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USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
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Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air
December 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air
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"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
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December 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Greg Pence, who has taught bioethics for five decades, has produced a YouTube series, "Great Stories in Bioethics," discussing real cases that raise important issues. Sure to be thought-provoking watching for everyone, and excellent for use in discussion groups and classes.
Great Stories in Bioethics: Weekly Episodes
Great, true stories in the history of Bioethics, released each Tuesday at 4 pm CST
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Greg Pence, who has taught bioethics for five decades, has produced a YouTube series, "Great Stories in Bioethics," discussing real cases that raise important issues. Sure to be thought-provoking watching for everyone, and excellent for use in discussion groups and classes.
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this has been heavily on my mind...
American food safety could be headed for a breakdown. Story by @sarah-todd.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/a...
American food safety could be headed for a breakdown
More Americans will be exposed to foodborne illness as a result of this year's funding cuts, food safety experts predict
www.statnews.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
this has been heavily on my mind...
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Anyone who sends people to concentration camps to be tortured should be tried and, if found guilty, hanged like the Nazis they are.
December 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Anyone who sends people to concentration camps to be tortured should be tried and, if found guilty, hanged like the Nazis they are.
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When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.
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I mean I assume this is just an excuse for protecting the Trump regime, but it's a super-shoddy one since there aren't two sides to torture in gulags in violation of international and domestic law and human rights.
December 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I mean I assume this is just an excuse for protecting the Trump regime, but it's a super-shoddy one since there aren't two sides to torture in gulags in violation of international and domestic law and human rights.
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Worth revisiting this @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social piece in light of the Waymo meltdown over the weekend.
Automated vehicles ignore social contracts and are only beholden to their corporate bosses. Humans are much better equipped to deal with unforeseen situations, and to prioritize human values.
Automated vehicles ignore social contracts and are only beholden to their corporate bosses. Humans are much better equipped to deal with unforeseen situations, and to prioritize human values.
This articulates my exact feelings about San Francisco, the tech industry, & the entire social crisis of Capitalism we are all facing. Ms. Solnit writes with fierce precision & grace, connecting the dots with damning evidence rather than hyperbole.
Essential reading.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Essential reading.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rebecca Solnit · In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisco
I don’t know whether these billionaires know what a city is, but I do know that they have laid their hands on the city...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Worth revisiting this @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social piece in light of the Waymo meltdown over the weekend.
Automated vehicles ignore social contracts and are only beholden to their corporate bosses. Humans are much better equipped to deal with unforeseen situations, and to prioritize human values.
Automated vehicles ignore social contracts and are only beholden to their corporate bosses. Humans are much better equipped to deal with unforeseen situations, and to prioritize human values.
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"The defining characteristic of any concentration camp is one that detains civilians en masse without due process on the basis of race, ethnicity, or supposed affiliation, rather than for any crime an individual has committed. Governments use them for political ends, to gather and keep power."
I wrote for New York magazine about deportations to CECOT in El Salvador, which are bound up with a tradition of US extrajudicial actions in the Americas and further the long arc of concentration camps.
Trump and Bukele’s Concentration Camp
CECOT is no regular prison. It is also a warning.
nymag.com
April 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"The defining characteristic of any concentration camp is one that detains civilians en masse without due process on the basis of race, ethnicity, or supposed affiliation, rather than for any crime an individual has committed. Governments use them for political ends, to gather and keep power."
KASH PATEL’S ARMORED BMW: This Isn’t Just An SUV-It’s A Civic Insult:
open.substack.com/pub/thejackh...
open.substack.com/pub/thejackh...
KASH PATEL’S ARMORED BMW: This Isn’t Just An SUV-It’s A Civic Insult:
Why Kash Patel’s Armored BMW Fleet Should Infuriate Every American
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
KASH PATEL’S ARMORED BMW: This Isn’t Just An SUV-It’s A Civic Insult:
open.substack.com/pub/thejackh...
open.substack.com/pub/thejackh...
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Have you ever heard someone go off, and their words are so perfectly chosen, so well said in that moment, that you’re in awe? You think, “There’s nothing to add here,” and you applaud in your head.
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
December 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Have you ever heard someone go off, and their words are so perfectly chosen, so well said in that moment, that you’re in awe? You think, “There’s nothing to add here,” and you applaud in your head.
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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I want to go on record to make it absolutely clear that I AM A ONE ISSUE VOTER!
My ONE issue is this:
ARE YOU FUCKING CORRUPT?
I will vote for the LEAST corrupt Dem option in any election, most especially a primary.
Because I KNOW that promises from a corrupt politician like Richie Torres or
My ONE issue is this:
ARE YOU FUCKING CORRUPT?
I will vote for the LEAST corrupt Dem option in any election, most especially a primary.
Because I KNOW that promises from a corrupt politician like Richie Torres or
December 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I want to go on record to make it absolutely clear that I AM A ONE ISSUE VOTER!
My ONE issue is this:
ARE YOU FUCKING CORRUPT?
I will vote for the LEAST corrupt Dem option in any election, most especially a primary.
Because I KNOW that promises from a corrupt politician like Richie Torres or
My ONE issue is this:
ARE YOU FUCKING CORRUPT?
I will vote for the LEAST corrupt Dem option in any election, most especially a primary.
Because I KNOW that promises from a corrupt politician like Richie Torres or
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An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
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In DC, Trump officials celebrated the decimation of USAID with a sheet cake.
In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.
Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.
Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In DC, Trump officials celebrated the decimation of USAID with a sheet cake.
In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.
Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.
Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
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wow this is almost, like, a platform someone could successfully run on
"For the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71 percent believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate."
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:23 AM
wow this is almost, like, a platform someone could successfully run on
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This one was my favorite. I think of it every day. youtu.be/prRtcQz8Uqk?...
All in the Family - Sock and a Sock, Shoe and a Shoe
YouTube video by Scarlett OHara
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 5:35 AM
This one was my favorite. I think of it every day. youtu.be/prRtcQz8Uqk?...
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December 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
In many parts of the world, relatively small amounts really can be life-changing.
If you’re thinking about giving this season, I encourage you to consider where your contribution can do the most good.
Learn more at: thelifeyoucansave.org.au
If you’re thinking about giving this season, I encourage you to consider where your contribution can do the most good.
Learn more at: thelifeyoucansave.org.au
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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13 years ago today.
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
13 years ago today.
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