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Pretty boring dude; got a cat and a dog, read a lot, sometimes I write—it keeps me going https://uwcg.substack.com though actively taking recommendations for more ethical places to ramble on a blog
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I went to school with a cool Sikh dude. He’d even explain Sikhism a bit which was awesome. Bigots are bigots, sadly. Mom’s a school bus driver, a mechanic is Sikh, she called him the “turbanator” and couldn’t understand why the “politically correct” boss made her stop. Bigots suck.

Murrow's 'wires and lights in a box' speech comes to mind. Murrow was right about public media's potential. Far from cutting it, we should be raising taxes on "news" networks(Fox) that are failing their Fourth Estate duty. Wouldn't trust this admin to be impartial. Protect public media!

Got around to writing a bit of a rundown on Peter Thiel, guy originally behind PayPal now involved with Palantir. He's been getting a bit more attention lately, is a billionaire tech guy like Elon, and has been kinda flying under the radar for a while

From Milton Mayer’s ‘They Thought They Were Free’ Ringing any bells?

Tell me: if these dudes show up with guns in an unmarked van to grab someone, why don’t the Second Amendment fans think they should be shot?

Due to South Sudan being in the news earlier this week, I decided to try and get a grasp on their post-colonial history beyond the headlines. Here's a bit about the war-ravaged country this administration wants to deport people to without trial and why that is such an awful choice.

When I attended my first Board of Visitors meeting a few weeks ago, I brought some of the books the Academy had banned — including Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" — and moved to end the ban. This is progress. We can’t stop fighting back.

Don't look away, don't normalize: this is the virtually unconstrained leader of the world's most powerful country ambushing the president of South Africa with conspiracy-fueled racist propaganda promoted by his unelected billionaire maybe-appointee who has caused the deaths of children through DOGE.

Shared via DM. #SecCookieMonster got an earful at Olympic National Park! Key takeaways: - how do you keep visitor centers open and pathetic public safe when you fire staff? - the emails to employees were abusive. - this is not a business; balance sheets don’t make sense. #Resist

And now, she is going. Not to another wing of the hospital. Not to a specialist. Not to the care she should have had immediately. She is driving across state lines like a fugitive, like the act of not dying requires secrecy and strategy.

Hackers claim deportation flights manifest and leave scathing message for Trump: 'You lose again Donnie' Hackers have allegedly stolen the flight manifests for a number of deportation flights while leaving a scathing message for Donald Trump www.themirror.com/news/us-news...

All week, media’s turned a blind eye to Trump for Tapper’s stupid book. Given the cancer news, I’d suggest human decency. Somehow, I bet these Greek tragedy fetishists are harder than diamonds and the disparaging media will continue to avoid hard reporting on current POTUS’s corruption/senility

Reflecting on Chief Seattle and the lessons we can learn about racism, discrimination, and integration in his life. Also, some words on the risks of training an AI chatbot to spread neo nazi 'white genocide' narratives and deny the Holocaust

Anti-IVF rhetoric is on the rise. Anti-abortion leaders have described IVF as mass murder; some consider it ~ worse ~ than abortion. Also on the rise: calls for more clinic harassment, attacks, and protests after Trump pardoned 23 FACE Act violators in January. And today in CA:

Musk's Starlink was having a hard time getting permits abroad. Then Trump slapped tariffs on basically everything we buy from overseas—and suddenly countries negotiating trade deals started giving Starlink sweet deals! Looks like textbook corruption—and we're all paying for it.

She was 9 weeks pregnant. She died. The state of Georgia is making the doctors keep her alive to incubate the baby. She’s been dead for three months. This is REAL. this isn’t about what should or should not be done. This is about having a VOICE. This is about having a CHOICE.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw on Medicaid: "The person we're taking it away from is the able-bodied adult with no children who refuses to work."

The next 3 years? Legacy media has been working an angle for some time now.

Seeing a lot of outrage about Comey using 86. Is anyone investigating Gaetz for apparently trying to have McCarthy whacked last year? For all we know, he used Venmo, the same app where he pays children for sexual favors, to hire the hitman.

Anyone who has worked on intelligence matters understands the importance of apolitical analysis and speaking truth to power. In firing intel officials who did just that, Gabbard proved once again that she is unfit for her position.

When a state forces a brain-dead pregnant woman to remain on life support against her family's wishes, it abandons its humanity. This is not pro-life; it's a profound violation of human rights. The trauma of continuing a pregnancy under such circumstances is unimaginable.

Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.

After court appearance, Newark mayor accuses Trump administration of ‘authoritarianism’ www.newsfromthestates.com/article/afte...

Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

Justices divided over whether Constitution means what it says

Elon Musk, US oligarch, instructed Grok to post about the fictitious "White Genocide in South Africa" completely unprompted across Twitter. The Ai was forced to talk about the racist fantasy across thousands if not millions of unrelated posts in a ridiculous attempt at spreading racist propaganda.

Justice Jackson says the Trump admin’s request to end nationwide injunctions “turns our justice system into a ‘catch me if you can’ regime.” “I don’t understand how that’s remotely consistent with the rule of law.”

Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot admits that it “was instructed” to make up lies about “white genocide” in South Africa. Gee, I wonder what rich South African tech mogul might have instructed it to do this? 🤔

As much as I enjoy hearing Kagan and Sotomayor in particular shred this asshole in front of the Supreme Court, seeing this assault on the Fourteenth being given this platform is terrifying and ominous for the direction we’re headed as a nation. Birthright citizenship is and should remain a right.