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Seven years after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the world is being asked to forget what happens when governments decide reporters are disposable—and to turn away from what that precedent means for all of us.
December 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Seven years after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the world is being asked to forget what happens when governments decide reporters are disposable—and to turn away from what that precedent means for all of us.
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Related: be fucking nice to postal workers right now. It’s not their fault postage has gone up three times this year or your package won’t get there until after New Year’s because you waited til the week of Christmas. Being mad at postal workers is the divisive shit they encourage.
December 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Related: be fucking nice to postal workers right now. It’s not their fault postage has gone up three times this year or your package won’t get there until after New Year’s because you waited til the week of Christmas. Being mad at postal workers is the divisive shit they encourage.
This cannot be said enough! Sigh.
It’s not “losing money” any more than air traffic controllers or public highways or street lights or fire departments are “losing money.” It is a government service. It’s not SUPPOSED to make money. It’s supposed to reliably deliver to anywhere in the US, even the unprofitable places.
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This cannot be said enough! Sigh.
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May we all have an ICE free Christmas! 🎄
December 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
May we all have an ICE free Christmas! 🎄
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
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Happy Winter! 10:03am ET today marked the Winter Solstice, the day of the year when the Earth's northern hemisphere is tilted furthest away from the Sun – making today the shortest of the year for those of us north of the equator.
Will wintry temperatures be in your area? 😬
Visit weather.gov to see
Will wintry temperatures be in your area? 😬
Visit weather.gov to see
December 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Happy Winter! 10:03am ET today marked the Winter Solstice, the day of the year when the Earth's northern hemisphere is tilted furthest away from the Sun – making today the shortest of the year for those of us north of the equator.
Will wintry temperatures be in your area? 😬
Visit weather.gov to see
Will wintry temperatures be in your area? 😬
Visit weather.gov to see
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Children are being exploited. Let’s respond by dramatically hindering our ability to point out or criticize children being exploited, using methods we don’t understand because we’re old and incurious.
Children are being exploited and abused because Big Tech consistently prioritizes profits over people.
Enough is enough. Time to sunset Section 230.
Enough is enough. Time to sunset Section 230.
December 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Children are being exploited. Let’s respond by dramatically hindering our ability to point out or criticize children being exploited, using methods we don’t understand because we’re old and incurious.
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Relatedly: This case involved about $750,000 in uncompensated work, tens of thousands of dollars in unreimbursed expenses, and some four years of exhaustive litigation. Being a civil rights lawyer is hard (and frequently unprofitable). So support your local civil rights organizations.
December 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Relatedly: This case involved about $750,000 in uncompensated work, tens of thousands of dollars in unreimbursed expenses, and some four years of exhaustive litigation. Being a civil rights lawyer is hard (and frequently unprofitable). So support your local civil rights organizations.
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It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.
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A Florida-based company is charging military veterans as much as $20,000 for help with disability claims, even though the VA has said that may be illegal and the service should be free. But so far nobody's stopping the company and others like it. n.pr/4awb0jo
n.pr
December 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
A Florida-based company is charging military veterans as much as $20,000 for help with disability claims, even though the VA has said that may be illegal and the service should be free. But so far nobody's stopping the company and others like it. n.pr/4awb0jo
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This is fantastic. Ford says no new bike lanes that remove traffic lanes, so the City says, OK, fine, we won't remove lanes, we'll just narrow them. So brilliant. I hope they find more ways to maliciously comply. We love a workaround!
www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-h...
www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-h...
Toronto proposes over 20 km of new bike lanes, bypassing provincial veto
The city plans to skirt the Ford government’s bike lane ban by narrowing the width of roads to squeeze in bike lanes, rather than removing car lanes
www.torontotoday.ca
November 30, 2025 at 6:14 AM
This is fantastic. Ford says no new bike lanes that remove traffic lanes, so the City says, OK, fine, we won't remove lanes, we'll just narrow them. So brilliant. I hope they find more ways to maliciously comply. We love a workaround!
www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-h...
www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-h...
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Do not blame institutions, which are many things to many people.
Do not blame the people who work there, who have little real say and are universally staunchly opposed. (Very often students too.)
Instead:
Blame leadership.
Blame alumni with fingers on scales.
Blame the media for normalizing.
Do not blame the people who work there, who have little real say and are universally staunchly opposed. (Very often students too.)
Instead:
Blame leadership.
Blame alumni with fingers on scales.
Blame the media for normalizing.
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Do not blame institutions, which are many things to many people.
Do not blame the people who work there, who have little real say and are universally staunchly opposed. (Very often students too.)
Instead:
Blame leadership.
Blame alumni with fingers on scales.
Blame the media for normalizing.
Do not blame the people who work there, who have little real say and are universally staunchly opposed. (Very often students too.)
Instead:
Blame leadership.
Blame alumni with fingers on scales.
Blame the media for normalizing.
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Look, I love crescent rolls too, but I wouldn’t post them on social media as proof of my culinary prowess.
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Look, I love crescent rolls too, but I wouldn’t post them on social media as proof of my culinary prowess.
I think about this all the time. Quire right.
It’s also insulting to people with addictions. It’s like making fun of someone’s appearance.
Hegseth is rotten enough without making his serious mental health issues. I dislike the guy but hope he finds help and health
We can oppose our political enemies without becoming as monstrous as them
Hegseth is rotten enough without making his serious mental health issues. I dislike the guy but hope he finds help and health
We can oppose our political enemies without becoming as monstrous as them
November 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I think about this all the time. Quire right.
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West Point plaque: "Our code of military obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law."
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
West Point plaque: "Our code of military obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law."
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America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
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I am a citizen and so are majority of Somalis in America. Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn’t have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate. We are here to stay 💁🏽♀️
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I am a citizen and so are majority of Somalis in America. Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn’t have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate. We are here to stay 💁🏽♀️
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I would like all of you, each and every one, to go google “Miss Universe National Costume Competition 2025 Norway” right now
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I would like all of you, each and every one, to go google “Miss Universe National Costume Competition 2025 Norway” right now
I went to Penn and come from a family rife with Bowdoin alumni. This pleases me.
Not only has he never looked at Don Jr. or Eric like this, he’s never been so happy to bask in JD Vance’s presence either.
He looks giddy. JOYFUL even.
Is Zohran a witch
He looks giddy. JOYFUL even.
Is Zohran a witch
the son he always wanted
November 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I went to Penn and come from a family rife with Bowdoin alumni. This pleases me.
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To date, @nkjemisin.bsky.social is the youngest person named Grand Master by SFWA, having earned this honour at the age of 53.
The second-youngest is @nalohop.bsky.social, who was named a Grand Master in 2021 at the age of 61.
The second-youngest is @nalohop.bsky.social, who was named a Grand Master in 2021 at the age of 61.
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
To date, @nkjemisin.bsky.social is the youngest person named Grand Master by SFWA, having earned this honour at the age of 53.
The second-youngest is @nalohop.bsky.social, who was named a Grand Master in 2021 at the age of 61.
The second-youngest is @nalohop.bsky.social, who was named a Grand Master in 2021 at the age of 61.
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US appeals court upholds hate crime convictions of 3 white men in 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery
apnews.com/article/ahma...
apnews.com/article/ahma...
US appeals court upholds hate crime convictions of 3 white men in 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery
A federal appeals court has upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia more than five years ago. The 11th U.S.
apnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
US appeals court upholds hate crime convictions of 3 white men in 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery
apnews.com/article/ahma...
apnews.com/article/ahma...
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Great, tell them we said welcome to 2015.
69% of Americans support raising the federal minimum wage to $15/hr, according to YouGov.
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Great, tell them we said welcome to 2015.
Senate dems could talk about ... this?
The CFPB was created. The Trump administration is seeking to eliminate it, despite the fact that Congress has passed no law enabling it to do so.
US consumer watchdog says it is legally blocked from accessing funds reut.rs/4p5bX6x
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Senate dems could talk about ... this?