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Things I’m watching instead of the Super Bowl this weekend:

Les Misérables
Malcolm X
V for Vendetta

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February 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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It is only cancel culture if it comes from the Cancelle region of France. Otherwise it is just sparkling consequences of your actions.
January 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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"California paid in a lot more [to the federal government] than it got back — $83 billion in total. So did Washington state and much of the Northeast. Most red states were in the reverse position, getting much more from DC than they paid in return."
In Praise of California
It has its flaws — what place doesn’t? — but it plays a big role in America’s greatness
paulkrugman.substack.com
January 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Is there a setting for me to be able to approve followers? Because reporting & blocking spam accounts one by one is exhausting. @moderation.bsky.app @support.bsky.team
January 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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The real reason is the infrastructure is not in place to deal with a catastrophe that could have easily been avoided if climate scientists were taken seriously.
We have been warned for decades that this would happen, eventually
January 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing is on Tuesday.

Share the link—Help us flood Senators with letters by contacting yours here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell your Senators: Oppose Trump's selection of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
January 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
“Justices Paul Newby, Phillip Berger Jr., Tamara Barringer and Trey Allen seem not to understand that they can’t just rub their transgressions into the noses of North Carolinians. Do they think we’ll simply withdraw and allow them to finally defeat our democracy? They misunderstand Tar Heels.”
A Republican judge stands up to his partisan North Carolina colleagues | Opinion
So rank is the partisanship of the N.C. Supreme Court that one of its new Republican members has effectively announced it’s too much for him. | Opinion
amp.charlotteobserver.com
January 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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You can’t ban ‘Fahrenheit 451’ without making Ray Bradbury’s warning come true - when the freedom to read is attacked, we lose our ability to think critically and challenge the status quo. Join me at 11a w/ Lois Lowry for the latest #VelshiBannedBookClub featuring the dystopian classic. #Velshi
January 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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ALERT: Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing is on Tuesday. Hegseth is an unqualified disaster. Please send your letters to your Senators demanding they oppose him, and share the link:
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell your Senators: Oppose Trump's selection of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
January 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM