@msmmwelch.bsky.social
Secular philosopher inspired by buddhist teachings. Breathe, stretch, walk.
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This administration lied about the people it sent to an overseas torture prison. It lies about the people it’s deporting. It lies every day to gain political advantage. Not a chance in hell they won’t lie about huge swaths of people they suspect might vote for the other party.
December 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This administration lied about the people it sent to an overseas torture prison. It lies about the people it’s deporting. It lies every day to gain political advantage. Not a chance in hell they won’t lie about huge swaths of people they suspect might vote for the other party.
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From CBS to X, right-wing billionaires now control most major media. Dark-money spending on elections is now essentially unregulated, unenforced. In 2025, Trump's handlers made clear how lucrative investing in a corrupt president can be. Spending on the '26 and '28 elections will be astronomical.
December 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
From CBS to X, right-wing billionaires now control most major media. Dark-money spending on elections is now essentially unregulated, unenforced. In 2025, Trump's handlers made clear how lucrative investing in a corrupt president can be. Spending on the '26 and '28 elections will be astronomical.
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For my part, I can't imagine centrist Dems having the bravery, vision, persistence, or popular support needed to get real, lasting democracy reform legislation over the finish line. Electing centrist Dems might mean a brief reprieve from authoritarianism, but that won't enable durable progress.
December 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
For my part, I can't imagine centrist Dems having the bravery, vision, persistence, or popular support needed to get real, lasting democracy reform legislation over the finish line. Electing centrist Dems might mean a brief reprieve from authoritarianism, but that won't enable durable progress.
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Not sure I understand why the Trump administration cares about Christians in Nigeria and not Christians in Ukraine
December 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Not sure I understand why the Trump administration cares about Christians in Nigeria and not Christians in Ukraine
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I'm sure the 22 million people whose healthcare premiums will triple in six days are delighted by this news, you inhuman fuck.
December 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I'm sure the 22 million people whose healthcare premiums will triple in six days are delighted by this news, you inhuman fuck.
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NYT when a trans man wants to take testosterone: 😡😡😡😡😡
NYT when a cis woman wants to take testosterone: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
NYT when a cis woman wants to take testosterone: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Earlier this year, we published an article on how women are increasingly seeking out testosterone to help with energy or their sex lives. We followed up with one woman who went on testosterone to help with her menopausal symptoms. The effects had unexpected consequences for her marriage.
What It’s Like When Your Wife Goes on Testosterone
She went on testosterone to help with her menopausal symptoms. The effects had unexpected consequences for their marriage.
nyti.ms
December 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
NYT when a trans man wants to take testosterone: 😡😡😡😡😡
NYT when a cis woman wants to take testosterone: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
NYT when a cis woman wants to take testosterone: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
When the US supports Israel's genocide, it gives permission to other extremists.
"What is happening in Gaza and Sudan can be considered a kind of contagion of extreme genocidal violence...
The party carrying out genocide in both cases authorizes the killing of civilians without the need to consider international condemnation."
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/isra...
#Israel #UAE
The party carrying out genocide in both cases authorizes the killing of civilians without the need to consider international condemnation."
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/isra...
#Israel #UAE
Israel’s war on Gaza has made genocide an accepted weapon of war. We’re already seeing it in Sudan. – Mondoweiss
Israel’s genocide in Gaza set a global norm that views extermination as a ‘natural’ part of how nations and paramilitary groups wage war. We are already seeing this in Sudan.
mondoweiss.net
December 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
When the US supports Israel's genocide, it gives permission to other extremists.
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I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.
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But it is sad to me that instead of starting up that group, Jonathan Greenblatt and his allies decided to transform the ADL, a storied civil rights organization, into that very different kind of group.
I gather they have new right-wing donors to replace my family and friends. Congrats, I guess?
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I gather they have new right-wing donors to replace my family and friends. Congrats, I guess?
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December 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
But it is sad to me that instead of starting up that group, Jonathan Greenblatt and his allies decided to transform the ADL, a storied civil rights organization, into that very different kind of group.
I gather they have new right-wing donors to replace my family and friends. Congrats, I guess?
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I gather they have new right-wing donors to replace my family and friends. Congrats, I guess?
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Men find forgiveness in Christianity.
December 26, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Men find forgiveness in Christianity.
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“Romania under Ceausescu created a dystopian horror of overcrowded, filthy orphanages, and thousands died from back-alley abortions.” foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/16/w...
What Actually Happens When a Country Bans Abortion
Romania under Ceausescu created a dystopian horror of overcrowded, filthy orphanages, and thousands died from back-alley abortions.
foreignpolicy.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
“Romania under Ceausescu created a dystopian horror of overcrowded, filthy orphanages, and thousands died from back-alley abortions.” foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/16/w...
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A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
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The odds, I thought, were slim that any columnist could make sense of it all, not because there was too much in his speech, but because there was almost nothing. Certainly nothing that belonged on TV. But Zack is right. "The fact that they needed to try such a desperate move at all is notable."
Trump's ridiculous primetime address was yet another sign that his presidency is failing www.vox.com/politics/472...
The revealing pointlessness of Trump’s primetime speech
The president is a desperate man.
www.vox.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The odds, I thought, were slim that any columnist could make sense of it all, not because there was too much in his speech, but because there was almost nothing. Certainly nothing that belonged on TV. But Zack is right. "The fact that they needed to try such a desperate move at all is notable."
