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The RFK, jr effect.
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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"The average voter believes a SNAP recipient gets $20/day, more than 3 times the actual amount of $6."
November 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Good morning! There’s an amazing new podcast that premiers today with Martin Sheen. Listen and subscribe for some of the best self care out there. 💙💙💙
October 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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I am sure it is hard on parents. But you have no idea what it means to many of us to see your babies and a pumpkin.
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Here’s the thing about the Civil Rights Movement people don’t realize, shit was messy.
October 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”

@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”
October 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.
October 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Schatz: They’re stopping wind and solar because this guy has some very strange ideas about the energy mix. And it’s consistent with the rest of his political and economic philosophy — if there’s less of everything, it gives him more authority to dole out favors
October 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels
Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive
www.thetimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
September 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.
The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US.

The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.
September 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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“ Doctors from abroad make up nearly 1/4 of the physician work force in the US. They provide much of the staffing in rural and underserved areas, and in areas of medicine that are often shunned by U.S.-trained physicians, like primary care, psychiatry and pediatrics.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/h...
Medical Groups Warn Against Visa Fees for Foreign Doctors
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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when i was a kid, a bully pushed me down during recess. that night, my mom taught me how to throw a punch, and the next time the bully came at me, he got a face full of little girl fist.

when my mom was called, she had a one-word response: “attagirl.” and the bully never fucking touched me again.
A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.
September 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power.

This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.
September 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Huge story and scandal.
If a presidential declaration and federal money had come sooner after the Walthall County tornado, Buddy Anthony said he wouldn't have needed to spend weeks sleeping in a truck before he could afford to rent the trailer where he is now living. His house was uninsured when it was destroyed.
Disaster Survivors Face Longer, Agonizing Waits for Federal Aid
A new Associated Press analysis found that it's taking more than a month, on average, for President Trump to approve major disaster declarations.
buff.ly
September 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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The relative gloom among young people is unusually high. Fascinating development in the UMich survey via @weisenthal.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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You’re kidding right, Lutnick? You let him fire all those people - act like a maniac with people’s lives the ability of our government to function - and just months later say, “that was wrong.” Unreal.

wapo.st/462dsvz
Lutnick says Musk was ‘backward’ in cutting government
The commerce secretary said the billionaire’s efforts focused too much on reducing the workforce rather than targeting waste.
wapo.st
September 13, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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US political violence overwhelmingly comes from the right -

the side that calls for, glorifies, & literally pardons it
September 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.
A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story
A conversation with George Retes, an Army veteran swept up in a California raid
www.theatlantic.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM