Scott Y
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Ayad Akhtar to Jeffrey Goldberg: If Ralph Waldo Emerson came back today, he “would not recognize the validity of a lot of what we take as being important. I think Emerson would be confused that we don't talk about the soul." #TAF25 bit.ly/4n0Uv2p
September 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Ayad Akhtar to Jeffrey Goldberg: If Ralph Waldo Emerson came back today, he “would not recognize the validity of a lot of what we take as being important. I think Emerson would be confused that we don't talk about the soul." #TAF25 bit.ly/4n0Uv2p
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We are facing a comprehensive campaign from the federal government to undermine our elections, and it’s something we all need to be prepared for heading into 2026.
Join us for a live virtual event on protecting the integrity of the vote on Thursday, September 18, at 3 p.m. ET. RSVP: bit.ly/46gWk3V
Join us for a live virtual event on protecting the integrity of the vote on Thursday, September 18, at 3 p.m. ET. RSVP: bit.ly/46gWk3V
September 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
We are facing a comprehensive campaign from the federal government to undermine our elections, and it’s something we all need to be prepared for heading into 2026.
Join us for a live virtual event on protecting the integrity of the vote on Thursday, September 18, at 3 p.m. ET. RSVP: bit.ly/46gWk3V
Join us for a live virtual event on protecting the integrity of the vote on Thursday, September 18, at 3 p.m. ET. RSVP: bit.ly/46gWk3V
So much joy!
August 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
So much joy!
Wow
As shitty as things are here in America right now, we are still part of something beyond us.
August 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Wow
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why this MFer look like a combination of siegfried and roy
To be clear Larry Ellison, a billionaire Trump donor who believed the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, used his own money to buy CBS and install his son as the boss.
They'll then convert CBS into another right wing propaganda mill like Fox News. It's not really subtle!
They'll then convert CBS into another right wing propaganda mill like Fox News. It's not really subtle!
Larry Ellison Invests $6 Billion in Son David’s Paramount Takeover
The family office is funding the majority of the $8 billion merger with Skydance as RedBird Capital Partners makes up the remaining quarter The post Larry Ellison Invests $6 Billion in Son David’s Par...
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July 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
why this MFer look like a combination of siegfried and roy
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“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
June 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
My family history includes ancestors who chose conviction over community. It resonates with what many of us are going through today, sparking this reflection. #community #conviction #ancestors
The Cost of Conscience
What convictions do you hold that would force you to abandon established communities and risk ostracism?
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June 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
My family history includes ancestors who chose conviction over community. It resonates with what many of us are going through today, sparking this reflection. #community #conviction #ancestors
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In a new study published in the journal iScience, researchers detected biophotons emitted by the human brain from outside the skull for the first time. What’s more, emissions of biophotons from the brain changed when participants switched between different cognitive tasks...
Your Brain Is Glowing, and Scientists Can't Figure Out Why
Researchers have measured the brain’s faint glow for the first time, hinting at a potential role of “biophotons” in cognition
www.scientificamerican.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
In a new study published in the journal iScience, researchers detected biophotons emitted by the human brain from outside the skull for the first time. What’s more, emissions of biophotons from the brain changed when participants switched between different cognitive tasks...
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Men hit by lightning plucked from mountain in record-high Colorado helicopter rescues
Men hit by lightning plucked from mountain in record-high Colorado helicopter rescues
The rescues happened late Thursday near the summit of Torreys Peak, a 14,300-foot mountain about 40 miles west of Denver
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June 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Men hit by lightning plucked from mountain in record-high Colorado helicopter rescues
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June 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.
June 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.
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In an act of integrity and resistance, a supervisor in the Nashville federal prosecutor’s office resigned over how the Abrego Garcia case was being handled. The charges are bogus, pure political theater meant to justify a wrongful abduction.
June 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
In an act of integrity and resistance, a supervisor in the Nashville federal prosecutor’s office resigned over how the Abrego Garcia case was being handled. The charges are bogus, pure political theater meant to justify a wrongful abduction.
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The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.
Tulsa announces reparations for the 1921 ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre
It took decades of research by historians and journalists — and reports by state and federal commissions — to uncover the violence that claimed more than 300 Black lives.
wapo.st
June 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.
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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
Grace is a constellation of love that aligns around us without reason.
June 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Grace is a constellation of love that aligns around us without reason.
My first Substack post! I wasn't sure when this day would come, but please join me on the journey! #grace #angels #TransformativeLangaugeArts #writing #RightLivelihood #worth #deserving
Angels and Grace
Ever cried for no good reason? Or for no good reason that you knew of at the time?
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June 3, 2025 at 12:07 AM
My first Substack post! I wasn't sure when this day would come, but please join me on the journey! #grace #angels #TransformativeLangaugeArts #writing #RightLivelihood #worth #deserving
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Adam Sandler's routine for Conan O'Brien's Mark Twain Prize show is exactly what I needed today ... so funny! #MarkTwainPrize #AdamSandler #ConanOBrian #comedy #balm #Netflix
May 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Adam Sandler's routine for Conan O'Brien's Mark Twain Prize show is exactly what I needed today ... so funny! #MarkTwainPrize #AdamSandler #ConanOBrian #comedy #balm #Netflix
The level of conspiracy theory thinking among our leaders would make even the most stalwart Flat Earther of the 1970s blush. This is from a disinformation researcher I follow and respect. www.reneediresta.com/deep-lore-di...
Deep Lore, Digital Witch Hunts, and the Battle For Shared Reality
In an alternate universe, I run a sprawling cabal. I wrote about it last year: my supposed secret double life as a CIA agent orchestrating a Censorship Industrial Complex from within Stanford Universi...
www.reneediresta.com
May 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The level of conspiracy theory thinking among our leaders would make even the most stalwart Flat Earther of the 1970s blush. This is from a disinformation researcher I follow and respect. www.reneediresta.com/deep-lore-di...
This could happen to anyone.
ICE has begun raiding the homes of American citizens. A widely shared story out of Oklahoma describes a disturbing incident where a woman and her children were dragged into their yard half-naked. Reports are mounting across multiple states of agents targeting the wrong properties.
April 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This could happen to anyone.
We'll likely see more and more of this across the full spectrum of social media and in every group that promotes peace, love, and understanding.
This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
🔗 www.404media.co/this-college...
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This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”
www.404media.co
April 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
We'll likely see more and more of this across the full spectrum of social media and in every group that promotes peace, love, and understanding.
@heidibarr.bsky.social 's new collection landed in the midst of spring today! So much wisdom. #poetry #wisdom #mystery
April 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
@heidibarr.bsky.social 's new collection landed in the midst of spring today! So much wisdom. #poetry #wisdom #mystery
For congregations that have outgrown spoken Joys & Concerns, which ways of sharing the personal in worship work best for your congregation? Or have you done away with this practice entirely? For any denomination that wrestles with this question. #UnitarianUniversalism #UU #worship
March 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
For congregations that have outgrown spoken Joys & Concerns, which ways of sharing the personal in worship work best for your congregation? Or have you done away with this practice entirely? For any denomination that wrestles with this question. #UnitarianUniversalism #UU #worship
Time to delete our 23 and me data? www.cbsnews.com/news/23andme...
23andMe files for bankruptcy and will try to find a buyer
23andMe, which helped popularize ancestry tracing through genetic testing, filed for bankruptcy protection and will seek a sale.
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March 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Time to delete our 23 and me data? www.cbsnews.com/news/23andme...