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Also, at least 20 years ago, the government *funded* area studies programs, in the hopes grant recipients (like me!) would go into government work focused on those regions.
Back when we weren't so isolationist, I suppose.
Back when we weren't so isolationist, I suppose.
It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today)
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
November 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Also, at least 20 years ago, the government *funded* area studies programs, in the hopes grant recipients (like me!) would go into government work focused on those regions.
Back when we weren't so isolationist, I suppose.
Back when we weren't so isolationist, I suppose.
He outlived the isdickcheneydeadyet website and subreddit!
November 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
He outlived the isdickcheneydeadyet website and subreddit!
Apparently, according to the administration under NSPM-7, 28% of Americans are terrorists, I guess 🤷♀️
Poll: Views of capitalism slip, but socialism is still unpopular as Zohran Mamdani gains prominence
Democrats have grown negative on capitalism and positive on socialism, while Mamdani has quickly become a well-known name in national politics.
www.nbcnews.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Apparently, according to the administration under NSPM-7, 28% of Americans are terrorists, I guess 🤷♀️
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So it can obviously be used. The Trump administration is contradicting its own guidance (that it has since deleted) in order to not deliver SNAP benefits because it doesn't want to deliver SNAP benefits. This is the same administration that just enacted the largest cuts to SNAP in history in July.
October 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
So it can obviously be used. The Trump administration is contradicting its own guidance (that it has since deleted) in order to not deliver SNAP benefits because it doesn't want to deliver SNAP benefits. This is the same administration that just enacted the largest cuts to SNAP in history in July.
"Every man goes through a Nazi phase", "every guy would be charged with sexual assault under that definition" -- either people who say those things merit a good look into their past, or, if they're correct, men are all with no exception abusive racists and shouldn't be allowed in public.
October 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"Every man goes through a Nazi phase", "every guy would be charged with sexual assault under that definition" -- either people who say those things merit a good look into their past, or, if they're correct, men are all with no exception abusive racists and shouldn't be allowed in public.
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When people glorify ‘Tough On Crime’ they are just saying that they are gleefully punitive & nothing more.
Being tough on crime isn’t the same as addressing crime. We know that the largest predictor for reducing crime is addressing need.
Reducing benefits increases crime, endangering everyone.
Being tough on crime isn’t the same as addressing crime. We know that the largest predictor for reducing crime is addressing need.
Reducing benefits increases crime, endangering everyone.
With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
October 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
When people glorify ‘Tough On Crime’ they are just saying that they are gleefully punitive & nothing more.
Being tough on crime isn’t the same as addressing crime. We know that the largest predictor for reducing crime is addressing need.
Reducing benefits increases crime, endangering everyone.
Being tough on crime isn’t the same as addressing crime. We know that the largest predictor for reducing crime is addressing need.
Reducing benefits increases crime, endangering everyone.
Planes are being flown by twelve year olds, I guess?
ACARS Message From: N878RW / YX5712
Message: DO U NO R GATE TK
Track Aircraft: https://www.flightradar24.com/N878RW
Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA
#acars #vdlm2 #N878RW #YX5712
Message: DO U NO R GATE TK
Track Aircraft: https://www.flightradar24.com/N878RW
Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA
#acars #vdlm2 #N878RW #YX5712
October 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Planes are being flown by twelve year olds, I guess?
I must say, it's nice of the news to break up the modern horrors with some nice crimes from a century ago, like jewel heists and mafia gambling rings. Maybe some rum running next?
October 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I must say, it's nice of the news to break up the modern horrors with some nice crimes from a century ago, like jewel heists and mafia gambling rings. Maybe some rum running next?
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The new “masculinity” is all the permissiveness and entitlement, none of the responsibility. I am not a fan.
October 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The new “masculinity” is all the permissiveness and entitlement, none of the responsibility. I am not a fan.
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also: I am a white man who has been terminally online since I was sixteen years old
I even spent some time around 4chan in its early years
it was actually quite easy not to have a nazi phase
I even spent some time around 4chan in its early years
it was actually quite easy not to have a nazi phase
October 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
also: I am a white man who has been terminally online since I was sixteen years old
I even spent some time around 4chan in its early years
it was actually quite easy not to have a nazi phase
I even spent some time around 4chan in its early years
it was actually quite easy not to have a nazi phase
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learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.
October 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.
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“They ARE arresting journalists” THEN POST THAT. STOP POSTING SLOP THAT CAN LATER BE USED TO FACT CHECK THESE KINDS OF THINGS AS FALSE.
October 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“They ARE arresting journalists” THEN POST THAT. STOP POSTING SLOP THAT CAN LATER BE USED TO FACT CHECK THESE KINDS OF THINGS AS FALSE.
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I love that your argument is "thinking too hard, let machine think for you" as if somehow that isn't a large part of the criticism of AI
October 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I love that your argument is "thinking too hard, let machine think for you" as if somehow that isn't a large part of the criticism of AI
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Bessent: "No kings, no paycheck."
Vance: "Federal law enforcement no longer goes after actual criminals; they now go after anyone who opposes fascism."
Both on national TV on the same morning.
Vance: "Federal law enforcement no longer goes after actual criminals; they now go after anyone who opposes fascism."
Both on national TV on the same morning.
October 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Bessent: "No kings, no paycheck."
Vance: "Federal law enforcement no longer goes after actual criminals; they now go after anyone who opposes fascism."
Both on national TV on the same morning.
Vance: "Federal law enforcement no longer goes after actual criminals; they now go after anyone who opposes fascism."
Both on national TV on the same morning.
Insisting on backing into parking spaces is a choice. But insisting on driving against marked arrows through narrow parking lots so that you can back into *angled* parking spaces is remarkable.
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Insisting on backing into parking spaces is a choice. But insisting on driving against marked arrows through narrow parking lots so that you can back into *angled* parking spaces is remarkable.
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The guy who keeps invading cities and bombing foreigners whenever he feels like it and keeps dangling invasion of Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela didn’t win the Nobel peace prize this year
October 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The guy who keeps invading cities and bombing foreigners whenever he feels like it and keeps dangling invasion of Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela didn’t win the Nobel peace prize this year
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"The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public factchecked verifiable content."
![The forum here is a music recording, in particular a rap “diss track,” with accompanying video and album art. Diss tracks are much more akin to forums like YouTube and X, which “encourag[e] a freewheeling, anything-goes writing style,” than journalistic reporting. Sandals Resorts, 86 A.D.3d at 43 (quotation marks omitted). The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public factchecked verifiable content.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreidnper7senw5hpwq2aol67ncobajnqvbwn5g4oig2yyjkqmph6kim@jpeg)
October 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public factchecked verifiable content."
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This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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It's a big tent! All you really need is to value wealth more than humanity.
October 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
It's a big tent! All you really need is to value wealth more than humanity.
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"Hellfire-and-brimstone, but without the problematic phrasing" is a tough needle to thread.
October 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"Hellfire-and-brimstone, but without the problematic phrasing" is a tough needle to thread.
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I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
October 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
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Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
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We are a government ruled by viral video fiat now.
You aren't even allowed to research which viral video has whipped the regime into a mania and how they came to believe it, because the research of the systems themselves is viewed as "censorship."
This how you end up randomly invading Portland.
You aren't even allowed to research which viral video has whipped the regime into a mania and how they came to believe it, because the research of the systems themselves is viewed as "censorship."
This how you end up randomly invading Portland.
September 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
We are a government ruled by viral video fiat now.
You aren't even allowed to research which viral video has whipped the regime into a mania and how they came to believe it, because the research of the systems themselves is viewed as "censorship."
This how you end up randomly invading Portland.
You aren't even allowed to research which viral video has whipped the regime into a mania and how they came to believe it, because the research of the systems themselves is viewed as "censorship."
This how you end up randomly invading Portland.