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TLDR: Them congresspeople do weirdly well with stock gains. 👀
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
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www.nber.org/papers/w34524
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December 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM
TLDR: Them congresspeople do weirdly well with stock gains. 👀
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Ahhhh, the 1970's. Full grown adults out there, armed with boxes of dynamite, just flying by the seat of their pants.
Today is a big day in Oregon. The 55th Anniversary of Oregon's Exploding Whale.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CL...
The Exploding Whale: An infamous moment in Oregon history creates a strangely beloved icon
YouTube video by KATU News
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November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Ahhhh, the 1970's. Full grown adults out there, armed with boxes of dynamite, just flying by the seat of their pants.
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Your isolation is not accidental. It’s intentional.
A client of mine recently attended two international tech conferences and reached out to share his experience.
The first, he said, was “status quo white dudes and a handful of women.” The second, Mozilla Festival, felt completely different:
A client of mine recently attended two international tech conferences and reached out to share his experience.
The first, he said, was “status quo white dudes and a handful of women.” The second, Mozilla Festival, felt completely different:
November 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Your isolation is not accidental. It’s intentional.
A client of mine recently attended two international tech conferences and reached out to share his experience.
The first, he said, was “status quo white dudes and a handful of women.” The second, Mozilla Festival, felt completely different:
A client of mine recently attended two international tech conferences and reached out to share his experience.
The first, he said, was “status quo white dudes and a handful of women.” The second, Mozilla Festival, felt completely different:
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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
No notes. 👀
October 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
No notes. 👀
Powerful.
This is how it works: We protect each other, period. These are our neighbors, our friends, our family. We do the things we have to do to ensure that as many of us can make it to tomorrow as possible. Not everyone does. I need you to understand that we tried.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
What I Need You To Understand, Notes from Chicago in Late October | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Powerful.
Arlington ran Stephen Miller out of town with chalk drawings. Apparently seeing messages like: "we [love] immigrants,” “hate has no home in Arlington,” “no white nationalism,” and “trans rights are human rights,” in sidewalk chalk was too scary for the poor lamb.
www.arlnow.com/2025/10/15/t...
www.arlnow.com/2025/10/15/t...
Top White House official selling Arlington home after activists write chalk messages on sidewalk | ARLnow.com
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is selling his Arlington home after it was repeatedly targeted by activists. The nearly 6,000-square-foot house, custom built with interiors that "embr...
www.arlnow.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Arlington ran Stephen Miller out of town with chalk drawings. Apparently seeing messages like: "we [love] immigrants,” “hate has no home in Arlington,” “no white nationalism,” and “trans rights are human rights,” in sidewalk chalk was too scary for the poor lamb.
www.arlnow.com/2025/10/15/t...
www.arlnow.com/2025/10/15/t...
This looks more like an excuse to surveil anyone they choose. That aside, I have a copy editing question: when the word "antifa" is used to refer to an organization, should it be referred to in quotes since it doesn't exist as an organization?
ICE "has been rapidly building out its surveillance capabilities in recent weeks, signing a string of contracts for technologies to identify individuals by their irises or facial features and to monitor their cellphone activity, social media posts and physical movements," per spending disclosures.
ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa
Iris scanners, facial recognition apps, phone-hacking software and cellphone location data are among the agency’s recent technological purchases.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This looks more like an excuse to surveil anyone they choose. That aside, I have a copy editing question: when the word "antifa" is used to refer to an organization, should it be referred to in quotes since it doesn't exist as an organization?
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There are some very strange things going on at the Library of Congress. I’m doing searches for news articles from the Civil Rights Era. Political cartoons. That sort of thing. They used to be easily found.
That stuff is VERY hard to find now. Things are missing, people.
That stuff is VERY hard to find now. Things are missing, people.
October 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
There are some very strange things going on at the Library of Congress. I’m doing searches for news articles from the Civil Rights Era. Political cartoons. That sort of thing. They used to be easily found.
That stuff is VERY hard to find now. Things are missing, people.
That stuff is VERY hard to find now. Things are missing, people.
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How on earth is "warfighting" being used as a word by someone who is NOT a six-year-old boy trying to get you to play GI Joe with him?
October 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
How on earth is "warfighting" being used as a word by someone who is NOT a six-year-old boy trying to get you to play GI Joe with him?
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“The announcement of health insurance companies that they’ll continue covering routine vaccinations is a huge vote of no confidence in ACIP's recommendations. It reflects a desire by insurers to avoid the cost of illnesses by having their customers vaccinated.”
Questions Are Raised About Vaccine Panel’s Reliability as Policy Review Gets Underway
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“The announcement of health insurance companies that they’ll continue covering routine vaccinations is a huge vote of no confidence in ACIP's recommendations. It reflects a desire by insurers to avoid the cost of illnesses by having their customers vaccinated.”
"I AM the storm," I whisper to my newly opened box of Trader Joe's Butter Almond Thins.
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"I AM the storm," I whisper to my newly opened box of Trader Joe's Butter Almond Thins.
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I can’t say it enough times - Everything hinges on trans rights.
If you need self-interest:
Cis ladies, do you like yoga pants and voting and guys in eyeliner?
Cis dudes, do you like glam rock, metal, and Katharine Hepburn?
Trans rights are our rights. Trans rights are your rights.
If you need self-interest:
Cis ladies, do you like yoga pants and voting and guys in eyeliner?
Cis dudes, do you like glam rock, metal, and Katharine Hepburn?
Trans rights are our rights. Trans rights are your rights.
September 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I can’t say it enough times - Everything hinges on trans rights.
If you need self-interest:
Cis ladies, do you like yoga pants and voting and guys in eyeliner?
Cis dudes, do you like glam rock, metal, and Katharine Hepburn?
Trans rights are our rights. Trans rights are your rights.
If you need self-interest:
Cis ladies, do you like yoga pants and voting and guys in eyeliner?
Cis dudes, do you like glam rock, metal, and Katharine Hepburn?
Trans rights are our rights. Trans rights are your rights.
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i just know we're all going to have to sit through a three minute clip of joe rogan saying "i can't believe censorship is happening"
September 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
i just know we're all going to have to sit through a three minute clip of joe rogan saying "i can't believe censorship is happening"
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Trans men are men. Trans women are women. Trans rights are human rights.
September 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Trans men are men. Trans women are women. Trans rights are human rights.
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"It's not MSNBC anymore, Lemon. It's MS NOW. We bought the name off of a defunct multiple sclerosis awareness organization. It wasn't cheap, but we were able to save some money by selling Brian Williams to a Saudi prince who wanted to expand his harem."
August 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"It's not MSNBC anymore, Lemon. It's MS NOW. We bought the name off of a defunct multiple sclerosis awareness organization. It wasn't cheap, but we were able to save some money by selling Brian Williams to a Saudi prince who wanted to expand his harem."
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A new study of over 5,000 #trans adults found that access to gender-affirming hormones during adolescence was associated with better mental health outcomes in adulthood.
Similar results to our 2022 study in @plosone.org.
digital.lib.washington.edu/researchwork...
Similar results to our 2022 study in @plosone.org.
digital.lib.washington.edu/researchwork...
Age of initiation of gender affirming hormone therapy and mental health outcomes among transgender, non-binary, and gender diverse adults living in the U.S.
Introduction: Gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) has been associated with improved psychosocial well-being among transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals. However, limited ev...
digital.lib.washington.edu
August 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
A new study of over 5,000 #trans adults found that access to gender-affirming hormones during adolescence was associated with better mental health outcomes in adulthood.
Similar results to our 2022 study in @plosone.org.
digital.lib.washington.edu/researchwork...
Similar results to our 2022 study in @plosone.org.
digital.lib.washington.edu/researchwork...
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Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.
August 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.
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re: fairness, there are simple steps that can be taken, like “let them practice with the team but not compete until they’ve been on HRT for [x] months or got puberty blockers” and it’s something that, given the 15 or so kids we are talking about, shouldn’t be a years long national debate
August 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
re: fairness, there are simple steps that can be taken, like “let them practice with the team but not compete until they’ve been on HRT for [x] months or got puberty blockers” and it’s something that, given the 15 or so kids we are talking about, shouldn’t be a years long national debate
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America constantly tells teachers that they’re supposed to do it for the love of the job, not to get “rich” at 50K. But then you’ve got members of Congress making almost 200K acting like they’ll starve if they can’t do insider trading and manipulate the stock market
July 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
America constantly tells teachers that they’re supposed to do it for the love of the job, not to get “rich” at 50K. But then you’ve got members of Congress making almost 200K acting like they’ll starve if they can’t do insider trading and manipulate the stock market
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very jealous of you who live in LA.
Eric Krasno
Robert "Sput" Searight
Cory Henry
last night at The Mint in LA
now THIS is a supergroup
Eric Krasno
Robert "Sput" Searight
Cory Henry
last night at The Mint in LA
now THIS is a supergroup
“Something” into “Change is Gonna Come” @EricKrasnoOfficial + @CoryHenry + @Sput aka Heavyweights
YouTube video by Eric Krasno
youtu.be
July 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
very jealous of you who live in LA.
Eric Krasno
Robert "Sput" Searight
Cory Henry
last night at The Mint in LA
now THIS is a supergroup
Eric Krasno
Robert "Sput" Searight
Cory Henry
last night at The Mint in LA
now THIS is a supergroup
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This is how a seal’s nose prevents water from entering its lungs.
July 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is how a seal’s nose prevents water from entering its lungs.
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United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero -
Two years ago, we invited all 100 senators to work in the fields. Only two of them accepted: Alex Padilla and Cory Booker.
Two years ago, we invited all 100 senators to work in the fields. Only two of them accepted: Alex Padilla and Cory Booker.
July 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero -
Two years ago, we invited all 100 senators to work in the fields. Only two of them accepted: Alex Padilla and Cory Booker.
Two years ago, we invited all 100 senators to work in the fields. Only two of them accepted: Alex Padilla and Cory Booker.