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I am sorry to say it, but this is probably one of the most important things you can repost today.
April 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I am sorry to say it, but this is probably one of the most important things you can repost today.
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War is peace. Lies are truth. Freedom is slavery. Sickness is health. Ignorance is strength.
April 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
War is peace. Lies are truth. Freedom is slavery. Sickness is health. Ignorance is strength.
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
This is what resistance looks like. You do what you can. Anything you can! We support you Sen. Booker!
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This is what resistance looks like. You do what you can. Anything you can! We support you Sen. Booker!
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Just realized it's the Ides of March.
Happy stab a dictator day.
Happy stab a dictator day.
March 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Just realized it's the Ides of March.
Happy stab a dictator day.
Happy stab a dictator day.
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I am so excited to announce It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton, my new podcast. Our first episode drops on March 26th and is available wherever you get your podcasts.
I made a thing!
Hi friends! I am so excited to announce It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton, my new podcast. Our first episode drops on March 26th. This idea emerged from my creative self […]
wilwheaton.net
March 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I am so excited to announce It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton, my new podcast. Our first episode drops on March 26th and is available wherever you get your podcasts.
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Chilling report from Brown University.
Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.
Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.
Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel
One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...
www.browndailyherald.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Chilling report from Brown University.
Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.
Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.
Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
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🧵
A thread.
It's intensifying.
Quickly.
A Brown professor from Brown university:
It's intensifying.
Quickly.
A Brown professor from Brown university:
Brown University professor deported despite judge’s order, defying US court
Rasha Alawieh’s case highlights Donald Trump’s escalating immigration policies and growing tensions with universities
www.theguardian.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🧵
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I'm starting to understand how the Roman Senate continued holding regular meetings until 603 AD
People are talking themselves around to why surrendering is savvy, and they're probably even right in terms of public opinion and electoral impact and so on, but if you think you're ever going to get the power you're losing now back, you're delusional.
The whole political moment - both for much of the public and for many or most of the senators - is defined by the fact that most people don't grasp what's actually being done inside the government, the faits accompli being made. Senators shld know. But I don't get the sense they fully do.
March 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I'm starting to understand how the Roman Senate continued holding regular meetings until 603 AD
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From inside the DoD:
“Schumer's bungling over the past two months & creation of this lose-lose scenario is a complete dereliction of his duties.
This was the sole moment where they had any real potential leverage to stand up and fight for the Constitution & they completely blew it from day 1.”
“Schumer's bungling over the past two months & creation of this lose-lose scenario is a complete dereliction of his duties.
This was the sole moment where they had any real potential leverage to stand up and fight for the Constitution & they completely blew it from day 1.”
Text from a fed employee:
“We are truly alone.”
“We are truly alone.”
"I don’t get paid if there’s a shutdown but shutting the government down and putting up a fight is preferable to giving in."
"Every single one of my colleagues supports a shutdow."
"Everyone I know in my office was hoping the Dems would grow a spine and shut the government down."
"Every single one of my colleagues supports a shutdow."
"Everyone I know in my office was hoping the Dems would grow a spine and shut the government down."
March 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
From inside the DoD:
“Schumer's bungling over the past two months & creation of this lose-lose scenario is a complete dereliction of his duties.
This was the sole moment where they had any real potential leverage to stand up and fight for the Constitution & they completely blew it from day 1.”
“Schumer's bungling over the past two months & creation of this lose-lose scenario is a complete dereliction of his duties.
This was the sole moment where they had any real potential leverage to stand up and fight for the Constitution & they completely blew it from day 1.”
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Really glad Democrats saved the fucking filibuster so they could NOT USE IT.
Fucking cowards
Fucking cowards
March 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Really glad Democrats saved the fucking filibuster so they could NOT USE IT.
Fucking cowards
Fucking cowards
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If your excuse as an elected official, here in 2025, for not doing something that is in the interest of Dems who elected you is that Republicans might weaponize it, you are not living in 2025. They are going to weaponize anything you do, either way. They have demonstrated this over and over.
March 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If your excuse as an elected official, here in 2025, for not doing something that is in the interest of Dems who elected you is that Republicans might weaponize it, you are not living in 2025. They are going to weaponize anything you do, either way. They have demonstrated this over and over.
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This was the maximal amount of leverage Senate Democrats are going to have this Congress.
Final tally 62-38 for cloture.
Dem yeses:
Schumer and Gillibrand (NY)
Shaheen and Hassan (NH)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Schatz (HI)
King (ME)
Cortez Masto (NV)
Peters (MI)
Dem yeses:
Schumer and Gillibrand (NY)
Shaheen and Hassan (NH)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Schatz (HI)
King (ME)
Cortez Masto (NV)
Peters (MI)
March 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This was the maximal amount of leverage Senate Democrats are going to have this Congress.
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Well, super handy to know who's not getting a penny of my money come election time. @schumer.senate.gov plus these guys www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...
March 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Well, super handy to know who's not getting a penny of my money come election time. @schumer.senate.gov plus these guys www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...
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That's not what he's doing! He's trying to break things! You can say that in the headlines and subheads!
February 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
That's not what he's doing! He's trying to break things! You can say that in the headlines and subheads!
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Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off
www.sfchronicle.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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Also à propos of nothing: authoritarian systems love laws with wide targets. Because they'll apply these selectively: only to the out-group--except, of course that the out-group gets redefined and extended by the regime as time passes. A lot of people will think themselves safe, until they aren't.
February 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Also à propos of nothing: authoritarian systems love laws with wide targets. Because they'll apply these selectively: only to the out-group--except, of course that the out-group gets redefined and extended by the regime as time passes. A lot of people will think themselves safe, until they aren't.
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24 hours!
My essay Move Fast and Break People Part 1: How the Internet Gave Us the World—Then Took It Away is now unlocked and free to everyone.
Part 2 next week.
catvalente.substack.com/p/move-fast-...
My essay Move Fast and Break People Part 1: How the Internet Gave Us the World—Then Took It Away is now unlocked and free to everyone.
Part 2 next week.
catvalente.substack.com/p/move-fast-...
February 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
24 hours!
My essay Move Fast and Break People Part 1: How the Internet Gave Us the World—Then Took It Away is now unlocked and free to everyone.
Part 2 next week.
catvalente.substack.com/p/move-fast-...
My essay Move Fast and Break People Part 1: How the Internet Gave Us the World—Then Took It Away is now unlocked and free to everyone.
Part 2 next week.
catvalente.substack.com/p/move-fast-...
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Oh, we're foreign agents now, I see. Hmm... This rings a bell... Where have I heard that phrase... Oh, right, Putin's Russia. Yep, that tracks.
Trump accuses any Americans who oppose his tariffs against Canada, Mexico, and China (which we, the consumers, pay) of being “controlled by China or other foreign and domestic companies.”
February 3, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Oh, we're foreign agents now, I see. Hmm... This rings a bell... Where have I heard that phrase... Oh, right, Putin's Russia. Yep, that tracks.
Yes, please. Though it’s still some of the goons in congress, it would be a start
you know what I wish we had?
the kind of democracy that came with votes of no confidence in the prime minister.
when we have a democracy again, we should maybe consider what kind we would like.
the kind of democracy that came with votes of no confidence in the prime minister.
when we have a democracy again, we should maybe consider what kind we would like.
February 3, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Yes, please. Though it’s still some of the goons in congress, it would be a start
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holy shit, they're in the process of uploading all of farscape officially to YT for free. WATCH THIS SHOW, it's bonkers and fantastic!!
I cannot emphasise enough how damn good it is 😍
I cannot emphasise enough how damn good it is 😍
Farscape
Discover Farscape, the iconic sci-fi series starring Ben Browder as John Crichton and Claudia Black as Aeryn Sun, blending live-action, digital effects, and Jim Henson’s Creature Shop puppetry. Named ...
www.youtube.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
holy shit, they're in the process of uploading all of farscape officially to YT for free. WATCH THIS SHOW, it's bonkers and fantastic!!
I cannot emphasise enough how damn good it is 😍
I cannot emphasise enough how damn good it is 😍
An FAQ from the new mgmt, I mean govmnt - “The way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector.” FML
I’m hearing from inside HHS that employees keep getting more messages re the OPM deferred resignation stuff. They’re adding most (all? Probably all) to the faq page, but it’s not getting less dumb. I have heard some, let’s say, skepticism about the “paperwork” here.
www.opm.gov/fork/faq
www.opm.gov/fork/faq
February 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
An FAQ from the new mgmt, I mean govmnt - “The way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector.” FML
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I am nonbinary. The gender that no longer officially exists in the United States. I was offered the chance to change my gender designation to "X" on my passport and driver's license in 2023. I decided not to and here's why.
January 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I am nonbinary. The gender that no longer officially exists in the United States. I was offered the chance to change my gender designation to "X" on my passport and driver's license in 2023. I decided not to and here's why.