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Expat, ex-law left-coastian fan of Brownian motion trying to write his way out of a paper bag. From Oakland, CA; 30 years in 🇩🇪. If we don't know each other and I just followed you back, 🚫DMs, please! See also https://spamless.substack.com
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U.S. Justice Department deletes database tracking federal police misconduct wapo.st/3QsHIXO

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This is like opposing a joint resolution declaring that the Sun sets in the West America doesn’t just look like an idiot here, we look like goddamn Flat Earthers

submitted 3 days ago • 1067 comments

Set's over—get up! Fitness at 69. #calisthenics #mobility

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Via @marcelias.bsky.social: an inspiring flame. "My Open Letter to Elon Musk" - Democracy Docket www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

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Folgendes war in dem Wiesbadener Kurier heute. Ich dachte an Dich, @andrewhammel.bsky.social.

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@longdistancecaller.bsky.social I had to look up "herper." I would've gotten "herpetologist." 😅

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First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.

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“I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights,” he said. “I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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They took the same oath I did—to uphold the Constitution. Instead, they’re using the law as a weapon for political power. This should outrage everyone. youtube.com/shorts/WfrWu...

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Okay, this is too funny not to post. Source unknown.

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Sunday Decline Push-Ups: 73 reps @ 69 in Set One youtu.be/Gb1gOAImA3Q?... #calisthenics #pushups #seniorfitness

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As we start another week, my law firm is litigating 46 voting and election cases in 19 states. A team starts trial to protect the Voting Rights Act in Alabama tomorrow! Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of democracy and democracy is on the docket.

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⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid. On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.

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It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

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Democrats, don’t save Trump from himself wapo.st/4hv2Hp0

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It is to laugh. Or cry. Or kill oneself. Or something! #Adobe #CreativeCloud (Screenshot of me interacting with Adobe's AI "help" bot. I'm getting the razor blades out of the old medicine chest now.)

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Surgeon removed wrong organ then covered it up, widow alleges in suit wapo.st/4gKHczn

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🚨Maddow uncovers another major Trump scandal www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqWB...

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This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do! www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

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Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

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This is a great resource! Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

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Placing all #USAID staff on admin leave is cruel to staff and harmful to U.S. interests. It also doesn't square with the notice #Rubio sent to Congress announcing a more measured process that could have been undertaken in compliance with law. (1/2)

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How Much Fruit Is Too Much? A Scientific Nick Norwitz: Look at Fruit Like Never Before www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjJr...

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I dunno who made this, but I love it!

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I wrote ‘The Art of the Deal’ with Trump. His self-sabotage is rooted in his past. wapo.st/40ZvprY [Unpaywalled via my sub]

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Musk Says DOGE Is Halting Treasury Payments to US Contractors - Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

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Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

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Trump's trade war with Canada and Mexico aims a wrecking ball at the decades-old regional alliance that made the US the world's economic powerhouse www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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He Learned an Ancient Language Experts Couldn’t Solve www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqSc...

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Trump has Sundy Meltdown calling for Canada's demise youtu.be/uTvSodcPlMk?...

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Great AI cynicism here. Quoted in Ars Technica's article on tarpits for AI crawlers tante.cc/2025/01/28/q...

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Exclusive: Musk aides lock Office of Personnel Management workers out of computer systems www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

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I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period. I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt. But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are

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She got an IUD for birth control. Then she got a $14,000 bill for it. wapo.st/40ZLa1d [Unpaywalled via my sub]

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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

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"Your eyes seem to be expecting miracles I would be most honored and willing to perform." — Franz Kafka, Letters To Milena

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Trump suspended Medicaid for one in five of all Americans yesterday as part of his plan to end all spending that might encourage greater equality in the US. Is this what evil politics looks like? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01...

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2,000-year-old Greek statue found dumped near trash cans in Thessaloniki - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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Re. Google Maps' offensive kowtowing to MAGA on renaming the Gulf of Mexico for U.S. users, @laurenweinstein.org dug up this opposite 2008 Google policy statement: Google Public Policy: How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2008/04/how-...

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105 weight-boosted Belgian squats at 69 (7x speed) youtu.be/Iso4b9tOtqg?... #calisthenics #seniorfitness #squat

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Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data | Electronic Frontier Foundation www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era #drama #theatre #Shakespeare #performance #adaptation #appropriation #historicism #empire #culture #materialism #TeamEnglish #renaissance #bardolatry #postcolonial #woke #socialjustice #theory #queer www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DQYB2TS5

submitted 55 days ago • 12 comments

Think About It! 🤔

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Anyone an expert in coffee futures and prices, that could comment on the impact of a 25 PCT tariff on Columbia on the price of coffee for American consumers ?

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Ich habe keine Worte...

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