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Justice officials felt sure Homan would not be able to obtain a security clearance based on the evidence gathered in the corruption probe, which they and FBI agents believed had shown Homan unsuitable for a trusted senior role in government service
www.ms.now/news/border-...
www.ms.now/news/border-...
Border czar Tom Homan didn’t receive normal background check during bribery probe
President-elect Trump initially balked at submitting names of likely nominees to the FBI for background checks, a basic step intended to flag possible financial conflicts or ethical problems.
www.ms.now
December 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Justice officials felt sure Homan would not be able to obtain a security clearance based on the evidence gathered in the corruption probe, which they and FBI agents believed had shown Homan unsuitable for a trusted senior role in government service
www.ms.now/news/border-...
www.ms.now/news/border-...
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Here’s my 2026 in and out list:
IN
- contemplating
- considering
- pondering
- a sincere sense of wonder
- rereading all of Dostoevsky
- voting Green
OUT
- scrolling
- chewing noises
- Timothée Chalamet
- German philosophy
- people who say “everything happens for a reason”
IN
- contemplating
- considering
- pondering
- a sincere sense of wonder
- rereading all of Dostoevsky
- voting Green
OUT
- scrolling
- chewing noises
- Timothée Chalamet
- German philosophy
- people who say “everything happens for a reason”
December 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Here’s my 2026 in and out list:
IN
- contemplating
- considering
- pondering
- a sincere sense of wonder
- rereading all of Dostoevsky
- voting Green
OUT
- scrolling
- chewing noises
- Timothée Chalamet
- German philosophy
- people who say “everything happens for a reason”
IN
- contemplating
- considering
- pondering
- a sincere sense of wonder
- rereading all of Dostoevsky
- voting Green
OUT
- scrolling
- chewing noises
- Timothée Chalamet
- German philosophy
- people who say “everything happens for a reason”
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Crisis Group's @comfortero.crisisgroup.org has been appointed as a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.
“It’s a privilege to lead an organisation that continues to serve as an invaluable global public good”.
#NYHonours
www.crisisgroup.org/who-we-are/c...
“It’s a privilege to lead an organisation that continues to serve as an invaluable global public good”.
#NYHonours
www.crisisgroup.org/who-we-are/c...
Crisis Group President and CEO Receives New Year Honour | International Crisis Group
www.crisisgroup.org
December 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Crisis Group's @comfortero.crisisgroup.org has been appointed as a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.
“It’s a privilege to lead an organisation that continues to serve as an invaluable global public good”.
#NYHonours
www.crisisgroup.org/who-we-are/c...
“It’s a privilege to lead an organisation that continues to serve as an invaluable global public good”.
#NYHonours
www.crisisgroup.org/who-we-are/c...
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This line by Pau Casals is one of my favorite in all of recorded history. A perfect mantra for everyone who wants to make the world a more just place.
November 24, 2023 at 4:35 AM
This line by Pau Casals is one of my favorite in all of recorded history. A perfect mantra for everyone who wants to make the world a more just place.
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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
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Appeal for Mercy and Compassion: As the rains intensifies and the tent sweps, my five children and my wife (who suffer from a heart valve fall), and I am now drowning in the mud. We freeze to death. Please save us $500.
chuffed.org/project/135556
chuffed.org/project/135556
December 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Appeal for Mercy and Compassion: As the rains intensifies and the tent sweps, my five children and my wife (who suffer from a heart valve fall), and I am now drowning in the mud. We freeze to death. Please save us $500.
chuffed.org/project/135556
chuffed.org/project/135556
lol hell yeah saw that in my copy of MTV's "The Head"
shout out to the person who uploads torrents of complete Adult Swim shows with a .txt file of a "Libertarian socialist manifesto"
December 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
lol hell yeah saw that in my copy of MTV's "The Head"
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It's cold enough to chop an unc outside I reckon
December 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It's cold enough to chop an unc outside I reckon
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1/2 As I wrote in The Viral Underclass, I hoped, at the high end, Covid could reorient our national priorities to create a new floor for the social safety net; at the low end, I hoped it would at least encourage common, free activities found in Asia, like masking when ill or during flu season.
Alas
Alas
Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.
December 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
1/2 As I wrote in The Viral Underclass, I hoped, at the high end, Covid could reorient our national priorities to create a new floor for the social safety net; at the low end, I hoped it would at least encourage common, free activities found in Asia, like masking when ill or during flu season.
Alas
Alas
the mainstream American Press continues to completely launder and normalize the decades of War Crimes Israel has commited in Palestine and all across the region by careful omission and framing
December 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
the mainstream American Press continues to completely launder and normalize the decades of War Crimes Israel has commited in Palestine and all across the region by careful omission and framing
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Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
My Open Letter To That Open Letter About AI In Writing And Publishing
The tl;dr before you get into this post is this: the SFWA came out, said that some AI usage was okay enough in books for the authors of those books to not to be disqualified from winning a Nebula a…
terribleminds.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
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They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab
December 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab
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With respect to this worthy project, it is also horribly wrong to send people with violent convictions and gang tattoos to die in inhuman conditions a thousand miles from home
The “worst of the worst” Venezuelans deported to El Salvador’s CECOT prison weren’t the worst: nearly all had no violent convictions, many entered the US legally, and gang labels relied on tattoos—not evidence, reports Cato’s David Bier.
