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A different, but closely related endangered herbivorous monkey
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something that struck me as bizarre when I read this admittedly crank presentation 19 years ago was the "folk remedies" part. Silly coastal elitist me assumed those were lost already. But what it means is total quackery like this, and vaccine opposition
www.resilience.org/stories/2006...
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Being neutral here- as long as Zionism is a low-salience issue in Congress, and Israel really is just another Pakistan, the empire can continue. But the more influential Zionism becomes in the government, the more intolerable and rejected it is among the citizenry.
This is not remotely the first time that Schumer has put his own personal politics—namely, fervent Zionism (as well as a longtime reliance on Wall Street money)—above the interests of his party. Don’t take it from me, take it from him. “My job,” he told Bret Stephens back in March, “is to keep the left pro-Israel.” Probably the worst example of this came when Schumer attempted to derail President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, on behalf of Israel. He co-sponsored a Republican bill that would require congressional approval for any such deal, though it did not succeed. When then-Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to give an address denouncing the proposed deal, Schumer urged congressional Democrats to attend, warmly praised the speech, and then came out publicly against the deal, though it went through anyway. Trump subsequently killed the nuclear deal—something Schumer was less than upset about—but it should be emphasized that this was President Obama’s marquee foreign-policy goal, as well as a good bargain for both America and Iran. It was, for a few years, a vision of America that could engage in the Middle East with careful diplomacy instead of bombing and committing Thirty Years’ War–esque bloody occupations. Only Israeli hard-liners did not like the deal, so neither did Schumer. His behavior was grotesquely irresponsible.
November 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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i guess she still doesn't know either, this is her second to last post on X. nothing about her own district.
X post from @lauraagillen complaining about Zohran Mamdani winning
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_...
November 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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also I am not familiar with this building but they can absolutely put wheelchair ramps in this building without disrupting service. I am all for elecators but give me a break
November 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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great article. Not shocked that rabid Zionist "Birding Bob" DeCandido is an utterly antisocial dickhead in person and without ethics
"Barry was found that 2020 night by Birding Bob. DeCandido charged 10 bucks for a nighttime owl walk, and Barry became a major selling point for him. He would blast hoots from a portable speaker to pull her into the open, then shine a flashlight on her. DeCandido later compared his tactics to fishing, saying, “I go out there with an audio lure.” Back in 2008, when he charged five dollars, a Times reporter followed along. DeCandido’s target that night was an eastern screech owl, a robin-sized cavity nester. His speaker blared the owl’s whinnying call on loop, drawing out the bird at a time when it was looking for a mate. As the reporter described it: “Bird and machine called back and forth to each other, a haunting sound of longing in the darkness.” Does that sound disruptive to you? DeCandido, who holds a PhD in botany, says he’s never harmed a bird, though his defense tends to be circular: “The more people see this, the more they’ll like owls, and the less they’ll want ice-skating rinks and things that reduce what owls need, which is woods.” But he’s also frank. “It’s good for business,” he says. DeCandido relies on audio lures, or “playback,” as birders call them, all year long. In the spring, he rolls through the Ramble with his Bluetooth speaker sounding the distress calls of songbirds. I should repeat that: distress calls. Until you’ve experienced it in person, it’s hard to convey just how loud, obnoxious, and grating it is. In a short Times documentary, DeCandido acknowledges that his behavior is antithetical to people’s search for peace in nature. “To say that I’m hated, you know, that’s mild.” The film ends with him in the Bronx’s Van Cortlandt Park at night, blasting hoots from a dance-hall speaker and shining his flashlight on a jumpy barred owl." Using playback is against Central Park’s rules. But if it sounds harmless enough, I heard a gruesome story on my visit to Hunter Island that suggests otherwise. Hoping for the perfect shot, a photographer there used playback to wake up a saw-whet owl. A barred owl in the woods responded to the recording, found the little owl, and tore it to bits in front of the photographer.
October 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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George W Bush Is Still Waiting For His Apology From Graham Platner
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"Oddly I was also pretty politically active, which led to my protesting the Iraq War before it kicked off (I found myself fighting in Fallujah within 2 years. The irony.)
October 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I thought it was a Lincoln quote but rather, it was said about Lincoln
www.reuters.com/article/fact...

Think about it a lot with regard to Aung San Sung Kyi who hung around under house arrest for decades and was celebrated globally for it but was a genocide-friendly dud in office
October 29, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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100%
October 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Utterly deracinated, avowed atheist, globalist extraordinaire alon Levy has the chutzpah to call American Jews "assimilated" because "hostage protests" for a foreign country or speaking that country's language equate to synagogue attendance in their deranged mind
Alon (they/them) ‪@alonlevy.bsky.social‬ It's something assimilated American Jews don't notice or care about because the harassment doesn't affect you guys - it targets people who speak Hebrew or are visibly Jewish (e.g. wearing a yarmulke) or participate in Jewish institutions (e.g. synagogues, hostage protests). October 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
October 28, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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all I have to say about the deciding to win report is that this is its only mention of Israel, and that does not contradict what I said almost a year ago. It's not that overeducated wokesters drove the election into the ditch over Gaza, it's that top leaders are obsessed with Israel
Footnote explaining that issue salience polling indicates that foreign policy ranks low on the list of priorities, so the report sticks to domestic issues Our polling also shows that foreign policy issues are of low importance to voters, with "War in the Middle East" ranking as the 30th most important issue to the electorate overall (out of 36 issues we tested), and "The War in Ukraine" ranking as the 34th most important issue.
October 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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This is so fucking funny and validates my theory that literally no one who said that ditching Harris would be "disrespectful to black women" could name one such offended person
"Jean-Pierre’s true concern, her only real subject, is the Democrats’ lack of decorum. Instead of endeavoring to convince us that Harris was the best presidential candidate because of her platform or her popularity, Jean-Pierre gestures meekly at demographics and invokes tired dynastic norms. Harris was Biden’s “logical successor”; she was “clearly next in line”; and “bypassing [her] would have been disrespectful to Black women overall.” Never mind the rather central question of whether she was actually electable. “The Democratic Party, my party, didn’t know how to win,” Jean-Pierre laments — just pages after confessing: “I never really believed Harris could win. I’d been in the body of a Black woman all my life.” I wish I were more surprised to learn that a Biden administration insider strongly supported a candidate she didn’t believe could win, in keeping with the Democrats’ favored tactic of prioritizing politesse over victory."
October 26, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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questioning this linked list of rabbis who are pro Israel, particularly 1054:
October 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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The chips share my values
October 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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she's a complete hack and a dunce, an inferior copy of Debi Rose, who actually had to fight for her seat on her own merits. I do believe she wrote this because she breaks character midway through and starts whining about pedestrians getting too much priority. The joke is that the winding part of...
October 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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link from X: autotranslated article from Hebrew noting that Maccabi Tel Aviv is actually banned from Bluefield Stadium in Tel Aviv because of their violent fans
October 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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he's doing his part
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
an Atlantic Ghost Crab somehow eating a spotted lantern fly
October 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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honestly it probably should not cost that much
nypost.com/2021/11/27/n...
n the Bronx, a 46,000-square-foot expansion of PS 33, which will add 388 seats, costs a reported $70 million. In Jersey City, a new 53,000-square-foot school that will serve 480 students, BelovED Charter High School, reportedly costs just $12.5 million. The Big Apple construction bill is more than $1,500 per square foot — a price that would be too high for a “crazy-fancy private hospital,” let alone a school, one industry source told The Post. The tab in the Garden State comes to less than $250 per square foot. “We had a very nice building done at a very nice rate,” a consultant to the Jersey school’s board, Bret Schundler, told The Post. The school is privately run, but its construction was financed through tax-exempt bonds.
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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I don't know what to do with people like woolie, who are ostensibly smart, who blame academics and left-wing magazine writers for the poor electoral performance of elected officials who loudly support another country 's genocide.
post from woolie.meowmeow.city, to which the quoted post is responding "We wouldn't be in this mess if the people who "critique power" had spent even 1% of their energy celebrating and bragging about modest progressive successes instead of tearing Democrats down relentlessly with every breath."
October 9, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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www.bairdmaritime.com/fishing/aqua...
burying the lede here imo
"The cage structure is equipped with systems for centralised breeding control, automatic baiting, feeding, net cleaning, and intelligent monitoring of fish and water quality. Electrical power for these and the other onboard systems is supplied via solar panels and wind turbine generators, allowing for continuous operation. The upper main portion of the platform contains the crew living spaces and machinery spaces. Dragon Palace is presently deployed between two of the more than 30 wind turbines at the 502MW Huilai Shenquan offshore wind farm off Guangdong."
September 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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September 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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maybe all the "experts" insisting that no one ever changed their antisocial behavior from being shamed, ostracized, and ridiculed should consider why the opposite works so well? Why do these people become emboldened when they feel that's happening even less than before?
For many parents, their anti-vaccination stance is part of their religious life. But perhaps nothing is more validating than a shift in government policy. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. now leads the Department of Health and Human Services, a pulpit from which he has sown further distrust in vaccines. The Texas Republican Party has also eagerly embraced these parents, and raced to loosen rules around vaccines, including outlawing Covid vaccine workplace requirements and proposing a ban on all mRNA vaccines. This month, Florida announced it would become the first state to end all vaccine requirements, including the slate of childhood immunizations that has been required nationwide for decades. Any public health campaign to encourage vaccinations now faces not only the challenge of combating the tsunami of disinformation — but also, experts say, the much more difficult problem of stopping what has become a movement with political might. “There used to be few of us,” said Adan Renteria, 54, a parent who lives in West Texas where the measles outbreak was centered. “Now, a lot more people are open to admitting they don’t support vaccines. More people are coming around.”
September 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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It only took 4 years but a major media outlet managed to write plainly about the epidemic of vaccine refusal without calling it "hesitancy", and only once "reluctance" in the subhed. Not a single quote from a "public health expert" admitting what was obvious in 2021: they were completely wrong
With loosened childhood vaccination laws, the portion of kindergartners without all their recommended immunizations has nearly doubled over the past five school years. About 25,000 kindergartners, more than in any other state, didn’t have at least one of their measles shots in early 2025, when the virus began to spread through the state. In interviews with parents across Texas who oppose vaccinating their children, virtually all were resolute in their views. For them, opposition to vaccination is often a top priority, with some families even moving to the state for its more lax policies.
September 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
As in prior elections, a change in voters’ partisan allegiances – switching from the Democratic to the Republican candidate or vice versa – proved to be a less important factor in Trump’s victory than differential partisan turnout. In the overall electorate and among key demographic groups, Republican-leaning eligible voters simply were more likely to turn out than Democratic-leaning eligible voters in 2024.
September 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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I guess @daveminca.bsky.social just supports pedophile governance.

Last but not least, someone who came out of nowhere this yearto contend for Worst Democrat in Congress, no list would be complete without Laura Gillen
September 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM