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Uh, guys? Willard Mitt Romney is tax-the-rich-posting on main
December 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Uh, guys? Willard Mitt Romney is tax-the-rich-posting on main
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Rising CO² levels lead to larger crop yields with higher calorie counts, but significantly decrease nutritional value, with some important micronutrients dropping to a third of historical levels.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
CO2 Rise Directly Impairs Crop Nutritional Quality
This analysis studies the direct effect of CO2 rise on nutrient quality by synthesizing pre-existing data on ~59,000 samples across 43 different food crops, where half of the plants were grown under ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Rising CO² levels lead to larger crop yields with higher calorie counts, but significantly decrease nutritional value, with some important micronutrients dropping to a third of historical levels.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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"The Boviadium Fragments" is a sci-fi novella (about 50 pages) written by J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien absolutely hated the automobile, and wrote this story as a conversation among archaeologists about how this century asphyxiated itself on burning petroleum.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/isen...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/isen...
Isengard in Oxford | Los Angeles Review of Books
Christian Kriticos explores J. R. R. Tolkien’s long-lost satire of a motorized world.
lareviewofbooks.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"The Boviadium Fragments" is a sci-fi novella (about 50 pages) written by J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien absolutely hated the automobile, and wrote this story as a conversation among archaeologists about how this century asphyxiated itself on burning petroleum.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/isen...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/isen...
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I’m shocked that they’re going to miss the deadline. Just shocked.
December 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I’m shocked that they’re going to miss the deadline. Just shocked.
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They will bring back 19th century filibusters any day now.
Apparently this is not the onion: www.lee.senate.gov/2025/12/patr...
December 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
They will bring back 19th century filibusters any day now.
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Credit where credit is due for just outright saying "Yeah, we looked at the numbers and I don't think I can win" instead of beating around the bush.
December 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Credit where credit is due for just outright saying "Yeah, we looked at the numbers and I don't think I can win" instead of beating around the bush.
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Never trust Trump to do anything but con and lie.
December 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Never trust Trump to do anything but con and lie.
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Nevermind it MIGHT be broken. bsky.app/profile/frit...
Think I have conclusively demonstrated that the search tool for the limited release Epstein Files published so far by the Justice Department does not work
December 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Nevermind it MIGHT be broken. bsky.app/profile/frit...
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I mean the good news is that they are going to do such a shitty job of hiding things that we are absolutely going to see some funny shit.
DOJ won’t meet Friday deadline to release all the Epstein files
DOJ won’t meet Friday deadline to release all the Epstein files
The delay means the White House is in apparent conflict with a law President Donald Trump signed in November.
dlvr.it
December 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I mean the good news is that they are going to do such a shitty job of hiding things that we are absolutely going to see some funny shit.
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As expected, the Trump administration has redacted every single Republican out of the Epstein files, but not Bill Clinton, which is just fine.
First of all, Clinton can go to hell. Second of all, this will not slake the people’s desire for justice, but increase it.
First of all, Clinton can go to hell. Second of all, this will not slake the people’s desire for justice, but increase it.
December 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
As expected, the Trump administration has redacted every single Republican out of the Epstein files, but not Bill Clinton, which is just fine.
First of all, Clinton can go to hell. Second of all, this will not slake the people’s desire for justice, but increase it.
First of all, Clinton can go to hell. Second of all, this will not slake the people’s desire for justice, but increase it.
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to the contrary, this is an amazing opportunity for cartels to launder drug money into legally owned American assets
This is the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen.
Let’s pretend like these dudes on the boats are really cartel members.
There are a handful of OIF/OEF veterans that would be prepared to deal with that amount of firepower.
Everyone else? This will get Americans killed.
Let’s pretend like these dudes on the boats are really cartel members.
There are a handful of OIF/OEF veterans that would be prepared to deal with that amount of firepower.
Everyone else? This will get Americans killed.
December 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
to the contrary, this is an amazing opportunity for cartels to launder drug money into legally owned American assets
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This is a great insight.
December 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This is a great insight.
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gonna be honest with you man i think being a furry is infinitely less embarrassing than being a harry potter adult and i wish society would realize that
December 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
gonna be honest with you man i think being a furry is infinitely less embarrassing than being a harry potter adult and i wish society would realize that
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and another deogie here: tinyview.com/deogie/2025/...
December 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
and another deogie here: tinyview.com/deogie/2025/...
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And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.
December 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.
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Pleased to announce I am a full 2cm taller than both of them 😌
December 19, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Pleased to announce I am a full 2cm taller than both of them 😌
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the number one requirement for the next Dem president is that they are willing to look back
with a flamethrower
with a flamethrower
There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
The president's name was added to the sign outside the performing arts center.
December 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
the number one requirement for the next Dem president is that they are willing to look back
with a flamethrower
with a flamethrower
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California's first state constitution in 1849 was bilingual. Spanish has been spoken in large swaths of the US for much longer than English. These people are racist asshats.
December 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
California's first state constitution in 1849 was bilingual. Spanish has been spoken in large swaths of the US for much longer than English. These people are racist asshats.
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Congressman Thomas Massie says that the release today “grossly fails to comply with both the spirit and the letter of the law that [President Trump] signed just 30 days ago.”
1. BREAKING
Congressman Ro Khanna — who co-authored the Epstein bill with Congressman Thomas Massie — says the Trump Department of Justice’s Epstein files release today DOES NOT comply with federal law.
Congressman Ro Khanna — who co-authored the Epstein bill with Congressman Thomas Massie — says the Trump Department of Justice’s Epstein files release today DOES NOT comply with federal law.
December 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Congressman Thomas Massie says that the release today “grossly fails to comply with both the spirit and the letter of the law that [President Trump] signed just 30 days ago.”
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FROM THE EPSTEIN FILES: During one of Doe's encounters with Epstein, he took her to Mar-a-Lago where he introduced her to its owner, Donald J. Trump. Introducing 14-year-old Doe to Donald J. Trump,... 1/2
December 19, 2025 at 11:23 PM
FROM THE EPSTEIN FILES: During one of Doe's encounters with Epstein, he took her to Mar-a-Lago where he introduced her to its owner, Donald J. Trump. Introducing 14-year-old Doe to Donald J. Trump,... 1/2
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your regularly scheduled reminder that my page is one without any tolerance for generative AI, and that tech dependent on theft and environmental harm is not a source of empowerment for anyone
December 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
your regularly scheduled reminder that my page is one without any tolerance for generative AI, and that tech dependent on theft and environmental harm is not a source of empowerment for anyone
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Can I just say 2 things: First, Matt fails to see how these two sentences are different:
"Trump is weak on the economy and highlighting it is bad for him"
"Trump is weak on the economy, so Democrats shouldn't talk about immigration"
I think this says a lot about his ideological priors
"Trump is weak on the economy and highlighting it is bad for him"
"Trump is weak on the economy, so Democrats shouldn't talk about immigration"
I think this says a lot about his ideological priors
Here's a good post from Elliott Morris, the leader of the anti-Yglesias bandwagon, about how Trump's biggest political vulnerability is the cost of living and how Trump is screwing up by drawing more attention to it.
bsky.app/profile/gell...
bsky.app/profile/gell...
Trump's White House speech on affordability shows his team is desperate to try anything to help his numbers (except, of course, change the policies that majorities of Americans disapprove of)
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-vote...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-vote...
December 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Can I just say 2 things: First, Matt fails to see how these two sentences are different:
"Trump is weak on the economy and highlighting it is bad for him"
"Trump is weak on the economy, so Democrats shouldn't talk about immigration"
I think this says a lot about his ideological priors
"Trump is weak on the economy and highlighting it is bad for him"
"Trump is weak on the economy, so Democrats shouldn't talk about immigration"
I think this says a lot about his ideological priors
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WOW: Fox News reports that the DOJ used the same redaction standards for “politically exposed individuals and government officials” as it did for victims.
December 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM
WOW: Fox News reports that the DOJ used the same redaction standards for “politically exposed individuals and government officials” as it did for victims.
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Holy crap chart from Gallup
December 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Holy crap chart from Gallup