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Disgruntled writer in SF, CA
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John Bull
12 days ago
General reminder of the words of proud son of Virginia, Major-General George H Thomas. The "Rock of Chickamauga". Who, unlike Lee, stayed loyal to the Union. Post-war he had views on 'Lost Cause' and the damage it would do to America, unchecked. A “counterfeit varnish of patriotism” he called it.
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Jeff Yang
15 days ago
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
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Of course you should read everything Doctorow posts, but you should ABSOLUTELY read what he posted today:
pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k...
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Pluralistic: America’s collapsing consumption is the world’s disenshittification opportunity (16 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k-shaped-recovery/
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THREE THE HARD WAY. Soundtrack constantly recaps whatever just happened in case you wander in late.
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jamelle
about 1 month ago
it is the worst of all worlds. a "unitary *presidency*" insulated from judicial or congressional power and a weak president unable to do the job of governing
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jamelle
about 1 month ago
thinking more about this: it is highly ironic that at the same time that it serves as a test case for the "unitary executive," this administration is all but being led by two subordinate officials with no immediate political accountability.
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John Shirley
about 2 months ago
#sff
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction that was supposed to come out this last summer is finally out. They got a new publisher and there were growing pains. It contains my novelet 'The Corporate Soul' and Afrofuturist sf from Maurice Broaddus and other cutting edge sf and fantasy.
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James Fallows
2 months ago
Good to see two of our stand-up governors standing together on this one. (As they have on many other issues.)
@governor.ca.gov
just weighed in to similar effect.
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public health is anti-war. guy
2 months ago
she called it
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Ezra Levin ❌👑
2 months ago
Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
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jamelle
2 months ago
one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!
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jamelle
2 months ago
i wouldn't be a total glenn youngkin hater if i didn't mention that the results tonight mean that his total tenure amounted to presiding over the destruction — at least for the next few years — of the virginia republican party. lmao.
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Asha Rangappa
3 months ago
If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
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At the risk of sounding a little presumptuous: God bless the Pope
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Miller is what you would get if an incel somehow managed to impregnate his inflatable fuck-me doll.
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The Tennessee Holler
4 months ago
If we’re renaming departments and calling the DOD the “Department of War”, we might as well go ahead and make the DOJ the “Department of Revenge”
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Kevin M. Kruse
4 months ago
Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
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Daniel Malmer
4 months ago
This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.
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What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism
Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic...
https://web.archive.org/web/20250911012550/https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-nij-research-tells-us-about-domestic-terrorism
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Dr. Lucky Tran
4 months ago
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
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Richard Kadrey
4 months ago
These fools are going to kill a lot of people.
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Hoping the AI cover controversy won't delay (or worse yet, scuttle) the print release. Any news to share,
Johnshirley2024.bluesky.social
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5 months ago
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James Fallows
5 months ago
Actual question: It has been only 72 hours since the disastrous puppeteer/puppet show in Anchorage. Has there yet been a background story on how, and by whom, this emergency intervention of *eight* big-time world leaders was pulled together, over a weekend?
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Have waited all these years for someone to explain to me why QUIZ SHOW was not a comedy
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5 months ago
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Brian Kirby
5 months ago
Graphic designer Joe Caroff passed away yesterday at age 103. Responsible for absolutely legendary posters and typefaces.
www.printmag.com/daily-heller...
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If you are not on Cory Doctorow's Plura-list, it is time to subscribe
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Chris Murphy
5 months ago
Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it. Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.
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Jay Willis
5 months ago
Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.
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The Cowardice of Senate Democrats Made Emil Bove’s Confirmation Possible
Senate Democrats could have confirmed Biden nominee Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit last year. They caved to a disgraceful right-wing smear campaign instead.
https://ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/emil-bove-confirmed-adeel-mangi-senate-democrats/
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Instructions: buy
6 months ago
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Opal
6 months ago
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
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Not to mention dog chow
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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emptywheel
6 months ago
Jeffrey Epstein Is about Trump's Failing Ability to Command Attention
www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/13/j...
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Jeffrey Epstein Is about Command of Attention - emptywheel
It doesn't matter why Trump's super power of commanding and redirecting attention is failing with the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. If that power fails with his base, it will make it far harder for him to ...
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/13/jeffrey-epstein-is-about-command-of-attention/
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Trump's gift. "Even if American science becomes gutted. . . science will still survive and thrive in the rest of the world, and we may be witnessing a pivotal moment that leads to the decline of the US and the rise of other scientific and technological national leaders."
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American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history
Over the first half of 2025, the USA has cut science as never before. This disaster for American science is a gift to the rest of the world.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/american-science-brain-drain/
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My Parisian operatives spotted an odd graffito on this side of this building. It read "
@joequinones.bsky.social
Wuz Here"
6 months ago
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Heartwarming romantic (and true!) anecdote: my oldest friend's ex-wife asked him to move back east so that they could be together in the same concentration camp.
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Joe Quinones
6 months ago
A look back at my previous covers for the Batman '89: Echoes series by me and
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with colors from Leonardo Ito. Final issue out this Wednesday!
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7 months ago
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Trump's birthday parade and Trump's solid gold toilet: two grotesque extravagances he gets to enjoy in solitude
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Yeah, the Post has uncovered damning evidence that Levitsky actually believes in what he says
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News
7 months ago
"There is simply no rationale for the way he has laid waste to scientific research – to those seeking the causes and cures for deadly diseases that afflict the lives of millions of people," writes
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The Insane Killing of Medical Research by Trump
It’s hard to say what is the very worst thing Trump has done in the first few months of his second term. Here’s my candidate: the cancellation of vast numbers of grants for medical rese…
https://dianeravitch.net/2025/06/05/the-killing-of-medical-research-by-trump-and-rfk/
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emptywheel
7 months ago
I don't want Newsom to run and I think he's a douchebag but he should declare for 2828 (so should Pritzker) for precisely the reason Trump did. To make any LE activity a campaign stunt.
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jamelle
7 months ago
very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
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You want mordant? We got mordant: "I asked Wilentz whether Trump was unique in terms of his destructiveness or if there were presidential precedents. Wilentz replied 'There is no precedent, not even close, unless you consider Jefferson Davis an American president.'"
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/o...
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Opinion | ‘I Even Believe He Is Destroying the American Presidency’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/opinion/trump-musk-doge-government.html
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He wants Kimberly Guilfoyle back
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For a good time, watch Buckley v. Chomsky:
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Data for Progress
8 months ago
There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid.
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Bill McKibben
8 months ago
The same kind of folks who spent years complaining about masks that slowed the spread of disease are now wearing masks to facilitate the spread of fascism
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His AssHoliness Pope Anus I
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emptywheel
8 months ago
Trump's budget: We're cutting your health care and cancer cures to pay to deport your nurse assistant and cancer researcher.
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Followup to previous repost:
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A thread worth revisiting on a regular basis. Example #1, David Valadao, represents the 22nd congressional district in CA:
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