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Bracing for a Slow-Moving, Self-Inflicted Economic Storm www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/b...

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Why so many autistic adults are unemployed / underemployed and what we can do to fix it... For autism awareness month I want to take a few minutes to talk about autism in the workplace. I'll start with the statistics...

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Getting very tired of the media ascribing the Trump administration's screw-ups to incompetence rather than making it clear that the incompetence is purposeful. Voters–and judges–are a lot more forgiving of "Oopsies, made a mistake" than "We did it on purpose but were hoping no one would notice."

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NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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We also need to constantly address the ways that criminalization is used to render people disposable. Every response is "well I thought they would only do X to the criminals."

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Exactly! Stop looking for the knock-out punch.

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Incredible scoop! Career officials inside the Trump administration first viewed the case of Mr. Abrego like any normal case of a wrongful deportation — they began looking for ways to bring him back, as happens normally when ICE makes mistakes. Then the White House got involved, and blew it up.

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Leaving NH for VT to escape school censorship Leaving ID for MN and WA to escape abortion bans Leaving TX for the west coast to protect a trans child Leaving CA for NY to escape wildfires *Leaving FL for RI for academic freedom www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Many voters view the Democratic Party as weak, and elite centrists want that to mean "too feminine" because they gender strength as masculine. But people view the party as weak because it so rarely fights for the values it claims to hold.

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President Trump has personally ordered the Justice Department to open an investigation of Democrats' primary ways for raising donations. It is the third time he has personally ordered an open-ended criminal investigation, each against a perceived political foe. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism

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Why are so many Republicans and Christians so resistant to an epistemology that includes reason? My personal epistemology is currently mostly the Wesleyan quadrilateral: reason, scripture, tradition, and experience. No bibliolatry though.

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i do commend whoever wrote it because it sums up everything that is actually threatening about AI. Its a self lobotomization tool. You might as well ask “why think?”

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NEW: Read the resignation letter of three federal prosecutors who'd worked on the Eric Adams case: "Now, the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

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Captain Kirk is beside himself.

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Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

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Worth reading. I lived in Puerto Rico for my last two years of high school. My dad was stationed in Fort Buchanan. I'm quite dismayed by what has happened as well as our current fascist regime. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

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www.menonpause.info/p/if-i-were-...

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Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs chair Sen. Ron Johnson says that 9/11 was a "controlled demolition" and there has been a "cover up" of massive amounts of evidence, many "questions" need to be answered:

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Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

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www.cbeinternational.org/resource/wil...

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If Vance had sincere religious convictions you would think the Bishop of Rome living just long enough to tell him that he’s doing great evil and then immediately dying would provoke some thought

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It’s Time to Protect America From America’s President www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o...

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I will never use BetterHelp. They failed to protect their patients' PHI. I work in health care patient engagement. I know this to be unacceptable, and they will never gain my trust regardless of any rebranding they might conceive of. I resent the advertisements.

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Pharmacy benefit managers in the United States, including CVS Caremark (which I have), are uniquely evil and anticompetitive. Capitalism at its worst.

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iMmIgRaTiOn Is A dIsTrAcTiOn AnD aN 80-20 iSsUe FoR rEpUbLiCaNs

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Brevity may be the soul of wit, but verbosity is commonly taken as an indicator of authority on a subject by those who know little about it. This is a big part of how generative AI bots have been able to weasel into systems of knowledge and displace actual experts.

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The modern US Republican Party may be the most openly, brazenly, and shamelessly hypocritical group of people to have ever existed in human history.

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Lots of personal things are going great. Doesn't mean the world isn't on fire, but it helps me to be able to maintain gratitude and act locally.

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Are we in the getting worse before getting better stage of 1930's Germany, err the United States of America in 2025?

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“Wrongly” is how Trump’s own administration characterized it.

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The business master strikes again

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New(ish), from me: Andor returns on April 22. The first season detailed how bureaucracies in a totalitarian regime function, what is the toll of living under such regimes, and what causes people to rebel. Those themes feel more salient than ever. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-return...

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🎶 faith of the nappppppppp 🎶

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