Balderdash
@poppycock.bsky.social
We live in the dumbest timeline.
Anonymous for a reason.
#Michigan.
Anonymous for a reason.
#Michigan.
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Discover a broad range of this year's most compelling classical recordings, including symphonic booty-shakers, mystic violin, pipe organ prog and a guided tour of 18th century German chart-toppers.
The 10 Best Classical Albums of 2025
Discover a broad range of this year's most compelling classical recordings, including symphonic booty-shakers, mystic violin, pipe organ prog and a guided tour of 18th century German chart-toppers.
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December 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Discover a broad range of this year's most compelling classical recordings, including symphonic booty-shakers, mystic violin, pipe organ prog and a guided tour of 18th century German chart-toppers.
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It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
We know the students don’t read the syllabuses. So who will? Right-wing activists looking for excuses to hound profs.
December 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
texas GOP even has a catchy name for the victims, the "Heaven's 27". local government failed the campers by refusing to install warning systems, even though they had a federal grant to do so, because it was against their "principles" to accept money from a Dem admin or acknowledge climate change.
Just five months after the flood, the camp took to Facebook with a controversial ask.
Anger erupts as Camp Mystic revisits deadly flood history
Just five months after the flood, the camp took to Facebook with a controversial ask.
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
texas GOP even has a catchy name for the victims, the "Heaven's 27". local government failed the campers by refusing to install warning systems, even though they had a federal grant to do so, because it was against their "principles" to accept money from a Dem admin or acknowledge climate change.
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Me: (working on novel)
Brain: Hey, got a great idea for a novel. Not this novel.
Me: (typing) Not now, brain.
Brain: Don't you wanna know what it is?
Me: NOT NOW, BRAIN
Brain: I'm not gonna lie, it's SUPER cool
Me: LET ME FINISH THE NOVEL IN FRONT OF ME, BRAIN
Brain: Okay, I'm gonna tell you
Brain: Hey, got a great idea for a novel. Not this novel.
Me: (typing) Not now, brain.
Brain: Don't you wanna know what it is?
Me: NOT NOW, BRAIN
Brain: I'm not gonna lie, it's SUPER cool
Me: LET ME FINISH THE NOVEL IN FRONT OF ME, BRAIN
Brain: Okay, I'm gonna tell you
December 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Me: (working on novel)
Brain: Hey, got a great idea for a novel. Not this novel.
Me: (typing) Not now, brain.
Brain: Don't you wanna know what it is?
Me: NOT NOW, BRAIN
Brain: I'm not gonna lie, it's SUPER cool
Me: LET ME FINISH THE NOVEL IN FRONT OF ME, BRAIN
Brain: Okay, I'm gonna tell you
Brain: Hey, got a great idea for a novel. Not this novel.
Me: (typing) Not now, brain.
Brain: Don't you wanna know what it is?
Me: NOT NOW, BRAIN
Brain: I'm not gonna lie, it's SUPER cool
Me: LET ME FINISH THE NOVEL IN FRONT OF ME, BRAIN
Brain: Okay, I'm gonna tell you
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Great piece from Paul Musgrave on how Trump is, in essence, taking America private:
Taking America Private
The political-economic consequences of Mr. Trump
musgrave.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Great piece from Paul Musgrave on how Trump is, in essence, taking America private:
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Never do anything new for Christmas while your children are young unless you are prepared to do that thing every year from now to eternity.
December 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Never do anything new for Christmas while your children are young unless you are prepared to do that thing every year from now to eternity.
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those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
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Hound Dog Taylor left this world 50 years ago today. (He was born on April 12, 1915). In his honor, let's get funky.
youtu.be/MMf3mJF0D1w?...
youtu.be/MMf3mJF0D1w?...
Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers- Let's Get Funky
YouTube video by LENA LENAS
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December 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Hound Dog Taylor left this world 50 years ago today. (He was born on April 12, 1915). In his honor, let's get funky.
youtu.be/MMf3mJF0D1w?...
youtu.be/MMf3mJF0D1w?...
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This is to provide a caucus beli that Trump is taking the US to war as self defense. This adding another BS layer of justification to the strikes, which they’ve already been making: they’re for the defense of the US’s allies in the region. More importantly it’s about the Alien Enemies Act. 1/
I am genuinely confused by the idea that Venezuela is "stealing our Oil, Land, and Other Assets." It is batshit, but usually these things have some sort of meaning in the MAGAverse - does anyone know?
December 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This is to provide a caucus beli that Trump is taking the US to war as self defense. This adding another BS layer of justification to the strikes, which they’ve already been making: they’re for the defense of the US’s allies in the region. More importantly it’s about the Alien Enemies Act. 1/
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I see this argument made all the time and it's embarrassing for CCDH to keep making it, because it's a lie. Section 230, what they're talking about, does not give anyone a "get out of jail free" card. It simply puts the liability on the party who actually engaged in the violative behavior.
"Without checks and balances, [social media companies] have become a little bit tyrannical, very arrogant, and completely dismissive of their impact on our society."
