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https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-democrats-corporate The bending at the knee of law firm Paul Weiss to Trump is stunning. Weiss is the traditional home of the corporate wing of the Democratic Party and has traditionally served as the Democrats' government-in-exile during […]

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A buddy who has spent his life studying philosophy didn't like my post on the subject the other day, "monkeys manipulating symbols." I am not nearly as well read in philosophy as some people -- I've sampled a dozen writers in the field, without any particular sense I'd spent my time wisely […]

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I think I have finally given up basketball for real. I've been whining about it for decades, because it's been visibly coming for decades. But the last time I played my son, I wrenched something in my right knee, the sort of injury I've had dozens of times over the years -- but instead of […]

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Almost all philosophy is monkeys arranging symbols into attractive patterns. 1 Do no harm. 2 Protect the innocent. I can stand on that. It's not a rock, but it's pretty solid. Near everything else I've ever seen that I like is some flavor of 1 & 2, or something I disagree with. On my […]

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Trump’s inauguration was really big this y… wait… oh, that is AOC and Bernie Sanders speaking to 34,000 people in Denver, Colorado, on their Fight the Oligarchy tour. In 5 events across the US, 86,000 people have showed up.

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The Democratic establishment was of modest utility when this country was a democracy. I wouldn't rely on them to keep you from being kidnapped and murdered by fascists today, though. Better be armed.

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The Democratic establishment was of modest utility when this country was a democracy. I wouldn't rely on them to keep you from being kidnapped and murdered by fascists today, though. Better be armed.

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Empires by longevity: Byzantine Empire, 1123 Holy Roman Empire, 1006 Zhou Empire, 790 Ethiopian Empire, 704 Carthaginian Empire, 668 Khmer Empire, 629 Ottoman Empire, 623 Roman Empire, 503 Parthian Empire, 471 Han Empire, 426 ... United States. 80. Eh.

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Lady I've known a long time says that she doesn't know me any more. That I have gone from a sane and reasonable, middle of the road guy looking to do the right, pragmatic thing. To someone telling people that it's time to be ready for war. My buddy Karl has a joke about how we all look like […]

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Checked in on the Lakers -- playing the Milwaukee Bucks. Been some injury problems lately, so checked who was out ... The entire starting five, and the first guy off the bench. I'm not sure I've ever seen a team lose its whole first six to injury before.

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Hey, all you "burn it down" rebels, it's time. I never thought well of you previously, all mouth, no guns, that sort of thing. But if you actually go to war now, all is forgiven.

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Substack rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/substack-rival-ghost-is-now-connected-to-the-fediverse/

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America is not falling: it has fallen. All these outrages? Housekeeping tasks as the Nazis consolidate their power. If you're not armed you should be. That day is coming faster than you think.

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Whiner. I don't want to kill Musk. At least, not me personally. More like one of those scenarios where I weave the rope, somebody else builds the gallows, a judge sentences him for murdering people who needed their AIDS medicine, a couple of bailiffs march him […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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This, friends, is the problem with Fox. And indeed, with Musk himself, when he complains about these things. The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy. The empathy exploit." I'm trying to do better, as Musk would want, and so should you.

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When faced with the like of Trump and Putin and Xi, this makes perfect sense. https://www.axios.com/2025/03/19/nuclear-weapons-france-poland-china

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This is great news not in the least for our American friends where the weather service is being sabotaged. Weather models are oddly enough always global - you can't predict the weather in Berlin a week ahead without also predicting the weather in Austin, Texas. ECMWF has excellent hurricane […]

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Always been interested by the sort of liberal who can, barefaced, say that violence settles nothing. Taken to its extreme, this insane belief falls straight into the crime of pacifism.

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President Zelenskyy's response to the Trump/Putin phone call:

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Massive result in Dutch parliament just now. They passed 10 separate motions to enhance digital resilience, run more of our own servers & reduce dependency on US cloud technology. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/dutch-parliament-calls-end-reliance-us-software-2025-03-18/

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"One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken. Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand-new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not […]

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"Thoughts and tariffs," one fellow volunteered, I as Teslas burned at a repair facility.

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Yikes! This entire article. Just... yikes. ""If it continues like this, the United States will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data," said Staffan Lindberg, head of the Varieties of Democracy project, run out of Sweden's University of Gothenburg. "If it continues like […]

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"Republicans are laying the groundwork" Jesus fucking Christ, never read the billionaire press. There's no fucking groundwork. We're here. It's now. Fools wondering if the court system is going to hold are too stupid or corrupt to listen to. Do you know who's on SCOTUS?

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If you are wondering whether to sign up for Netflix or Apple TV+, here is all you need to know: Picture 1: Apple's CEO Tim Cook donates USD 1 million to Putin's puppet Donald Trump. Picture 2: Netflix' CEO Reed Hastings donates 2 million to Ukraine.

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Just learned that A. Bertram Chandler came up with the name "Dirty Pair," which became the name of the light novels (and later anime) of that name. It's a small world sometimes.

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1. Andrew Cuomo, a frontrunner for NY Mayor, has tapped an ex-employee of "the Coalition to Protect Kids," an anti-trans org, to serve as his treasurer. His campaign would not commit to EITM that it would protect gender affirming care. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious […]

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It [the Bible] is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. - Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth

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“In everyone’s pocket right now is a computer far more powerful than the one we flew on Voyager. I don’t mean your cell phone — I mean the key fob that unlocks your car.” — Rich Terrile, JPL scientist and member of the Voyager imaging team #space

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Watching Tesla crash and burn as a company, instead of just as individual cars, is on my schedule to enjoy this year.

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Axios frames Trump's tariffs as if they were sane policy discussions, and not the psychosis of a monster threatening war with Canada and Mexico. https://www.axios.com/2025/03/16/democrats-trump-tariffs-economy

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Heh. This would get me off my phone ...

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Canadian citizens are boycotting everything American. Europe hasn't gotten to everything American yet, but it's headed there. It's good to have allies. Nothing but the destruction of the world American Nazis are trying to build will be sufficient. Those people are allies to what America could […]

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Modern Republican party, and probably all fascist organizations everywhere: There is an ignorance of evil that comes from being young: there is a darker ignorance that comes from doing it, as men by sleeping lose the knowledge of sleep. -- CS Lewis

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DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/

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Wrote a scene today would make hardened killers shed a tear.

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An NSA tech I knew told me my mailing list was being monitored after 9/11, and suggested I tone it down. Today? I'm certain I, you, and everyone who's ever posted on social media, have a score in a database maintained by the Nazis -- and they'll work their way down the list as quickly as they […]

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Those who most need to read this, mostly won't. Watching the left reject the use of AI, one of the real destabilizing forces that might actually help fight the oligarchs (run locally) -- well, having told liberals to arm themselves for the last decade, and watched them ignore that advice at […]

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