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Bookmarking this beautiful essay that’s giving me goosebumps over coffee this morning for when I need to recharge crimethinc.com/2018/03/22/w...

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Mickey Harmon is a friend-of-a-friend. Some of his art hangs in my office and a political coloring book he collaborated on is on my bookshelf. His murals are all over Buffalo. He was an absolute force in Buffalo's culture. This is terrible.

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I’m not surprised because you become a tenured professor not by being outspoken but by being an good institutionalist - by expertly meeting expectations

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After the USSR's fall, Ukraine held a large nuclear arsenal. US-brokered talks led to Ukraine giving up the weapons for security assurances and aid. Russia never would have invaded if Ukraine still had nukes. We agreed to protect them.

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The major flaw in capitalism is that it incentivizes businesses to simultaneously strive for high-wage customers and low-wage employees.

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These newly cancelled projects “had received a waiver from the freeze because the State Department previously identified its work as essential and lifesaving.” What else is there to say? They’re all obliterated, with nary an effort to distinguish. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

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Constitutional rights apply to everyone in America, not just citizens.

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The richest man in the world has parasitically imposed himself on the federal government to insist that all employees generate content for his language-processing machine, conscripted the administrative state as monkeys at typewriters, all under penalty of dismissal should they refuse.

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Hello Buffalo friends! It’s rally for science time! March 7, 2-6PM, Niagara Square! Sign up below and please spread the word! www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

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www.cacwny.org/donate Clean Air is part of the coalition of Buffalo orgs which were awarded $20 million from the EPA Community Change program. This is a large part of our 2025 budget and we do not know when, or even if, these funds will be distributed. Read more - buffalonews.com/news/local/p...

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sleep when the baby sleeps presumes babies sleep

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

I've been thinking something like this since yesterday's "king" post. The President of the United States simply does not declare himself a king. Joking or any other way. He just doesn't. And yes, he's President of all Americans. He should act like it.

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submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

This is how we become/are the world’s villains

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submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

The best writing advice I've ever gotten is to remember that the first draft is where you explain it all to yourself and then the second draft is where you explain it all to your readers.

submitted 188 days ago • 55 comments

repeating myself a bit here but trump can issue an executive order but that doesn’t necessarily mean shit if it doesn’t have a firm statutory basis. if congress lays out in law what the duties of a particular official are, then no, the president can’t decide those duties are something else

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Ooof. Devastating (yet not unkind) from @charlotteclymer.bsky.social on aging politicians. open.substack.com/pub/charlott...

submitted 22 days ago • 13 comments

I haven’t plugged my friend’s blog/newsletter nearly enough on here. My bad. This is an excellent place to start if you haven’t signed up or are not otherwise following @christinelsloc.bsky.social’s writings. christineslocum.net/2025/02/15/h...

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I don’t actually think these people have ever read the Bible.

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To pay for tax cuts for do-nothing billionaires

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Did you know the precursor to the NAACP was formed in WNY? It was and is today's Erie County #BlackHistoryMonth feature: the Niagara Movement. Learn more about the Niagara Movement and the formation of the NAACP:

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Man, call the Eagles the Crows from now on because this is a murder.

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This shoulda been the Bills.

submitted 28 days ago • 129 comments

Pick up those old foundational books to ground yourself. I'm re-reading Rules for Radicals this weekend and while a 50 year old text hasn't aged 100% I am finding myself nodding along quite a bit and laughing at some anecdotes that ring far more true to me now than when I first read it years ago.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Something we need to keep in mind relative to Musk's "cost-cutting" efforts is that the most direct way to deal with budget imbalances is to tax him and his fellows fairly.

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

It’s always been a good time to have a strong moral compass.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Oh, do we have a modern Rasputin?

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It's so frustrating seeing these institutions roll all the way over far in advance like little yellow-bellied bitch-babies when they could instead just adopt the obstinacy of a petulant child and say MAKE ME

submitted 38 days ago • 10 comments

www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/america-is...

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments