David Auerbach
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stop calling everything a distraction youtube.com/shorts/yyFjN...
it's not a distraction
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August 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
stop calling everything a distraction youtube.com/shorts/yyFjN...
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For Black Memphis residents already burdened by pollution, the gas turbines that powered Musk’s supercomputer raised concerns.
The Chamber of Commerce downplayed fears by claiming 9 government agencies oversee the facility. That’s not exactly true.
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social, w/ @mlk50.com
The Chamber of Commerce downplayed fears by claiming 9 government agencies oversee the facility. That’s not exactly true.
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social, w/ @mlk50.com
Inside the Memphis Chamber of Commerce’s Push for Elon Musk’s xAI Data Center
In the face of intense public opposition, the city’s Chamber of Commerce has gone to unusual lengths to promote Musk’s xAI facility: sending out a mailer, for the first time in recent memory, that inc...
www.propublica.org
August 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
For Black Memphis residents already burdened by pollution, the gas turbines that powered Musk’s supercomputer raised concerns.
The Chamber of Commerce downplayed fears by claiming 9 government agencies oversee the facility. That’s not exactly true.
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social, w/ @mlk50.com
The Chamber of Commerce downplayed fears by claiming 9 government agencies oversee the facility. That’s not exactly true.
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social, w/ @mlk50.com
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Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
August 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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the republican party hates public goods and wants to force feed you and your family slop produced by its billionaire allies
"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"
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August 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
the republican party hates public goods and wants to force feed you and your family slop produced by its billionaire allies
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Shamelessness is their superpower.
July 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Shamelessness is their superpower.
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for many of the worst people in our politics, the only real belief they have is that it should be illegal for us not to like them
After a Martha’s Vineyard pierogi vendor refused to sell to him, Epstein’s lawyer plans to sue a farmer’s market so that they must sell to him.
Alan Dershowitz Takes on His Greatest Challenge Yet: A Farmers Market
After a Martha’s Vineyard pierogi vendor refused to sell to him, Epstein’s lawyer plans to sue a farmer’s market so that they must sell to him.
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July 31, 2025 at 7:24 PM
for many of the worst people in our politics, the only real belief they have is that it should be illegal for us not to like them
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maybe there's still some good left in this world after all
July 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
maybe there's still some good left in this world after all
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Google search's AI summary is like the loud confident idiot in the room who doesn't always know the answer to your question but HAS TO be the first one to reply to it.
July 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Google search's AI summary is like the loud confident idiot in the room who doesn't always know the answer to your question but HAS TO be the first one to reply to it.
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Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun
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July 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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97 is a good age, but still sad news that the lyrical master Tom Lehrer is gone.
Growing up in the 1970s, his songs were probably the closest thing my family had to hymns.
2024 interview: ‘My songs spread like herpes’: why did satirical genius Tom Lehrer swap worldwide fame for obscurity?
Growing up in the 1970s, his songs were probably the closest thing my family had to hymns.
2024 interview: ‘My songs spread like herpes’: why did satirical genius Tom Lehrer swap worldwide fame for obscurity?
‘My songs spread like herpes’: why did satirical genius Tom Lehrer swap worldwide fame for obscurity?
In the 1950s and 60s, his songs stunned and delighted listeners with their irreverence, wit and nihilism. Then he gave it all up to teach mathematics. Lehrer is still alive at 96 – so I went in search...
www.theguardian.com
July 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
97 is a good age, but still sad news that the lyrical master Tom Lehrer is gone.
Growing up in the 1970s, his songs were probably the closest thing my family had to hymns.
2024 interview: ‘My songs spread like herpes’: why did satirical genius Tom Lehrer swap worldwide fame for obscurity?
Growing up in the 1970s, his songs were probably the closest thing my family had to hymns.
2024 interview: ‘My songs spread like herpes’: why did satirical genius Tom Lehrer swap worldwide fame for obscurity?
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The OG sexy, sarcastic nerd icon ... the Earth will miss you, Tom Lehrer. #rip www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDE...
Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun - with intro
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July 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The OG sexy, sarcastic nerd icon ... the Earth will miss you, Tom Lehrer. #rip www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDE...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
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July 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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The President—who uses antisemitic slurs—is building concentration camps and an enormous secret police force.
Ya know, maybe this is just because I’m Jewish, but I wish the political opposition and the media made a bigger deal about it!
Ya know, maybe this is just because I’m Jewish, but I wish the political opposition and the media made a bigger deal about it!
July 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The President—who uses antisemitic slurs—is building concentration camps and an enormous secret police force.
Ya know, maybe this is just because I’m Jewish, but I wish the political opposition and the media made a bigger deal about it!
Ya know, maybe this is just because I’m Jewish, but I wish the political opposition and the media made a bigger deal about it!
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The New York Times’ editorial decisions make more sense when you remember their publisher is a fifth-generation owner who was handed the paper as a birthright while the managing editor was a Harvard legacy whose father founded Staples.
They’re very firm believers in the meritocracy, you see.
They’re very firm believers in the meritocracy, you see.
A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”
July 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The New York Times’ editorial decisions make more sense when you remember their publisher is a fifth-generation owner who was handed the paper as a birthright while the managing editor was a Harvard legacy whose father founded Staples.
They’re very firm believers in the meritocracy, you see.
They’re very firm believers in the meritocracy, you see.
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I obsess over the NYT because they normalize fascism while setting the agenda for Corporate News, while maintaining legitimacy with Democrats & independents, which makes them uniquely dangerous to US.
The New York Times was more skeptical of the academic qualifications of a black woman who had secured tenure and become the president of Harvard than they were of a white man who washed out of a grad program with a massive scandal and then became a white nationalist troll.
The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/
July 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I obsess over the NYT because they normalize fascism while setting the agenda for Corporate News, while maintaining legitimacy with Democrats & independents, which makes them uniquely dangerous to US.
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a good indication of how bad the NYT reporting on Zohran’s college application was is that it got zero pickup from other mainstream publications yesterday. the only coverage was from the Times, the Post, and some right-wing slop farms
July 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
a good indication of how bad the NYT reporting on Zohran’s college application was is that it got zero pickup from other mainstream publications yesterday. the only coverage was from the Times, the Post, and some right-wing slop farms
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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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I'm sorry you had to delete your posts about the Times running a substanceless smear story against the Democratic mayoral nominee that came from a Nazi. I know the Times standards don't permit them to talk about the stories they get from Nazis.
July 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I'm sorry you had to delete your posts about the Times running a substanceless smear story against the Democratic mayoral nominee that came from a Nazi. I know the Times standards don't permit them to talk about the stories they get from Nazis.
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Trump's argument for the elimination of the estate tax is that the heirs of the super rich will no longer have to go beg a predatory Jewish banker for a bridge loan to overcome cash flow problems associated with the $15 million dollar estate they're about to get.
July 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Trump's argument for the elimination of the estate tax is that the heirs of the super rich will no longer have to go beg a predatory Jewish banker for a bridge loan to overcome cash flow problems associated with the $15 million dollar estate they're about to get.
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“His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. Then, lo and behold, Jared was accepted.”
More on how the rich buy their children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations (published 2016):
More on how the rich buy their children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations (published 2016):
The Story Behind Jared Kushner’s Curious Acceptance Into Harvard
ProPublica editor Daniel Golden wrote a book a decade ago about how the rich buy their children access to elite colleges. One student he covered is now poised to become one of the most powerful…
www.propublica.org
July 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. Then, lo and behold, Jared was accepted.”
More on how the rich buy their children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations (published 2016):
More on how the rich buy their children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations (published 2016):
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Rep. @aoc.bsky.social on ny1 : “People are going to get sick and go hungry… They’re giving people crumbs and taking away the whole loaf… One of the saddest days in 🇺🇸 history.”
July 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Rep. @aoc.bsky.social on ny1 : “People are going to get sick and go hungry… They’re giving people crumbs and taking away the whole loaf… One of the saddest days in 🇺🇸 history.”