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"Instructions for Having a Soul"

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

For whatever reason ICE doesn't have a Bluesky account. So I thought I'd drop this in here. Note the Free Speech crowd has now put the good folks at ICE in charge of stopping, detaining and deporting "Ideas".

"I don’t know about you, but I am sick to death of governance by tweet." - Mary Trump A Total Fucking Loser www.marytrump.org/p/a-total-fu...

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Ten-year patterns of emergent concussion injuries among various martial arts disciplines - Injury www.injuryjournal.com/article/S002...

"It's a corrupt, plutocratic gangsterism that gives away the taxes and tax cuts to the richest people and goes on war after war on credit. And that leads to these large deficits that Trump then blames on other countries." m.rediff.com/news/comment...

BREAKING: The 4th Circuit has *denied* the Trump administration's effort to resist an order to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States by midnight tonight. Judge Xinis' order is still in effect. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

As seen today...

Yeah. This one's on us, not Garland

If you're protesting this weekend, know your rights when interacting with law enforcement, including immigration agents.

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

This makes so much sense

"It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order. He did this with the enthusiastic support of the Republican party and a plurality of American voters." The American Age Is Over www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

"One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's all right not to know anything - that in a way it's cool. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet," (Carl) Sagan said. archive.seattletimes.com/archive/1995...

I'm thinking we'd be better off with Chance the Gardener (IYKYK)

He's such an a%%hole. Biggest tax hike on Americans ever. All for nothing

Me, now. And for the next four years, at least.

I spoke to an expert in authoritarianism, who explained to me that things like this are extremely meaningful and they help protect democracy, even if there’s not a straight line between this and actual legislating