skooks
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they told me we'd be finished by now

📍New Orleans
This whole year has been a test of faith in so many ways
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I think i might be done with the Kellen Moore project. I don't want to wait around for it to be obvious
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
They're not booing They're saying Gruuuuupe
November 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Kellen Moore sucks
November 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
why I'd grupe still here?
November 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Fumbled exchanges
Missed field goals

It is definitely a Saints-Falcons game
November 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Well it is a Saints Falcons game
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I don't know why the news stories about the fate of this scam museum are all written from the scammers' point of view www.nola.com/news/busines...
Louisiana Music Museum eyes historic Rampart Street site as River District deal stalls
The Louisiana Music & Heritage Experience, a project long planned for the new River District neighborhood, is now exploring a move to the historic jazz landmarks of South Rampart Street as uncertainty...
www.nola.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Today the Saints and Falcons are playing an elimination game of sorts. The winner isn't going to the playoffs or anything but they will come away with "momentum," a win over a rival, and a viable project of being a live spoiler the rest of the way. The loser goes to bed for 2025
November 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Bill voted to confirm RFK because he was afraid of being primaried by yahoos for going against Trump. So he fell in line. He is getting primaried by yahoos anyway. One of America's most hapless oafs.
TAPPER: You were the deciding vote that allowed RFK Jr to ascend to the role of Health Secretary. Did you give him too much credit?

CASSIDY: The fact is the scientific community agrees that vaccines are safe. That's all I can say.
November 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Meanwhile, after the cute little 2-week news cycle of some meaningless public feud with the president, Elon Musk—and probably also Peter Thiel—walked away with their hands on what is likely a database of literally every single American citizen’s most private financial and demographic information.
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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DOGE was not a failure. Its purpose was to use the completely fabricated claim of “efficiency” to irreparably annihilate vast amounts of federal government infrastructure, which it did instantly, violently, and in ways we will not see the full repair of in our lifetimes.
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*

The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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I know this is rhetorical but my stab at a real answer: because they are trying to get funding from VC people who are ideologues like Peter Thiel and Thiel doesn’t want us to have libraries
Why is startup culture always “I am inventing a coffeeproof phone you can put in your coffee cup to keep it warm with cell radiation” and never “I’m inventing a new library wholesaler to replace the single company that is shutting down and sending libraries into crisis”
November 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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This is the 2nd time a major government report from Deloitte has been found to contain errors likely generated by AI.

First in Australia and now, as The Independent has confirmed, in a major healthcare policy paper for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli #AI #deloitte
November 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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i said this back in the height of doge's power but the real issue with these people is their own jobs are meaningless and bullshit. elon tweets all day. these people just have makework email jobs so they just assume that everyone else also does no work. no idea what it's like e.g., to carry mail
November 23, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.

Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.

This is great news. 📚
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Just sitting around, waiting for things to get immeasurably worse.

www.latimes.com/science/stor...
Washington state resident dies of new H5N5 form of bird flu
The person, who lived in Grays Harbor County, Wash., had been hospitalized earlier this month in Kings County, where Seattle is located.
www.latimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
After Katrina, many of us said that we could choose to bear and mitigate the costs of climate change in collaborative, socially responsible ways that maintain communities OR we could shunt those costs onto the most vulnerable individuals. Guess what happened. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The T-P/Advocate is perfecting the art of the flattering profile of Republican politicians that outright lies about their motivations in the process. Tyler Bridges is the master at this but Mark Ballard is learning to do it too. www.nola.com/news/politic...
November 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Every article by a 'savvy' political analyst reads like a focus group transcript with a low-information voter.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
November 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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AARRGH. CHIROPRACTIC IS NOT MEDICINE, IT’S DANGEROUS BULLSHIT CREATED BY A FUCKING GROCER WHO THOUGHT HE COULD HEAL WITH MAGNETS. WHAT THE FUCK, AMERICA
Oh good, they left Chiropractors as professionals but not Nurses, NPs, PA’s or physical therapists

That’s infuriating
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 AM