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Will block bad food takes.
Pinned
Tax Time
Why we pay.
www.newyorker.com
Here’s where I post my favorite New Yorker piece about Mellon - he was one of the richest men in the world and hated taxes so much that he founded a think tank to push the myth of “trickle-down economics” on us. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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Instant all-timer here:
December 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Instant all-timer here:
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Five years of social media history and ten years of email addresses for visitors from allied nations. Identifying extended family.
If your business hinges upon tourism dollars, Trump's xenophobia will crush your livelihood.
If your business hinges upon tourism dollars, Trump's xenophobia will crush your livelihood.
December 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Five years of social media history and ten years of email addresses for visitors from allied nations. Identifying extended family.
If your business hinges upon tourism dollars, Trump's xenophobia will crush your livelihood.
If your business hinges upon tourism dollars, Trump's xenophobia will crush your livelihood.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Eileen Higgins will be the next mayor of the city of Miami, breaking a nearly 30-year Republican streak, CNN projects
Eileen Higgins will win Miami mayor’s race, CNN projects, breaking a nearly 30-year GOP hold | CNN Politics
Eileen Higgins will be the next mayor of the city of Miami, according to a projection from CNN’s Decision Desk, breaking a nearly 30-year Republican streak in holding the nonpartisan seat and giving D...
www.cnn.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Eileen Higgins will be the next mayor of the city of Miami, breaking a nearly 30-year Republican streak, CNN projects
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
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holiday movie season begins, and what better way to celebrate than to examine your mortality through The Holiday in this piece i wrote for @brightwalldarkroom.com last December
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/12/15/t...
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/12/15/t...
No One Gets A Holiday From Death | The Holiday (2006)
Instead of being a love letter to films of old, The Holiday is almost an elegy for a world Meyers knows is about to die.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
holiday movie season begins, and what better way to celebrate than to examine your mortality through The Holiday in this piece i wrote for @brightwalldarkroom.com last December
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/12/15/t...
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/12/15/t...
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Lmao. context here is they were staunchly against going public for years so something must be *stanky* financially if they need this fundraise
hoooo boy.
*SPACEX SEES VALUATION OF ABOUT $1.5 TRILLION IN PUBLIC OFFERING
*SPACEX SAID TO PURSUE 2026 IPO RAISING FAR ABOVE $30 BILLION
*SPACEX SEES ABOUT $15B IN 2025 SALES, $22B-$24B IN 2026
*SPACEX TARGETS IPO MID-TO-LATE 2026, DEPENDING ON MARKETS
*SPACEX SEES VALUATION OF ABOUT $1.5 TRILLION IN PUBLIC OFFERING
*SPACEX SAID TO PURSUE 2026 IPO RAISING FAR ABOVE $30 BILLION
*SPACEX SEES ABOUT $15B IN 2025 SALES, $22B-$24B IN 2026
*SPACEX TARGETS IPO MID-TO-LATE 2026, DEPENDING ON MARKETS
December 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Lmao. context here is they were staunchly against going public for years so something must be *stanky* financially if they need this fundraise
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An entire section on his Wikipedia page is labeled “Allegations of grift, ethical misconduct, philandering, nepotism and cronyism.”
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
An entire section on his Wikipedia page is labeled “Allegations of grift, ethical misconduct, philandering, nepotism and cronyism.”
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SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
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I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
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We have to listen to bigoted handwringing about how we have to abandon trans people and marginalized communities and immigrants while the clearest election winning message is right there.
"Do the rich have too much political power?"
Yes: 80%
No: 8%
YouGov / Dec 8, 2025
Yes: 80%
No: 8%
YouGov / Dec 8, 2025
December 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
We have to listen to bigoted handwringing about how we have to abandon trans people and marginalized communities and immigrants while the clearest election winning message is right there.
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Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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sam altman is being sued by his SISTER for sexual abuse. who gives a shit about his dogshit product that’s corroding brains and vaporizing the planet??? what is going on in this fuckin world
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
sam altman is being sued by his SISTER for sexual abuse. who gives a shit about his dogshit product that’s corroding brains and vaporizing the planet??? what is going on in this fuckin world
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Tim Walz and other democrats should claim that Trump’s growing dementia is causing him to verbally attack female reporters. Make the media debate whether it is Alzheimer’s or whether Trump is just an asshole.
The other reporters in the White House press corps are apparently waiting until the president actually takes a swing at one of their female colleagues before they say anything
December 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Tim Walz and other democrats should claim that Trump’s growing dementia is causing him to verbally attack female reporters. Make the media debate whether it is Alzheimer’s or whether Trump is just an asshole.
