Tom Schumacher
@dieplebejer.bsky.social
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It's funny IMO that Berkeley, California was one of very first jurisdictions to ban straws/plastic bags -- you know, for the environment --
But soon as we learned the actual leading source of plastic pollution?
Crickets. Performative progressivism. www-pbs-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.pbs....
But soon as we learned the actual leading source of plastic pollution?
Crickets. Performative progressivism. www-pbs-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.pbs....
One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires
Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particle...
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December 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It's funny IMO that Berkeley, California was one of very first jurisdictions to ban straws/plastic bags -- you know, for the environment --
But soon as we learned the actual leading source of plastic pollution?
Crickets. Performative progressivism. www-pbs-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.pbs....
But soon as we learned the actual leading source of plastic pollution?
Crickets. Performative progressivism. www-pbs-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.pbs....
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Our petition to save the Cohen Bldg (the original HQ of Social Security) and its New Deal art--both of which highlight a government that is supposed to be of, by, and for the people--is now over 5,000 signatures.
Consider signing or sharing, if you haven't already.
www.change.org/p/save-the-w...
Consider signing or sharing, if you haven't already.
www.change.org/p/save-the-w...
Sign the Petition
Save the Wilbur J. Cohen Building — the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal”
www.change.org
December 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Our petition to save the Cohen Bldg (the original HQ of Social Security) and its New Deal art--both of which highlight a government that is supposed to be of, by, and for the people--is now over 5,000 signatures.
Consider signing or sharing, if you haven't already.
www.change.org/p/save-the-w...
Consider signing or sharing, if you haven't already.
www.change.org/p/save-the-w...
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It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn
It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn
We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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Things we learn:
1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban
2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal
3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants
And much more. Read it.
1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban
2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal
3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants
And much more. Read it.
Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Things we learn:
1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban
2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal
3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants
And much more. Read it.
1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban
2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal
3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants
And much more. Read it.
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El rey está triste.
Fue Quim Monzó, hace treinta años, quien pilló a la perfección el tono paródicamente defensivo que predomina a lo largo de las casi 500 páginas de las memorias del #emérito.
Superada la vergüenza ajena, ¿qué podemos aprender de su lectura?
@ctxt.es
ctxt.es/es/20251201/...
Fue Quim Monzó, hace treinta años, quien pilló a la perfección el tono paródicamente defensivo que predomina a lo largo de las casi 500 páginas de las memorias del #emérito.
Superada la vergüenza ajena, ¿qué podemos aprender de su lectura?
@ctxt.es
ctxt.es/es/20251201/...
¿Por qué no aprenden los Borbones?
Según las memorias del emérito, a su familia le ha tocado, por pura mala suerte, un pueblo ingrato, maleducado y… ¡republicano!
ctxt.es
December 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
El rey está triste.
Fue Quim Monzó, hace treinta años, quien pilló a la perfección el tono paródicamente defensivo que predomina a lo largo de las casi 500 páginas de las memorias del #emérito.
Superada la vergüenza ajena, ¿qué podemos aprender de su lectura?
@ctxt.es
ctxt.es/es/20251201/...
Fue Quim Monzó, hace treinta años, quien pilló a la perfección el tono paródicamente defensivo que predomina a lo largo de las casi 500 páginas de las memorias del #emérito.
Superada la vergüenza ajena, ¿qué podemos aprender de su lectura?
@ctxt.es
ctxt.es/es/20251201/...
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More than anything else classism is that if you lose your company half a million you get fired, but if Zuck loses Meta 77 billion he gets paid $28 million.
Meritocracy doesn't fail due to DEI, if fails becaues we can't ever let a rich nimrod suffer consequences for any level of screwup.
Meritocracy doesn't fail due to DEI, if fails becaues we can't ever let a rich nimrod suffer consequences for any level of screwup.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
More than anything else classism is that if you lose your company half a million you get fired, but if Zuck loses Meta 77 billion he gets paid $28 million.
Meritocracy doesn't fail due to DEI, if fails becaues we can't ever let a rich nimrod suffer consequences for any level of screwup.
