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I am just finding this out. I hope his family can find solace in the fact that he was truly an absolute legend. I am grateful for all of the happiness you have given me throughout my life.
Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff dies, aged 81
The musician was known for hits like You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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December 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Evaluating nominees is explicitly his job as a Senator. What "others" can give advice and consent of the senate?
Vote these spineless cowards out of their majorities so we can actually have some oversight on this serial criminality.
December 2, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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In Alabama, incarcerated workers in a work-release program must take jobs at private companies—but 40% of their wages are docked as a “labor-trafficking fee.” A lawsuit brought by incarcerated people argues this is a modern form of convict leasing.
The Past and Present of Prison Labor: Your Questions Answered
A historian answers <i>Bolts</i> readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and efforts to challenge it.
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November 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Trump eliminated the Consumer Protection Branch of DOJ and has all but eliminated the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

He pardons, commutes, or refuses to prosecute fraudsters because he too is a serial fraudster who is currently barred from corporate leadership in New York because of fraud.
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
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November 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Imagine being so far gone into Trumpism/Republicanism that you would say this to someone who was shot in the head in an act of political violence.
MAGA legal world, man…

Gorsuch and Grassley should be so proud.
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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What do these corporations have in common?

Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel

In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.

This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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filed under “things that make me really fucking happy”
Jack White brings out Eminem
November 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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it's several years old but the Adele SNL Thanksgiving sketch is still perfect
A Thanksgiving Miracle - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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November 28, 2024 at 2:57 AM
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It's become abundantly clear that the wealthy are incapable of happiness, which makes the fact that so much of our society is structured around trying to make them happy particularly obscene.
November 16, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Was it him from the future
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Big Tech is plotting a multi-million dollar lobbying blitz to oppose AI regulation at the state and federal level.

Now, House Republicans are reportedly looking to resurrect a ban on all state-level AI regulation.

Always follow the money. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UdbOMihC-XQ
What Big Tech Doesn't Want You to Know About AI
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Please understand that "reward people for being healthy", in health insurance, also translates to "punish people for being disabled."

The people who are most vulnerable, most in need, will be asked to bear higher costs, in many cases, pricing them out of accessing health care, into early graves.
Markwayne Mullin: "Reward people for being healthy. Think about this. Healthcare is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowners insurance, if you're within 500 feet of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down."
November 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Agree this is an important piece.

Also:
-Don't miss Lincoln Caplan's excellent piece, on same theme, last month in Harvard magazine www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

-Every Roberts profile should point out that he was on GWB's Florida Recount team in 2000. As were Brett K, Amy CB.
I have long said people don't be hatin Chief Justice John Roberts as much as they should be hatin Chief Justice John Roberts
“Roberts has been embedding white-dominant authoritarianism into the country’s source code for two decades. It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy.”

This all on the leader of the MAGA #scotus ↘️
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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I have long said people don't be hatin Chief Justice John Roberts as much as they should be hatin Chief Justice John Roberts
“Roberts has been embedding white-dominant authoritarianism into the country’s source code for two decades. It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy.”

This all on the leader of the MAGA #scotus ↘️
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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I see no path forward between what people are saying they want and the Democratic party as currently constituted. No path.
November 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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The excuse Trump, Vance, Bessent and every member of the admin constantly uses is things are so bad because of what “they inherited.” What about what Biden inherited? Has everyone forgotten Jan 2021? Economy in shambles, global supply chain a mess, global inflation, J6 aftermath.
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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It would be flat wrong to have the incredible election turnout of New Jersey voters standing against Trump’s lawlessness and then immediately take steps in our state to reduce accountability and transparency. 1/2
Senate will consider moving key State Comptroller powers to SCI in lame duck - New Jersey Globe
Senate Democrats are expected to move legislation during the lame duck session that would transfer the investigatory power of the State Comptroller’s
newjerseyglobe.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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QUARTERBACK HAKEEM JEFFRIES: we love all our fans, everything we do out there is for them
REPORTER: you forfeited the game at halftime
QUARTERBACK HAKEEM JEFFRIES: well it's a long season. and at the end of the day, there's always next year
CNN: Was the shutdown worth it?

HAKEEM JEFFRIES: We have waged a battle on behalf of the American people.

CNN: But you didn't get what you want.

JEFFRIES: At the end of the day, the fight lives on.
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias.

He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social.

(Published January)
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
www.propublica.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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dickheads
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Hate to elevate x crap here, but think about this self-pitying asshole, personally responsible for 600,000 deaths by killing USAID, hundreds of thousands of them children, calling someone else "mean." It's almost as if he wants people to have empathy (just for him).
lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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can we stop pretending The Free Press was "an outlet" and remember that it was a substack? please and thank you. she's done a great job of creating the illusion that she is a journalist who was running a newsroom, but she's an opinion writer with a newsletter, no need to repeat the lies folks.
November 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM