Thomas B
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I'm trying to be a good person.
tbindc.com
Reader
Writer(?)
Film Lover
I'm trying to be a good person.
tbindc.com
#SmallRain by @garthgreenwell.bsky.social is one of my favorite reads of 2025 - perhaps only rivaled by Mark Hyatt’s “Love, Leda.” My thoughts here: tblibrary.com/books/small-...
Small Rain
Review I’ve been eyeballing Greenwell’s bluecovered Small Rain since the hardback hit my local bookstore’s shelves in 2024. I felt it reaching out for me, I could tell it would be sad and I didn’t kno...
tblibrary.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
#SmallRain by @garthgreenwell.bsky.social is one of my favorite reads of 2025 - perhaps only rivaled by Mark Hyatt’s “Love, Leda.” My thoughts here: tblibrary.com/books/small-...
A Travelogue: 5 Days in Chicago tbindc.substack.com/p/travelogue...
#travel #reflection #essay #substack #chicago #writing
#travel #reflection #essay #substack #chicago #writing
Travelogue Chicago
Five Days and a near-silent birthday in my favorite city.
tbindc.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A Travelogue: 5 Days in Chicago tbindc.substack.com/p/travelogue...
#travel #reflection #essay #substack #chicago #writing
#travel #reflection #essay #substack #chicago #writing
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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
Mike Johnson: "The last time I checked, Americans have more freedom right now to express themselves and speak their minds after Republicans took over ... it is the Republicans who restored your right to share and speak your mind."
October 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
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On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️🌈
October 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️🌈
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This Office like most of HUD is closed thanks to the GOP, but neither democrats nor republicans have properly funded public housing programs at the level they need or needed for decades.
I held a rally with of Mitchel Houses, calling on HUD to provide emergency funding to restore the partially collapsed building and to re-house displaced families.
We cannot separate the collapse of a public housing building from the collapse of federal funding for public housing.
We cannot separate the collapse of a public housing building from the collapse of federal funding for public housing.
October 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
This Office like most of HUD is closed thanks to the GOP, but neither democrats nor republicans have properly funded public housing programs at the level they need or needed for decades.
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The third largest company in the world capitulating without a fight in a move that assists the most brutal part of the Trump regime. I hope employees rise up over this.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Apple removes ICEBlock app after criticism from Trump administration
Apple said Thursday it is removing an app that allows users to share information about sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, which the head of ICE had criticized
www.yahoo.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The third largest company in the world capitulating without a fight in a move that assists the most brutal part of the Trump regime. I hope employees rise up over this.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this?
A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?
A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?
The Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful.
Here’s a thought.
Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.
Here’s a thought.
Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.
September 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this?
A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?
A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?
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Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...
Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Robby Starbuck has been appointed as an AI bias advisor at Meta with the goal of making the company's chat bot less "woke."
www.advocate.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...
The correct lesson to take from this.
Their tough guy act sure seems to disappear anytime the rest of us stick together and tell them to get fucked.
FCC boss Brendan Carr now says his 'easy way or the hard way' comments about Jimmy Kimmel weren’t meant as a threat to pull licenses if Disney didn’t suspend him 🧢
September 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
The correct lesson to take from this.
Chilling article. The first bombing was covered, the second a drip. I hadn't heard of the third at all. Will anyone bother offering consequences, or even reporting the fourth, fifth, sixth?
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
Getting Away with Murder | David Cole
During his first presidential campaign Donald Trump famously claimed that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose
www.nybooks.com
September 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Chilling article. The first bombing was covered, the second a drip. I hadn't heard of the third at all. Will anyone bother offering consequences, or even reporting the fourth, fifth, sixth?
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
Podcaster with no medical training says dopey BS. Shocking.
Reid Hoffman says a “24/7 medical assistant running on every smartphone” is “essentially doable” right now.
“If you get a serious diagnosis and you don’t consult ChatGPT or a frontier model as a second opinion, you’re making a mistake.” #TAF25
Watch more: bit.ly/46lDaLT
“If you get a serious diagnosis and you don’t consult ChatGPT or a frontier model as a second opinion, you’re making a mistake.” #TAF25
Watch more: bit.ly/46lDaLT
September 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Podcaster with no medical training says dopey BS. Shocking.
Cass Sunstein’s new book “On Liberalism” feels like it was written in 1990, or maybe 1960. Does it say anything to inspire passion for liberalism? My critiques here: tbindc.substack.com/p/a-critique... #books #criticism #liberalism #politics #booksky #essay #literature #substack
A Critique of Cass Sunstein's "On Liberalism"
Cass Sunstein hopes to reassert what it means to be a liberal. Does it only have history and vocabulary, or does he have a vision for liberalism for our tomorrows?
tbindc.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Cass Sunstein’s new book “On Liberalism” feels like it was written in 1990, or maybe 1960. Does it say anything to inspire passion for liberalism? My critiques here: tbindc.substack.com/p/a-critique... #books #criticism #liberalism #politics #booksky #essay #literature #substack
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As an old who survived the 80s when many many did not:
These fascist freaks are perfectly serious and now, like then, we will not let them win.
These fascist freaks are perfectly serious and now, like then, we will not let them win.
Rep. Ronny Jackson calls to forcefully mass institutionalize trans people and calls them a cancer.
www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/r...
www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/r...
September 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
As an old who survived the 80s when many many did not:
These fascist freaks are perfectly serious and now, like then, we will not let them win.
These fascist freaks are perfectly serious and now, like then, we will not let them win.
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The greatest minds in history are on the case
September 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The greatest minds in history are on the case
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Darth Vader was a husband and a father
September 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Darth Vader was a husband and a father
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Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).
September 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).
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We simply cannot live in a country where the death of hate mongers is a tragedy and the death of everyone else only warrants a shrug.
September 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
We simply cannot live in a country where the death of hate mongers is a tragedy and the death of everyone else only warrants a shrug.
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Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
August 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
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Physicians are using A.I. for diagnoses and more. But a new study found evidence that relying on A.I. tools might erode a doctor’s ability to perform fundamental skills without the technology, a phenomenon known as “deskilling.”
Are A.I. Tools Making Doctors Worse at Their Jobs?
Physicians are using the technology for diagnoses and more — but may be losing skills in the process.
nyti.ms
August 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Physicians are using A.I. for diagnoses and more. But a new study found evidence that relying on A.I. tools might erode a doctor’s ability to perform fundamental skills without the technology, a phenomenon known as “deskilling.”
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lol, no. Never voting for an anti-trans Dem (nice scare quotes around "transphobic"). I don't have to do shit. You're a ghoul.
August 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
lol, no. Never voting for an anti-trans Dem (nice scare quotes around "transphobic"). I don't have to do shit. You're a ghoul.
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Every city should aspire to have a flag as good as Chicago's
August 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Every city should aspire to have a flag as good as Chicago's
My first attempt at printmaking!
#darkroom #printmaking #analog #photography #analogphotography #35mm #blackandwhite @ilfordphoto.com
#darkroom #printmaking #analog #photography #analogphotography #35mm #blackandwhite @ilfordphoto.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
My first attempt at printmaking!
#darkroom #printmaking #analog #photography #analogphotography #35mm #blackandwhite @ilfordphoto.com
#darkroom #printmaking #analog #photography #analogphotography #35mm #blackandwhite @ilfordphoto.com
Danielle Allen’s 2023 “Justice by Means of Democracy” almost feels of another time. In this #critique, I explore Allen’s valuation of “middle course” #politics, along with her emphasis on employment as the foundation of human flourishing — open.substack.com/pub/tbindc/p...
#books #philosophy #essay
#books #philosophy #essay
Justice by Means of Democracy: A Critique
Danielle Allen's 2023 theory almost feels of a different time. Can its ideals lead us out of a slide into Authoritarianism?
open.substack.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Danielle Allen’s 2023 “Justice by Means of Democracy” almost feels of another time. In this #critique, I explore Allen’s valuation of “middle course” #politics, along with her emphasis on employment as the foundation of human flourishing — open.substack.com/pub/tbindc/p...
#books #philosophy #essay
#books #philosophy #essay
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The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
July 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
Bubbles @ Pride.
DC WorldPride 2025
#pride #worldpride #washingtondc #film #filmphotography #nikon #analog #kentmere100 #analogphotography #35mm #35mmphotography
DC WorldPride 2025
#pride #worldpride #washingtondc #film #filmphotography #nikon #analog #kentmere100 #analogphotography #35mm #35mmphotography
July 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Bubbles @ Pride.
DC WorldPride 2025
#pride #worldpride #washingtondc #film #filmphotography #nikon #analog #kentmere100 #analogphotography #35mm #35mmphotography
DC WorldPride 2025
#pride #worldpride #washingtondc #film #filmphotography #nikon #analog #kentmere100 #analogphotography #35mm #35mmphotography