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Here's a better headline for Axios: "How Trump has normalized racism and racist slurs." Why can't some journalists just call a thing what it is? https://loom.ly/hiKWr58
How Trump flipped America's race conversation
Language that once was disqualifying is now a fixture of national political discourse.
www.axios.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Here's a better headline for Axios: "How Trump has normalized racism and racist slurs." Why can't some journalists just call a thing what it is? https://loom.ly/hiKWr58
Apparently, my partner missed our neighborhood cooking competitions. So he decided to challenge an office coworker who trash talked his cinnamon rolls. www.westdateseast.com/2025/12/02/c...
Cinnamon Roll Throw Down (#389)
I would never have thought I could get sick of cinnamon rolls. And yet here we are. For those of you not following the Cinnamon Roll Saga on Threads, it began when Andy’s Gen Z Coworker told an Eld…
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December 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Apparently, my partner missed our neighborhood cooking competitions. So he decided to challenge an office coworker who trash talked his cinnamon rolls. www.westdateseast.com/2025/12/02/c...
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The political problem here, similar to fascism, is people have forgotten how *bad* it was.
When Nixon is the one signing the clean water act, you know things were BAD bad.
But now we’ve kidded ourselves into believing the free market cleaned things up because it was good for business.
When Nixon is the one signing the clean water act, you know things were BAD bad.
But now we’ve kidded ourselves into believing the free market cleaned things up because it was good for business.
Literally just lectured about this!
In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.
In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.
Oh, I don’t know. Our rivers no longer catch on fire and our air is far less poisonous than it used to be, even in smog bowls like Los Angeles. And I think those are good things.
November 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The political problem here, similar to fascism, is people have forgotten how *bad* it was.
When Nixon is the one signing the clean water act, you know things were BAD bad.
But now we’ve kidded ourselves into believing the free market cleaned things up because it was good for business.
When Nixon is the one signing the clean water act, you know things were BAD bad.
But now we’ve kidded ourselves into believing the free market cleaned things up because it was good for business.
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The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
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“Hope” is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the cage –
And sings the taunting songs –
That never stop –
Yet, tonight, tonight –
When you sleep –
I will eat it.
That perches in the cage –
And sings the taunting songs –
That never stop –
Yet, tonight, tonight –
When you sleep –
I will eat it.
Eight Famous Poems Rewritten by Your Asshole Cat
“This is Just to Say” I have eaten the eggs that were on the counter which you were probably saving for breakfast. They weren’t moist or savory lik...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“Hope” is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the cage –
And sings the taunting songs –
That never stop –
Yet, tonight, tonight –
When you sleep –
I will eat it.
That perches in the cage –
And sings the taunting songs –
That never stop –
Yet, tonight, tonight –
When you sleep –
I will eat it.
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By the way:
November 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
By the way:
I'm always excited to get crowds of trick-or-treaters on Halloween.Sadly, this year was different. www.westdateseast.com/2025/11/01/t...
The Safe House (#388)
My neighborhood, which is flat with sidewalks, became super popular for trick-or-treating about a decade ago. Families drove in from other areas of LA, parked at the nearby schools, and made the ro…
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November 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I'm always excited to get crowds of trick-or-treaters on Halloween.Sadly, this year was different. www.westdateseast.com/2025/11/01/t...
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cool cool cool cool cool
October 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
cool cool cool cool cool
Not remotely alarming
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Not remotely alarming
Squish in there, Chicago!
October 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Squish in there, Chicago!
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I can think of one right off the bat
October 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I can think of one right off the bat
Welcome to WordPress Prison...where no one can hear you scream—er, comment. www.westdateseast.com/2025/10/17/w...
Welcome to WordPress Prison (#387)
I don’t post as much as I once did. I still follow more prolific bloggers. New posts show up in my WordPress Reader daily. I like them and comment on them. The original blogger mostly responds. How…
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October 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Welcome to WordPress Prison...where no one can hear you scream—er, comment. www.westdateseast.com/2025/10/17/w...
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We went from taking out terrorists to terrorizing hotel staff. What a downgrade.
Are we great yet?
Are we great yet?
October 17, 2025 at 2:13 AM
We went from taking out terrorists to terrorizing hotel staff. What a downgrade.
Are we great yet?
Are we great yet?
Worst timeline continues rampage.
February 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Worst timeline continues rampage.
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I think a lot about a point @joereid.bsky.social has made - that the movie barons of yesteryear, scummy as they were, also considered themselves great patrons of the arts who wanted to produce and have a legacy. Today’s billionaires just want line-go-up and nobody-allowed-to-criticize-me.
February 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I think a lot about a point @joereid.bsky.social has made - that the movie barons of yesteryear, scummy as they were, also considered themselves great patrons of the arts who wanted to produce and have a legacy. Today’s billionaires just want line-go-up and nobody-allowed-to-criticize-me.
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I’m guessing Jeff Bezos isn’t going to love my op ed about how one of the preconditions for a free market is that you have enough players in the market that nobody has market-defining share.
Holy shit. Jeff Bezos is turning the Washington Post editorial page into.... the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
February 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I’m guessing Jeff Bezos isn’t going to love my op ed about how one of the preconditions for a free market is that you have enough players in the market that nobody has market-defining share.
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"Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that the Trump administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s own data shows."
apnews.com/article/doge...
apnews.com/article/doge...
Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by DOGE are expected to produce no savings
Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that the Trump administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save any money.
apnews.com
February 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
"Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that the Trump administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s own data shows."
apnews.com/article/doge...
apnews.com/article/doge...
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Enjoy the UK slicing up Elon in a mass ad campaign as a timeline cleanse
February 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Enjoy the UK slicing up Elon in a mass ad campaign as a timeline cleanse
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Wealthy people pay others to do tedious or difficult essential labor, but this leaves them with none of the traditional markers of gender identity they covet and so they compensate for this insecurity with exaggerated performances of masculinity and femininity bsky.app/profile/kevi...
I mean, Jesus Christ, can you people even *hear* yourself?
I'm about to die of secondhand embarrassment just reading this crap.
I'm about to die of secondhand embarrassment just reading this crap.
February 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Wealthy people pay others to do tedious or difficult essential labor, but this leaves them with none of the traditional markers of gender identity they covet and so they compensate for this insecurity with exaggerated performances of masculinity and femininity bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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February 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.”
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything?
Yes. And You Can Too.
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February 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.”
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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This is it. This is the take.
February 8, 2025 at 6:18 AM
This is it. This is the take.
Yet another day where I can't decide if I am sad or glad that I hate the taste of alcohol.
February 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Yet another day where I can't decide if I am sad or glad that I hate the taste of alcohol.
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Very clear-eyed by Karen — gift link below in thread
My latest.
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.
The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Very clear-eyed by Karen — gift link below in thread