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Religion professor (Satan in Pop culture), digital humanities, bicycle & public transit advocate, data analyst, politics junkie, science fiction fan https://sites.google.com/ic.edu/aporter/home https://github.com/adamlporter
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Appreciate the attention to detail, like the subheading. . .

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Apparently spotted on the London subway. Guerilla poster. #teslatakedown Source: x.com/mollyploofki...

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National Parks: Doing Well by Doing Good.

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Medical deserts are more common in rural communities than urban areas. Don't let politicians divide us: we all need access to healthcare. . . Slashing medicaid will hurt people across the US and across the political spectrum. wapo.st/4bxJosO

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If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

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Trump Outlines Bold Vision For Golden Age Of China

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Maybe the cars just did the honorable thing

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Ironic that this action is taking place in an administration being led by a convicted sexual abuser, who bragged about grabbing women by their pussies, and who discussed the size of Jack Palmer's penis on the campaign trail. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

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Pew has released latest American Religious Landscape Survey (prior reports 2007 and 2014). Top findings: * slide in Christian affiliation has leveled off (62%) * nones: 30% * % change from 2007 * Muslim 0.4 to 1.2 * Hindu 0.4 to 0.9 * Buddhist 0.7 to 1.1 www.pewresearch.org/collections/...

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Um ... "small army" of private citizens, "processing camps" ... this is sounding familiar.

submitted 12 days ago • 117 comments

When you put it like that, it does sound . . .

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Not a bug but a feature: instead of clear and transparent, law/rules based approach to spending, King Trump wants crony capitalism, where HE gets to reward those who kiss the ring with govt largesse. #Maga #Doge wapo.st/4kfZ8o9

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Gosh, if only there were a substance that could control the spread of such a dread disease, a vaccine, if you will

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Enjoy the UK slicing up Elon in a mass ad campaign as a timeline cleanse

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Agent Orange fires qualified non-white, non-males and replaces them with unqualified white men. The "merit" of many of his cabinet officials is that they are good at flattering the wanna-be king, not relevant expertise or experience. This is how his anti-DEI "meritocracy" works.

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www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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What will Secretary of HHS Kennedy do about the measles outbreak in Texas? Probably let lots of people get infected, develop brain swelling or pneumonia; for children, perhaps develop encephalitis, deafness, or mental retardation. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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Farmers join the growing queue of folks with buyers remorse (Venezulean-Americans in FL, Arab-Americans in MI, etc...) www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Even before Kennedy gets control of HHS, the terrible consequences of the anti-vaccine mis-information are beginning to manifest themselves. How many outbreaks will folks need to see before getting jabbed?

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Most people would expect a Jesuit, elected to be Pope, to know more about Catholic theology than a recent convert with no theological training. It remains to be seen whether whose statements carry more weight with American Catholics. . .

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Cartoon is 10 years too late. Agent Orange has already erupted from America's belly, spewing acidic slime and attacking people without concern for who gets hurt.

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Comment on the latest Gem from the very stable genius who is our glorious leader... wapo.st/40ZKFoV

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The USA has lots of nice, beautiful land, so I'm eager to learn how many Gazans President Trump will encourage to settle here.

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In Nov and Dec, the pundits opined that fear of tanking the stock market would keep President Trump from doing anything TOO bonkers to the economy. Judging by his tariff policy, he didn't get that memo.

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In one course last semester, I began each session by doing the NYT "Connections" puzzle. It definitely demonstrates the superiority of [collaborative intelligence](brodzinski.com/2018/10/coll...) over individual intelligence. Our group success rate was much higher than my solo rate.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Wordle's dictionary is rather prudish -- it doesn't include words that would be found in any standard dictionary. 🤔

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Trump: Buck stops . . . Over there! wapo.st/40zewmN

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Yeah, how about not dissolving the air safety advisory commission at the FAA. As your team did last week.

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Cutting support for future tech (like green energy and electric cars) is a recipe for MCGA (making China great again). Go Donny! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/o...

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ChatGPT accuses DeepSeek of stealing its intellectual property. What goes around, comes around. Perhaps ChatGPT will pay the NYT (and everyone else) for ripping off *their* IP.

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Elon Musk Appears To Give Nazi Salute theonion.com/elon-mu...

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GOP considering screwing the poor (as always) so they can extend tax cuts to bloated plutocrats. MAGA! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

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404 media has a report about Reddits banning links to X. www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...

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I just received a letter from a bank asking me to unfreeze my credit agency account so they could process my Visa application. I never applied for the card; if my accts were not frozen, they would have gotten the card. If you haven't frozen you accounts, here's how: www.usa.gov/credit-freeze

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Because of Elon's Nazi salute, lots of subreddits are banning links to X. Rapid and remarkable response!

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Tesla's shareholders must be wishing Elon would get out of the media spotlight. He's not helping sales -- I'm certainly not buying a Tesla. . .

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The Nazis think this was a Nazi salute, but, hey, what would they know?

submitted 48 days ago • 976 comments

Congress needs to get off its collective ass and do its job: passing laws. They have done this less and less because they let the President issue executive actions, freeing them of responsibility for legislation. The whipsaw flurry of executive orders as admins change has become crazy.

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"Law and order" candidate pardons people who assaulted police on January 6. Press should be asking politicians -- especially GOP Congress people -- if they support this action. Prediction: since Trump has put the GOP's collective spine in a box, they will either say "yes" or change the subject.

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