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My thoughts are with our Jewish neighbors after another horrifying antisemitic attack, this time in Boulder. Hate has no place in our country.

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@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social on the 'One Big Beautiful Bill': "The right-wing messaging machine...has decided to just lie about what the bill does — which is sort of par for the course. Donald Trump lied about how he was going to lower grocery prices. They just lie about things."

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It's really an indictment of the whole corporate internet that they have filled it with so much A.I.-generated slop in just two years that there is no longer enough new human writing to train A.I. with.

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This line from a book I'm reading is so true of so much scholarship, not just this one particular case. "Scaliger continues to be cited by modern scholars, although the latter have a regrettable habit of quoting him secondhand and thus not always correctly."

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Would-be homebuyers are finding lots of reasons to wait.

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BREAKING: Over 130 former federal & state judges have filed an amicus brief urging the court to drop charges against Judge Dugan in Wisconsin The charges seek to criminalize judicial discretion & set a dangerous precedent for executive overreach We MUST defend judicial independence👇

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The Justice Department says it has reached an agreement in principle with Boeing to drop criminal charges over two fatal crashes of 737 Max jets, despite objections from some victims' family members.

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In my opinion? Absolutely. Taney brought us the disastrous Dred Scott, but Roberts has delivered horrible rulings on a wide variety of issues — Citizens United, Heller, Shelby County, Brnovich, Dobbs, and of course Trump v US.

submitted 21 days ago • 108 comments

Trump’s “refugee” policy: White South Africans in. Afghan interpreters out. Persecuted Christians ignored. I saw this playbook up close. It’s not protection. It’s propaganda.

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Russia now has "blogger schools" teaching armies of young people to flood social media with russian disinformation. edition.cnn.com/2025/05/13/e...

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Right wing nut job claims project (that he supports) rewarding billionaires with tax breaks and government money to entomb CO2 to help mitigate climate change is being killed by out of state environmental extremists We live in the stupidest and most corrupt time in American history

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Jamie Raskin on Trump's Qatar plane grift: "We’re talking about corruption at just an epic scale." This is a remarkable description from Raskin of how Trump's various corrupt schemes all interlock with each other: newrepublic.com/article/1951...

submitted 21 days ago • 50 comments

read this please www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

submitted 21 days ago • 125 comments

If a European government wanted to pay me to move there and committed to supporting my work and financial security for almost a decade, I'd be on the next plane to Paris, Madrid, Berlin, or Rome. Are there openings for history/science writers? arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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NSF is being dismantled. This is one of several Trump moves that will destroy America's long-term advantage. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

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CNN are brutally honest about the trade deal we agreed with the USA. As they highlight, it wasn't really a deal, but an agreement to talk towards agreeing various things. The real thing could take months or years or not happen at all.

submitted 24 days ago • 17 comments

“Reality” is a major campaign violation.

submitted 25 days ago • 146 comments

Bruce Handy has an interesting piece in Air Mail about the origins of "Mean Girls," and his teen movie book looks interesting. However, when you read his piece, he's really down on all of the '90s/'00s pop culture, and everything after c. 1984. airmail.news/issues/2025-...

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Friday night Tequila tweet: She was in this country LEGALLY. She wrote an op-ed. And bcuz she wrote an op-ed, our government disappeared her, detained her for 6wks, & tried to deport her. Fuck that. That’s not America. Today she was freed. And free speech held. THAT’S America.

submitted 25 days ago • 91 comments

My bushes exploded in flowers!

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Once again, #Iowa Republicans said they would protect land owner rights (aka: farmers), and once again, they lacked the spine to stand up to pipeline companies. When will Iowans finally realize the GOP doesn't care about them? iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/05/09/f...

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“After school shootings, many Republicans try to shift the public conversation away from gun violence and toward mental health programs that might make mass shootings less likely. Student mental health grants had bipartisan support. “Trump is cutting them anyway.” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 24 days ago • 194 comments

Pascal’s Law xkcd.com/3087

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So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

submitted 24 days ago • 1027 comments

I can't believe we have a Pope from Illinois. People from Chicago usually hate the Cardinals.

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Purportedly to protect pedestrians, in 1954 Rochester banned jaywalking. Researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology studied pedestrian behavior in the city before and six months after the law was implemented.

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Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

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I once met with a Missouri libertarian who was actively trying to defund public schools, and I asked how that would impact his own children. He has nine. He told me he homeschools them. I said you homeschool them? He said well, my wife… Yeah.

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AOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care? There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.

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The VA has abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. If you're a vet at risk of foreclosure, we want to hear your story.

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With every new piece of "evidence" the major ufologists present, we come ever closer to proving that ufology is nothing more than believers interpreting their own ignorance through a lens of midcentury science fiction mythology. They see what they want to believe. www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comme...

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"Our female soldiers weren’t intent on empowering women for ideological reasons, but because they knew they might be uniquely positioned to solve a problem that men could not." Yes, such scenarios exist - and they're part of "lethality" too.

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The now Emmy nominated documentary From Russia With Lev is still available on streaming platforms: www.docplus.com/details/from...

submitted 33 days ago • 166 comments

Just got back home tonight, checked my emails. Here was my 2nd email: “Fuck you Joe for attacking the greatest president ever. You are sick. You are a commie ass pinko traitor. I hope you die.” That’s it. I’m gonna go read some Hemingway and call it a night. Peace everyone.

submitted 33 days ago • 214 comments

Remember that these guys wanna bust labor unions and cut back on workplace safety rules and inspections.

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It’s important to know that the government will not pony-up the $5,000 for a pregnancy, but only for a baby, which makes me wonder about the “life begins at conception” regulations. I guess it’s all good unless it’s about money. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

submitted 36 days ago • 74 comments

Amazing how so on point Andor is.

submitted 36 days ago • 167 comments

We are destroying our future. At this very moment. “Breakthroughs in technology are grounded in a fundamental truth: that transformative innovation often begins with a new understanding of the natural world at its most basic level” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

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Way to resist, Harvard So hard core www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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all right, let’s go through this nonsense. first of all, this is just a police state. that’s what he’s describing. I don’t have anything clever to say. he wants cops to control your life, and aggressively and with “high impact”.

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EXCLUSIVE: Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.

submitted 36 days ago • 549 comments

At first glance, it looked like a Salvador Dali painting.

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To find out more about the curious case of FBI chief Kash Patel receiving $25,000 from a Ukrainian-Russian-American filmmaker who was part of a Putin-financed propaganda operation, I knocked on the door of a house in Beverly Hills. Here's what happened. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5-C...

submitted 36 days ago • 75 comments

How long before American truckers are laid off? The ports are empty. fortune.com/article/huge...

submitted 36 days ago • 70 comments

So he just declared war on all of us?

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According to Kash Patel’s own financial disclosure statement, he pocketed $25,000 from a production company operated by a filmmaker associated with a Kremlin-subsidized propaganda project, a pro-Putin oligarch, and a pro-Kremlin disinformation agent. @davidcorn.bsky.social's NEW video explains:

submitted 36 days ago • 524 comments

There was a flurry of news about tariffs. It passed. The real consequences will hit US consumers around Memorial Day. Important then to remind everyone of cause and effect.

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Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez said a nationwide blackout of this scale had never happened before in Spain. He added that the underlying cause remains unclear.

submitted 36 days ago • 102 comments

My Monday newsletter just hit subscribers' email boxes. In it I explain the decline of legacy media and why I did not attend any of the parties surrounding the WHCA event this weekend. Become a Democracy Docket member now to support pro-democracy news. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqV0

submitted 36 days ago • 44 comments

I think the words Miller is looking for are "normal tourist behavior."

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