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A request to my follows: If you post bad political news, please try and link - or at least mention - a resource or an action to oppose, resist or compensate for the bad news.
That helps keep us from getting demoralized!
That helps keep us from getting demoralized!
New trans blog post! There are three good reasons to take a transgender action, from a different hat to a name change to surgery:
1. You have a very specific goal, or
2. It's a matter of life and death, or quality of life, or
3. It brings you pleasure
transblog.grieve-smith.com/2025/11/22/t...
1. You have a very specific goal, or
2. It's a matter of life and death, or quality of life, or
3. It brings you pleasure
transblog.grieve-smith.com/2025/11/22/t...
Three good reasons
There are three good reasons to take transgender actions, which can be anything from wearing a different hat to changing your name to bottom surgery.
The first reason is if you have a very specific g...
transblog.grieve-smith.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
New trans blog post! There are three good reasons to take a transgender action, from a different hat to a name change to surgery:
1. You have a very specific goal, or
2. It's a matter of life and death, or quality of life, or
3. It brings you pleasure
transblog.grieve-smith.com/2025/11/22/t...
1. You have a very specific goal, or
2. It's a matter of life and death, or quality of life, or
3. It brings you pleasure
transblog.grieve-smith.com/2025/11/22/t...
You: OMG, Ryan Lizzo said that Olivia Nuzzi...
Me, a linguist: Hm, so they're both Italian-American, with that "zz" digraph. Do you think they both pronounce them the Italian way /ts/, or the Anglicized way /z/? Maybe one pronounces their name the Italian way, and the other the Anglicized way?
Me, a linguist: Hm, so they're both Italian-American, with that "zz" digraph. Do you think they both pronounce them the Italian way /ts/, or the Anglicized way /z/? Maybe one pronounces their name the Italian way, and the other the Anglicized way?
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
You: OMG, Ryan Lizzo said that Olivia Nuzzi...
Me, a linguist: Hm, so they're both Italian-American, with that "zz" digraph. Do you think they both pronounce them the Italian way /ts/, or the Anglicized way /z/? Maybe one pronounces their name the Italian way, and the other the Anglicized way?
Me, a linguist: Hm, so they're both Italian-American, with that "zz" digraph. Do you think they both pronounce them the Italian way /ts/, or the Anglicized way /z/? Maybe one pronounces their name the Italian way, and the other the Anglicized way?
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Never gonna forgive the idiots that earnestly worked themselves up over the Twitter Files www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Larry Ellison discussed axing CNN hosts with White House in takeover bid talks
Exclusive: Senior officials indicated favorability toward Paramount Skydance acquiring Warner Bros Discovery
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Never gonna forgive the idiots that earnestly worked themselves up over the Twitter Files www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Are we sure Grok isn't just a Victorian Mechanical Turk machine with Elon hiding inside it, typing out his own fantasies?
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Are we sure Grok isn't just a Victorian Mechanical Turk machine with Elon hiding inside it, typing out his own fantasies?
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Elon Musk can't get humans to love him so he made a robot to love him instead and now all the humans are making fun of the robot. This is the smartest man in the world, a once-in-a-generation genius and clear member of the natural aristocracy
this thread is unbelievable
November 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Elon Musk can't get humans to love him so he made a robot to love him instead and now all the humans are making fun of the robot. This is the smartest man in the world, a once-in-a-generation genius and clear member of the natural aristocracy
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The involvement of Lina Khan in the Mamdani administration is a very positive development. Probably the biggest way New Yorkers could benefit from antitrust action is in stopping the collusion among landlords, which has a tremendous impact on inflating rents.
www.semafor.com/article/11/1...?
www.semafor.com/article/11/1...?
Lina Khan’s populist plan for New York: Cheaper hot dogs (and other things)
Zohran Mamdani’s new aide will focus on “excavating the law” to lower prices, borrowing from her legal playbook at the Federal Trade Commission.
www.semafor.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The involvement of Lina Khan in the Mamdani administration is a very positive development. Probably the biggest way New Yorkers could benefit from antitrust action is in stopping the collusion among landlords, which has a tremendous impact on inflating rents.
www.semafor.com/article/11/1...?
www.semafor.com/article/11/1...?
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Hey linguists, check it out! @lingsocam.bsky.social has virtual registration options for the #LSA2026 meeting:
web.cvent.com/event/d45318...
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web.cvent.com/event/d45318...
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Registration Info - LSA 2026 Annual Meeting
web.cvent.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Hey linguists, check it out! @lingsocam.bsky.social has virtual registration options for the #LSA2026 meeting:
web.cvent.com/event/d45318...
🐦🐦
web.cvent.com/event/d45318...
🐦🐦
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If you're ever wondering why every party seems to bend over backwards to appease the right you could do worse than this observation.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
If you're ever wondering why every party seems to bend over backwards to appease the right you could do worse than this observation.
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Why is this PAC making me their first target?
They're scared of leaders who understand their business regulating their business. They want unchecked power at the expense of our kids, our jobs, our climate, and your energy bills—and I'm the candidate standing in their way.
They're scared of leaders who understand their business regulating their business. They want unchecked power at the expense of our kids, our jobs, our climate, and your energy bills—and I'm the candidate standing in their way.
A new AI industry super PAC has picked its first target: a New York Assemblymember who co-sponsored a bill that requires AI companies to publish safety protocols for serious misuse use of their tech, like creating biological weapons or carrying out other criminal activity.
AI industry-backed super PAC targets New York Democrat in opening shot of midterms
The AI-friendly Trump administration was reportedly frustrated with the super PAC, Leading the Future, over its affiliation with Democratic operatives.
www.cnbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Why is this PAC making me their first target?
They're scared of leaders who understand their business regulating their business. They want unchecked power at the expense of our kids, our jobs, our climate, and your energy bills—and I'm the candidate standing in their way.
They're scared of leaders who understand their business regulating their business. They want unchecked power at the expense of our kids, our jobs, our climate, and your energy bills—and I'm the candidate standing in their way.
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Guess that Mamdani-inspired exodus (or "exododus" as the Post put it) has yet to kick in.
therealdeal.com/magazine/nov...
therealdeal.com/magazine/nov...
New York City real estate lending roars back: rankings
The top 20 real estate lenders doled out a combined $23 billion over the past 12 months, up 60 percent from a year earlier.
therealdeal.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Guess that Mamdani-inspired exodus (or "exododus" as the Post put it) has yet to kick in.
therealdeal.com/magazine/nov...
therealdeal.com/magazine/nov...
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Okay, @harvard.edu students, do your thing. Time to walk out of this guy's classes. Thanks to the Crimson for their hard work on these stories. #studentjournalism
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Okay, @harvard.edu students, do your thing. Time to walk out of this guy's classes. Thanks to the Crimson for their hard work on these stories. #studentjournalism
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I almost got to break that story for The Nation, but The Economist beat us to it by a day or two.
Speaking again of Summers, I wrote this in my newsletter in May 2000. Larry answers the question “is Africa still vastly underpolluted?"
Speaking again of Summers, I wrote this in my newsletter in May 2000. Larry answers the question “is Africa still vastly underpolluted?"
November 18, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I almost got to break that story for The Nation, but The Economist beat us to it by a day or two.
Speaking again of Summers, I wrote this in my newsletter in May 2000. Larry answers the question “is Africa still vastly underpolluted?"
Speaking again of Summers, I wrote this in my newsletter in May 2000. Larry answers the question “is Africa still vastly underpolluted?"
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Jesus, please smite them.
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Jesus, please smite them.
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Basically, the United States ran up until 2024 based on nothing more than the presumption that the administration would not do relentless crimes, and would stop if asked.
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Basically, the United States ran up until 2024 based on nothing more than the presumption that the administration would not do relentless crimes, and would stop if asked.
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This happened. This is nonfiction.
November 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This happened. This is nonfiction.
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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
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"Nobody cares about the longlist, Janet!" 😘
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"Nobody cares about the longlist, Janet!" 😘
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My interview with Émile Torres on the appalling philosophies of the tech elite—transhumanism, longermism, and the rest, transcribed by Jacobin.
jacobin.com/2025/11/musk...
jacobin.com/2025/11/musk...
Tech Capitalists Don’t Care About Humans. Literally.
It’s not just a figure of speech to say tech titans are indifferent to humanity. From Peter Thiel to Elon Musk, many are adherents of a worldview that envisions humans being replaced by digital post-h...
jacobin.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
My interview with Émile Torres on the appalling philosophies of the tech elite—transhumanism, longermism, and the rest, transcribed by Jacobin.
jacobin.com/2025/11/musk...
jacobin.com/2025/11/musk...
I like Townshend's top five Pete Townshend songs, but here are my five, a little more eighties-oriented!
1. Eminence Front
2. You Better You Bet
3. Athena
4. Pinball Wizard
5. Another Tricky Day
1. Eminence Front
2. You Better You Bet
3. Athena
4. Pinball Wizard
5. Another Tricky Day
Pete Townshend On The Who's Farewell Tour, "Quadrophenia," And The Best Thing He's Ever Written
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I like Townshend's top five Pete Townshend songs, but here are my five, a little more eighties-oriented!
1. Eminence Front
2. You Better You Bet
3. Athena
4. Pinball Wizard
5. Another Tricky Day
1. Eminence Front
2. You Better You Bet
3. Athena
4. Pinball Wizard
5. Another Tricky Day
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Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
I think it's still Moscow on the Hudson. Hard to believe now, but to a lot of us in the US in the eighties, Russians were abstract villains. Williams's performance helped me to see them as regular people.
November 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I think it's still Moscow on the Hudson. Hard to believe now, but to a lot of us in the US in the eighties, Russians were abstract villains. Williams's performance helped me to see them as regular people.
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There has been wall-to-wall US corporate media coverage of the Department of Justice’s Epstein files and the battle over its release. So why has a hack that documented Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Israeli intelligence been largely ignored by US corporate media?
fair.org/home/emails-...
fair.org/home/emails-...
Emails Reveal Epstein’s Ties to Mossad—But Corporate Media Looked Away
Information from a major hack targeting Israel revealed that Jeffrey Epstein played a significant role in brokering multiple deals for Israeli intelligence.
fair.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
There has been wall-to-wall US corporate media coverage of the Department of Justice’s Epstein files and the battle over its release. So why has a hack that documented Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Israeli intelligence been largely ignored by US corporate media?
fair.org/home/emails-...
fair.org/home/emails-...
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Angus & me celebrating our 6th 'friendversary' six years ago today (11.14.19)
November 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Angus & me celebrating our 6th 'friendversary' six years ago today (11.14.19)
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Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-denies-writing-36-volume-comic-titled-don-and-jeff-time-pedophiles/
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-denies-writing-36-volume-comic-titled-don-and-jeff-time-pedophiles/
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"Normally, the CDC would publish weekly reports with detailed flu surveillance data, indicating regional trends, infection rates, strain types, illness severity, and more. However, the agency’s surveillance reporting page has gone silent..."
FRACK!
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
FRACK!
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
This flu season looks grim as H3N2 emerges with mutations
UK facing one of worst flu seasons in history—and the US is next.
arstechnica.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"Normally, the CDC would publish weekly reports with detailed flu surveillance data, indicating regional trends, infection rates, strain types, illness severity, and more. However, the agency’s surveillance reporting page has gone silent..."
FRACK!
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
FRACK!
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...