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I knew we were cooked as a society when everyone just sorta decided they were sick of dealing with Covid and everyone just decided to pretend like it wasn't a thing anymore.
July 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I knew we were cooked as a society when everyone just sorta decided they were sick of dealing with Covid and everyone just decided to pretend like it wasn't a thing anymore.
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lol gentle reminder to anyone who needs to hear this:
Respectability politics will never save you. There will never be an appropriate amount of Blackness if they take issue with Blackness itself. Thanks for coming my TED talk! 🙂 #blacksky
Respectability politics will never save you. There will never be an appropriate amount of Blackness if they take issue with Blackness itself. Thanks for coming my TED talk! 🙂 #blacksky
June 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
lol gentle reminder to anyone who needs to hear this:
Respectability politics will never save you. There will never be an appropriate amount of Blackness if they take issue with Blackness itself. Thanks for coming my TED talk! 🙂 #blacksky
Respectability politics will never save you. There will never be an appropriate amount of Blackness if they take issue with Blackness itself. Thanks for coming my TED talk! 🙂 #blacksky
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This is HUGE.
For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!
For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!
Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
May 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This is HUGE.
For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!
For those wondering why due process is essential for EVERYONE. This is why!
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It won't end with 350,000 Venezuelans. They're coming after all brown and Black immigrants. This is Stephen Miller's dream, aided by the extremist conservative Supreme Court.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/u...
Supreme Court Lets Trump Lift Deportation Protections for Venezuelans
www.nytimes.com
May 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It won't end with 350,000 Venezuelans. They're coming after all brown and Black immigrants. This is Stephen Miller's dream, aided by the extremist conservative Supreme Court.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/u...
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what i mean is: most people who utilize medicaid — who are not children, the elderly or americans with severe disabilities — work! you can’t live off of medicaid because it is health insurance! these people are just mindlessly repeating anti-welfare language from the 1990s
May 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
what i mean is: most people who utilize medicaid — who are not children, the elderly or americans with severe disabilities — work! you can’t live off of medicaid because it is health insurance! these people are just mindlessly repeating anti-welfare language from the 1990s
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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Good morning.
Republicans are trying to push through a bill that would throw 13M people off their insurance. All for a tax cut for the rich.
That’s the combined population of
West Virginia
Hawaii
New Hampshire
Maine
Montana
Rhode Island
both Dakotas
Alaska
Vermont
Wyoming
Republicans are trying to push through a bill that would throw 13M people off their insurance. All for a tax cut for the rich.
That’s the combined population of
West Virginia
Hawaii
New Hampshire
Maine
Montana
Rhode Island
both Dakotas
Alaska
Vermont
Wyoming
May 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Good morning.
Republicans are trying to push through a bill that would throw 13M people off their insurance. All for a tax cut for the rich.
That’s the combined population of
West Virginia
Hawaii
New Hampshire
Maine
Montana
Rhode Island
both Dakotas
Alaska
Vermont
Wyoming
Republicans are trying to push through a bill that would throw 13M people off their insurance. All for a tax cut for the rich.
That’s the combined population of
West Virginia
Hawaii
New Hampshire
Maine
Montana
Rhode Island
both Dakotas
Alaska
Vermont
Wyoming
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Housing first
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
May 9, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Housing first
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This is a great illustration of why wholly unqualified extremists shouldn't be running essential government agencies.
MURRAY: It was due last week. By law.
PATEL: I understand.
MURRAY: You're not gonna follow the law? ... And you have no timeline?
PATEL: No
MURRAY: Hmm. We're not having a budget hearing without a budget request. So where is it?
PATEL: I understand.
MURRAY: You're not gonna follow the law? ... And you have no timeline?
PATEL: No
MURRAY: Hmm. We're not having a budget hearing without a budget request. So where is it?
May 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This is a great illustration of why wholly unqualified extremists shouldn't be running essential government agencies.
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My great uncle was lynched after coming home from WWI because he went to town & wanted a drink and they refused to serve him— a VET who just fought for this country
After missing for hours my granddaddy found him hanging from a tree
THATS why I protect my peace
Every time I shine it’s for THEM
After missing for hours my granddaddy found him hanging from a tree
THATS why I protect my peace
Every time I shine it’s for THEM
May 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
My great uncle was lynched after coming home from WWI because he went to town & wanted a drink and they refused to serve him— a VET who just fought for this country
After missing for hours my granddaddy found him hanging from a tree
THATS why I protect my peace
Every time I shine it’s for THEM
After missing for hours my granddaddy found him hanging from a tree
THATS why I protect my peace
Every time I shine it’s for THEM
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the trump administration, obviously concerned with racial equality, thinks its illegal discrimination to spend federal dollars protecting a predominantly black community from raw sewage
Calling it "illegal DEI," Trump issues EO to shut down a program redirecting human waste away from a rural Alabama area regularly flooded with sewage during climate-change-amplified storms.
The area's population is over 72% Black.
www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
The area's population is over 72% Black.
www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
Trump shut down program to end human waste backing into Alabama homes, calling it 'illegal DEI'
A $26 million federal program to help residents of Lowndes County, Alabama, who have dealt with inadequate sewage systems for decades was stopped by an executive order.
www.nbcnews.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
the trump administration, obviously concerned with racial equality, thinks its illegal discrimination to spend federal dollars protecting a predominantly black community from raw sewage
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the jobs of the future, where you will be a hereditary serf producing goods for your betters
Lutnick: "It's time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here. We let the auto plants go overseas."
April 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
the jobs of the future, where you will be a hereditary serf producing goods for your betters
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When I took the history reporter job, I told my editor I would never "both sides" the Civil War, Confederates or slavery. I never did.
But here, ChatGPT (pic 1) has turned my work (pics 2,3) into whitewashed pablum and put MY FUCKING NAME on it.
I am livid, I am shaking. I don't know what to do.
But here, ChatGPT (pic 1) has turned my work (pics 2,3) into whitewashed pablum and put MY FUCKING NAME on it.
I am livid, I am shaking. I don't know what to do.
April 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
When I took the history reporter job, I told my editor I would never "both sides" the Civil War, Confederates or slavery. I never did.
But here, ChatGPT (pic 1) has turned my work (pics 2,3) into whitewashed pablum and put MY FUCKING NAME on it.
I am livid, I am shaking. I don't know what to do.
But here, ChatGPT (pic 1) has turned my work (pics 2,3) into whitewashed pablum and put MY FUCKING NAME on it.
I am livid, I am shaking. I don't know what to do.
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When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.
Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
April 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.
Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
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I’ll never get over how many in the media seem surprised that a con artist is charming in person. That’s like #1 in the list of grifter qualifications.
April 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I’ll never get over how many in the media seem surprised that a con artist is charming in person. That’s like #1 in the list of grifter qualifications.
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In an extraordinary on-air rebuke, one of the top journalists at “60 Minutes” directly criticized the program’s parent company, Paramount, in the final moments of its Sunday night CBS telecast, its first episode since the program’s executive producer, Bill Owens, announced his intention to resign.
‘60 Minutes’ Rebukes Paramount On-Air Over Executive Producer’s Exit
The show’s top producer abruptly said last week he was quitting. “Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways,” the correspondent Scott Pelley told viewers.
www.nytimes.com
April 28, 2025 at 3:59 AM
In an extraordinary on-air rebuke, one of the top journalists at “60 Minutes” directly criticized the program’s parent company, Paramount, in the final moments of its Sunday night CBS telecast, its first episode since the program’s executive producer, Bill Owens, announced his intention to resign.
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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
April 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
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"“Sinners” has grossed $122.5 million in North America and $161.6 million globally against a $90 million production budget." WHOA.
The fact that an original movie starring people of color in the South, directed by a Black man, is doing well at THIS moment is beautiful. #Sinners
The fact that an original movie starring people of color in the South, directed by a Black man, is doing well at THIS moment is beautiful. #Sinners
April 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM
"“Sinners” has grossed $122.5 million in North America and $161.6 million globally against a $90 million production budget." WHOA.
The fact that an original movie starring people of color in the South, directed by a Black man, is doing well at THIS moment is beautiful. #Sinners
The fact that an original movie starring people of color in the South, directed by a Black man, is doing well at THIS moment is beautiful. #Sinners
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“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help.
If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."
-Pope Francis
If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."
-Pope Francis
April 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help.
If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."
-Pope Francis
If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."
-Pope Francis
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If any elected official who has taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution doesn’t know this, they should resign.
Van Hollen on Fox News Sunday: "My whole point here is if you deprive one man of his constitutional rights, you threaten the constitutional rights of everybody ... if you threaten the rule of law for one person, you threaten if for everybody in America."
April 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
If any elected official who has taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution doesn’t know this, they should resign.
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A tale of two movies:
Similar deal structures. Similar budgets.
One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend.
The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second.
And yet this is the coverage.
Similar deal structures. Similar budgets.
One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend.
The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second.
And yet this is the coverage.
April 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A tale of two movies:
Similar deal structures. Similar budgets.
One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend.
The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second.
And yet this is the coverage.
Similar deal structures. Similar budgets.
One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend.
The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second.
And yet this is the coverage.
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If you have a public platform & spent years calming everyone down, telling us Trump was not a danger,was not racist, & arguing that the best way to deal w/Trump was to laugh at him, berated ppl who used the word fascist, insisted that the two parties are the same, admit YOU WERE WRONG.
April 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
If you have a public platform & spent years calming everyone down, telling us Trump was not a danger,was not racist, & arguing that the best way to deal w/Trump was to laugh at him, berated ppl who used the word fascist, insisted that the two parties are the same, admit YOU WERE WRONG.
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meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology