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important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
April 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
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my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content
April 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content
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When we had a psycho anti human rights freak crash the economy we live streamed a lettuce with a face and then she went away. Maybe they should try that
April 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
When we had a psycho anti human rights freak crash the economy we live streamed a lettuce with a face and then she went away. Maybe they should try that
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Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
April 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
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One reason the Democrats are not inspiring much confidence as an “opposition party” is that their leader supports a fascist crackdown by his own political opponents because it aligns with his personal support for an apartheid foreign government.
Chuck Schumer is very clear that he and the Democratic Party are not going to come to the aid of higher education against Trump’s assault. He agrees with it. Quibbles on details but supports forcing universities to crack down harder against alleged antisemitism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/m...
March 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
One reason the Democrats are not inspiring much confidence as an “opposition party” is that their leader supports a fascist crackdown by his own political opponents because it aligns with his personal support for an apartheid foreign government.
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One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.
Just filed an article about the upcoming German elections (out on Sunday) and what strikes me is how timid much of the institutional pushback against the far-right has been. Some people have distinguished themselves but for the most part it’s just been really complacent - really disappointing.
February 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
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Greenwald, Taibibi, and Moyn all show in different ways how the radical truth to power bad boy who tells those hypocrites like it is! shtick eventually just leads you to being the most craven of apologists for powerful people who never even pretend to have any kind of virtue.
January 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Greenwald, Taibibi, and Moyn all show in different ways how the radical truth to power bad boy who tells those hypocrites like it is! shtick eventually just leads you to being the most craven of apologists for powerful people who never even pretend to have any kind of virtue.
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As @ken-rosenthal.bsky.social reported, Tigers are in agreement on a one-year deal with RHP Alex Cobb, pending a physical
Live analysis from Winter Meetings:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...
Live analysis from Winter Meetings:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...
MLB Winter Meetings live updates: Juan Soto reaction plus all the news, rumors and analysis from Dallas
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2024 at 8:44 PM
As @ken-rosenthal.bsky.social reported, Tigers are in agreement on a one-year deal with RHP Alex Cobb, pending a physical
Live analysis from Winter Meetings:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...
Live analysis from Winter Meetings:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...
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Breaking: Juan Soto to the Mets. $765M. 15 years.
December 9, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Breaking: Juan Soto to the Mets. $765M. 15 years.
Generational hitter, generational contract
December 9, 2024 at 3:16 AM
Generational hitter, generational contract
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Source: Assad’s own internal polling had him losing badly to the rebels.
December 9, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Source: Assad’s own internal polling had him losing badly to the rebels.
Functionally following a massive event in international politics on Bluesky 🥲
We’re so close to having a real successor to twitter. An amazing development.
We’re so close to having a real successor to twitter. An amazing development.
December 8, 2024 at 5:54 AM
Functionally following a massive event in international politics on Bluesky 🥲
We’re so close to having a real successor to twitter. An amazing development.
We’re so close to having a real successor to twitter. An amazing development.
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Newly elected Congressional Progressive Caucus chair Greg Casar is already cooking
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
December 7, 2024 at 2:55 AM
Newly elected Congressional Progressive Caucus chair Greg Casar is already cooking
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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I’m excited for @gregcasar.bsky.social’s leadership at the Progressive Caucus. He’s going to be great.
Newly elected Congressional Progressive Caucus chair Greg Casar is already cooking
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
December 7, 2024 at 4:46 PM
I’m excited for @gregcasar.bsky.social’s leadership at the Progressive Caucus. He’s going to be great.
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i genuinely think that adults who still cannot wrap their heads around the innate violence of institutions like health insurance companies or banks are like, comparable to toddlers who lack object permanence. if you dont forcibly kill someone right in front of their eyes, they dont see the violence
December 6, 2024 at 5:17 AM
i genuinely think that adults who still cannot wrap their heads around the innate violence of institutions like health insurance companies or banks are like, comparable to toddlers who lack object permanence. if you dont forcibly kill someone right in front of their eyes, they dont see the violence
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They’re gonna force taxpayers to bail out the crypto investors when it all crashes. Remember this post.
December 5, 2024 at 2:47 PM
They’re gonna force taxpayers to bail out the crypto investors when it all crashes. Remember this post.
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Early this morning, an autonomous group of New Yorkers reclaimed an F train car, replacing ads with signage reading “A MAN WAS LYNCHED HERE” and Jordan Neely’s name, as a jury deliberates over whether to convict Daniel Penny, Neely’s killer, with his death last May.
December 5, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Early this morning, an autonomous group of New Yorkers reclaimed an F train car, replacing ads with signage reading “A MAN WAS LYNCHED HERE” and Jordan Neely’s name, as a jury deliberates over whether to convict Daniel Penny, Neely’s killer, with his death last May.
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If you were Joe Biden watching Trump appoint his son-in-law's pardoned extortionist daddy as ambassador, then you'd pardon Hunter Biden too.
December 2, 2024 at 1:06 AM
If you were Joe Biden watching Trump appoint his son-in-law's pardoned extortionist daddy as ambassador, then you'd pardon Hunter Biden too.
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Tech companies are clamoring to re-buttonize their products. Have we reached peak touchscreen? www.usermag.co/p/have-we-re...
Tech companies are clamoring to re-buttonize their products
Have we reached peak touchscreen?
www.usermag.co
November 25, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Tech companies are clamoring to re-buttonize their products. Have we reached peak touchscreen? www.usermag.co/p/have-we-re...
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My latest, on how the ICC warrants put a spotlight not just on Israel, but its U.S. defenders. Here's the "rules-based order" in action, and Washington is placing itself angrily against it. Free to read.
wapo.st/3CQualh
wapo.st/3CQualh
Column | ICC warrants put spotlight on Israel and its U.S. defenders
Many Western countries — including stalwart U.S. and Israeli allies — called for the International Criminal Court’s ruling against Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu to be respected.
wapo.st
November 22, 2024 at 3:19 PM
My latest, on how the ICC warrants put a spotlight not just on Israel, but its U.S. defenders. Here's the "rules-based order" in action, and Washington is placing itself angrily against it. Free to read.
wapo.st/3CQualh
wapo.st/3CQualh
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It's amazing how hard the CEO of five companies can work
What does Elon Musk's online activity reveal about him? Going through nearly 40,000 posts over the past decade, and the policies implied or suggested in them, @ainsliejstone.bsky.social and I found a changed man
November 22, 2024 at 1:23 AM
It's amazing how hard the CEO of five companies can work
Dave Dombrowski the absolute GOAT
October 13, 2023 at 3:16 AM
Dave Dombrowski the absolute GOAT
Goodbye diplomatic channels!
October 12, 2023 at 5:27 PM
Goodbye diplomatic channels!
Eric Haase on two times in one game?!
August 9, 2023 at 11:56 PM
Eric Haase on two times in one game?!