cshlan
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cshlan
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Mostly here for news and politics, etc.

I do most of my sharing here: @cshlan.dawdling.net.ap.brid.gy

I can't help replying everywhere, though.

Also... knitting patterns! yarn.dawdling.net
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The authors quote from an article I wrote in 2023, refuting false claims about government jawboning of social media platforms. One of the claims I directly push back against is the persistent lie that the FBI demanded Twitter censor online speech.

knightcolumbia.org/blog/getting...
Getting the Facts Straight: Some Observations on the Fifth Circuit Ruling in Missouri v. Biden
knightcolumbia.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Y’all know we have a tool for finding exactly these kinds of bad redactions, right? free.law/open-source-...
December 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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also a good time for me to toot your horn (and john's, obviously) for this masterpiece

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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December 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Not just screening. Repeated tests mean they're watching his decline.
December 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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SORRY TO KEEP POSTING ABOUT THIS I just can’t stop thinking about Simone at the end after everything that has happened playing a melody which contains BOTH these sets of lyrics

“they buried my body and they thought I’d gone”

AND

“‘tis the gift to be simple, ‘tis the gift to be free”
December 17, 2025 at 8:25 AM
No one in the free world is following him.
December 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
He just wanted tariffs from the penguins
December 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
They are not an "elite" they just accumulate power.
December 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
It isn't the faculty lounge, it's whatever country club type places the people desperate to get their kids in the "right" preschool before birth meet up. Granted there are academics among them, but it's the rich networkers, the power/clout chasers that are the problem.
December 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Take the person who loves it so they can write the review.
December 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I feel like when they do it publicly it's more about influencing voters than informing her. But it is certainly an obvious fact.
December 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
See I saw it as saying Texas is on the whole too racist. But it does work out to mean the same thing I guess.
December 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Still fun to treat them like children who just need practice 😁
December 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I don't know that they do. Republican doesn't have but one form. Remembering the difference between Democrat and Democratic may just be too hard for the poor things. I like to gently correct them and tell them I believe in their ability to get the grammar right if they try harder 😉
December 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
They're doing exactly what they ran on. Deporting every immigrant who ever broke the law. That's their definition of criminal immigrants. We need to keep hammering that these aren't accidents they're too proud to fix, it's what they ran on.
December 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM