@pimentomori123.bsky.social
Charlie Kirk, Ezra Klein, and the Cost of Civility-Theater Liberalism newrepublic.com/article/2009... via @newrepublic.com
The goal isn’t to anesthetize disagreement; it is to inoculate public life against dehumanizing hierarchies smuggled in as common sense.
The goal isn’t to anesthetize disagreement; it is to inoculate public life against dehumanizing hierarchies smuggled in as common sense.
Charlie Kirk, Ezra Klein, and the Cost of Civility-Theater Liberalism
“Talking across divides” is laudable—until it becomes a license to launder antidemocratic and dehumanizing ideas.
newrepublic.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Charlie Kirk, Ezra Klein, and the Cost of Civility-Theater Liberalism newrepublic.com/article/2009... via @newrepublic.com
The goal isn’t to anesthetize disagreement; it is to inoculate public life against dehumanizing hierarchies smuggled in as common sense.
The goal isn’t to anesthetize disagreement; it is to inoculate public life against dehumanizing hierarchies smuggled in as common sense.
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An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house."
The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.
The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.
An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"
The practice, an expert warns, could lead to "reprisals and retribution by the police for your politics.”
www.motherjones.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house."
The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.
The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.
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Content warning: blood, serious head injury. A woman was run down and trampled and clubbed by LAPD officers on horseback. She appears to be seriously injured and bleeding from the head as an officer drags her limp body along the pavement.
June 9, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Content warning: blood, serious head injury. A woman was run down and trampled and clubbed by LAPD officers on horseback. She appears to be seriously injured and bleeding from the head as an officer drags her limp body along the pavement.
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Here’s something you don’t hear much:
“Boy, Louisiana is just TOO ethical.”
Our latest episode dives into Gov. Jeff Landry's proposed rewriting of state ethics laws.
lailluminator.com/2025/05/23/l...
“Boy, Louisiana is just TOO ethical.”
Our latest episode dives into Gov. Jeff Landry's proposed rewriting of state ethics laws.
lailluminator.com/2025/05/23/l...
'The Light Switch,' Episode 7: A smatter of ethics • Louisiana Illuminator
Louisiana government's dubious history serves as the backdrop for a very significant proposed rewrite of Louisiana’s ethics laws, with Gov. Jeff Landry behind the pen.
lailluminator.com
May 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Here’s something you don’t hear much:
“Boy, Louisiana is just TOO ethical.”
Our latest episode dives into Gov. Jeff Landry's proposed rewriting of state ethics laws.
lailluminator.com/2025/05/23/l...
“Boy, Louisiana is just TOO ethical.”
Our latest episode dives into Gov. Jeff Landry's proposed rewriting of state ethics laws.
lailluminator.com/2025/05/23/l...
Glad to see the surgeon general of LA is finally coming around on vaccinations, and all it took was two completely unnecessary deaths.
Louisiana Surgeon General shares vaccine info after 2 babies die from whooping cough
Louisiana’s Surgeon General Dr. Ralph Abraham confirmed Thursday that two infants have died in the last six months amid an ongoing whooping cough outbreak in the state, and said vaccines are the best ...
www.wwno.org
March 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Glad to see the surgeon general of LA is finally coming around on vaccinations, and all it took was two completely unnecessary deaths.
@jsodonoghue.bsky.social
What is going on here? Where is the information about the increased budget for LDH? All I can find are Landry's own statements about $11 million in savings and now this?!
www.wwno.org/public-healt...
What is going on here? Where is the information about the increased budget for LDH? All I can find are Landry's own statements about $11 million in savings and now this?!
www.wwno.org/public-healt...
DOGE website shows $55M in cuts to Louisiana Department of Health
The cuts target mental health and substance use programs, including crisis services, according to Louisiana health officials.
www.wwno.org
March 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
@jsodonoghue.bsky.social
What is going on here? Where is the information about the increased budget for LDH? All I can find are Landry's own statements about $11 million in savings and now this?!
www.wwno.org/public-healt...
What is going on here? Where is the information about the increased budget for LDH? All I can find are Landry's own statements about $11 million in savings and now this?!
www.wwno.org/public-healt...
@lailluminator.com @nolanews.bsky.social
Uhhh... Was everyone aware Landry's recent EO for a state of emergency grants authority to the National Guard to handle cybersecurity? Like was somebody going to say something...like eventually?
Uhhh... Was everyone aware Landry's recent EO for a state of emergency grants authority to the National Guard to handle cybersecurity? Like was somebody going to say something...like eventually?
Louisiana Governor's Executive Order Renewing State of Emergency for Cybersecurity Incident Appears to Grant National Guard Authority to Act
Landry's March 20th renewal, grants authority to director of GOHSEP, a position that no longer seems to exist.
pimento-mori.ghost.io
March 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
@lailluminator.com @nolanews.bsky.social
Uhhh... Was everyone aware Landry's recent EO for a state of emergency grants authority to the National Guard to handle cybersecurity? Like was somebody going to say something...like eventually?
Uhhh... Was everyone aware Landry's recent EO for a state of emergency grants authority to the National Guard to handle cybersecurity? Like was somebody going to say something...like eventually?
Hey you know that Tufts student that got grabbed off the street by masked "police?"
Ysk that Dept. of Homeland Security is dismantling 3 civil rights offices for standing in the way of immigration policy mission. Oddly, only 2 of those offices deal with immigration (1/2)
Ysk that Dept. of Homeland Security is dismantling 3 civil rights offices for standing in the way of immigration policy mission. Oddly, only 2 of those offices deal with immigration (1/2)
Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her
A Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University has been detained by U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation, her lawyer said Wednesday.
apnews.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Hey you know that Tufts student that got grabbed off the street by masked "police?"
Ysk that Dept. of Homeland Security is dismantling 3 civil rights offices for standing in the way of immigration policy mission. Oddly, only 2 of those offices deal with immigration (1/2)
Ysk that Dept. of Homeland Security is dismantling 3 civil rights offices for standing in the way of immigration policy mission. Oddly, only 2 of those offices deal with immigration (1/2)
A few things everyone should know about the "bipartisan" Moskowitz bill to liberate FEMA
moskowitz.house.gov/posts/fema-i...
The same day he proposed his bill to remove FEMA from DHS, DHS secretary said during a televised cabinet meeting that she planned to eliminate FEMA from DHS (1/12)
moskowitz.house.gov/posts/fema-i...
The same day he proposed his bill to remove FEMA from DHS, DHS secretary said during a televised cabinet meeting that she planned to eliminate FEMA from DHS (1/12)
Moskowitz, Donalds Introduce Bipartisan FEMA Independence Act to Restore FEMA’s Status as an Independent, Cabinet-Level Agency and Create a More Efficient, Effective FEMA
WASHINGTON, DC — Congressman Jared Moskowitz (D-FL-23) announced that he just introduced his FEMA Independence Act, a bipartisan bill to reform federal emergency management and improve efficiency in f...
moskowitz.house.gov
March 27, 2025 at 4:42 AM
A few things everyone should know about the "bipartisan" Moskowitz bill to liberate FEMA
moskowitz.house.gov/posts/fema-i...
The same day he proposed his bill to remove FEMA from DHS, DHS secretary said during a televised cabinet meeting that she planned to eliminate FEMA from DHS (1/12)
moskowitz.house.gov/posts/fema-i...
The same day he proposed his bill to remove FEMA from DHS, DHS secretary said during a televised cabinet meeting that she planned to eliminate FEMA from DHS (1/12)
Kewl....
CDC is pulling back $11B in Covid funding sent to health departments across the U.S.
“Now that the pandemic is over, the grants and cooperative agreements are no longer necessary," federal health authorities wrote to funding recipients this week.
www.nbcnews.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Kewl....
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The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar
Goals
Goals
March 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar
Goals
Goals
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Don't mess with lady profs of a certain age. Once the kids are out of the house, we spend a lot of time in the gym.
The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar
Goals
Goals
March 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Don't mess with lady profs of a certain age. Once the kids are out of the house, we spend a lot of time in the gym.
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if a 66 year old woman with an h-score of 64 physically overpowers you while you are armed and she is not in a fight you started you should probably just give up on yourself
The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar
Goals
Goals
March 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM
if a 66 year old woman with an h-score of 64 physically overpowers you while you are armed and she is not in a fight you started you should probably just give up on yourself
What it feels like trying to warn people on the internet about anything in 2025.
March 19, 2025 at 12:46 AM
What it feels like trying to warn people on the internet about anything in 2025.
Screaming into the void some more so I can at least say I tried to call out a very clear attempt to privatize vaccine research for profit before it happened. Like I'm sure we all realize that is the ultimate goal but here is the playbook to get there.
March 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Screaming into the void some more so I can at least say I tried to call out a very clear attempt to privatize vaccine research for profit before it happened. Like I'm sure we all realize that is the ultimate goal but here is the playbook to get there.
Boy who could have seen this coming for several weeks? Definitely not me and all the publicly available evidence I keep ranting about.
mRNA vaccines are legit a near-miracle tech, there's one in testing that might be able to cure pancreatic cancer, and this fucking degenerate might take them from us arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Report: mRNA vaccines are in RFK Jr’s crosshairs; funding in question
“Kennedy’s war on vaccines has started,” one researcher said.
arstechnica.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Boy who could have seen this coming for several weeks? Definitely not me and all the publicly available evidence I keep ranting about.
@amersocvirology.bsky.social
Hi all, I'm not a virologist, but some very interesting things have caught my attention Re: attacks on GOF research. I wrote a very long post about it for a broad public audience and have been screaming into the void trying to get someone to notice
Hi all, I'm not a virologist, but some very interesting things have caught my attention Re: attacks on GOF research. I wrote a very long post about it for a broad public audience and have been screaming into the void trying to get someone to notice
March 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
@amersocvirology.bsky.social
Hi all, I'm not a virologist, but some very interesting things have caught my attention Re: attacks on GOF research. I wrote a very long post about it for a broad public audience and have been screaming into the void trying to get someone to notice
Hi all, I'm not a virologist, but some very interesting things have caught my attention Re: attacks on GOF research. I wrote a very long post about it for a broad public audience and have been screaming into the void trying to get someone to notice
The 4th Dem is @bluntrochester.senate.gov Thank you for being 1 of only 4 Democrats sitting on a Senate committee for science to show that you take your responsibility seriously. You four deserve credit for trying.
@commerce.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov @kim.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social and 1 other Dem were the only 4 to attempt to try to protect science and the rest of the country against vaccine Privatization. Not sure who the 4th was bc paywall & commerce page for Kratsios looks like this:
March 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The 4th Dem is @bluntrochester.senate.gov Thank you for being 1 of only 4 Democrats sitting on a Senate committee for science to show that you take your responsibility seriously. You four deserve credit for trying.
@commerce.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov @kim.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social and 1 other Dem were the only 4 to attempt to try to protect science and the rest of the country against vaccine Privatization. Not sure who the 4th was bc paywall & commerce page for Kratsios looks like this:
March 18, 2025 at 3:39 AM
@commerce.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov @kim.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social and 1 other Dem were the only 4 to attempt to try to protect science and the rest of the country against vaccine Privatization. Not sure who the 4th was bc paywall & commerce page for Kratsios looks like this:
@speakman.bsky.social
Hello, thank you for following me. Do you mind if I ask why you identify as a technocrat?
Hello, thank you for following me. Do you mind if I ask why you identify as a technocrat?
March 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
@speakman.bsky.social
Hello, thank you for following me. Do you mind if I ask why you identify as a technocrat?
Hello, thank you for following me. Do you mind if I ask why you identify as a technocrat?