JRH
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Husband, father, just trying to figure this life out
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Random reminder that Jim O'Neill (guy on the left) worked directly for Peter Thiel for nearly two decades until joining this administration.
BREAKING
The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.
Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.
The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.
Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.
December 31, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Random reminder that Jim O'Neill (guy on the left) worked directly for Peter Thiel for nearly two decades until joining this administration.
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Sir Idris Elba!
December 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Sir Idris Elba!
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A small number of people whose extreme wealth exerts a political gravitational force that distorts the entire political system is bad, actually. It has been recognized as a threat to free liberal republican government since the first time it emerged in the Gilded Age.
December 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A small number of people whose extreme wealth exerts a political gravitational force that distorts the entire political system is bad, actually. It has been recognized as a threat to free liberal republican government since the first time it emerged in the Gilded Age.
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I haven't read this yet, but we firefighting used to be pay-to-play and it failed spectacularly.
having lived in countries with pay-to-play disaster services (like fire fighting), I think privatizing disaster response is bad
What happens when disaster recovery becomes a luxury good
As federal services deteriorate, a patchwork of private companies is taking their place — for better or for worse.
grist.org
December 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I haven't read this yet, but we firefighting used to be pay-to-play and it failed spectacularly.
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Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.
Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza.
bit.ly
December 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.
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US Central Command says military campaign follows killing of US soldiers, 'massive strikes' across central Syria.
US says it killed or captured 25 ISIL operatives in Syria over nine days
US Central Command says military campaign follows killing of US soldiers, 'massive strikes' across central Syria.
www.aljazeera.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
US Central Command says military campaign follows killing of US soldiers, 'massive strikes' across central Syria.
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Many years ago I was at the North Star Bar in Philly watching the opening band Vietnam. A very nice and chatty guy sidled up to me and kept telling me how great the band was. When they finished he shook my hand and said "I gotta go!" About 20 minutes later he (Evan Dando) walked on stage.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Many years ago I was at the North Star Bar in Philly watching the opening band Vietnam. A very nice and chatty guy sidled up to me and kept telling me how great the band was. When they finished he shook my hand and said "I gotta go!" About 20 minutes later he (Evan Dando) walked on stage.
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Exclusive: The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility in Venezuela, sources told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that country. This is the attack Trump has repeatedly alluded to in recent days. www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
Exclusive: CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast | CNN Politics
The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that...
www.cnn.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Exclusive: The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility in Venezuela, sources told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that country. This is the attack Trump has repeatedly alluded to in recent days. www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
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Reporter: China has been doing naval exercises basically to test encircling Taiwan. Can you explain to us what your knowledge is of that?
Trump: Well, I have a great relationship with XI and he hasn't told me anything about it.
Trump: Well, I have a great relationship with XI and he hasn't told me anything about it.
December 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Reporter: China has been doing naval exercises basically to test encircling Taiwan. Can you explain to us what your knowledge is of that?
Trump: Well, I have a great relationship with XI and he hasn't told me anything about it.
Trump: Well, I have a great relationship with XI and he hasn't told me anything about it.
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The obsession with creating Black people that can't tell you no and then distributing them into the world to say and demonstrate whatever you want is REAL.
“In the online version of the program, the same strategies are taught to the first-year students, but the AI-avatars are pre-recorded, meaning they function more like recorded lectures rather than live, interactive instructors.”
AI avatars have arrived at the University as teaching assistants
By utilizing the AI avatars to teach new sections of the class, the program expanded this past Fall semester.
www.cavalierdaily.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The obsession with creating Black people that can't tell you no and then distributing them into the world to say and demonstrate whatever you want is REAL.
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We need new words to describe this because "hypocrisy" just doesn't work any more.
