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Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? - Cher
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“When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything.” Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, writes about receiving a terminal diagnosis. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/4SkkDI
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Anyone who has experience in an abusive household, or who has worked with people in them, or has read a lot about them, will be familiar with a particular dynamic:

Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...
August 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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You’ve got to say this about wannabe dictators and their acolytes: They keep moving forward step by step, undeterred by setbacks, unfazed by embarrassment, while my fellow liberals spend perhaps more time than they should finger-wagging rather than fighting and finding silver linings on dark clouds.
West Virginia Governor says he’s deploying WV National Guard to Washington DC

He says they’ll be “providing mission-essential equipment, specialized training, and approximately 300-400 skilled personnel as directed. The mission will be funded at the federal level.”
August 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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How are Trump's economic policies impacting you?

Let me give you a hard example. 🧵
July 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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"No one disputes that the Executive has a duty to follow the law. But the Judiciary does not have unbridled authority to enforce this obligation-in fact, sometimes the law prohibits the Judiciary from doing so." --SCOTUS
June 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
June 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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"I can’t imagine any VP in the past “clapping back” or posting memes. Being a highly “online” person is a very embarrassing thing and should be relegated to basement losers," Derek Guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social said of his exchange with JD Vance.

The Internet bigs on how to deal with trolls:
June 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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“We” are fighting a foreign war with zero consultation with or authorization from Congress, and no address to the nation other than Truth Social posts.
June 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.

These are their stories 🧵
May 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.
March 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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🤦🏾‍♂️“Nothing reminds me of everything I actually needed at the grocery store like coming home from the grocery store… and realizing I forgot half the list. #GroceryStoreFail #ShoppingStruggles #IOnlyWantedBread #WhyDoIDoThis #MemoryLikeASieve #ForgottenItems #GroceryStoreRegret
January 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? - Cher
November 24, 2024 at 12:17 AM