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I spent years in underfunded local newsrooms, among working-class reporters, and I mean to tell you these people don't fuck around and will stop at nothing as long as the coffee/Diet Dr. Pepper and Camel Lights keep coming.

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Dear Manager: 1. I am the womb: of every holt, 2. I am the blaze: on every hill, 3. I am the queen: of every hive, 4. I am the shield: for every head, 5. I am the tomb: of every hope. Please apply to any future work weeks. Yrs., etc ..

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Louisiana was preparing to restart executions by killing 81-year-old Christopher Sepulvado using nitrogen gas. But he died overnight. "His attorneys described a steep decline in Sepulvado's health and cognition...instead of receiving hospice care, Sepulvado was returned to Angola to face execution."

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Any society where even one teacher is made to go through something like this is a sick, rotten, necrotizing society.

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Also, it's revealing to learn that these management demigods are relying on such innovative, cutting edge techniques as those used by the dickhead regional manager of Major Video in like 1996.

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Gorgeous.

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Is anyone else composing emails like they are smuggling forbidden thoughts past the Gulag censorship board, or is it just me?

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“Admitting that our president is a gullible fool who repeats obvious Russian propaganda isn’t helpful,” the bootlicker said.

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"...funding for the military, which is abs. not profitable, remained 👍. But funding for the arts, education, + care work — easily ✂️. Why fund schools if you don’t have kids in them? Why fund art you, personally, wouldn’t choose? Or a park you don’t visit? Or rsch to cure a disease you don’t have?"

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Run for office. Take over your local Democratic Party. Hell, if you can, take over your local Republican Party. There has never been a better time.

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Also, me whenever CBS Sunday Morning's nature moment shows a place I've worked, led expeditions, or explored on my own (today it was Arches NP)

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John is doing the Lord’s work here

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Fantastically brutal review of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's new book, The Technological Republic by @lioneltrolling.bsky.social. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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It's so fun to be on the left in places like Louisiana, where you work your ass off to protect vulnerable people, despite a constant flood of mockery and abuse, only to lose. And then some asshole from NY sneers "FAFO" when the people you fought against get power and wreck everything.

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This isn’t drugs. This is him assuming other people don’t work because he doesn’t do that much work. Very common bad boss behavior. bsky.app/profile/rcma...

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“A group of frustrated Yosemite National Park staffers hoping to draw attention to the federal government’s sweeping workforce cuts have hung an upside-down American flag thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.”

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#DYRBRY (Did you read Black Reconstruction yet?)

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From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

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purges...

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OpenAI isn't on the path to becoming a for profit company! They spent $9 billion to lose $5 billion last year! And if you think Sam Altman is some virtuous guy being pushed around by venture capitalists you are a god damn mark, holy shit

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Dear Reichsleiter Musk I humbly offer 10: (I am very productive): 1, 1, 1 'cause you left me And 2, 2, 2 for my family And 3, 3, 3 for my heartache And 4, 4, 4 for my headaches And 5, 5, 5 for my lonely And 6, 6, 6 for my sorrow And 7, 7— no tomorrow And 8, 8, I forget what 8 was for...

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To state the obvious as has been observed my countless people on numerous occasions, Dems speaking about red areas 10 percent as harshly as Republicans speaking about blue areas is treated as a massive scandal.

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Your annual Carnival reminder that this is what they took from you (everywhere you could see a parade, 1977)

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Geez, lighten up. It's for my cigars! Lol triggered much?

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See, the thing to remember about the narrative about GenX that came from all those movies is not that everyone was a cool, quirky, tolerant, non-conformist, but that the people with power and social cachet were complete assholes and almost everyone else was terrified or indifferent.

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I think she got that backwards. anyone who performs there under these conditions should be boycotted there and EVERYWHERE. “With the change, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt boasted, "The Kennedy Center learned the hard way that if you go woke, you will go broke.”

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“… unless, of course, the people of Boston know they don’t have to open the door to an immigration warrant, in which case Hell and I will stand around with our dicks in our hand like we did in Chicago and LA.”

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Molotov-Ribbentrop: the US is proposing to carve up Ukraine with Russia getting the land and the US getting the mineral rights. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

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If federal employees don't respond "Your mom" or "Deez Nutz" en masse, I will be very disappointed.

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I would have gone to parades today, but I have a Courir costume to complete.

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I truly think people don’t realize how many universities and colleges — especially public ones — may shut down if restrictions on and withholding of federal funding persists for even one presidency We are facing the demolition of American higher education

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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

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Excellent thread.

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We really went from, “We can’t possibly defund the police,” to “let’s defund everything else.” Smh

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I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.

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This is key to understanding the building outrage & backlash that extends way beyond the hurt of those fired. Firing people for no reason is brutal & loathsome but the even larger overall offense is wiping out all the fired people’s jobs with them, all the purposes & needs & value those jobs serve.

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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The University of Alaska Board of Regents passed a resolution removing diversity, equity, inclusion, DEI, and affirmative action from ALL UA materials 9-1. Only UA Student Regent Selimi voted no. It was not noticed or made available to the public in any form before it passed. #AkLeg #Alaska

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Penn & Teller: Fool Us is the only TV show I like to watch these days.

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I hope the rest of the world wakes up to this quickly. Trump will side with Putin against our allies and the free world. The US is going to the dark side and can no longer be trusted to defend democracies or keep our commitments. This is sad and shameful, but obvious and inevitable.

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!

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