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This works in a lot of bureaucracies! Simply refuse. I’ve seen departments NOT be dissolved, disastrous programs fizzle, whole sectors grind to a halt simply because a person with a tiny amount of power said “no!”

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Where are the Roosevelts and Churchills? For all their faults, they saw fascism for what it was, made no concessions to it, and met it with force and seriousness. We’ve got too many leaders thinking they can somehow work their political strategies and weather the storm.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

May it be so

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The President of the United States is vowing to disappear students from college campuses who say things the government doesn't like. There are not enough alarms for this.

submitted 14 days ago • 135 comments

I’d like to hear from voters of any race who were evacuated from polling places due to bomb threats and never voted.

submitted 16 days ago • 74 comments

I've needed to hit the Nooooo button many times lately, only to discover that the trusty nooooooooooooooo.com is no more. So, for preservation purposes and my own sanity, I've archived the original for our collective button-pressing therapy: davidgolding.com/nooo

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Constant propaganda is getting old

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand

submitted 29 days ago • 133 comments

Ryan Saltzgiver is the foremost expert on the Provo Tabernacle and a brilliant archaeologist. Should be a fascinating presentation

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

"In America, THE LAW IS KING." Thomas Paine, 1776. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bjj...

submitted 33 days ago • 64 comments

My favorite font designer, Robert Slimbach, has just released Adobe Aldine. I think this just may take the top spot on my list of favorite serifs. Absolutely elegant, pristine letterforms. fonts.adobe.com/fonts/adobe-...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

The dumbest President in American history. And it’s not even close.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

This period under Musk/Trump feels like early February in 2020—when a terrible thing was happening with breakneck speed, and the people paying close attention were hair-on-fire about it while the rest of the country carried on as normal.

submitted 40 days ago • 196 comments

I'm old enough to remember when the courts ruled that the president didn't even have the authority to cancel student debt. What was that, fifty, maybe sixty years ago? My how time flies.

submitted 39 days ago • 6 comments

This all has to backfire, right? In three weeks they’ve gone after federal workers, farmers, educators, scientists, moms, immigrants, pennies, humanitarian workers, disaster relief, birthright citizens, women, minority workers. Who am I missing? Is there anyone left? The billionaires?

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

What happened to the Constitution? It became too woke.

submitted 41 days ago • 34 comments

If people send their tax money to a gov’t in which their elected representatives have no control over how that tax money is spent (because the executive has taken over that role), then isn’t that “taxation without representation?” I seem to remember a historical event inspired by something like that

submitted 42 days ago • 25 comments

Workers had market power for about 18 months after decades of not having it, and it drove the billionaires and frondeurs completely insane.

submitted 42 days ago • 15 comments

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 5: The Congress shall have Power: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;.

submitted 42 days ago • 7 comments

a good bit of evidence that trump represents bona fide confederate government is that he keeps tripping every wire placed by the 14th amendment talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

submitted 42 days ago • 145 comments

I posted a political comment to Facebook for the first time in 7 years. It violated my own terms of service agreement with myself. But spurious right-wing talking points are sometimes so infuriatingly vapid that I couldn’t be a spectator

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

submitted 45 days ago • 52 comments

Can’t we citizen’s arrest Musk and DOGE? We’re witnessing crimes in the full light of day

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

If someone were to gain unauthorized access to all of Elon Musk's private health and financial information as well as the system that enables him to receive payments, what do we think he would do? Because isn't that what he's done to the entire population of the United States?

submitted 47 days ago • 9 comments

"...And this is our working model..." John Trevor's take on Reaganomics, Albuquerque Journal, 1982.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Make Laws Matter Again.

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

Trump’s tariffs are driving up prices for us, while driving down demand for U.S. exports in Canada and Mexico. This why you don’t trust your country’s economic policies to someone who bankrupted 5 casinos.

submitted 50 days ago • 24 comments

Posted my MHA presentation from last year on Fanny Alger and took the occasion to fix some glaring errors on her Wikipedia page. (Should I brace for wiki-debate impact?) www.academia.edu/127401768/Fi...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Prepare yourselves for this clown show to add a certain despot’s face to Mt Rushmore. They’ve already drafted a bill and have the votes. (Let’s hope the courts honor previous SCOTUS decision that recognizes the monument as property of Lakota Nation.)

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

I blame Merrick Garland. Sat for two years on pursuing justice, handed all that time for the kingpin to run out the clock. And now all their work for naught. We needed someone willing to take on the mob and we got an AG worried about appearing “political.”

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Pro tip: If you’re making tacos, marinade the chicken in pineapple juice.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

I would have liked BYU to win the Big 12, but a consolation prize is watching the team picked dead last in preseason rankings expose the sports commentary clown show for what it is

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Black Friday tip: have AI explain the fine print and give a “convoluted rating.”

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

My house smells like Thanksgiving, thank heaven. We’ve needed comfort food these days.

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Nearly every assertion here relies on secondhand bad-faith narrators who got their stories mixed 40 years after the events described. Another problem: it claims consensus among historians on Alger's relationship to Joseph Smith when that is very much not the case. www.fromthedesk.org/fanny-alger-...

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Federated social media seems far preferable to centralized platforms. I’m curious how these migrations away from X will incentivize innovations in peer-to-peer and relay networks. Nostr, Blue Sky, Mastodon, Matrix platforms only need a critical mass of users to edge out the controlled platforms.

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments