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Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
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Road to Wigan Pier is a rant of a book. But it goes so hard on why it’s evil to begrudge the poorest simple pleasures.
October 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Road to Wigan Pier is a rant of a book. But it goes so hard on why it’s evil to begrudge the poorest simple pleasures.
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Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
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Serious question: does there come a point where everyone admits that Constitutional originalism is just a made-up vibe-based philosophy that gives Republican judges a pretext for ruling however it is that Republicans want them to rule?
October 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Serious question: does there come a point where everyone admits that Constitutional originalism is just a made-up vibe-based philosophy that gives Republican judges a pretext for ruling however it is that Republicans want them to rule?
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ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
October 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
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"harrison bergeron," written 64 years ago, accurately predicted that devices would interrupt our streams of thought to keep us from thinking too much
September 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"harrison bergeron," written 64 years ago, accurately predicted that devices would interrupt our streams of thought to keep us from thinking too much
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“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink
August 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink
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could one of our remaining news organizations maybe pull just one of the dozen reporters they have on the sam altman hype beat to explain to readers that the complete and total destruction of the federal regulatory state is going to kill a whole bunch of people over the next three decades?
August 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
could one of our remaining news organizations maybe pull just one of the dozen reporters they have on the sam altman hype beat to explain to readers that the complete and total destruction of the federal regulatory state is going to kill a whole bunch of people over the next three decades?
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people will say life is a roller coaster, but i don't think that's true. it's more like one of those kids rides where they give you a steering wheel to turn, but no matter how you turn the wheel, you keep slowly going in circles until everything stops
August 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
people will say life is a roller coaster, but i don't think that's true. it's more like one of those kids rides where they give you a steering wheel to turn, but no matter how you turn the wheel, you keep slowly going in circles until everything stops
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I wish people would just say outright that this is their north star—“our goal is to raid all American resources and cultural capital for short-term cash for the richest, whitest men.” Then we could have a real conversation
July 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I wish people would just say outright that this is their north star—“our goal is to raid all American resources and cultural capital for short-term cash for the richest, whitest men.” Then we could have a real conversation
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oh this is interesting. i pretty firmly believe, just as a matter of observation and experience, that complaints about affirmative action are a psychological salve for people who aren’t confident of their ability to succeed
July 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
oh this is interesting. i pretty firmly believe, just as a matter of observation and experience, that complaints about affirmative action are a psychological salve for people who aren’t confident of their ability to succeed
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there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.
June 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.
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Justice Jackson said today’s Supreme Court ruling is an assault on our democracy. She’s wrong, it is an assault on our republic.
June 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Justice Jackson said today’s Supreme Court ruling is an assault on our democracy. She’s wrong, it is an assault on our republic.
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On Juneteenth, and in this era of rising vaccine disinformation,
it is useful to contemplate that three centuries ago, the knowledge of an African slave introduced the concept of immunization to America, launching the first successful public inoculation campaign
🧵Thread 1/8
#Juneteenth #Vaccines
it is useful to contemplate that three centuries ago, the knowledge of an African slave introduced the concept of immunization to America, launching the first successful public inoculation campaign
🧵Thread 1/8
#Juneteenth #Vaccines
June 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
On Juneteenth, and in this era of rising vaccine disinformation,
it is useful to contemplate that three centuries ago, the knowledge of an African slave introduced the concept of immunization to America, launching the first successful public inoculation campaign
🧵Thread 1/8
#Juneteenth #Vaccines
it is useful to contemplate that three centuries ago, the knowledge of an African slave introduced the concept of immunization to America, launching the first successful public inoculation campaign
🧵Thread 1/8
#Juneteenth #Vaccines
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“I’m a lawyer and I’m going to give you the legal term for what’s happening: It’s fucking ridiculous.” @zellnor.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
“I’m a lawyer and I’m going to give you the legal term for what’s happening: It’s fucking ridiculous.” @zellnor.bsky.social
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Remarkable.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
June 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Remarkable.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
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We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.
MIKE JOHNSON: From the people who mandated mask wearing for years, it's absurd. They need to back off ICE & respect our agents
Q: So you're ok w/agents not identifying themselves when they're arresting migrants?
J: Why, so they can target them? So they can put names and faces online and dox them?
Q: So you're ok w/agents not identifying themselves when they're arresting migrants?
J: Why, so they can target them? So they can put names and faces online and dox them?
June 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.
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english tip: jf you ask someone how they're doing, "great" is great, "good" is neutral, and "i'm ok" is horrible
June 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
english tip: jf you ask someone how they're doing, "great" is great, "good" is neutral, and "i'm ok" is horrible
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ICYMI: There is a fascinating new exhibition here at the Library that examines the parallel lives of George Washington and King George III of Britain.
Here, curator Julie Miller shows you some of her favorite items in “The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution."
Here, curator Julie Miller shows you some of her favorite items in “The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution."
June 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
ICYMI: There is a fascinating new exhibition here at the Library that examines the parallel lives of George Washington and King George III of Britain.
Here, curator Julie Miller shows you some of her favorite items in “The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution."
Here, curator Julie Miller shows you some of her favorite items in “The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution."
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
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Despite being aware, I keep experiencing the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.
I treat news stories as authoritative outside my area of expertise until I see one where I’m familiar with the topic and it’s clearly nonsense from an author who doesn’t understand what they’re writing about. Still I trust news
I treat news stories as authoritative outside my area of expertise until I see one where I’m familiar with the topic and it’s clearly nonsense from an author who doesn’t understand what they’re writing about. Still I trust news
May 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Despite being aware, I keep experiencing the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.
I treat news stories as authoritative outside my area of expertise until I see one where I’m familiar with the topic and it’s clearly nonsense from an author who doesn’t understand what they’re writing about. Still I trust news
I treat news stories as authoritative outside my area of expertise until I see one where I’m familiar with the topic and it’s clearly nonsense from an author who doesn’t understand what they’re writing about. Still I trust news
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The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is Robin Hood in reverse: it takes from the poor to give to the rich.SNAP (used to be Food Stamps…which Tabby and I used back in 1972) is gone. Medicare is going.
May 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is Robin Hood in reverse: it takes from the poor to give to the rich.SNAP (used to be Food Stamps…which Tabby and I used back in 1972) is gone. Medicare is going.
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It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts
May 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts