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to the library! lapsed academic (history of transatlantic university), full-time dad. theory laden, slow food, chess, garden, druid/bard, simic/temur refuses to be alienated from the whole of living, come what may. Free Palestine. Free Ukraine. Free USA.
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I’m sorry, but the base of the Democratic Party is a middle aged black woman with a service sector job that does not know what BlueSky is, and upon being exposed to it, would swiftly and correctly conclude that we all need to log off and find Jesus.

imagine you and all your buddies die in a storm and everyone is like wow The Perfect Storm

nothing has ever been or will ever be inevitable. ok death sure, but i mean about historical experience. PLEASE DONT DO LAZY & SIMPLE NARRATIVE TROPES AS IF THEY APPROACH HISTORY.

how some of these bitches sound right now

Protesting is one of the most important things we could all be doing right now.

The best scientific evidence is that the 2020 BLM protests helped defeat Trump in the election. These protests are likely doing the same. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The best place to get coverage of the protests in LA is from video from individuals on the scene. The totalitarian government is lying about them and the traditional media is largely unreliable — complicit or fatuously both-sidesey.

One of my friends once called Doc Martins "Doctor Martins" and called Blink 182 "Blink one hundred and eighty two" I can never forget about this

remember that the first pride was a riot, and that in some cases tradition is a powerful thing :)

The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.

Man imagine being such a combination of malicious and incompetent that the LAPD think it’s too much

Reports that ICE ran a barricade and hit protesters in LA

Rogue law enforcement agency. If we’re lucky, this is their Kent State. If we’re not lucky…

I always hope to find dried flowers between the pages

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

Triumphant means three elephants.

In 1936, FDR closed out his re-election campaign by bragging to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that “organized money” hated him “and I welcome their hatred.” He took 60% of the vote in a 523-8 electoral college landslide. FDR knew having the right enemies could be a useful thing.

In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.

Sayre's Law: "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake." Some versions make it specific to academic debates: "Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." I have thoughts on WHY this is so.

I'm seeing this image circulating around and I can't help to notice that we have a way better expression in Portuguese: "In this dispute, I cheer for the fight". Briguem, desgraçados. Briguem. XD

This is insane

The CPSC has announced the recall of Midea's line of U-shaped air conditioners, which I had reported had gone missing for @aftermath.site. This impacts both Canada and the United States. The article has been updated to reflect this. aftermath.site/midea-u-shap... bsky.app/profile/cpsc...

Justice https://www.chronicle.com/article/at-u-of-michigan-frustrations-grew-over-a-president-who-couldnt-be-pinned-down

All that groveling for nothing www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

They're literally doing the meme

Everything sucks so I treated myself to a newspapers.com subscription and I’ve already gotten my money’s worth by discovering that in the 1920s and 30s they reported on everything the locals did. Apparently my grandparents went to their friend’s house on a Saturday night in July of 1936.

i see there was a legacy media group chat where they decided today was the kickoff for andrew cuomo’s redemption tour

I cannot get over these cops wearing night vision to arrest a dude on a Southwest Airlines flight in broad daylight.

I think a lot about how Aaron Swartz committed suicide while facing a probably long jail sentence for download some of JSTOR, but no one at Meta is going to face any repercussions for using all of Libgen to train its AI.

The unexamined life, seems to be the way to go these days.

this post is generating a lot of debate over on the everything app but in my experience it just isn't true that this is a new phenomenon. people have always looked to date someone with similar values.

Spent lot of time getting to know Palantir as I put together my reporting on their expanding federal contracts. One thing I kept hearing was worry Palantir would be wedded to the Trump administration’s political agenda. If you work there, and want to talk about this more my signal is in my bio.

one of my overriding beliefs is that sports betting should in fact be restricted to seedy bars where you have to place bets with a guy named something like Vito Four Fingers rather than being easily accessible with a couple clicks on your phone know what you're getting into

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: “The New York City subways are full of people ON DRUGS who are COMMITTING CRIMES.” Me at 8:30am on the subway: *watches a guy coming home from a rave tell a couple that their baby is so cherubic it makes him want to be a father*

Yesterday I had to red pill a friend with a reliably liberal voting record about trusting the NY Times. It’s another reminder how much of an outlier liberals who understand the NY Times being a problem is.

Without a significant reduction in wealth and income inequality in the United States, it's hard to see how get to improved political outcomes in the long-term

Not part of the conversation today, but I continue to think it’s fairly obvious that we would not be in the current situation if we had much higher marginal income tax rates at the high end, a proper estate tax and a wealth tax There is no long-term solution without them

So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info Enjoy!

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

I repeat this observation: I don’t get why tankies slobber all over Stalin and largely ignore Ho Chi Minh