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What @corybooker.com just did on the Senate floor is exactly what we need. If Democrats can’t meet this moment, then they must step aside. We need warriors and if you aren’t one, then this isn’t your time. youtu.be/sAxHyZoP_iQ

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The cruelty is the point.

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He's still going. Check in to the feed. So proud of his leadership and amazed at his stamina!

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Important advice for dealing with US border control when coming to the US.

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In my lectures today, I helped students draw the inevitable impacts (some seen this weekend in car showrooms) of the recently announced auto tariffs. While this helped illustrate some economic concepts to my students, the exercise left me saddened. None of this had to happen. This was a choice.

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GLAAD has some online resources in recognition of the Transgender Day of Visibility today, a cause more urgent now than ever.

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Good morning #NJ It's a good day to let your friends know that the Shen Yun dance performances are part of the Falun Gong cult. Falun Gong also own the right wing propaganda paper Epoch Times. They're coming to NJPAC - might want to skip the performance. www.cnn.com/2024/11/27/u...

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Countries like Brazil, where Bolsonaro is barred from running and is now being tried for plotting a coup, and now France are teaching the US a lesson on how to deal with crooked politicians. But will Americans ever take that lesson to heart?

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We are currently living in The Age of Incompetent Hypocrites.

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"A 25% tariff will completely blow apart the business case for entry-level vehicles"

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It's early Sunday morning on an overcast day and something made me think of the andante from Brahms' Sextet No. 1. Here is an absolutely gorgeous performance of this, one of my favorite pieces in the string chamber music repertoire. The depth of feeling is hard to express in words.

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Hiring your brother is the original affirmative action for white people.

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If only the pros outweighed the cons.

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The head of the FDA's vaccine team has reached his limit where putting up with RFK Jr's disinformation is concerned:

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There are Tesla Takedown protests planned for today. To see the locations, go to www.teslatakedown.com

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Another graduate student taken by ICE, this time at the University of Minnesota.

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Shostakovich completed his Symphony No. 10 in 1953, not long after Stalin's death. The scherzo, here performed by the LSO, takes the listener through what feels like a whirlwind. Perhaps Shostakovich was evoking what it felt like to live through the Stalin régime with its capriciousness and chaos.

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There’s nothing quite like gravel riding to clear one’s head and just be in the moment. This afternoon’s ride was just what I needed.

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Going for a bike ride on this warm afternoon offered a welcome break from all the bleak news.

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Who could ever blame them for leaving?

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Surely a coincidence, right?

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It seems a lot of people like to spread myths about Social Security. Sometimes it's out of ignorance. More often, I suspect, it's to undermine the program because it serves their ideology. AARP has this list of myths contrasted with the truth.

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Another academic detained and sent to an ICE facility far from her home. What's worse, she's a Russian dissident and if deported back to Russia, faces prosecution there for her anti-war positions. This is yet another source of deep shame to Americans. Or at the very least should be.

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The article I referenced on the show. www.theverge.com/policy/63426...

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At the start of one of my lectures today, I reminded students of my no audio-recording or photography policy so we could have a safe space to discuss government economic policy without fear of being recorded. My American students seemed confused. My international students all nodded. They get it.

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Several Countries Have Issued U.S. Travel Advisories Over Anti-LGBTQ Policies At least four countries (France, Denmark, Finland, & Germany) have issued some sort of advisory for LGBT travelers to the United States — highlighting the dangers for LGBT Americans and visitors from across the globe.

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This is a good overview of the worries in Brazil as Bolsonaro and seven other co-conspirators are indicted for plotting a coup.

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I learned this week that you can put our troops' lives in danger, compromise our national security, and violate the Espionage Act. And the government will do nothing. But if you write an editorial for your school newspaper that Trump doesn't like, you will be abducted on the street and disappeared.

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This is sickening and is yet another source of shame for us all as this is done in our name as Americans.

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For the non-Portuguese speakers: former president Bolsonaro of Brazil and seven others accused in plotting a coup after he lost the last election have been formally indicted and scheduled to stand trial before Brazil's Supreme Federal Tribunal.

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George Soros is the Emmanuel Goldstein of the régime.

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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

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"Food banks are handling unprecedented demand as U.S. hunger rates climb after years of decline. In 2023 13.5% of Americans struggled at some point to secure enough food, the highest rate in nearly a decade...In rural America, the hunger rate is even higher at 15.4%." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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The fascists in charge sure do tell on themselves.

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I’ll take being aware and feeling bad over being uninformed any day.

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“Forget being careful about following the rules – just don’t come here. Why spend your money in the US, which is threatening to annex its neighbours and rapidly descending into authoritarianism?”

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Circling back on this…

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I'm proud of my union for joining this lawsuit.

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The US régime doesn't have the legislative means to end Social Security. So it appears determined to undermine it and cause it to fail by depleting it of resources.

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It didn't take very long for the new régime to decide that some college students, by protesting a war, threaten US national security and must be hunted down. Meanwhile, the Congressional leaders of the Democratic Party go on acting like everything is normal.

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Taxing the positive externalities of certain transportation modes is a new one to me. Maybe Washington can take that revenue and use it to subsidize cigarette sales.

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First performed on March 25, 1714—it feels like only yesterday—Bach's cantata "Wie schön leuchtet der morgenstern" ("How beautifully shines the morning star") has pride of place as the first in the BWV catalog of his works. Here is this shining work performed in its entirety on period instruments.

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“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”

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So what other classified information is being shared with people, including foreign governments, who shouldn't have access to it? And why is anyone surprised since this régime is headed up by a man who has a track record of being "careless" to put it mildly when it comes to information?

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Começa amanhã o processo.

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This is not a disagreement. At this point, with the last decade (and particularly the last couple of months) as a resume, their alignment with this president means that we are fundamentally disconnected on what is morally acceptable. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-dont-ne...

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