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December 29, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Weird how “American nationalists” get mad at immigrants dying to work hard and be American, but not at the super rich guys who are in Epstein’s little black book and would throw away their loyalty to this country to avoid taxes
December 29, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Weird how “American nationalists” get mad at immigrants dying to work hard and be American, but not at the super rich guys who are in Epstein’s little black book and would throw away their loyalty to this country to avoid taxes
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NEW, from me: One startling stat captures just how badly the year went for the GOP.
Democrats flipped 21% of all GOP-held legislative seats at play.
That's thanks to gains they made in six states this year, and I break it all down in my latest:
Democrats flipped 21% of all GOP-held legislative seats at play.
That's thanks to gains they made in six states this year, and I break it all down in my latest:
In 2025, Democrats Flipped 21 Percent of GOP-Held Legislative Seats - Bolts
At the start of Donald Trump’s first presidency, in 2017, large Democratic victories in New Jersey and Virginia, paired with overperformances in special elections, foreshadowed the blue wave of the......
boltsmag.org
December 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
NEW, from me: One startling stat captures just how badly the year went for the GOP.
Democrats flipped 21% of all GOP-held legislative seats at play.
That's thanks to gains they made in six states this year, and I break it all down in my latest:
Democrats flipped 21% of all GOP-held legislative seats at play.
That's thanks to gains they made in six states this year, and I break it all down in my latest:
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NBA and FIBA announce search for teams for a potential European league
NBA and FIBA announce search for teams for a potential European league
The National Basketball Association and International Basketball Federation said they would begin prospecting basketball teams and owners for a planned pan-European men's basketball league.
www.lemonde.fr
December 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
NBA and FIBA announce search for teams for a potential European league
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Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
74 suicide warnings and 243 mentions of hanging: What ChatGPT said to a suicidal teen
Analysis of high-schooler Adam Raine’s ChatGPT account by attorneys for his parents shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
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Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, is described as an "investor" and "developer" in this project into which more than $91 bn in US taxpayer funds are to be channeled. This is a straightforward violation of US anti-corruption legislation, as the NYC bar has noted in a report.
Trump reps draft $169 billion plan to develop Gaza into a 'smart city' with luxury resorts
Trump administration reps have just revealed a grandiose $112 billion (AUD $169 billion) plan to rebuild war-torn Gaza into a futuristic international destination dubbed “Project Sunrise.”
www.skynews.com.au
December 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, is described as an "investor" and "developer" in this project into which more than $91 bn in US taxpayer funds are to be channeled. This is a straightforward violation of US anti-corruption legislation, as the NYC bar has noted in a report.
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The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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LEFT: @asharangappa.bsky.social four weeks ago
RIGHT: new NYT report
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
RIGHT: new NYT report
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
December 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
LEFT: @asharangappa.bsky.social four weeks ago
RIGHT: new NYT report
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
RIGHT: new NYT report
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...
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We're ruled by people in all three branches of government and across the tech/corporate landscape who think it's bad that this happened and wish the mob had prevailed, plain and simple. It's clarifying.
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; She was one of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who faced white mobs when desegregating a Tennessee high school in 1956 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; Braved Mobs in Integrating a School
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We're ruled by people in all three branches of government and across the tech/corporate landscape who think it's bad that this happened and wish the mob had prevailed, plain and simple. It's clarifying.
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The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
wrd.cm
December 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
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Chicago’s mayors have been the subject of Tribune editorials for pretty much this newspaper’s entire 178-year history. But few of the city’s chief executives have made as many appearances on the editorial pages in a single year as Mayor Brandon Johnson.
2025 in review: Mayor Brandon Johnson’s year through the lens of Tribune editorials
A conflict-driven year for Mayor Brandon Johnson.
trib.al
December 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Chicago’s mayors have been the subject of Tribune editorials for pretty much this newspaper’s entire 178-year history. But few of the city’s chief executives have made as many appearances on the editorial pages in a single year as Mayor Brandon Johnson.
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a short one about stephen miller’s nonsense youtu.be/6lWODssDCiU?...
A Very Stephen Miller Christmas
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtu.be
December 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
a short one about stephen miller’s nonsense youtu.be/6lWODssDCiU?...
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All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.
Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page:
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.
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the people who live on the computer dont understand what text is, and everything on the computer is text in a representational relation to a bunch of tiny switches
December 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
the people who live on the computer dont understand what text is, and everything on the computer is text in a representational relation to a bunch of tiny switches
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shit like this is why when i was unpacking my library yesterday, i put "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" in with psychoanalysis and literary criticism
it’s hard to think of a bigger grift than the claim that predictive text aka gAI is ‘conscious’ and thus “deserve rights” like the ability to vote
December 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
shit like this is why when i was unpacking my library yesterday, i put "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" in with psychoanalysis and literary criticism
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"Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users’ mental health under a new law, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Friday."
New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings
Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users’ mental health under a new law, New...
www.reuters.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users’ mental health under a new law, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Friday."
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Ya right. It only involves leaving behind your home and large portions of your everyday life, friends, family, colleagues, community…
This is also why advice to those struggling with affordability, that they should just “move somewhere cheaper,” is insulting, supercilious, privileged nonsense.
This is also why advice to those struggling with affordability, that they should just “move somewhere cheaper,” is insulting, supercilious, privileged nonsense.
December 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Ya right. It only involves leaving behind your home and large portions of your everyday life, friends, family, colleagues, community…
This is also why advice to those struggling with affordability, that they should just “move somewhere cheaper,” is insulting, supercilious, privileged nonsense.
This is also why advice to those struggling with affordability, that they should just “move somewhere cheaper,” is insulting, supercilious, privileged nonsense.
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I missed the AP story when it ran earlier this month. It included this photo of Jo Ann taken by Bethany Mollenkof on the day she and I sat at her table in her LA home in 2019.
I was working on a project interviewing those who desegregated America’s schools. Not the laws, the people.
I was working on a project interviewing those who desegregated America’s schools. Not the laws, the people.
December 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I missed the AP story when it ran earlier this month. It included this photo of Jo Ann taken by Bethany Mollenkof on the day she and I sat at her table in her LA home in 2019.
I was working on a project interviewing those who desegregated America’s schools. Not the laws, the people.
I was working on a project interviewing those who desegregated America’s schools. Not the laws, the people.
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The California High-Speed Rail Authority has dropped its lawsuit against the Trump administration over the termination of $4 billion in federal grants for the state's high-speed rail project, opting instead to pursue private investment.
California Drops Lawsuit Over $4 Billion Federal Cut to High-Speed Rail Project
California sued after the Trump administration cut grants for the long-planned project. The state says it will seek private investors instead.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The California High-Speed Rail Authority has dropped its lawsuit against the Trump administration over the termination of $4 billion in federal grants for the state's high-speed rail project, opting instead to pursue private investment.
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An engineering student has reverse-engineered the Tesla Robotaxi app to track the service's availability. The tracker details 32 Tesla Model Ys used in the Robotaxi network in Austin, which is far from Musk's earlier claims of having 1000 Robotaxis in Austin.
Tesla's Austin Robotaxi Project Is Smaller Than Elon Musk's Claims: Report
Tesla Inc.'s (NASDAQ:TSLA) pilot Robotaxi operations' scale in Austin could reportedly be smaller than what CEO Elon Musk has claimed. Tesla Robotaxi Tracker An engineering student at Texas A&M Univer...
finance.yahoo.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:48 AM
An engineering student has reverse-engineered the Tesla Robotaxi app to track the service's availability. The tracker details 32 Tesla Model Ys used in the Robotaxi network in Austin, which is far from Musk's earlier claims of having 1000 Robotaxis in Austin.
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Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; She was one of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who faced white mobs when desegregating a Tennessee high school in 1956 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; Braved Mobs in Integrating a School
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; She was one of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who faced white mobs when desegregating a Tennessee high school in 1956 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
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The way the banks did it was basically sort of proactive stonewalling, you appoint some VP of blockchain initiatives to constantly turn out studies about how the current tools aren’t helpful to your business but you’re definitely on top of things in case something good does turn up, which it won’t.
December 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The way the banks did it was basically sort of proactive stonewalling, you appoint some VP of blockchain initiatives to constantly turn out studies about how the current tools aren’t helpful to your business but you’re definitely on top of things in case something good does turn up, which it won’t.
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People have said this ad nauseum to banks about crypto/blockchain for 2 decades and despite acceptance of bitcoin as "another bullshit thing that goes up and down you can trade on" it remains pretty firmly outside the financial mainstream.
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
People have said this ad nauseum to banks about crypto/blockchain for 2 decades and despite acceptance of bitcoin as "another bullshit thing that goes up and down you can trade on" it remains pretty firmly outside the financial mainstream.
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Highly recommend this NYT deep dive on Hong Kong Fire, which shows "potential corruption in the renovation project" common in HK is one of the main cause
What Went Wrong Before Hong Kong’s Apartment Inferno
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Highly recommend this NYT deep dive on Hong Kong Fire, which shows "potential corruption in the renovation project" common in HK is one of the main cause