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The separation of church and state, as a foundational principle of the US, is routinely, falsely, claimed to be a person-to-person norm, like "you can't tell me I am wrong". This idea (and sports) (and the electoral college) are all major causes of the crises.

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I scrolled for a while but I didn't see this take so I am posting it, though it is trivial. "Houthi PC small group" doesn't make any sense as a chat group name unless there are several other chat groups- and certainly a big one. This is obvious, right?

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Well I see that there is YET ANOTHER group chat from which I have been rudely excluded

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some more congestion pricing Ws: Broadway attendance: up 21% Restaurant reservations: up 7% Pedestrian traffic: up 4% Retail sales: up $900M Commercial leasing: up 61% Subway crime: down 37% Car crashes: down 50% Honking complaints: down 69%

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POV doodling and drinking a latte at Scout Cafe

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@bryguy.bsky.social I heard you are enjoying Civ7 - I saw this and thought you might be amused.

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Financial Times reporting that Tesla's accounting looks weird ($1.4b missing). This isn't what I would want to be normally posting about, but it is a story that I think could use more reach, and so it is what I am posting about.

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1. New York college student with green card arrested without charges or due process. 2. New Hampshire electrical engineer with green card, too. 3. Brown University professor with valid work visa, too. I am scared and angry. This is straight from the "First they came..." story by Martin Niemöller. 😬🤮

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I feel fucked up talking about the student activist in New York being targeted. On the one hand, it's not news the fascists are evil or crossing every bright line they can find, and I have no insightful take. But OTOH, like the Niemöller story goes: "Then they came for the green card holders..."

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I loved this two-video series by Linus Åkesson, who is an amazing programmer. This is the first one, showing a magic trick: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws4t... This is the second one, explaining the mechanism: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXxS...

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The way this hits with certain type of elder millennial youtu.be/E9aDMuBjR7Q

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I went to Food Not Bombs Wilmington's Saturday meal today. It was a nice experience! If you are local, maybe join? If not, maybe there is a Food Not Bombs near you? https://linktr.ee/FNBWilmington

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A cool historical fact I learned today is that globally, but especially in the Western Christian tradition, regicide is historically pretty common - between the years 600 and 1980, approximately ~14% of Western monarchs was killed, or deposed and then executed, by their subjects.

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Union Square rally.

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I enjoyed this bit of infosec news: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/lexipol-data-leak-puppygirl-hacker-polycule/

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Big "Particle Man by TMBG" vibes from today's xkcd.

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I enjoyed this slice-of-life piece interviewing two r/aita posters: https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-am-i-the-asshole-relationship-advice/ (BTW, I understand reddit has a fairly terrible reputation, but I think the truth is more mixed, and the article claims and demonstrates that.)

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NYC Union Square

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okay, so, the thing is, the orderly, civil, and negotiated process by which unions strike is the compromise position and if you give up the compromise position, you give up the orderly, negotiated, civil parts of the bargain

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From the ace-of-wands dept., rose wednesday.

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Theatre kids………..the time is now, the day is here From Antifa by @mark-bray.bsky.social

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WIRED identified six men who collaborated with Musk's attempt to gain access to the federal government's payments system: Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/

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I have been reporting for nearly fifteen years on threats to bodily autonomy and freedom. To reach me securely on Signal:

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Recently I have been playing Stardew Valley, but before that I was playing Book of Hours.

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If you can't find an online history for an organization (or, if it's a coalition, it's component organizations), DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR INFO

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I got a certificate of achievement from work, so I celebrated a bit. Now breakfast at Scout.

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There's this song in my head, but I can't remember the lyrics. It goes something like "Psycho Killer! Qu'est-ce que c'est?" And then I can't remember what the lyrics that come after that are.

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If you work in the federal government (particularly civil rights at DOJ) or state or local agencies that get federal funding, and have info about new anti-DEI and anti-civil rights mandates, please reach out to me on signal at nhannahjones.67.

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