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Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
January 18, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
The very beginning is horrifying – the way they hit that man from behind and knock him to the ground.
It’s clear who the aggressors are. Keep remaining nonviolent, and record EVERYTHING. All of these masked ICE thugs will be held accountable.
November 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The very beginning is horrifying – the way they hit that man from behind and knock him to the ground.
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I’ve been asked quite a lot over the years about how I remain calm when responding to trolls and bad actors. Some day I’ll do a bigger write up, but one of the biggest things that has helped me a lot is to remember:
“When you’re easily offended, you’re easily manipulated.”
“When you’re easily offended, you’re easily manipulated.”
September 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I’ve been asked quite a lot over the years about how I remain calm when responding to trolls and bad actors. Some day I’ll do a bigger write up, but one of the biggest things that has helped me a lot is to remember:
“When you’re easily offended, you’re easily manipulated.”
“When you’re easily offended, you’re easily manipulated.”
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Pam Bondi coverup www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
Almost all the Epstein files given to Congress were already public, Democrats say
Republicans say the Justice Department will hand over more files.
www.miamiherald.com
August 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Pam Bondi coverup www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
“Moving with our corazón”: South Tucson neighbors and leaders walk the streets with water, hugs and help azluminaria.org/2025/08/08/m...
“Moving with our corazón”: South Tucson neighbors and leaders walk the streets with water, hugs and help - AZ Luminaria
David Garcia pulls a pink wagon behind him as he walks along Sixth Avenue in South Tucson Monday night. Inside the wagon is an open case of bottled water, a cooler with some waters chilling in ice, hy...
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August 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“Moving with our corazón”: South Tucson neighbors and leaders walk the streets with water, hugs and help azluminaria.org/2025/08/08/m...
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"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it's shutting down after losing funding from the Trump- and GOP-supported recissions package, "despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB."
August 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it's shutting down after losing funding from the Trump- and GOP-supported recissions package, "despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB."
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Among other things Melissa Hortman, murdered along with her husband yesterday by a far-right assassin, was a climate champion throughout her political career. I found a few things to that effect.
June 16, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Among other things Melissa Hortman, murdered along with her husband yesterday by a far-right assassin, was a climate champion throughout her political career. I found a few things to that effect.
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May 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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A thousand yeses to this from Cole Arthur Riley.
May 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
A thousand yeses to this from Cole Arthur Riley.
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Your School House Rock moment...🤔
May 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Your School House Rock moment...🤔
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...if you add up the tiny fires in our internal combustion engines and our stoves and furnaces, in our coal and gas-fired power plants, in our container ships and airplanes, you see billions of small fires that add up to a conflagration, a world on fire.
We are here to put out the fire....
We are here to put out the fire....
We Are Firefighters: A Talk About the Climate and the Trees
This is a slightly edited version of a talk I gave at last Saturday's benefit concert by the adventurous and world-renowned Kronos Quartet for Oil Change International, a climate group on whose board ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
April 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
...if you add up the tiny fires in our internal combustion engines and our stoves and furnaces, in our coal and gas-fired power plants, in our container ships and airplanes, you see billions of small fires that add up to a conflagration, a world on fire.
We are here to put out the fire....
We are here to put out the fire....
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Someone's got the UK edition! (It's out in the US, UK, and Spain in May, with wildly different covers in each.)
No Straight Road Takes You There
- new book of essays provides further evidence that there is no other writer more alive to everything, more clear eyed and enlightened than Rebecca Solnit. This gift of craft and insight lands in the UK in May. 🙏💫
@faberbooks.bsky.social
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
- new book of essays provides further evidence that there is no other writer more alive to everything, more clear eyed and enlightened than Rebecca Solnit. This gift of craft and insight lands in the UK in May. 🙏💫
@faberbooks.bsky.social
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
March 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Someone's got the UK edition! (It's out in the US, UK, and Spain in May, with wildly different covers in each.)
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It would be a tragedy if President Biden dIdn’t pardon Leonard Peltier, who deserves clemency if anyone does and who is emblematic of our nation’s grotesque mistreatment of Native Americans.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Joe Biden is Leonard Peltier’s last hope | Rose Styron and Alex Matthiessen
The imprisoned Native American is long overdue for clemency. Joe Biden is probably the last president who can give it to him
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
It would be a tragedy if President Biden dIdn’t pardon Leonard Peltier, who deserves clemency if anyone does and who is emblematic of our nation’s grotesque mistreatment of Native Americans.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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In Syria, Russia and Iran helped Assad's government wage a barbaric war against the civilian population. 150,000 are missing. “We haven’t really seen this kind of machinery of death, or anything like it, since the Nazis." Extraordinary reporting from @washingtonpost.com.
wapo.st/409TKLv
wapo.st/409TKLv
Mass graves shed a light on Assad’s ‘killing machine’
The International Commission on Missing Persons estimates there could be as many as 66 mass grave sites across Syria.
wapo.st
December 26, 2024 at 2:10 PM
In Syria, Russia and Iran helped Assad's government wage a barbaric war against the civilian population. 150,000 are missing. “We haven’t really seen this kind of machinery of death, or anything like it, since the Nazis." Extraordinary reporting from @washingtonpost.com.
wapo.st/409TKLv
wapo.st/409TKLv
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I probably shouldn't have called a parasitical racket a parasitical racket paulkrugman.substack.com/p/health-ins...
Health Insurance is a Racket
What value do these companies add, really?
paulkrugman.substack.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:26 PM
I probably shouldn't have called a parasitical racket a parasitical racket paulkrugman.substack.com/p/health-ins...
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This is a long and comprehensive journey through our present moment. Grateful to @theanthonydavis.bsky.social for creating such a wonderful environment to air things out, and learn together. Check it out and let us know what you think.
December 16, 2024 at 2:25 AM
This is a long and comprehensive journey through our present moment. Grateful to @theanthonydavis.bsky.social for creating such a wonderful environment to air things out, and learn together. Check it out and let us know what you think.
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Levels of PBDE levels in Americans are generally “10–100 times higher than levels measured in people in Europe and Asia." An April study found people with the highest blood levels of PBDEs were about 300% more likely to die from cancer as people with the lowest levels.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/h...
www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/h...
Toxic chemical in black plastic utensils and toys is being allowed to proliferate by EPA, lawsuit alleges | CNN
The US Environmental Protection Agency fails to protect the public from a toxic flame retardant found in black plastic consumer products, a new lawsuit alleges.
www.cnn.com
December 15, 2024 at 9:08 AM
Levels of PBDE levels in Americans are generally “10–100 times higher than levels measured in people in Europe and Asia." An April study found people with the highest blood levels of PBDEs were about 300% more likely to die from cancer as people with the lowest levels.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/h...
www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/h...
December 10, 2024
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Christopher Colles on Letters from an American
Interesting to see Romania's reaction to extensive Russian interference in their election after the social media driven success of a pro - Putin candidate .
They exposed the details and their Supreme ...
open.substack.com
December 11, 2024 at 2:55 PM
December 10, 2024
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yeremi colino, a teenager stabbed to death in NYC last night by a group of men after he told them he didn’t speak english, deserves as much attention as the healthcare CEO, if not more. let’s give it to him. www.amny.com/new-york/man...
Of course, this story doesn't get the front page coverage that a CEO's murder does.
December 6, 2024 at 8:36 PM
yeremi colino, a teenager stabbed to death in NYC last night by a group of men after he told them he didn’t speak english, deserves as much attention as the healthcare CEO, if not more. let’s give it to him. www.amny.com/new-york/man...
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Cambridge University urged to apologise over jailing of thousands of ‘evil’ women without evidence or trial www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Cambridge University urged to apologise over jailing of thousands of ‘evil’ women without evidence or trial
A 1561 charter granted powers to imprison young working-class women found walking with undergraduates after dark
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Cambridge University urged to apologise over jailing of thousands of ‘evil’ women without evidence or trial www.theguardian.com/society/2024...