https://ow.ly/wifs50XO2TY
https://ow.ly/wifs50XO2TY
DHS Doesn’t List CECOT Prison Deportees in Its Worst of the Worst Data
The United States should have allowed most of these immigrants to reside and work in the country legally. They could have been economic assets to the United States, and it serves no legitimate purpose to send them back to, at best, horrific conditions in Venezuela and, at worst, more persecution.
ow.ly
December 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
With respect to this worthy project, it is also horribly wrong to send people with violent convictions and gang tattoos to die in inhuman conditions a thousand miles from home
a cat on your lap boosts your reading proficiency
December 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
a cat on your lap boosts your reading proficiency
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I wish this was fake but it’s real.
December 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I wish this was fake but it’s real.
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The best holiday gift I could ask for is to meet my sales goal this month so I can start off the new year with no credit card debt <3
Just listed a new set + put a few pairs on sale while inventory lasts; go snag those before they're gone → cvkvlv.com
Goal progress in comments ↓
Mvto!!
#Beadwork
Just listed a new set + put a few pairs on sale while inventory lasts; go snag those before they're gone → cvkvlv.com
Goal progress in comments ↓
Mvto!!
#Beadwork
December 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The best holiday gift I could ask for is to meet my sales goal this month so I can start off the new year with no credit card debt <3
Just listed a new set + put a few pairs on sale while inventory lasts; go snag those before they're gone → cvkvlv.com
Goal progress in comments ↓
Mvto!!
#Beadwork
Just listed a new set + put a few pairs on sale while inventory lasts; go snag those before they're gone → cvkvlv.com
Goal progress in comments ↓
Mvto!!
#Beadwork
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Bluesky managing to delete an account immediately after I share it 🙄. Here is a video Amir made of where he is staying right now- he is really hoping to be able to rent a room ❤️
December 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Bluesky managing to delete an account immediately after I share it 🙄. Here is a video Amir made of where he is staying right now- he is really hoping to be able to rent a room ❤️
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Sometimes I wish there were a website, or at least a social media account, that only posted stories about mutual aid organizing.
Sometimes I just want to read the positive "people are building things" stories and not have to scroll through twenty stories covering all the horrors to find them.
Sometimes I just want to read the positive "people are building things" stories and not have to scroll through twenty stories covering all the horrors to find them.
December 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Sometimes I wish there were a website, or at least a social media account, that only posted stories about mutual aid organizing.
Sometimes I just want to read the positive "people are building things" stories and not have to scroll through twenty stories covering all the horrors to find them.
Sometimes I just want to read the positive "people are building things" stories and not have to scroll through twenty stories covering all the horrors to find them.
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“I was jealous, since, in my writing, the slippery subject often got away from me, became swamped with concerns of the contemporary, and slipped out of sight, into my own spiralling digressions. My own work was about the circles I ran around whatever it was I wanted to write about.”
– Andrew Durbin
– Andrew Durbin
December 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
“I was jealous, since, in my writing, the slippery subject often got away from me, became swamped with concerns of the contemporary, and slipped out of sight, into my own spiralling digressions. My own work was about the circles I ran around whatever it was I wanted to write about.”
– Andrew Durbin
– Andrew Durbin
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There’s a restaurant in Gloucester that does this great queso dip created by a guy called Gary. The dip is called Gary’s Dip. Gary left to work at another place in town, and the new place started selling the same dip. They call it Not Gary’s Dip. I think about this situation (and the dip) a lot
July 4, 2024 at 9:07 PM
There’s a restaurant in Gloucester that does this great queso dip created by a guy called Gary. The dip is called Gary’s Dip. Gary left to work at another place in town, and the new place started selling the same dip. They call it Not Gary’s Dip. I think about this situation (and the dip) a lot
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Despite threats, billionaires don't leave the largest population centers, because it's where there is the most money to be had from the collective value generated by human beings, and despite what they insist, they don't generate wealth; they collect it.
“California is on a path to self-destruction,” wrote Bill Ackman, joining opposition to a tax proposal alongside Google’s cofounder and more.
Possible California Wealth Tax Causes Billionaire Freakout: Page, Thiel Threaten To Leave
“California is on a path to self-destruction,” wrote Bill Ackman, joining opposition to a tax proposal alongside Google’s cofounder and more.
www.forbes.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Despite threats, billionaires don't leave the largest population centers, because it's where there is the most money to be had from the collective value generated by human beings, and despite what they insist, they don't generate wealth; they collect it.
Shouting At The Wall
open.spotify.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Anas Al-Sharif y Hossam Shabat Bisan Wizard, si es que hay mujeres, han sido mis periodistas favoritos desde el 8 de octubre de 2023. Extraño mucho a Anas y Hossam. ¿Cuáles son sus periodistas palestinos favoritos?
December 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Anas Al-Sharif y Hossam Shabat Bisan Wizard, si es que hay mujeres, han sido mis periodistas favoritos desde el 8 de octubre de 2023. Extraño mucho a Anas y Hossam. ¿Cuáles son sus periodistas palestinos favoritos?