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Remember when Brad Lander Caught Kristi Noem Stealing $80 Million? www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/18/r...

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I have seen more effective words from toddlers admonishing their own wee-wees to stop peeing.

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They're going to call this a miracle and then ignore the incredibly high costs for care while gutting any programs that might help from Medicaid to Sovial Security. Then, blame the family for not being able to afford millions.

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Adriana Smith did not give birth to a baby. She was used as an incubator, cut open, and a baby was taken out of her lifeless body. A Black woman was used as a science experiment.

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This is worth a read if you're a NYC voter and in need of guidance for the mayor and comptroller races.

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I get upset when I hear the Civil Rights movement characterized as “nonviolent”. It was violent. People were injured. Killed. There was violence. It just wasn’t perpetrated by the resistors.

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I've always opposed term limits. We the people are the term limits.

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“Contra handwringing that democrats should stay away from immigration, the focus on the issue has led to a sharp drop in the public’s approval of Trump’s handling of it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/no-kings-sho...

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EXCLUSIVE/BREAKING Gregory Sanabria Tarazona, a Venezuelan activist tortured inside Nicolás Maduro's notorious El Heliocoide prison, is seeking asylum in the U.S. Weeks before his initial hearing, he was making a routine check-in when ICE detained him @schmidtsam.bsky.social reports wapo.st/3HE9dwu

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I just pulled out my copy of Newton's Principia, a book that was originally written in Latin, and noticed that the translation I am using was completed with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which has basically been destroyed Science depends on the humanities 🧪

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I said a version of the part about figuring it out to a group chat like an hour ago You stay good at thinking by doing thinking. There's no way around that. If you let someone else do your thinking for you, they're sharpening their skills while yours decline. Same with an LLM.

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This is one of the main reasons they wanted Trump to win in 2024. The bosses were desperate to get workers back into a situation where they are desperate and easy to exploit, and away from the tight Biden labor market, where low wage workers were getting double digit % raises. Promises kept!

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the story of 2019-2024 was institutions from Silicon Valley to the police facing a modicum of accountability and radicalizing themselves into support of a leader and party who promised unaccountability

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One thing I've noticed following news closely for 20 years now is that any time we have occasion to look closely at police behavior, we find incompetence. They don't prevent crimes, they don't solve crimes, they suck terribly at their actual job. There are exceptions, but that is the rule.

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New York Is Not a Democracy. Democracy Is Not a Salad. A Salad Is Not a Chevrolet. A Chevrolet Is Not 36 Rats in a Trenchcoat. New York is 36 Rats in a Trenchcoat. Could ranked/ choice voting help Zohran Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo?

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can’t believe this still needs to be said, but: stop following altNPS. none of them work for the NPS and they exist to do Qanon numbers station crap and sell merch. it’s annoying for a lot of us that are actually NPS. thanks

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Hmm.

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people are not built for having an evil genie whispering in their ear about how amazing and perfect they are and confirming every bias they ever had, to say nothing of the constant vigilance for lies and misinformation

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Running it into the ground, maybe. And running for president. That's it. Don't rank him!

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It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

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A tangent, perhaps, but are we really blacking out the faces of cops? They’re a local SWAT team, not CIA paramilitary officers. They’re public servants, or supposed to be. A huge part of the discourse right now is how bad it is for Feds to be covering their faces. This shit had to stop.

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People will tell you that they view property destruction as equivalent to violence against a person, but that's not true. They think property destruction is worse

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Ok, this fucking rocks. Everyone should be able to use the bathroom when they're out and about.

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You almost have to appreciate just how beautifully this illustrates the gerontocratic nature of American politics: the Ancient Umbrella is imbued with more experience simply because it existed longer.

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Good essay that persuasively connects (thru specific personnel) what the trumpists are doing in california with iraq/ guantanamo

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It's kinda crazy to remember that the mass protests today got their start (and name) from a tweet about congestion pricing

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My husband became a US citizen yesterday and he took the little flag they gave him to the No Kings protest in Lansing today 😍

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Don’t want to lose sight of the fact that the No Kings rallies were planned specifically as counterprogramming to Trump’s parade. Imagine if you were planning a birthday party and bars nationwide announced they’d hold Fuck That Guy’s Birthday Night and like 15 times as many people showed up to those

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Brighten your day. Historian rediscovers a pre-Incan method of water storage, gets money to restore the existing structures, and the town he grew up in now has access to water 10 hours a day, up from 1/2 hour per day. The details are v. cool. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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A practical and chilling thread from a journalist who was just deported from the US for reporting on student protest.

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Vote blue, no matter-NOT THAT GUY NEVER THAT GUY

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Based on how the soldiers in the tanks were all but throwing candy to the crowd, I'm leaning into this flustercuck being intentional on the part of the Army. "He wants a parade? This dude with a notoriously short attention span? Sure. Okay. Let's give him exactly what he's asked for."

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What people mocking flag discourse refused to get through their head because it was too wine mom-coded is that those arguing that protestors should bring flags were very much aware the flag isn't a shield from police brutality, and understood the optics of exactly what's happening in this photo.

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Ok, this is best comparative stat, members of media: The DC Pride parade one week ago had a bigger turnout.

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For nearly a decade, since Election Day 2016, the media and politicians have had a choice: Recognize that we were in a crisis like no other in our lifetimes, or pretend that we aren't. Nearly all politicians, and too many in the media, have chosen the latter.

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As a 42-year-old, I grew up with domestic right-wing terrorist organizations threatening violence daily, kicking down doors, and killing people periodically throughout my whole political life: it was the police.

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In the US, transit ridership recovery from the pandemic has closely tracked service recovery. More service = more riders. Of 285 US urban areas, just 35% had as much service in 2024 as they had in 2019. And these have had much higher ridership recovery than those with less service (91% vs 74%).

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Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

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This, and "Preamble," and "The Great American Melting Pot"...

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Love this one.

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"the widely accepted 'germ theory'" come on, do better, you don't have to hint that there might sorta be two sides here Like this: RFK embraces an entirely discredited theory of disease, completely disregarding centuries of medical knowledge

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I know NPR is terrified of losing funding, but qualifying germ theory as ‘widely accepted’ - as if there’s some level of doubt - is malpractice. If you’re this captured you’re no longer a trustworthy news source.

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What’s wild about the current political use of “antisemitism” (as opposed to its actual instances) is it has nothing to do with Jewish people at all. So much so that an Italian sexual harasser can wield it against a Muslim who is endorsed by a Jewish candidate. It’s just all nonsense.

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Hi, hello, howyadoin? Author of two peer reviewed studies on divisive primaries here. Noah is right: the evidence is kinda murky, but intra-party infighting probably hurts - definitely doesn’t help - when your candidate makes it to the primary election. Best avoid it if at all possible.

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