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Woke 2 is more liberal and believes that these people are fully realized moral agents who revel in their wickedness because their desires are evil. They have, each individual, chosen to be what they are and must be held accountable as such.
They will face the sword of justice naked and alone.
They will face the sword of justice naked and alone.
January 10, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Woke 2 is more liberal and believes that these people are fully realized moral agents who revel in their wickedness because their desires are evil. They have, each individual, chosen to be what they are and must be held accountable as such.
They will face the sword of justice naked and alone.
They will face the sword of justice naked and alone.
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It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”
January 10, 2026 at 3:28 PM
It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”
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Boston was occupied by British troops in the summer of 1774. by September the inhabitants of Massachusetts had a system that could mobilize several thousand men in under 24 hours. by spring of 1775 that number was over ten thousand. this was with no comms except verbal and hand-delivered written
January 10, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Boston was occupied by British troops in the summer of 1774. by September the inhabitants of Massachusetts had a system that could mobilize several thousand men in under 24 hours. by spring of 1775 that number was over ten thousand. this was with no comms except verbal and hand-delivered written
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I was also really surprised by the "morning club" concept, which is much like a night club except it opens between 6 and 9 am, and people party and dance there on coffee and soft drinks (no alcohol) before heading to work.
January 10, 2026 at 9:33 PM
I was also really surprised by the "morning club" concept, which is much like a night club except it opens between 6 and 9 am, and people party and dance there on coffee and soft drinks (no alcohol) before heading to work.
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Two Americans working in Hamburg in this documentary about the people who wake up early in the city:
- Jacob is a New Yorker who drives the U-Bahn
- An eagle scares away birds in the vicinity of the airport to prevent bird/airplane accidents
- Jacob is a New Yorker who drives the U-Bahn
- An eagle scares away birds in the vicinity of the airport to prevent bird/airplane accidents
Hafen, tagesschau, Bäcker: Frühaufsteher in der Großstadt | die nordstory | NDR Doku
YouTube video by NDR Doku
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January 10, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Two Americans working in Hamburg in this documentary about the people who wake up early in the city:
- Jacob is a New Yorker who drives the U-Bahn
- An eagle scares away birds in the vicinity of the airport to prevent bird/airplane accidents
- Jacob is a New Yorker who drives the U-Bahn
- An eagle scares away birds in the vicinity of the airport to prevent bird/airplane accidents
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WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:
* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon
The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon
The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.
www.wsj.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM
WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:
* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon
The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon
The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
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The response to the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good is not what the White House was expecting.
Like with their hiding of the Epstein files, part of the fundamental problem they are facing is that the stories the Trump administration has built their movement on are being shown for their emptiness.
Like with their hiding of the Epstein files, part of the fundamental problem they are facing is that the stories the Trump administration has built their movement on are being shown for their emptiness.
January 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
The response to the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good is not what the White House was expecting.
Like with their hiding of the Epstein files, part of the fundamental problem they are facing is that the stories the Trump administration has built their movement on are being shown for their emptiness.
Like with their hiding of the Epstein files, part of the fundamental problem they are facing is that the stories the Trump administration has built their movement on are being shown for their emptiness.
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Also, its illegal to discuss gender in some American universities now.
This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...
January 10, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Also, its illegal to discuss gender in some American universities now.
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Thousands are at Powderhorn Park in south Minneapolis rallying against ICE.
Video by Alex Kormann
Video by Alex Kormann
January 10, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Thousands are at Powderhorn Park in south Minneapolis rallying against ICE.
Video by Alex Kormann
Video by Alex Kormann
I’m in Minneapolis for an unrelated personal event tonight and the protest traffic is just massive.
It also feels like 5 degrees Fahrenheit outside!
It also feels like 5 degrees Fahrenheit outside!
January 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
I’m in Minneapolis for an unrelated personal event tonight and the protest traffic is just massive.
It also feels like 5 degrees Fahrenheit outside!
It also feels like 5 degrees Fahrenheit outside!
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yes! a good number of MAHA-approved products are just repurposed waste from beef production
i'm not saying this as anyone who knows anything about health; i'm saying it as someone who is an alleged expert in interest group politics: the American beef industry is all over MAHA, wellness, and podcast spaces.
remember "bacon mania?" totally a marketing strategy by the pork industry.
remember "bacon mania?" totally a marketing strategy by the pork industry.
New federal dietary guidelines give federal approval to beef tallow, a fat that both cardiologists and the U.S. government told Americans to avoid for nearly half a century.
January 10, 2026 at 4:57 PM
yes! a good number of MAHA-approved products are just repurposed waste from beef production
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Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
January 10, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
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This chart explains a lot of it — as both the overall population has increased as has the share of the population that’s upper-middle class, travel/leisure/hospitality industries have centered themselves around those more profitable consumers, making the core middle class unhappy:
January 10, 2026 at 2:51 PM
This chart explains a lot of it — as both the overall population has increased as has the share of the population that’s upper-middle class, travel/leisure/hospitality industries have centered themselves around those more profitable consumers, making the core middle class unhappy:
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The whole recent dynamic of consumer-facing businesses that exist due to capturing a large % of rich consumer spending and then offer some capacity and a worse experience to non-rich consumers leads to a lot of societal tension.
January 10, 2026 at 2:19 PM
The whole recent dynamic of consumer-facing businesses that exist due to capturing a large % of rich consumer spending and then offer some capacity and a worse experience to non-rich consumers leads to a lot of societal tension.
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The 2025 Word of the Year is "slop," both as a noun for low-quality AI-generated content and as a combining form for anything of little value. Read the full press release. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026
americandialect.org/2025-word-of...
americandialect.org/2025-word-of...
2025 Word of the Year Is “Slop”
New Orleans Marriott–Jan. 9—The American Dialect Society, in its 36th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected slop as the Word of the Year for 2025. More than three hundred attendees took part in the…
americandialect.org
January 10, 2026 at 8:18 AM
The 2025 Word of the Year is "slop," both as a noun for low-quality AI-generated content and as a combining form for anything of little value. Read the full press release. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026
americandialect.org/2025-word-of...
americandialect.org/2025-word-of...
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We call this the "hairball" and it's an intersection where way too many things cross in one place, with no obvious way to reroute any of it. As noted, it's better than it was. I regularly bike, ride the bus, and drive through here. Oddly it probably works better for bikes than for anything else.
The intersection of Wilson/Williamson and John Nolen/Blair in Madison, WI is one of the most entangled grade-level designs I've ever seen. There are problems on so many levels that I made a 🧵.
January 9, 2026 at 11:17 PM
We call this the "hairball" and it's an intersection where way too many things cross in one place, with no obvious way to reroute any of it. As noted, it's better than it was. I regularly bike, ride the bus, and drive through here. Oddly it probably works better for bikes than for anything else.
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I hate that "right size" has become a synonym for "smaller." For many of our public services the actual "right size" is bigger.
January 10, 2026 at 2:51 PM
I hate that "right size" has become a synonym for "smaller." For many of our public services the actual "right size" is bigger.
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Rule 35: if it exists, there are people who foam it
January 10, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Rule 35: if it exists, there are people who foam it
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Let me be absolutely clear as a transit advocate:
Everything Pete Buttigieg did, as a (fairly competent) secretary of transportation, amounts to less than nothing.
If he can't see that this entire department needs to be abolished, in this era, he shouldn't be running so much as a model train set.
Everything Pete Buttigieg did, as a (fairly competent) secretary of transportation, amounts to less than nothing.
If he can't see that this entire department needs to be abolished, in this era, he shouldn't be running so much as a model train set.
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social: "We have an ICE agent who should have been trained not to be in front of a vehicle and never to shoot into a moving vehicle, and yet this happened on [Kristi Noem's] watch. The whole POINT of Homeland Security is to make this country more stable and safe."
January 10, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Let me be absolutely clear as a transit advocate:
Everything Pete Buttigieg did, as a (fairly competent) secretary of transportation, amounts to less than nothing.
If he can't see that this entire department needs to be abolished, in this era, he shouldn't be running so much as a model train set.
Everything Pete Buttigieg did, as a (fairly competent) secretary of transportation, amounts to less than nothing.
If he can't see that this entire department needs to be abolished, in this era, he shouldn't be running so much as a model train set.
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American Express looking at the President of the United States like
January 10, 2026 at 1:36 AM
American Express looking at the President of the United States like
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Normies are the bulwark of democracy
It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something
January 10, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Normies are the bulwark of democracy
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rw press is using the fact that the shooter, an immigration officer, is married to a much younger recent Filipino immigrant whom he apparently met in the Phillipines as proof that he is not a racist. that is not what i would determine from that fact pattern. i would FOIA 911 calls at his address.
January 10, 2026 at 12:16 AM
rw press is using the fact that the shooter, an immigration officer, is married to a much younger recent Filipino immigrant whom he apparently met in the Phillipines as proof that he is not a racist. that is not what i would determine from that fact pattern. i would FOIA 911 calls at his address.
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Basically, we find that too many passengers don't actually like doing air-rail connections and perhaps as importantly the airline and railway can be prohibited from doing fare and schedule coordination (though tacit schedule coordination is easy at banked hubs).
January 9, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Basically, we find that too many passengers don't actually like doing air-rail connections and perhaps as importantly the airline and railway can be prohibited from doing fare and schedule coordination (though tacit schedule coordination is easy at banked hubs).
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1. Using AI photos in a real news story, have some shame
2. I read this over and over and I don't know what the problem is. Y'all mad that the cops ticketed bikers who blow a red light?
2. I read this over and over and I don't know what the problem is. Y'all mad that the cops ticketed bikers who blow a red light?
January 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
1. Using AI photos in a real news story, have some shame
2. I read this over and over and I don't know what the problem is. Y'all mad that the cops ticketed bikers who blow a red light?
2. I read this over and over and I don't know what the problem is. Y'all mad that the cops ticketed bikers who blow a red light?
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Turns out having shoulder stations is important if you ever need to reduce or close your main station
@rmtransit.bsky.social
@rmtransit.bsky.social
Ungewohnt leer: Dresden Hauptbahnhof.
Ungewohnt voll: Dresden-Neustadt.
(4/5)
Ungewohnt voll: Dresden-Neustadt.
(4/5)
January 9, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Turns out having shoulder stations is important if you ever need to reduce or close your main station
@rmtransit.bsky.social
@rmtransit.bsky.social