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Laughs in General Sherman

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Read my latest:

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Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV's entrance with the Alan Parsons Project playing:

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bumping this for the night shift. i beg of you to get everyone you know with a canceled grant into tomorrow's webinar about how to appeal. storm the goddamn battlements and demand your fucking money. if you need help figuring out how to lie to the fascists I've got Zoom office hours at 5 PST

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Happy Liz Phair Day to all who celebrate

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ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers theonion.com/ice-ope...

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*me, lying facedown on the bed, yelling into the mattress: "WHY DO THOSE OF US WHO DIDN'T FUCK AROUND ALSO HAVE TO FIND OUT"

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I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan. (thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)

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They're dismantling (what remains of) the social safety net and replacing it with a dragnet instead.

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That people in each generation seems to have have to discover this is a good insight

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This passage from @benjamincarterhett.bsky.social's book on Hitler's rise to power has long haunted me for the way it describes how so many ordinary Germans had their minds & souls gradually rewired by the changing political climate of the 1930s. Watching something similar happen here is terrifying.

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The hard lessons of Germany’s dark history are speaking to us today. The message: It’s easier to lose your democracy than to regain it. Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.

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SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me. This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.

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Un bon article par Talia Lavin (@swordsjew.bsky.social) sur les occult-nazi nerds. "The Nazis themselves were murder nerds. Now their successors are LARPing as wizards of racial superiority as they commit very real atrocities—as seen in the recent parent killing in Wisconsin."

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The History Day competitions are a wonderful experience and give a broad range of kids experience in researching and learning about history and presenting what they’ve learned in a range of formats. It’s a great event that invests in kids. I hope you can help!

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A rocker, a roller, a right-out-of-controller

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I’ve been wanting to write this for a while. So I finally did.

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EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

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This is viral on the other site and I've genuinely had great conversations about it

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One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

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The American longing for an underclass.

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Great thread!

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Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

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When you just made a deal that will keep the Empire out of here forever

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We have access to justice and due process in America, if one has the knowledge and money to access it

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This is a at best campaign of indifference to law, at worst one of blatant intimidation

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Good morning! Please come on a bee adventure with me, I promise you won't regret it. 🐝 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/ther...

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Look, for over a year, one brave Cassandra was warning you that massive tariffs were coming and that they’d wreak havoc on the economy. But no one listened to Donald Trump.

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“I know it’s appealing to be instrumental in helping a reporter break a story, and god knows reporters love breaking stories,” says Marisa Kabas, an independent reporter and writer of The Handbasket, “But in almost all cases, your safety and physical and mental health should come first.”

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Hi! 👋 I'm @washingtonpost.com's economy geek in Congress, and today the Congressional Budget Office put out some long-term projections about the national debt. And some of that stuff is pretty important. So lets unpack with a quick thread. Hopefully, you'll learn something new. 🧵...

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