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PhD in computational neuro-linguistics. Hoya. Science, Literature, Art, Travel. 30 years Wing Chun. Still reading Ulysses.
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EVERY person deported without trial to El Salvador must be returned and provided a fair trial. No one should be labeled a criminal without due process of law.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Democracy isn’t dying in darkness it’s being dismantled at the hands of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. @allisonjriggs.bsky.social won this election fair and square back in November. Her opponent is a petulant Confederate cosplayer who can’t handle losing. Concede Jefferson Griffin.

submitted 10 hours ago • 139 comments

Column: Comparing Hitler & Trump is of course fraught. Trump’s world war is over trade; his lawless roundups of migrants & targeting of enemies aim to deport or hurt, not kill. Yet parallels are plain, as a film on Hannah Arendt, chronicler of totalitarianism, shows. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Trump and Musk killed the funding for the National History Day contest for kids in America. They really really really love the uneducated. This saves the taxpayers a little over $130,000 this year. If Trump just skipped out of one golf weekend, they'd have the $$. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/a...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Nite

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

They aren't even trying to hide their Nazi proclivities anymore.Maybe if the mainstream hadn't normalized all this bullshit

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“J. D. Vance’s selection as Trump’s running mate suggests that Vance’s benefactor, Peter Thiel, is running the show, reprising an aborted effort to run the show from 2016. He seems to have learned from his mistakes.” By @davetroy.com, 7/30/24 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 58 comments

What the hell has Donald Trump been up to? Yet more corruption, no doubt. Senator Adam Schiff is demanding a congressional investigation into the distinct possibility that Trump engaged in insider trading or market manipulation when he abruptly paused his sweeping tariffs — a move that sent…

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A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.

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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America written and narrated by @michaelharriot.bsky.social 5⭐ You will laugh, you will cry, you will be angry. But if you are trying to unlearn what the school taught you, this is a great place to start. Full review: tinyurl.com/2kw3mm5r 💙📚💡📚🎧

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

tRump's possible war plans against Iran and Greenland per Malcom Nance: open.substack.com/pub/malcolmn...

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

There you have it

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

New at The Nerd Reich: Curtis Yarvin Fears His Authoritarian Fantasy Is Flopping Peter Thiel's "Dark Enlightenment" guru gives President Elon Musk a "C-." Warning: This post contains graphic discussion of mass murder and violence. www.thenerdreich.com/curtis-yarvi...

submitted 5 days ago • 71 comments

@davetroy.com Echoes of your “gold bugs” work. Still living in this terrible alternative reality. apple.news/A8uBCuTssQ_i...

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@benmathislilley.bsky.social Amen, Ben… apple.news/AVVa9_4AJQIm...

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@holland-tom.bsky.social Absolutely brilliant! (and please give my regards to Dominic). apple.news/AflItKPreQea...

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It took nearly 250 years, but the answer to Benjamin Franklin’s statement “if you can keep it” is: NO At least it is no of we aren’t all fighting for it. Go out and march today.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

A special Prime Time show will air on Tuesday night featuring footage taken by Irish vascular trauma surgeon Morgan McMonagle treating children on the frontline in Gaza

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment