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I used to tellthis great joke about Sisyphus but I never could get to the ending.

submitted 18 hours ago • 26 comments

As per the agreement extorted from me by Jenphalian, here is my period reminder that I have a Patreon. www.patreon.com/c/skzb?redir...

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Trump thinks he can just undo the damage by dropping tariffs. That's how little he understands about the global economy.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

RFK Jr. stunned FDA staff Friday with a 40-minute tirade featuring a disability slur, the “deep state” conspiracy theory, and accusations that agency employees were becoming a “sock puppet” for the industries they regulate.

submitted 1 day ago • 111 comments

no one wants to admit this but China and America have more in common on a institutional and cultural level than people would expect

submitted 18 hours ago • 10 comments

Every law firm that bows to Trump should know: When he leaves, your firm goes with him. How could any client ever trust you again?

submitted 20 hours ago • 5 comments

Last weekend in Chicago, 1500 historians gathered for the Organization of American Historians' conference where leading scholars discussed little things like, oh, the fate of democracy. I guess if we add some horny Nazis next year maybe CNN will come out and listen to what we have to say?

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And a joyous Pesach to all who celebrate it.

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

POWERLESS is coming in July. It's about a shopkeeper in the West Coast People's Democratic Republic trying to scrape out some freedom in a totalitarian state, and about the WCPDC trying to scrape some out in a Soviet Union-dominated world. www.amazon.com/Powerless-Ha...

submitted 84 days ago • 27 comments

CITY IN CHAINS available for preorder in print, ebook, and audiobook! Coming for real in mid-May. An occupied city a lot like Paris just before and after Liberation. A junkman of the wrong religion and a vain actor trying to stay alive and not collaborate...too much. www.amazon.com/City-Chains-...

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TWICE AS DEAD is out! Dead trees, Kindle, audiobook. It's a noirish urban fantasy set in postwar Los Angeles, with a hard-drinking private eye, vampires, zombies, corrupt cops, the Central Avenue jazz scene, and a smartass talking cat. www.amazon.com/Twice-as-Dea...

submitted 26 days ago • 33 comments

I know I haven't been here. A day of exhaustion after a batshit week.

submitted 19 hours ago • 13 comments

Four years to get through, minus 82 days.

submitted 19 hours ago • 6 comments

Any questions?

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

When money matters more than anything else.

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So maybe this isn’t real, or it WAS real until a grownup found out about DOGE’s latest.

submitted 1 day ago • 296 comments

Making X the official state media

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substack.com/@demwinsmedi...

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A second new position at @capolicylab.bsky.social - this one for a research manager for our criminal justice work.

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I’m not kidding; this is DOGE at work; multiple US citizens getting notices that they just leave the country because USCIS is revoking their humanitarian parole. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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At @froomkin.bsky.social reveals what's driving mainstream media's feckless coverage of the Trump regime, calling reporters from these outlets "stenographers with amnesia, hiding the truth through the use of anodyne adjectives, convoluted phrasing and buried leads." The reason ... 🧵 1/3

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You gotta pay attention, but this is really good. h/t @neilirwin.bsky.social “Any country other than the US precipitously raising and lowering tariffs, gutting its Internal Revenue Service and nonchalantly considering territorial grabs would have seen smoking-hot capital flight months ago.”

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RFK Jr. says Deep State 'is real,' accused FDA of being 'sock puppets' and uses the "R" word to describe people with disabilities The HHS secretary’s remarks shocked staffers at the Food and Drug Administration, prompting some to walk out. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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“Taking an increasingly combative stance, the administration defied a federal judge’s order to provide a written road map of its plans to free the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. Trump officials then repeatedly stonewalled her efforts to get the most basic information about him at a hearing.”

submitted 1 day ago • 138 comments

Got the taxes done. Paid about a grand more in estimated taxes than I owe the Feds; it'll come off the first estimated tax payment for this year. Will actually get a refund from the state; don't remember the last time that happened.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

weird, what could explain this

submitted 2 days ago • 334 comments

Secret police with no respect for the law are dragging people out of courthouses and disappearing them. Do you feel safe? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/11/m...

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Four years to get through, minus 81 days.

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Huh I wonder why they have to make up fake stories...

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This is dangerous rhetoric, Senator. Especially now. I'm the daughter of a veteran. This administration doesn't care about national security at all. Why are you carrying their water?

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Ocean's 11 reboot but it's Elon Musk's adult children teaming up to steal all his money

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

The United Reich of the USA.

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Post in 18th-century Irish history at Cork #skystorians

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We gotta go back to just taking some shit to the grave. CIA couldn’t have water boarded this out of me.

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Submissions for Mary Jaharis Center sponsored sessions at the 51st Annual Byzantine Studies Conference (Detroit, Michigan, October 30–November 2, 2025) are due MONDAY, April 14, 2025. More info & submissions: maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-se...

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@cheriepriest.com So sorry, Cherie. Losing a critter you've loved for years is horribly hard. <3

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I was on Social Security Widow and Orphan benefits for twelve years. Was the only thing that kept my family from sinking into destitution. Fuck you Jeanine.

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This dictator pissing contest could have been avoided if you’d voted for the woman

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We are literally being led by the dumbest people alive

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Just outrageous that USC would join this

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Making subject and verb agree would be nice. The stupidity of the tariffs IS the achievement... But what can you expect these days from @nytimes.com?

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Back into the abyss for #FossilFriday

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