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youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?" It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine. #SlavaUkraini #Dontabandonthem

submitted 2 days ago • 97 comments

Americans tend to equate someone having money with someone having ability. Perhaps, watching idiots like Donald Trump and Elon Musk ruin everything will dispel that superficial assumption. People get money for all kinds of reasons, some legal, that have nothing to do with ability. #RichFathers

submitted 6 days ago • 98 comments

Judging from the number of cat vs dog pics on my timeline, I think most Bsky users are cat people. More dogs, please. I’m loving @wolfdaily.bsky.social 🐺.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s an opportunity to help some kids and get some cookies 🍪 digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/sixk34....

submitted 10 days ago • 92 comments

Sex is so complicated. "In White-throated Sparrows, we see “masculine” and “feminine” traits distributing themselves in a manner clearly orthogonal to gonadal sex." www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-ba...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Little known fact: West Virginia has a professional touring Shakespeare troupe called The Rustic Mechanicals. I got to see their final dress rehearsal last night — a truly outstanding performance of the Scottish play. #ShakespearienceWV More details at www.instagram.com/p/DGBvzk9PvM...

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No, 150-year-olds aren't collecting Social Security benefits. Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud; but there's a much simpler explanation.

submitted 14 days ago • 93 comments

It would seem that a knowledge and understanding of history in the realm of computer programming is as essential as a knowledge and understanding of political, social, and economic history.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted. Yet somehow Musk isn't.

submitted 17 days ago • 561 comments

Today the CDC, tomorrow the BLS? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lies-damne...

submitted 17 days ago • 65 comments

How God and good men hate so foul a liar.

submitted 18 days ago • 27 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 18 days ago • 425 comments

🚨 The CDC has been silenced by Trump—stay informed with daily AMA updates. The MMWR typically runs 20–25 pages with four or more reports on disease investigations, health trends, and public health developments. Last Thursday’s edition, 8 pages with two reports. www.yahoo.com/news/voice-c...

submitted 22 days ago • 31 comments

Democracy Docket has a library of over 1000 voting and election cases, summarized, curated, organized and accessible to everyone for free! Check it out. www.democracydocket.com/cases/

submitted 24 days ago • 21 comments

Also see @democracydocket.com.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

every day we see more and more evidence of society descending into utter lawlessness and chaos

submitted 25 days ago • 491 comments

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judicia[l] in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self–appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." (James Madison, Federalist No. 51, 1788)

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

An important follow up to his first post about how we're absolutely in the middle of a coup, @brockm.bsky.social explains how simply calling out the truth in the face of a bombardment of lies is critical. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/04/t...

submitted 27 days ago • 35 comments

Please read this. This is important. Lemme explain something, since people seem really confused about what’s happening. The firing of all the employees, the dismantling of safety departments: the FBI, OSHA, HHS, etc., the takeover of the federal reserve, chaos is the point. 1/7

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Why does the world’s richest man, a man no one voted for, have access to my Social Security number?

submitted 29 days ago • 537 comments

Thank you @isaacbogoch.bsky.social!

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you @isaacbogoch.bsky.social!

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Because the media is already getting everything as wrong as they possibly can, let's go over what actually happened with Colombia yesterday. Under Biden/Harris, Colombia accepted more than 400 deportation flights, 120 just in 2024 alone. These were normal commercial planes. 1/

submitted 35 days ago • 13 comments

What a lie. Here's the Supreme Court in 2012 making clear that simply being in the country without permission is NOT a crime: "As a general rule, it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain present in the United States." It's a civil violation, not a crime.

submitted 34 days ago • 104 comments

West Virginia is failing to get foster kids the mental health help they need. mountainstatespotlight.org/2025/01/28/f...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Today we launched a website to track how much orange assface plays golf. We’re guessing this thing is gonna get a workout! Bookmark it. Enjoy! More: TrumpGolfTrack.com

submitted 35 days ago • 802 comments

Lastly, don’t forget…

submitted 36 days ago • 12 comments

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

submitted 37 days ago • 901 comments

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submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Definitely a welcome change from the constant stream of doomsday politics I’ve been seeing. 🦆

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

I like this little guy. Wish I had barbs like that.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

"There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this." Rudyard Kipling, who died on this day in 1936

submitted 44 days ago • 7 comments

We’ve observed this for decades, but will understanding this make any difference to the current electorate?

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone who says there wasn’t enough water in the reservoirs to fight the California wildfires NEEDS to watch this & help stop misinformation. Can we please get back to uniting as a country when there are catastrophic disasters? Lying only disrupts efforts to help people in need. youtu.be/OsuBmAVqR7I

submitted 50 days ago • 395 comments

🌈📚👀 #rombks 💙📚🌶️ #lesfic

submitted 53 days ago • 5 comments

Just finished listening to Rachel Maddow's Ultra S2 podcast. What a superb podcast.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Remember the "twin deficits"? They may be back paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-dollar...

submitted 60 days ago • 37 comments

Seems like the FBI finding 150 homemade bombs at the home of a guy who uses Biden’s picture for target practice should be a bigger story. Apparently he may get released on a $25,000 bond. More: abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

submitted 61 days ago • 189 comments