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"The Stranger's Case," William Shakespeare Sir Thomas Moore: Act II Scene 4 ___ Imagine that you see the wretched strangers, Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage, Plodding to the ports and costs for transportation ...

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I am an old retired fart. I really have better ways to spend my waning and few days left. Protest, organization and pushback is now a necessity. My friends, I ask you to step up from your comfort and be seen and heard. The time for you to be involved is now.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Something Andor does really well is to show how totalitarian regimes like the Empire are obsessed with security and eliminating internal threats to their rule. The paranoia, cult of secrecy, and extremely hierarchical organisation, at the same time, invite structural corruption and internal decay

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The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

submitted 23 days ago • 392 comments

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submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

For no particular reason, it might be a good time to repost my Starter pack of academic economists who study international trade go.bsky.app/G3dqAYg

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

submitted 31 days ago • 963 comments

Trump is repeating all the mistakes of the past 35 years as well as amplifying those mistakes in new and dangerous ways. His approach delays the possibility of peace between Russia and Ukraine and endangers the U.S. | The Perils of “Russia First” www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/peril...

submitted 36 days ago • 65 comments

This thread. Dying laughing while terrified of how little it is exaggerated….

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A team of Maryland state archaeologists, which excavated the site of Harriet Tubman's birthplace, is starting to share the artifacts that they discovered. wapo.st/4byXA4U

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

"Columbia will remain the college of no king." Sensible, sober, and wise counsel on how universities should respond to the Trump administration. By Carnegie, @pagefortna.bsky.social, Isiksel, Murillo, and @profsaunders.bsky.social, and courtesy of @dandrezner.bsky.social

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Rep John Larson - Connecticut:

submitted 51 days ago • 327 comments

I don't have enough words to express my gratitude and appreciation to these people. Thank you for your service dear women 🦾❤️🫶 #UkrainianView

submitted 55 days ago • 20 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 58 days ago • 1573 comments

This is by far the better thing to do.

submitted 63 days ago • 8 comments

For folks asking if I'm going to attend Trump's joint address to Congress next week: no. Instead, I'm choosing to hear directly from Oregonians and will be hosting an open-to-all town hall on Facebook live. Oregonians can submit questions in advance here:

submitted 63 days ago • 737 comments

This is an absolutely brilliant idea.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

The NYT article blaming Zelensky for annoying Trump was wrongheaded and I thought it needed a response. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 65 days ago • 140 comments

A brave ranger is crowdsourcing the number of National Park Service employees terminated at every park in the country. Read on for highlights on parks from the PNW to the Rockies. www.sfgate.com/national-par...

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

Democrats should call this "the Stupid Recession." I know they're scared of big mean words but its time to belittle Trump for once

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submitted 67 days ago • 73 comments

unforgivable ⚖️

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator. He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.

submitted 72 days ago • 3235 comments

First nukes, now eggs

submitted 73 days ago • 12 comments

Jan. 6 Rioters Argue Pardons Apply to Charges Including Murder Plot, Child Porn www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

submitted 73 days ago • 5 comments

One of the greatest tricks that Donald Trump and Elon Musk ever pulled is to convince millions of people that DOGE is about government efficiency. It's about narcissistic, resentful destruction: The Death of Government Expertise. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 74 days ago • 198 comments

Know what might slow down DOGE? If Democrats publicized a campaign encouraging federal workers to record their interactions with DOGE as potential evidence for future prosecution. Get names, audio (DC and Virginia only require one-party consent), take notes and print out emails.

submitted 75 days ago • 9 comments

A peace agreement can only be made between Russia and Ukraine. It CANNOT be made between Russia and the USA. Stop pushing the narrative that the US gets to define the peace agreement. The same applies to the EU.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks. This is leadership. It’s also unprecedented. A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.

submitted 79 days ago • 702 comments

USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 81 days ago • 117 comments

Courts ordered the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen -hot meals for elderly and disabled -groceries for those in need -maternal & child health services -a clinic that serves the poor www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 81 days ago • 167 comments

Reporter: You are going to meet with first responders today, but you pardoned hundreds of people who assaulted first responders. Trump: No, I pardoned people who were assaulted themselves… by our government. What I did was a great thing for humanity.

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If I’ve learned anything at all in life it would be to never turn down an opportunity to draw an alligator in a jaunty hat.

submitted 82 days ago • 23 comments

If your boss or company tells you to do something unethical: don't say yes. Make them write it down.

submitted 84 days ago • 74 comments

LGBTQIA minors make up 40% of the endangered minor runaway population. They are 120% more likely to be unhoused. They are also uniquely at risk for exploitation and trafficking. This is breathtakingly evil.

submitted 84 days ago • 36 comments

NEW: Elon Musk's buddies and DOGE underlings are working in the dark to make drastic changes to the US government. @propublica.org is shining light on them with our new tracker. Read. Share. Most importantly, send us your Musk tips: projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

submitted 85 days ago • 31 comments

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

submitted 85 days ago • 1547 comments

This is an absolutely remarkable memo — and a betrayal of both the Constitution and the American political tradition. In the US, by explicit contrast with interwar fascist governments, the state is not supposed to be an extension of the personality of the chief executive.

submitted 85 days ago • 207 comments

Every single Senate Democrat will vote against Russell Vought, the Trump nominee for OMB and chief architect of the ultra-right Project 2025. We are holding the floor of the United States Senate overnight to expose how Project 2025 is the Trump White House agenda.

submitted 86 days ago • 1009 comments

“President Trump regards people who take their constitutional oath seriously as, by definition, his political enemies. His attack on public service is not about reform; it’s a first strike against a key obstacle to authoritarianism” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 86 days ago • 128 comments