How to get folks back into the office:
"Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free—including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for “marketing purposes.” It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear.
Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared."
Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared."
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
How to get folks back into the office:
Beautiful
December 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Beautiful
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December 17, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Excellent news - thank you!
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Excellent news - thank you!
well done!
Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
in fact,
a tortology
December 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
well done!
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Warnock: "Any nation that tolerates this kind of violence year after year, decade after decade in random places, on our college and school campuses, without doing all that we can to stop it is broken and in need of moral repair."
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Warnock: "Any nation that tolerates this kind of violence year after year, decade after decade in random places, on our college and school campuses, without doing all that we can to stop it is broken and in need of moral repair."
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With the latest mass shooting at Brown University, this might be a good time to mention that Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban reduced mass shooting deaths by 43% - but after George W Bush & Republicans let it expire, mass shooting deaths spiked by 239%.
It's the GUNS
-Joann Duman
It's the GUNS
-Joann Duman
December 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
With the latest mass shooting at Brown University, this might be a good time to mention that Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban reduced mass shooting deaths by 43% - but after George W Bush & Republicans let it expire, mass shooting deaths spiked by 239%.
It's the GUNS
-Joann Duman
It's the GUNS
-Joann Duman
Excellent story on many levels
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Excellent story on many levels
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The way the mainstream media cleans up Trump’s racist tirades has long passed the “they’re just making mistakes” phase. This is actively aiding and abetting a racist, tyrannical regime. The ‘mainstream media is the enemy.
December 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The way the mainstream media cleans up Trump’s racist tirades has long passed the “they’re just making mistakes” phase. This is actively aiding and abetting a racist, tyrannical regime. The ‘mainstream media is the enemy.
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Today's (important) Miller Lite stat o' the day
1,600
the number of pardons issued by Trump in his first 318 days in office. It's an average of <5 per day> and already 20x the number granted by Biden in his entire term. He is a one man jail break. So much for cleaning up the criminals eh.
1,600
the number of pardons issued by Trump in his first 318 days in office. It's an average of <5 per day> and already 20x the number granted by Biden in his entire term. He is a one man jail break. So much for cleaning up the criminals eh.
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Today's (important) Miller Lite stat o' the day
1,600
the number of pardons issued by Trump in his first 318 days in office. It's an average of <5 per day> and already 20x the number granted by Biden in his entire term. He is a one man jail break. So much for cleaning up the criminals eh.
1,600
the number of pardons issued by Trump in his first 318 days in office. It's an average of <5 per day> and already 20x the number granted by Biden in his entire term. He is a one man jail break. So much for cleaning up the criminals eh.
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People get tired of hearing it, but I don’t care because it should be repeated incessantly: if Obama or Biden or Kamala had openly called for the execution of political opponents, the reaction of the NYT would have been *cataclysmic*. The earth would quake with their outrage & disdain.
November 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
People get tired of hearing it, but I don’t care because it should be repeated incessantly: if Obama or Biden or Kamala had openly called for the execution of political opponents, the reaction of the NYT would have been *cataclysmic*. The earth would quake with their outrage & disdain.
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Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?
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Republicans are currently starving millions of people in order to force Democrats to cooperate in cutting health care for millions of people.
We've gotten so inured to this shit. It's just monstrous, horrific behavior.
We've gotten so inured to this shit. It's just monstrous, horrific behavior.
November 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Republicans are currently starving millions of people in order to force Democrats to cooperate in cutting health care for millions of people.
We've gotten so inured to this shit. It's just monstrous, horrific behavior.
We've gotten so inured to this shit. It's just monstrous, horrific behavior.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Who has Mom this year?
every day we stray further from God’s light
October 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Who has Mom this year?
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It bears repeating: the opioid epidemic, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of American lives, was sparked by the activities of U.S.-based pharmaceutical companies and distributors. It was a homegrown, man-made plague.
(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald ..
@miamiherald.com
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U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime
The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald...
www.miamiherald.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It bears repeating: the opioid epidemic, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of American lives, was sparked by the activities of U.S.-based pharmaceutical companies and distributors. It was a homegrown, man-made plague.
Fact: Republican actions show that Republicans object to feeding poor children. It's that simple, and it's unforgivable. Tell everyone!
We literally do disagree about this, though. Some politicians want to take food from children and some politicians don't. Pretending this "isn't political" just allows the child-starving ghouls to get away with it.
Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!
Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!
October 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Fact: Republican actions show that Republicans object to feeding poor children. It's that simple, and it's unforgivable. Tell everyone!
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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
October 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
Republican Senators? No comment?
So we’re now paying federal taxes so Donald Trump can withdraw them from the Treasury like it’s his own personal bank account? Really?
October 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Republican Senators? No comment?
NYT worse every day. Unless you're a billionaire.
HOLD UP. George Santos is the lead story on the @nytimes.com website on Saturday night? Not the millions of Americans protesting Donald Trump today at 2,700 events in all 50 states? Come on.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/n...
October 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
NYT worse every day. Unless you're a billionaire.
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Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies. For @reuters.com:
Pope Leo, after Trump critique, urges Catholics to help immigrants
Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies.
www.reuters.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies. For @reuters.com:
Autumn mornings are the best.
October 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Autumn mornings are the best.
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let the gourd times roll
October 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
let the gourd times roll
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Trump just called us "the enemy within"
Those are LITERALLY the words Adolf Hitler used to describe Jews in Nazi Germany. Literally the same words.
Those are LITERALLY the words Adolf Hitler used to describe Jews in Nazi Germany. Literally the same words.
September 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Trump just called us "the enemy within"
Those are LITERALLY the words Adolf Hitler used to describe Jews in Nazi Germany. Literally the same words.
Those are LITERALLY the words Adolf Hitler used to describe Jews in Nazi Germany. Literally the same words.