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Rhode Island. Author of Neither Mountain Nor River (Riddle Brook) and Drifting: Two Weeks on the Hudson
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FUNDED BY NIH if that isn't front and center, people won't understand the cost of science infrastructure and funding being demolished in the US

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Always love these greatest hits threads.

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"How can you be a remotely competent historian without acknowledging this thing I just made up in my head right now for which there is no evidence???"

submitted 11 hours ago • 26 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

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The State of Texas strikes another blow against its mortal enemy, Texas

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Saw a poll last night that 27% of Canadians view the US as an *enemy* country. Then a Canadian friend sent this after last night’s hockey game.

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Well kids, we're losing the information war, huh? Wanna spread your message in the public space, but don't know where to start? C'mere, I'll teach you. Join me online March 3rd at 8pm Eastern for a intro to street art. We'll cover stickering & wheatpasting! RSVP here for the link: lu.ma/53ks8h33

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

FYI Dems: every air disaster is because of Trump, Musk, and the GOP. This isn't misinformation or exaggeration. It's a fair and necessary analysis of ripping the guts out of complex, proven safety systems. You're not being prudent waiting for NTSB reports, you're helping cover up the root cause.

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This really is nuts. Been going on 10+ years.

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I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

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I got a ping that someone just read this decade old piece I wrote in grad school— more relevant than ever except now STEM is also being devalued 🙃 medium.com/the-outtake/...

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Or did he?

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The share of Americans employed by the government steeply dropped in the decades leading up to 2000, and has remained essentially flat since. A bloating federal workforce is a myth.

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Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country

submitted 2 days ago • 352 comments

Hard to say from my wee niche, but I think this vibe is catching fire from all walks.

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Will be stealing this for most family discussions now, heavy and light. “Dress appropriately, Love. My mind is a storm.”

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"You're a bad person because you like to have a beer with your friends," a thing that people say all the time

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Stop calling these acts of deliberate malicious destruction mistakes — if you close your eyes and fire machine gun spray ceaselessly into a crowd claiming you just want to scare some of them off, it’s not a mistake that there are casualties.

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

Trump running to Air Force 1 with gold bars falling out of his pockets like a cartoon character

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The reporters at Texas Observer have been doing incredible investigative work lately, the kind of work that places like the WaPo used to do with a much larger budget before it got bought up and then slowly hollowed out by a billionaire sycophant who'd rather go into space than live in a democracy.

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I am begging the media to put the focus on what was cut, and what the effects of those cuts are likely to be, rather than some nebulous topline number that implies to people that they’re actually doing what they say they are their “savings” will cost us far more than this, in money and terror

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments