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powerful and dangerous. named by teenagers formerly housed inside me.

i know a bit about a lot and kind of wish i didn’t. i am not a serious person, but i wish you well with that.

no is golden.
Pinned
not like that, goddammit.
this is what it looks like inside my head all day every day right now and i really need something to oust this very specific feeling post haste!
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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In a just country, a place like ADX wouldn't even exist. But to send people there whose death sentences the previous guy commuted, seemingly mostly out of spite, is next-level despicable, in an administration that does "despicable" multiple times a day. (Also, support @boltsmag.org)
NEW: President Biden commuted the death sentences of most people on the federal death row before exiting office.

President Trump is now effectively looking to retaliate, and to detain those people in the most brutal conditions in the federal system. Bolts reports:
boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
This story was produced by Bolts and published in partnership with The Nation. Inside the federal supermax tucked away in Colorado’s high desert, prisoners spend 22 to 24 hours a day... Read More
boltsmag.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Lord give me the confidence of a white guy who thinks “Accusing Isaac Chotiner of not checking his facts will go well for me”
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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planned economy but it's just the president dictating what he wants to see on his television
A person directly familiar with the conversations tells Semafor that Donald Trump has personally pressed Larry Ellison to revive Brett Ratner's "Rush Hour" franchise.
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
Exclusive: How Trump is trying to remake American culture — starting with his favorite buddy-cop franchise
The president is offering some creative input on potential upcoming projects.
www.semafor.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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This is fu*king outrageous!

The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards.

apnews.com/article/utah...
Charges dropped against Utah doctor accused of throwing away $28,000 in COVID vaccine doses
The federal government has dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines worth thousands of dollars during the pandemic.
apnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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This might be the single most unmoored thing I've read all day.

Humans FAMOUSLY have more ideas than we know what to do with. We're idea machines. Everyone has ideas all the time.

The scarcity has never been the ideas, but rather: the energy to implement those ideas.
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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tl;dr — An immigration judge who denies 98% of asylum claims is sending creepy, robotic text-to-speech AI voiceovers of his court rulings to asylum seekers. I’m actually surprised this story has gone mostly unnoticed. migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-judg...
SCOOP: Judge Caught Using AI to Read His Court Decisions
Newly obtained EOIR records reveal Judge John P. Burns uses artificial intelligence for courtroom decisions, deepening concerns about politicized hiring, secrecy, and the slow automation of justice.
migrantinsider.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Why, yes. Yes it is
Wait, so Ryan Lizza is charging people to view the raunchy texts from the guy who was boinking his fiance? Content aside, isn't that kind of f-ed up?
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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What I found profoundly affecting was when I was talking about how I try to take care of my goats when they're in labor and women started popping up in my Twitter mentions to say they wished they'd gotten care like that.
Please hear me when I say that

1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements

2) they pre-date the age of social media

3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
November 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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neither of these people should ever work in journalism again and New York magazine should reexamine everything she ever wrote

RFK should, of course, never work anywhere at all
November 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Old white dudes fantasizing about going John Brown on ice agents? This shit might really be heading for a tipping point
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated.

I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.

But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.

Waiting for the feds?

open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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i’m still team comet.

i believe they have a deep bench.
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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All of Bluesky this morning:
a person holding a bag with a note that says dead dove do not eat
Alt: a person holding a bag with a note that says dead dove do not eat
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
feels like a lot of people learned about COBOL in the past six months and now want to make it a big bad guy, but literally the scaffolding preventing tech from imploding, so what are we doing guys?
“It’s our systems. We have 35 and 40-year-old systems that run COBOL,” MDHS Chief Communications Officer Mark Jones said, explaining the delay in releasing full SNAP benefits.

buff.ly/uKiDuTN
November 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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set a spell vintage
3233 loyola ave (@ loyola & toledano)
11am-6pm
November 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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The plan: to de-radicalize QAnon folks we’re gonna elect each one to Congress for 5 years.
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
the dispensary opens in 42 minutes. bless.
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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This shit is so bad and wrong at every level, including the meta level, since Lizza has been sitting on all this shit while RFK, Jr. has been taking a bone saw to the medical system, and he's trickling the shit out in dribs and drabs to prop up his subs on the nazi newsletter service.

Fucked up.
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
i’m still team comet.

i believe they have a deep bench.
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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the medical disinformation surrounding 'gender affirming' care is not different from the medical disinformation surrounding vaccinations.

these ppl think they're informed.
Sorry but "without a single problem" is clearly complete bollox
November 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Ok, so: I was raised in Boston and my first beat was in Rhode Island so I KNEW:

the rule you learned growing up as a kid, and then as a reporter, was this:

NEVER FUCK A KENNEDY.

NEVER GET INTO A MOVING CONVEYANCE WITH A KENNEDY.

NOT A BOAT.

NOT A PLANE.

NOT A CAR.
September 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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this tweet is my roman empire
remember when she tried to like, reverse blackmail them to save Matt Gaetz
November 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM