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Anyway I'm in Japan for the @mechademia.bsky.social conference and to do a little research for my next book and even all messed up for construction, the JR portion of Shinjuku station is easier to navigate than ever before. They have slapped up signs just about everywhere and they're much clearer.

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Merrick Garland could have solved the Musk problem at any time with the same kind of drug bust that sweeps up teenagers every day. The press could have broken the story before inauguration or at the height of the DOGE coup. They let him get away with it because they think he’s entitled to it.

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there is a lot to unpack here, none of it good

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"4 days after suing the White House, Harvard Pres Alan M. Garber ’76 announced a process to convene a faculty panel to oversee cross-school protest cases and centralize disciplinary authority under the Office of the President." UC regents 👑 are proposing just this kind of centralization across UC.

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Like MLMs stole the dinner party or group chat!

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

we have failed as a society to train people to communicate, the way we teach students to write (when we bother to) is the most bland, anodyne crap, all while making them go to college for reasons that even we can't explain beyond "you need it to get a job." Kids don't get why they're going.

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I really, really recommend everyone read this piece. It goes not only into the horrors of being hit by cars and what it does to communities, but also the bureaucratic nightmare it is to get any sort of redress for car related incidents. Every aspect of society is tilted to be pro-car, pro-driver.

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As I've said before, what we're dealing with fundamentally here, and have been dealing with for some time, is evil. Our political norms and political media prohibit talking about a mainstream political faction this way. But it is the truth. It needs to be known and it needs to be said.

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I bet they didn’t even need to do any community outreach. “But have you presented to the commission on aging yet? And what about the disabilities commission?”

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Trump is selling the White House at a rate of roughly $1 billion a month (!) - the biggest scandal in US history, 10X worse than Watergate This needs a name: Cryptogate This needs a complete guide, which I've written This needs us to demand action My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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Welcome to our new neighbors at the Maudelle Miller Shirek Community in South Berkeley! This 100% affordable housing development has: 🚌 easy access to public transit 🔑 87 new rental apartments for low-income households 🏠 12 units reserved for formerly unhoused households. 1/5

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i need every single trans and cis person alike to remain steadfast in recognizing how not normal and not okay headlines like these are. these are fascist-aligned thoughts. we are not a debate, we are not a liability, we are not something to neutralize. fuck you, @politico.com

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These op-eds always say things like "many Americans know a trans person", but they never say "many Americans are trans". That way, The Trans Question remains an intellectual exercise, and this centrist pud doesn't have to consider he's talking about actual human beings.

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I guess hiding your face in shame still doesn't actually keep the leopards from eating it

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Axios is reporting Dems are trying to kill the anti trans healthcare ban with the Byrd rule, after our reporting was the first to float this idea in the public. This was not a given. We had to fight for it. Thank you @jael.bsky.social @thefreeradical.org and EVERYONE calling Senators!!

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Reports of Bluesky's death have been greatly exaggerated.

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A useful FYI for newcomers surprised at Ireland's consistently robust stance on the genocide in Gaza; in addition to being a rare Western country that knows how the pointy end of colonialism feels, our UN peacekeeping troops in Lebanon have been weathering IDF attacks for <decades>.

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People say tech companies aren't innovating anymore but look at this: Meta, which has burned billions on the Metaverse, has just innovated a new way to burn billions on a product that definitely won't work lol

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Joe is so bright in the cloudy light 🪶

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i am not a wedge issue im a person

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will be v interesting to see if the NYT devotes the attention to this it gave to the president of Harvard's citations!

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This is a Nazi term, used in the same context as the Nazis. There's no even scintilla of doubt here. The State Department is opening an official Office For Doing Nazi Ethnic Cleansing. Marco Rubio should be hounded out of every public space, forever, by screaming outrage.

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For those who don’t know, breaking up payments like this (structuring) is a common money laundering technique and banks flag it automatically.

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Redirecting federal law enforcement to focus on the lowest crime-rate subpopulation is pro-crime policy.

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I know it doesn't stop them from being exhausting but please know the reason there's a relentless stream of thinkpieces from centrists or right-leaning dems going DITCH THE TRANSES is because the public opinion as a whole is "just leave them alone, jesus" and they fucking hate that

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there are more than 3,500 child marriages a year in the US where 1/1000 trans kids get to medically transition. republicans have fought really hard on multiple occasions to keep one of those legal. guess which one!

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For folks living in the United States, participating in this sort of thing is a federal crime and will land you on the radar of the US Office of Foreign Assets Control If you don't go broke defending yourself from the federal indictment first, you'll likely go broke while you're in federal prison

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Because Obama has one.

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unions: they get the job done

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Say it with me SHAUN KING IS A SCAMMER

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Elite centrists are really obsessed with trans people in a profoundly unhealthy and weird way, like no one does more to raise the salience of trans people (almost always in a negative way) then like the most out of touch rich busy bodies you can think of

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BREAKING: After three months of confinement at the Northwest Detention Center, Lewelyn Dixon will be released today. An immigration judge ruled that Dixon, a longtime US permanent resident and citizen of the Philippines, should be allowed to stay in the United States.

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Reminder about the Court of International Trade, which Trump will inevitably attack as partisan, dangerous, etc. Three judges: Katzmann - Obama - Senate voice vote (meaning zero objections, nobody bothered to ask for a count) Reif - Trump - also voice vote Restani - Reagan - also voice vote

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A lot of people are constitutionally incapable of understanding that there are laws that don't give a shit about them and that they can get in real, actual trouble.

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vocal opposition to democratic gerontocracy is nifty because it serves a constructive purpose — passing the torch — and a political one: signaling independence from The Democrats.

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On Earth 2.0, folks on the other side of the aisle would say loud and clear that if "everyone involved in the deal understand the payment as the price of merger approval" then it is a bribe, and all of those people should expect to go to prison if it goes ahead in the next administration

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"The chatbot’s instructions tell it to “de-emphasize the climate catastrophe narrative,” to focus on “real pollution, not CO2.” The bot is told to frame these arguments in the most reasonable possible way" "chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person:

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Lynda Sayce plays a piece of lute music that was recently discovered in an archival document at the Museum Plantin-Moretus. Since the handwritten lute tablature was folded and reused as scrap paper, it's problaby the first time in 400 years that this music is heard.

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technically it's a polyghoul

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Oh I am not shitposting, folks. Stephen Miller, his wife, and Elon are widely rumored to be a throuple. Now Miller's wife is leaving the Trump team to be with Musk & LITERALLY PER THE NEW YORK TIMES Stephen is angrily subtweeting Musk. They actually put it in the paper of record that he was mad

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