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Mild-mannered software developer. Liberal millennial. Grew up in Delaware, live in Philly. Chronic pain(cervical dystonia) sufferer, with treatment I manage better than most.
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We keep hearing about masculinity from the Zuckerbergs of the world-- this woman has shown more courage in this 60-second clip than any of the tech billionaires have shown in recent memory as they grovel at Trump's feet.

submitted 33 days ago • 534 comments

it has always been a long reaction to the New Deal. from then to now, capital had seen the New Deal as the sin that must be purged so that the rest of us understand our place as grist for their mills

submitted 70 days ago • 250 comments

YouGov has just done a poll on whether Brits are happy or unhappy that Trump was elected US president: Unhappy: 60% Happy: 16% They then asked them to say why, in their own words, they felt this way. Leading "unhappy" reason: He's a criminal Leading "happy" reason: He's not Harris/Biden/Democrats

submitted 82 days ago • 68 comments

The North Carolina General Assembly’s GOP supermajority just approved a hugely corrupt power grab, seizing authority from the governor and the courts to prevent any meaningful check on legislative abuses. Authoritarian stuff. A very dark day for democracy in NC. amp.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

submitted 83 days ago • 464 comments

Newsletter: We're at peak AI - generative AI models have hit the wall where they won’t improve much further thanks to a lack of training data, killer apps or any kind of sustainable business model. The results of a collapse could be catastrophic. wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it

submitted 82 days ago • 149 comments

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

submitted 83 days ago • 1073 comments

FOX NEWSCASTER: Moreover there are claims that while at Fox News Hegseth got very drunk and vomited into my desk drawer. A desk drawer. The desk drawer of a colleague. Allegedly.

submitted 82 days ago • 38 comments

Joe Biden has abused the presidential pardon system. by Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Joe Arpaio, Dinesh D'Souza, Bernie Kerik, Scooter Libby, Steve Bannon, and Charles Kushner

submitted 83 days ago • 47 comments

Joe Biden just handed Donald Trump a precedent for actions he already took 4 years ago

submitted 84 days ago • 19 comments

"Twitter isn’t real life" turned into "leaving Twitter is ignoring reality” very quickly!

submitted 84 days ago • 120 comments

Another story of how dismantling the New Deal was a disaster for poor people.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

They want to shock you. The sex fiend! The dog killer! The Russian asset! The names matter, but as much as what Trump is going for - dominance, not only over Congress but over objective reality Stop fighting a president when we have a king. My new column🎁 share.inquirer.com/GlcsMN

submitted 98 days ago • 40 comments

as I’ve (repeatedly) said before, the maga chuds don’t WANT a space where they just talk to each other. that’s why they mewl so loudly when we leave and why they chase us around and try to shame us into coming back. without libs to own, they have no raison d'être.

submitted 84 days ago • 22 comments

low key the most egregious condescension is this idea that conservatives do not have agency and are not making choices but are purely reactive and have no mind of their own

submitted 89 days ago • 203 comments

It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible

submitted 89 days ago • 103 comments

Ran up my first post on Substack, with some background on the Alex Jones bankruptcy. "Attorney-Client Confrontationality" open.substack.com/pub/confront...

submitted 89 days ago • 4 comments