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It’s really rich that Paxton—who has subpoenaed women’s medical records to glean if they had an abortion—asks for privacy now that he’s been exposed as a philanderer who cannot keep his own dick in his pants
July 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
It’s really rich that Paxton—who has subpoenaed women’s medical records to glean if they had an abortion—asks for privacy now that he’s been exposed as a philanderer who cannot keep his own dick in his pants
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People will tell you that they view property destruction as equivalent to violence against a person, but that's not true. They think property destruction is worse
June 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
People will tell you that they view property destruction as equivalent to violence against a person, but that's not true. They think property destruction is worse
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Literally the Russian flag in the post. Two of them
June 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Literally the Russian flag in the post. Two of them
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when you want to join the fun but can't quite get down with the nomenclature (ht @davelevitan.bsky.social)
June 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
when you want to join the fun but can't quite get down with the nomenclature (ht @davelevitan.bsky.social)
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This has basically been the message of US politics for the last decade: Good people are, despite the goodness of the things they want & work for, bad and should feel bad about themselves. Bad people are, despite the badness of the things they do & want, good & deserve understanding & sympathy.
May 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This has basically been the message of US politics for the last decade: Good people are, despite the goodness of the things they want & work for, bad and should feel bad about themselves. Bad people are, despite the badness of the things they do & want, good & deserve understanding & sympathy.
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100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion in the 2024 election.
70% of these donations went to Republicans.
Now, Republicans in Congress are gearing up to slash essential programs to pay for another round of tax cuts predominantly for the rich.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
70% of these donations went to Republicans.
Now, Republicans in Congress are gearing up to slash essential programs to pay for another round of tax cuts predominantly for the rich.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
May 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion in the 2024 election.
70% of these donations went to Republicans.
Now, Republicans in Congress are gearing up to slash essential programs to pay for another round of tax cuts predominantly for the rich.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
70% of these donations went to Republicans.
Now, Republicans in Congress are gearing up to slash essential programs to pay for another round of tax cuts predominantly for the rich.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
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This is sad. But this is also a picture of the very much alive John Ratzenberger
May 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This is sad. But this is also a picture of the very much alive John Ratzenberger
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"We can 'follow the science' even when it scares us, instead of insisting that 'we have to live our lives' until those lives go up in flames."
Brilliant essay by Violet Affleck on the intersections between the climate crisis & Covid crisis 👌🏼
yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...
Brilliant essay by Violet Affleck on the intersections between the climate crisis & Covid crisis 👌🏼
yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...
A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles
BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised…
yaleglobalhealthreview.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"We can 'follow the science' even when it scares us, instead of insisting that 'we have to live our lives' until those lives go up in flames."
Brilliant essay by Violet Affleck on the intersections between the climate crisis & Covid crisis 👌🏼
yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...
Brilliant essay by Violet Affleck on the intersections between the climate crisis & Covid crisis 👌🏼
yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...
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I don't know why Trump voters think it's okay for public officials to be as ignorant as they are
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I don't know why Trump voters think it's okay for public officials to be as ignorant as they are
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For "One First," I took a deeper dive into Friday afternoon's *very* significant #SCOTUS Alien Enemies Act ruling—including why it effectively freezes AEA removals for the foreseeable future and its (much) broader potential impact on *all* attempts to bring nationwide challenges to Trump policies:
151. The Supreme Court's (Alien Enemies Act) Patience is Wearing Thin
A very quick breakdown of Friday afternoon's quietly significant ruling slapping down the lower courts in the Northern District of Texas Alien Enemies Act litigation—and what it means going forward.
www.stevevladeck.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
For "One First," I took a deeper dive into Friday afternoon's *very* significant #SCOTUS Alien Enemies Act ruling—including why it effectively freezes AEA removals for the foreseeable future and its (much) broader potential impact on *all* attempts to bring nationwide challenges to Trump policies:
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If one is going to have to consciously hold the unconscious tension of the community, and then hold the relational tension of not being believed besides — that holding can only last for so long. You have to be allowed time and space for transmutation of that energy or it isn’t a humane labor.
May 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
If one is going to have to consciously hold the unconscious tension of the community, and then hold the relational tension of not being believed besides — that holding can only last for so long. You have to be allowed time and space for transmutation of that energy or it isn’t a humane labor.
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All the overlords think they have built their own God. Musk thinks humanity exists to feed Grok.
They are building a cheap facsimile of the psyche they are dissociated from.
They are building a cheap facsimile of the psyche they are dissociated from.
May 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
All the overlords think they have built their own God. Musk thinks humanity exists to feed Grok.
They are building a cheap facsimile of the psyche they are dissociated from.
They are building a cheap facsimile of the psyche they are dissociated from.
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Seems to me that lost of people are essentially trying to reach into the collective unconscious when they turn to LLMs for visioning, creative and emotional counsel, companionship.
Here is clue:
Your psyche can do that with out an LLM.
1/
Here is clue:
Your psyche can do that with out an LLM.
1/
May 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Seems to me that lost of people are essentially trying to reach into the collective unconscious when they turn to LLMs for visioning, creative and emotional counsel, companionship.
Here is clue:
Your psyche can do that with out an LLM.
1/
Here is clue:
Your psyche can do that with out an LLM.
1/
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NIOSH is the agency that researches workplace harms/how to make workplaces safe, and makes the recommendations that OSHA then enforces.
They were the ones who were responsible for making sure the air you breathe at your job isn’t going to give you cancer when you’re older or cause organ failure etc
They were the ones who were responsible for making sure the air you breathe at your job isn’t going to give you cancer when you’re older or cause organ failure etc
Nearly all of remaining staff at CDC's NIOSH received lay off notices today, we're told
This is an org chart shared with us illustrating eliminated divisions to date
Cuts had already upended approvals of new N95 respirators and probes of firefighter injuries
www.cbsnews.com/news/worker-...
This is an org chart shared with us illustrating eliminated divisions to date
Cuts had already upended approvals of new N95 respirators and probes of firefighter injuries
www.cbsnews.com/news/worker-...
May 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
NIOSH is the agency that researches workplace harms/how to make workplaces safe, and makes the recommendations that OSHA then enforces.
They were the ones who were responsible for making sure the air you breathe at your job isn’t going to give you cancer when you’re older or cause organ failure etc
They were the ones who were responsible for making sure the air you breathe at your job isn’t going to give you cancer when you’re older or cause organ failure etc
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So two elections, in countries among America's closest (erstwhile) allies, and the center-left parties not only beat the center-right party but the center-right opposition leaders lost their own seats. In Australia I guess not as exclusively abt Trump as in Canada. But still a big, big factor.
May 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
So two elections, in countries among America's closest (erstwhile) allies, and the center-left parties not only beat the center-right party but the center-right opposition leaders lost their own seats. In Australia I guess not as exclusively abt Trump as in Canada. But still a big, big factor.
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🎶 “Let’s have a conclave” 🎶
May 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🎶 “Let’s have a conclave” 🎶
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LENDING TREE: “.. 25% of [buy now/pay later] users say they’ve used the loans to buy groceries. That’s up from 14% just a year ago, amid rising prices at the supermarket.”
www.lendingtree.com/personal/buy...
www.lendingtree.com/personal/buy...
April 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
LENDING TREE: “.. 25% of [buy now/pay later] users say they’ve used the loans to buy groceries. That’s up from 14% just a year ago, amid rising prices at the supermarket.”
www.lendingtree.com/personal/buy...
www.lendingtree.com/personal/buy...
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The Anthony Burns case from the 1850s is feeling ever more relevant these days. The site of a man being forcibly kidnapped in MA & then transported to slavery in VA, all while the feds looked on approvingly, radicalized a ton of white northerners. www.masshist.org/learn/histor...
Anthony Burns and the Fugitive Slave Act | Massachusetts Historical Society
Anthony Burns and the Fugitive Slave Act Students will trace Anthony Burns’ journey to freedom, and the growth of abolitionism in 1850s Boston, using broadsides, letters, and artifacts. Inquiry Questi...
www.masshist.org
April 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The Anthony Burns case from the 1850s is feeling ever more relevant these days. The site of a man being forcibly kidnapped in MA & then transported to slavery in VA, all while the feds looked on approvingly, radicalized a ton of white northerners. www.masshist.org/learn/histor...
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I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
April 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
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I have a friend that guarded Saddam Hussein after his capture. He said he was quite nice and friendly.
Reminds me of Bill Mahers meeting with Trump.
Being nice doesn’t mean you aren’t a bad bad man
Reminds me of Bill Mahers meeting with Trump.
Being nice doesn’t mean you aren’t a bad bad man
April 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I have a friend that guarded Saddam Hussein after his capture. He said he was quite nice and friendly.
Reminds me of Bill Mahers meeting with Trump.
Being nice doesn’t mean you aren’t a bad bad man
Reminds me of Bill Mahers meeting with Trump.
Being nice doesn’t mean you aren’t a bad bad man
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Judge Xinis in Tuesday eve order homes in on key issue:
"Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT."
She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”
"Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT."
She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”
April 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Judge Xinis in Tuesday eve order homes in on key issue:
"Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT."
She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”
"Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT."
She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”
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JUST IN: Sen. Van Hollen says he is going to El Salvador tomorrow to see if he can talk to Abrego Garcia.
April 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
JUST IN: Sen. Van Hollen says he is going to El Salvador tomorrow to see if he can talk to Abrego Garcia.
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UPDATE: Judge Xinis says the government’s definition of “facilitate“ doesn’t make any sense, especially in the context of her ruling in the Supreme Court’s. Here is her discovery order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
UPDATE: Judge Xinis says the government’s definition of “facilitate“ doesn’t make any sense, especially in the context of her ruling in the Supreme Court’s. Here is her discovery order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...