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Important to repost this every time Lizza drops another substack
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Important to repost this every time Lizza drops another substack
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Eagles sports radio is gonna make the red wedding look like a romantic comedy
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Eagles sports radio is gonna make the red wedding look like a romantic comedy
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A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
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Well, it works in theory...
Cryptology Group Held an Election, but Can’t Decrypt the Results
A global group of researchers was unable to read the vote tally, after an official lost one of three secret code keys needed to unlock a hyper-secure election system.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Well, it works in theory...
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This is a statement I received from a Epstein survivor who is a Jane Doe.
Share it widely.
Share it widely.
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This is a statement I received from a Epstein survivor who is a Jane Doe.
Share it widely.
Share it widely.
Love in sports when a guy screws up and he pats his chest as if to say, "Yeah, it's on me."
No need dude, we were watching. Trust me, we were already blaming you.
No need dude, we were watching. Trust me, we were already blaming you.
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Love in sports when a guy screws up and he pats his chest as if to say, "Yeah, it's on me."
No need dude, we were watching. Trust me, we were already blaming you.
No need dude, we were watching. Trust me, we were already blaming you.
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I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
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There really should be a coordinated effort to force Schumer out as Minority Leader as a result of his failure here.
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
There really should be a coordinated effort to force Schumer out as Minority Leader as a result of his failure here.
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Dear Democratic Senators: if you vote for this selling out of the ACA it will be the end of your careers. Depend upon it. You are there to defend this country against Trump and the fascists, not collude with them. If you become Quislings, you will forever REMAIN Quislings
November 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Dear Democratic Senators: if you vote for this selling out of the ACA it will be the end of your careers. Depend upon it. You are there to defend this country against Trump and the fascists, not collude with them. If you become Quislings, you will forever REMAIN Quislings
Imagine how quickly you would have been laughed out of a pitch meeting in the late 80s or 1990 when you said something like...
You: I feel like we need a TV cop show and I think if I had a choice, I'd grab Donnie Wahlberg....
Network exec: From New Kids on the Block?
You: Yep and maybe Ice-T
You: I feel like we need a TV cop show and I think if I had a choice, I'd grab Donnie Wahlberg....
Network exec: From New Kids on the Block?
You: Yep and maybe Ice-T
November 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Imagine how quickly you would have been laughed out of a pitch meeting in the late 80s or 1990 when you said something like...
You: I feel like we need a TV cop show and I think if I had a choice, I'd grab Donnie Wahlberg....
Network exec: From New Kids on the Block?
You: Yep and maybe Ice-T
You: I feel like we need a TV cop show and I think if I had a choice, I'd grab Donnie Wahlberg....
Network exec: From New Kids on the Block?
You: Yep and maybe Ice-T
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This is the perfect distillation of why baseball is great.
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This is the perfect distillation of why baseball is great.
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stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude
October 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude
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every sports team is a Ship of Theseus
October 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
every sports team is a Ship of Theseus
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Since Barack Obama, Democratic presidential candidates and "dark money" groups have raised more money than Republicans--often doubling them.
So much of the Dem money is wasted. Publishing a piece on this Sunday explaining these graphs and much more. I need your help to make the piece viral. Thanks!
So much of the Dem money is wasted. Publishing a piece on this Sunday explaining these graphs and much more. I need your help to make the piece viral. Thanks!
October 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Since Barack Obama, Democratic presidential candidates and "dark money" groups have raised more money than Republicans--often doubling them.
So much of the Dem money is wasted. Publishing a piece on this Sunday explaining these graphs and much more. I need your help to make the piece viral. Thanks!
So much of the Dem money is wasted. Publishing a piece on this Sunday explaining these graphs and much more. I need your help to make the piece viral. Thanks!
Turns out norms are constructed mostly of paper mache and fairy dust.
October 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Turns out norms are constructed mostly of paper mache and fairy dust.
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That’s incomplete, he only got 2 of his 3 feet down inbounds
Roger Goodell says the NFL is looking into how AI can help officiating in the future.
October 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
That’s incomplete, he only got 2 of his 3 feet down inbounds
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Consciousness of guilt
The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction
Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.
www.wsj.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Consciousness of guilt
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Part of the reason this struck me is that I've had my head in the 1960s DOJ for a while.
The DOJ press secretary back then was a Pulitzer Prize winner who'd been reporting for twenty years (except when he was winning medals in WWII).
Today, it's the dumbest meanest airhead in middle school.
The DOJ press secretary back then was a Pulitzer Prize winner who'd been reporting for twenty years (except when he was winning medals in WWII).
Today, it's the dumbest meanest airhead in middle school.
Everyone's focused on how idiotic Lindsey Halligan is, but don't sleep on the official response from Department of Justice spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre.
It's just Mean Girls all the way down, if they'd written that script while huffing paint fumes.
It's just Mean Girls all the way down, if they'd written that script while huffing paint fumes.
October 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Part of the reason this struck me is that I've had my head in the 1960s DOJ for a while.
The DOJ press secretary back then was a Pulitzer Prize winner who'd been reporting for twenty years (except when he was winning medals in WWII).
Today, it's the dumbest meanest airhead in middle school.
The DOJ press secretary back then was a Pulitzer Prize winner who'd been reporting for twenty years (except when he was winning medals in WWII).
Today, it's the dumbest meanest airhead in middle school.
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Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.
In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.
October 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.
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This is a reason why we should ditch the Electoral College & Senate & adopt proportional representation for the House so every voter counts equally no matter where they live.
Our system insulates the governing party from electoral blowback in uncompetitive states & districts if it screws them over
Our system insulates the governing party from electoral blowback in uncompetitive states & districts if it screws them over
Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)
The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
This is a reason why we should ditch the Electoral College & Senate & adopt proportional representation for the House so every voter counts equally no matter where they live.
Our system insulates the governing party from electoral blowback in uncompetitive states & districts if it screws them over
Our system insulates the governing party from electoral blowback in uncompetitive states & districts if it screws them over
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If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.
I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink
A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.
www.pbs.org
October 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.
I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
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Miles was chief of staff at DHS in Trump’s first term 👇🏽
October 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Miles was chief of staff at DHS in Trump’s first term 👇🏽
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The dedication to visually representing each of the 4,304 deliveries in the background scroll is admirable and conveys the loss to food banks.
The personal interviews and portraits are concise but powerfully relate these cuts’ impact on peoples' lives.
Everyone’s’ “must read” today.
The personal interviews and portraits are concise but powerfully relate these cuts’ impact on peoples' lives.
Everyone’s’ “must read” today.
NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The dedication to visually representing each of the 4,304 deliveries in the background scroll is admirable and conveys the loss to food banks.
The personal interviews and portraits are concise but powerfully relate these cuts’ impact on peoples' lives.
Everyone’s’ “must read” today.
The personal interviews and portraits are concise but powerfully relate these cuts’ impact on peoples' lives.
Everyone’s’ “must read” today.
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case in point. these people are too stupid, stunned, and/or chickenshit to understand what is happening. they keep looking for an escape hatch that doesn't exist bsky.app/profile/greg...
I asked Chris Murphy if he privately talks to Dem colleagues about why they don't sound the alarm loudly. His answers were depressing. Dems tell him they don't want to be "alarmist" or that "democracy" didn't work in 2024, so they want to stick to health care. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
October 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
case in point. these people are too stupid, stunned, and/or chickenshit to understand what is happening. they keep looking for an escape hatch that doesn't exist bsky.app/profile/greg...