Our CEO @imranahmed.bsky.social in @kpbssandiego.bsky.social ⤵️
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Our CEO @imranahmed.bsky.social in @kpbssandiego.bsky.social ⤵️
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December 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I see this argument made all the time and it's embarrassing for CCDH to keep making it, because it's a lie. Section 230, what they're talking about, does not give anyone a "get out of jail free" card. It simply puts the liability on the party who actually engaged in the violative behavior.
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I need some of the people insisting that attacks on Jews worldwide are the fault of Israel to explain the absence of attacks on Russians worldwide.
December 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I need some of the people insisting that attacks on Jews worldwide are the fault of Israel to explain the absence of attacks on Russians worldwide.
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A whole lot of data-driven popularism pundits lost interest in the data when polls consistently showed a majority thought Trump's immigration and economic policies sucked, so now they're stuck with "data-driven popularism is when politicians say stuff I agree with."
Nate Silver is more obvious than most, but all the guys who once styled themselves as "wonks" and "data driven journalists" [the Vox promise] operate on pure vibes now
December 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A whole lot of data-driven popularism pundits lost interest in the data when polls consistently showed a majority thought Trump's immigration and economic policies sucked, so now they're stuck with "data-driven popularism is when politicians say stuff I agree with."
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What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.
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Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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“A few years ago, every amateur historian with a bit of European heritage was chuffed to learn that Charlemagne was almost certainly among his ancestors.” www.liberalcurrents.com/they-were-al...
They Were All Our Ancestors
Nationalism chooses sides in the most awful family drama of all time. It sides with the evildoers, and never with their victims, and teaches you to do the same.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“A few years ago, every amateur historian with a bit of European heritage was chuffed to learn that Charlemagne was almost certainly among his ancestors.” www.liberalcurrents.com/they-were-al...
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And the results are in! After carefully reviewing the results of a national poll the Board of Directors of the Society for Canadian English (SCE) has determined that this year’s Canadian Word of the Year (CWOTY), the first of its kind, will be “maplewashing.”
December 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
And the results are in! After carefully reviewing the results of a national poll the Board of Directors of the Society for Canadian English (SCE) has determined that this year’s Canadian Word of the Year (CWOTY), the first of its kind, will be “maplewashing.”
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December 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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The "Jesus in zip ties" nativity is not offensive to Christianity or Christians, but I do expect it offended quite a few people who like to be seen wearing gold crosses on necklaces.
Seems a little wild that DHS would call me out by name and say that this scene is offensive to Christians. I like seperation in my church and state. Moreover, what's offensive to Christians is the dehumanization that DHS and ICE are practicing. That is evil and an offense to God - not my nativity.
December 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The "Jesus in zip ties" nativity is not offensive to Christianity or Christians, but I do expect it offended quite a few people who like to be seen wearing gold crosses on necklaces.
is that a cracker barrel?
December 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
is that a cracker barrel?
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Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
do yourself a favor and study math. it will save you thousands in gambling losses.
Crypto casinos have become a multi-billion dollar industry. One of the ways they've grown is with an unusual marketing strategy: paying millions to internet celebrities to livestream themselves gambling for hours.
New from me, @neilbedi.bsky.social, and Jenny Vrentas.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
New from me, @neilbedi.bsky.social, and Jenny Vrentas.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Online Crypto Casinos Use Celebrities and Livestreamers to Recruit Gamblers
Using exploitative marketing strategies, the illicit gambling websites have profited and lured in a young generation of gamblers.
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
do yourself a favor and study math. it will save you thousands in gambling losses.
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Detroit Social Walk Club bringing women together through holiday magic downtown 🎄
#hive55 #holidayfun #Detroit
#hive55 #holidayfun #Detroit
Detroit Social Walk Club Brings Women Together Through Holiday Magic Downtown
Ariana Branch (left), Kenice Bassett, and Milah (right) Members of the Detroit Social Walk Club pose during a winter outing on Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit on November 13th. DETROIT — Agains…
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December 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Detroit Social Walk Club bringing women together through holiday magic downtown 🎄
#hive55 #holidayfun #Detroit
#hive55 #holidayfun #Detroit
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So one of the World Cup matches here on Seattle is supposed to celebrate LGBTQ+ fans. Unfortunately the two teams "randomly" selected to play that match are... Egypt and Iran. This World Cup is already cursed.
www.outsports.com/2025/12/7/24...
www.outsports.com/2025/12/7/24...
Iran and Egypt set to play Seattle's World Cup LGBTQ Pride Match - Outsports
A World Cup match in Seattle has been named the Pride Match. That game now features Egypt and Iran, which imprison gay people.
www.outsports.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
So one of the World Cup matches here on Seattle is supposed to celebrate LGBTQ+ fans. Unfortunately the two teams "randomly" selected to play that match are... Egypt and Iran. This World Cup is already cursed.
www.outsports.com/2025/12/7/24...
www.outsports.com/2025/12/7/24...
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This is gonna be one of those strong western civilization things and end up with the constitution in Comic Sans
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
This is gonna be one of those strong western civilization things and end up with the constitution in Comic Sans
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Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...