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Whenever I contemplate jus soli. Extend to most of the western hemisphere.
“it appears my superiority has led to some controversy” in a crude line drawing over the outline of the United States
December 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Whenever I think of Fukuyama’s appraisal of the struggle-producing boredom of a polity in relative peace coming true, thinking of this image is involuntary:
Fukuyama’s portrait superimposed with a gun in hand pointed at the viewer, with the caption: End History. I Am No Longer Asking.
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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IRS Guidance for Thieves, Drug Dealers, and Corrupt Officials June 9, 2014 • 1 min read By: Alan Cole IRS Publication 17, which helps taxpayers determine how to report their income, is extremely detailed. Its section on "Other Income" has some of the most fascinating sorts of income you are obligated to report. Here are three that stand out: Bribes It you receive a bribe, include it in your income. Illegal activities Income from illegal activities, such as money from dealing ロ
December 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Looking at that take
Teller as portrayed in “Oppenheimer” watching a nuclear test through dark glasses.
December 3, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Barack Obama, in his October 2016 essay printed in the economist. A friend I sent this to, a Romney type of guy, but who did not particularly dislike Obama raised this as a crucial difference between Republican and Democratic assumptions on role of government.
More fundamentally, a capitalism shaped by the few and unaccountable to the many is a threat to all. Economies are more successful when we close the gap between rich and poor and growth is broadly based. A world in which 1% of humanity controls as much wealth as the other 99% will never be stable. Gaps between rich and poor are not new but just as the child in a slum can see the skyscraper nearby, technology allows anyone with a smartphone to see how the most privileged live. Expectations rise faster than governments can deliver and a pervasive sense of injustice undermines peoples' faith in the system. Without trust, capitalism and markets cannot continue to deliver the gains they have delivered in the past centuries. This paradox of progress and peril has been decades in the making. While I am proud of what my administration has accomplished these past eight years, I have always acknowledged that the work of perfecting our union would take far longer. The
November 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Man, that street is fortified, too. Maybe it needs speed bumps or something?
November 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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These don’t seem too bad. Though my “double the pound” conversion is out of date
$6.49 Sprouts Caprese Baguette
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Lawless. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/j...
This year, Wiltshire said, she felt the ground shifting beneath her feet as she watched the government try to dismiss asylum-seekers' cases and deport them to countries they had never been to. "Quite frankly, what's happening is illegal," Wiltshire said.
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...
fired. Johnson went to those judges' offices to find out how he could help them, he said, when he noticed his phone was pinging. He turned on his computer and saw an email in his inbox with the subject line "termination." Before he could print out the letter, he was shut out of the system. He said even his manager did not know he was being terminated. "Myself and these judges were all experienced experts in immigration law, due process and jurists," Johnson said. "That's why the administration fired us."
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Yakko stares wearily at his phone
November 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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I was reading about brain worms to refresh my memory, and did you know our most famous brain worm guy also had mercury poisoning? How does one guy end up like this?
WHITE: No, it usually doesn't directly cause much in the way of memory loss. If you do careful psychological tests, you may see some minor [memory] problems, but [this] wouldn't be a common symptom. If someone has had frequent seizures, however, they can end up with memory loss. People wouldn't describe brain fog or memory problems. As an aside, those are more typical of mercury poisoning. [Editor's Note: According to the New York Times, Kennedy has said he also experienced mercury poisoning around the time he had learned of his parasitic infection. Mercury exposure has been linked to central nervous system damage that can cause memory loss and Alzheimer's disease.]
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Send these guys back to the 1800s so Thaddeus Stevens can deal with them: the expense she almost certainly wants to defray is child care.
"Such a law should be entitled 'An act for branding and marking the poor, so that they may be known from the rich and the proud" (Speaking about the previous school system) "He cheerfully pays the tax which is necessary to support and punish convicts, but loudly complains of that which goes to prevent this fellow from becoming criminals, and to obviate the necessity of the humiliating institutions. "Sir, when I reflect how apt hereditary wealth, hereditary influence, and, perhaps, as a consequence, hereditary pride are to close the avenues and steel the heart against the wants and the rights of the poor, I am induced to thank my Creator for having, from early life, bestowed upon me the blessing of poverty. Sir, it is a blessing - for if
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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I do not, so count me among the philistines.

I buy my peppercorns from Costco, which has at least one form factor that has no mill. I think one these may have outlasted my last grinder. Look at that value!
Kirkland whole peppercorn: 14oz for $7.69
October 27, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Even with the head-slapping stuff the times does, the world of readers is very different indeed
The image is a horizontal bar chart comparing voter support for Trump and Biden based on preferred news sources. Seven categories are listed vertically: “Don’t follow political news,” “YouTube/Google,” “Cable news,” “Social media,” “Digital websites,” “National network news,” and “Newspapers.” For each category, there are two bars: a red bar representing Trump and a blue bar representing Biden, with percentage values displayed inside each bar. Trump leads among those who don’t follow political news (53% vs. 27%), YouTube/Google users (55% vs. 39%), cable news (53% vs. 45%), and social media (46% vs. 42%). Biden leads among digital websites (49% vs. 39%), national network news (55% vs. 35%), and especially newspapers (70% vs. 21%). Small print at the bottom notes the poll methodology and margin of error.
October 18, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Lot going on, as compiled by @danielleechev.bsky.social
This chart shows the monthly ridership growth for Bay Wheels bike share in the San Francisco Bay Area, comparing classic bikes and e-bikes from 2022 to 2025. The vertical axis represents the number of monthly rides, ranging from 0 to 350,000. E-bike ridership starts around 100,000 in early 2022, rises sharply to over 300,000 by late 2025, with several noticeable spikes and dips. Classic bike ridership remains much lower, fluctuating between about 50,000 and 100,000 monthly rides, with smaller increases and dips during the same period. E-bikes steadily outperform classic bikes throughout the timeline, and the difference grows significantly over time. A note at the bottom clarifies that earlier years did not use the same bike type categories.
October 18, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Animaniacs Yakko grimaces reading his phone
October 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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I’m fond of this one, though I’m not sure of the reference: I thought it was also Akira, that is, Tetsuo.
A soyjack crying in agony with his right arm mutating out of control.
September 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Don’t forget pudding-brained voters for Trump.
The image shows a horizontal bar chart comparing support for Trump and Biden across seven different news consumption categories, using red bars for Trump and blue bars for Biden. Each category lists its candidate percentages in labeled bars. The figures are as follows: Don’t follow political news – Trump 53 percent, Biden 27 percent; YouTube/Google – Trump 55 percent, Biden 39 percent; Cable news – Trump 53 percent, Biden 45 percent; Social media – Trump 46 percent, Biden 42 percent; Digital websites – Trump 39 percent, Biden 49 percent; National network news – Trump 35 percent, Biden 55 percent; Newspapers – Trump 21 percent, Biden 70 percent. The visual emphasizes that Trump is favored most by those who do not follow political news and by YouTube/Google viewers, while Biden is preferred by newspaper readers and viewers of national network news. The bars for each group proportionally reflect the difference in support for each candidate.
September 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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“And it's clear that Western political elites have had a universalist, pro immigration ideology since the 90s at least.”
About This Fucking Sucks Actually, or Literal Coolest Thing Ever, refers to a viral FallenChungus webcomic in which a character wearing a hat reading "thinking cap" points to a hotdog on a skateboard labeled "literal coolest thing ever" while saying, "this fucking sucks actually." The comic was posted to X / Twitter in late March 2024 and became the subject of memes as an exploitable format over the following months, used to call something out as being bad.
September 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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@TheBonkQueen RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but I'm different. and better. maybe even better than the gods
September 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Relatable.
This image shows the iconic Golden Gate Bridge spanning across the entrance to San Francisco Bay. The bridge, painted in its signature International Orange color, stretches from the right side of the image to the left, supported by two tall towers with suspended cables. In the background, the green hills of Marin County rise up, partially shaded with sunlight highlighting the landscape. The water below is calm, reflecting the blue sky above, and a small boat travels across the bay near the bridge's midpoint. On the right in the foreground, there is coastal vegetation and shrubbery sloping down toward the water, with a few lone trees standing against the skyline. The sky is clear, with only a faint trace of clouds, suggesting a crisp, serene day.
September 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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The land of the free. This man is a citizen and a veteran. If they can do it to him, they’ll do it to you.

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
Text from the San Francisco Chronicle: My wallet with my identification was in the car, but the agents refused to go look and confirm that I was a citizen. Instead, I sat in the dirt with my hands zip-tied with other detainees for four hours. When I was sitting there, I could hear agents asking each other why I had been arrested. They were unsure, but I was taken away and thrown in a jail cell anyway. My first night in jail, my hands were burning from the pepper spray and tear gas because I was never allowed to wash them off. During the three nights and three days I was locked up and put on suicide watch, I could not make a phone call and was not given a chance to speak to a lawyer.
September 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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The spongebob "ol' reliable" meme with "Isaac Chotiner" as the legendary object in the case
September 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Yakko from animaniacs grimacing at his phone
September 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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An oldie, but a goodie. warontherocks.com/2018/06/why-...
A screenshot of a section of an 2018 article by Paul Miller, reading: The principles of the Atlantic Charter are just words on paper. They are fine words, but they describe a world that did not exist in 1941. Bringing that world into being required the application of massive lethal violence. Political ideas remain ideas unless they are backed by power. They do not win out through bloodless competition in an ethereal marketplace of ideas. Rather, ideas clash backed by political, military, and economic resources. The marketplace of ideas is strewn with the corpses of soldiers. Democracy is a better idea than fascism, but the liberal international order does not exist because it is a better idea. It exists because the democratic powers built bigger and better guns, killed millions of fascists, overthrew fascist governments, tried and hanged fascist leaders, and liberated or coercively democratized former fascist countries. (Then they fought and won a four-decade-long Cold War against the Soviet Union.) The liberal international order rests on a founding act of violence, of which the Normandy campaign was a crucial part. It was justified, of course, because it was also an act of self-defense against the fascists’ attempts to found their preferred world order on the rest of us.
September 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM