Triplebassist
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this is a blasphemy.
Heard the same; this is what I mean by inches from the finish line; scheduled for the final citizenship oath ceremony and now suddenly that date is cancelled and people don't know what will happen next.
Our office has clients caught up in this. Hearing from colleagues nationwide about people having their naturalization oath ceremonies canceled. Some of the affected people aren't even subject to the travel ban due to other acquired citizenship, but they are still being caught up.
December 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
this is a blasphemy.
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LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD:
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD:
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
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i recoiled a lot at the depiction of the fans in Ep 1 of Pluribus because, while people like that exist, they aren’t really the full extent of the problem
The subcategorization/tropefication of popular fiction has been very bad in general, both for authors and readers.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
i recoiled a lot at the depiction of the fans in Ep 1 of Pluribus because, while people like that exist, they aren’t really the full extent of the problem
Malteses are far from the worst offenders, but there's a reason I prefer working group dogs. Nothing silly going on there, just a bunch of herders and sled pullers.
Some of those dogs at the dog show are just obscene abominations unto the lord.
November 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Malteses are far from the worst offenders, but there's a reason I prefer working group dogs. Nothing silly going on there, just a bunch of herders and sled pullers.
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The only way to stop this for state govts to start going after the universities that do this and then for the next democratic admin to go after universities again too.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The only way to stop this for state govts to start going after the universities that do this and then for the next democratic admin to go after universities again too.
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New housing lowers rents.
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
New housing lowers rents.
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They believe that Trump will use the formal powers of the government and whatever informal powers he may have to extract costs from them if they do not play ball and they equally believe that the anti-Trump coalition will not extract these costs.
So we need to extract those costs.
So we need to extract those costs.
given how unpopular Trump is, it’s insane that civil society/universities/law firms are still asking themselves “how do I stay on Trump’s good side” rather than “how do I avoid facing consequences for complying with Trump’s illegal demands”
New Gallup poll shows Trump's approval hit a new low for his second term:
-36% approve
-60% disapprove
His approval among Republicans went from 91% in January to 84% in November
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
-36% approve
-60% disapprove
His approval among Republicans went from 91% in January to 84% in November
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
They believe that Trump will use the formal powers of the government and whatever informal powers he may have to extract costs from them if they do not play ball and they equally believe that the anti-Trump coalition will not extract these costs.
So we need to extract those costs.
So we need to extract those costs.
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This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
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Journalists are jumping all over this guy but what evidence do we have that isn’t true. I’m not even saying it is true, but why would we take their word that it isn’t?
I assume journalists do this stuff all the time. Maybe more on the editorial side, but as a non-journalist, I don’t particularly care what part of the organization is tasked to do the consent-manufacturing. This assumption is based on my observations of journalism in the run up to the Iraq War.
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Journalists are jumping all over this guy but what evidence do we have that isn’t true. I’m not even saying it is true, but why would we take their word that it isn’t?
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Given the amount of inflation in the last few years, a lot of people don't have enough car insurance. Everyone should review their policies, including their under-insured limits, before they renew.
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Given the amount of inflation in the last few years, a lot of people don't have enough car insurance. Everyone should review their policies, including their under-insured limits, before they renew.
As always, "just win lol" is undefeated
And also don't lose to Louisville and SMU then
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
As always, "just win lol" is undefeated
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Flint's water crisis followed a budget crisis which put Flint under the rule of a state level emergency manager. They needed cheaper water and chose to get it from a more local water source. That water authority subsequently failed to properly treat the water, leaving the water corrosive.
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Flint's water crisis followed a budget crisis which put Flint under the rule of a state level emergency manager. They needed cheaper water and chose to get it from a more local water source. That water authority subsequently failed to properly treat the water, leaving the water corrosive.
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It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
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.
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...
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 3:52 PM
It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
At least ACC basketball is back. Doesn't bring in the money like football but the ACC being a football conference is as offensive as that period in the mid 2000s where Louisville, Rutgers, and Cincinnati briefly turned the Big East into one.
Never chance, ACC
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
At least ACC basketball is back. Doesn't bring in the money like football but the ACC being a football conference is as offensive as that period in the mid 2000s where Louisville, Rutgers, and Cincinnati briefly turned the Big East into one.
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DC journalism is an enterprise focused first and foremost on the inner workings of DC journalism. This has been a worsening problem for years, but the fact of Donald Trump (among other things) accelerated it considerably.
