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What a horrifying weekend of news. Too much.
December 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
What a horrifying weekend of news. Too much.
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One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
Everything else aside, the idea that this is a model for many men of *masculinity* is so wild. This? This is "manly"? This is how people think it's cool to act?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
Dave Portnoy Demands NFL Investigate Pete Carroll & Raiders For Rigging
YouTube video by Clasher Sports
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December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
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Books are power charges for your brain.
December 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Books are power charges for your brain.
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Democrat (& @runforsomething.net alum!!) @aftynbehn.bsky.social is only down 2 points in a district Trump won by 22 points 👀👀👀
emersoncollegepolling.com/tennessee-7t...
emersoncollegepolling.com/tennessee-7t...
Tennessee 7th District 2025 Special Election Poll: Republican Van Epps and Democrat Behn Locked In Tight Race - Emerson Polling
Voters Split on Trump’s Job Performance as Economic Issues Top Voters’ Concerns A new Emerson…Full Release & Results
emersoncollegepolling.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Democrat (& @runforsomething.net alum!!) @aftynbehn.bsky.social is only down 2 points in a district Trump won by 22 points 👀👀👀
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Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"
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This is what every single person with any experience in China has been warning about from the start.
Very good WaPo story by Katrina Northrop and Rudy Lu. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... And good, clear headline!
Very good WaPo story by Katrina Northrop and Rudy Lu. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... And good, clear headline!
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 AM
This is what every single person with any experience in China has been warning about from the start.
Very good WaPo story by Katrina Northrop and Rudy Lu. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... And good, clear headline!
Very good WaPo story by Katrina Northrop and Rudy Lu. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... And good, clear headline!
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I always find it interesting how the story changes when a lawyer gets to court. They can say anything they want outside of court without accountability but the rules are vastly different in court where you can get seriously penalized for lying.
November 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I always find it interesting how the story changes when a lawyer gets to court. They can say anything they want outside of court without accountability but the rules are vastly different in court where you can get seriously penalized for lying.
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Purges of senior military officers.
If this were happening elsewhere, we'd understand right away what was happening.
It's hard to grasp that it's happening here. But it is...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...
If this were happening elsewhere, we'd understand right away what was happening.
It's hard to grasp that it's happening here. But it is...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...
Exclusive: Three-star general pushed out amid tensions with Hegseth | CNN Politics
A three-star general serving on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff has been pushed out of his position following months of sustained tensions with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, according to people famili...
www.cnn.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Purges of senior military officers.
If this were happening elsewhere, we'd understand right away what was happening.
It's hard to grasp that it's happening here. But it is...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...
If this were happening elsewhere, we'd understand right away what was happening.
It's hard to grasp that it's happening here. But it is...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...
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Because hope IS a strategy, as @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social has emphasized, a thread of quotes from admirable people to keep hope front and center in these trying times.
"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."
- Desmond Tutu
Because hope IS a strategy, as @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social has emphasized, a thread of quotes from admirable people to keep hope front and center in these trying times.
"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."
- Desmond Tutu
October 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Because hope IS a strategy, as @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social has emphasized, a thread of quotes from admirable people to keep hope front and center in these trying times.
"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."
- Desmond Tutu
Because hope IS a strategy, as @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social has emphasized, a thread of quotes from admirable people to keep hope front and center in these trying times.
"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."
- Desmond Tutu
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IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.
Kristi Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those who are here illegally. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.
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Kentucky to hold a state food drive as threats to food assistance loom, governor says kentuckylantern.com/2025/10/30/k...
Kentucky to hold a state food drive as threats to food assistance loom, governor says • Kentucky Lantern
Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced the state is starting a food drive as to the loss of federal food assistance looms.
kentuckylantern.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Kentucky to hold a state food drive as threats to food assistance loom, governor says kentuckylantern.com/2025/10/30/k...
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NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
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Due to the ongoing government shutdown, SNAP is set to run out of money for the first time in its history. “It’s not that the administration can’t pay up” to fill the gap—“it’s that it has chosen not to,” @willgottsegen.com argues in The Atlantic Daily.
