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Immigration lawyer since GWB. I’ve seen a lot and I have no idea what’s next. “The New Colossus” is my guide.
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The world feels like its on fire, but things like this is why im thankful to be born in this day and age with science advancing like it has been. These are heroes
www.unilad.com/news/health/...
www.unilad.com/news/health/...
Scientists successfully achieve 'permanent disappearance of pancreatic cancer' in new study for cure
The team searching for a pancreatic cancer cure included the ‘renowned Dr Mariano Barbacid,' a legend in the cancer research field
www.unilad.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:31 PM
The world feels like its on fire, but things like this is why im thankful to be born in this day and age with science advancing like it has been. These are heroes
www.unilad.com/news/health/...
www.unilad.com/news/health/...
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this deserves a pulitzer for service journalism www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
Best gas masks
“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.
www.theverge.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:16 PM
this deserves a pulitzer for service journalism www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
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Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
For the love of all that is decent and holy: abolish ICE
January 8, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
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I loved this. And I want to note the whole “there were no autistic people before …” discourse has an answer here: just the people were sent away in the incarceration (yes “care homes” like this), and if they fled, they were just abandoned by society, usually to die.
December 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I loved this. And I want to note the whole “there were no autistic people before …” discourse has an answer here: just the people were sent away in the incarceration (yes “care homes” like this), and if they fled, they were just abandoned by society, usually to die.
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Sherman didn't go far enough
September 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Sherman didn't go far enough
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TIL there's a huge major comedy show in Saudi Arabia happening and also that Zach Woods remains a king
September 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
TIL there's a huge major comedy show in Saudi Arabia happening and also that Zach Woods remains a king
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This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
July 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
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www.keshetonline.org/movetothrive/ Keshet-HFLS “Move to Thrive” Interest-Free Loan Program - Keshet
July 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
www.keshetonline.org/movetothrive/ Keshet-HFLS “Move to Thrive” Interest-Free Loan Program - Keshet
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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 4, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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/
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it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.
July 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.
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Can Trump just order new names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico? A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map - and why the Department of Interior just said yes: https://buff.ly/3EcGwFi (Innisfree McKinnon, University of Wisconsin-Stout) #geography #cartography 🗃️
Can Trump just order new names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico? A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map
How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not simple or quick, as President Trump is about to find out.
buff.ly
January 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Can Trump just order new names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico? A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map - and why the Department of Interior just said yes: https://buff.ly/3EcGwFi (Innisfree McKinnon, University of Wisconsin-Stout) #geography #cartography 🗃️
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Resharing my article on cryptocurrency "market caps", since you'll be hearing that phrase a lot.
blog.mollywhite.net/cryptocurren...
blog.mollywhite.net/cryptocurren...
Cryptocurrency 'market caps' and notional value
A naive equation works well when estimating the value of small quantities of popular crypto tokens, but it's also being used to estimate values of illiquid tokens and the market capitalization of all ...
blog.mollywhite.net
January 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Resharing my article on cryptocurrency "market caps", since you'll be hearing that phrase a lot.
blog.mollywhite.net/cryptocurren...
blog.mollywhite.net/cryptocurren...
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New Buying Power out today! After 15 years of making their stores worse and alienating customers, American retailers are starting to realize that hiring bankers and consultants to run them maybe wasn’t the best idea. 🎁 Gift Link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Era of Finance CEOs Running Retailers Is Over
What do the spectacular turnarounds at Abercrombie and Barnes & Noble have in common? Merchants are leading the companies.
www.bloomberg.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New Buying Power out today! After 15 years of making their stores worse and alienating customers, American retailers are starting to realize that hiring bankers and consultants to run them maybe wasn’t the best idea. 🎁 Gift Link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Everich rose hath its þ
January 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Everich rose hath its þ
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I wrote a review of A COMPLETE UNKNOWN: the brand new Bob Dylan bio pic. And I guarantee you it is totally unlike any other critique of the film that you are ever going to run in to. merrillmarkoe.substack.com/p/a-complete...
