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(for the life of me I can't find my Twitter profile photo) This aggression will not stand, man. "Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement." -- Abraham Heschel Occasionally losing my mind about Philly sports She/her/hers
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The thing is, when we had high marginal tax rates on the rich, the rich still had yachts and second and third houses and fancy vacations and really good schools for their kids, so, yes, I think most people who are really very rich would do just fine, and the rest of the US would do better than now.

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There’s surely a lot of frustrating stuff about any bureaucracy—meeting with stakeholders in advance, circulating draft after draft, respecting chains of authority, getting legal to sign off, etc.—but there’s no better illustration of why it exists than Elon Musk’s month of chaotic destruction.

submitted 5 hours ago • 17 comments

Accidents down 55% and injuries down 51% since nyc congestion pricing (!!!) www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/22/c...

submitted 20 hours ago • 44 comments

Tyreeeeeeeese Maxeyyyyyy

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

do you take me for a fool.

submitted 23 hours ago • 50 comments

I've definitely stopped shopping at Target and Amazon. I never shopped at Walmart to begin with

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Just remembered I can listen to the Phillies spring training game on the radio 🥰

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Why is this so hard for news orgs? www.status.news/p/cbs-evenin...

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

This pic choice lol 🫶

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

One day I will push this button in the elevator and receive my free fireman hat

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

Stop calling these acts of deliberate malicious destruction mistakes — if you close your eyes and fire machine gun spray ceaselessly into a crowd claiming you just want to scare some of them off, it’s not a mistake that there are casualties.

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

I solved the 2/20/2025 New York Times Mini Crossword in 0:33! fpx3r.app.goo.gl/PKC4

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Strands #354 “Together for the present” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Wordle 1,342 4/6 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Just got out of jail. Only forty four left to go to catch John Lewis’s record. Remember - peaceful civil disobedience. Don’t comply in advance.

submitted 4 days ago • 203 comments

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

submitted 3 days ago • 556 comments

Come ON

submitted 4 days ago • 172 comments

Things pediatricians are scared of: Grapes Hot dogs Lawn mowers Unmounted TVs Babies on laps in cars Riders without helmets Ungated pools Crib bumpers Trampolines Hot tubs Guns Things pediatricians are not scared of: Any/all the vaccines

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

I think what I find so repellent about the far-right is the sheer nihilism at its core. For all the talk of culture and identity, they are just flimsy masks strapped over, in Arendt's words "the intoxication of destruction as an actual experience, dreaming the stupid dream of producing the void.”

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

Trumpists will continue to be furious at any dissent no matter how much power they steal. That’s because the administration is premised on pathological insecurity. They’re shitty people, they know it, and they will never stop resenting being seen as shitty people.

submitted 5 days ago • 538 comments

The party of free speech!

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

Good morning

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

The 2020-2021 flu season we basically almost killed the flu with vaccines and masks and social distancing and staying home when we were sick. That was a century ago.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

i am 100% of the belief that simply forcing take-writers to answer the question "who specifically said this and why are they significant" would result in substantially fewer bad takes circulating in the world

submitted 6 days ago • 177 comments

I get the speed & brutality of massive destructive power grabs but I have yet to see anything that explains in any way how Trump to say nothing of musk are free to operate purely by malign fiat, untwisted, as sole owners of a country that had rules & cops & g-men & bench warrants til three weeks ago

submitted 6 days ago • 58 comments