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HS Math Teacher, Reader of books, good and bad. Marylander. Into urbanism and transit.
Contrarian by nuture. Determined optimist by nature.
Contrarian by nuture. Determined optimist by nature.
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”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”
February 16, 2026 at 5:11 PM
”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”
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Well now, would you look at that?
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
February 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Well now, would you look at that?
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
if you want to win. you have to fight.
I will crawl through broken glass to vote against a a Republican bc my life depends on it.
February 16, 2026 at 12:55 PM
if you want to win. you have to fight.
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Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding:
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
February 16, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding:
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
keeping winning. keeping going.
break ice
break ice
BREAKING Otero County, #NewMexico ICE detention center to close. www.koat.com/article/oter...
This is why we fought for #HB9 Immigrant Safety Act.
This is why we fought for #HB9 Immigrant Safety Act.
Otero County will close detention facility in Alamogordo
The Immigrant Safety Act bans contracting with ICE to detain people in New Mexico for civil immigration violations.
www.koat.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:30 AM
keeping winning. keeping going.
break ice
break ice
Peel DHS to pieces. Next emergency weather event, get up there and propose funding FEMA if it's moved to the department of the interior.
then TSA to the dept. of transportation
then coast guard to the navy...
then TSA to the dept. of transportation
then coast guard to the navy...
February 15, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Peel DHS to pieces. Next emergency weather event, get up there and propose funding FEMA if it's moved to the department of the interior.
then TSA to the dept. of transportation
then coast guard to the navy...
then TSA to the dept. of transportation
then coast guard to the navy...
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👷♂️ICYMI👷♂️
For residents of D.C., #Maryland and Virginia, the best method for reporting #potholes depends on where your neighborhood is located. https://wtop.com/local/2026/02/where-to-report-potholes-in-your-dc-area-neighborhood/ #montgomerycountymd #mdroads #mdtraffic #reportingpotholes
For residents of D.C., #Maryland and Virginia, the best method for reporting #potholes depends on where your neighborhood is located. https://wtop.com/local/2026/02/where-to-report-potholes-in-your-dc-area-neighborhood/ #montgomerycountymd #mdroads #mdtraffic #reportingpotholes
Where to report potholes in your DC-area neighborhood - WTOP News
For residents of D.C., Maryland and Virginia, the best method for reporting potholes depends on where your neighborhood is located.
wtop.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:35 AM
👷♂️ICYMI👷♂️
For residents of D.C., #Maryland and Virginia, the best method for reporting #potholes depends on where your neighborhood is located. https://wtop.com/local/2026/02/where-to-report-potholes-in-your-dc-area-neighborhood/ #montgomerycountymd #mdroads #mdtraffic #reportingpotholes
For residents of D.C., #Maryland and Virginia, the best method for reporting #potholes depends on where your neighborhood is located. https://wtop.com/local/2026/02/where-to-report-potholes-in-your-dc-area-neighborhood/ #montgomerycountymd #mdroads #mdtraffic #reportingpotholes
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Amazing to see Australian researchers leading the way globally on groundbreaking medical research!
Congratulations to Richard Scolyer and Georgina Long for leading the way with courage and resolution on innovative brain cancer therapies.
Congratulations to Richard Scolyer and Georgina Long for leading the way with courage and resolution on innovative brain cancer therapies.
‘Incredibly excited’: Richard Scolyer hails new US trial for brain cancer
The world-renowned pathologist and former Australian of the Year is upbeat that his experimental treatment for glioblastoma has sparked a clinical trial.
www.theage.com.au
February 13, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Amazing to see Australian researchers leading the way globally on groundbreaking medical research!
Congratulations to Richard Scolyer and Georgina Long for leading the way with courage and resolution on innovative brain cancer therapies.
Congratulations to Richard Scolyer and Georgina Long for leading the way with courage and resolution on innovative brain cancer therapies.
if we're insane thoughts; mine is that people are already telepathic but it's only line of sight and someone who you've had 10 or more serious conversations with.0
I think more people should keep their insane thoughts to themselves.
