Straw Hat Barto
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📚currently reading: convenience store woman by sayaka murata translated by ginny tapley takemori
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“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”
BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
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May 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”
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America is like a sleeping giant whose passion for democracy and social justice is fearless, once awakened.
The giant doesn’t awaken easily, but a nightmare can do it.
Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-tho...
The giant doesn’t awaken easily, but a nightmare can do it.
Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-tho...
Sunday thought
Awakening the sleeping giant
robertreich.substack.com
May 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
America is like a sleeping giant whose passion for democracy and social justice is fearless, once awakened.
The giant doesn’t awaken easily, but a nightmare can do it.
Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-tho...
The giant doesn’t awaken easily, but a nightmare can do it.
Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-tho...
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May 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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People really will get freaked out by the ingredients list on a jug of oat milk and then think they're only eating one chemical when they grill a steak.
Enjoy your heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons!! Worse than anything in oat milk, but still not that bad.
Enjoy your heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons!! Worse than anything in oat milk, but still not that bad.
May 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
People really will get freaked out by the ingredients list on a jug of oat milk and then think they're only eating one chemical when they grill a steak.
Enjoy your heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons!! Worse than anything in oat milk, but still not that bad.
Enjoy your heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons!! Worse than anything in oat milk, but still not that bad.
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In his first 100 days, President Trump “debased the very idea of America,” Jill Lepore writes. “He created chaos, emergency after emergency.” When she needed refuge, she turned to the Penguin Little Black Classics.
A Hundred Classics to Get Me Through a Hundred Days of Trump
Each morning, before the day’s decree, I turned to a slim book, hoping for sense, or solace.
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May 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
In his first 100 days, President Trump “debased the very idea of America,” Jill Lepore writes. “He created chaos, emergency after emergency.” When she needed refuge, she turned to the Penguin Little Black Classics.
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And this is why we say NEVER META
April 20, 2025 at 12:17 AM
And this is why we say NEVER META
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treating myself for my birthday today by staying up late and watching the new 4k of AMADEUS
April 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
treating myself for my birthday today by staying up late and watching the new 4k of AMADEUS
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The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024.
This isn't due to luck or skill.
Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you.
Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.
This isn't due to luck or skill.
Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you.
Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.
April 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024.
This isn't due to luck or skill.
Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you.
Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.
This isn't due to luck or skill.
Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you.
Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.
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If you're in congress and you aren't publicly in favor of banning the trading of individual stocks by people in congress, get your head out of your fucking ass.
April 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
If you're in congress and you aren't publicly in favor of banning the trading of individual stocks by people in congress, get your head out of your fucking ass.
Bon ivers new album has me floating in the lightness-heaviness feeling of hope
April 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Bon ivers new album has me floating in the lightness-heaviness feeling of hope
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Bluesky aims to build a new kind of digital town square, redistributing the power that typically lies with corporations to the users themselves.
Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
X and Facebook are governed by the policies of mercurial billionaires. Bluesky’s C.E.O., Jay Graber, says that she wants to give power back to the user.
www.newyorker.com
April 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Bluesky aims to build a new kind of digital town square, redistributing the power that typically lies with corporations to the users themselves.
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It’s actually so masculine to drink poison. Oh you don’t drink poison? I’m poison maxxing broh
April 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
It’s actually so masculine to drink poison. Oh you don’t drink poison? I’m poison maxxing broh
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Regardless of anything else about the Wisconsin race, it's just a relief to learn that money can't always buy elections
April 2, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Regardless of anything else about the Wisconsin race, it's just a relief to learn that money can't always buy elections
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I think progressives have had a problem with "purity tests" (the need for all leaders to have tightly aligned perspectives or else stay quiet about it)
And I think the Democratic Party has had a problem with being...undemocratic - with too much power in the institution and not in the people.
And I think the Democratic Party has had a problem with being...undemocratic - with too much power in the institution and not in the people.
April 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I think progressives have had a problem with "purity tests" (the need for all leaders to have tightly aligned perspectives or else stay quiet about it)
And I think the Democratic Party has had a problem with being...undemocratic - with too much power in the institution and not in the people.
And I think the Democratic Party has had a problem with being...undemocratic - with too much power in the institution and not in the people.
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A legend.
April 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
A legend.
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Also? Really classy and thoughtful to thank the pages, door openers, and other staff.
April 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Also? Really classy and thoughtful to thank the pages, door openers, and other staff.
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Cory Booker just gave the longest speech in the history of Congress and concluded by apologizing to everyone who had to stay up all night keeping the chamber open and operating.
April 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Cory Booker just gave the longest speech in the history of Congress and concluded by apologizing to everyone who had to stay up all night keeping the chamber open and operating.
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what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
April 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
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An advance look at Barry Blitt’s “Left to Their Own Devices,” the cover for next week’s issue. #NewYorkerCovers
March 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
An advance look at Barry Blitt’s “Left to Their Own Devices,” the cover for next week’s issue. #NewYorkerCovers
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The White House has already confirmed that the story is true.
Reporter: Can you share how your information about war plans was shared with a journalist?
Hegseth: So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes
Hegseth: So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes
March 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The White House has already confirmed that the story is true.
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Would love for someone to ask people in this administration to point to Yemen on a map
March 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Would love for someone to ask people in this administration to point to Yemen on a map
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The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
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When even Nancy Pelosi—queen of strategic compromise—calls your move a "devastating assault" on working families, you know you’ve lost the plot. Chuck Schumer really said, “What if I just hand the GOP everything they want?” And for what, Chuck? A pat on the head? 🙄.
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March 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
When even Nancy Pelosi—queen of strategic compromise—calls your move a "devastating assault" on working families, you know you’ve lost the plot. Chuck Schumer really said, “What if I just hand the GOP everything they want?” And for what, Chuck? A pat on the head? 🙄.