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Be excellent to each other
Oakland, CA
Oakland, CA
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Seeing a lot of guys who I know can't get a consensus out of a room of 5 friendly ultras confidently giving electeds advice about how to lead.
November 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Seeing a lot of guys who I know can't get a consensus out of a room of 5 friendly ultras confidently giving electeds advice about how to lead.
I’m starting to get my Halloween costume together—I’m thinking either sexy Charlie Twerk or nerdy Charlie Quirk.
September 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I’m starting to get my Halloween costume together—I’m thinking either sexy Charlie Twerk or nerdy Charlie Quirk.
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Yep. Prestige podcasting is dying for the same reason as the rest of the media: Pontificating is cheap and reporting is expensive.
August 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Yep. Prestige podcasting is dying for the same reason as the rest of the media: Pontificating is cheap and reporting is expensive.
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Darlene Scalf was struck while in a marked crosswalk on Fruitvale Avenue. The driver is under arrest for driving while intoxicated.
76-year-old grandmother killed by drunk driver in East Oakland remembered for her kindness
Darlene Scalf was struck while in a marked crosswalk on Fruitvale Avenue. The driver is under arrest for driving while intoxicated.
oaklandside.org
August 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Darlene Scalf was struck while in a marked crosswalk on Fruitvale Avenue. The driver is under arrest for driving while intoxicated.
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The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it
TAPPER: 14 Republicans say you're risking undermining critical research by holding up NIH funding
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
July 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it
My environment here is still much worse than twitter.
Is it just the general population here is as tedious and boring as me?
Is it just the general population here is as tedious and boring as me?
March 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
My environment here is still much worse than twitter.
Is it just the general population here is as tedious and boring as me?
Is it just the general population here is as tedious and boring as me?
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even if you don't like the idea of the state on principle you will really not like what's left of it after the right hacks at it
www.bostonreview.net/product/what...
www.bostonreview.net/product/what...
March 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
even if you don't like the idea of the state on principle you will really not like what's left of it after the right hacks at it
www.bostonreview.net/product/what...
www.bostonreview.net/product/what...
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You: Oh my god the house is on fire!
Me (wise, has read books): And you're surprised? Houses have been on fire before [as the flames consume us both] Furthermore,
Me (wise, has read books): And you're surprised? Houses have been on fire before [as the flames consume us both] Furthermore,
March 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
You: Oh my god the house is on fire!
Me (wise, has read books): And you're surprised? Houses have been on fire before [as the flames consume us both] Furthermore,
Me (wise, has read books): And you're surprised? Houses have been on fire before [as the flames consume us both] Furthermore,
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People assume Andrew Cuomo is tough and A Fighter because he always looks angry and acts weird. Mistaking a total lack of emotional self-regulation and wild, self-destructive spite for Masculine Strength is one of the defining political errors to me. No one even tries to keep it together anymore.
March 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
People assume Andrew Cuomo is tough and A Fighter because he always looks angry and acts weird. Mistaking a total lack of emotional self-regulation and wild, self-destructive spite for Masculine Strength is one of the defining political errors to me. No one even tries to keep it together anymore.
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Dems in disarra-
*puts finger to ear*
I’m sorry, we’re getting some confusing news here
*puts finger to ear*
I’m sorry, we’re getting some confusing news here
this is incredible. Mike Johnson might not have the votes for speaker, and if House Republicans can't find someone else they might not be able to certify Trump's Electoral College victory.
lol
prospect.org/politics/202...
lol
prospect.org/politics/202...
Congress Has the Opportunity to Do the Funniest Thing Ever
The Speaker election looks tight. The presidential election certification is just days away. Could Republicans impose their own January 6th through sheer obstinacy?
prospect.org
January 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Dems in disarra-
*puts finger to ear*
I’m sorry, we’re getting some confusing news here
*puts finger to ear*
I’m sorry, we’re getting some confusing news here
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I am respectfully tapping the "support independent, worker led local media" sign once more
This is an incredible testament to the loss of local news coverage. A congresswoman disappeared for six months and no one noticed.
A U.S. Congresswoman disappeared for the last six months of her term. Nobody noticed.
Turns out she's in a memory care unit, & her staff (and apparently other people?) covered it up (though she was somehow propped up for an event a month ago?)
WILD story
Turns out she's in a memory care unit, & her staff (and apparently other people?) covered it up (though she was somehow propped up for an event a month ago?)
WILD story
December 22, 2024 at 3:23 AM
I am respectfully tapping the "support independent, worker led local media" sign once more
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As NYPD officials boasted of the resources expended finding the killer of a corporate CEO, another sidewalk murder the same week, of a migrant teen, has not received the same treatment. hellgatenyc.com/two-manhatta...
Two Very Different Manhattan Murder Investigations
The NYPD spent countless hours and resources searching for a CEO’s killer, but has made little evident progress on the fatal stabbing of a migrant teen.
hellgatenyc.com
December 9, 2024 at 10:19 PM
As NYPD officials boasted of the resources expended finding the killer of a corporate CEO, another sidewalk murder the same week, of a migrant teen, has not received the same treatment. hellgatenyc.com/two-manhatta...
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Very confusing situation here. To some, Luigi. To others, Waluigi.
December 9, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Very confusing situation here. To some, Luigi. To others, Waluigi.
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This is how to do it, kids: Home insurance is now a climate story. Put it on the front, and put "climate change" at the top. Especially now that deniers will control the federal and state government.
www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/hom...
www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/hom...
December 8, 2024 at 3:31 PM
This is how to do it, kids: Home insurance is now a climate story. Put it on the front, and put "climate change" at the top. Especially now that deniers will control the federal and state government.
www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/hom...
www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/hom...
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An Oklahoma-based cleaning company has been fined nearly $172,000 after federal investigators found that it had hired nearly a dozen children to work dangerous overnight shifts at an Iowa slaughterhouse.
Children Worked Dangerous Shifts at Iowa Slaughterhouse, Inquiry Finds
Qvest Sanitation was ordered to pay nearly $172,000 after the Labor Department found it had employed 11 children to clean equipment on overnight shifts at a pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2024 at 12:17 AM
An Oklahoma-based cleaning company has been fined nearly $172,000 after federal investigators found that it had hired nearly a dozen children to work dangerous overnight shifts at an Iowa slaughterhouse.
I have to admit, I find the night crowd at this corner a bit intimidating
December 2, 2024 at 1:57 AM
I have to admit, I find the night crowd at this corner a bit intimidating
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the internet sucks in part because no one makes their own personal websites anymore aftermath.site/website-musk...
For Love of God, Make Your Own Website - Aftermath
The internet felt like a limitless expanse of free expression. Now I usually end up at the same three or four websites.
aftermath.site
November 27, 2024 at 5:15 PM
the internet sucks in part because no one makes their own personal websites anymore aftermath.site/website-musk...
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feel like we'd all be better off if every journalist was given one of those sound effects keychains and one button played a guy saying "i'm obligated to be objective, not to pretend i'm however stupid i'd need to be for your statements to sound credible" and mash that every time they hear this shit
When I pointed out that Scott Jennings' job is to serve as a pro-Trump pundit, Soon-Shiong replied, "You just said is his job is to defend Donald Trump. Did you find that in his job description with CNN? I don't know if you know that as a fact."
More in Status: www.status.news/p/patrick-so...
More in Status: www.status.news/p/patrick-so...
November 27, 2024 at 1:50 PM
feel like we'd all be better off if every journalist was given one of those sound effects keychains and one button played a guy saying "i'm obligated to be objective, not to pretend i'm however stupid i'd need to be for your statements to sound credible" and mash that every time they hear this shit
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I am once again pleading with you to support local news in your area / any area you care about
Yes, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong has asked CNN commentator/Trump defender Scott Jennings to join the LA Times editorial board, but that’s not the most alarming news out of Oliver Darcy’s interview with the LA Times owner
www.status.news/p/patrick-so...
www.status.news/p/patrick-so...
The Lost Angeles Times
In an interview with Status, Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong demonstrated that he is editorially inept.
www.status.news
November 27, 2024 at 2:07 PM
I am once again pleading with you to support local news in your area / any area you care about
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James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.
November 27, 2024 at 5:03 PM
James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.
Having a normal one in NorCal
November 24, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Having a normal one in NorCal
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This guy is my neighbor and he got ripped off because Marc Andreesen, whose net worth is $2 billion, let a company he owned go bankrupt instead of keep it afloat so it could finish processing these transactions
Oh my God. This is tragic. And the worst part is that the FDIC is doing nothing.
www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/s...
www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/s...
'I have no money': Thousands of Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis
CNBC spoke to a dozen customers caught in the Synapse fintech predicament, people who are owed sums ranging from $7,000 to well over $200,000.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2024 at 3:33 AM
This guy is my neighbor and he got ripped off because Marc Andreesen, whose net worth is $2 billion, let a company he owned go bankrupt instead of keep it afloat so it could finish processing these transactions
Clouds good today
November 24, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Clouds good today