Meritocracy doesn't fail due to DEI, if fails becaues we can't ever let a rich nimrod suffer consequences for any level of screwup.
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Our constitution was always substantially a botch, and now we see that it produced the kind of power-glutted Supreme Court that the anti-Federalists predicted from the get-go. We need not abide by the constitution's rules for fixing the constitution's failings.
December 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Our constitution was always substantially a botch, and now we see that it produced the kind of power-glutted Supreme Court that the anti-Federalists predicted from the get-go. We need not abide by the constitution's rules for fixing the constitution's failings.
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like i said months ago: reopen alcatraz and fill it with tech billionaires. they must be stopped.
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
like i said months ago: reopen alcatraz and fill it with tech billionaires. they must be stopped.
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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For my Chicago neighbors, here's the petition to sign to oppose the delivery robots: nosidewalkbots.org
November 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
For my Chicago neighbors, here's the petition to sign to oppose the delivery robots: nosidewalkbots.org
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“There’s nothing notable about a boy playing war games in his backyard. Unless, that is, he grows up to become the very avatar of revolution.”
No End to the Spanish Civil War? - Public Books
Latin America's own conflicts over land, Church, labor, and democratization, were played out, across the Atlantic, for all to see.
www.publicbooks.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
“There’s nothing notable about a boy playing war games in his backyard. Unless, that is, he grows up to become the very avatar of revolution.”
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Pope on Machine God
“Be prudent, be wise, be careful that your use of AI does not limit your true human growth. Use it in such a way that if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, how to create, how to act on your own, how to form authentic friendships.”
bsky.app/profile/vult...
“Be prudent, be wise, be careful that your use of AI does not limit your true human growth. Use it in such a way that if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, how to create, how to act on your own, how to form authentic friendships.”
bsky.app/profile/vult...
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Pope on Machine God
“Be prudent, be wise, be careful that your use of AI does not limit your true human growth. Use it in such a way that if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, how to create, how to act on your own, how to form authentic friendships.”
bsky.app/profile/vult...
“Be prudent, be wise, be careful that your use of AI does not limit your true human growth. Use it in such a way that if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, how to create, how to act on your own, how to form authentic friendships.”
bsky.app/profile/vult...
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Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against the demonic computers
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against the demonic computers
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can anyone who understands finance lingo tell me if this is a good or bad sign??
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
can anyone who understands finance lingo tell me if this is a good or bad sign??
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Haha at least this site edges out Truth Social. Barely.
UPDATE: Americans who use
YouTube 84%
Facebook 71%
Instagram 50%
TikTok 37%
WhatsApp 32%
Reddit 26%
Snapchat 25%
X (Twitter) 21%
Threads 8%
Bluesky 4%
Truth Social 3%
Full Pew Research Center report: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/
YouTube 84%
Facebook 71%
Instagram 50%
TikTok 37%
WhatsApp 32%
Reddit 26%
Snapchat 25%
X (Twitter) 21%
Threads 8%
Bluesky 4%
Truth Social 3%
Full Pew Research Center report: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Haha at least this site edges out Truth Social. Barely.
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Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
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Guessing Father Rob might have done some, uh, late night missionary work on South Jefferson c.1982
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Guessing Father Rob might have done some, uh, late night missionary work on South Jefferson c.1982
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Medio siglo muerto y con tanto que ocultar: once libros de historiadores para desmontar a Franco www.infolibre.es/1_200cd3
Medio siglo muerto y con tanto que ocultar: once libros de historiadores para desmontar a Franco
Una selección de ejercicios de memoria de Ángel Viñas, Julián Casanova, Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco, Encarna Nicolás, Sophie Baby o Gutmaro Góme
www.infolibre.es
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Medio siglo muerto y con tanto que ocultar: once libros de historiadores para desmontar a Franco www.infolibre.es/1_200cd3
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At least the 2008 crash was about a bet that housing would never decline. The next one will be about betting that six companies who sell each other magic beans would never decline
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
At least the 2008 crash was about a bet that housing would never decline. The next one will be about betting that six companies who sell each other magic beans would never decline