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Green Swamp dweller, Fear Nothing. "I ain't young like you, I'm old and give out." --Slingblade
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donni saphire
2 days ago
You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They donât really check
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4 days ago
Well, itâs Christmas for me, so have my favorite Christmas story.
www.jowaltonbooks.com/short-storie...
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What Joseph Felt (A Christmas Story) | Jo Walton -- Science Fiction and Fantasy Author
http://www.jowaltonbooks.com/short-stories/joseph/
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Sarah Kendzior
4 days ago
âI am worn from warning. What is a warning, anyway, but a declaration of what you love and want to protect? Itâs not that my heartâs not in it. Itâs that my heart is in everything.â
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-miners
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The Miners
The men who would strip the future for parts.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-miners
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Danny Anduza
4 days ago
Merry Christmas! Here, have a vintage snow-covered Diplodocus skeleton
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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli
4 days ago
As a holiday tradition, we should seek vengeance on our enemies. đ
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OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
11 months ago
just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
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Ana Marie Cox
6 days ago
I am a video essayist now! My second video is out now, about that terrible OU gender studies essay and what it means when power stops bothering with an argument.
youtu.be/GvCmeuJyT9g?...
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That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad | An Editorâs Note
YouTube video by Ana Marie Cox
https://youtu.be/GvCmeuJyT9g?si=LrODEUUyOkJ60jd0
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Frank Conniff
15 days ago
Every day, I pray this will be the day of that one particular piece of good news. You know, THAT piece of good news, inspiring jubilant celebration. Every close-up of hand makeup heralds hope and possibility. May that joyous day come soon.
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SlacktivistFred
22 days ago
You probably had a better Saturday than Vice Adm. Frank âMitchâ Bradley, but thatâs because you didnât order anyone to kill two helpless, unarmed people like Vice Adm. Frank âMitchâ Bradley did.
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jamelle
24 days ago
i think this video is pretty good and you should watch it
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Ian Vandewalker
24 days ago
Several state and local elections broke campaign spending records, thanks mostly to big donors and super PACs.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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Odd-Year Elections Break Spending Records
Several state and local elections this year saw new highs of spending, especially from megadonor-fueled super PACs.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/odd-year-elections-break-spending-records
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The skull beneath the skin
24 days ago
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Ian Vandewalker
27 days ago
Last month's odd-year elections in the states broke spending records, a sign that we haven't yet seen the high-water mark of the big-money flood unleashed by the Supreme Court and other deregulatory actions.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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Odd Year Elections Break Spending Records
Several state and local elections this year saw new highs of spending, especially from megadonor-fueled super PACs.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/odd-year-elections-break-spending-records
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Toby Earle đșđŠ
27 days ago
âYou boy! How do I unsubscribe from all these Black Friday emails?â
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Stephanie đ
29 days ago
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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Patrick "I'm Patman" Sponaugle
30 days ago
The old peasant had two skills: stone-working and knowing not to report to work when the monarchâs secretive projects were nearing their completion dates.
#MicroStory
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Shabana Mir
about 1 month ago
Ivan Marchuk (Ukrainian, b. 1936). Moon in the steppe.
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Marjorie James Keenan
about 1 month ago
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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muscular baby jeb lund
about 1 month ago
This Thanksgiving, it's important to think about what kind of Thanksgiving column you want to wind up inâthe hot cousin one, or the Marine Todd one. Then I explain how we can take direct action against your family.
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The Importance of Being âThatâ Person This Thanksgiving - Truthdig
As we carve the turkey, we can all serve as something of a measure against the mess.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-importance-of-being-that-person-this-thanksgiving/
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Patrick Wyman
about 1 month ago
You know what? I'm going to toot my own horn a little bit. Here are the first two pages from "Lost Worlds." If you've read "Sapiens," compare the depth of his understanding of the material he's citing with what I'm doing here.
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Ian Vandewalker
about 1 month ago
Trump is the only president to fundraise for a super PAC while constitutionally prohibited from running again. (To be fair, only one other president, Obama, even had the chance.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
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Trump to Hold Two Fund-Raisers for His Super PAC Next Year
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/politics/trump-super-pac-fundraisers.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share
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Micah
about 1 month ago
evergreen
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Ian Vandewalker
about 1 month ago
These idiots are lying about vaccines to pander to the politics of cruel stupidity, and they are going to kill children.
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Ian Vandewalker
about 1 month ago
Coinbase CEO says the company gave to Trump's ballroom fund to "keep good relations with the White House."
www.axios.com/2025/11/18/t...
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Exclusive: Coinbase explains donation to Trump's ballroom
Tech firms like Google, Amazon, and Nvidia also donated to Trump's ballroom fund.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/18/trump-white-house-ballroom-crypto-coinbase
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Rikibeth
about 1 month ago
If I move beyond simply cracking jokes about the alleged blowjob, my thoughts go in this direction:
bsky.app/profile/riki...
