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My colleagues and our broadcasts, devoted to telling America’s story to the world — honestly, fairly and with an unwavering commitment to the truth, are being silenced this weekend […] [Original post on journa.host]

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#USPol

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This Wikipedia page is a gem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musician_and_band_name_etymologies

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#MahmoudKhalil #Trump #deportation #repression

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Ok I know this is old-man irritability but I don’t care if Mahmoud Khalil has a pregnant wife, I don’t care if he and his wife are childfree, I don’t care if he’s in a fucking polycule with a hedgehog and a jar of mayonnaise, NOBODY should be detained for protected speech, including singletons.

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Pocket Casts is now making its web player free. The company says the move offers an alternative to the big platforms’ closed ecosystems, where algorithmic-driven content is prioritized and podcasts are kept behind paywalls. Read more via @Techcrunch. #Podcasts #PocketCasts #Spotify […]

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The dog from John Carpenter’s The Thing should have won an academy award #TheThing

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https://gwhatchet.com/2025/03/03/dc-film-buffs-mourn-loss-of-downtown-indie-theater-landmarks-e-street-cinema/

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#Stan #rStats

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Been so excited to see this enter the real world... This is such a good idea (though, YES, of course PACER should be totally free, but absent that... )

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The reason this is such a big deal is that Trumpism, an ideology of pathological insecurity and bullying, requires you to submit. When you don’t submit, it calls everything about them into question, and they can’t handle that. So don’t submit. Defy the fascist scum.

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Props to #Zelenskyy for even going to a room full of the dumbest people alive. I know you can't discard any opportunity when your whole country is at stake, even if it seems hopeless.

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dunno why we are debating elon musk's intelligence when we all fucking saw him play elden ring with two shields and flasks removed from quick pouch

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"Your model may be either severely ill-conditioned or misspecified." #Stan #R

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Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

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Walter Olson has a sober and informative post explaining what that “I AM THE LAW” executive order actually means and how it’s troublesome.

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Outlets and academics referring to what DGE is doing as “auditing” should be called out early and often. An audit is a proceduralized inspection of records; audits produce audit reports that substantiate the auditor’s findings. If he is indeed using some kind of AI, we should prepare ourselves […]

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So, with #Signal links being blocked on née Twitter, I think we can safely say that the U.S. government doesn’t have a way to consistently surveil Signal messages

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We got a Costco membership for the first time in our lives today. They asked why & I said because treat your workers well, you value diversity, & you didn’t cave in to authoritarian demands. He said: “We’ve been getting lots of folks saying that, thanks for joining.” Who needs a gallon of ketchup?

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Looking for book recommendations. :) Given my cognitive difficulties¹, I'm especially looking for books with short chapters.² So there should usually be a "natural" break at least every ten minutes. _ ¹ even more so now that I'm currently changing/reevaluating meds ² or at least short […]

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I've added an update at the end of my article about what's happening in SDNY. It looks like the "fall guy" lawyer was willing to sign the request to drop the prosecution, but Bove barged in and personally signed a separate line ordering the judge to issue the order. Which is a choice.

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I am willing to learn more, but I am deeply skeptical of the proposition that there is anything heroic about doing the wrong thing to preserve the ability of other people to stay in a corrupted department.

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Bruce Schneier David Ottenheimer have written a tremendous piece for Foreign Policy that everyone should read called "DOGE is Hacking America." It clearly explains why what DOGE is doing has to be stopped, and what's at stake here […]

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This is BIG. I think it means that if DOGE is still in the Treasury systems, it's at minimum contempt of court. But I also think it's the requisite "without authorization" access necessary to stand up a CFAA claim, because Trump now DEFINITELY lacks the authority to allow DOGE to be there.

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Just, wow. @mmasnick has an important piece about the Trump administration's threat to pull funding from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) unless they remove all referenced to LGBTQ+ issues starts "deadnaming" trans kids. "After years of screaming “save the […]

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I guess I really do like pig-based media

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Jesus Christ, https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/sports/ravens-nfl/justin-tucker-massage-GLV2V5G6UZBZJIGXDUQVL4QG7U/ #NFL #JustinTucker

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Congestion pricing is just the latest example of how politics is almost entirely about vibes and not facts. You could swear up-and-down that congestion pricing will be awesome, you could show people the studies, tell them about opinion polls from other places.. Doesn't matter. The vibe is […]

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Since we can't get real haggis because we're in the United States, we're doubling down and making the haggis from bison and venison

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I wonder if Nixon ever rocked a rhyme that was right on time

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So, TikTok is supposedly a national security threat from China, but it seems odd that there's been almost no mainstream press coverage of Trump dismantling the board investigating the Salt Typhoon hack which is an ACTUAL PROVEN hack from China & incredibly damaging. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/23/t...

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No man is an island, Entire of itself; Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main.

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So I'm looking at the free agent destinations for Sam Darnold, and the QB needy teams seem to be Jets Raiders Steelers Titans Rams (if Matt Stafford decides to hang it up) Giants Browns He's probably not returning to NY so Giants and Jets are out. Browns and Titans are probably going draft […]

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#NFL

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#NFL

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#NFL looks like the Steelers are really playing the handoff option hard to force Jackson to keep it. I think they're trying to get some clean hits in early and see if they can wear him down

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“Somehow is a super-weasel, a word that betrays that the author didn’t want to bother thinking out the story…Nothing in your story happens ‘somehow.’ It happens because you wrote it. Take responsibility!” —Ursula K. Le Guin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Rise_of_Skywalker

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Do people still care about #puntalytics? I will say, I bet people are punting away from Marvin Mims #NFL

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