Christopher
@doorley.org
Religion and ethics teacher, owner of a camping trailer.
I spent three years at NPR on the digital team. On election nights I’d pull up the Slack channels our political teams used to track results. I couldn’t join those channels, but watching the preview was fun enough. Missing that BTS pov tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I spent three years at NPR on the digital team. On election nights I’d pull up the Slack channels our political teams used to track results. I couldn’t join those channels, but watching the preview was fun enough. Missing that BTS pov tonight.
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This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.
Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins
Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.
newrepublic.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.
Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Neighborhoods have been built for cars, not children.
The number of children injured or killed by cars while walking or riding a bike has fallen steadily since the 1970s, but CDC researcher note that this decline is not because streets are safer, but because fewer kids are out and about in the first place.
Kids need freedom. Dangerous roads make it hard to grant it.
Bigger cars, distracted drivers and worried parents mean fewer kids are roaming freely.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Neighborhoods have been built for cars, not children.
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FEMA will no longer to door-to-door to assist you in a disaster, but ICE will go door-to-door to kidnap you and turn your life into a disaster. America has its priorities, y'all!
A reminder: FEMA is no longer going door-to-door to assist disaster victims
[From our Climate Desk partner @wired.com]
[From our Climate Desk partner @wired.com]
FEMA will no longer go door-to-door to assist disaster victims
The move, says one agency worker, will “severely hamper our ability to reach vulnerable people.”
www.motherjones.com
July 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
FEMA will no longer to door-to-door to assist you in a disaster, but ICE will go door-to-door to kidnap you and turn your life into a disaster. America has its priorities, y'all!
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Rolling Stone has excerpted an essay from my forthcoming book. It's about what happens when you get all of your info about the world from the TV (cops are heroes!), and then go out into the world and see for yourself. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Copaganda and Me
Maris Kreizman writes about the way police are mythologized in popular culture in this excerpt from her book 'I Want to Burn This Place Down'
www.rollingstone.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Rolling Stone has excerpted an essay from my forthcoming book. It's about what happens when you get all of your info about the world from the TV (cops are heroes!), and then go out into the world and see for yourself. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
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From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
June 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
I’m in touch with friends from every election I’ve worked on since 2004… and it’s moments like this I wished we had cell phones in 2000 cause damn the group chat would be wild tonight.
June 22, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I’m in touch with friends from every election I’ve worked on since 2004… and it’s moments like this I wished we had cell phones in 2000 cause damn the group chat would be wild tonight.
Reminds me of a classic bop youtu.be/U7s5pT3Rris?...
McCain Sings "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran"
YouTube video by The Progressive Magazine
youtu.be
June 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Reminds me of a classic bop youtu.be/U7s5pT3Rris?...
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illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
June 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
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since younger people are asking how shockingly stupid things were in 2003, may I present to you this circa-03 sign that I bought from a local restaurant and their (unrelated) going out of business sale a few years later
June 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
since younger people are asking how shockingly stupid things were in 2003, may I present to you this circa-03 sign that I bought from a local restaurant and their (unrelated) going out of business sale a few years later
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
Am I banned because I never post? This is absolutely ridiculous. 🙄
June 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Am I banned because I never post? This is absolutely ridiculous. 🙄
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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
June 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
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I wrote about Los Angeles and violence.
newrepublic.com/article/1963...
newrepublic.com/article/1963...
June 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I wrote about Los Angeles and violence.
newrepublic.com/article/1963...
newrepublic.com/article/1963...
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Free ebooks from @haymarketbooks.org, including Border and Rule by @harshawalia.bsky.social, which is one of the most important books I've ever read. Download and read, fam.
Another world is possible if we fight for it.
FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...
www.haymarketbooks.org
June 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Free ebooks from @haymarketbooks.org, including Border and Rule by @harshawalia.bsky.social, which is one of the most important books I've ever read. Download and read, fam.
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The only time I really feel like "we're cooked" is when I drive around and see every third driver literally watching or scrolling their phones while driving. Not at a red light. While navigating traffic. The addiction is total.
May 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The only time I really feel like "we're cooked" is when I drive around and see every third driver literally watching or scrolling their phones while driving. Not at a red light. While navigating traffic. The addiction is total.
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"Chicago Pope" is like a 1994 SNL sketch. Airs at 12:20am, the only gag is that Chris Farley has a mustache and is doing a big accent. David Spade and the guest host (Joe Mantegna) keep breaking during it.
May 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"Chicago Pope" is like a 1994 SNL sketch. Airs at 12:20am, the only gag is that Chris Farley has a mustache and is doing a big accent. David Spade and the guest host (Joe Mantegna) keep breaking during it.
My only question is where does Pope Leo XIV stand on The Blues Brothers?
two men are in a car with the words " we 're on a mission from god "
ALT: two men are in a car with the words " we 're on a mission from god "
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May 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
My only question is where does Pope Leo XIV stand on The Blues Brothers?
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Damn
May 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Damn
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May 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Just heard someone say “he sounds like he spends a lot of time on Facebook” and hooo boy everyone’s immediate understanding of what that means should be a brand crisis for Meta
April 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Just heard someone say “he sounds like he spends a lot of time on Facebook” and hooo boy everyone’s immediate understanding of what that means should be a brand crisis for Meta
This series @theverge.com is doing on the Vietnam War is incredible. Incredible reporting. Visually stunning. Go check it out.
The Vietnam War's Operation Rolling Thunder remains the longest bombing campaign in US history. But what is 864,000 tons of explosives, really? It's 202 IKEA parking lots full of pickup trucks. 15 Titanics. Try to wrap your head around the scale of war: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Imagining the scale of the Vietnam War
The US dropped 5 million tons of explosives during the war. How many bombs is that?
www.theverge.com
April 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This series @theverge.com is doing on the Vietnam War is incredible. Incredible reporting. Visually stunning. Go check it out.
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I agree about the need @joshtpm.bsky.social names here: a docket in waiting, basically, that holds public evidence of wrongdoing by admin officials & Trump associates. The implied threat: that after a change of power or in Dem-controlled states, the files could find their way to prosecutors' hands.
April 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I agree about the need @joshtpm.bsky.social names here: a docket in waiting, basically, that holds public evidence of wrongdoing by admin officials & Trump associates. The implied threat: that after a change of power or in Dem-controlled states, the files could find their way to prosecutors' hands.
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Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.
April 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.