Adam Weitzman
@pithysnarky.bsky.social
Husband, father, software engineer, music collector, vegetarian, sayer of things. Pwning is bullying.
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A basic and intuitive understanding of the law is that punishments should not be retroactive upon a policy change.
This is even worse. There is no formal policy change, they are simply penalizing couples for following common practice - explicitly allowed by Congress - for decades.
This is even worse. There is no formal policy change, they are simply penalizing couples for following common practice - explicitly allowed by Congress - for decades.
"We followed everything we were supposed to do"
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A basic and intuitive understanding of the law is that punishments should not be retroactive upon a policy change.
This is even worse. There is no formal policy change, they are simply penalizing couples for following common practice - explicitly allowed by Congress - for decades.
This is even worse. There is no formal policy change, they are simply penalizing couples for following common practice - explicitly allowed by Congress - for decades.
Grifter pardons grifter. We should have Constitutional-amended this particular power out a long time ago.
When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
November 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Grifter pardons grifter. We should have Constitutional-amended this particular power out a long time ago.
I’ll just say that “Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead” is one of the texts that I consider foundational to who I am today. RIP to a legend.
November 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I’ll just say that “Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead” is one of the texts that I consider foundational to who I am today. RIP to a legend.
Black Friday at Northwestern. So sad.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Black Friday at Northwestern. So sad.
Happy Record Store Day to those who celebrate! As usual, got some stuff, missed out on some stuff, nearly froze to death waiting to get into the store, and enjoyed chatting with the other #RSDBF crazies in line.
November 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Happy Record Store Day to those who celebrate! As usual, got some stuff, missed out on some stuff, nearly froze to death waiting to get into the store, and enjoyed chatting with the other #RSDBF crazies in line.
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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Suno is a subscription service. You could literally spend the same money on a harmonica, or a real cheap guitar, or some claves, and have an infinitely richer experience of creating music.
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Suno is a subscription service. You could literally spend the same money on a harmonica, or a real cheap guitar, or some claves, and have an infinitely richer experience of creating music.
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
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Unfortunately, the concept of informed consent has become increasingly politicized and weaponized, particularly around vaccination.
Informed Consent Is Alive and Well—Despite What You’ve Been Told
Setting the record straight on how vaccine communication actually works and why some groups want you to think it’s broken
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Unfortunately, the concept of informed consent has become increasingly politicized and weaponized, particularly around vaccination.
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
I mean, if you’re going to have any water-filled vinyl in your collection at all, the Jaws soundtrack is the obvious choice, right?
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I mean, if you’re going to have any water-filled vinyl in your collection at all, the Jaws soundtrack is the obvious choice, right?
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R.I.P. Jellybean Johnson (drummer for Morris Day & The Time and hitmaking producer) 😿
Jellybean Johnson, drummer for The Time and hitmaking producer, has died
In addition to Johnson’s work as a musician, he was also a proponent of preserving local music history as a co-founder of the Minneapolis Sound Museum. He died on Friday.
www.thecurrent.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
R.I.P. Jellybean Johnson (drummer for Morris Day & The Time and hitmaking producer) 😿
Please replace “challenge scientific orthodoxy” with “promulgate complete bullshit” in this lede, because that’s all this is.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Please replace “challenge scientific orthodoxy” with “promulgate complete bullshit” in this lede, because that’s all this is.
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Happy 60th birthday to Björk
youtu.be/bOrGYzNUBVM
youtu.be/bOrGYzNUBVM
Bjork - Big Time Sensuality - Rare Night Version
YouTube video by contron
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November 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Happy 60th birthday to Björk
youtu.be/bOrGYzNUBVM
youtu.be/bOrGYzNUBVM
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Joint Statement from Goodlander, Slotkin, Kelly, Crow, Deluzio, and Houlahan
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Joint Statement from Goodlander, Slotkin, Kelly, Crow, Deluzio, and Houlahan
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I shared this photo a week or so ago on Mani’s birthday
- It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself.
One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend
Love you Mani x x
Never to be forgotten
- It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself.
One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend
Love you Mani x x
Never to be forgotten
November 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I shared this photo a week or so ago on Mani’s birthday
- It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself.
One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend
Love you Mani x x
Never to be forgotten
- It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself.
One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend
Love you Mani x x
Never to be forgotten
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'It’s easy to look on LL Cool J today as something of a side-story to the major figures in hip hop’s evolution, yet back in the golden era, LL was hip hop’s first solo superstar, a teenage colossus of the mic'
LL Cool J: Radio Versus Mama Said Knock You Out - Radio turns 40 today!
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LL Cool J: Radio Versus Mama Said Knock You Out - Radio turns 40 today!
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November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
'It’s easy to look on LL Cool J today as something of a side-story to the major figures in hip hop’s evolution, yet back in the golden era, LL was hip hop’s first solo superstar, a teenage colossus of the mic'
LL Cool J: Radio Versus Mama Said Knock You Out - Radio turns 40 today!
buff.ly/LYHslbO
LL Cool J: Radio Versus Mama Said Knock You Out - Radio turns 40 today!
buff.ly/LYHslbO
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Happy 40th birthday to Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain, which was released on this day in 1985
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Happy 40th birthday to Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain, which was released on this day in 1985
It’s grift all the way down. We all knew it, but thanks to @propublica.org for helping uncover this particular fleecing of American taxpayers.
NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends.
It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It’s grift all the way down. We all knew it, but thanks to @propublica.org for helping uncover this particular fleecing of American taxpayers.
It’s #CDFriday time of the week. Got an email this AM mentioning the 30th anniversary of the Coldcut mix, so it seemed as good a reason as any to dig that one out.
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It’s #CDFriday time of the week. Got an email this AM mentioning the 30th anniversary of the Coldcut mix, so it seemed as good a reason as any to dig that one out.
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So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.
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Happy 80th birthday to Mr. Neil Young.
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Happy 80th birthday to Mr. Neil Young.