February 13, 2026 at 9:12 PM
if we're insane thoughts; mine is that people are already telepathic but it's only line of sight and someone who you've had 10 or more serious conversations with.0
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Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp
February 13, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp
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Gonna be come a Grover Norquist, but instead of low taxes I'm whipping for low-Harvard Yale Stanford presence in the Democratic party
April 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Gonna be come a Grover Norquist, but instead of low taxes I'm whipping for low-Harvard Yale Stanford presence in the Democratic party
the only good nimbyism
new from me: it's interesting that one of the biggest roadblocks we're seeing to ICE buying up warehouses to convert into modern day concentration camps for detained immigrants is conservative NIMBYs (non-derogatory, for once) saying "not here, thanks"
Opinion | ICE’s warehouse detention centers run up against NIMBYism
A surprising number of Republican communities are coming out against the idea of ICE deportation facilities in their backyards.
www.ms.now
February 13, 2026 at 4:00 PM
the only good nimbyism
The Hennepin County Sheriff is up for reelection this November but does not currently have any challengers.
February 13, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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Hot take:
I'm seeing so many stories of people using AI for writing and being "blown away" by what it produces.
I don't think they're "blown away" by the quality. I think they're "blown away" at seeing their own ideas rendered in readable prose for the first time. (thread)
I'm seeing so many stories of people using AI for writing and being "blown away" by what it produces.
I don't think they're "blown away" by the quality. I think they're "blown away" at seeing their own ideas rendered in readable prose for the first time. (thread)
February 13, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Hot take:
I'm seeing so many stories of people using AI for writing and being "blown away" by what it produces.
I don't think they're "blown away" by the quality. I think they're "blown away" at seeing their own ideas rendered in readable prose for the first time. (thread)
I'm seeing so many stories of people using AI for writing and being "blown away" by what it produces.
I don't think they're "blown away" by the quality. I think they're "blown away" at seeing their own ideas rendered in readable prose for the first time. (thread)
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It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea
February 13, 2026 at 11:26 AM
It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea
burn that slush fund to the ground
February 13, 2026 at 10:29 AM
burn that slush fund to the ground
when you read an entire thread inly to realize americans don't know about pre-emancipation Europe
February 13, 2026 at 10:24 AM
when you read an entire thread inly to realize americans don't know about pre-emancipation Europe
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"Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?
Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
Beware the Fury of a Patient Man."
- John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel"
Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
Beware the Fury of a Patient Man."
- John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel"
February 13, 2026 at 4:40 AM
"Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?
Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
Beware the Fury of a Patient Man."
- John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel"
Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
Beware the Fury of a Patient Man."
- John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel"
good. keep going.
February 13, 2026 at 12:53 AM
good. keep going.
dhs needs several review boards to evaluate expenditures and personelle must pay for travel and lodging in advance and will be reimbursed when paperwork is submitted in triplicate by fax
February 13, 2026 at 12:50 AM
dhs needs several review boards to evaluate expenditures and personelle must pay for travel and lodging in advance and will be reimbursed when paperwork is submitted in triplicate by fax
Free the Ports!!
February 13, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Free the Ports!!
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The Jones Act raises costs and distorts maritime markets without delivering the shipbuilding it promised. For Maryland, repealing it would mean more port activity and real opportunities for new maritime jobs. Thank you, Bad Bunny, for highlighting the impacts of this harmful, obsolete law.
February 10, 2026 at 12:40 AM
The Jones Act raises costs and distorts maritime markets without delivering the shipbuilding it promised. For Maryland, repealing it would mean more port activity and real opportunities for new maritime jobs. Thank you, Bad Bunny, for highlighting the impacts of this harmful, obsolete law.
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Good. Keep going
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Flock off
buff.ly
February 12, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Good. Keep going
keeping chipping away
February 12, 2026 at 11:58 PM
keeping chipping away
don't know which scots-irish came up with the idea that you should automatically put all politicans on trial at the end of the term because presumably they've stolen something...
and that is the true scots-irish heritage
and that is the true scots-irish heritage
As someone of proud Scotch-Irish ancestry, the idea that it has been erased is laughable.
What *has* happened is some people have started invoking that heritage in ways that erase the culture’s (very good and very bad) complexities, or, recently, gloss over stuff like their rabid hatred of kings.
What *has* happened is some people have started invoking that heritage in ways that erase the culture’s (very good and very bad) complexities, or, recently, gloss over stuff like their rabid hatred of kings.
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 11:55 PM
don't know which scots-irish came up with the idea that you should automatically put all politicans on trial at the end of the term because presumably they've stolen something...
and that is the true scots-irish heritage
and that is the true scots-irish heritage