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China was the largest export market for American farmers in 2024. They bought 27 metric tons of soybeans last year. They stopped buying in 2025 when Trump started his trade war. These are simple, obvious, basic facts. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Leavitt: "President Trump convinced President Xi to continue purchasing again American soybeans, which is something China wasn't doing under the last administration because they had no respect for President Biden or the country at the time."
December 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
China was the largest export market for American farmers in 2024. They bought 27 metric tons of soybeans last year. They stopped buying in 2025 when Trump started his trade war. These are simple, obvious, basic facts. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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The amount of corruption in this administration just continues to astound. What happens when you have an entire admin staffed with people who have endless greed and zero shame about ethical requirements
The Wall Street Journal reports that Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison “offered assurances” he would drastically transform CNN if he bought Warner Bros. Discovery www.wsj.com/business/med...
December 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The amount of corruption in this administration just continues to astound. What happens when you have an entire admin staffed with people who have endless greed and zero shame about ethical requirements
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And by the way... withholding a *quarter* of the travel budget? Come on. Withhold the entire thing! Withhold the entire Air Force One budget if Trump tries to dismantle CFPB or withhold funding. Use your power.
December 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
And by the way... withholding a *quarter* of the travel budget? Come on. Withhold the entire thing! Withhold the entire Air Force One budget if Trump tries to dismantle CFPB or withhold funding. Use your power.
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The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
FDA Slow Walking a Long-Awaited Abortion Pill Safety Study
The Food and Drug Administration has delayed a promised review of safety data for the abortion drug mifepristone at Commissioner Marty Makary’s request to put it off until after the midterm elections,...
www.bloomberg.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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One of the main things that made the USA a power -- reliable, trustworthy independent agencies led by subject matter experts -- is going to die soon, and people are not going to like it. SCOTUS is going to make most Americans poorer and sicker just so a few Americans can be much, much richer.
December 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
One of the main things that made the USA a power -- reliable, trustworthy independent agencies led by subject matter experts -- is going to die soon, and people are not going to like it. SCOTUS is going to make most Americans poorer and sicker just so a few Americans can be much, much richer.
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Farmers get a bail out in the face of the costs they've born from Trump's trade war. Quite an admission that his policies have hurt Americans.
Now riddle me this: Why not bail out consumers who are paying more for imported goods?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
Now riddle me this: Why not bail out consumers who are paying more for imported goods?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
December 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Farmers get a bail out in the face of the costs they've born from Trump's trade war. Quite an admission that his policies have hurt Americans.
Now riddle me this: Why not bail out consumers who are paying more for imported goods?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
Now riddle me this: Why not bail out consumers who are paying more for imported goods?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
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Affordable internet access is good for everyone.
And most people aren’t aware of what Trump has done to upend efforts to make broadband widespread, esp. in more rural parts of the country. (Of course Elon Musk is involved & benefitting.)
And most people aren’t aware of what Trump has done to upend efforts to make broadband widespread, esp. in more rural parts of the country. (Of course Elon Musk is involved & benefitting.)
A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
Chattanooga’s Municipal Fiber Network Has Delivered $5.3 Billion in Community Benefits, New Study Finds | Welcome to Community Networks
Since 2011, a new study finds that Chattanooga's city-owned fiber network has generated $5.3 billion in net community benefits for Hamilton County. Conducted by researchers at the University of Tennes...
communitynets.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Affordable internet access is good for everyone.
And most people aren’t aware of what Trump has done to upend efforts to make broadband widespread, esp. in more rural parts of the country. (Of course Elon Musk is involved & benefitting.)
And most people aren’t aware of what Trump has done to upend efforts to make broadband widespread, esp. in more rural parts of the country. (Of course Elon Musk is involved & benefitting.)
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Insurers to continue covering birth dose of hepatitis B vaccines, in spite of CDC committee’s guidance to limit access.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/h...
Insurance coverage of hepatitis B vaccine won’t change, industry and officials say | CNN
Parents will still be able to get the hepatitis B vaccine for their children at no cost even though the US Centers for Disease and Control Prevention’s vaccine advisers recommended a major change to t...
www.cnn.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Insurers to continue covering birth dose of hepatitis B vaccines, in spite of CDC committee’s guidance to limit access.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/h...
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I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.
December 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.
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Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
$28 million of cocaine seized off Miami Beach. Three men charged
Coast Guard and CBP seized about 3,715 pounds of cocaine worth $28 million from a 65-foot vessel near Government Cut off Miami Beach; three men were arrested.
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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December 7, 2025 at 4:34 AM