November 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
DC journalism is an enterprise focused first and foremost on the inner workings of DC journalism. This has been a worsening problem for years, but the fact of Donald Trump (among other things) accelerated it considerably.
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i actually believe this very strongly, not in a shitpost way. i manage my band IG account, and it looks very different from my account here on bluesky for many reasons, one of which is that it destroys your credibility to speak singularly on an org account and also because it's not fair to the org
Which is once again why you can never allow people to use the Work account as a personal account. It destroyed journalism, it's currently flensing the credibility of the US government, and it will destroy your think tank/politics group just as, if not more quickly.
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 AM
i actually believe this very strongly, not in a shitpost way. i manage my band IG account, and it looks very different from my account here on bluesky for many reasons, one of which is that it destroys your credibility to speak singularly on an org account and also because it's not fair to the org
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It's hard to describe how disorienting it is to see this many students absent. My only mental reference point is the weeks leading up to school getting canceled due to COVID-19, when students were starting to stay home due to illness or out of precaution. CBP/ICE is a plague.
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
It's hard to describe how disorienting it is to see this many students absent. My only mental reference point is the weeks leading up to school getting canceled due to COVID-19, when students were starting to stay home due to illness or out of precaution. CBP/ICE is a plague.
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Dual class shares should be illegal
November 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Dual class shares should be illegal
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She committed one of the most textbook violations of journalistic ethics with zero ambiguity and so ‘endured’ a one year hiatus between incredibly prestigious jobs. I feel like at the *very least* the media could refrain from then giving her deeply sympathetic profiles chronicling her ‘suffering’
November 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
She committed one of the most textbook violations of journalistic ethics with zero ambiguity and so ‘endured’ a one year hiatus between incredibly prestigious jobs. I feel like at the *very least* the media could refrain from then giving her deeply sympathetic profiles chronicling her ‘suffering’
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I don’t know at this point if there is enough evident to say “the New York Times, institutionally, was a co-conspirator with Epstein” but it’s basically beyond doubt at this point that at least one employee of the paper were co-conspirators and used their position at the paper to help affect that
Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
![From:
Thomas Jr., Landon
Sent:
9/27/2017 2:47:47 PM
To:
Subject:
Got another call from Connelly..
Importance:
High
Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too.
Anyway, for what its worth...
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h
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November 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I don’t know at this point if there is enough evident to say “the New York Times, institutionally, was a co-conspirator with Epstein” but it’s basically beyond doubt at this point that at least one employee of the paper were co-conspirators and used their position at the paper to help affect that
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Against my own instincts I am turning into a pretty unashamed credentialist. We've become so enamored of the Hollywood narrative where the scrappy outsider proves all the established experts wrong that we lose sight of how rare it is in reality, and how HUGELY damaging it is to treat as probable.
I'm kinda not a fan of credentialism
"Non-scientists" can have insight
And actual scientists can be grifters
So the substance is what matters
But how can you judge substance unless you're an expert lol
But also people just cherry pick their fave experts all the time too
No good solution really
"Non-scientists" can have insight
And actual scientists can be grifters
So the substance is what matters
But how can you judge substance unless you're an expert lol
But also people just cherry pick their fave experts all the time too
No good solution really
If you are also a scientist, sure. If you aren't, like these guys, you should probably shut the fuck up and let the people whose opinions matter talk.
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Against my own instincts I am turning into a pretty unashamed credentialist. We've become so enamored of the Hollywood narrative where the scrappy outsider proves all the established experts wrong that we lose sight of how rare it is in reality, and how HUGELY damaging it is to treat as probable.
God DAMMIT you have no idea how little I want to have to hand it to my representative. But you've gotta hand it to him here.
Seth Moulton went on MSNBC and straight up said "the president is a pedophile" and refused to walk it back even after the hosts kept trying to equivocate.
House Dems don't give a *fuuuck.*
House Dems don't give a *fuuuck.*
November 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
God DAMMIT you have no idea how little I want to have to hand it to my representative. But you've gotta hand it to him here.
Idk I'm glad my old coworkers, the most dedicated and public minded people I know, will be able to buy food. And I'm extra glad that the worries they had about that don't appear to have been for nothing.
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Idk I'm glad my old coworkers, the most dedicated and public minded people I know, will be able to buy food. And I'm extra glad that the worries they had about that don't appear to have been for nothing.
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