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I know, I know, polycrisis, existential risks, elite impunity & brain rot, but I’m over here still thinking about why street urchin, aspiring detective, and radio mad scientist Skeet Wheeler—father of Vineland’s Zoyd (who never shrugs)—has the last word in “Shadow Ticket” if not in Pynchon’s oeuvre.
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over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
January 14, 2026 at 2:06 AM
over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
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“On Sept 28, 2025, the account [of Rodden’s] responded to the question “Can anyone point to me exactly where America started going downhill?” The account responded: “November 6, 1860”—the date that President Abraham Lincoln, the president whose administration ended slavery, was elected.”
January 14, 2026 at 1:09 AM
“On Sept 28, 2025, the account [of Rodden’s] responded to the question “Can anyone point to me exactly where America started going downhill?” The account responded: “November 6, 1860”—the date that President Abraham Lincoln, the president whose administration ended slavery, was elected.”
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take a second to really wrap your head around this.
January 13, 2026 at 10:38 PM
take a second to really wrap your head around this.
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January 13, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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Now you won't even need an ICE officer to choke to death!
Trump: "We're canceling the EPA's absurd tailpipe emissions standard, one of the worst ever"
January 13, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Now you won't even need an ICE officer to choke to death!
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Researchers say the United States emitted 2.4% more greenhouse gases in 2025 than the previous year.
US carbon pollution rose in 2025. Experts blame cold winter, high natural gas prices, data centers
Researchers say the United States emitted 2.4% more greenhouse gases in 2025 than the previous year.
bit.ly
January 13, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Researchers say the United States emitted 2.4% more greenhouse gases in 2025 than the previous year.
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“The strategic imperative,” he argued, “must be clear: nothing less than the total defeat of the organized political interests of oil, gas, and coal producers is necessary to make any other climate justice goals even a remote possibility.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social (via @learning2live.bsky.social)
There’s No Quitting the Climate Fight
This is the worst-ever year for climate politics—but the struggle is far from over.
www.thenation.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:33 PM
“The strategic imperative,” he argued, “must be clear: nothing less than the total defeat of the organized political interests of oil, gas, and coal producers is necessary to make any other climate justice goals even a remote possibility.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social (via @learning2live.bsky.social)
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👇🎯 ~1/3 to 1/5 of the electorate in ~every rich democracy today supports far right/authoritarian parties. The difference, in 🇺🇸, is that of our political institutions are deeply minoritarian & antidemocratic (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) & have enabled that minority to become a governing majority.
One-third is the cursèd number in political psychology: in many Western countries over the past century, ~1/3 of the population prefer authoritarianism to democracy.
That's about the proportion of Germans who voted to make Hitler Chancellor & even now in Europe, 1/3 of whites want authoritarianism.
That's about the proportion of Germans who voted to make Hitler Chancellor & even now in Europe, 1/3 of whites want authoritarianism.
January 13, 2026 at 5:39 PM
👇🎯 ~1/3 to 1/5 of the electorate in ~every rich democracy today supports far right/authoritarian parties. The difference, in 🇺🇸, is that of our political institutions are deeply minoritarian & antidemocratic (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) & have enabled that minority to become a governing majority.
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I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!
January 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!
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For @techpolicypress.bsky.social , a quick turnaround and slightly longer version of the talk I gave at UVA last week, “Grok is an Epistemic Weapon.” Shout outs to @hbcompass.bsky.social, @eliothiggins.bsky.social, others.
Grok stands as the clearest example of an AI that is both ideologically aligned and operationally embedded in a social media platform, says @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social. "Its mechanisms should be taken apart under bright lights, in much the same way people learn how to defuse a bomb."
Grok is an Epistemic Weapon | TechPolicy.Press
Elon Musk's Grok claims to be truth-seeking while shaping discourse and amplifying ideology, argues Matthew Kirschenbaum.
www.techpolicy.press
January 13, 2026 at 2:55 PM
For @techpolicypress.bsky.social , a quick turnaround and slightly longer version of the talk I gave at UVA last week, “Grok is an Epistemic Weapon.” Shout outs to @hbcompass.bsky.social, @eliothiggins.bsky.social, others.
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AOC: Vance believes fundamentally that what happened to Renee Good is acceptable and what should be ok in America every day and so as far as what a person like that believes, you have to start right there with the person that you're dealing with
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
AOC: Vance believes fundamentally that what happened to Renee Good is acceptable and what should be ok in America every day and so as far as what a person like that believes, you have to start right there with the person that you're dealing with
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This is SERIOUSLY FUCKED UP.
U.S. Rep. Jonathan Jackson has been a vocal critic of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the Chicago area, but he’s also banking on shares of Palantir, a data analysis company that’s helping the Trump administration deport people.