State Department Exiles Critics to “Protect” Free Speech
Last week, Marco Rubio and the State Department revoked visas for five Europeans—including Imran Ahmed, a legal permanent resident in the US married to a US citizen—because they don't like their speech about disinformation. The State…
Last week, Marco Rubio and the State Department revoked visas for five Europeans—including Imran Ahmed, a legal permanent resident in the US married to a US citizen—because they don't like their speech about disinformation. The State…
State Department Exiles Critics to “Protect” Free Speech
Last week, Marco Rubio and the State Department revoked visas for five Europeans—including Imran Ahmed, a legal permanent resident in the US married to a US citizen—because they don't like their speech about disinformation. The State Department's justification? This form of speech suppression is necessary to protect free speech. This is merely the latest episode in what will go down as the most anti-free speech, censorial presidential administration in history.
www.techdirt.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
We need new words to describe this because "hypocrisy" just doesn't work any more.
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this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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December 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)
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President Trump said that unspecified U.S. forces were responsible for an explosion at a marine loading facility in Venezuela, escalating the confrontation with the South American country over alleged drug smuggling.
Trump says U.S. destroyed loading dock in Venezuela
Trump would not say if the military or the CIA conducted the strike in Venezuela amid escalating U.S. pressure on Nicolás Maduro.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
President Trump said that unspecified U.S. forces were responsible for an explosion at a marine loading facility in Venezuela, escalating the confrontation with the South American country over alleged drug smuggling.
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Hello. We spent much of the long weekend trying to figure out if trump, in our name, had in fact bombed Venezuelan soil. What we found including from some senior government appointees only raised more questions than they answered
Same is true of what trump said today
Same is true of what trump said today
“But in a modern, free, and truly democratic society, it should not be a mystery for days to its population and its voters whether or not their president has just bombed a new sovereign nation, without any declaration of war – all while the federal government that’s funded by our tax dollars…
December 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Hello. We spent much of the long weekend trying to figure out if trump, in our name, had in fact bombed Venezuelan soil. What we found including from some senior government appointees only raised more questions than they answered
Same is true of what trump said today
Same is true of what trump said today
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This is MTG'w bill. She personally authored. It's happening now, not in the past.
Spare me her redemption arc.
Spare me her redemption arc.
December 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is MTG'w bill. She personally authored. It's happening now, not in the past.
Spare me her redemption arc.
Spare me her redemption arc.
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Remember this. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...
December 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Remember this. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...
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I assume UPS, FedEx, et al postmark at the time of delivery? My gut instinct is this is more abt pushing privatization more than hurting vote-by-mail, but I could be wrong.
I’m also guessing undermining USPS will, like so many Trump policies, hurt his (rural-heavy) base more than his detractors?
I’m also guessing undermining USPS will, like so many Trump policies, hurt his (rural-heavy) base more than his detractors?
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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December 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I assume UPS, FedEx, et al postmark at the time of delivery? My gut instinct is this is more abt pushing privatization more than hurting vote-by-mail, but I could be wrong.
I’m also guessing undermining USPS will, like so many Trump policies, hurt his (rural-heavy) base more than his detractors?
I’m also guessing undermining USPS will, like so many Trump policies, hurt his (rural-heavy) base more than his detractors?
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Seems to me if voting didn’t matter the people who benefit most from the destruction of democracy wouldn’t be trying so hard to demolish democracy
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Seems to me if voting didn’t matter the people who benefit most from the destruction of democracy wouldn’t be trying so hard to demolish democracy
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Happy Nichelle Nichols’s birthday to all who celebrate!
December 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Happy Nichelle Nichols’s birthday to all who celebrate!
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This happened right as early voting began in state elections; voters re-elected Gov. Walz and gave Democrats a trifecta. It was a damaging scandal, but hardly covered up. Rs whacked at it when Walz became VP nominee, but it didn't become a decisive issue.
December 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This happened right as early voting began in state elections; voters re-elected Gov. Walz and gave Democrats a trifecta. It was a damaging scandal, but hardly covered up. Rs whacked at it when Walz became VP nominee, but it didn't become a decisive issue.
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I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example.
Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
December 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example.
Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
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Hug your pets today please
December 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Hug your pets today please
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It's always a good reminder that having absolute dogshit opinions and politics is no barrier to high society or public adoration. Just in case anyone ever cries about being cancelled or something.
December 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
It's always a good reminder that having absolute dogshit opinions and politics is no barrier to high society or public adoration. Just in case anyone ever cries about being cancelled or something.
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Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
December 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.