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Nick Fleisher
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Linguist at UW-Milwaukee. Syntax & semantics, higher ed, Wisconsin politics &c.
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Chat help, are 'all' and 'only' synonymous?
People’s lives, in Mamdani’s world, can be improved only by government: “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.”
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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🤔
Washington Post opinion by Charles C. Hong: The science that extended Dick Cheney's life was a choice
November 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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I'm sorry wtf does this mean
NYT: Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package reflects America's view of wealth
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Heritage Foundation having a normal one
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Roberts’s speechwriter, Evan Myers, suggested that Heritage’s attempts to address accusations of antisemitism would eventually mean he would be required to attend a Shabbat dinner, which he said would conflict with his faith.
November 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Congrats to Gannett on running a Cheney headline that sounds like it was produced by a ChatGPT knockoff
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel top story: "Dick Cheney dies at 84 after powerful vice president career"
November 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Can I interest you in the most 1993 thing ever committed to print?
A 1993 World Series program held open, with the masthead on the left-hand page and a Starter ad featuring Lenny Dykstra on the right-hand page
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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This unreconstructed Yale Daily News-level shit is so embarrassing
NYT headline: New York, long a city of contradictions, is still turning up new ones Joan Rivers on the Simpsons, about to say "Can we talk about Chief Wiggum?" and make a gagging motion
November 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Woof. Huge red flag for WI Dems imo that Josh Kaul has opted not to run for governor

(from @danshafer.bsky.social
www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/7-takeaway... )
Screenshot from Dan's column showing that no WI Dem gov candidate has greater than 6% support in the latest Marquette poll
October 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Post a perfectly 1989 album
Album cover, Mötley Crüe, Dr. Feelgood
October 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Still image from The Big Lebowski, The Dude looking into the Time Magazine mirror cover
October 30, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Coming soon
The famously bad restoration of a fresco of Jesus from a few years ago, before and after side by side
October 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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There's making up a guy to get mad about and then there's whatever George Will is doing here
Trump’s ballroom has already served the public good. It has triggered some people who need triggering. They have been blasé about his presidential grandiosity when he spends money for purposes Congress has explicitly refused to authorize (the Big Beautiful Wall), or when he insults local police forces by sending troops to pacify U.S. cities, or when he vaporizes perhaps criminal Venezuelans. Now, however, because of the ballroom, and the East Wing, the blasé are suddenly aghast.
October 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Leave it open long enough and:
macOS Calendar app in week view, with Wednesday as the far left column
October 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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If you leave Calendar open in week view in macOS 26 everything starts shifting to the left. I've gotten off-by-1 several times; here's my first off-by-2
A screenshot of the macOS Calendar app in week view, with Tuesday at the far left and Monday at the far right
October 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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I do enjoy a good lethal parenthesis
she has decided to leave the Democratic Party and become a political Independent. (Jean-Pierre, who served for more than two years in her role, which consisted of defending the Administration to the press and explaining its policies, also blames the Democratic Party because it “couldn’t articulate the achievements of the Biden/Harris administration well enough.”)
October 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Should I install the Satanic Zoom
Screenshot of an update graphic for Zoom, showing that version 6.6.6 is now available
October 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Seen around town
A Free DC with Trump's head on a spotted lanternfly
October 25, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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So, flagrantly illegal and democratically corrosive and also a one-time payment of $100 per troop?
• Shutdown pay: The U.S. military is accepting a private donation of $130 million to help pay the 1.3 million active duty troops during the government shutdown, the Defense Department said Friday. The unusual move could violate a law prohibiting federal agencies from spending money in excess of congressional appropriations or from accepting voluntary services. President
October 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Actual lol at this in my inbox
An email from CVS that says "Act now to keep receiving emails" in large type and a clickable box below that says "Yes, I still want emails" in small type
October 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Counterpoint: universities already have more of this than any other institution in American society
Whatever your opinion of its reading of civil rights law, the Trump administration is right that campuses need more viewpoint diversity and tolerance for those challenging orthodoxies.
October 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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The Washington Post Editorial Board(!) uses the UVA settlement to argue that the Trump administration's higher ed compact is a bridge too far lmao
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
The original compact proposed meddling in curricular decisions that are at the core of the university’s truth-seeking mission, such as getting rid of programs that “purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas.” Agreeing to that would have undermined the university’s mission in a way that accepting scrutiny of admissions, DEI programs and the use of race in hiring does not.
October 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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"Antidrug campaign" dear lord
NYT: U.S. expands its antidrug campaign, striking a boat in the Pacific off Colombia.
October 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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They are coming at the last wall from both sides
October 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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They are coming at the wall nearest the main building from both sides
The White House, north entrance, Oct 22 2025 Obscured view of White House East Wing demolition, Oct 22 2025
October 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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As usual 90s era Onion had this dynamic nailed
The Onion, Nov 24 1999: Area Man Hasn't Told Co-Workers About His Billy Joel Fanpage Yet
October 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM