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If the police came to my house, the only guillotine they'd find is a little plastic thing for cutting paper. But if someone else has a proper guillotine, please invite me to watch the spectacle.

NYT Pitchbot has been nailing it with the Glenn Greenwald op eds recently.

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

Great story by #NPR today on Ireland's controversial history of boycotting. I was a teenager in Dublin during the Dunnes Stores strikes and I joined the picket lines in support of the strikers. I also got to see Nelson Mandela speak on his first visit to Ireland in 1990. 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 🇿🇦

W.E.B. Du Bois, author of The Souls of Black Folk, was the first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard University. We are rebroadcasting our episode on him this Sunday, which is also his birthday! #BlackHistoryMonth #Sociology #History #EduSky #PhilSky

From the very beginning I knew this Valencia center bike lane was bound to fail. Instead of implementing systems proven to work in cities where many people bike safely they wasted $ on this stupid "experiment." Now they're spending more $ to build the lane where it should've been in the first place.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams debuts his new look.

Whoever is making the crossword puzzle at WaPo is getting a bit of a dig in. #GulfOfMexico

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Oh hell no!! Get tha' fuck out of our city!

Can we Spring Forward already? So sick of standard time.

I signed my name. Denmark, Canada... happy to go in either direction.

"Under no circumstances should any sane person take his health advice. Nor should any senator consent to give him authority over government agencies that regulate our food and medicines."