The Deadline for a Major Shutdown Casualty
Roughly 42 million Americans may not get their SNAP benefits on Saturday.
bit.ly
October 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Due to the ongoing government shutdown, SNAP is set to run out of money for the first time in its history. “It’s not that the administration can’t pay up” to fill the gap—“it’s that it has chosen not to,” @willgottsegen.com argues in The Atlantic Daily.
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Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success
October 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success
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"You Don’t Argue With Extremists. You Organize Against Them"
A fascinating piece from a researcher on why debates don't always work as a method of effecting change. As a debater, I don't agree with all of it, but Zeteo is all about encouraging... debate:
A fascinating piece from a researcher on why debates don't always work as a method of effecting change. As a debater, I don't agree with all of it, but Zeteo is all about encouraging... debate:
You Don’t Argue With Extremists. You Organize Against Them
Studies shows debate is not the tool for political change that many believe, author and researcher Sarah Stein Lubrano argues.
zeteo.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
"You Don’t Argue With Extremists. You Organize Against Them"
A fascinating piece from a researcher on why debates don't always work as a method of effecting change. As a debater, I don't agree with all of it, but Zeteo is all about encouraging... debate:
A fascinating piece from a researcher on why debates don't always work as a method of effecting change. As a debater, I don't agree with all of it, but Zeteo is all about encouraging... debate:
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NYT reporting on this story has been exceptional, but it’s worth considering how the framing might differ if a foreign nation or group was blowing up American boats with Americans a few miles off the Florida shore.
October 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
NYT reporting on this story has been exceptional, but it’s worth considering how the framing might differ if a foreign nation or group was blowing up American boats with Americans a few miles off the Florida shore.
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Here Are Some Things You Should Be Furious About
From ICE Barbie To Erasing Eleanor
open.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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It’s far from the most important thing, morally right now, or in terms of the human stakes, but the ballroom thing is really breaking my brain.
October 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It’s far from the most important thing, morally right now, or in terms of the human stakes, but the ballroom thing is really breaking my brain.
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this strikes me as a potentially serious problem for the government!
2/ Halligan was appointed pursuant to 28 USC 546, which authorizes the appointment of an "Interim" US Attorney for 120 days.
Once those 120 days are up, the "interim" lawyer is out & only the judges in the district can appoint someone to stay on the job.
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
Once those 120 days are up, the "interim" lawyer is out & only the judges in the district can appoint someone to stay on the job.
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
October 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
this strikes me as a potentially serious problem for the government!
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This is genuinely gut-wrenching. Anyone associated w this structure knows the endless ranks of people, over the decades, who have treated the structure and surroundings w respect—since they were symbols for traditions of America as a whole
Too apt a metaphor for Trump and US institutions overall
Too apt a metaphor for Trump and US institutions overall
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This is genuinely gut-wrenching. Anyone associated w this structure knows the endless ranks of people, over the decades, who have treated the structure and surroundings w respect—since they were symbols for traditions of America as a whole
Too apt a metaphor for Trump and US institutions overall
Too apt a metaphor for Trump and US institutions overall
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Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them
Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
n.pr
October 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
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“This is not about drugs, it’s not about Venezuela, it’s not about anything else but this new assertion by the president that the U.S. military will kill anyone he points at, for any reason he deems sufficient.”
Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
“This is not about drugs, it’s not about Venezuela, it’s not about anything else but this new assertion by the president that the U.S. military will kill anyone he points at, for any reason he deems sufficient.”
Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
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this is a tacit admission that the administration is not confident in the legal arguments it would have to make in order to detain them, which should also cast into question the legality of the operation in the first place
Those men are super dangerous drug smuggling terrorists, which is why . . . we are letting them go.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
U.S. Is Repatriating Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
this is a tacit admission that the administration is not confident in the legal arguments it would have to make in order to detain them, which should also cast into question the legality of the operation in the first place
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So no terrorism then?
October 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
So no terrorism then?