Amy
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America is a country that will test UBI hundreds of times, get the same radically positive results each time, and still look at it askance, but will also put untested robotaxis on the road because a billionaire threw a shit fit.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:27 AM
America is a country that will test UBI hundreds of times, get the same radically positive results each time, and still look at it askance, but will also put untested robotaxis on the road because a billionaire threw a shit fit.
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The refusal to consider DC Statehood is largely a reluctance to give DC two Senators, which itself is a tacit admission that the United States Senate is an anti-democratic institution.
Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
NEW: Republican-led states, in a new filing at the D.C. Circuit, say D.C. residents are irrelevant, D.C. belongs to everyone else. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
December 3, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The refusal to consider DC Statehood is largely a reluctance to give DC two Senators, which itself is a tacit admission that the United States Senate is an anti-democratic institution.
I truly love when podcast hosts edit their ads to connect to their pod topic but @danaschwartz.bsky.social referring to “royal bloodlines” and “the kingdom in your body” for a probiotic ad is elite.
December 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I truly love when podcast hosts edit their ads to connect to their pod topic but @danaschwartz.bsky.social referring to “royal bloodlines” and “the kingdom in your body” for a probiotic ad is elite.
Motion to transfer imposter syndrome to people who actually SHOULD have it.
Ok #lawsky, the hearing on OC's motion to be relieved in this case was conducted today. Want to know how it went? Immediately afterwards, the Court sent EVERY ATTORNEY IN OC'S FIRM an email ordering them to be in court for a sanctions hearing in 2 weeks. Transcript will be posted as soon as I get it
Opposing counsel just submitted an application to the court to adjourn the trial tomorrow and didn't cc me on it and said it was OK because I wouldn't be prejudiced and didn't tell the court that I'd already submitted opposition to his formal request and the court adjourned it???
December 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Motion to transfer imposter syndrome to people who actually SHOULD have it.
I think at this point I’m going to have to email him and just say “well? Are you going to email the court?” Because I’m sure as hell not. But I’m expecting a condescending email in return.
It’s now been a full week. It’s a fun game of chicken we’re playing. Though he may not be self aware enough to realize we’re playing it.
Defense attorney would like Court to do a thing. I am objecting to that thing. Court needs to be emailed so we can discuss whether the Court can do the thing. It appears that Defense Attorney is expecting me to do the emailing. Bro can fuck all the way off on that one.
December 2, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I think at this point I’m going to have to email him and just say “well? Are you going to email the court?” Because I’m sure as hell not. But I’m expecting a condescending email in return.
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This.
The second strike is important bc AFTER that one, they started leaving survivors (plus, why the fuck can't Whiskey Pete's DOD manage to destroy a boat in uncontested waters the first strike?).
But all these are murder. Murder murder murder murder.
The second strike is important bc AFTER that one, they started leaving survivors (plus, why the fuck can't Whiskey Pete's DOD manage to destroy a boat in uncontested waters the first strike?).
But all these are murder. Murder murder murder murder.
The first strike was also murder. You can’t just up and kill civilians on the high seas and then claim you were at war with them.
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
December 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This.
The second strike is important bc AFTER that one, they started leaving survivors (plus, why the fuck can't Whiskey Pete's DOD manage to destroy a boat in uncontested waters the first strike?).
But all these are murder. Murder murder murder murder.
The second strike is important bc AFTER that one, they started leaving survivors (plus, why the fuck can't Whiskey Pete's DOD manage to destroy a boat in uncontested waters the first strike?).
But all these are murder. Murder murder murder murder.
MY QUARTERBACK IS A LITERAL BUFFALO #billsmafia
November 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
MY QUARTERBACK IS A LITERAL BUFFALO #billsmafia
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They keep booking these guests thinking that they’re informing Americans by asking “tough questions” into the air, and having them ignored.
If you want answers, invite actual experts. Look some people up. Do some “reporting” and find someone knowledgeable. Come on, already.
If you want answers, invite actual experts. Look some people up. Do some “reporting” and find someone knowledgeable. Come on, already.
Kristi Noem refuses to directly answer a question about what Trump means by "remigration" -- a word that, as Kristen Welker notes, is often invoked by white nationalists in Europe
November 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
They keep booking these guests thinking that they’re informing Americans by asking “tough questions” into the air, and having them ignored.
If you want answers, invite actual experts. Look some people up. Do some “reporting” and find someone knowledgeable. Come on, already.
If you want answers, invite actual experts. Look some people up. Do some “reporting” and find someone knowledgeable. Come on, already.
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Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
This is going to be a problem when I set next year’s reading goal…
November 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This is going to be a problem when I set next year’s reading goal…
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*but I was born in Albany,” I whisper, when they get around to deciding US Jews gotta “remigrate” to Tel Aviv
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
*but I was born in Albany,” I whisper, when they get around to deciding US Jews gotta “remigrate” to Tel Aviv
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ZERO LIES DETECTED
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
ZERO LIES DETECTED
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The standard you walk past is the standard you accept
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The standard you walk past is the standard you accept
Unacceptable and we cannot let this go unpunished.
SCOOP: For the Trump admin's Sept. 2 strike targeting 11 men on a boat suspected of ferrying drugs, SecDef Hegseth gave an order, officials say, to kill them all. When two men were still alive, orders were given to strike again, finishing them off.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Unacceptable and we cannot let this go unpunished.
If being like Stephen Miller is what it takes to be one of the “Good Jews,” hardest pass. But he’s in for a rude awakening when the horrible racists who have been allowing him to do their bidding inevitably turn on him too.
Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
If being like Stephen Miller is what it takes to be one of the “Good Jews,” hardest pass. But he’s in for a rude awakening when the horrible racists who have been allowing him to do their bidding inevitably turn on him too.
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The fucking irony of this Jew to cape Third Reich white supremacist talking points BECAUSE his grandparents could assimilate into US culture when whiteness expanded just enough for them.
(One day he might find that this same conditional whiteness he was granted is more conditional+ less secure.)
(One day he might find that this same conditional whiteness he was granted is more conditional+ less secure.)
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The fucking irony of this Jew to cape Third Reich white supremacist talking points BECAUSE his grandparents could assimilate into US culture when whiteness expanded just enough for them.
(One day he might find that this same conditional whiteness he was granted is more conditional+ less secure.)
(One day he might find that this same conditional whiteness he was granted is more conditional+ less secure.)
This is the first I’m learning that this movie isn’t about Neil Diamond.
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is the first I’m learning that this movie isn’t about Neil Diamond.
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This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
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I hate how we've apparently collectively decided that gestational limits simply don't count as long as they're late enough
3. This map is wrong on multiple levels. Abortion is banned again in North Dakota as of last week; that state is the wrong color. Only 9 states lack a gestational limit and should be dark blue under this key. 41 states have bans
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.guttmacher.org/state-policy...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.guttmacher.org/state-policy...
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I hate how we've apparently collectively decided that gestational limits simply don't count as long as they're late enough
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this is amazing news - the HPV vaccine promises to eliminate cervical cancer in countries where uptake is high.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
this is amazing news - the HPV vaccine promises to eliminate cervical cancer in countries where uptake is high.
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i swear this old tweet will be my legacy
November 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
i swear this old tweet will be my legacy
I had an adjuster actually apologize to me today because she straight up didn't understand Virginia law. Most of the time, they're just ignoring me when I explain it to them. A breath of fresh air. ⚖
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I had an adjuster actually apologize to me today because she straight up didn't understand Virginia law. Most of the time, they're just ignoring me when I explain it to them. A breath of fresh air. ⚖
Who are the finders of fact when "reasonable minds can differ?" JURIES.
To be clear, Skandalakis assigned this case to himself. And I disagree with his assessment.
Anyone with this kind of bullshit take of that infamous "find me 11,780 votes" call to Sec. of State Raffensperger was never going to prosecute Trump, Meadows, & the other defendants:
Anyone with this kind of bullshit take of that infamous "find me 11,780 votes" call to Sec. of State Raffensperger was never going to prosecute Trump, Meadows, & the other defendants:
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Who are the finders of fact when "reasonable minds can differ?" JURIES.
Any guesses what I was trying to do with this note to myself? ⚖️
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Any guesses what I was trying to do with this note to myself? ⚖️
It’s now been a full week. It’s a fun game of chicken we’re playing. Though he may not be self aware enough to realize we’re playing it.
Defense attorney would like Court to do a thing. I am objecting to that thing. Court needs to be emailed so we can discuss whether the Court can do the thing. It appears that Defense Attorney is expecting me to do the emailing. Bro can fuck all the way off on that one.
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
It’s now been a full week. It’s a fun game of chicken we’re playing. Though he may not be self aware enough to realize we’re playing it.