PaulDO
@actuallypaul.bsky.social
Tall person living in the Milwaukee area.
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Wisconsinites are seeing their health insurance premiums skyrocket because President Trump and Republicans in Congress refuse to act.
The hardest hit counties aren’t the big blue cities… it’s rural counties and in the NW part of the state the GOP claims to care about.
The hardest hit counties aren’t the big blue cities… it’s rural counties and in the NW part of the state the GOP claims to care about.
January 2, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Wisconsinites are seeing their health insurance premiums skyrocket because President Trump and Republicans in Congress refuse to act.
The hardest hit counties aren’t the big blue cities… it’s rural counties and in the NW part of the state the GOP claims to care about.
The hardest hit counties aren’t the big blue cities… it’s rural counties and in the NW part of the state the GOP claims to care about.
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Elon Musk's accomplishments over the last year include starving thousands of people to death (and laughing about it) and creating Hitler AI that undresses children (and laughing about it). Is it time to do something about billionaires yet?
January 2, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Elon Musk's accomplishments over the last year include starving thousands of people to death (and laughing about it) and creating Hitler AI that undresses children (and laughing about it). Is it time to do something about billionaires yet?
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Newspapers are like “unsettled New Yorker’s hold their breath as the Mamdani administration takes the reins from the insane man who does crimes”
January 1, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Newspapers are like “unsettled New Yorker’s hold their breath as the Mamdani administration takes the reins from the insane man who does crimes”
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He has always been the author of his own legend, and too much of the media for decades have helped him launder those fictions.
Elon Musk promised a lot of things by 2025
- colonists arriving on Mars
- xAI achieving AGI
- Tesla robotaxis serving half the U.S.
- completely driverless robotaxis
- a Tesla Roadster demo
- DOGE cutting trillions
none of them happened
mashable.com/article/elon-mus...
- colonists arriving on Mars
- xAI achieving AGI
- Tesla robotaxis serving half the U.S.
- completely driverless robotaxis
- a Tesla Roadster demo
- DOGE cutting trillions
none of them happened
mashable.com/article/elon-mus...
Everything Elon Musk promised in 2025, but didn't deliver
Musk is now infamous for his false promises, but even this is excessive.
mashable.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
He has always been the author of his own legend, and too much of the media for decades have helped him launder those fictions.
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"What a year for the ultra wealthy. The world’s 500 richest people added a record $2.2 trillion to their collective fortunes in 2025’s… booming markets, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. And about a quarter of this year’s gains went to just eight billionaires.” — Bloomberg Morning Brief
December 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"What a year for the ultra wealthy. The world’s 500 richest people added a record $2.2 trillion to their collective fortunes in 2025’s… booming markets, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. And about a quarter of this year’s gains went to just eight billionaires.” — Bloomberg Morning Brief
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Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
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We're ruled by people in all three branches of government and across the tech/corporate landscape who think it's bad that this happened and wish the mob had prevailed, plain and simple. It's clarifying.
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; She was one of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who faced white mobs when desegregating a Tennessee high school in 1956 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; Braved Mobs in Integrating a School
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We're ruled by people in all three branches of government and across the tech/corporate landscape who think it's bad that this happened and wish the mob had prevailed, plain and simple. It's clarifying.
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NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
December 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
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Marty Supreme (2025)
December 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Marty Supreme (2025)
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Corporate capture and support for genocide cost the Democrats the election, not trans people’s human rights.
Those Democrats, especially Gavin Newsom, who were trying to blame us, need to be booted out.
Those Democrats, especially Gavin Newsom, who were trying to blame us, need to be booted out.
Everyone saying this in the ramp up to the election were correct and the party loyalists still argue online for free that the Dems can do no wrong.
Autopsy Says Corporate Capture, Support for Genocide Were Key Factors in Democrats' 2024 Disaster | Common Dreams
"Harris and the Democratic Party leadership prioritized the agendas of corporate donors and gambled on a centrist path, while largely abandoning working-class, young, and progressive voters."
www.commondreams.org
December 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Corporate capture and support for genocide cost the Democrats the election, not trans people’s human rights.
Those Democrats, especially Gavin Newsom, who were trying to blame us, need to be booted out.
Those Democrats, especially Gavin Newsom, who were trying to blame us, need to be booted out.
Iconic.
December 24, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Iconic.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Bari Weiss’ CBS is what the tech fascists mean by creating “parallel” journalism.
Create new fake brands (“The Free Press”) or hollow out existing brands and replace with right-wing clones.
Or both!
That’s why I included her in the “Mirror World Mafia” last year.
Create new fake brands (“The Free Press”) or hollow out existing brands and replace with right-wing clones.
Or both!
That’s why I included her in the “Mirror World Mafia” last year.
December 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Bari Weiss’ CBS is what the tech fascists mean by creating “parallel” journalism.
Create new fake brands (“The Free Press”) or hollow out existing brands and replace with right-wing clones.
Or both!
That’s why I included her in the “Mirror World Mafia” last year.
Create new fake brands (“The Free Press”) or hollow out existing brands and replace with right-wing clones.
Or both!
That’s why I included her in the “Mirror World Mafia” last year.
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Year
theonion.com/cia-realizes...
theonion.com/cia-realizes...
December 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Year
theonion.com/cia-realizes...
theonion.com/cia-realizes...
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The immigration crackdown has strained the U.S. immigration system’s infrastructure, leaving a Sheboygan Falls mother in detention long after receiving her Green Card, pending a fingerprint check. Nobody's available to run the fingerprint check. @wisconsinwatch.org wisconsinwatch.org/2025/12/wisc...
Approved to stay, stuck in detention: Background check delay shows crackdown’s strain on immigration system
An immigration judge backed a green card for a Sheboygan Falls mother arrested after accidentally crossing the Canadian border, but a delayed background check prolonged her ICE detention for weeks.
wisconsinwatch.org
December 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The immigration crackdown has strained the U.S. immigration system’s infrastructure, leaving a Sheboygan Falls mother in detention long after receiving her Green Card, pending a fingerprint check. Nobody's available to run the fingerprint check. @wisconsinwatch.org wisconsinwatch.org/2025/12/wisc...
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Steve is good at this.
If White House officials want a public discussion about private-sector job growth, that’s fine, but they may not like where the conversation ends up. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
December 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Steve is good at this.
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Attacks on feminism are similar to attacks on vaccines. We begin to take for granted a world where women have rights and most children live to see adulthood, and then, over time, we begin to forget, neglect, and (now) reject the movements and innovations that brought us here.
Until the mid-1970’s, a man could not be convicted of rape in New York State based solely on the testimony of the woman he raped. A second witness was required because the female rape victim was deemed unreliable.
Feminism has not failed women.
Feminism has not failed women.
December 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Attacks on feminism are similar to attacks on vaccines. We begin to take for granted a world where women have rights and most children live to see adulthood, and then, over time, we begin to forget, neglect, and (now) reject the movements and innovations that brought us here.
Perfectly said.
There is a layer of scum a connective tissue... that connects all the people that populate the Epstein ecosystem
Men of a certain age having little to no sense of self beyond work ... no charisma ... deeply soulless ... empty ... wanting... vacuous
Men of a certain age having little to no sense of self beyond work ... no charisma ... deeply soulless ... empty ... wanting... vacuous
NYT columnist David Brooks wrote an op-ed a few weeks ago titled, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out,” lamenting people are too focused on the Epstein scandal + saying "the QAnon mentality has taken over."
Today he appeared in 4 photos from the Epstein dump. Welp! www.huffpost.com/entry/david-...
Today he appeared in 4 photos from the Epstein dump. Welp! www.huffpost.com/entry/david-...
December 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Perfectly said.
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Prime ribs are just like regular ribs except they’re only divisible by themselves.
February 5, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Prime ribs are just like regular ribs except they’re only divisible by themselves.
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The problem isn't that we can't talk to each other
The marketplace has heard the ideas
Large supermajorities reject them
Yet our anti-democratic political institutions allow the 20-25% that like those ideas to capture & control all the institutions
The problem is the anti-democratic institutions
The marketplace has heard the ideas
Large supermajorities reject them
Yet our anti-democratic political institutions allow the 20-25% that like those ideas to capture & control all the institutions
The problem is the anti-democratic institutions
CNN has a show with a similar line. That the problem with this country is we just aren’t talking to each other.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
December 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The problem isn't that we can't talk to each other
The marketplace has heard the ideas
Large supermajorities reject them
Yet our anti-democratic political institutions allow the 20-25% that like those ideas to capture & control all the institutions
The problem is the anti-democratic institutions
The marketplace has heard the ideas
Large supermajorities reject them
Yet our anti-democratic political institutions allow the 20-25% that like those ideas to capture & control all the institutions
The problem is the anti-democratic institutions
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David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
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People don’t become musicians in hopes of automating all the creative parts of the process. We take joy in writing, in building real scenes with real people — in the magic, human, intangible parts of music. No one wants empty AI music. No one wants endless, meaningless slop.
December 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
People don’t become musicians in hopes of automating all the creative parts of the process. We take joy in writing, in building real scenes with real people — in the magic, human, intangible parts of music. No one wants empty AI music. No one wants endless, meaningless slop.
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incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works
December 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works