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Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.
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Rachel Levine is a lifelong public servant who bravely navigated the pandemic on behalf of all Pennsylvanians. She should be honored, not attacked and belittled. Truly unconscionable stuff.
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Rachel Levine is a lifelong public servant who bravely navigated the pandemic on behalf of all Pennsylvanians. She should be honored, not attacked and belittled. Truly unconscionable stuff.
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Heritage is just cartoonishly evil. Just the worst scum on the face of the planet.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Heritage is just cartoonishly evil. Just the worst scum on the face of the planet.
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anyways turns out there was a thing called analytic philosophy so glad it only took a few decades to find a place
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
anyways turns out there was a thing called analytic philosophy so glad it only took a few decades to find a place
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where my spear Danes at?
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
where my spear Danes at?
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Supreme Court issues a stay, with three dissenting and Brett Kavanaugh concurring separate to note that hunger tends to be brief
November 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Supreme Court issues a stay, with three dissenting and Brett Kavanaugh concurring separate to note that hunger tends to be brief
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The problem with most of Yglesias’s advice for Democrats is that Republicans do the opposite and win all the time. So it’s either bad advice or evidence of an asymmetric playing field, which he never addresses.
My working hypothesis is that the reason Matt Yglesias was booed off of Bluesky isn’t because Bluesky is too leftist or too toxic.
It’s because he sucks.
It’s because he sucks.
November 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The problem with most of Yglesias’s advice for Democrats is that Republicans do the opposite and win all the time. So it’s either bad advice or evidence of an asymmetric playing field, which he never addresses.
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The implicit assumption that white rural voters are the *real* voice of the masses, while the people who live around the major population centers (ie the majority of the country) are out of touch degenerates remains an unshakable feature of punditry. Truly nasty work
November 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The implicit assumption that white rural voters are the *real* voice of the masses, while the people who live around the major population centers (ie the majority of the country) are out of touch degenerates remains an unshakable feature of punditry. Truly nasty work
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one of the few kinda nice things about this period of time is that it's revealed, often surprisingly, which influential political figures actually believe in something
It's funny that Kristol has endorsed a vote for Zohran before Gillibrand and Chuck
October 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
one of the few kinda nice things about this period of time is that it's revealed, often surprisingly, which influential political figures actually believe in something
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The central lie — the key dishonesty — of modern conservatism is that being judgmental about the ethnicity or language or culture of the person next door is fine and acceptable, but being judgmental of that attitude is elitist and arrogant and closed-minded. What vapid bullshit.
October 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The central lie — the key dishonesty — of modern conservatism is that being judgmental about the ethnicity or language or culture of the person next door is fine and acceptable, but being judgmental of that attitude is elitist and arrogant and closed-minded. What vapid bullshit.
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It’s true that these incidents appear in the news section, but they’re rarely collected into trend pieces or framed by the media as part of a single, urgent story.
Compare this to ‘campus free speech,’ which had magazine covers, entire verticals and dedicated beat reporters.
Compare this to ‘campus free speech,’ which had magazine covers, entire verticals and dedicated beat reporters.
October 24, 2025 at 7:18 AM
It’s true that these incidents appear in the news section, but they’re rarely collected into trend pieces or framed by the media as part of a single, urgent story.
Compare this to ‘campus free speech,’ which had magazine covers, entire verticals and dedicated beat reporters.
Compare this to ‘campus free speech,’ which had magazine covers, entire verticals and dedicated beat reporters.
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This Sunday will mark 5 years since the Philadelphia police shot and killed Walter Wallace Jr.
We will join with community members at three events over the next three days to honor his life and legacy. We hope to see you there: amistadlaw.org/news/three-e...
We will join with community members at three events over the next three days to honor his life and legacy. We hope to see you there: amistadlaw.org/news/three-e...
October 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This Sunday will mark 5 years since the Philadelphia police shot and killed Walter Wallace Jr.
We will join with community members at three events over the next three days to honor his life and legacy. We hope to see you there: amistadlaw.org/news/three-e...
We will join with community members at three events over the next three days to honor his life and legacy. We hope to see you there: amistadlaw.org/news/three-e...
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/5 Ezra Kleinism would have me seek mutual values and agreement with the people who brought us to that, and who still support it. I would rather see them burn in Hell.
October 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
/5 Ezra Kleinism would have me seek mutual values and agreement with the people who brought us to that, and who still support it. I would rather see them burn in Hell.
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/4 Anyway, at this point it’s pretty clear she can be Kavanaugh stopped — roughly, aggressively detained and handcuffed incommunicado for some number of hours — based on her ethnicity and her last name not “matching” that ethnicity, and there would be no remedy.
October 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
/4 Anyway, at this point it’s pretty clear she can be Kavanaugh stopped — roughly, aggressively detained and handcuffed incommunicado for some number of hours — based on her ethnicity and her last name not “matching” that ethnicity, and there would be no remedy.
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/2 Yes, we could book her in another hotel. But then she has to leave her team, and make a big deal of it, and call attention to being an immigrant (from 10 months old!). And also, they’re the ones who suck.
October 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
/2 Yes, we could book her in another hotel. But then she has to leave her team, and make a big deal of it, and call attention to being an immigrant (from 10 months old!). And also, they’re the ones who suck.
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A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities
October 19, 2025 at 2:42 AM
A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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Dean McGowan suggests that there is reason to question the actual extent/legitimacy of the announced schism
abmcg.blogspot.com/2025/10/no-g...
abmcg.blogspot.com/2025/10/no-g...
No, the "Global South" Has Not Left the Anglican Communion
Part of the DNA of Anglicanism is the autonomy of national churches. This principle led English church leaders of the 16th century to suppor...
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October 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Dean McGowan suggests that there is reason to question the actual extent/legitimacy of the announced schism
abmcg.blogspot.com/2025/10/no-g...
abmcg.blogspot.com/2025/10/no-g...
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Now WeRateDogs is TRIPLING THE FUCK DOWN and talking about how often cops shoot dogs
October 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Now WeRateDogs is TRIPLING THE FUCK DOWN and talking about how often cops shoot dogs
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“Um, I thought you might be worried … about the security … of your shit.”
October 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“Um, I thought you might be worried … about the security … of your shit.”
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the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem
October 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem
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The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...
NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams
NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams
The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...
www.thewrap.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...
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“I object to seeing brown people on my street but I will give up this view if graduate requirements are shortened from two years to 18 months” give me a fucking break.
October 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
“I object to seeing brown people on my street but I will give up this view if graduate requirements are shortened from two years to 18 months” give me a fucking break.
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Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans
October 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans