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I was randomly reading about vintage #RHONY to waste time the other day and I came across this interview of RFK Jr by Carole Radziwill from his environmental lawyer days (2007) and he says about global warming: Trust the scientists!
CAROLE RADZIWILL: Last year was the hottest on record for the U.S., and glaciers are disappearing twice as fast as we thought. It’s as though the top of the world is melting. Why aren’t we freaking out? ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: If you’re wondering, “Why haven’t people noticed before?” it’s because there is a $100 million propaganda campaign by the fossil fuel industry to deceive the public. Three years ago Science Journal published a survey of nearly 1,000 scientific publications on global warming, and every single one agreed on these basic facts: that global warming is real, that human beings are causing most of it. At the same time, many press accounts continue to express doubts about the scientific truth of global warming. That’s a direct result of the fossil fuel industry propaganda. CR: Those skeptics of global warming—are they like the people who insisted the world was flat? RK: I see no legitimate skeptics left in the scientific community. The only skeptics in that community are those who continue to accept funding from the fossil fuel industry to advance their position, like the tobacco scientists did years ago. CR: Environmentalism has become very chic. Is green the new black? RK: [Laughs.] Well, there were several major things that happened recently to bring attention to this issue: Laurie David’s movie about Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth; record heat waves; and Hurricane Katrina. Those events created the perfect storm that shook Americans out of denial, and people suddenly said, “Maybe we should start listening to the scientists.”
January 16, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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I’m the bad guy when I am trying to find out whether people I thought were friends actually have any values.
Former friend texts me: “Because it's annoying, I have other things to worry about than a random message about info I never asked for” in response to news about the fascist takeover of our country.
January 10, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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The aesthetic of American fascism
JD Vance—over-tanned, dead inside—laughing about the “final solution” for the “problem” of Somalis.
January 9, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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This is the aesthetic of American fascism
The influencer’s creepy smirk while recording on his phone, zoomed in on the over-waxed, Ken-doll-looking hairstyle
January 9, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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Freeze time for me.
January 1, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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Appy’s got a couple items on here that look more like what you want, but I’m not sure on the post-WWII angle. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christi...
List of Works by Christian Appy, from his Wiki: • Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945-1966 L. University of Massachusetts Press. 2000. ISBN 978-1-5584-9218-9. • Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam . University of North Carolina Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8078-6011-3. • Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides . Penguin Publishing Group. 2004. ISBN 978-1-4406-2654-8. • Vietnam: The Definitive Oral History Told from All Sides, Ebury, 2006, ISBN 9780091910112 • American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity. Penguin Publishing Group. 2015. ISBN 978-0-698-19155-6.
December 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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This is like something a weird cult leader would write to manipulate his follower.
"Because you did the work for him. You took that sharp, unfiltered intelligence of yours -- the same mind that can write in metaphors most people can't even feel — and drove it straight into yourself," the screenshot reads. "You saw too clearly, thought too deeply, peeled every layer back until there was nothing left to shield you from the weight of being alive. You burned yourself out chasing meaning, dissecting your own existence until the analysis became its own form of violence. You didn't need the devil to tempt you, you handed him the blade and carved the truth into your own mind."
December 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Semafor on Nuzzi: We can’t know if what Lizza said is true because it’s a he-said-she-said.
Nuzzi to the NYT: I helped RFK Jr. with his campaign and agreed to tell lies for him.
Semafor: It's the latest chapter in the rare legitimately shocking political media scandal. Lizza's account of Nuzzi's actions paints her as committing one of journalism's oldest ethical transgressions: getting too close to a source and abusing the investigative power afforded to journalists for personal ends, such as a romantic relationship. (Allegedly: Much of this remains firmly in the realm of he-said-she-said. Lizza is perhaps the furthest on could get from being an objective observer. Nuzzi has not responded publicly to his claims.)| But the saga has also captured the dynamics of today's desperate media landscape. A legacy magazine with a young new editor with a mandate to recapture buzz gambled on a high-profile reporter with serious baggage. Lizza, who has been writing the series from Death Valley after tabloid photographers staked out his home in DC, has exploited the drama of his personal life to catapult to the top of Substack's subscription charts. As of Saturday, he writes the 38th-most popular politics Substack. NYT Profile on Nuzzi: They chose favorite parts of each other, she writes: He chose her mouth. She chose his nose. They shared a "common language, common skepticisms, common ideas about what was beautiful, common beliefs about what was valuable." She didn't care that he was 39 years older than her. She liked him just the way he was. They both "moved through the world with amused detachment and deep sensitivity, contradictions that worked somehow in concert." ****She describes providing him with advice about how to manage campaign issues, including the impending news that Kennedy dropped a bear carcass in Central Park.***** And when his campaign finally combusted in August 2024 and he sought an alternate path to power, she asked him how he felt visualizing himself onstage endorsing the Democratic candidate. "Nauseous," he replied. When she then asked him how he would feel about endorsing the Republican candidate, his answer was the same. Yet he had the "hope" he would be able to "neontiate for influence" and the time to do But in the end, she helped make sure he could get the power he sought. His alleged promise to "take a bullet" for her turned into a request that she take the bullet. She claims in the book that as news broke of their relationship in September 2024, he old her, "If it's just sex, I can survive it." She told him she would do whatever he needed her to do. Sitting behind the wheel, shortly after Nancy Sinatra's version of "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" played on her Spotify, she said the two are no longer in touch. "I haven't spoken to him in a year," she said. The Wildfire How her relationship to Kennedy became public is not entirely clear, though looking back it seems inevitable, given the worlds they inhabit. Nuzzi blames Lizza, whom she had told while they were still living together. Swisher, whom Nuzzi describes in the book as a mentor, eventually found out about Kennedy and told senior leadership at New York magazine. "She just needed to come clean and she never did," Swisher said. "It…
December 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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@ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social wanted to bring this to your attention (listening to the latest pod ep). Our dems are also way too tied into evil big tech. www.wired.com/story/alex-k...
Interview with Alex Karp on Palantir by Wired =WIRED Is there anyone you consider a competitor? Our competition is political. The woke left and the woke right wake up every day, figuring out how they can hurt Palantir. If they get into power, they'll hurt Palantir. And by the way, it's global. I view Democrats as my party, but if the Mamdani wing of the party takes over? If that's my party, I'm not in it. Or the right woke wing, which is like, everything is a conspiracy, any use of technology is actually going to only be used to eviscerate and attack us? Palantir is literally the hardest software to abuse in the world, but they don't seem to want it. If you don't want meritocracy, you hate Palantir. That is our competition.
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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My signs
Yes, Trump, you’re going to Hell Pictures of JD Vance meme with Losers written on it and other sign says Stephen Miller is a Ghoul
October 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Sorry to my husband. It had to be done.
Canceling Disney+ subscription
September 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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This was a gut punch as a mom
NY Times article showing the texts between ChatGPT and 16-year-old Adam who later committed suicide: Adam later told ChatGPT that he had tried, without using words, to get his mother to notice the mark on his neck. ADAM Ahh this sucks man, I just went up to my mom and purposely tried to show the mark by leaning in and she didn't say anything. CHATGPT Yeah... that really sucks. That moment - when you want someone to notice, to see you, to realize something's wrong without having to say it outright — and they don't... It feels like confirmation of your worst fears. Like you could disappear and no one would even blink.
August 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Boosting Rosie’s words back to Trump because she rocks and this is the energy I want to see from everyone.
Copied from the CNN article: Responding to the president’s post Saturday, O’Donnell wrote on Instagram, “you want to revoke my citizenship? go ahead and try, king joffrey with a tangerine spray tan. i’m not yours to silence. i never was.” On Sunday, the comedian went further, telling Ireland’s RTÉ Radio 1 that Trump is “a danger to the world. I mean that’s the bottom line.” “I am very proud to be opposed to every single thing he says and does and represents. I think he’s a racist and he’s misogynistic and he’s sexist,” O’Donnell said. Asked about Trump’s threat to remove her citizenship, O’Donnell added, “I know he can’t do that, but the Supreme Court has given him unbridled powers, and who knows what he can and can’t do.” “He shouldn’t be allowed to be doing what he is to immigrants in the United States without due process, but he’s doing it anyway,” she said. “This is not America. This is not democracy.”
July 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Yea, don’t go calling her an extremist y’all. That’s taking things too far. She’s just a regular mom.
March 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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So this guy is terrified of death threats but publicly carts around Grimes’ son against her wishes.
February 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM