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Chief surveillance officer of the front window.
I see you and I am judging you.
I hiss at fascists.
A festive autumn
October 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
August 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Not a single Sunday scary in sight
August 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Is she my dog? Is she a Pre-Raphaelite muse? Two things can be true
August 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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It’s International Cat Day and there have been ZERO cats on my timeline and you have all failed the internet.

You better post some cats before Mal wakes up and sees what a terrible job you have all done at internetting today.
August 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
August 6, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Daryl Cooper—the current #1 History Substacker—in 2016: “Think of how most people you know got here. It wasn’t from basic American ideology to reading Mein Kampf and then, boom, they’re onboard. It’s a process, and you have to initiate people without scaring them off."
How a Nazi-obsessed amateur historian went from obscurity to the top of Substack
Tucker Carlson has called Darryl Cooper the “most important popular historian working in the United States today.” His background is more extreme than previously reported.
www.motherjones.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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IMPORTANT UPDATE IMPORTANT UPDATE

Regarding APHU/ACLU et al. vs. NIH Lawsuit
a cartoon of a man and a dog with the words now 's the time for action written on the bottom
ALT: a cartoon of a man and a dog with the words now 's the time for action written on the bottom
media.tenor.com
July 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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“They are going to regret what they are doing if they ever get sick”
- My second grader on Trump’s cuts to the NIH
July 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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A senior leader at one NIH institute said: “At my level we are legitimately trying to figure out how to keep funding high-impact science given what we expect will happen.”
The senior leader added: “Our grants people are barely holding it together because they are at the center of this chaos.”
Trump administration halts, then releases, NIH research funding
The decision temporarily froze $15 billion in federal funding, according to one senator. It came as Trump officials wrestle over federal spending levels.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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THIS JUST IN
May 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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like ??? how am I not supposed to think about her constantly
July 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM
It must've been the other cat who pulled the trash out of the bin. Couldn't possibly have been this one.
July 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Imagine you're a guest at the house going to get water at 3am and you see a huge wheel going towards you in the dark 😭😭
July 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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July 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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cat on a couch on a couch
July 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Some of the panelists invited by the FDA to discuss SSRIs and pregnancy claimed that antidepressants don't work at all and depression goes away on its own. One suggested that depression was not an illness, but rather a product of “women just naturally experiencing their emotions more intensely.”
FDA panel promotes misinformation on antidepressants during pregnancy, psychiatrists say
Nearly all of the 10 panelists emphasized what they said were risks of the drugs. Some claimed, without evidence, that antidepressants don't work at all.
www.nbcnews.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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NEW from me: after EPA announced it would officially do away with its scientific research arm Friday, officials at the Office of Research and Development had few answers for employees on a Monday call about how many of them will be reassigned to other offices—and how many will lose their jobs
EPA Employees Still in the Dark as Agency Dismantles Scientific Research Office
On Monday, some employees at ORD, the largest office in the agency, began receiving emails detailing that they had been assigned new positions within the EPA. "There is no action you need to take the ...
www.wired.com
July 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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“Once people get a taste for humiliating, they will fight very hard to be able to keep doing it. Like an addiction, the competitively powerful will often put this urge above all else and behave in profoundly self-destructive ways to chase it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
The Politics of Humiliation
The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.
www.liberalcurrents.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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My sis-in-law’s dog knows how to enjoy the moment. #Dogsky
July 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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the drama.... he's a star
July 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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good morning
July 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Saving money vs. saving lives
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
youtu.be
June 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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“I want people to know how bad things are at NIH,” Norton told The Associated Press.

🎤⬇️

apnews.com/article/nih-...
NIH scientists go public to criticize Trump's deep cuts in public health research
Scores of National Institutes of Health researchers and staffers have come forward to send their Trump-appointed leader a letter challenging policies they say undermine the NIH mission.
apnews.com
June 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM