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Couple things I want to remember about this day five years ago and how the political system responded to it:
January 6, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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1. #CDC posted new #flu data today. A 🧵
Another pediatric death was reported in the 2024-25 flu season, making it the deadliest flu season for kids since CDC started collecting this data point 20 years ago. 2024-25 has surpassed the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
9 kids have died from flu so far this year.
January 6, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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This story is terrific. A woman infiltrated a racist dating site, used chatbots to get info from horny incels, and then leaked it all.

What are the odds one of the accounts on WhiteDate belongs to a White House staffer?
Investigator breaches white supremacist dating sites, exposes 8,000 users
An investigative journalist infiltrated three white supremacist platforms, including the dating site WhiteDate, exfiltrating over 8,000 user profiles and 100GB of sensitive data.
cybernews.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:33 PM
A big thanks to @iwriteok.bsky.social for the end of the year anti-bastard series. A reminder about how important perseverance is in any good cause.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Part One: X-Mas Special: The Heroes Who Ended The Slave Trade
Podcast Episode · Behind the Bastards · 12/23/2025 · 1h 19m
podcasts.apple.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
TCM always does this the best.
As the year comes to a close, TCM remembers the actors, filmmakers and creatives we lost this year.

Gone, but never forgotten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...

Song title and artist: "In the Western Wind and the Sunrise" by Dave Simonett and the Sunrise.
December 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
So, here’s my data point of one. Before I met my now husband in the late aughts, I was a late 30s women looking to date, so I had a try at dating services like “It’s Just Lunch.” My preference was men 35 to 50 or so, but I wasn’t against divorced men or men with children.
Yes where else could men possibly receive this scorching insight
December 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.

Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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This is an incredibly powerful piece, impeccably researched, and everyone should take the time to read it. It clarifies a lot of things I’ve instinctually felt but haven’t quite had the words to describe.
We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion.

The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.

Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Thanksgiving Mythbusting: The Pilgrims did NOT come to the "New World" looking for religious freedom. They came to establish theocracies.
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message.

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November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Good morning! Dick Cheney is dead and I have an obituary that I wrote all the way back in 2017 about this monster!

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/cheney
Cheney - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Dick Cheney, one of America’s worst war criminals, is dead. Born in 1941 in Lincoln, Nebraska, which amazingly makes University of Nebraska football only the second most grotesque American cultural ph...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This.
Study after study after study shows that voters are more drawn to a candidate who believes what they're saying and are passionate about it than one who agrees with them on every issue.

Triangulation has already cost most of the Dem's public credibility and goodwill. More of it won't help.
I guess this is the savvy take or whatever but as an empirical matter, it doesn't work to reinforce the narratives of your opponents. If Democrats start start saying, "immigrants are the reason crime rates are high!" they won't convince anti-immigrant voters and they'll alienate pro-immigrant voters
October 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
@andrewlseidel.bsky.social Not Trumps third term, but his Enabling Act.
October 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
#NoKings Broomfield.
October 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Long term side project. Excited to share first installment of “The Patriot’s Glossary of MAGAtarian Doublespeak” ahead of No Kings Day.

May it help illuminate the MAGA attacks on facts and reality, and may hold onto the truth that will keep us free.
www.whitetoolong.net/p/the-patrio...
The Patriot's Glossary of MAGAtarian Doublespeak: Installment I for No Kings Day
A resource for holding onto facts, reality, and truth.
www.whitetoolong.net
October 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Yup.
Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!

Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.

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October 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Read Jonathan’s story in the section “About the Humanity.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/autism-mah...
Autism, MAHA, and the Face of God
One part junk science, two parts incompetent government, and with a dash of blasphemy, for seasoning.
www.thebulwark.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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MAGA is fawning over Erika Kirk right now, but there's no way she can keep Charlie's audience.

His bread and butter was sexualized humiliation of college girls — more "Girls Gone Wild" than doing politics the "right way."

His followers won't hear it from a woman.

www.salon.com/2025/09/24/d...
Don't worry — Erika Kirk will never replace her husband
She can't replicate his brand of gutter misogyny
www.salon.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Reading the actual data matters.
September 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
OK, this is a long read, but it’s from somebody who knows free speech intimately. And it is definitely worth hearing his perspective.
September 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This is how college was for me as a student.
The right sets the terms of our political discourse in so many ways, one of which is the idea that there isn't enough "debate" and "free speech" on campus.

We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/
September 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM