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· Nov 12
“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.” - B.B. King
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What America is going through is not unusual in historical terms. Plenty of examples like it today elsewhere in the world.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.
September 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
What America is going through is not unusual in historical terms. Plenty of examples like it today elsewhere in the world.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.
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Today's decision being heavily criticized by Past Brendan Carr
September 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Today's decision being heavily criticized by Past Brendan Carr
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“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives
September 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives
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Disney learned nothing from Andor.
September 18, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Disney learned nothing from Andor.
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there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
www.advocate.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me.
Dem govs must step up and fill the void.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Dem govs must step up and fill the void.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon
Illinois’s J.B. Pritzker is leading a charge other Democratic governors should take up: In our America, we’ll make sure public health systems remain strong.
newrepublic.com
August 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.
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"To expect bad men not to do wrong is madness, for he who expects this desires an impossibility.
"But to allow men to behave so to others, and to expect them not to do you any wrong, is irrational."
~ Marcus Aurelius
"But to allow men to behave so to others, and to expect them not to do you any wrong, is irrational."
~ Marcus Aurelius
August 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
"To expect bad men not to do wrong is madness, for he who expects this desires an impossibility.
"But to allow men to behave so to others, and to expect them not to do you any wrong, is irrational."
~ Marcus Aurelius
"But to allow men to behave so to others, and to expect them not to do you any wrong, is irrational."
~ Marcus Aurelius
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This really feels like a defining post of our time
August 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This really feels like a defining post of our time
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Something very on brand that guy whose company engaged in a massive Medicare fraud slips in a bill that would result in a massive cut for health insurance for the poor
RON JOHNSON says Trump and Senate leaders agreed to back Rick Scott's amendment to phase out the 90% Medicaid match for expansion population under the ACA.
"We can't afford it," said Johnson, expressing confidence they can get the votes.
Guts part of Obamacare...
"We can't afford it," said Johnson, expressing confidence they can get the votes.
Guts part of Obamacare...
June 29, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Something very on brand that guy whose company engaged in a massive Medicare fraud slips in a bill that would result in a massive cut for health insurance for the poor
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RON JOHNSON says Trump and Senate leaders agreed to back Rick Scott's amendment to phase out the 90% Medicaid match for expansion population under the ACA.
"We can't afford it," said Johnson, expressing confidence they can get the votes.
Guts part of Obamacare...
"We can't afford it," said Johnson, expressing confidence they can get the votes.
Guts part of Obamacare...
June 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM
RON JOHNSON says Trump and Senate leaders agreed to back Rick Scott's amendment to phase out the 90% Medicaid match for expansion population under the ACA.
"We can't afford it," said Johnson, expressing confidence they can get the votes.
Guts part of Obamacare...
"We can't afford it," said Johnson, expressing confidence they can get the votes.
Guts part of Obamacare...
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“In Pasadena last week, a man stepped out of his unmarked vehicle at an intersection, unholstered his pistol and aimed it at a group of pedestrians before returning to his car… That incident left the police chief of Pasadena resigned to figure out whether it was a crime or part of a federal raid.”
'Who are these people?' Masked immigration agents challenge local police, sow fear in L.A.
Local police have little or no insight into where the federal enforcement actions are taking place. In some cases, local cops have been mistaken for federal agents, eroding years of work to have immig...
www.latimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“In Pasadena last week, a man stepped out of his unmarked vehicle at an intersection, unholstered his pistol and aimed it at a group of pedestrians before returning to his car… That incident left the police chief of Pasadena resigned to figure out whether it was a crime or part of a federal raid.”
