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Retired engineer/programmer, linguist. Childless cat person.
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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1464 comments

No one knows what caused last night's tragic crash outside DCA. Investigations are ongoing, and no one - not Donald Trump or anyone else - should be drawing conclusions until all the facts have been released. But here is what we do know. (1/7)

submitted 24 days ago • 218 comments

submitted 30 days ago • 142 comments

Mitch McConnell wouldn’t have to vote no on dangerous cabinet picks if he’d done his damn job in 2021.

submitted 29 days ago • 710 comments

The ADL’s cowardice around Musk’s Nazi salute is especially galling to anyone familiar with that institution’s long and brave history of monitoring and analyzing the fascistic threads in US political culture. This book is from 1996, for example.

submitted 33 days ago • 13 comments

Nah, I don’t care what the excuses are that start to leak. Especially the Aspergers one… It’s an insult to others on the spectrum with Aspergers This was intentional by someone who has watched and learned how to perfect it.

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

"When Mexico sends its people, they're sending their best. They're sending firefighters to help solve American problems. They're bringing fire fighting uniforms. They're bringing fire fighting equipment. They're bringing kittens down from trees. And all, I assume, are good people."

submitted 43 days ago • 902 comments

Dark Brandon has the chance to do the funniest thing 🤣 www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 64 days ago • 9 comments

The people I went to high school with in the 1980s in Cambria County, PA voted for Trump in part because they fear that undocumented people will harm them. There are virtually no undocumented people in the country. But the priest at our Catholic Church assaulted dozens of our friends. Crickets.

submitted 72 days ago • 17 comments

imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

submitted 72 days ago • 1064 comments

The existence of people like Hitler, Putin, and Trump proves that God doesn't exist. What kind of a God would allow evil to flourish? Not the kind of God any rational person should ever worship. #Atheism #Christofascism #Fascism #Trump #Putin

submitted 82 days ago • 25 comments

New FBI double agent case from World War II (with help from British intelligence, of course). I never heard of it til today. Will be in my new book. Lots of FBI-run double agents.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

The “conservative movement” that eventually swallowed the old “Party of Lincoln” was turbocharged in 1954-5 by the reaction against Brown v Board, a case that rested upon the application of the 14th Amendment.

submitted 77 days ago • 21 comments

submitted 80 days ago • 30 comments

I’m just going to be honest. When an extremely wealthy person who made his wealth by creating novel ways to fleece the most sick and underserved people in society of more money or outright doomed them to painful deaths for profit it’s ok to make jokes about it. Evil people don’t deserve our humanity

submitted 81 days ago • 16 comments

It’s insane to me that the orange felon was even able to run for President after being federally charged with interfering in an election whilst being a convicted felon, but it’s more insane that those charges are now being dropped because he “won” an election that he began saying was rigged.

submitted 89 days ago • 32 comments

The REAL story on Pam Bondi, Trump University, and Trump's $25,000 payment to Bondi: 1/ In August 2013, I was at the NY AG, and Bondi was Florida AG. On August 24, 2013, I filed the NY AG's prosecution of Trump University and Donald Trump, for $42 million in fraud. 🧵

submitted 94 days ago • 197 comments

"The frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis." harpers.org/archive/1941...

submitted 94 days ago • 13 comments

Meanwhile in Russia: pundits discussed US missile authorization and opined that Moscow should not retaliate, but instead wait for Trump to rescind it in two months. This and more in my latest article, linked below ⤵️ youtu.be/1ev2mkGJl3E

submitted 95 days ago • 27 comments

Walter Huss, chair of the Oregon GOP in 1978-9, had a folder labeled "Money" in which he stored a) several evangelical, antisemitic, sovereign citizen type publications about how American money isn't real because of the Jews, b) Ron Paul's newsletter, oh...and also, c) money. He kept money in it.

submitted 272 days ago • 3 comments

I really, seriously don’t wanna be a jerk but academics need to stop talking about “academic freedom” and start talking about “administrative harassment” or “political bullying” or something Use words other people understand and have sympathy for

submitted 274 days ago • 14 comments

Meanwhile in Russia: appearing on state TV, Igor Markov asserted that Russia must liquidate Ukraine and the very notion of being Ukrainian has to be eradicated. youtu.be/iSQvap630T0

submitted 457 days ago • 6 comments