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Just to give an idea of how much the Trump administration wants to "help" the citizens of Los Angeles by sending in the military
June 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Just to give an idea of how much the Trump administration wants to "help" the citizens of Los Angeles by sending in the military
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The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
June 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
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You have no obligation to defend or explain the behavior of random street protesters. We have a lawless government that is flagrantly violating its legal, moral, even philosophical obligations to us. Everything else is secondary
June 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
You have no obligation to defend or explain the behavior of random street protesters. We have a lawless government that is flagrantly violating its legal, moral, even philosophical obligations to us. Everything else is secondary
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Maybe if the Big Beautiful Bill came with a data set to steal, DOGE would’ve noticed the $2.4 trillion (with a T) debt spike it carries.
June 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Maybe if the Big Beautiful Bill came with a data set to steal, DOGE would’ve noticed the $2.4 trillion (with a T) debt spike it carries.
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Look, @rickhasen.bsky.social doesn't need me to goose his downloads. But this is a really good paper with an important diagnosis. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy
<p>The collapse of campaign finance regulation in the United States has facilitated a path toward oligarchic power redistribution. Americans did not adopt the c
papers.ssrn.com
May 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Look, @rickhasen.bsky.social doesn't need me to goose his downloads. But this is a really good paper with an important diagnosis. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Every single Democrat in Congress should be demanding the resignation of Waltz and Hegseth. Every single one.
This is a massive scandal. There should be a serious price to pay.
AND THERE IS ZERO DOWNSIDE FOR EVEN THE MOST SCAREDY-CAT CONGRESSPERSON.
This is a massive scandal. There should be a serious price to pay.
AND THERE IS ZERO DOWNSIDE FOR EVEN THE MOST SCAREDY-CAT CONGRESSPERSON.
March 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Every single Democrat in Congress should be demanding the resignation of Waltz and Hegseth. Every single one.
This is a massive scandal. There should be a serious price to pay.
AND THERE IS ZERO DOWNSIDE FOR EVEN THE MOST SCAREDY-CAT CONGRESSPERSON.
This is a massive scandal. There should be a serious price to pay.
AND THERE IS ZERO DOWNSIDE FOR EVEN THE MOST SCAREDY-CAT CONGRESSPERSON.
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Things I definitely did not have on my personal bingo card: Neil Young (@neilyoungarchives.bsky.social) randomly reposting Techdirt posts to his own site. But... cool?
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Neil Young Archives
NYA contains the complete archives of Neil Young. The site is designed for a chronological exploration of artist output including music, books, films, & videos. Music is streamed in high-res with Xstr...
neilyoungarchives.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Things I definitely did not have on my personal bingo card: Neil Young (@neilyoungarchives.bsky.social) randomly reposting Techdirt posts to his own site. But... cool?
neilyoungarchives.com/news/18/arti...
neilyoungarchives.com/news/18/arti...
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Questions about vaccines? CHOP is our favorite non-gov resource. All vaccines on the schedule should be covered by insurance and available from your local health department if you have no coverage.
www.chop.edu/vaccine-educ...
www.chop.edu/vaccine-educ...
Vaccine Education Center
The Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia provides complete, up-to-date and reliable information about vaccines to parents and healthcare professionals.
www.chop.edu
February 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Questions about vaccines? CHOP is our favorite non-gov resource. All vaccines on the schedule should be covered by insurance and available from your local health department if you have no coverage.
www.chop.edu/vaccine-educ...
www.chop.edu/vaccine-educ...
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Something that’s very clear is that Trump is old and checked out. He wants to play the role of president but has zero interest in doing the job and is happy to outsource the real work to Musk, Vought and a crew of feral zealots.
February 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Something that’s very clear is that Trump is old and checked out. He wants to play the role of president but has zero interest in doing the job and is happy to outsource the real work to Musk, Vought and a crew of feral zealots.
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Remarkable resignation letter from the Justice Department's chief information officer in the immigration review division — a disabled veteran.
Obtained by @propublica.org's Brett Murphy:
Obtained by @propublica.org's Brett Murphy:
February 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Remarkable resignation letter from the Justice Department's chief information officer in the immigration review division — a disabled veteran.
Obtained by @propublica.org's Brett Murphy:
Obtained by @propublica.org's Brett Murphy:
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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
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Strong rumor with credible sourcing: DOJ has put all of public integrity line attorneys in a room and told them they have an hour for someone to choose who will sign motion to dismiss and if nobody does, they will all be fired. The nastiest strong-arming in DOJ history by a long shot.
February 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Strong rumor with credible sourcing: DOJ has put all of public integrity line attorneys in a room and told them they have an hour for someone to choose who will sign motion to dismiss and if nobody does, they will all be fired. The nastiest strong-arming in DOJ history by a long shot.
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why, if they are genius coders with the power of cutting edge AI, have the DOGE team seemingly not done anything to detect fraud or waste that isn't just "scanning a database for a list of naughty words", as if they were practicing writing regexps in the first week of a coding bootcamp?
February 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
why, if they are genius coders with the power of cutting edge AI, have the DOGE team seemingly not done anything to detect fraud or waste that isn't just "scanning a database for a list of naughty words", as if they were practicing writing regexps in the first week of a coding bootcamp?
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This is your daily reminder that it's a coup.
February 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This is your daily reminder that it's a coup.
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Rhode Island: 4 schools received a total of ~$159 million from the NIH in 2024. Of that, $100 million went directly to research and $59 million to facilities and administration. The new rate would bring that to $15 million, a loss of $44 million.
February 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Rhode Island: 4 schools received a total of ~$159 million from the NIH in 2024. Of that, $100 million went directly to research and $59 million to facilities and administration. The new rate would bring that to $15 million, a loss of $44 million.
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Massachusetts: 12 schools received more than $10 million from NIH in 2024, for a total of $1.2 billion. Of that, about $730 million goes directly to research and $450 million goes to facilities and administration. The new indirect cost rate would bring that to $110 million, a loss of $340 million.
February 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Massachusetts: 12 schools received more than $10 million from NIH in 2024, for a total of $1.2 billion. Of that, about $730 million goes directly to research and $450 million goes to facilities and administration. The new indirect cost rate would bring that to $110 million, a loss of $340 million.
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New Hampshire: universities received $99 million from NIH in 2024. At current institutional rates, this was $61 million for research and $38 million for facilities and administration. With new institutional rates, for the same funding, they receive $9 million for F&A, a loss of $29 million.
February 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New Hampshire: universities received $99 million from NIH in 2024. At current institutional rates, this was $61 million for research and $38 million for facilities and administration. With new institutional rates, for the same funding, they receive $9 million for F&A, a loss of $29 million.
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We are not far away from your spouse’s cancer trial stopping, your parent’s Alzheimer’s clinical trial evaporating, your teen’s mental health intervention disappearing. It’s easy to attack universities, but the recent actions from the White House will stop cutting edge medical research very quickly.
February 8, 2025 at 5:39 AM
We are not far away from your spouse’s cancer trial stopping, your parent’s Alzheimer’s clinical trial evaporating, your teen’s mental health intervention disappearing. It’s easy to attack universities, but the recent actions from the White House will stop cutting edge medical research very quickly.
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So much for Government Efficiency...
USAID was buying $2 billion in crops from U.S. farmers. Now it’s gone. But sure, blame immigrants and not Felon47.
USAID was buying $2 billion in crops from U.S. farmers. Now it’s gone. But sure, blame immigrants and not Felon47.
February 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
So much for Government Efficiency...
USAID was buying $2 billion in crops from U.S. farmers. Now it’s gone. But sure, blame immigrants and not Felon47.
USAID was buying $2 billion in crops from U.S. farmers. Now it’s gone. But sure, blame immigrants and not Felon47.
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USAID was investigating muskrat for giving Starlink jamming info to Russia against Ukraine.
So the world’s poor suffers. Governments think less of America.
Farmers lose their livelihoods.
All because a convicted felon was elected president by racists who didn’t vote for an educated black woman.
So the world’s poor suffers. Governments think less of America.
Farmers lose their livelihoods.
All because a convicted felon was elected president by racists who didn’t vote for an educated black woman.
February 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
USAID was investigating muskrat for giving Starlink jamming info to Russia against Ukraine.
So the world’s poor suffers. Governments think less of America.
Farmers lose their livelihoods.
All because a convicted felon was elected president by racists who didn’t vote for an educated black woman.
So the world’s poor suffers. Governments think less of America.
Farmers lose their livelihoods.
All because a convicted felon was elected president by racists who didn’t vote for an educated black woman.
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Toothy barracuda comes in for an inspection 🔮👀🐟 #barracuda #closeup #teeth #jaws #chompers #ooobarracuda #isopod #inspection #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity #glennnevis #coralcityfoundation
January 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Toothy barracuda comes in for an inspection 🔮👀🐟 #barracuda #closeup #teeth #jaws #chompers #ooobarracuda #isopod #inspection #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity #glennnevis #coralcityfoundation
Twenty Lessons On Tyranny
From the Twentieth Century
snyder.substack.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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5. Important thing with Trump is to separate out what is kayfabe (fake fights à la professional wrestling) & what is real danger. The trade wars so far have been kayfabe. Musk taking over treasury IT system to impound funds is a real constitutional crisis
February 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
5. Important thing with Trump is to separate out what is kayfabe (fake fights à la professional wrestling) & what is real danger. The trade wars so far have been kayfabe. Musk taking over treasury IT system to impound funds is a real constitutional crisis