Bill White
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Attorney, Rotarian and nature photographer.
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“I find it frustrating and lazy that men don’t get involved,” Ryan Hamilton said. “Why are you not out here going, ‘How dare you?’ … You’re happy to let your wife or daughter go out and tell their nightmare story over and over again while you sit your lazy ass at home?”
It’s been almost a year since Ryan Hamilton went viral with his story about carrying his pregnant wife from a puddle of blood on their bathroom floor into his truck to drive to a Texas hospital for the fourth time seeking care.
At Texas abortion event, men call on each other to speak out for reproductive rights • Ohio Capital Journal
It’s been almost a year since Ryan Hamilton went viral with his story about carrying his pregnant wife from a puddle of blood on their bathroom floor into his truck to drive to a Texas hospital for…
buff.ly
March 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
“I find it frustrating and lazy that men don’t get involved,” Ryan Hamilton said. “Why are you not out here going, ‘How dare you?’ … You’re happy to let your wife or daughter go out and tell their nightmare story over and over again while you sit your lazy ass at home?”
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Turns out "chaotic evil" is not a sound economic policy.
GDPNow estimate for real GDP growth in 25Q1 is -2.8% with addition of stagnating ISM manufacturing index and new lower personal consumption growth.
www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...
GDPNow estimate for real GDP growth in 25Q1 is -2.8% with addition of stagnating ISM manufacturing index and new lower personal consumption growth.
www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...
March 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Turns out "chaotic evil" is not a sound economic policy.
GDPNow estimate for real GDP growth in 25Q1 is -2.8% with addition of stagnating ISM manufacturing index and new lower personal consumption growth.
www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...
GDPNow estimate for real GDP growth in 25Q1 is -2.8% with addition of stagnating ISM manufacturing index and new lower personal consumption growth.
www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...
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the only president in the history of polling who began a term in office with approval as low a Trump's right now was ... Trump in 2017.
that's what CNN is gushing over. the second-worst start-of-term approval rating in history.
that's what CNN is gushing over. the second-worst start-of-term approval rating in history.
CNN's Harry Enten gushes over Trump: "This is big league. This is a sign that the American people, at least initially, like what they're seeing."
January 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
the only president in the history of polling who began a term in office with approval as low a Trump's right now was ... Trump in 2017.
that's what CNN is gushing over. the second-worst start-of-term approval rating in history.
that's what CNN is gushing over. the second-worst start-of-term approval rating in history.
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Like the NIH pause. Immediate effects fall on researchers and universities. But it's not just them, if you're a high-ranking officer at a pharma company you're watching a chart of your R&D pipeline melt and stretch like a Salvador Dalí painting all thanks to Trump and his incompetent staffers.
January 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Like the NIH pause. Immediate effects fall on researchers and universities. But it's not just them, if you're a high-ranking officer at a pharma company you're watching a chart of your R&D pipeline melt and stretch like a Salvador Dalí painting all thanks to Trump and his incompetent staffers.
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Photos of Pete Hegseth’s workplace liquor stash
Liquor Stash Photos Bolster NBC Report on Pete Hegseth Drinking Allegations
Social media posts reveal Trump's Defense nominee stored bottles of alcohol in his office at work
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January 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Photos of Pete Hegseth’s workplace liquor stash
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to be clear, Harry Enten is talking this way about a poll showing Donald Trump with ***47% job approval***
CNN's Harry Enten gushes over Trump: "This is big league. This is a sign that the American people, at least initially, like what they're seeing."
January 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
to be clear, Harry Enten is talking this way about a poll showing Donald Trump with ***47% job approval***
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This is happening to thousands of people fighting for their lives because in real life, government does a lot of good and important shit.
January 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is happening to thousands of people fighting for their lives because in real life, government does a lot of good and important shit.