'A Complete Unknown': The Ballad of TOSHI
And INTRODUCING 'THE TOSHI AWARDS!'
merrillmarkoe.substack.com
December 23, 2024 at 5:57 PM
I wrote a review of A COMPLETE UNKNOWN: the brand new Bob Dylan bio pic. And I guarantee you it is totally unlike any other critique of the film that you are ever going to run in to. merrillmarkoe.substack.com/p/a-complete...
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The thing about biopics of famous musicians is you could just not make them. You could make literally any other kind of movie.
December 30, 2024 at 2:48 AM
The thing about biopics of famous musicians is you could just not make them. You could make literally any other kind of movie.
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GUESS WHAT EVERYONE - IT'S SWAN TIME mcmansionhell.com/post/7710736...
on neuschwanstein castle (part 1)
This is an essay in two parts. Neuschwanstein Concept Drawing by the stage designer (!!) Christian Jank (1869). There exist in architecture clear precedents to the McMansion that have nothing to do...
mcmansionhell.com
December 28, 2024 at 2:34 AM
GUESS WHAT EVERYONE - IT'S SWAN TIME mcmansionhell.com/post/7710736...
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I remain convinced that if you resort to convenient bigotry to win votes, the people whose votes you gained will eventually vote for a more sincere bigot, while the people you abandoned will never trust you again.
These are the people telling the Democrats that abandoning trans rights is the way to win over voters.
Has joining the anti-trans UK consensus done them any good? Hmm, it really doesn't seem like voters give politicians a reward for anti-trans policies.
Has joining the anti-trans UK consensus done them any good? Hmm, it really doesn't seem like voters give politicians a reward for anti-trans policies.
"Labour’s support from voters “has fallen away sharply” with a more rapid decline in its popularity than has ever been seen for a new government – after the party came to power with a smaller proportion of the vote than any previous majority government."
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
December 26, 2024 at 12:57 PM
I remain convinced that if you resort to convenient bigotry to win votes, the people whose votes you gained will eventually vote for a more sincere bigot, while the people you abandoned will never trust you again.
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Notre Dame in Paris re-opens this wkd.
I'm a cathedral nerd. Here are some things that you might not notice about it – just from that one photo.
THREAD.
1. You can see straight down the nave to the apse. No medieval English cathedral has that.
I'm a cathedral nerd. Here are some things that you might not notice about it – just from that one photo.
THREAD.
1. You can see straight down the nave to the apse. No medieval English cathedral has that.
December 2, 2024 at 9:59 AM
Notre Dame in Paris re-opens this wkd.
I'm a cathedral nerd. Here are some things that you might not notice about it – just from that one photo.
THREAD.
1. You can see straight down the nave to the apse. No medieval English cathedral has that.
I'm a cathedral nerd. Here are some things that you might not notice about it – just from that one photo.
THREAD.
1. You can see straight down the nave to the apse. No medieval English cathedral has that.
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From the article: "The idea of nominating an Evangelical pastor to this role would have been considered science fiction just a few years ago."
13 years ago: www.elivalley.com/political-co...
13 years ago: www.elivalley.com/political-co...
December 6, 2024 at 4:48 PM
From the article: "The idea of nominating an Evangelical pastor to this role would have been considered science fiction just a few years ago."
13 years ago: www.elivalley.com/political-co...
13 years ago: www.elivalley.com/political-co...
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I suggest listening to trans youth about what they're experiencing.
Not Everyone Can Leave: Survival Advice From Trans Teens in Texas
Media often focus on trans teens fleeing the anti-trans states they’re living in. But what about those who can’t leave?
truthout.org
November 21, 2024 at 1:32 AM
I suggest listening to trans youth about what they're experiencing.
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Award season is upon us once more! If you like reading for these things, I'd love you to check out "Five Views of the Planet Tartarus", my 549-word sci-horror piece that has been described as "WTF" and "holy shit"
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/five...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/five...
Five Views of the Planet Tartarus - Lightspeed Magazine
Once a decade, a titanium-nosed shuttle plows through the rings of the planet Tartarus with a new batch of prisoners destined for the Orpheus Factory. The debris that makes up the rings is so thick th...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
November 13, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Award season is upon us once more! If you like reading for these things, I'd love you to check out "Five Views of the Planet Tartarus", my 549-word sci-horror piece that has been described as "WTF" and "holy shit"
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/five...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/five...