Old Fitz
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E pur si muove. Retired teaching scholar and public servant.
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Aaron Rupar
13 days ago
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
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Just to be clear...
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about 2 months ago
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Trump is bragging again about acing a cognitive test. Fortunately for him, they removed the Armenia v Albania screen
about 2 months ago
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Nancy Mace just discovered MAGA is misogynistic. Next people who are not White might also notice another conspicuous pattern. Who knows where this leads?
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about 2 months ago
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The drive to strip birthright citizenship is much more than one of Trump's anti-immigrant antics--its an attack on the Constitution and all of its protections
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2 months ago
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Smells like Lame Duck FlambĂŠ for Thanksgiving!
2 months ago
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Trump: the Other White Meat
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Watch out, everyoneâa narcissist is never so dangerous than when he faces rejection
3 months ago
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Who are you going to believe: Kristi Noem, puppy killer, or your own eyes
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4 months ago
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Rarely does photojournalism capture the realities of the front lines in urban warfare so vividly! This has Pulitzer written all over it!
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George Conway âď¸đşđ¸
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Mark Copelovitch
4 months ago
Reminder that most of our political rules & institutions are purely extra-constitutional norms, held together by shared beliefs in democracy & a lot of duct tape, & weâre all out of shared norms & have shredded our last rolls of tape. âDemocracy is a system in which parties lose electionsâ
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Batman on METV: Egghead, played by Vincent Price, takes over Gotham City and fires everyone competent, and bans the dynamic duoâprophetic?
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Mr. Chau
4 months ago
Jane Goodall was actually the only one keeping the apes in control. Now there's a power vacuum
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A beautiful person has left us--we were elevated as a species for having her as a member
www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie...
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Primatologist and ethologist Jane Goodall has died at age 91
The work carried out in Tanzania by the British researcher revolutionized the way we look at chimpanzees, and consequently, at humans. A pioneer of modern ethology, she became an ambassador for the pr...
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2025/10/02/primatologist-and-ethologist-jane-goodall-has-died-at-age-91_6745995_15.html
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AP: âOn Sunday, federal agents marched along Michigan Avenue and the Chicago River, attracting attention from shoppers and families dining at sidewalk cafes. Many pulled out cameras to record.â If it werenât tragic, it would be hilarious
4 months ago
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I smell a plot. Prison populations have been dropping for a decade GEO and CoreCivic have unused capacity in their private prisons If we start putting people in prison for lying to Congress the cells will be full fast Trumpâs entire first administration would be eligible
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Eat, drink and be merry For tomorrow will bring More chaos and cruelty Let loose on the World
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Trump before the UN: âIâm really good at this stuff,â Mr. Trump said. âYour countries are going to hell.â Which Roman Emperor does Trump most resemble? A. Caligula B. Commodus C. Nero D. Elagabalus
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The lack of a healthy public sphere means most of the public has little idea how the US economy is structured--and that to pull the leg out of this part of the labor market can break the stool
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5 months ago
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The word of the day is âdystopiaâ
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The EvanMiya Blog
blog.evanmiya.com?r=1yiun3&utm...
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The EvanMiya Blog | Evan Miyakawa | Substack
From time to time I will share analytically-driven anecdotes, largely based on statistical trends at EvanMiya.com. Click to read The EvanMiya Blog, by Evan Miyakawa, a Substack publication with thousa...
https://blog.evanmiya.com/?r=1yiun3&utm_campaign=subscribe-page-share-screen&utm_medium=web
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Must be the trans kids fault
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Live updates: US employers added just 22,000 jobs last month amid uncertainty over Trump's policies
The Labor Department is set to release its August job report a month after a previous disappointing report enraged President Donald Trump, leading him to fire the economist in charge.
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-9-5-2025?utm_source=onesignal
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Star Trek is about anti-vaxersâhere is the RFK Jr character
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âThy hand great Dulness! lets the curtain fall,â¨And universal Darkness covers all."
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âThy hand great Dulness! lets the curtain fall,â¨And universal Darkness covers all.
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Judge rules Trump illegally deployed National Guard to L.A. A simple flaw in the Courts as a practical way to keep the Constitution intact is the pace at which damage can be done compared to the glacial tempo of the Courts
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America: a Fox âsecurity expertâ says Mass âcreates safety challenges rarely seen in public schoolsâ and must be altered Land of the free, home of the brave
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Disasters and the Gulf Coast, 20 Years after Hurricane Katrina
www.urban.org/stories/disa...
What are we doing to improve this situation? We need action, and we are getting disinvestment in our collective capacity to respond to collective challenges
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Disasters and the Gulf Coast, 20 Years after Hurricane Katrina
Place-based data about how disasters have affected the Gulf Coast since Hurricane Katrina and the federal governmentâs role in managing extreme events.,On August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made lan...
https://www.urban.org/stories/disasters-gulf-coast-katrina
6 months ago
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Justice should be a practice, not an application of theory
6 months ago
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A considerable source of populist anger came as backlash to authorities policing speech to advance an ideological agenda The Trump Administration is announcing that it is the official policy of the US that the word âgenderâ should not be used in international documents
#gender
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Fred Wellman
7 months ago
Basic human decency shouldn't be "political."
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The sociopath really has no concern for the consequences of actions--who cares if the little girls didn't get a warning in time? He scored political points in the budget process!
7 months ago
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Putin's spokesperson says Trump is all hat and no cowboy
7 months ago
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The dismantling and politicization of the administrative state in the US is a foolish error with mounting costs overtime
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7 months ago
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The Sun Dog
8 months ago
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Suspect: Sprout Wanted on suspicion of getting on the kitchen table and eating an entire loaf of fresh, homemade bread
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www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/05...
I would seriously like to know if RFK, the Lessor, or anyone in his orbit, really understands what meta-analysis is, how it works methodologically, and why dozens of consistent such studies make for really strong evidence for a conclusion
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/05/14/seed-oils-safety-studies/I
9 months ago
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Black Box Warning: Beware any sentence that begins with the proper noun "The Democrats." What follows is almost always based on a figurative position that there is some central entity with a unified will that makes univocal decisions. That is the authoritarian model.
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Long Live Pope Leo XIV!
9 months ago
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NYT gets it dead wrong in the lede: the President of Harvard acknowledges real problems, and takes responsibility to changeâthe right response when an institution loses its wayâhonest and responsible action are the antithesis of Trump, not agreement with him
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âLight dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal Darkness buries allâ Alexander Pope
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RFK Jr. will order placebo testing for new vaccines, alarming health experts
The potential change outlined in a statement would require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, sparking concerns among medical experts.
https://wapo.st/3EM3SCa
9 months ago
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For the record, Iâm a 30 dolls Christmas kind of guy
9 months ago
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POTUS is using its powers to jawbone vendors away from sharing information with consumers about how much the administrationâs policy costâused to be these powers were used to help consumers get information, not to supress it
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There is a sense in which the Trump Administration puts the US back on the moral plane it was in under Dred Scott--some persons born here are stateless, and may be repatriated to a place they have never visited
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Missing The Point
9 months ago
Breaking: The conclave to pick the next Pope is scheduled to begin May 7. On the delay a Vatican spokesperson noted: âWe couldnât sequester them before the running of the Kentucky Derby, the Cardinals love to play the ponies.â
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Conclave to select new pope will begin May 7, Vatican announces
With 135 cardinals eligible to vote, the coming conclave is set to be the largest in the history of the Catholic Church and one of the most unpredictable in decades.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/04/28/pope-francis-conclave-vatican/
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Catherine Rampell
10 months ago
U.S.-citizen pediatric cancer patients are getting deported, 401k's have plummeted, Head Start/school lunches/anti-lead-poisoning programs are getting defunded, global allies hate us, Pentagon chief is leaking war plans But at least Trump is pumping up a fake holiday that comes in October
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Weak Donald Trump, who was going to end the Ukraine War immediately, is pouting because is buddy Putin continues to bomb civilian targets, as if Putin listens to Trump instead of the other way around. Weak, Weak, weak
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"Trump says the U.S. and China are 'actively' discussing tariffs. Beijing says that's false" Trump is weak and now must resort to fiction to pretend his incompetence isn't real
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