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I hope Brazil will make history tonight.
I wrote about why the most important Oscar nominee is the movie about how living under authoritarian rule can feel surprisingly normal.
The Year’s Most Urgent Best Picture Contender Is the One Almost No One Has Seen
I’m Still Here has a warning—and a reason for hope.
slate.com
March 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I hope Brazil will make history tonight.
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I’m sure it’ll work out great this time!
"Wall Street is once again creating and selling securities backed by everything—the more creative the better...Data-center bonds are backed by lease payments from companies that rent out computing capacity."
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
They Crashed the Economy in 2008. Now They’re Back and Bigger Than Ever.
Wall Street expects to sell more than $335 billion in asset-backed debt this year. Remember that conference in ‘The Big Short’? It just drew a record 10,000.
www.wsj.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I’m sure it’ll work out great this time!
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"And to Musk, Zuckerberg and company, in Europe we have a market of millions of users that provide money to your companies, yes. But we also love protecting our citizens and democracies by making laws. [...] You can always take your Nazi salutes and your masculine energy and go back home."
January 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"And to Musk, Zuckerberg and company, in Europe we have a market of millions of users that provide money to your companies, yes. But we also love protecting our citizens and democracies by making laws. [...] You can always take your Nazi salutes and your masculine energy and go back home."
The press have got to focus on the stuff trump does that is going to hurt people. The renaming of a body of water and Greenland are distractions to always keep him in the headlines its all crap. Stop it.
January 22, 2025 at 7:51 AM
The press have got to focus on the stuff trump does that is going to hurt people. The renaming of a body of water and Greenland are distractions to always keep him in the headlines its all crap. Stop it.
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This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
Cant find eggs AT ALL under this trump regime.
January 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Cant find eggs AT ALL under this trump regime.
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December 6, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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A Catholic nun with the Sisters of Charity Institute in Milan was among 25 people arrested for a litany of mafia-related crimes, including aiding and abetting extortion, drug trafficking, receiving stolen goods, usury, tax crimes and money laundering.
Catholic nun among 25 arrested in mob bust in northern Italy | CNN
A Catholic nun with the Sisters of Charity Institute in Milan was among 25 people arrested early Thursday morning for a litany of mafia-related crimes, including aiding and abetting extortion, drug tr...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2024 at 7:37 PM
A Catholic nun with the Sisters of Charity Institute in Milan was among 25 people arrested for a litany of mafia-related crimes, including aiding and abetting extortion, drug trafficking, receiving stolen goods, usury, tax crimes and money laundering.
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Early days, but another exciting application of vaccine technology.
And a tough one for antivaxx crowd.
Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....
And a tough one for antivaxx crowd.
Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....
Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer | WashU Medicine
Clinical trial targeted recurrence of hard-to-treat triple-negative breast cancer
medicine.washu.edu
December 6, 2024 at 12:34 AM
Early days, but another exciting application of vaccine technology.
And a tough one for antivaxx crowd.
Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....
And a tough one for antivaxx crowd.
Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....
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I'm going to tell you a quick story about a messed up situation in Mississippi.
It's about state officials who have voided direct democracy thru an absurd excuse, & now are refuse to yield it back to people.
And, therefore, about why you should care—right now—about something happening next week. ⬇️
It's about state officials who have voided direct democracy thru an absurd excuse, & now are refuse to yield it back to people.
And, therefore, about why you should care—right now—about something happening next week. ⬇️
November 20, 2024 at 5:36 PM
I'm going to tell you a quick story about a messed up situation in Mississippi.
It's about state officials who have voided direct democracy thru an absurd excuse, & now are refuse to yield it back to people.
And, therefore, about why you should care—right now—about something happening next week. ⬇️
It's about state officials who have voided direct democracy thru an absurd excuse, & now are refuse to yield it back to people.
And, therefore, about why you should care—right now—about something happening next week. ⬇️
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The incoming administration may or may not reduce the size or scope of government.
But it will absolutely become the biggest protection racket the world has ever seen.
But it will absolutely become the biggest protection racket the world has ever seen.
November 20, 2024 at 1:12 PM
The incoming administration may or may not reduce the size or scope of government.
But it will absolutely become the biggest protection racket the world has ever seen.
But it will absolutely become the biggest protection racket the world has ever seen.
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Just my 2 cents. But my goal is to ignore the trolls. Give them zero attention. Block them if they annoy me.
I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc
I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc
November 19, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Just my 2 cents. But my goal is to ignore the trolls. Give them zero attention. Block them if they annoy me.
I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc
I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc
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One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
November 20, 2024 at 2:10 AM
One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
I couldn't stand Madison Cawthorn but maybe he was telling the truth about the drug fueled sex parties republicans invited him to...LOL
November 21, 2024 at 12:25 AM
I couldn't stand Madison Cawthorn but maybe he was telling the truth about the drug fueled sex parties republicans invited him to...LOL
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If Dems flip #CA45 & #CA13, then the U.S. House majority will have literally come down to the 3 NC the GOP flipped thanks to its new gerrymander.
And that itself hinged on NC's supreme court flipping in 2022.
Coincidentally I just wrote this today: boltsmag.org/state-suprem...
And that itself hinged on NC's supreme court flipping in 2022.
Coincidentally I just wrote this today: boltsmag.org/state-suprem...
November 15, 2024 at 2:20 AM
If Dems flip #CA45 & #CA13, then the U.S. House majority will have literally come down to the 3 NC the GOP flipped thanks to its new gerrymander.
And that itself hinged on NC's supreme court flipping in 2022.
Coincidentally I just wrote this today: boltsmag.org/state-suprem...
And that itself hinged on NC's supreme court flipping in 2022.
Coincidentally I just wrote this today: boltsmag.org/state-suprem...
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I like chicken fried rice. I wonder if I can be Ambassador to China?
November 13, 2024 at 11:57 PM
I like chicken fried rice. I wonder if I can be Ambassador to China?
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Either this couple just so happens to be stock photo models… or Republican Governor Jeff Landry is lying.
November 15, 2024 at 1:53 AM
Either this couple just so happens to be stock photo models… or Republican Governor Jeff Landry is lying.
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If Kari Lake entered a contest for losers she'd come in second.
November 14, 2024 at 6:15 PM
If Kari Lake entered a contest for losers she'd come in second.
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watching cabinet appointments get announced like
November 13, 2024 at 11:40 PM
watching cabinet appointments get announced like
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Global measles cases surged by more than 20% to an estimated 10.3 million last year, WHO and the CDC said. About 107,500 people, mostly young children, died — an “unacceptable” death toll from a disease that’s preventable through vaccination, the health groups said.
Measles is debilitating and deadly and cases are surging, WHO and CDC warn | CNN
Global measles cases surged by more than 20% to an estimated 10.3 million last year, the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. About 107,500 pe...
cnn.it
November 14, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Global measles cases surged by more than 20% to an estimated 10.3 million last year, WHO and the CDC said. About 107,500 people, mostly young children, died — an “unacceptable” death toll from a disease that’s preventable through vaccination, the health groups said.
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BREAKING NEW: Food and Drug Administration to be headed by the Late, Great, Hannibal Lecter.
November 14, 2024 at 11:24 AM
BREAKING NEW: Food and Drug Administration to be headed by the Late, Great, Hannibal Lecter.
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mental health break? you bet it did
November 14, 2024 at 2:38 AM
mental health break? you bet it did
hes gonna appoint MTG to NASA isnt he?
November 13, 2024 at 10:04 PM
hes gonna appoint MTG to NASA isnt he?
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1/ @lizdye.bsky.social and I discuss this possibility at the end of Tuesday's show. Here's what you need to know:
a) This has never been tried before in the history of the Republic; and
b) It REQUIRES the complicity of Sen Majority Leader Thune & House Speaker Johnson, which would be....
a) This has never been tried before in the history of the Republic; and
b) It REQUIRES the complicity of Sen Majority Leader Thune & House Speaker Johnson, which would be....
November 13, 2024 at 9:24 PM
1/ @lizdye.bsky.social and I discuss this possibility at the end of Tuesday's show. Here's what you need to know:
a) This has never been tried before in the history of the Republic; and
b) It REQUIRES the complicity of Sen Majority Leader Thune & House Speaker Johnson, which would be....
a) This has never been tried before in the history of the Republic; and
b) It REQUIRES the complicity of Sen Majority Leader Thune & House Speaker Johnson, which would be....