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[before the discovery of electricity]
This eel is a witch
This eel is a witch
November 13, 2023 at 5:40 PM
[before the discovery of electricity]
This eel is a witch
This eel is a witch
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hanging around an arby's parking lot with a big question mark floating above my head, telling anyone who approaches to puncture the tires of 10 cop cars and i will bestow them a powerful blade
December 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
hanging around an arby's parking lot with a big question mark floating above my head, telling anyone who approaches to puncture the tires of 10 cop cars and i will bestow them a powerful blade
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Wrote this piece for @newrepublic.com with Professor Brandon Marshall about how the overdose crisis is driven by poverty and how harm reduction measures get the blame for larger structural problems they aren't designed to fix. We need economic populism and economic justice.
Collective members Professor Brandon Marshall and Abdullah Shihipar write about viewing the overdose crisis as one driven by material suffering and explain that pursuing economic justice can have a real impact in reducing overdose deaths.
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
The Populist Approach to the Opioid Crisis Can Save Millions of Lives
The overdose epidemic is often framed as a public health concern. But what if we treated it as an economic crisis, which policy can alleviate?
newrepublic.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Wrote this piece for @newrepublic.com with Professor Brandon Marshall about how the overdose crisis is driven by poverty and how harm reduction measures get the blame for larger structural problems they aren't designed to fix. We need economic populism and economic justice.
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This article is 1000% correct. We can’t actually achieve any of these goals without more staff. Friendly reminder that the last time we had this few staff it was 1967. We served 480 claimants per staff then. Now we have to serve 1800 per staff. This is not sustainable or even achievable. Period.
Social Security wants about 15 million fewer visits in its field offices
The new goal to cut the number of field office visits comes as the agency’s frontline locations have lost thousands of employees.
www.nextgov.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This article is 1000% correct. We can’t actually achieve any of these goals without more staff. Friendly reminder that the last time we had this few staff it was 1967. We served 480 claimants per staff then. Now we have to serve 1800 per staff. This is not sustainable or even achievable. Period.
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Montgomery County first made its “Ride On” buses free to all riders under 18 in 2019. Then on June 29, 2025, it made all of its buses fare-free for all passengers. The system has a fleet of nearly 400 buses, 80 routes, and provided 19.2 million rides in the 2025 fiscal year.
Free Buses Can Be a Reality — Just Look at Maryland
Zohran Mamdani’s plan for free buses is not a pipe dream. Montgomery County, Maryland, made its buses free this year.
buff.ly
December 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Montgomery County first made its “Ride On” buses free to all riders under 18 in 2019. Then on June 29, 2025, it made all of its buses fare-free for all passengers. The system has a fleet of nearly 400 buses, 80 routes, and provided 19.2 million rides in the 2025 fiscal year.
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Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.
Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.
This is the official US response to Petro's comments.
This is the official US response to Petro's comments.
October 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.
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I used to find it kind of silly in Doctor Who when the world would just forget about the alien invasion that happened shortly before the current alien invasion, but every day I see someone express shock at seeing US police brutalizing protestors and using chemical weapons. I get it now
October 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I used to find it kind of silly in Doctor Who when the world would just forget about the alien invasion that happened shortly before the current alien invasion, but every day I see someone express shock at seeing US police brutalizing protestors and using chemical weapons. I get it now
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Here's how ICE is sending people to a Kafkaesque "legal black hole" prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy
Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini where Trump is sending detainees.
www.motherjones.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Here's how ICE is sending people to a Kafkaesque "legal black hole" prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.
The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.
The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.
The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.
Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.
www.motherjones.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.
The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.
The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.
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Housing first works!! Harassing unhoused people and cutting them off from community is harmful and does not work!
An unusual 'village' aims to help people leave long-term homelessness for good
Chronic homelessness is at a record high, but there's a shortage of housing, rehab and mental health treatment. One ambitious program in Utah is finding a way to offer all that plus jobs.
www.npr.org
October 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Housing first works!! Harassing unhoused people and cutting them off from community is harmful and does not work!
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“It is psychologically manipulative."
"A place of constant, albeit quiet, torment.”
“A lot of thoughts [were] placed into my head about how disturbing and gross and creepy people like me were... I internalized a lot of these projections.”
"A place of constant, albeit quiet, torment.”
“A lot of thoughts [were] placed into my head about how disturbing and gross and creepy people like me were... I internalized a lot of these projections.”
SCOTUS wades back into the war on trans kids—and considers greenlighting conversion therapy
The science is in: The anti-LGBTQ "treatments" are ineffective and dangerous.
www.motherjones.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
“It is psychologically manipulative."
"A place of constant, albeit quiet, torment.”
“A lot of thoughts [were] placed into my head about how disturbing and gross and creepy people like me were... I internalized a lot of these projections.”
"A place of constant, albeit quiet, torment.”
“A lot of thoughts [were] placed into my head about how disturbing and gross and creepy people like me were... I internalized a lot of these projections.”
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It would be super cool if when they said this stuff, the interviewer pointed out that we don’t actually have to speculate. We have polling, and it says residents oppose these deployments by HUGE margins.
Rep. Riley Moore: "I think the actual residents of Washington DC are very happy with the outcome. And I think the actual residents of Chicago and our other great cities here in America would actually like to have safe streets and not people murdered every night."
October 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It would be super cool if when they said this stuff, the interviewer pointed out that we don’t actually have to speculate. We have polling, and it says residents oppose these deployments by HUGE margins.
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The American public needs to understand that high-level HHS officials are shamelessly lying to us all.
Tylenol does not cause autism, and Makary, Bhattacharya, and Oz knew this as they stood there next to Trump as he said it did, nodding like bobbleheads.
Tylenol does not cause autism, and Makary, Bhattacharya, and Oz knew this as they stood there next to Trump as he said it did, nodding like bobbleheads.
September 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The American public needs to understand that high-level HHS officials are shamelessly lying to us all.
Tylenol does not cause autism, and Makary, Bhattacharya, and Oz knew this as they stood there next to Trump as he said it did, nodding like bobbleheads.
Tylenol does not cause autism, and Makary, Bhattacharya, and Oz knew this as they stood there next to Trump as he said it did, nodding like bobbleheads.
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BREAKING: Justice Gregory Carro has dismissed the first degree murder charge against Luigi Mangione in his state case, finding the DA put legally insufficient evidence before the grand jury. More TK.
September 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
BREAKING: Justice Gregory Carro has dismissed the first degree murder charge against Luigi Mangione in his state case, finding the DA put legally insufficient evidence before the grand jury. More TK.
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Autistic affirmation: it's okay to start your new idea/tactic from where you are without starting all over from the beginning.
Autistic affirmation: it's okay to need information
September 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Autistic affirmation: it's okay to start your new idea/tactic from where you are without starting all over from the beginning.
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The bill would also define anything related to transgender people as inherently pornographic.
it was always coming to exactly this www.404media.co/michigan-por...
Michigan Lawmakers Are Attempting to Ban Porn Entirely
The "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" proposes a total ban on porn in the state, and also targets the existence of trans people online, content like erotic ASMR, and selling VPNs in the state.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The bill would also define anything related to transgender people as inherently pornographic.
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It’s the first time the U.S. has sanctioned an organization specifically for using lawful, peaceful tools of advocacy.
Trump Sanctions Palestinian Human Rights Groups for Doing Their Job. Anybody Could Be Next.
Trump sanctioned Palestinian human rights groups for using lawful, peaceful tools of advocacy. Anybody could be next.
interc.pt
September 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
It’s the first time the U.S. has sanctioned an organization specifically for using lawful, peaceful tools of advocacy.
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President Trump on Monday complained that reports of domestic violence are inflating crime statistics and implied they should not be considered “crimes” at all.
"If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The one crime Trump doesn't seem to have a problem with? Domestic violence.
"If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see? So now I can't claim 100 percent [reduction in crime]," the president said Monday.
www.motherjones.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
President Trump on Monday complained that reports of domestic violence are inflating crime statistics and implied they should not be considered “crimes” at all.
"If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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An easily demagogued population is a danger.
The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity.
As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.
As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.
Most US adults think individual choices keep people in poverty, new AP-NORC/Harris poll finds
A new AP-NORC poll finds that most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, while fewer blame a lack of government support.
apnews.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
An easily demagogued population is a danger.
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there's no way this is cheaper than just building homes for homeless people.
Happening now: the City of Chicago and the Park District are moving in heavy equipment to remove unhoused people and their encampments at Legion Park.
September 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
there's no way this is cheaper than just building homes for homeless people.
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HHS under Biden commissioned a study about alcohol and cancer. But HHS under Trump and RFK Jr. killed the study. Wild story
www.vox.com/health/46008...
www.vox.com/health/46008...
Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.
Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.
www.vox.com
September 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
HHS under Biden commissioned a study about alcohol and cancer. But HHS under Trump and RFK Jr. killed the study. Wild story
www.vox.com/health/46008...
www.vox.com/health/46008...
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As secretary of the nation’s most powerful health agency, with oversight of everything from the FDA to the CDC, RFK Jr. has been able to turn his long history of attacks on vaccinations into government policy.
Inside his obsession—and plot to destroy the nation's vaccine infrastruture.
Inside his obsession—and plot to destroy the nation's vaccine infrastruture.
The plot against vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies have hit on a way to undermine immunization.
www.motherjones.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
As secretary of the nation’s most powerful health agency, with oversight of everything from the FDA to the CDC, RFK Jr. has been able to turn his long history of attacks on vaccinations into government policy.
Inside his obsession—and plot to destroy the nation's vaccine infrastruture.
Inside his obsession—and plot to destroy the nation's vaccine infrastruture.
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This is super interesting, and there's a lot to think about, but this does give me an excuse to post about one of my favorite bugaboos: we gotta stop tying "affordability" to Area Median Income.
How Seattle created a bizarre situation where government-subsidized housing costs more than market-rate housing, 11% of it sitting empty and providers can't lower rents.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
September 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is super interesting, and there's a lot to think about, but this does give me an excuse to post about one of my favorite bugaboos: we gotta stop tying "affordability" to Area Median Income.