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What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam
January 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM
What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam
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"Half the harm that is done in this world
is due to people who want to feel important.
They don't mean to do harm,
but the harm does not interest them.
Or they do not see it, or they justify it
because they are absorbed in the endless struggle
to think well of themselves."
TS Eliot, 1948
is due to people who want to feel important.
They don't mean to do harm,
but the harm does not interest them.
Or they do not see it, or they justify it
because they are absorbed in the endless struggle
to think well of themselves."
TS Eliot, 1948
January 1, 2026 at 11:05 PM
"Half the harm that is done in this world
is due to people who want to feel important.
They don't mean to do harm,
but the harm does not interest them.
Or they do not see it, or they justify it
because they are absorbed in the endless struggle
to think well of themselves."
TS Eliot, 1948
is due to people who want to feel important.
They don't mean to do harm,
but the harm does not interest them.
Or they do not see it, or they justify it
because they are absorbed in the endless struggle
to think well of themselves."
TS Eliot, 1948
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If I were actually a free thinker who questioned everything I might get to wondering why my government tries to make me mad at Somalis every time something new comes out about Epstein
December 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
If I were actually a free thinker who questioned everything I might get to wondering why my government tries to make me mad at Somalis every time something new comes out about Epstein
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Trump has done so much damage to democratic institutions not via clever, well executed strategy, but by acting on authoritarian/bigoted/corrupt impulse, then stubbornly barging ahead if he meets pushback.
Manufacturing charges against Abrego Garcia only after deportation failed is a good microcosm.
Manufacturing charges against Abrego Garcia only after deportation failed is a good microcosm.
Newly unsealed docs show DOJ moved to prosecute Kilmar Abrego Garcia for smuggling only after it became clear Trump might not be able to deport him. Sure looks driven by a desire to punish him for fighting back against Trump/Miller lawlessness. Trump had to be right.
www.cbsnews.com/news/abrego-...
www.cbsnews.com/news/abrego-...
December 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Trump has done so much damage to democratic institutions not via clever, well executed strategy, but by acting on authoritarian/bigoted/corrupt impulse, then stubbornly barging ahead if he meets pushback.
Manufacturing charges against Abrego Garcia only after deportation failed is a good microcosm.
Manufacturing charges against Abrego Garcia only after deportation failed is a good microcosm.
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We don't have a government. We have a bunch of guys who heard things on social media.
We don't have due process. We have entire groups being punished for the alleged actions of a few.
We don't have due process. We have entire groups being punished for the alleged actions of a few.
BREAKING
The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.
Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.
The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.
Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.
December 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
We don't have a government. We have a bunch of guys who heard things on social media.
We don't have due process. We have entire groups being punished for the alleged actions of a few.
We don't have due process. We have entire groups being punished for the alleged actions of a few.
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LEFT: @asharangappa.bsky.social four weeks ago
RIGHT: new NYT report
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
RIGHT: new NYT report
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
December 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
LEFT: @asharangappa.bsky.social four weeks ago
RIGHT: new NYT report
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
RIGHT: new NYT report
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
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What you don’t publish is as important as what you do. It’s sort of how this works.
December 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
What you don’t publish is as important as what you do. It’s sort of how this works.
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This dipshit put Erika Kirk, the wife of a murdered guy that most of America didn't even know existed, on a Town Hall on CBS News and no one fucking watched because no one cares. How on earth is that kind of behavior 'working to win back American viewers'. Do you hear yourself
CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss said she held back a “60 Minutes” segment earlier this week because it needed additional reporting and she is working to win back the trust of American viewers.
Bari Weiss defends held “60 Minutes” story in email to CBS News staff
CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss shelved a “60 minutes” segment because she said it needed additional reporting, including an interview with a Trump administration official.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This dipshit put Erika Kirk, the wife of a murdered guy that most of America didn't even know existed, on a Town Hall on CBS News and no one fucking watched because no one cares. How on earth is that kind of behavior 'working to win back American viewers'. Do you hear yourself
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We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
“I’m 84 years old. Threats against my life expectancy are kind of hollow. I don’t have much time anyway. I’m more concerned that our democracy is at risk because of the trends against the rule of law.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives
More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges and their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live.
www.nbcnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
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As Trump increasingly enables plutocrats, his kids, and other allies to take more than they give, this formulation seems like the inversion of reality, except insofar as Trump, his children, and Elon Musk are themselves immigrants or the children of immigrants.
December 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
As Trump increasingly enables plutocrats, his kids, and other allies to take more than they give, this formulation seems like the inversion of reality, except insofar as Trump, his children, and Elon Musk are themselves immigrants or the children of immigrants.
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Does American pressure on Venezuela work? Tom Nichols: “Depends on what the Americans and President Trump think this is supposed to do. When we talk about whether or not this works, the question should always be: Works to do what?”
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
@anacabrera.bsky.social
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
@anacabrera.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Does American pressure on Venezuela work? Tom Nichols: “Depends on what the Americans and President Trump think this is supposed to do. When we talk about whether or not this works, the question should always be: Works to do what?”
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
@anacabrera.bsky.social
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
@anacabrera.bsky.social
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The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
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I was just saying this! If you go to any comments section on social media, you’ll see a flood of bots making some sort of divisive, hateful claim and I think it gives the impression that certain points of view are the prevailing norm when they are actually not. It distorts reality.
This is the thing about the "shift" that led to the 2024 results. It was entirely fake. Our culture is determined by fake accounts operating within a blackbox algorithm. None of it is real, and I think we all feel that.
This cultural shift isn't even real.
It has been manufactured with social media.
They used fake accounts and bots to make the idea seem popular and a substantial chunk of the following is only there because they are sheep.
They created real support with fake support.
It has been manufactured with social media.
They used fake accounts and bots to make the idea seem popular and a substantial chunk of the following is only there because they are sheep.
They created real support with fake support.
December 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I was just saying this! If you go to any comments section on social media, you’ll see a flood of bots making some sort of divisive, hateful claim and I think it gives the impression that certain points of view are the prevailing norm when they are actually not. It distorts reality.
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If you're a journalist and you non-ironically use the terms "Department of War" or "Secretary of War," you're being complicit with the regime, IMO.
December 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
If you're a journalist and you non-ironically use the terms "Department of War" or "Secretary of War," you're being complicit with the regime, IMO.
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Yes, and the next time you all freak about my "be careful with words" pedantry, this is the dire result of 20 years of calling everything "terrorism," something I objected to long ago for the same reasons that I carp about fascism, etc.
Honest question: does this scare the hell out of you? I know you are busy but I’m hoping you might respond. @radiofreetom.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2025/12/16/t...
theintercept.com/2025/12/16/t...
U.S. Military Willing to Attack “Designated Terrorist Organizations” Within America, General Says
“If I had no concerns and I was confident in the lawful order, I would definitely execute that order.”
theintercept.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Yes, and the next time you all freak about my "be careful with words" pedantry, this is the dire result of 20 years of calling everything "terrorism," something I objected to long ago for the same reasons that I carp about fascism, etc.
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I should add that what’s remarkable is, not very long ago in America, even the most conservative politician would have been vilified for even associating with anyone who said something as disgusting as this.
December 17, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I should add that what’s remarkable is, not very long ago in America, even the most conservative politician would have been vilified for even associating with anyone who said something as disgusting as this.
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The president of the United States has been a millionaire thanks to tax fraud since the age of eight
feels like one of those facts that never get said yet explain almost everything
feels like one of those facts that never get said yet explain almost everything
Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father (Published 2018)
The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of ...
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The president of the United States has been a millionaire thanks to tax fraud since the age of eight
feels like one of those facts that never get said yet explain almost everything
feels like one of those facts that never get said yet explain almost everything
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Steve Bannons biggest advantage is when ppl dont clearly recognizing him as the completely and utterly full of shit grifter that he is. Dont do his work for him by treating his nonsense as if its even remotely attached to reality.
Steve Bannon calls the president a “vehicle of divine providence” and an “instrument of divine will” because he needs you to believe a third Trump term is a certainty.
My advice would be: Don’t.
badfaithtimes.com/steve-bannon...
My advice would be: Don’t.
badfaithtimes.com/steve-bannon...
Steve Bannon Needs You To Believe A Third Trump Term Is Inevitable
In the American right's unreality, there is no opposition.
badfaithtimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Steve Bannons biggest advantage is when ppl dont clearly recognizing him as the completely and utterly full of shit grifter that he is. Dont do his work for him by treating his nonsense as if its even remotely attached to reality.
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Normalization of glucose in people with prediabetes, i.e. achieving remission, is linked to halving of major cardiovascular adverse events over ensuing decades
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Prediabetes remission and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality: post-hoc analyses from the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcome study and the DaQing Diabetes Prevention Outcome study
Reaching prediatbetes remission is linked to a decades-long benefit, halving the risk
of cardiovascular death or hospitalisation for heart failure in diverse populations.
Targeting remission might rep...
www.thelancet.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Normalization of glucose in people with prediabetes, i.e. achieving remission, is linked to halving of major cardiovascular adverse events over ensuing decades
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
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It’s incredible they keep saying this and a confirmation that he’s seriously ill.
Q: Can you explain what's going on with the bandages on Trump's hand?
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
December 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It’s incredible they keep saying this and a confirmation that he’s seriously ill.
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shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights