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~1995/96 New Years Eve in Phoenix rode in an elevator with Chris Rock.
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 12:14 AM
~1995/96 New Years Eve in Phoenix rode in an elevator with Chris Rock.
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This is why I support freedom of expression.
Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing.
Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing.
Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
December 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is why I support freedom of expression.
Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing.
Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing.
Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
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so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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I think we should rename the Department of Health to the Department of Death.
September 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I think we should rename the Department of Health to the Department of Death.
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When you strip away humanity
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
When you strip away humanity
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity:
1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.
It’s time more people understood this.
1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.
It’s time more people understood this.
May 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity:
1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.
It’s time more people understood this.
1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.
It’s time more people understood this.
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We live in the Onion Age. It’s like the Information Age, but with more tears.
May 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We live in the Onion Age. It’s like the Information Age, but with more tears.
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Which is crazy because the first amendment was written explicitly to protect them.
April 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Which is crazy because the first amendment was written explicitly to protect them.
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Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx
April 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx
Important thread
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Important thread
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It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
April 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
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I keep hearing pundits saying that various Trump crimes & follies "aren't landing with the American people." I can't believe we're still talking like this.
The US information system is broken, just as it was broken throughout the election. People *aren't hearing about what he's doing*.
The US information system is broken, just as it was broken throughout the election. People *aren't hearing about what he's doing*.
March 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I keep hearing pundits saying that various Trump crimes & follies "aren't landing with the American people." I can't believe we're still talking like this.
The US information system is broken, just as it was broken throughout the election. People *aren't hearing about what he's doing*.
The US information system is broken, just as it was broken throughout the election. People *aren't hearing about what he's doing*.
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Hi, can you do me a favor?
Ask people to follow me. I want to wean myself off the other site but I need to beef up follows here.
Thank you!
Ask people to follow me. I want to wean myself off the other site but I need to beef up follows here.
Thank you!
March 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Hi, can you do me a favor?
Ask people to follow me. I want to wean myself off the other site but I need to beef up follows here.
Thank you!
Ask people to follow me. I want to wean myself off the other site but I need to beef up follows here.
Thank you!
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Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog).
This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)
While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…
www.techdirt.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog).
This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
Every local TV meteorologist should say in their broadcast every morning and night exactly how this will damage their ability to give us the weather forecast. The local weather people are probably the most trusted people on TV.
@noaa.gov, one of the nation’s most prominent scientific agencies, began firing employees yesterday. The agency is expected to lose about 10% of its workforce. 🧵 👇https://apnews.com/article/national-weather-service-layoffs-trump-doge-a65360a1eb2500b7d47c9c966e383f4a
Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts
Federal workers who were not let go said the afternoon layoffs included meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the U.S.
apnews.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Every local TV meteorologist should say in their broadcast every morning and night exactly how this will damage their ability to give us the weather forecast. The local weather people are probably the most trusted people on TV.
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At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years.
Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.
Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.
February 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years.
Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.
Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.
Also mention the leaks/theft of FAFSA data on calls to your congressional reps.
Hear me out —
If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.
Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.
If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.
Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.
Musk staff have access to student aid data now.
February 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Also mention the leaks/theft of FAFSA data on calls to your congressional reps.
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it’s important that high up in every story air traffic controllers are ID’d as federal government employees. I do not assume most Americans know this but they should. This is what happens when we underfund, hollow out and ignore the federal workforce. GOP actions lead to preventable deaths.
NYT reports an air traffic controller’s seat was empty at DCA last night www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
January 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
it’s important that high up in every story air traffic controllers are ID’d as federal government employees. I do not assume most Americans know this but they should. This is what happens when we underfund, hollow out and ignore the federal workforce. GOP actions lead to preventable deaths.
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Not gonna lie I did kinda expect our Democratic politicians to have something like a plan to counter the 920-page detailed fascist blueprint that was published in April 2023
January 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Not gonna lie I did kinda expect our Democratic politicians to have something like a plan to counter the 920-page detailed fascist blueprint that was published in April 2023
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I'm going to start referring to cybertrucks as firetrucks.
January 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I'm going to start referring to cybertrucks as firetrucks.
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THE COMING WAR ON UNIVERSITIES. GIFT LINK www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
MAGA’s Orban-esque Plan to Control What Universities Teach
Trump and Vance are already indicating they’ll follow the Project 2025 blueprint to wage a pressure campaign on colleges.
www.bloomberg.com
December 22, 2024 at 1:16 PM
THE COMING WAR ON UNIVERSITIES. GIFT LINK www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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I’m a firm believer that the “why” is missing from most of education. How many times did you hear (or say) “when will I ever use this” in algebra class? Learning the why (just a few examples) would have gone a long way to keep kids from tuning out or just going through the motions.
December 12, 2024 at 6:50 PM
I’m a firm believer that the “why” is missing from most of education. How many times did you hear (or say) “when will I ever use this” in algebra class? Learning the why (just a few examples) would have gone a long way to keep kids from tuning out or just going through the motions.