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Nicole Nina
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we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
August 10, 2024 at 3:21 PM
In college in 2009 my historiography class spent almost a whole period talking about how "better dead than red" had lost meaning. Most had never heard the phrase. I also see a lot of Stalinism in MAGA, but don't think it is good political persuasion.
People younger than Gen X didn’t live through even the remnants of the red scare but they have lived through the collapse of the middle class and the birth of a new Gilded Age.

It’s been honestly funny watching the socialism and communism scare-words fall flat after working for three generations.
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I'm old enough to remember when Third Way scolded both parties. Now they're just one of the worst examples of beltway brainrot. Get on I-95 and go visit the VA districts that went blue!
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Lots of great things about it, but Mamdani’s victory is also an encouraging win over the evil AI hate slop that Cuomo was tossing at the virtual wall at the end there. Deepfakes are dangerous but they are also a sign of despotic desperation.
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Adams has railed against vaccines, and science in general, for many years. Kennedy cut funding for promising work including mRNA vaccines for prostate cancer. Just, the audacity here.
Healthcare but only for my friends
November 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
November 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Mike Johnson's refusal to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva four weeks after her victory is one more reminder that Republicans don't accept elections when they lose. To them, participation in democracy is only a means to destroy democracy.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Oct 22
Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva has still not been sworn in four weeks after her win. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing House Speaker Mike Johnson, citing “taxation without representation.”
Arizona Attorney General’s Office confirms lawsuit against House Speaker Johnson
n.pr
October 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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I FUCKING TOLD YOU ALL HOW STUPID THIS WOULD GET
22 Oct 2025 -- 8th grade cis AZ boy w/ mistake on birth certificate listing him as female removed by HS athletic director from basketball team tryouts & told to play w/ girls "to ensure fairness" under new birth-sex designation policies. Genetic tests can cost up to $2k.
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Arizona boy reportedly barred from team due to error on birth certificate
Laker Jackson was wrongly identified as female at birth, but high school in Mesa won’t let him play basketball with boys
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This warmed my jaded heart. If your neighbor's house is on fire go and help them put it out, sportsball rivalries be damned.

www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Purdue Student Journalists Distribute Solidarity Paper at IU
Student journalists from Purdue University’s The Exponent went to rival Indiana University on Friday to deliver a special print edition in solidarity with the now out-of-print Indiana Daily Student, a...
www.insidehighered.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Make your jokes about Faculty Senate meetings (we do!) but governance structures prevent costly fad-chasing! Small-d democratic procedures esp union workplace democracy *should* deflate overinvestment in the latest "innovation"
The centrist democratic position between 2006-2016ish was all “lean orgs!” And I kept saying, “oh yes sure make it easier for stable institutions to break.” We need to own how much our bleating about bureaucratic efficiencies created an easier-to-capture university.
Everyone wants to streamline bureaucracy, but maybe we'd get better results by making it *harder* for university admins to chase fads. Imagine the money we'd save with a mandatory cooling-off period before launching a "Center for Blockchain Studies" or dumping millions into the latest edtech toy.
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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YES
Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first
Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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I’m at a loss for words, and it’s not because I’m surprised; rather, I’m in near despair at the sheer level of coarseness and vulgarity to which large swathes of our polity have sunk. There is an entire portion of our population with absolutely no urge to decency, and it’s heartbreaking.
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
October 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Minnesotan labor folks, or anyone who's tried to order an ethically made tshirt, READ THIS
highly recommend reading this - seven corners print shop was putting a union bug on work not created by union members, including work for DFL candidates this year

canitgetanybetter.substack.com/p/incompeten...
Incompetence or Malice?
How Dan Winter and Seven Corners Print & Promo Withheld Union Membership From Employees and Ultimately Deceived Customers
canitgetanybetter.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM