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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.

So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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it's almost like the production of knowledge is tangled up in questions of power
Jeffrey Epstein was developing a series, moderated by @lkrauss1.bsky.social, to bring scientists and celebrities together. The first season would include an episode where "Woody Allen talks about the human condition with Linguist Noam Chomsky."

drive.google.com/file/d/14Sla...
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023123.txt
drive.google.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Today, it's "we are a minority party".

Tomorrow it's "we may be a majority, but we need 60 votes to pass legislation".

The next day is "we have 60, but we are a big tent and have broad views".
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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😂
Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Republicans who think your seat is safe: no it's not
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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lol. one of my favorite details of nk jemisen’s excellent “the city we became” is that staten island refuses to join the other boroughs to save nyc, so they get jersey city to join instead
this is objectively hilarious
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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I understand this in large part because of @nkjemisin.bsky.social's The City We Became.
this is objectively hilarious
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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fortunately, the market has already priced in that it wouldn't price any of this in.
February 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.

There’s not.
February 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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so like who HAD the bright idea to drain the lakes that'll prevent SoCal droughts this summer, to flood SoCal plains and fields and homes right now, who suggested that, what were their motivations?
February 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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one way to think about the dems in the last 8 years is that they wanted all the electoral benefits of being a popular front against authoritarianism but none of the substantive commitments
November 18, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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Remembering for no reason that what broke phil connors out of his nightmare loop of death and grinding, soul crushingly banal repetition was working to become a person who cared very deeply about and very carefully for the people around him.

Just a thought, now that it's Groundhog Day. Again.
February 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Leopard: I will eat your face

Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating

Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
J.P. Morgan econs on Trump’s latest are “increasingly concerned that the policy mix may tilt into an unintentionally far less business-friendly stance. The sustained 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico set to start this weekend is materially different than the tariff increases built into our baseline.”
February 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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If you’re a Democratic lawmaker wondering why so many of us are frustrated with your messaging and wondering what it is we want, check out Justin Trudeau’s response to Trump’s tariffs and please take notes.
February 2, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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this is exactly it. i wrote something similar not long ago
February 2, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Go. To. The. Treasury. And. Demand. Entry.

You are the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee.
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
February 2, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Warren is the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee. Wyden is the same on the Senate Finance Committee. They need to go to the Treasury building with crews from CNN and NBC and demand to be let in. As soon as they're not, hold a press conference right there and explain what DOGE is doing.
February 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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cannot be said enough that for a decade a critical number of americans have simply refused to accept that he means what he says
I hold a lot of disdain for the people who didn’t see this coming given P2025 but it does seem like the actual support for these goals is nonexistent, everyone who voted for him did so under the incredibly stupid assumption that he wouldn’t do this
February 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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For all our American neighbours who may be struggling to find accurate health information - thr Public Health Agency of Canada has a website you are more than welcome to use:
www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
February 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!
January 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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I’ve spent about 2-3 hours each day on calls or chats with my US gov friends. Here’s an anonymized recap of what’s going on.

First, I am so very sorry that they are living our last year at Twitter. I never wanted to think about that time again, and I hope my advice is helpful. 1/
January 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM