Ted
@wogget.bsky.social
Game player (Ars Magica, boardgames), Unitarian, Union Member, disappointed optimist.
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New 20 just dropped to commemorate the Trump presidency
October 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM
New 20 just dropped to commemorate the Trump presidency
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Here to tell you the stage we're at now is
DISOBEY IN ADVANCE.
DISOBEY IN ADVANCE.
March 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Here to tell you the stage we're at now is
DISOBEY IN ADVANCE.
DISOBEY IN ADVANCE.
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Brian Klaas - One of the strangest dynamics of modern politics is that the richest man in the world chooses to get his information from grifting ignoramuses on social media.
open.substack.com/pub/briankla...
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"Knowingness" and the Politics of Ignorance
Much ink has been spilled about "polarization." Most of it ignores a major cause: the widespread, misplaced faith that we already know that which we do not know.
open.substack.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Brian Klaas - One of the strangest dynamics of modern politics is that the richest man in the world chooses to get his information from grifting ignoramuses on social media.
open.substack.com/pub/briankla...
open.substack.com/pub/briankla...
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Inspired by the New York Times calling Trump’s attack on trans and nonbinary people “inconsequential,” I detailed what he’s done in less than a month, and why it matters skepchick.org/2025/03/tran...
Trans People are Under Attack and We Must Help Them
Last week, the New York Times published one of the dumbest, most insulting graphics I’ve ever seen in my life, in an article titled “10 Columnists and Writers Rate What Mattered in Trump’s First Fu…
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March 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Inspired by the New York Times calling Trump’s attack on trans and nonbinary people “inconsequential,” I detailed what he’s done in less than a month, and why it matters skepchick.org/2025/03/tran...
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Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.
February 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.
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This afternoon I read this 1978 essay on the socio-cultural rise of Anti-Semitism in Imperial Germany.
Primarily because I sensed there would be some shared vibes with the right-wing obsession with DEI as a cultural code for racism/sexism and signalling in-groupness.
And ho-boy.
Thoughts. ⬇️
Primarily because I sensed there would be some shared vibes with the right-wing obsession with DEI as a cultural code for racism/sexism and signalling in-groupness.
And ho-boy.
Thoughts. ⬇️
February 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
This afternoon I read this 1978 essay on the socio-cultural rise of Anti-Semitism in Imperial Germany.
Primarily because I sensed there would be some shared vibes with the right-wing obsession with DEI as a cultural code for racism/sexism and signalling in-groupness.
And ho-boy.
Thoughts. ⬇️
Primarily because I sensed there would be some shared vibes with the right-wing obsession with DEI as a cultural code for racism/sexism and signalling in-groupness.
And ho-boy.
Thoughts. ⬇️
How and if we should separate the artist from the art is a question we continually need to find an answer for. youtu.be/yUcyQPxFRug?...
Neil Gaiman, Abuse, and Scientology
YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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January 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
How and if we should separate the artist from the art is a question we continually need to find an answer for. youtu.be/yUcyQPxFRug?...
While watching “A Complete Unknown “ I thought ‘I could watch this movie 6 more times’
January 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
While watching “A Complete Unknown “ I thought ‘I could watch this movie 6 more times’
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this is funny as-is but imo way funnier when you see his lawyer
December 23, 2024 at 6:49 PM
this is funny as-is but imo way funnier when you see his lawyer
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The Hunter pardon was justified but more preemptive pardons are a bad idea. 1.They are an exercise of protecting the powerful and a waste of political capital and 2. Any “trumped up” prosecutions by the next admin will come at the cost of their capital which I am happy for them to waste.
December 6, 2024 at 6:58 PM
The Hunter pardon was justified but more preemptive pardons are a bad idea. 1.They are an exercise of protecting the powerful and a waste of political capital and 2. Any “trumped up” prosecutions by the next admin will come at the cost of their capital which I am happy for them to waste.
"UnitedHealth Group’s Facebook post sharing its statement on Thompson’s death received more than 46,000 reactions, with about 41,000 of respondents clicking the platform’s “haha” option displaying a laughing emoji." nymag.com/intelligence...
The People Cheering the UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting
A cold-blooded murder has become, to many, an opportunity to vent.
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December 6, 2024 at 1:28 AM
"UnitedHealth Group’s Facebook post sharing its statement on Thompson’s death received more than 46,000 reactions, with about 41,000 of respondents clicking the platform’s “haha” option displaying a laughing emoji." nymag.com/intelligence...
Jane Lynch Christmas Show at the Strathmore
December 5, 2024 at 12:57 AM
Jane Lynch Christmas Show at the Strathmore
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The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.
November 27, 2024 at 11:26 PM
The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.
"The district’s records ...showed in ... 2021-22 ... Black and Hispanic students received about 68% of the tickets ... even though they accounted for only about 33% of enrollment. White students made up 42% but they received only 24% of the tickets." www.propublica.org/article/illi...
Illinois’ AG Said It’s Illegal for Schools to Use Police to Ticket Students. But His Office Told Only One District.
Despite the attorney general’s declaration that Illinois schools should stop using police to discipline students, officers statewide continue to ticket kids with costly fines. One lawmaker will again ...
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November 27, 2024 at 12:56 PM
"The district’s records ...showed in ... 2021-22 ... Black and Hispanic students received about 68% of the tickets ... even though they accounted for only about 33% of enrollment. White students made up 42% but they received only 24% of the tickets." www.propublica.org/article/illi...
Unions will need to rethink their strategy in the new regime, especially if the NLRB is disbanded. www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...
Where Did the Labor Vote Go? - Boston Review
Until unions open the gates, they won't deliver working-class voters to Democrats.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Unions will need to rethink their strategy in the new regime, especially if the NLRB is disbanded. www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...
I hear tips are going to be tax exempt. . .
SCOTUS would call this a gratuity.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s legal team found evidence that a top adviser asked for retainer fees from potential appointees in order to promote them for jobs in the new administration, five people briefed on the matter said on Monday.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/u...
November 26, 2024 at 3:51 AM
I hear tips are going to be tax exempt. . .