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Jen Bivens
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There has got to be a better way.
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All of the time the dialogue in my head. All of the time.
Fargo - Car Ride Ending
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When I hear men worshipping guns and talking about how there’s nothing that will stop them from defending their family, my mind goes to Naaman in the Bible. Do you remember Naaman? He was a great military leader, and he also had leprosy.

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February 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
All of the time the dialogue in my head. All of the time.
Fargo - Car Ride Ending
YouTube video by Bendersnatch
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February 13, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I just saw this today on FB group I joined last year about how to pay for college for your kid. Someone posted it when people were wondering what the administration is up to. This is one angle, unfortunately, for sure:
Education Policy Reforms Are Key Strategies for Increasing the Married Birth Rate
The fertility rate in the United States has dropped to 1.6,
www.heritage.org
February 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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"It’s unclear when the website, which lists mostly Black employees who work in agencies primarily within the Department of Health and Human Services, first appeared."
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’
The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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We are in such, such profound danger. They are doing the Reichstag fire to the most crucial and foundational payments layer of the Federal Government.
February 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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This is what convinced me they’re going to intentionally crash the economy. They said it out loud several times.
February 2, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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"You live in a mafia state in a mafia world headed for the mother of all mergers."

-- THEY KNEW (2022)
January 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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“I’ve been an infectious disease doctor for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this.”

The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.
“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.
Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that sca...
www.propublica.org
February 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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This is very bad political communication. Embarrassing really.
You’re watching the Super Bowl next week.

Wait till Trump’s tariffs raise your pizza prices.
February 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
So I would think at this point people in the DC area should surround the treasury building? Or is that just any other country but here where citizens pay attention to coups?
February 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Maybe I'm crazy, but when the new authoritarian leader is executing a blitzkrieg to consolidate power and demolish the pillars of our democracy, maybe the opposing party shouldn't vote for his bootlicking nominees who were selected for their blind fealty. I'm crazy, right?
16 Democratic senators recently voted to confirm the Trump-appointed Treasury Secretary who just gave Musk’s team access to a Treasury payment system that disburses trillions and holds mass quantities of personal information. Food for thought. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
February 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Good bye January. I will never not think of this in January. m.soundcloud.com/radio-ooblec...
Spleen Of The Town In January
Listen to Spleen Of The Town In January by Radio Oobleck playlist on desktop and mobile.
m.soundcloud.com
February 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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‘If Trump is what the image-world has now revealed itself to be – if he’s the “society” we have settled for, looming against us, cruel and false and ugly and determined to destroy – then what answer is left but a fight to the finish?’

T.J. Clark: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark · A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle
Trump has annihilated the idea of charisma. The new leader is not above us. He’s on the screen in our hands. We...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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One headline to rule them all
January 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Ahhh the nazi salute on national television. Right on schedule I suppose.
January 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Donald Trump's newly minted cryptocurrency soared to top $9 billion in market value, drawing in billions in trading volume just hours ahead of the US President-elect's return to the White House reut.rs/3CdkLEE
Trump's new crypto token jumps ahead of his inauguration
Donald Trump's newly minted cryptocurrency soared on Monday to top $9 billion in market value, drawing in billions in trading volume just hours ahead of the U.S. President-elect's return to the White House.
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January 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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This op-ed explains how Trump’s election recalls the post-Civil War Redemption Era — a white supremacist backlash against racial progress and equality.

Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...
What Trump’s Inauguration Has to Do With the Era After the Civil War
Resurging white power politics. Political violence. All-powerful businessmen. Sound familiar?
www.teenvogue.com
January 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers.

See what changes are in store for your county.

By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North…
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January 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Tonight, near midnight, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed bill into law to charge public for footage from law enforcement, including body cams

This follows a massive bill passed in December at 2 am (via @morgantrau.bsky.social) www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...
January 3, 2025 at 5:11 AM