 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas...$70 per ticket.
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Yes. Well this is what Rev. William Barber has been saying on loop.
"A moral reawakening would compel us to look honestly at what we are doing to immigrants—and why," write President of @interfaithalliance.org, @raushenbush.bsky.social and @ianbassin.bsky.social for the @thebulwark.com.
Read their piece: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/we-need-a-new-great-awakening
Read their piece: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/we-need-a-new-great-awakening
December 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Yes. Well this is what Rev. William Barber has been saying on loop.
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Illinois has doubled down to improve the lives of the hardworking people who make our state the best.
In a year full of chaos at the federal level, I’m focused on protecting our state and investing in the safety, education, and well-being of those here.
In a year full of chaos at the federal level, I’m focused on protecting our state and investing in the safety, education, and well-being of those here.
Gov. Pritzker Celebrates 2025 Accomplishments
Despite attacks from federal government, Illinois continues to deliver new economic opportunities, stronger education and healthcare, and essential civil rights protections
gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com
December 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Illinois has doubled down to improve the lives of the hardworking people who make our state the best.
In a year full of chaos at the federal level, I’m focused on protecting our state and investing in the safety, education, and well-being of those here.
In a year full of chaos at the federal level, I’m focused on protecting our state and investing in the safety, education, and well-being of those here.