U.S. Rep. Jonathan Jackson discloses stock shares in ICE contractor Palantir
chicago.suntimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:01 AM
This is SERIOUSLY FUCKED UP.
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AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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New Network State just dropped: Zanzibar.
Everywhere you look, tech bros trying to build weird new cities. Gaza, Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, Africa—and 10 planned for the USA.
Everywhere you look, tech bros trying to build weird new cities. Gaza, Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, Africa—and 10 planned for the USA.
January 12, 2026 at 8:50 PM
New Network State just dropped: Zanzibar.
Everywhere you look, tech bros trying to build weird new cities. Gaza, Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, Africa—and 10 planned for the USA.
Everywhere you look, tech bros trying to build weird new cities. Gaza, Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, Africa—and 10 planned for the USA.
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2026: Peter Thiel and Gavin Newsom teaming up against a billionaire tax proposed by a health care workers union...
As Newsom's closest political advisors gorge on lucrative contracts from venture capital.
Unfortunately, it's not just Republicans who are the problem
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
As Newsom's closest political advisors gorge on lucrative contracts from venture capital.
Unfortunately, it's not just Republicans who are the problem
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
Thiel Gives $3 Million to Group Seeking to Block California Wealth Tax
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:17 PM
2026: Peter Thiel and Gavin Newsom teaming up against a billionaire tax proposed by a health care workers union...
As Newsom's closest political advisors gorge on lucrative contracts from venture capital.
Unfortunately, it's not just Republicans who are the problem
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
As Newsom's closest political advisors gorge on lucrative contracts from venture capital.
Unfortunately, it's not just Republicans who are the problem
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
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deposing a foreign ruler and spending tens of billions of dollars on oil subsidies so we can put American frackers out of business, just in time for EVs to permanently collapse oil demand. that's the Trump business touch alright
January 12, 2026 at 2:57 PM
deposing a foreign ruler and spending tens of billions of dollars on oil subsidies so we can put American frackers out of business, just in time for EVs to permanently collapse oil demand. that's the Trump business touch alright
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US plan to exploit Venezuela’s oil could eat up 13% of carbon budget to keep 1.5C limit
US plan to exploit Venezuela’s oil could eat up 13% of carbon budget to keep 1.5C limit
Exclusive: ClimatePartner analysis shows how move would risk plunging Earth further into climate catastrophe
US plans to exploit Venezuela’s oil reserves could by 2050 consume more than a tenth of the world’s remaining carbon budget to limit global heating to 1.5C, according to an exclusive analysis.
The calculation highlights how any moves to further exploit the South American nation’s oil reserves – the largest in the world, at least on paper – would put increasing pressure on climate goals, and risk plunging the globe further into climate catastrophe. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
US plan to exploit Venezuela’s oil could eat up 13% of carbon budget to keep 1.5C limit
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Eighteenth Brumaire undefeated explanatory text
January 12, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Eighteenth Brumaire undefeated explanatory text
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It was taken in Canada and features this person.
January 12, 2026 at 7:08 AM
It was taken in Canada and features this person.
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Logistics
Logistics - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The American military is a finite resource. Further, they operate by moving physical resources in time and space. Much of the Discourse does not reflect this. Donald Trump, of course, has had little awareness of such things, and his apparent descent into dementia isn’t helping. Let me be specific, if I am advancing such criticism. […]
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Logistics
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Well, those boots were not made for walking
January 11, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Well, those boots were not made for walking
Bro has never loved a toy like he loves this Xmas present. This morning’s game of fetch seems to finally be over though so I can resume my regularly-scheduled scrolling.
January 11, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Bro has never loved a toy like he loves this Xmas present. This morning’s game of fetch seems to finally be over though so I can resume my regularly-scheduled scrolling.
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The problem with ICE is not insufficient training or even training content.
It’s creating an agency where you give people guns and tell them to terrorize Brown people and then recruit people excited to do that.
It’s creating an agency where you give people guns and tell them to terrorize Brown people and then recruit people excited to do that.
January 11, 2026 at 5:16 PM
The problem with ICE is not insufficient training or even training content.
It’s creating an agency where you give people guns and tell them to terrorize Brown people and then recruit people excited to do that.
It’s creating an agency where you give people guns and tell them to terrorize Brown people and then recruit people excited to do that.
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“A diplomatic source said: 'The generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations. They say it's like dealing with a five-year-old'.”
what the fuck
have we tried turning the country off and back on again
what the fuck
have we tried turning the country off and back on again
January 11, 2026 at 7:10 AM
“A diplomatic source said: 'The generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations. They say it's like dealing with a five-year-old'.”
what the fuck
have we tried turning the country off and back on again
what the fuck
have we tried turning the country off and back on again
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Surround yourself with the kind of people who make small talk with stray animals.
January 11, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Surround yourself with the kind of people who make small talk with stray animals.