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
about 1 month ago
the sense of incredulity and comic revulsion i get every time i see a cybertruck in the wild has not been reduced by even a single degree in all the time theyâve been on the street
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Tyler, from the Internet
about 2 months ago
Rich people are complaining about their taxes going up and like, can't you just make more money? I swear, rich people these days just don't want to work anymore. They're so lazy and entitled. Like pull yourself up by your gold plated bootstraps, rich people, don't you always say that's so easy?
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Robin đŠ
about 2 months ago
Republicans yesterday đ
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A meow
about 2 months ago
I'm not old-fashioned about much but I do think it's a shame rock and roll is no longer blamed for all the ills of the world.
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Cait
2 months ago
Nature abhors a vacuum, but it loves a dumpling
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Kai
2 months ago
I don't think there's a single group of people anywhere on earth who has not, at one stage of their societal development, looked at a piece of food and thought "You know what this needs? An edible wrapper"
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Finnydotca
2 months ago
And the universality of the dumpling creates a realm where no one can say, here is the apotheosis of the dumpling. There are a hundred sublime versions.
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*Doctor* Eric J. Harvey!
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Robert Reich
2 months ago
When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee. But two years later, they haven't â and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education. A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
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Jack McGovan
2 months ago
"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation systemâs budget deficit." Taxing the rich works!
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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/millionaire-tax-that-inspired-mamdani-fuels-5-7-billion-haul-in-massachusetts?embedded-checkout=true
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Brennan Center
2 months ago
In a major break from the past, the Supreme Court is frequently using its emergency docket to rule on challenges to government actions â almost always in favor of the Trump administration and without explanation.
bit.ly/4nXIr2p
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Supreme Court Shadow Docket Tracker â Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
The Court is ruling on challenges to government actions on its emergency docket, often without explaining its decisions or providing guidance to lower courts.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/supreme-court-shadow-docket-tracker-challenges-trump-administration
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Anne Thériault
2 months ago
Do your parents walk too slowly through palaces, monuments, and other places frequented by tourists? Do they stop to read every plaque while youâre trying to hustle them into the next room so you can see some cool stuff? You may be entitled to compensation.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
2 months ago
This week on the blog: Peasants! We are at last putting together and wrapping up our discussion of life for pre-industrial peasants - a category which includes a majority of all humans who have ever lived. How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died.
acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part V: Life In Cycles
This is the fifth and final part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd, IVe) looking at the structures of life for pre-modern peasant farmers and showing how historical modeling can âŠ
https://acoup.blog/2025/10/17/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-v-life-in-cycles/
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uel aramchek
2 months ago
My first day working at AWS is going great. For some reason they had a lot of computers plugged in that nobody was using, so Iâve started an initiative to lower our carbon footprint
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William Shakespeare
2 months ago
[Exit King.]
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Lindsay Beyerstein
2 months ago
Jeffrey Epstein was a hyper-parasite, a billionaire whose quarry was other billionaires.
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Money, Women and Taxes: Jeffrey Epsteinâs Fiery Friendship with a Wall Street Titan
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/business/jeffrey-epstein-leon-black.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uU8.5mGp.h2fwDbtTQFu6&smid=url-share
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Ana Marie Cox
2 months ago
I now cry every time I watch this or hear it. Also, remember, this is now under the Tom Holland rule and must be reposted every time you see it.
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Iain Clark
3 months ago
#Frog
#Pratchett
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eviĆrooster
3 months ago
I have seen Him in the refugees arriving on our shores And Iâve seen His Pontius Pilates on the House and Senate floors. Let us build Him up an altar before ICEâs prison doors.
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Josh Kovensky
3 months ago
the Brennan Center has a nice overview on the abuse that is NSPM-7
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Ian Vandewalker
3 months ago
New
@brennancenter.org
roundup of what we're following in money in politics, from AI super PACs to Web ad spend... the first major SCOTUS campaign finance case in a decade, the FEC down to 2/6 commissioners, pardons, corruption--and some good news, too.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Money in Politics Roundup â October 2025
Our new recurring feature covers key stories from the world of campaign finance and influence buying, from the AI industry to super PAC support for a lame-duck president.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/money-politics-roundup-october-2025
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G Elliott Morris
3 months ago
Why most polls overstate support for political violence
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...
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Why most polls overstate support for political violence
Misperceptions about the popularity of violence increase public support for it â but you can help change that.
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls-overstate-support-for?triedRedirect=true
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer
3 months ago
Stay weird, Portland. I love that about y'all. Show those mean ICE pricks how ridiculous they are.
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