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Hey folks:
Tonight's installment of "A Few Thoughts for Those Who Can't Sleep."
Why the American Revolution has been speaking to me today.
www.youtube.com/live/VkT20n5...
Tonight's installment of "A Few Thoughts for Those Who Can't Sleep."
Why the American Revolution has been speaking to me today.
www.youtube.com/live/VkT20n5...
A Few Thoughts for Those Who Can't Sleep -- January 15 Edition
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
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January 16, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Hey folks:
Tonight's installment of "A Few Thoughts for Those Who Can't Sleep."
Why the American Revolution has been speaking to me today.
www.youtube.com/live/VkT20n5...
Tonight's installment of "A Few Thoughts for Those Who Can't Sleep."
Why the American Revolution has been speaking to me today.
www.youtube.com/live/VkT20n5...
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This is Minneapolis:
-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
January 10, 2026 at 8:20 PM
This is Minneapolis:
-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
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AI tools are already supercharging cyberattacks. Could chatbots enable a “golden age” for hackers? Matteo Wong reports:
Chatbots Are Becoming Really, Really Good Criminals
Cybersecurity was already a nightmare. Now comes AI.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
AI tools are already supercharging cyberattacks. Could chatbots enable a “golden age” for hackers? Matteo Wong reports:
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AOC was on fire...
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
AOC was on fire...
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The piece is excellent, but I want to highlight a valuable thought early in it: Literature does not change people. Life events change people. Trauma changes people. Catharsis changes people. Literature provides new mindsets to shape those changes, and outlets through which to choose how to change.
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The piece is excellent, but I want to highlight a valuable thought early in it: Literature does not change people. Life events change people. Trauma changes people. Catharsis changes people. Literature provides new mindsets to shape those changes, and outlets through which to choose how to change.
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A clear explanation of the efforts of a Supreme Court Justice to try to mitigate the impacts of an awful person, and a reminder that it's helpful to learn the details about something before leaping in with a half-formed opinion.
If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A clear explanation of the efforts of a Supreme Court Justice to try to mitigate the impacts of an awful person, and a reminder that it's helpful to learn the details about something before leaping in with a half-formed opinion.
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The best thread on the Tariff case in front of the Court right now.
In case you wanted to follow along on bsky.
In case you wanted to follow along on bsky.
v pleased Sotomayor just said this same damn thing at oral argument in the tariffs case like UM didn't we say in the student loans case??
DOJ said this is different bc there's a foreign emergency; Sotomayor said ok bet, so we say global warming is an emergency and then we can have loan forgiveness?
DOJ said this is different bc there's a foreign emergency; Sotomayor said ok bet, so we say global warming is an emergency and then we can have loan forgiveness?
Every time I see Trump claim vast powers over economic policy that the Constitution does not give him, often only for the Supreme Court to step in and go 'seems legit,' I can't help but think about the Court carrying on as if canceling some student loan debt was shocking executive overreach
November 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The best thread on the Tariff case in front of the Court right now.
In case you wanted to follow along on bsky.
In case you wanted to follow along on bsky.
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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Here's my updated breakout of the Economist/YouGov weekly data. Trump is experiencing dramatic, across the board erosion. More here - www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/stuart-ste...
October 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Here's my updated breakout of the Economist/YouGov weekly data. Trump is experiencing dramatic, across the board erosion. More here - www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/stuart-ste...
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WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime
October 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime
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Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org
www.nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
October 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org
www.nokings.org
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It really is telling how student newspapers have become the trustworthy sources for what’s happening on their campuses. We see it also at Ohio State, where a right-authoritarian university president speaks in happy talk while The Lantern tells the truth. It’s happening at Stanford too.
Pro tip: If "Harvard and Trump" are in the news, start with @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social for the most up-to-date and well-sourced coverage.
Their story right now: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Their story right now: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Trump Claims White House Has Struck Deal With Harvard | News | The Harvard Crimson
President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday in the Oval Office that the White House had “reached a deal” with Harvard, before cautioning that the agreement had not been finalized.
www.thecrimson.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
It really is telling how student newspapers have become the trustworthy sources for what’s happening on their campuses. We see it also at Ohio State, where a right-authoritarian university president speaks in happy talk while The Lantern tells the truth. It’s happening at Stanford too.
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Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.
And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
September 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.
And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
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BREAKING: Luigi Mangione's lawyers have filed a motion to dismiss his case on constitutional grounds. Some arguments are specific to his case, involving AG Bondi's actions, while others are more generally applicable.
Law Dork earlier covered the underlying conduct: www.lawdork.com/p/luigi-mang...
Law Dork earlier covered the underlying conduct: www.lawdork.com/p/luigi-mang...
September 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
BREAKING: Luigi Mangione's lawyers have filed a motion to dismiss his case on constitutional grounds. Some arguments are specific to his case, involving AG Bondi's actions, while others are more generally applicable.
Law Dork earlier covered the underlying conduct: www.lawdork.com/p/luigi-mang...
Law Dork earlier covered the underlying conduct: www.lawdork.com/p/luigi-mang...
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"Trump’s authoritarian assault on our democracy has made the prospect of states prosecuting federal law enforcement officers to protect their residents from grave civil rights violations appear not only potentially appropriate, but possibly essential." — @davidrlurie.bsky.social
States can step into the breach
Just because Pam Bondi won't hold Trump's thugs accountable doesn't mean they're above all laws.
www.publicnotice.co
June 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"Trump’s authoritarian assault on our democracy has made the prospect of states prosecuting federal law enforcement officers to protect their residents from grave civil rights violations appear not only potentially appropriate, but possibly essential." — @davidrlurie.bsky.social
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I’d say that this is a very revealing comment except what is revealed is very obvious: generative AI is an interesting technology with what will probably prove to be a few useful applications, and it’s being inflated into a trillion dollars year industry because tech has no other good ideas.
This was the line that made me do a double take.
Like, my dude (though you are in no way actually "my dude"), this is a choice you guys made because improvements to humanity that don't involve investors like yourself becoming richer than God are anathema to your worldview.
Like, my dude (though you are in no way actually "my dude"), this is a choice you guys made because improvements to humanity that don't involve investors like yourself becoming richer than God are anathema to your worldview.
June 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I’d say that this is a very revealing comment except what is revealed is very obvious: generative AI is an interesting technology with what will probably prove to be a few useful applications, and it’s being inflated into a trillion dollars year industry because tech has no other good ideas.
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Save the charts.
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
www.scientificamerican.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Save the charts.
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Two pertinent graphs from me tonight...
First, U.S. support for bombing Iran is very low — much lower than support was at the time for the American military attacking Afghanistan, Iraq, and ISIS.
Link: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-amer...
First, U.S. support for bombing Iran is very low — much lower than support was at the time for the American military attacking Afghanistan, Iraq, and ISIS.
Link: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-amer...
June 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Two pertinent graphs from me tonight...
First, U.S. support for bombing Iran is very low — much lower than support was at the time for the American military attacking Afghanistan, Iraq, and ISIS.
Link: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-amer...
First, U.S. support for bombing Iran is very low — much lower than support was at the time for the American military attacking Afghanistan, Iraq, and ISIS.
Link: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-amer...
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New data analyzed by the Chronicle paints a complicated and granular picture of how the Great Highway’s closure has affected traffic in the surrounding SF neighborhoods.
Has the Great Highway closure led to a traffic nightmare? This is the most complete data yet
New data analyzed by the Chronicle paints a complicated and granular picture of how the Great Highway’s closure has affected traffic in the surrounding SF neighborhoods.
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June 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
New data analyzed by the Chronicle paints a complicated and granular picture of how the Great Highway’s closure has affected traffic in the surrounding SF neighborhoods.
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The results are in! There were my favorite signs from yesterday’s No Kings protests. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Top Signs from No Kings Protests
So many great ones to choose from, but here are my top pics of signs/photos from yesterday’s No Kings protests.
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June 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The results are in! There were my favorite signs from yesterday’s No Kings protests. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.
June 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.