N. Cognito
@ncogneato.bsky.social
Wordiferously yelling at clouds.
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RIP North Florida legend
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
RIP North Florida legend
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What would you think if this happened in another democracy?
ICE stormed a residence hall at Augsburg University, detained an undergrad, and aimed rifles at students and staff then admitted they had no warrant to be on campus.
This is state violence. This is terror. And this is exactly what Trump’s America unleashes on our communities.
This is state violence. This is terror. And this is exactly what Trump’s America unleashes on our communities.
December 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
What would you think if this happened in another democracy?
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It costs the average taxpayer $34 a year to fund SNAP.
It costs nearly $200 a day to detain an immigrant in an ICE camp.
Your tax dollars are paying to detain people without due process instead of providing healthcare, food & housing.
Let that radicalize you.
It costs nearly $200 a day to detain an immigrant in an ICE camp.
Your tax dollars are paying to detain people without due process instead of providing healthcare, food & housing.
Let that radicalize you.
December 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
It costs the average taxpayer $34 a year to fund SNAP.
It costs nearly $200 a day to detain an immigrant in an ICE camp.
Your tax dollars are paying to detain people without due process instead of providing healthcare, food & housing.
Let that radicalize you.
It costs nearly $200 a day to detain an immigrant in an ICE camp.
Your tax dollars are paying to detain people without due process instead of providing healthcare, food & housing.
Let that radicalize you.
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The constant call to win over the new Joe the Plummer, to win the older MAGA voter and the Hockey mom finally makes sense.
I want to win over non voters,the young...
But...they ain't got no money.
I'm more grossed out than before.
Corporate dems want old (white) money that won't change anything.
I want to win over non voters,the young...
But...they ain't got no money.
I'm more grossed out than before.
Corporate dems want old (white) money that won't change anything.
December 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The constant call to win over the new Joe the Plummer, to win the older MAGA voter and the Hockey mom finally makes sense.
I want to win over non voters,the young...
But...they ain't got no money.
I'm more grossed out than before.
Corporate dems want old (white) money that won't change anything.
I want to win over non voters,the young...
But...they ain't got no money.
I'm more grossed out than before.
Corporate dems want old (white) money that won't change anything.
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this was present in almost every DV case i had involving a citizen spouse and immigrant victim.
“After they broke up, Ferreira said in court records that Michael Leavitt had in the past threatened to try to get her deported.”
EXCLUSIVE:
Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
December 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
this was present in almost every DV case i had involving a citizen spouse and immigrant victim.
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i'm glad that stem colleagues now care that university administrators' claims of departmental "profitability" are all bullshit now that it's coming for them but a little solidarity while the humanities endured this for decades would've been cool
December 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
i'm glad that stem colleagues now care that university administrators' claims of departmental "profitability" are all bullshit now that it's coming for them but a little solidarity while the humanities endured this for decades would've been cool
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This country benefits more from a poor person who’s a good person than it does from a billionaire who’s a shit.
December 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
This country benefits more from a poor person who’s a good person than it does from a billionaire who’s a shit.
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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One of the many reasons for concern about the killing spree at sea is that the administration is effectively asserting a license for POTUS to kill outside the law those he labels “terrorists.”
A term this administration also applies to domestic political opponents.
A term this administration also applies to domestic political opponents.
🚨Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list" of Americans who may be extremists, per signed memo leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
LEAK: FBI List of “Extremists” Is Coming, Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:52 AM
One of the many reasons for concern about the killing spree at sea is that the administration is effectively asserting a license for POTUS to kill outside the law those he labels “terrorists.”
A term this administration also applies to domestic political opponents.
A term this administration also applies to domestic political opponents.
And then when you tell your doc, they're like, "yeah, that's normal sometimes."
men describing pregnancy: it's not a big deal, your body was naturally designed for it
women describing pregnancy: yeah 7 of my toenails fell off, my liver and spleen switched places, my lung fell out of my butthole, and I began seeing an entity known only as "the shadow lady"
women describing pregnancy: yeah 7 of my toenails fell off, my liver and spleen switched places, my lung fell out of my butthole, and I began seeing an entity known only as "the shadow lady"
December 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
And then when you tell your doc, they're like, "yeah, that's normal sometimes."
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The problem is that the powers reliant on Mass AI adoption have sold a lot of Gen X and Millennials on the lie that optimal AI use is in the same bucket as optimal search engine use was in the early oughts. The different is that one revealed truths and helped research, the other deadens and obscures
December 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The problem is that the powers reliant on Mass AI adoption have sold a lot of Gen X and Millennials on the lie that optimal AI use is in the same bucket as optimal search engine use was in the early oughts. The different is that one revealed truths and helped research, the other deadens and obscures
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They are "teaching" 4th graders prompts? This is anti-education.
December 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
They are "teaching" 4th graders prompts? This is anti-education.
Ding ding ding!
Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.
December 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Ding ding ding!
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An unusually high number of Republican state lawmakers are facing challengers in the March primary. Candidate filing for the 2026 election got under way on Monday and runs through Dec. 19.
www.wunc.org/politics/202...
www.wunc.org/politics/202...
More Republican NC legislators facing primary challenges as candidate filing opens
An unusually high number of Republican state lawmakers are facing challengers in the March primary. Candidate filing for the 2026 election got under way on Monday and runs through Dec. 19.
www.wunc.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
An unusually high number of Republican state lawmakers are facing challengers in the March primary. Candidate filing for the 2026 election got under way on Monday and runs through Dec. 19.
www.wunc.org/politics/202...
www.wunc.org/politics/202...
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That dreamlike surreality lurking at the edges of your day to day? It’s the fascism
tired everyday and you can’t figure out why? It’s the fascism.
Feeling unable to keep up with a clear understanding of the world and news? It’s the fascism.
Fascism changes us all as it consumes reality.
tired everyday and you can’t figure out why? It’s the fascism.
Feeling unable to keep up with a clear understanding of the world and news? It’s the fascism.
Fascism changes us all as it consumes reality.
December 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
That dreamlike surreality lurking at the edges of your day to day? It’s the fascism
tired everyday and you can’t figure out why? It’s the fascism.
Feeling unable to keep up with a clear understanding of the world and news? It’s the fascism.
Fascism changes us all as it consumes reality.
tired everyday and you can’t figure out why? It’s the fascism.
Feeling unable to keep up with a clear understanding of the world and news? It’s the fascism.
Fascism changes us all as it consumes reality.
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The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
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Like, are we really not going to print that Mr Johnson is a religious zealot who doesn't see women as his equal, and therefore doesn't consider them worthy of his time??
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Like, are we really not going to print that Mr Johnson is a religious zealot who doesn't see women as his equal, and therefore doesn't consider them worthy of his time??
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When i lived in IA, it was a purple state. In the last 20 years, IA took a hard right turn and its politics are indistinguishable from Alabama's, complete with abortion ban and regressive taxes. Now they have horrible brain drain and credulously wonder what caused it.
tinyurl.com/2fyah23c
tinyurl.com/2fyah23c
Iowa needs more doctors. Here's what physicians say must change.
New policy wins — including $150 million for residency expansion and new prior-authorization rules — are giving Iowa physicians hope, but health leaders warns real improvements will take years.
www.thegazette.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
When i lived in IA, it was a purple state. In the last 20 years, IA took a hard right turn and its politics are indistinguishable from Alabama's, complete with abortion ban and regressive taxes. Now they have horrible brain drain and credulously wonder what caused it.
tinyurl.com/2fyah23c
tinyurl.com/2fyah23c
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All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
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The one year anniversary of Yoon's failed martial law takeover just passed and lots of untold stories came out proving that THE ONLY REASON KOREA IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DISOBEYED ILLEGAL ORDERS.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The one year anniversary of Yoon's failed martial law takeover just passed and lots of untold stories came out proving that THE ONLY REASON KOREA IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DISOBEYED ILLEGAL ORDERS.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
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There are about to be a bunch of releases. Many as soon as this week but spanning the next several weeks or months. I want it to come out and people to be exposed but I also don't want to think about it because it's so upsetting.
This is a weird time to be alive.
This is a weird time to be alive.
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
There are about to be a bunch of releases. Many as soon as this week but spanning the next several weeks or months. I want it to come out and people to be exposed but I also don't want to think about it because it's so upsetting.
This is a weird time to be alive.
This is a weird time to be alive.
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I remember learning about the ancient world--the Pharaoh Akhenaten in particular. After he was gone, they scratched out his name from monuments and king lists. I remember, as a young person, thinking "How petty! Why would you do that?" I am much more sympathetic now.
December 4, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I remember learning about the ancient world--the Pharaoh Akhenaten in particular. After he was gone, they scratched out his name from monuments and king lists. I remember, as a young person, thinking "How petty! Why would you do that?" I am much more sympathetic now.
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We should launch a project of erasing his name from everything the way Egyptian Pharaohs sometimes did with prior rules they didn't like.
They're going to scrape his name from a lot of walls when he is gone.
It appears the administration is now referring to the US institute of Peace as the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
We should launch a project of erasing his name from everything the way Egyptian Pharaohs sometimes did with prior rules they didn't like.
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📚 🦸🏻♀️RUTHERFORD COUNTY — “Go and thank your librarian. Absolute heroes.”
Library director Luanne James gets thunderous applause for bravely blowing the whistle on library board director Cody York, the latest front in the right-wing war on books in Tennessee.
Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...
Library director Luanne James gets thunderous applause for bravely blowing the whistle on library board director Cody York, the latest front in the right-wing war on books in Tennessee.
Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...
December 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
📚 🦸🏻♀️RUTHERFORD COUNTY — “Go and thank your librarian. Absolute heroes.”
Library director Luanne James gets thunderous applause for bravely blowing the whistle on library board director Cody York, the latest front in the right-wing war on books in Tennessee.
Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...
Library director Luanne James gets thunderous applause for bravely blowing the whistle on library board director Cody York, the latest front in the right-wing war on books in Tennessee.
Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...