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Native American D-Day veteran Charles Shay dies at 101 in Normandy
Charles Norman Shay, a Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed off the Normandy coast on D-Day and helped save lives, died at age 101 on Wednesday.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Native American D-Day veteran Charles Shay dies at 101 in Normandy reut.rs/4autOzD
"Theory of accountability " sounds something like a newspaper having a public editor
I'm sympathetic to the idea that progressives need to rethink procedural barriers to getting things done, and that this a crucial moment for American government. But we are witnessing a shift to authoritarianism right now. American needs not just a theory of power but also theory of accountability.
December 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"Theory of accountability " sounds something like a newspaper having a public editor
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What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
Not like the stacked cracker boxes that pass for architecture now
was not expecting this in Norwich, worthy of Brussels or Prague
October 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Not like the stacked cracker boxes that pass for architecture now
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Watch to the end 😭
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Watch to the end 😭
"On average, the first result in an Amazon search is 29% more expensive than the best match"
I also have frustrations on Etsy, not more expensive, but lots of mass produced products, and original handmade or vintage items are buried in a bunch of generic stuff
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I also have frustrations on Etsy, not more expensive, but lots of mass produced products, and original handmade or vintage items are buried in a bunch of generic stuff
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"On average, the first result in an Amazon search is 29% more expensive than the best match"
I also have frustrations on Etsy, not more expensive, but lots of mass produced products, and original handmade or vintage items are buried in a bunch of generic stuff
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I also have frustrations on Etsy, not more expensive, but lots of mass produced products, and original handmade or vintage items are buried in a bunch of generic stuff
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Tails aligned in bird watching
August 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Tails aligned in bird watching
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So…@hcrichardson and I will be livestreaming a conversation at about 7:00 tonight ET.
You can find it at my YouTube channel m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
You can find it at my YouTube channel m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
Dr. Joanne Freeman
Professor Joanne Freeman is an award-winning historian who studies the politics and culture of America's past to better understand our history as a nation, and the roads and choices that have led us t...
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August 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
So…@hcrichardson and I will be livestreaming a conversation at about 7:00 tonight ET.
You can find it at my YouTube channel m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
You can find it at my YouTube channel m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
Harriet's favorite window spot
July 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Harriet's favorite window spot
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And...making Coca-Cola use cane sugar, grown domestically mostly in Florida and Louisiana, is sure to enrage farmers where sugar beets are grown, which is a lot of other places!
July 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
And...making Coca-Cola use cane sugar, grown domestically mostly in Florida and Louisiana, is sure to enrage farmers where sugar beets are grown, which is a lot of other places!
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Repealing an electoral result reflects “a growing struggle over the use of ballot measures to determine policy questions.”
No.
People voted for what they wanted.
Republicans repealed it.
That reflects a growing struggle over democracy.
No.
People voted for what they wanted.
Republicans repealed it.
That reflects a growing struggle over democracy.
freedom for republicans means the freedom to do whatever republicans want you to do. and if you decide otherwise, they’ll just nullify your choices www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
Missouri Governor Signs Bill Rolling Back Voter-Approved Minimum Wage and Sick Leave
www.nytimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Repealing an electoral result reflects “a growing struggle over the use of ballot measures to determine policy questions.”
No.
People voted for what they wanted.
Republicans repealed it.
That reflects a growing struggle over democracy.
No.
People voted for what they wanted.
Republicans repealed it.
That reflects a growing struggle over democracy.
This is the most complete article I've read so far about the weather alerts, or lack of, for the Texas floods.
Do I understand correctly that all of our phones are already enabled and ready to receive IPAWS weather alerts?
wapo.st/4nIIGyz
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Do I understand correctly that all of our phones are already enabled and ready to receive IPAWS weather alerts?
wapo.st/4nIIGyz
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Kerr County did not use its most far-reaching alert system in deadly Texas floods
Local officials used the system more than two days after the recorded height of the floods.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This is the most complete article I've read so far about the weather alerts, or lack of, for the Texas floods.
Do I understand correctly that all of our phones are already enabled and ready to receive IPAWS weather alerts?
wapo.st/4nIIGyz
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Do I understand correctly that all of our phones are already enabled and ready to receive IPAWS weather alerts?
wapo.st/4nIIGyz
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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1/2 You could write a book about one atrocious headline in print NYT today
(I sort of wrote this book 30 years ago, Breaking the News, but others can take a turn.)
What's wrong this headline? Mamdani "faces scrutiny" **ONLY AND EXCLUSIVELY** because NYT decided to make this a "thing."
Really bad.
(I sort of wrote this book 30 years ago, Breaking the News, but others can take a turn.)
What's wrong this headline? Mamdani "faces scrutiny" **ONLY AND EXCLUSIVELY** because NYT decided to make this a "thing."
Really bad.
July 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
1/2 You could write a book about one atrocious headline in print NYT today
(I sort of wrote this book 30 years ago, Breaking the News, but others can take a turn.)
What's wrong this headline? Mamdani "faces scrutiny" **ONLY AND EXCLUSIVELY** because NYT decided to make this a "thing."
Really bad.
(I sort of wrote this book 30 years ago, Breaking the News, but others can take a turn.)
What's wrong this headline? Mamdani "faces scrutiny" **ONLY AND EXCLUSIVELY** because NYT decided to make this a "thing."
Really bad.
Shame. Quirky and enjoyable
July 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Shame. Quirky and enjoyable
I've been on The Wolverine more than a few times. Pretty comfortable.
Where else in the Midwest is a fun and useful train ride?
Where else in the Midwest is a fun and useful train ride?
June 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I've been on The Wolverine more than a few times. Pretty comfortable.
Where else in the Midwest is a fun and useful train ride?
Where else in the Midwest is a fun and useful train ride?
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The takeaway from the Tucker Carlson Ted Cruz interview is that the American public has been so badly cheated for so long by the people pretending to be the political media that when anyone asks a basic follow up that an 8th grade schoolpaper reporter would it feels like cutting edge journalism
June 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The takeaway from the Tucker Carlson Ted Cruz interview is that the American public has been so badly cheated for so long by the people pretending to be the political media that when anyone asks a basic follow up that an 8th grade schoolpaper reporter would it feels like cutting edge journalism
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If a seven-year-old can’t walk to the store the fault lies not with the parents but with the community.
In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children
June 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If a seven-year-old can’t walk to the store the fault lies not with the parents but with the community.
"Seed, pesticide, and banking monopolies " are endangering farm country
Are they also endangering or interested in completely controlling our food sources?
Are they also endangering or interested in completely controlling our food sources?
In 2018 I drove a couple hundred miles with J.D. in "Sioux City Sue," the Winnebago he rented to travel across his district. One of my favorite profiles I've ever done.
theintercept.com/2018/10/13/j...
theintercept.com/2018/10/13/j...
Seed, Pesticide, and Banking Monopolies — Not Immigrants — Are Destroying Farm Country. An Iowa Insurgent Hopes That Message Can Dethrone Steve King.
Steve King spends so much time stirring up outrage that he doesn’t have anything left to attend to local needs, J.D. Scholten is arguing.
theintercept.com
June 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"Seed, pesticide, and banking monopolies " are endangering farm country
Are they also endangering or interested in completely controlling our food sources?
Are they also endangering or interested in completely controlling our food sources?
If your bike lane isn't protected in some way, you probably shouldn't even call it a bike lane.
Attn cities, stop painting a line on a busy street and then complaining that no one uses it. Unless you seriously traffic calm the street and police the cars
Attn cities, stop painting a line on a busy street and then complaining that no one uses it. Unless you seriously traffic calm the street and police the cars
Really appreciating Vancouver’s Hornby Street bike lane on this sunny Saturday afternoon.
May 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If your bike lane isn't protected in some way, you probably shouldn't even call it a bike lane.
Attn cities, stop painting a line on a busy street and then complaining that no one uses it. Unless you seriously traffic calm the street and police the cars
Attn cities, stop painting a line on a busy street and then complaining that no one uses it. Unless you seriously traffic calm the street and police the cars
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See you at 1 AM, yes, you read that right, when Republicans take up the spending bill, which includes
a provision that would restrict courts from holding gov’t officials in contempt for violating court orders—possibly explaining the subterfuge. www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...
a provision that would restrict courts from holding gov’t officials in contempt for violating court orders—possibly explaining the subterfuge. www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...
A Terrible Idea
Dean Chemerinsky discusses the reconciliation bill’s provision that would restrict federal courts’ authority to hold government officials in contempt for violating court orders
www.justsecurity.org
May 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
See you at 1 AM, yes, you read that right, when Republicans take up the spending bill, which includes
a provision that would restrict courts from holding gov’t officials in contempt for violating court orders—possibly explaining the subterfuge. www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...
a provision that would restrict courts from holding gov’t officials in contempt for violating court orders—possibly explaining the subterfuge. www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...
Just hanging out on Caturday
May 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Just hanging out on Caturday
Chicago friends, Dust storm warning. Visibility could be near zero
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WWA Summary by Location for 41.92N 87.7W with ILZ104/ILC031/ILZ014 emphasis Special Weather Statement
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May 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Chicago friends, Dust storm warning. Visibility could be near zero
forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.ph...
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