mpowers
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Kudos to Stephen Colbert for speaking out.
Surrendering to the Trump regime's tyranny only invites more of it.
Paramount clearly seems to care more about getting a merger approved than its own integrity.
Surrendering to the Trump regime's tyranny only invites more of it.
Paramount clearly seems to care more about getting a merger approved than its own integrity.
July 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Kudos to Stephen Colbert for speaking out.
Surrendering to the Trump regime's tyranny only invites more of it.
Paramount clearly seems to care more about getting a merger approved than its own integrity.
Surrendering to the Trump regime's tyranny only invites more of it.
Paramount clearly seems to care more about getting a merger approved than its own integrity.
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Among all the big bad things happening on our planet, there's one Big Good Thing, the sudden, startling rise of solar energy.
It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Among all the big bad things happening on our planet, there's one Big Good Thing, the sudden, startling rise of solar energy.
It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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For the life of me I don’t understand going to the effort - time, money, everything - of running for Congress, winning, and then just rolling over. It makes no sense.
July 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
For the life of me I don’t understand going to the effort - time, money, everything - of running for Congress, winning, and then just rolling over. It makes no sense.
So say we all
This is a helluva letter
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”
Via Sam Stein on twitter
Via Sam Stein on twitter
June 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
So say we all
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Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
June 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
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In this post, I consider federal Judge Charles Breyer's compelling ruling against Trump's federalization of California National Guard. Situation here is yet another example of Trump's abusive invocation of emergency powers (as with Alien Enemies Act and tariffs): reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Federal Court Rightly Invalidates Trump's Illegal Federalization of California National Guard Troops
Earlier tonight, Federal District Court Judge Charles Breyer issued a ruling against President Donald Trump's federalization of some 4000 California
reason.com
June 13, 2025 at 4:05 AM
In this post, I consider federal Judge Charles Breyer's compelling ruling against Trump's federalization of California National Guard. Situation here is yet another example of Trump's abusive invocation of emergency powers (as with Alien Enemies Act and tariffs): reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Wish I could share to non-bluesky folk
whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing
June 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Wish I could share to non-bluesky folk
So much this
Just fucking pay for people’s newsletters and newspapers you dumb assholes
NEWS:
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
May 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
So much this
Because everyone else is sharing it. Because it’s awesome.
They literally bowed before this dog
May 20, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Because everyone else is sharing it. Because it’s awesome.
If you like bright sides to things
Starting to wonder if we took one for global civic democracy. Electing Trump basically seems to have knee-capped every revanchist far-right candidate in the world. You're welcome, world.
May 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
If you like bright sides to things
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I wish Gregg Popovich nothing but the best as he steps away from the San Antonio Spurs bench. There was nothing quite like dealing with Pop. He resisted my every attempt to do this story on him, but in the end he kinda sorta cooperated. The man is one of a kind. Please enjoy. bit.ly/4m0KLoK
Pop Art
Picture a parking lot in a small Texas town in the early 1990s, heat curling up from the blacktop like incense from an altar, a few dozen fans watching a
bit.ly
May 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I wish Gregg Popovich nothing but the best as he steps away from the San Antonio Spurs bench. There was nothing quite like dealing with Pop. He resisted my every attempt to do this story on him, but in the end he kinda sorta cooperated. The man is one of a kind. Please enjoy. bit.ly/4m0KLoK
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It’s working!
As of 8:30 this morning, a total of 22,893 ballots had been cast, representing 25.5% of the eligible voters. To put this into context, since the D.C. Bar was established in 1972, the largest number of ballots ever cast in an election was 10,714 in 1990.And voting goes through June 4!
As of 8:30 this morning, a total of 22,893 ballots had been cast, representing 25.5% of the eligible voters. To put this into context, since the D.C. Bar was established in 1972, the largest number of ballots ever cast in an election was 10,714 in 1990.And voting goes through June 4!
April 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It’s working!
As of 8:30 this morning, a total of 22,893 ballots had been cast, representing 25.5% of the eligible voters. To put this into context, since the D.C. Bar was established in 1972, the largest number of ballots ever cast in an election was 10,714 in 1990.And voting goes through June 4!
As of 8:30 this morning, a total of 22,893 ballots had been cast, representing 25.5% of the eligible voters. To put this into context, since the D.C. Bar was established in 1972, the largest number of ballots ever cast in an election was 10,714 in 1990.And voting goes through June 4!
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I would like for stupid people to stop making important decisions that affect my life
April 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I would like for stupid people to stop making important decisions that affect my life
And we’re not even past the first 100 days yet
Activists on Bluesky: Stop fedposting anything you don't want to see in an indictment
GMU libertarians on Twitter: Rose Garden executions when?
GMU libertarians on Twitter: Rose Garden executions when?
Trump has turned the George Mason University libertarians into revolutionaries
April 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
And we’re not even past the first 100 days yet
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Activists on Bluesky: Stop fedposting anything you don't want to see in an indictment
GMU libertarians on Twitter: Rose Garden executions when?
GMU libertarians on Twitter: Rose Garden executions when?
Trump has turned the George Mason University libertarians into revolutionaries
April 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Activists on Bluesky: Stop fedposting anything you don't want to see in an indictment
GMU libertarians on Twitter: Rose Garden executions when?
GMU libertarians on Twitter: Rose Garden executions when?
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Sad to hear of the passing of Dorothea von Moltke, who was a Princeton institution in her own right.
www.tapinto.net/towns/prince...
www.tapinto.net/towns/prince...
Dorothea von Moltke, 1968-2025 -- Princeton Bookseller and Community Builder
Princeton, NJ – For more about Von Moltke and Labyrinth Books, read the article in Princeton Magazine, or the 2016 article in U.S. 1. newspaper.Von Moltke made Labyrinth Books a valuable
www.tapinto.net
March 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Sad to hear of the passing of Dorothea von Moltke, who was a Princeton institution in her own right.
www.tapinto.net/towns/prince...
www.tapinto.net/towns/prince...
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If you want to learn more about UBI, the only transitional solution to the technological unemployment that AI is threatening, check out my website named after my late son who was an ardent supporter:
fundforhumanity.org
fundforhumanity.org
March 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
If you want to learn more about UBI, the only transitional solution to the technological unemployment that AI is threatening, check out my website named after my late son who was an ardent supporter:
fundforhumanity.org
fundforhumanity.org
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Great @npr.org article on the vital work that our friends at the @archive.org are doing to preserve online history against political attacks.
As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them
The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.
www.npr.org
March 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Great @npr.org article on the vital work that our friends at the @archive.org are doing to preserve online history against political attacks.
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Oh. My. Actual God.
Duuuuuude.
Duuuuuude.
From IHIP NEWS: 🍊💩 parroting Russian talking points straight up:
March 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Oh. My. Actual God.
Duuuuuude.
Duuuuuude.
NYT trying to figure out why Drumpf hates Canada and someone picked this photo for no reason.
March 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
NYT trying to figure out why Drumpf hates Canada and someone picked this photo for no reason.
If Donald really were secretly Putin’s puppet, what would he be doing differently?
March 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
If Donald really were secretly Putin’s puppet, what would he be doing differently?
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I shared this note with the owner of the Washington Post this morning.
February 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I shared this note with the owner of the Washington Post this morning.