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Yeah - I would not go to a protest that the Democrats are 'sponsoring'
Screenshot of a Wall St Journal article "Democrats are wary of playing into Trump's hands by supporting 'No King LA protest With picture of people joyously on the streets with 'No Kings' signs
June 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Did you know?
June 14 is Barack Obama Day.
June 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Sounds like Harvard Law might have a few internships available just for this one case.
Or, say, a hundred cases to overwhelm the DOJ ?
#lawsky
screenshot of headlines from Google News: BBC: Harvard sues Trump over blocking foreign student enrollment. NBC News: belgium's futuree queen caught up in Trump admin's foreign student ban CNN: DHS barred Harvard etc.
May 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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www.wsj.com/business/har...

Harley board member resigns, accusing CEO and rest of the board of neglecting "cultural depletion"
(White collar WFH, abandoning DEI?)
April 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Google finance showing big gains today ...
April 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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That is how it is done, America
March 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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MIT has confirmed it.
web.mit.edu

The US Government is the new Al-Qaeda
screenshot of https://web.mit.edu/ showing they have a statement: "MIT response to government activity" MIT's response to government activity: Read the latest about government activity affecting MIT. Updates from campus: Read the latest from MIT and its leaders regarding events on campus. see: https://web.mit.edu/response-government-activity
March 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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"The Bosses of the Senate" - Jospeh Keppler's; 1889.
Via The Atlantic.
a 1889 cartoon titled "The Bosses of the Senate" by Joseph Keppler. it depicts a bunch of men at their desk, like in an amphitheater, with an abundance of papers and writing. Behind them in the amphitheater are very large men with very large bellies, with top hats and respectable canes etc. On their chest are written what they stand for: Standard Oil Trust, Copper Trust, Steal Beam Trust, Iron Trust, Sugar Trust ... ; a good dozen of these oversized oligarchic men.
March 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Unusual Cybertruck sighting 😍
Antique car seen in the street. Manufacturer unsure. The hood is completely rusted and the rest is light blue paint. A pick up truck in fact Antique car seen in the street. Manufacturer unsure. The hood is completely rusted and the rest is light blue paint. A pick up truck in fact Door of the pickup truck, showing a little bit of the interior Back of the pickup truck
March 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Unusual cybertruck sighting
😍
March 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Pressure Point - 1962 movie with Sidney Poitiers
Exactly right for our times.
Screenshot of the movie from Amazon Prime Videos. Showing Sidney Poitiers with round rim glasses, a library in the back Highlights/summary of the movie: An African American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies. drama action, 4.7 stars 1962, 89min
February 22, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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In support of our friends in Mexico
February 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Harvard bridge this morning
January 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Ter...
Estimates of death due to Red Terror under Lenin
Wikipedia screenshot, quote from "Red Terror" - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror In 1924, Popular Socialist, Sergei Melgunov (1879–1956), published a detailed account on the Red Terror in Russia, where he cited Professor Charles Saroléa's counts of 1,766,188 executions. He questioned the accuracy of the figures, but endorsed Saroléa's "characterisation of terror in Russia", stating it "in general matches reality".[68][b] Other sources have also characterized the widely circulated claim of 1,700,000 deaths to be a "wild exaggeration" and placed estimations closer to 50,000 over the three year Civil War period.[70] British historian Ronald Hingley attributed the exaggerated claim of 1,700,000 to a quoted statement from White Army leader Anton Denikin.[3] However, according to historian W. Bruce Lincoln (1989), the best estimations for the number of executions in total put the number at about 100,000.
January 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Come on Lenovo!
Picture showing laptop keyboard temperature at 108.6 °F (42.6 °C) Picture showing laptop fan air flow at 116.7 °F, (47°C)
January 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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This is an insult
January 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Oped on Jimmy Carter

WaPo

History views Carter’s legacy — and his many accomplishments — all wrong
Opinion piece via Washington Post. Title: History views Carter’s legacy — and his many accomplishments — all wrong By Stuart E. Eizenstat who was Jimmy Carter’s chief White House domestic policy adviser and the author of “President Carter: The White House Years.” Pic also has drawn portrait (black&white) of Jimmy Carter,by Catherine A Moore)
December 30, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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A snapshot from episode 7 of Kojak season 1 (1973, "Requiem for a cop"). Kojak tells a gangster type: "you have just bought yourself a lifetime supply of insomnia" (Minute 25)
December 28, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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Seems to me it would be easy to make a rack of those in wood...
www.rei.com/product/8097...
December 21, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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Tangle qotd:

Can you explore the juxtaposition of the UHC CEO assassination VS the ex-marine who killed the man on the subway? Why is one man celebrated, and the other vilified?

#luigi #neely #penny
Via Tangle: Your questions, answered. Q: Can you explore the juxtaposition of the UHC CEO assassination VS the ex-marine who killed the man on the subway? Why is one man celebrated, and the other vilified? And this goes both ways, it seems that one group of people celebrates one, and hates the other, and another group of people just the opposite. — Jack from St. Louis, MO Tangle: We received some version of this question a lot this week, and frankly I think these two stories provide a perfect example of how our environment of hyperpartisanship seems to always force people to an extreme: If I strongly believe something, then anyone who disagrees with that thing must be my enemy. And then if I strongly disagree with something, anyone that fights against that thing must be on my side. When you think like that, it’s easy to see disagreements as fights and people who disagree with you as enemies, and when you’re fighting an enemy there are no half measures. So, it isn’t enough to dislike or disagree with Biden or Trump — you’ve got to lock them up. It isn’t enough to criticize Israel — you have to align with Hamas. It isn’t enough to say that some people struggling with homelessness or addiction are threats, but that they’re literally enemies. It isn’t enough to say that our healthcare system needs to be seriously reformed, but that those who lead a health insurer are literally enemies. This hyperpartisan framework flattens the world into comic-book narratives of good versus evil, and the right side versus the wrong side. And I can hear the responses now: Those are false equivalencies. My thing — whichever one it is — is different (“Daniel Penny was protecting people while the CEO shooter was a vigilante,” or, “The healthcare system is way more deadly than mentally ill people on trains”). But the question isn’t about which of those things is worse — it’s about why people are so forgiving of one and not the other
December 13, 2024 at 6:09 AM
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Cthulhu Telecom

#moss
A cthulluh like succulent in a flower pot, with an orange telephone in the background
December 12, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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Necklace and earings. Necklace has 3 leaves, silver, brass, silver, in some oval shape. Earings match the design of the necklace, but with only 2 leaves. One pair of earings is elongated, silver and brass, the other pairs brass and silver more models of similar designs
November 27, 2024 at 3:36 AM
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Cleaning up done 100% for 5 minutes now. What's next?
When's next?
A Windows Update screen stating it is done with the clean up 100%; 5 minutes ago
November 22, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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X is down

(The bollard won)
A picture of a parking lot with a few cars A bollard is visible, and large black X (4 ft by 4ft) is laying down as if dead
November 22, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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Love my walkable city #boston #brookline #02445
A "safety zone / speed limit 20" sign, whose post has a 4-wheeled walker ("for seniors" and with brakes), blue, attached via a bike lock . There is a (4-footed) pink cane on the walker. A 4-wheeled walker ("for seniors" and with brakes), blue, attached via a bike lock to a post, in the street. A pink (4-footed) cane is on the walker.
November 18, 2024 at 7:12 PM