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This move is abhorrent and antithetical to the fundamental principles of a democratic society. Five-alarm fire time for historians and others who care about access to the nation’s past and its documentary record. 🔥 🔥 🔥 #historians #history #skystorians
June 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
This move is abhorrent and antithetical to the fundamental principles of a democratic society. Five-alarm fire time for historians and others who care about access to the nation’s past and its documentary record. 🔥 🔥 🔥 #historians #history #skystorians
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America's national science agency officially homeless
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
June 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
America's national science agency officially homeless
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The dismantling of the research apparatus that made America the science and tech giant it's been over the past century is the greatest own-goal in history. We haven't even begun to calculate or feel the losses
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
June 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The dismantling of the research apparatus that made America the science and tech giant it's been over the past century is the greatest own-goal in history. We haven't even begun to calculate or feel the losses
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Wow.
June 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Wow.
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And this is what autocrats always do when they want to go to war. They lie. And that is a fundamental. .. A president cannot lie to the American people, to Congress and to everyone else. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Contrarian Special: Going to War on a lie
A recording from Jennifer's live video with Steve Cook
open.substack.com
June 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
And this is what autocrats always do when they want to go to war. They lie. And that is a fundamental. .. A president cannot lie to the American people, to Congress and to everyone else. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Russia is where Republicans get their inspiration for hypocrisy and gaslighting. No one does it better.
June 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Russia is where Republicans get their inspiration for hypocrisy and gaslighting. No one does it better.
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Vance was an open supporter of the invasion of Iraq and he has admitted to that in print
frumforum.com/entry/wikile...
frumforum.com/entry/wikile...
June 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Vance was an open supporter of the invasion of Iraq and he has admitted to that in print
frumforum.com/entry/wikile...
frumforum.com/entry/wikile...
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A bunch of Gen Z who didn’t have to live thru “you’re either with us or against us” from the lowest days of the War On Terror and about to experience a reality tv version of a speed run. Enjoy, children!
June 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A bunch of Gen Z who didn’t have to live thru “you’re either with us or against us” from the lowest days of the War On Terror and about to experience a reality tv version of a speed run. Enjoy, children!
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And a bunch of idiots—led in part by supposedly prevaricators for Klout—bought this
"If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace." -- Donald Trump, 11/1/24
June 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
And a bunch of idiots—led in part by supposedly prevaricators for Klout—bought this
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🚨BREAKING: Iran’s parliament approves closing the Strait of Hormuz, state TV reports. Nearly 20% of the world’s oil passes through the strait.
Get ready, gas prices are going way up.
Get ready, gas prices are going way up.
June 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
🚨BREAKING: Iran’s parliament approves closing the Strait of Hormuz, state TV reports. Nearly 20% of the world’s oil passes through the strait.
Get ready, gas prices are going way up.
Get ready, gas prices are going way up.
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The people hurt the most by high gas prices are primarily middle class folks who have to commute to work, and who have summer vacations planned. Rich people will find it an inconvenience, and the billionaires will have to pay more to fly around in their private jets, but they'll hardly notice.
🚨BREAKING: Iran’s parliament approves closing the Strait of Hormuz, state TV reports. Nearly 20% of the world’s oil passes through the strait.
Get ready, gas prices are going way up.
Get ready, gas prices are going way up.
June 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The people hurt the most by high gas prices are primarily middle class folks who have to commute to work, and who have summer vacations planned. Rich people will find it an inconvenience, and the billionaires will have to pay more to fly around in their private jets, but they'll hardly notice.
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Trump said you can measure a presidency by the wars you avoid, and for once he was right. Saturday's Iran bombing was the exclamation point on his abject failure
Trump is copying dictators from Mussolini to Putin in seeking glory through pointless war. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dona...
Trump is copying dictators from Mussolini to Putin in seeking glory through pointless war. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dona...
A mad king’s pointless war is where Donald Trump was always heading
There is no legal or moral justification for Donald Trump's bomb strike on Iran, just the ego of an increasingly delusional president.
www.inquirer.com
June 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Trump said you can measure a presidency by the wars you avoid, and for once he was right. Saturday's Iran bombing was the exclamation point on his abject failure
Trump is copying dictators from Mussolini to Putin in seeking glory through pointless war. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dona...
Trump is copying dictators from Mussolini to Putin in seeking glory through pointless war. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dona...