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everything trump is doing is indistinguishable from the tactics a foreign adversary would use to dismantle any semblance of coherent governance and expedite collapse
January 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
everything trump is doing is indistinguishable from the tactics a foreign adversary would use to dismantle any semblance of coherent governance and expedite collapse
Sandhill Crane coming in to land at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge
January 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Sandhill Crane coming in to land at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge
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once again, the most fiendish plans foiled by some dude's penis
January 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
once again, the most fiendish plans foiled by some dude's penis
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If we had a functioning DNC (or SuperPACs), they'd be running this FEMA quote on radio ads in disaster-prone red states. Keep it running for months.
Let it sink in their heads: Trump will leave them hanging out to dry.
Start undermining him, the GOP, and their attempt to screw California *now*.
Let it sink in their heads: Trump will leave them hanging out to dry.
Start undermining him, the GOP, and their attempt to screw California *now*.
Trump: "FEMA is gonna be a whole big discussion very shortly, because I'd rather see the states takes care of their own problems."
January 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If we had a functioning DNC (or SuperPACs), they'd be running this FEMA quote on radio ads in disaster-prone red states. Keep it running for months.
Let it sink in their heads: Trump will leave them hanging out to dry.
Start undermining him, the GOP, and their attempt to screw California *now*.
Let it sink in their heads: Trump will leave them hanging out to dry.
Start undermining him, the GOP, and their attempt to screw California *now*.
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"I will sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America. Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents." --Donald Trump's inaugural address, delivered three days ago
Trump’s FCC chair gets to work on punishing TV news stations accused of bias
Trump’s FCC chair gets to work on punishing TV news stations accused of bias
Chairman Brendan Carr revives bias complaints against CBS, ABC, and NBC stations.
buff.ly
January 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"I will sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America. Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents." --Donald Trump's inaugural address, delivered three days ago
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Trump and Johnson taking time out to rage about Bishop Budde's very normal and thoughtful sermon is a good lesson that these guys are easy to sidetrack and should be confronted and opposed at all times
January 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Trump and Johnson taking time out to rage about Bishop Budde's very normal and thoughtful sermon is a good lesson that these guys are easy to sidetrack and should be confronted and opposed at all times
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A former tech CEO is on a crusade to get the record of his arrest removed from the internet — suing a journalist for $25 million for truthfully reporting that the domestic violence arrest had occurred. sf.gazetteer.co/a-former-tec...
A former tech CEO is on a crusade to get the record of his arrest removed from the internet - Gazetteer SF
Former Premise Data CEO Maury Blackman is suing a journalist who publicized his domestic violence arrest for $25 million
sf.gazetteer.co
January 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
A former tech CEO is on a crusade to get the record of his arrest removed from the internet — suing a journalist for $25 million for truthfully reporting that the domestic violence arrest had occurred. sf.gazetteer.co/a-former-tec...
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A reminder that a lot of these guys were ready to torch Elon on the record, for supposedly blowing the 2024 election for them.
The problem for them? Trump won, now they’re stuck with musk: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The problem for them? Trump won, now they’re stuck with musk: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
January 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
A reminder that a lot of these guys were ready to torch Elon on the record, for supposedly blowing the 2024 election for them.
The problem for them? Trump won, now they’re stuck with musk: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The problem for them? Trump won, now they’re stuck with musk: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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When a “sovereign citizen” comes to court to say the flag has a gold fringe and so it’s an Admiralty Court without jurisdiction over them, the judge doesn’t — and shouldn’t — say “well let me read the literature from P@tr3ot1969 on Reddit. Ilan Wurman is shilling for extremist trash.
Something is embarrassing but the call is coming from inside the house. I’m sorry, but it’s bad. Sometimes it’s okay to say “no” in defense of the constitutional order and our most valued traditions. We don’t need to entertain all ideas as having equal merit or pretend by going through the motions.
