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OneThousandBooksLater @1000bookslater.bsky.social · Dec 11

Dusting off some J.K. Galbraith😺
Do our brains really vulcanize in our mid-30s, after which affirmation of our political beliefs is like crack, and contradictory ideas are bounced away like BBs off a truck tire?

To a very large extent, of course, we associate truth with convenience – with what most closely accords with self-interest and personal well-being or promises best to avoid awkward effort or unwelcome dislocation of life. We also find highly acceptable what contributes most to self-esteem.

But perhaps most important of all, people most approve of what they best understand. … Economic and social behavior are complex, and to comprehend their character is mentally tiring. Therefore we adhere, as though to a raft, to those ideas which represent our understanding. This is a prime manifestation of vested interest. For a vested interest in understanding is more preciously guarded than any other treasure. It is why men react, not infrequently with something akin to religious passion, to the defense of what they have so laboriously learned.

Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability. … I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the Conventional Wisdom.

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OneThousandBooksLater @1000bookslater.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe this will work:
web.archive.org/web/20170312...

Miss Major: The Bay Area's Trans Formative Matriarch

Janetta Johnson was broken. It was 1997, and she had just completed a stretch in prison for prostitution. Johnson, an African-American transgender woman, had been...

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OneThousandBooksLater @1000bookslater.bsky.social · 3h

Wikipedia to the rescue?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy - Wikipedia

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 16h

that last line

Under Dr. Mermin’s leadership, new H.I.V. infections in the nation dropped by 36 percent, and resurgent sexually transmitted infections showed the first signs of a plateau nationwide.

He also directed health departments to spend the bulk of their money on prevention. It was “a very precise and scientific and logical approach” to make the biggest impact for the least money, said Greg Millett, who worked as a deputy for the Office of National AIDS Policy in the Obama White House.

Now, however, Dr. Mermin is spending his days at home with his chickens and his misbehaving cat. The fate of the H.I.V. division hangs in the balance, and he worries that lawmakers may not realize its importance. “What if no one cares?” he said.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 6h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13h

Freaking about No Kings is catastrophic for them! It’s a virtual certainty the protests will be enormous, and by turning them into a live issue, the GOP effectively gives news media permission to focus on them.

Both sites agree: nationwide anti-Trump protests are the most important story right now

William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 13h

Complete own goal by the republicans. Not a ton of media attention for the first big protest day and now you have the republicans bringing it up and effectively telling the media to cover it

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

Read my words. Ty.

Arrests and Protests at the Broadview ICE Facility

The Department of Homeland Security says that eleven people were arrested Saturday at a protest outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

www.turtlediaries.net

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OneThousandBooksLater @1000bookslater.bsky.social · 1d

A grater that doesn't trim my fingernails or leave blood on the ... never mind what [rushes off to buy]

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

There's one huge difference between the 2025 Portland protests & the ones in 2020. Today, the ~100 anti-fascist protesters at the ICE facility are sandwiched between the feds who have MAGA-friendly media embedded w/ them, and ~15 MAGA-friendly content creators/counter-protesters out in the crowd.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

As President Trump tries to send the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, conservative influencers are working to support his claim that the city is burning with viral clips from one block. https://wapo.st/4q5HM0n

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 1d

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OneThousandBooksLater @1000bookslater.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, but I'm reading this page-turner instead. Fortunately it's only about 100 pages, or I couldn't stand the suspense.

Book cover of "A Crash course on crises: macroeconomic concepts for run-ups, collapses, and recoveries" by Markus K. Brunnemeir and Ricardo Reis

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Comment WIN

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Kamala Harris: "I think he has a vengeance campaign, which is really exposing the petty nature of who he is and his deep level of insecurity."

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OneThousandBooksLater @1000bookslater.bsky.social · 1d

Right! Can't swing a cat without finding some nifty little spot offering something tasty to eat and/or drink.

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OneThousandBooksLater @1000bookslater.bsky.social · 1d

"Tango in Tadfield." Only a bit saucy.😺Art by Aiwa.
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OneThousandBooksLater @1000bookslater.bsky.social · 1d

OK, who did this dead brilliant thing?😺

Medallion featuring an inflatable frog's face agains black and green flags, text around perimeter reading:
AMPHIBIANS AGAINST FASCISM

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 2d

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 2d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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OneThousandBooksLater @1000bookslater.bsky.social · 2d

Ironic, ain't it.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 2d

Seen some people saying this is obviously AI, so I went and found the buildings in the video. Looks to be 1639-1633 W hubbard st, chicago.

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OneThousandBooksLater @1000bookslater.bsky.social · 2d

Starting the weekend right! Because some kind reader left a kudos on one of the AO3 Good Omens riffs I wrote that's my favorite. Crowley as Oscar Wilde's roadie in Leadville, Colorado 1882.
[goes off skippity hop for a another celebratory round of breakfast tea]
archiveofourown.org/works/20440358

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