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I live in Colorado, have mad fits of creativity followed by periods of somnolence, and am charmed by snakes. She/her, or whatever.
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· Nov 14
solidarity that doesn’t include disabled and vulnerable people is not, in fact, solidarity
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I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
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She’s certainly getting unusual amenities, but I have to say the choice to lead this piece with “unlimited toilet paper” is fuckin bizarre.
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 1:36 AM
She’s certainly getting unusual amenities, but I have to say the choice to lead this piece with “unlimited toilet paper” is fuckin bizarre.
honestly not trying to criticize as harshly as this might sound, but the reporter explaining how nyt coverage works was making some decent small-picture points, but large-picture kind of comes across as explaining why systemic racism is not a conspiracy
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
honestly not trying to criticize as harshly as this might sound, but the reporter explaining how nyt coverage works was making some decent small-picture points, but large-picture kind of comes across as explaining why systemic racism is not a conspiracy
3 things.
1. They see children as property. If a bad thing happens to a child, that's an injury to the *parent* and a punishment for the parent's failure.
2. Girls become "young women" in their very early teens, and are therefore no longer children to them.
3. If a woman is raped, it's her fault.
1. They see children as property. If a bad thing happens to a child, that's an injury to the *parent* and a punishment for the parent's failure.
2. Girls become "young women" in their very early teens, and are therefore no longer children to them.
3. If a woman is raped, it's her fault.
One of the things that's very difficult to really take to heart about MAGA conservatives is that you can't get them on hypocrisy about their children because they really don't give a fuck about their kids
Everyone who posts this should note that Megyn Kelly has a 14-year-old daughter. Do not let her off the hook on this.
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
3 things.
1. They see children as property. If a bad thing happens to a child, that's an injury to the *parent* and a punishment for the parent's failure.
2. Girls become "young women" in their very early teens, and are therefore no longer children to them.
3. If a woman is raped, it's her fault.
1. They see children as property. If a bad thing happens to a child, that's an injury to the *parent* and a punishment for the parent's failure.
2. Girls become "young women" in their very early teens, and are therefore no longer children to them.
3. If a woman is raped, it's her fault.
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When Covid caused NYC offices to hollow out what they found was that yeah the core business districts suffered but the neighborhoods where people actually live, thrived.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
if you cant go in to the office 3 days a week then you really can't complain when cities are hollowed out. cities are places where ppl work and network. getting rid of that makes cities useless
And it's usually something like "but that's not what the literal DNC does!" as if I don't know, as someone who has worked on Dem campaigns, sometimes in conjunction with the DNC what they do. So I'm going to be very specific here: this is the DNC being shitty: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
When Covid caused NYC offices to hollow out what they found was that yeah the core business districts suffered but the neighborhoods where people actually live, thrived.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.
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So when the aurora borealis is faint enough, you can capture its glow with the Milky Way 😍
Berthoud Pass, CO last night
Berthoud Pass, CO last night
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
So when the aurora borealis is faint enough, you can capture its glow with the Milky Way 😍
Berthoud Pass, CO last night
Berthoud Pass, CO last night
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in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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I’m just gonna plug the Ely, MN live webcam again; just go to https://www.youtube.com/live/CevQg8IoInI?si=AgBav8nb9mD436PK, it’s worth it. I have it playing in a corner.
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I’m just gonna plug the Ely, MN live webcam again; just go to https://www.youtube.com/live/CevQg8IoInI?si=AgBav8nb9mD436PK, it’s worth it. I have it playing in a corner.
here’s the thing
is a grown person lusting for teenagers meaningfully different than them lusting for prepubescent kids? yeah
but primarily because it’s broadly excused in this culture, not because it’s not harmful to the targets
is a grown person lusting for teenagers meaningfully different than them lusting for prepubescent kids? yeah
but primarily because it’s broadly excused in this culture, not because it’s not harmful to the targets
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
here’s the thing
is a grown person lusting for teenagers meaningfully different than them lusting for prepubescent kids? yeah
but primarily because it’s broadly excused in this culture, not because it’s not harmful to the targets
is a grown person lusting for teenagers meaningfully different than them lusting for prepubescent kids? yeah
but primarily because it’s broadly excused in this culture, not because it’s not harmful to the targets
re: epstein‘s buddies
not one of them is more irreplaceable than they considered their victims to be
not one of them is more irreplaceable than they considered their victims to be
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
re: epstein‘s buddies
not one of them is more irreplaceable than they considered their victims to be
not one of them is more irreplaceable than they considered their victims to be
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saying the quiet part out loud (complimentary)
Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
saying the quiet part out loud (complimentary)
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
Quite apart from the crepe cake of layered offensiveness here, I'm struck by how, absent all context, I would assume the person who wrote this email was not very bright.
November 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Quite apart from the crepe cake of layered offensiveness here, I'm struck by how, absent all context, I would assume the person who wrote this email was not very bright.
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Apparently even the Seattle gloom is no match for this Aurora.
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Apparently even the Seattle gloom is no match for this Aurora.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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i think when we look back bluesky will have played a significant role in radicalizing and energizing democratic base voters ahead of this midterm
so much so that it makes primaries more meaningful in the party
its like a website-sized subreddit for angry lefty poasters
so much so that it makes primaries more meaningful in the party
its like a website-sized subreddit for angry lefty poasters
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
i think when we look back bluesky will have played a significant role in radicalizing and energizing democratic base voters ahead of this midterm
so much so that it makes primaries more meaningful in the party
its like a website-sized subreddit for angry lefty poasters
so much so that it makes primaries more meaningful in the party
its like a website-sized subreddit for angry lefty poasters
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Saw a clip of Chris Cuomo calling Zohran petty for referencing Mario Cuomo in his speech and it’s pretty interesting about where we are as a country that they had super pacs linking Zohran to 9/11 but still feel totally free to call someone else classless.
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Saw a clip of Chris Cuomo calling Zohran petty for referencing Mario Cuomo in his speech and it’s pretty interesting about where we are as a country that they had super pacs linking Zohran to 9/11 but still feel totally free to call someone else classless.
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Have I sailed as close as you are legally allowed to do to have a nose at the SS Montgomery?
Of course.
Moment I knew she existed, I was out there faster than Jay Hulme when he spots a rickety ladder in a church.
Here she is:
Of course.
Moment I knew she existed, I was out there faster than Jay Hulme when he spots a rickety ladder in a church.
Here she is:
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Have I sailed as close as you are legally allowed to do to have a nose at the SS Montgomery?
Of course.
Moment I knew she existed, I was out there faster than Jay Hulme when he spots a rickety ladder in a church.
Here she is:
Of course.
Moment I knew she existed, I was out there faster than Jay Hulme when he spots a rickety ladder in a church.
Here she is:
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yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
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There was a bulldog sat by the corner taco truck and I regret that I did not get a picture. You have never seen a man so square. A perfect rectangular prism. Shipping containers could have sat at his feet to learn boxy solidity.
September 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
There was a bulldog sat by the corner taco truck and I regret that I did not get a picture. You have never seen a man so square. A perfect rectangular prism. Shipping containers could have sat at his feet to learn boxy solidity.
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In a demoralizing world it does warm the heart to see an eighty seven year-old lady repeatedly burn the world’s richest man to a crisp in a manner that clearly gets right under his skin and provokes him to flailing, compensatory exertions that only affirm the point she was making.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In a demoralizing world it does warm the heart to see an eighty seven year-old lady repeatedly burn the world’s richest man to a crisp in a manner that clearly gets right under his skin and provokes him to flailing, compensatory exertions that only affirm the point she was making.
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
good god i want to know where she sharpens her knives
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
good god i want to know where she sharpens her knives