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me (kissing girl under the mistletoe): that's from me
her: awww
me (kissing her again): that's from Burl Ives
her: awww
me (kissing her again): that's from Burl Ives
December 6, 2024 at 6:04 PM
me (kissing girl under the mistletoe): that's from me
her: awww
me (kissing her again): that's from Burl Ives
her: awww
me (kissing her again): that's from Burl Ives
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Holy Jesus
Long, long ago, deep in the woods, there lived a witch.
Meet the ancient entity in the first teaser trailer for Oddity director Damian McCarthy's HOKUM:
Meet the ancient entity in the first teaser trailer for Oddity director Damian McCarthy's HOKUM:
‘Hokum’ Teaser – A Witch in the Woods Brings Nightmarish Visions from ‘Oddity’ Director
Long, long ago, deep in the woods, there lived a witch. Meet the ancient entity in the first teaser trailer for Hokum below. The new nightmare from Oddity writer-director Damian McCarthy checks into t...
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December 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Holy Jesus
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Imagine going through life like this
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Imagine going through life like this
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Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".
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No one ever told me this was an option.
November 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
No one ever told me this was an option.
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Just heard that all New Yorkers will now be forced to admit Ishtar wasn’t that bad of a movie.
YOU VOTED FOR THIS!!
YOU VOTED FOR THIS!!
November 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just heard that all New Yorkers will now be forced to admit Ishtar wasn’t that bad of a movie.
YOU VOTED FOR THIS!!
YOU VOTED FOR THIS!!
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President of Texas A&M resigns.
This is the second Texas A&M President chased out of College Station in two years as a result of right wing politicians and activists attacks on academic freedom.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
This is the second Texas A&M President chased out of College Station in two years as a result of right wing politicians and activists attacks on academic freedom.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
President of Texas A&M resigns.
This is the second Texas A&M President chased out of College Station in two years as a result of right wing politicians and activists attacks on academic freedom.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
This is the second Texas A&M President chased out of College Station in two years as a result of right wing politicians and activists attacks on academic freedom.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
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This isn't even a slight exaggeration. He is actively working on destroying the US's entire vaccine infrastructure. The HepB vote will be tomorrow, where they will get rid of the birth dose and recommend it at 30 days, dooming a bunch of infants to chronic infection ft. cirrhosis, cancer, and death.
RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.
RFK Jr.-Backed Vaccine Panel Advises Against MMRV Vaccine for Young Children
New members of a key committee tweak routine childhood vaccine guidance as some states and insurers go their own way.
www.wsj.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This isn't even a slight exaggeration. He is actively working on destroying the US's entire vaccine infrastructure. The HepB vote will be tomorrow, where they will get rid of the birth dose and recommend it at 30 days, dooming a bunch of infants to chronic infection ft. cirrhosis, cancer, and death.
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This would be amazing, and the result of concerted pressure by people working inside the NIH to explain how bad things were and get grants out despite politically imposed red tape, and, to their credit, Congress and the media for calling the administration on their bullshit.
A frenzy of grantmaking in August has the NIH seemingly on pace to spend its entire $47 billion budget by the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30
www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/n...
www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/n...
After lagging far behind, NIH now seems on pace to spend its entire $47 billion budget by Sept. 30
A frenzy of grantmaking in August has the NIH seemingly on pace to spend its entire $47 billion budget by the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30
www.statnews.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This would be amazing, and the result of concerted pressure by people working inside the NIH to explain how bad things were and get grants out despite politically imposed red tape, and, to their credit, Congress and the media for calling the administration on their bullshit.
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betting against the cowardice of Dems so far has had a poor track record but I don't think this is going to work, especially not after Trump has publicly wiped his ass with the first amendment
the base might literally eat them alive if they just fold here and even Schumer, I think, knows it
the base might literally eat them alive if they just fold here and even Schumer, I think, knows it
i think this would be a colossally stupid strategy on mike johnson's part, which means he'll probably do it.
GOP leaders consider Senate jam plan after House CR vote
They're discussing leaving town until after Oct. 1 once the stopgap passes Friday.
www.politico.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
betting against the cowardice of Dems so far has had a poor track record but I don't think this is going to work, especially not after Trump has publicly wiped his ass with the first amendment
the base might literally eat them alive if they just fold here and even Schumer, I think, knows it
the base might literally eat them alive if they just fold here and even Schumer, I think, knows it
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There's so much to unpack -- his childish understanding of the world, his raw nerve of grievances, his sociopathy -- but I can't get past what a whiny, pathetic loser you'd have to be as president to stamp your little feet and cry that the media isn't "allowed" to be mean to you. Mom said so guys!
Trump:
"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
September 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
There's so much to unpack -- his childish understanding of the world, his raw nerve of grievances, his sociopathy -- but I can't get past what a whiny, pathetic loser you'd have to be as president to stamp your little feet and cry that the media isn't "allowed" to be mean to you. Mom said so guys!
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"Violent crime is up in Washington, DC" says man who pardoned the largest group in history that committed violent crimes in Washington, DC.
August 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"Violent crime is up in Washington, DC" says man who pardoned the largest group in history that committed violent crimes in Washington, DC.
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Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
watching national reporters who live in DC do this is really embarrassing. no one speaking at this conference was raising a legitimate issue.
August 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
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« How does your profession work? What are its norms? And when do you break them? Access to networks and connections. When to be kind and when to be tough. »
What a mentor gives.
#SupervisingDecently
What a mentor gives.
#SupervisingDecently
New, from me: I became a PhD student mostly because one person, Patricia Wallace Ingraham, told me I should do it.
She passed away recently, and it made me think about the role of mentorship in our lives. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
She passed away recently, and it made me think about the role of mentorship in our lives. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
What it means to be a mentor
Who was the person that changed your life?
open.substack.com
August 11, 2025 at 5:32 AM
« How does your profession work? What are its norms? And when do you break them? Access to networks and connections. When to be kind and when to be tough. »
What a mentor gives.
#SupervisingDecently
What a mentor gives.
#SupervisingDecently
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We used to call this security theater - but in this context it’s authoritarian theater
Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall.
If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is
(h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)
If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is
(h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)
August 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
We used to call this security theater - but in this context it’s authoritarian theater
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watching national reporters who live in DC do this is really embarrassing. no one speaking at this conference was raising a legitimate issue.
August 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
watching national reporters who live in DC do this is really embarrassing. no one speaking at this conference was raising a legitimate issue.
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It's a bizarre and frankly alienating feeling realizing that if you know the basic fact that the murder rate has gone down significantly since 1990 you're in the ~90th+ percentile of fact-knowers
Once again, Gen X is super wrong, but they're confidently wrong.
July 31, 2025 at 4:47 AM
It's a bizarre and frankly alienating feeling realizing that if you know the basic fact that the murder rate has gone down significantly since 1990 you're in the ~90th+ percentile of fact-knowers
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of course, now conservatism is practically defined by a profound victim mentality, in which everyone else is to blame for your own shortcomings and failures
July 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
of course, now conservatism is practically defined by a profound victim mentality, in which everyone else is to blame for your own shortcomings and failures
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when i was younger conservatives used to call stuff like this an “entitlement” or “victim” mentality. the response, if this were a nonwhite person, would be “suck it up a d work harder.”
This guy *admits* he applied for "countless" tenure-track positions and ultimately had to leave academia because nobody would hire him. He claims, though, that Ivy League Cornell filled their position with a Black person who couldn't possibly be more qualified than him.
www.wsj.com/opinion/corn...
www.wsj.com/opinion/corn...
Opinion | Cornell University Discriminated Against Me
I was excluded from a candidate search on the basis of my race and have filed an EEOC complaint.
www.wsj.com
July 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
when i was younger conservatives used to call stuff like this an “entitlement” or “victim” mentality. the response, if this were a nonwhite person, would be “suck it up a d work harder.”
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This is great news. It is also as clear as a signal that Congress wants to keep the Department of Education and most of it's programs. So why is the Supreme Court allowing Trump to fire its employees and end those programs?
New: More than two dozen U.S. Senators, including 14 Republicans, advanced a budget bill today that emphatically rejects Trump's education proposals:
-Few funding cuts
-No blockgrants
-Small increases for Title I, IDEA, Head Start
-Education Department staffing remains
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
-Few funding cuts
-No blockgrants
-Small increases for Title I, IDEA, Head Start
-Education Department staffing remains
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
Senators—Including Republicans—Reject All of Trump's Proposed Education Cuts
The budget bill could go before the full Senate as early as September.
www.edweek.org
July 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This is great news. It is also as clear as a signal that Congress wants to keep the Department of Education and most of it's programs. So why is the Supreme Court allowing Trump to fire its employees and end those programs?