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www.websters1913.com/words/Politic the 1913 definitions are always insightful
Politic Pol"i*tic (?), a. [L. politicus political, Gr. ? belonging to the citizens or to the state, fr.? citizen: cf. F. politique. See Police, and cf. ePolitical.] 1. Of or pertaining to polity, or civil government; political; as, the body politic. See under Body. He with his people made all but one politic body. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Pertaining to, or promoting, a policy, especially a national policy; well-devised; adapted to its end, whether right or wrong; -- said of things; as, a politic treaty. "Enrich'd with politic grave counsel." Shak. 3. Sagacious in promoting a policy; ingenious in devising and advancing a system of management; devoted to a scheme or system rather than to a principle; hence, in a good sense, wise; prudent; sagacious; and in a bad sense, artful; unscrupulous; cunning; -- said of persons. Politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy. Shak.
November 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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they came with the 5lb bag! 😭
kirkland signature "favorites" 5lb candy bag
November 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Isn’t any amount of lead harmful?

Although great news tritium has a half life of only 12 years
October 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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teakettle scream.
Specifically, the Department says that 42 percent of all agricultural workers “lacked authorization to work” in the U.S. in 2021 and 2022. Moreover, the remaining workforce is aging, relatively “immobile” (meaning they don’t follow crops throughout the season), and looking to get out of the industry; only 20 percent of crop workers plan to be in the job for the next five years, according to a survey cited in the filing. As a result, employers are facing significant economic harms, the filing claims. And incredibly, given the administration’s unceasing rhetoric to the contrary, the Labor Department definitively rejects the idea of Americans replacing the missing workers. “The Department does not believe American workers currently unemployed or marginally employed will make themselves readily available in sufficient numbers to replace large numbers of aliens,” the filing states, adding that agricultural work involves “a distinct set of skills and is among the most physically demanding and hazardous occupations in the U.S. labor market.” (For what it’s worth, nearly half of all agricultural workers are native-born, and significantly more than half are U.S. citizens, according to Department of Agriculture data.) The Labor Department even claims that broadly advertising agricultural jobs, which is required under the H2-A rules, has not led to a boost in applications from U.S. workers. This is a bit of a fiction; workers who apply often do not receive jobs, and nobody is really checking to see if applications are coming in. “The system isn’t set up to prove that there’s a labor shortage of U.S. workers,” said Costa, of EPI.
October 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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.....Oh. right
“They’re sort of, I guess refreshingly, explicit about how this is going to go down,” said Daniel Costa, an attorney with the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) who tracks the H-2A program. But this claim of mass carnage from immigration has a very particular intent: the only way out of the crisis, the Labor Department states, is to hire many more foreign workers to pick U.S. crops at lower wages, a direct transfer of income from workers in the fields to their agribusiness employers. Only one of two things can be true: Either Trump’s Labor Department actually believes that Trump’s immigration enforcement is destroying the agricultural sector and threatening food security, or they are pretending this threat is real in order to crush wages for both foreign and domestic agricultural workers. Neither look particularly good. An email to the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration, which filed the new rule, could not be answered because of the ongoing government shutdown, according to the office’s media contacts. The White House press office did not respond to a request for comment. THE RULE IN QUESTION CONCERNS WHAT IS KNOWN as the Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR), which is set for H-2A agricultural workers. H-2A gives one-year visas to foreign nationals to work in agriculture. They must work for the grower who sponsors the visa, and they lack basic worker protections that domestic workers have, like the ability to get overtime pay. The program has been called a form of slavery by critics in the past. H-2A, which was established in the 1980s, has evolved from an occasional program to fill gaps in the workforce to one increasingly relied on by employers. About one in five agricultural workers is on an H-2A visa, nearly a ten-fold increase from 20 years ago. While employers are supposed to advertise for U.S. workers to fill jobs first, this expansion of H-2A has continued virtually unabated. There is no cap on the program, so agribusiness can bring in an unlimited number of foreign workers. Because H-2A workers don’t have bargaining rights, federal guidelines effectively set their wages. The AEWR is essentially a minimum wage for these foreign workers, which is supposed to be at a level that doesn’t create an “adverse effect” for U.S. workers in the industry. It is published every year (with different rates for each state) using a methodology that previously was derived by the Farm Labor Survey, an initiative of the Department of Agriculture that was discontinued by the Trump administration in August. data used to determine wages. As Costa points out, this survey does not actually talk to farm employers but farm labor contractors, who offer wages at lower levels than direct farm hiring does. “It naturally means the wages are lower,” Costa said. In addition, the new rule allows farm employers to charge H-2A workers for their housing, which was not allowed before. “It’s a way for employers to continue to house workers and also charge them, and bring down effective wages,” said Marcos Lopez of the Labor and Community Center at the University of California, Davis.
October 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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ahha! bingo

the guardian article is good, whew
But with each passing write-up, the knowing humorous element has been rinsed away, until Vox earnestly announced in its piece that the “MeToo movement showed us that even supposed ‘nice guy’ could be capable of alleged manipulation and abuse – that in fact, they could use their enlightenment as a kind of shield”. If you see a man with a matcha latte, you need to run! None of the pieces particularly wanted to reckon with the fact that, as Judith Butler put it, “gender identity is a performative accomplishment” to begin with, or that Arthur Schopenhauer was complaining in the mid-19th century that a performative reader “usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents”. Do we read in order to get laid? Only since forever.
September 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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1. fuck the new york times
2. the teen vogue article need not have chosen one gender (or even one era) to talk about re: this phenomenon.

everybody does this. everybody. always have. all genders, all ages, etc etc etc
To work, the whole persona depends on buying into a very curated, visible lifestyle filled with new outfits, new accessories, new books, and new hobbies, feeding into overconsumption. Worse, it’s consumption for the sake of appearance, not actually for use, enjoyment, or longevity. It’s one thing if you genuinely love Sally Rooney or plan to wear your Elwood cardigan for years. But cycling through trends every few months, buying and discarding things the moment they’re no longer in vogue, is the exact opposite of sustainability. More than that, it also clashes with the underconsumption values that many of these same men claim to align with in their broader liberal or progressive politics. Turns out, “looking like you care” costs a lot, but says very little.
September 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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lmaooo

1. fuck the new york times
2. the teen vogue article should not have chosen one gender to talk about re: this phenomenon.
This time it is the “performative male”, basically the idea that posturing straight men only read books to get laid, outlined in recent trend pieces including the New York Times, Vox, Teen Vogue, Hypebeast, GQ and millions of TikToks. According to the Times, this man “curates his aesthetic in a way that he thinks might render him more likable to progressive women. He is, in short, the antithesis of the toxic man.” Apparently these heterosexual men who read Joan Didion, carry tote bags and listen to Clairo are not in fact human beings who enjoy things but performative jerk-offs who don’t really care about any of that girly stuff and are just trying to impress their feminine opposites. As Vox put it: “think Jacob Elordi when he was photographed with three different books on his person, or Paul Mescal publicly admiring Mitski”. Reading! Enjoying music by women! Perish the thought. Each piece differed slightly in what it defined as the key characteristics of the performative male, but they all shared one detail: he drinks matcha lattes.
September 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Jetsam are goods thrown off a ship to eliminate any unnecessary weight. Flotsam are goods that floated away from the ship when it was sinking. Ligan or lagan are goods left in the sea, on the wreck, or tied to a buoy, so that they can be recovered later by the owners. Derelict is abandoned vessels or cargo. The United Kingdom's Merchant Shipping Act 1995 states that jetsam, flotsam, lagan, and all other cargo in the wreckage remain the property of their original owners. Anyone removing those goods must inform the Receiver of Wreck to avoid the accusation of theft. Wreck diving has laws to protect historic wrecks of archaeological importance, and the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 protects ships and aircraft that are the last resting place of the remains of members of the armed forces.
August 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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what are the top fields like this? re a conversation I was having in the car
@_bri_chandler_ " Agreed. Abolitionist social workers exist and we try to avoid jobs like working for CPS/ the government, do our best to work around the carceral practice of mandated reporting, etc, but there's only so much that can be done to minimize harm within an oppressive framework." @dream_geas - "I'm getting my degrees to be a social worker and this was my fear. How fucking disgusting, this is why I'm so hesitant to be a social worker in the States." @Legitimatedgar - "After I got my masters, I realized that the majority of sociologists work for incredibly evil corporations. Sad panda."
July 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Not to mention, Parked arrived at 7 years old, so in 1977ish. Context:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_...

good immigration is the least difficult, most self-serving thing we could do.
South Korea Postwar recovery was different in the two Koreas. South Korea, which started from a far lower industrial base than North Korea (the latter contained 80% of Korea's heavy industry in 1945),[25] stagnated in the first postwar decade. In 1953, South Korea and the United States signed a Mutual Defense Treaty. South Korean anti-Americanism after the war was fueled by the presence and behavior of United States Forces Korea military personnel and U.S. support for Park's authoritarian regime, a fact still evident during the country's democratic transition in the 1980s.[382] However, anti-Americanism has declined significantly in South Korea in recent years, from 46% favorable in 2003 to 74% favorable in 2011,[383] making South Korea one of the most pro-U.S. countries.[384] A large number of mixed-race "GI babies" (offspring of U.S. and other UN soldiers and Korean women) were filling up the country's orphanages. Because Korean traditional society places significant weight on paternal family ties, bloodlines, and purity of race, children of mixed race or those without fathers are not easily accepted in South Korean society. International adoption of Korean children began in 1954.[385] The U.S. Immigration Act of 1952 legalized the naturalization of non-Blacks and non-Whites as U.S. citizens and made possible the entry of military spouses and children from South Korea. With the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965, which substantially changed U.S. immigration policy toward non-Europeans, Koreans became one of the fastest-growing Asian groups in the United States.[386]
June 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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"On Monday morning, Park hugged his loved ones goodbye. Then, just like he had as a child, Park boarded a plane all by himself — this time, bound for a country he barely remembers, leaving behind the one he fought for."
Back then, Park didn't know he was dealing with PTSD. So, he never sought help and the trauma slowly took a toll. He eventually turned to drugs to cope. " I had to find some kind of a cure for what I was going through," he said. Throughout his 20s and 30s, he battled a crack cocaine addiction. One night in New York, while meeting up with a dealer, police appeared and arrested Park. Later, he skipped one of his court hearings. "I just couldn't stay clean," he said. "So finally when the judge told me, 'Don't come back into my court with the dirty urine,' which I knew I would, I got scared and I jumped bail." Park was charged with possession of a controlled substance and bail jumping, which derailed his chances of naturalization or getting relief from a deportation order. Park said for a long time, citizenship was not a priority because he did not fully grasp the consequences of remaining a noncitizen. Although the U.S. offers expedited naturalization for those who serve honorably in the U.S. military for at least one year, or a single day during wartime, Park was discharged before he had served 12 months and the invasion of Panama was not classified as a period of hostility. "I have to accept the fact that this is probably the last time I'll see her" Park was in prison for three years starting in 2009. Drugs were easily within reach, but he said he lost all desire for them. After his release, Park moved to Hawaii, where his family was living at the time. He found work at a car dealership in Honolulu, where he spent 10 years while raising his son and daughter. Watching them grow into kind, successful adults was his greatest blessing, he said.
June 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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2. glensidelocal.com/huntingdon-v...

2018, 2020, 2022; 3 locations across 2 states.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, in 2018, while registered to vote in Montgomery County, Pulley also registered to vote in Broward County, Florida. In 2020, Pulley, who was already registered to vote in Montgomery County and Broward County, allegedly registered to vote in Philadelphia County using a false home address in Philadelphia and social security number. In the 2020 general election, which included the election for President and Vice President of the United States, Pulley allegedly requested a mail-in ballot to vote in Philadelphia and voted in both Broward County and Montgomery County, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. In the 2022 general election, which included the election for United States Senator, Pulley allegedly voted in both Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties. ADVERTISEMENT If convicted on each count of the information, he faces a maximum possible sentence of five years of imprisonment, three years of supervised release, a $10,000 to $250,000 fine, and a $100 special assessment.
June 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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bitch SEVEN mortgages???
According to the story, Pulley had neglected the building “for several years” and evicted all residents in 2018 to make way for a sale that never happened. ADVERTISEMENT “Instead, Pulley took out a $25 million mortgage on the property and an adjacent complex, called Dorsett Court, which is also vacant,” The Inquirer wrote. “Records show Pulley has since defaulted on the loan, which ostensibly was for construction work. The low-rise buildings have continued to deteriorate, racking up a slew of violations from the Philadelphia Department of Licenses and Inspections.” Philadelphia councilmember Jamie Gauthier wants the city to do a better job of holding Pulley and other landlords accountable. “Whether there are 100 tenants in a building or zero, landlords have a responsibility to maintain their properties to the standards mandated by law,” Gauthier said in a statement. “I am angry that the slumlord owner of this building ignored very serious safety concerns and that the City of Philadelphia did not compel them to fix the property even though it had several L&I violations, including fire safety ones.” In January, Pulley was sentenced to three years’ probation, 100 hours of community service, a fine of $9,500, and a $400 special assessment, for committing multiple election fraud offenses. He was first charged with falsely registering to vote, double voting, and election fraud in August. Pulley, owner of the Abington Township-based SBG Management Services, Inc., which manages Jenkins Court in Jenkintown and the former Old York Road Skating Club in Elkins Park, pleaded guilty in a Philadelphia federal court in September 2024, the same month he had a $60 million federal lawsuit filed against him by Fannie Mae over seven defaulted mortgages.
June 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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goddamn
Three different advocacy organisations representing military families said they had heard from dozens of affected service members who expressed discomfort about being drawn into a domestic policing operation outside their normal field of operations. The groups said they have heard no countervailing opinions. “The sentiment across the board right now is that deploying military force against our own communities isn’t the kind of national security we signed up for,” said Sarah Streyder of the Secure Families Initiative, which represents the interests of military spouses, children and veterans. “Families are scared not just for their loved ones’ safety, although that’s a big concern, but also for what their service is being used to justify.” Chris Purdy of the Chamberlain Network, whose stated mission is to “mobilize and empower veterans to protect democracy”, said he had heard similar things from half a dozen national guard members. “Morale is not great, is the quote I keep hearing,” he said. The marines and the California national guard did not respond to invitations to comment. Newsom has described the deployment as “a provocation, not just an escalation” and accused the White House of mistreating the service members it was activating. A widely circulated photograph, later confirmed as authentic by the Pentagon, showed national guard members sleeping on a concrete loading dock floor without bedding, and the San Francisco Chronicle reported that the troops arrived with no lodging, insufficient portable toilets and no funds for food or water.
June 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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ah, this guy. You know what, yeah
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_...
Catonsville Nine Daniel Berrigan and his brother Philip, along with seven other Catholic protesters, used homemade napalm to destroy 378 draft files in the parking lot of the Catonsville, Maryland, draft board on May 17, 1968.[33][34][35] This group, which came to be known as the Catonsville Nine, issued a statement after the incident: We confront the Roman Catholic Church, other Christian bodies, and the synagogues of America with their silence and cowardice in the face of our country's crimes. We are convinced that the religious bureaucracy in this country is racist, is an accomplice in this war, and is hostile to the poor.[26] Berrigan was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison,[36] but went into hiding Plowshares movement Daniel Berrigan is arrested for civil disobedience outside the US Mission to the UN in 2006 Main article: Plowshares movement On September 9, 1980, Berrigan, his brother Philip, and six others including Anne Montgomery RSCJ, Elmer Maas, Carl Kabat, John Schuchardt, Dean Hammer, and Molly Rush (the "Plowshares Eight") began the Plowshares movement. They trespassed onto the General Electric nuclear missile facility in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, where they damaged nuclear warhead nose cones and poured blood onto documents and files. They were arrested and charged with over ten different felony and misdemeanor counts.[38] The story is partly told in the book ARISE AND WITNESS: Poems by Anne Montgomery, RSCJ, About Faith, Prison, War Zones and Nonviolent Resistance, published in 2024.[39] On April 10, 1990, after ten years of appeals, Berrigan's group was re-sentenced and paroled for up to 231/2 months in consideration of time already served in prison.[40] Their legal battle was re-created in Emile de Antonio's 1982 film In the King of Prussia, which starred Martin Sheen and featured appearances by the Plowshares Eight as themselves.[5] Consistent life ethic I see an 'interlocking directorate' of death that binds the whole culture. That is, an unspoken agreement that we will solve our problems by killing people in various ways; a declaration that certain people are expendable, outside the pale. A decent society should no more have an abortion clinic than The Pentagon." — interview by Lucien Miller, Reflections, vol. 2, no. 4 (Fall 1979)[41] Berrigan endorsed a consistent life ethic, a morality based on a holistic reverence for life.[42][43][44][45] As a member of the Rochester, New York-area consistent life ethic advocacy group Faith and Resistance Community, he protested via civil disobedience against abortion at a new Planned Parenthood clinic in 1991.[43]
June 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-t...
map-trump-travel-ban-countries.jpg "President Trump announced that the U.S. would bar entry to nationals from 12 countries, and restrict seven more, citing national security concerns. CBS NEWS" New Restriction to U.S. Entry: World Atlas, countries shown in white. Full Ban highlighted in red. Partial Ban in orange. Cuba - orange. Haiti - Red. Venezuela - Orange. Sierra Leone - Orange. Togo - Orange. Equitorial Guinea - Red. Libya - Red. Chad - Red. Congo - Red. Sudan - Red. Eritrea - Red. Somalia - Red. Burundi - Red. Turkmenistan - Orange. Afghanistan - red. Iran - red. Yemen - Red. Myanmar - red. Laos - orange.
June 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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from the article -
news.umich.edu/white-househ...
This is a far-reaching, systemic national challenge that must be addressed by deliberate, targeted policy and investments,” said Reames, who is also a senior adviser on energy justice at the U.S. Department of Energy. The researchers outline policy recommendations for building a low-carbon housing sector in the U.S. They also point out that solving this emissions paradox will require financial support to help homeowners and renters in communities of color make energy retrofits and gain increased access to green energy, while at the same time setting in place disincentives for egregiously high carbon emitters. “There are 120 million existing homes in the U.S., and policymakers in Washington are hammering out the Build Back Better Act as we speak. Within this bill are programs that will directly address long-standing inequities in the residential housing sector that we have identified in this study,” said Newell, senior author of the study and an associate professor at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability. “These include significant investments in Healthy Buildings, such as upgrades to boost energy efficiency in public housing and related weatherization investments. “The findings of this study speak to a broader call for environmental justice and climate justice in our communities and are especially timely as world leaders are coming out of the latest round of climate negotiation at COP26.”
May 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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and this too capitalbnews.org/richest-10-p...
“It comes at us from all directions,” she said, first with the storms and then the fallout. “There’s a lot of people strategizing on how to acquire Black land after these events, and to take these homes from us in a vulnerable state.”
May 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Smoke rises from wildfire WE024 in Manitoba, Canada, May 27, 2025. Manitoba Government/Handout/Reuters)
May 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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May 30, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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so, that's a full gut on the US immigration system and the icc is looking funny as well
Legal action In 1982, the U.S. passed the Amerasian Immigration Act, giving preferential immigration status to Amerasian children born during the Vietnam Conflict.[31] The act did not apply to Amerasians born in the Philippines. They can become United States citizens only if claimed by their fathers; most fathers fail to do so.[31] To become citizens of the United States, Filipino Amerasians must be able to show proof of parentage by a U.S. citizen before they turn eighteen years old; most are unable to do so before that cut off age.[32] A class-action suit was filed in 1993 on their behalf in the International Court of Complaints in Washington, DC, to establish Filipino American children's rights to assistance.[32] The court denied the claim, ruling that the children were born to unmarried women who provided sexual services to U.S. service personnel in the Philippines and who were therefore engaged in illicit acts of prostitution.[32] Such illegal activity could not be the basis for any legal claim.[33] In 2012, the number of Amerasians descended from American servicemen in the Philippines or “G.I. babies” was estimated to be around 250,000.[34]
May 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerasian

Jesus this article
May 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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why
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May 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjami...
lolol

SCIENCE
Corps of Discovery In 1803, Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis to Philadelphia to prepare for the Lewis and Clark Expedition under the tutelage of Rush, who taught Lewis about frontier illnesses and the performance of bloodletting. Rush provided the corps with a medical kit that included: Turkish opium for nervousness emetics to induce vomiting medicinal wine fifty dozen of Dr. Rush's Bilious Pills, laxatives containing more than 50% mercury, which have since colloquially been referred to as "thunderclappers". Their meat-rich diet and lack of clean water during the expedition gave the men cause to use them frequently. Although their efficacy is questionable, their high mercury content provided a tracer by which archaeologists have been able to verify one of the Corps' campsites on their route to the Pacific. As of 2024, Travelers' Rest State Park, near Lolo, Montana, is the only location to be confirmed via the analysis of the Corps' latrines.[32][33][34][35]
May 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM