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Researcher/educator. Former: PLATO Project, CUNY faculty, CABM; Cornell Realism, biological philosophy as an aid to scientific discovery. Dewey on education.
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Trump pardoned the violent J6 insurrectionist freaks and they walk among us, thirsting for revenge. One of them, Zach Alam, did a home invasion the other day.

submitted 33 days ago • 61 comments

This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

submitted 56 days ago • 313 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 64 days ago • 1734 comments

Today in weird statistical coincidences

submitted 66 days ago • 20 comments

“We are currently clean on OPSEC” I declare to my group chat as I disclose operational details of an in progress airstrike to a group chat on unsecured devices that includes a journalist. Just the absolute stupidest, lowest quality soldier imaginable.

submitted 87 days ago • 21 comments

This organization is doing important work, and well worth following. Listen to their interview on WNYC "On Point." www.wnyc.org/story/what-h...

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

submitted 110 days ago • 247 comments

Trump’s “crypto strategic reserve” may be nothing but a blatant insider trading scam to make his billionaire crypto czar richer — funded by taxpayer money.

submitted 110 days ago • 89 comments

Is RFKjr a pharma pharma pharma pharma pharma chameleon?

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Republicans don’t give a shit about deficits. It’s a cudgel they use when Democrats are in power. That’s it. Period. These “principles,” including small government, liberty, social conservatism, they’re all cudgels. The quicker people understand that the better.

submitted 116 days ago • 33 comments

"AP sets the standard for political reporting. Support independent, fact-based journalism." "Paid for by Super Saving Online" "Social Secuuriritty Administration"

submitted 121 days ago • 12 comments

submitted 122 days ago • 813 comments

The United States is under attack. Is there a single Republican Senator patriotic enough to stand up to this madness?

submitted 125 days ago • 103 comments

He's not necessarily referring to himself here. "Stand back and stand by"

submitted 126 days ago • 46 comments

On left: Acting Deputy A.G. Emil Bove memo orders firing FBI officials because they worked on Jan 6th cases On right: As SDNY co-chief, Bove "gave strong, direct encouragement to the line prosecutors to aggressively pursue the investigation, legal process, support FBI," former colleague tells NPR

submitted 128 days ago • 98 comments