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Our firefighters are heroes, so many of whom - including 27 FDNY patriots from Orange County, NY- lost their lives on 9/11. This is an insult to their memory and to all of our first responders still fighting 9/11 related illnesses. Any response yet Donald & Elon?

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Fans are also concerned that going to games is increasingly unaffordable, and broadcasts keep getting peeled away from their cable/MLBtv subscription and put on some random streaming app, but I'm guessing fixing those issues won't be a priority.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

submitted 8 days ago • 2109 comments

It’s time

submitted 15 days ago • 39 comments

Senator Schatz, @schatz.bsky.social, rejects idea that Dems should wait for Trump to touch 'most popular' programs to fight. "I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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You would think Democratic Congressional leadership would be doing a bit more to delay, then.

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This is the kind of action we need to make the constitutional crisis visible. Saying no instead of complying makes headlines because it creates conflict—and conflict drives coverage. Even if Musk gets into the classified systems, this pushes his crime spree onto the front pages.

submitted 22 days ago • 12 comments

"Ambushed" by a plea for mercy is a real language choice.

submitted 33 days ago • 122 comments

Profiles in courage.

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

As always, Cate has nailed it. And succinctly too. This in particular: "analyzing ideas, and thinking through what we think about those ideas . . . that is beautifully human work. I am done apologizing for wanting humans to do it." Yes!!!!

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This is my periodic rant that Apple Intelligence is so bad that today it got every fact wrong its AI a summary of @washingtonpost.com news alerts. It's wildly irresponsible that Apple doesn't turn off summaries for news apps until it gets a bit better at this AI thing.

submitted 40 days ago • 115 comments

David asks in the thread “are agencies sharing non-public data with [DOGE?]” I’d like an answer. And then to know whether Musk et al are trading on the info. The legitimate administration—which doesn’t seem to care—has 10 days to expose stuff like this, after which I guess there’ll be no recourse.

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Leon Krauze: “As during the covid-19 pandemic, the United States is asking its immigrant workforce to perform essential tasks. The least it can do in return is to grant them peace and security instead of subjecting them to persecution and discrimination.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Who is up for a short thread on the intriguing parallels between OpenAI and Enron, as told by one of Enron's investment bankers -- that is to say, me? Here goes...

submitted 49 days ago • 48 comments

Something we never realize and yet should never forget.

submitted 50 days ago • 26 comments

Few things will accelerate our toxic masculinity crisis like the growing online sports-betting addiction primarily gripping men--whixh is now being given more on-ramps by "innovations" like this.

submitted 51 days ago • 7 comments

Commentators keep treating DOGE as Al Gore’s Clinton-era ‘Reinventing Government’ redux, when a better frame is probably oligarchs under Yeltsin’s ‘shock therapy’ cleaving parts of the Russian state off as private fiefs.

submitted 51 days ago • 14 comments

At this particular moment in time, it's a blessing to be reminded of the existence of truly good-hearted public-minded American leaders. Rest in peace, Jimmy Carter.

submitted 57 days ago • 10 comments

Just got my copy of The Nation and struck by this essay on the great labor historian David Montgomery. His words are to live by #skystorians “The study of history is a collective and cooperative endeavor, not a competition for personal academic eminence.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

could we please take one fucking breath and ask what this technology is actually achieving

submitted 58 days ago • 7 comments

Something I’ve stressed in talks and interviews since the election is that we will not have restored the peaceful transfer of power in the U.S. until a Republican president willingly hands power to a Democratic president.

submitted 61 days ago • 36 comments

I think the primary thing I found myself really moved by while in south korea was how the opposition party actually wanted to win at stuff

submitted 69 days ago • 105 comments

With Morrissey, you never know if that’s a quote or a song title.

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This item from the Cincinnati Enquirer in 1866 is yet another example of how the structure of so much reactionary discourse in the United States was set during the Reconstruction era. The claim here is that using the federal government to improve the lives of the freedpeople was a zero sum process.

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I guess the thing I find strangest about the use of "skeet" - beyond its aesthetic grossness as a word - is that we're mostly here because the other place got nasty, so why use terminology based on that place?

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

An Indiana, PA reference tonight on the MNF broadcast! Always good to see some recognition for my alma mater.

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Profile pic: Ogallala, Nebraska. Banner: Dolly Sods Wilderness, West Virginia. Trying to keep us all tied together.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

A lot of asymmetries in American politics are just downstream of the fact that self-identified conservatives badly outnumber self-identified progressives or liberals, so Democrats need to win self-identified moderates in a lopsided way to win elections.

submitted 93 days ago • 23 comments