From a Columbia Journalism Review interview with former Vox Media executive Liz Kelly Nelson. She explains — clearly — why some of her best journalists were leaving Vox to set up their own practices. www.cjr.org/the-intervie... So clearly that she eventually joins them... Read on:
December 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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From @parkermolloy.com at New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/2047...
I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.
I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
From @parkermolloy.com at New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/2047...
I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.
I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.
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In Covid’s Wake authors Stephen Macedo and Francis Lee are so sloppy dishonest they attributed the views of discredited con 5th circuit court to Yoel Roth, who criticized and disputed their corrupt decision
One such refutation appears in my paper under the heading “The FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands.” I spend several hundred words explaining that that didn’t happen.
![Receiving and acting on external reports is a core function of plattorm content moderation teams, and the essential nature of this work is an independent evaluation of reported content under the platform's own policies. The fact, cited in Missouri v. Biden, that platforms only acted on approximately half of reports from the FBI shows clearly that the standards platforms applied were not wholly, or even mostly, the government's.
Finally, it does not withstand factual scrutiny that platforms were so petrified of adverse consequences from the FBI that they uncritically accepted and acted on information sent to them by the government. The Twitter Files themselves document clearly at least two instances in which, presented with low-quality information or questionable demands, Twitter pushed back on the FBI's requests. In one case, the FBI passes on a request-seemingly from the NSA-that Twitter "revis[e] its terms of service" to allow an open-source intelligence vendor to collect data from the Twitter APIs to inform the NSA's activities. This request is arguably as close to jawboning as any interaction between Twitter and the FBI gets; yet, in response, I summarily dismissed not only the request for a meeting to discuss the topic, but the entire premise of the request, writing, "The best path for NSA, or any part of government, to request information about Twitter users or their content is in accordance with valid legal process." The question was not raised again.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ka6qwlgc2fec7gkz6cfuuxgx/bafkreibhs7piz367lbv4dfkgv3zw27p2wys2cqsuyn53oecxdnzusu5goq@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
In Covid’s Wake authors Stephen Macedo and Francis Lee are so sloppy dishonest they attributed the views of discredited con 5th circuit court to Yoel Roth, who criticized and disputed their corrupt decision
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This is a very noteworthy story that has been back-paged. It is about a UK judge finding the "Campaign Against Antisemitism" to be misusing the judicial system in order to cancel (i.e. to execute a character assassination of) a comedian.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
December 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This is a very noteworthy story that has been back-paged. It is about a UK judge finding the "Campaign Against Antisemitism" to be misusing the judicial system in order to cancel (i.e. to execute a character assassination of) a comedian.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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There is famously a video of her fawning over a neo-Nazi. I don’t think she ever cared about neo-Nazis and antisemites on the right, as long as they supported Israel, but now they’re turning on Israel.
www.reddit.com/r/behindtheb...
www.reddit.com/r/behindtheb...
From the behindthebastards community on Reddit: TW: Peak Cringe - Laura Loomer Tries to Flirt, Neo-Nazi Looks Like He’d Rather Face The Hague.
Explore this post and more from the behindthebastards community
www.reddit.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
There is famously a video of her fawning over a neo-Nazi. I don’t think she ever cared about neo-Nazis and antisemites on the right, as long as they supported Israel, but now they’re turning on Israel.
www.reddit.com/r/behindtheb...
www.reddit.com/r/behindtheb...
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Trans instructor: “you didn’t do this assignment”
Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment”
Student: “I didn’t do the assignment”
University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask”
some days I just want to scream and scream
Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment”
Student: “I didn’t do the assignment”
University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask”
some days I just want to scream and scream
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Trans instructor: “you didn’t do this assignment”
Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment”
Student: “I didn’t do the assignment”
University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask”
some days I just want to scream and scream
Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment”
Student: “I didn’t do the assignment”
University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask”
some days I just want to scream and scream
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"It’s clear that the president considers the rules-based democratic and economic order a barrier to his goal of establishing an autocracy. Given his dictatorial ambitions, it makes perfect sense for his regime to cozy up to strongmen while treating America’s principal democratic allies as enemies."
Make America Weak
Trump is systematically undermining America's interests at home and abroad.
www.publicnotice.co
December 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"It’s clear that the president considers the rules-based democratic and economic order a barrier to his goal of establishing an autocracy. Given his dictatorial ambitions, it makes perfect sense for his regime to cozy up to strongmen while treating America’s principal democratic allies as enemies."
A dishonest and deceptive person who publishes a newsletter/podcast called "Honestly with Bari Weiss". Same trumpian projection through guilt.
Bari Weiss is clearly a piece of shit. Kudos to Sharyn Alfonsi who did the interviews about the torture camp and has publicly stood by her work. Weiss is the sort of pseudo-journalist who can accommodate a fascist administration's desire for a prostituted media. Ellison, her boss, is the larger pos.
December 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
A dishonest and deceptive person who publishes a newsletter/podcast called "Honestly with Bari Weiss". Same trumpian projection through guilt.
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#Netanyahu is an exceptionally rotten apple but the real issue is the barrel that produced him.
December 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
#Netanyahu is an exceptionally rotten apple but the real issue is the barrel that produced him.
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The Catholic leadership which cast the vote, of course, included no females. sbee.link/4fxcqn9387
Vatican commission says 'no' to women as Catholic deacons
A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, maintaining the global Church's practice of all-male clergy, according to a report given to Pope Leo and released on Thursday.
sbee.link
December 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The Catholic leadership which cast the vote, of course, included no females. sbee.link/4fxcqn9387