January 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
When a “sovereign citizen” comes to court to say the flag has a gold fringe and so it’s an Admiralty Court without jurisdiction over them, the judge doesn’t — and shouldn’t — say “well let me read the literature from P@tr3ot1969 on Reddit. Ilan Wurman is shilling for extremist trash.
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January 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Look, we finally got Infrastructure Week!
"This just shows how much the orange guy wants to be a king, not a president. He really wants to believe that his signature alone is powerful enough to get rid of things that he does not like. Such childish, reckless behavior should not be allowed in any democracy, yet here we are. " - Tim Mitchell
January 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Look, we finally got Infrastructure Week!
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It must also be said that the resistance of the broader US public to the lure of fascism in the 1930s was not due to any moral clarity but because they were relentlessly propagandized by FDR and allies to reject these ideas and embrace more liberal ones. They weren’t better people than we are.
I’d also like to add that we don’t have very many stories about fascist ideology here in the United States aside from 1930s “America First” movements when Confederates, Redeemers, the first and second Klan, Dixiecrats, and McCarthyism all have hallmarks of fascist thinking.
January 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
It must also be said that the resistance of the broader US public to the lure of fascism in the 1930s was not due to any moral clarity but because they were relentlessly propagandized by FDR and allies to reject these ideas and embrace more liberal ones. They weren’t better people than we are.
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When I wrote about Project 2025 last fall, a reader (in a prominent cultural position) took me to task for scaremongering. I told him he’d never been around true believers if he thought Project 2025 was posturing. I was raised around true believers. Some of them even contributed to Project 2025.
So far, Trump has behaved exactly as many of us warned. He’s taking executive actions straight out of the Project 2025 playbook, as predicted.
The past 9 years have proven that the people who have been called “alarmists” for taking Trump at his word are actually realists.
The past 9 years have proven that the people who have been called “alarmists” for taking Trump at his word are actually realists.
January 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
When I wrote about Project 2025 last fall, a reader (in a prominent cultural position) took me to task for scaremongering. I told him he’d never been around true believers if he thought Project 2025 was posturing. I was raised around true believers. Some of them even contributed to Project 2025.
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some reporters have been too loose with phrasing like DEI. makes it sound like it's all abt post-George Floyd murder stuff. As he notes, they're ditching anti-discrimination policies that go back to LBJ.
If DEI has just "gotten out of hand," then why is the Trump administration going all the way back to a 1965 LBJ civil rights executive order for repeal?
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Just Revoked Anti-Discrimination Rules Enacted By LBJ In 1965
The new president just unwound a landmark anti-discrimination measure implemented amid the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
www.huffpost.com
January 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
some reporters have been too loose with phrasing like DEI. makes it sound like it's all abt post-George Floyd murder stuff. As he notes, they're ditching anti-discrimination policies that go back to LBJ.
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They…turned off…National Institutes of Health grants? That’s nearly $50 billion of scientific research.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
They…turned off…National Institutes of Health grants? That’s nearly $50 billion of scientific research.
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This is bad for a ton of reasons, but... it also will totally fuck over Meta. Because the (already) very weak rationale for allowing trans-Atlantic data flows from EU users to US company servers hinges on the existence of the PCLOB.
So for all of Zuck's suck-up to Trump, this is going to hurt him.
So for all of Zuck's suck-up to Trump, this is going to hurt him.
Trump White House told the three Democratic-selected members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to resign by tomorrow or be fired. Ousting them would paralyze the independent, bipartisan watchdog agency.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...
Trump Seeks to Paralyze Independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Watchdog
The Trump White House has told three Democratic-selected members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to resign or be fired, which would stop the independent agency from functioning.
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This is bad for a ton of reasons, but... it also will totally fuck over Meta. Because the (already) very weak rationale for allowing trans-Atlantic data flows from EU users to US company servers hinges on the existence of the PCLOB.
So for all of Zuck's suck-up to Trump, this is going to hurt him.
So for all of Zuck's suck-up to Trump, this is going to hurt him.