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Upcoming weekend sorted, thanks to
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! đđ#booksky
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Alondra Nelson
6 months ago
"Black applicants would, on average, need credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants to receive the same approval rate, and about 30 points higher to receive the same interest rate."
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Sidney Morss
6 months ago
big & beautiful
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Bookshelfie
6 months ago
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Loved the audiobooks so much that I picked up hardbacks for a deeper read. Thanks,
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and looking forward to #3 next month! đđ#booksky
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daily bunnies đâš
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The Tennessee Holler
7 months ago
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @laloalcaraz)
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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him)
7 months ago
Yes. She really said it.
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7 months ago
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âPresident Bystanderâ indeed
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âIâm not the one making this decisionâ: President Bystander strikes again
Confronted with key questions about life-or-death issues, Trump continues to offer a lot of shrugged shoulders and blank stares.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-abrego-garcia-ms-13-abc-news-interview-rcna203688
7 months ago
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In Otter News
7 months ago
Brad, please stop.
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Randall Munroe
7 months ago
PhD Timeline
xkcd.com/3081
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John Cusack
8 months ago
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This morning, I cracked open
bookshop.org/p/books/mode...
by
@riverssolomon.bsky.social
from a recommendation by
@maris.bsky.social
Fifty pages in and I regret starting it before a workday, but it will patiently wait for the dayâs nonsense to be done.
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Model Home: A Novel
A Novel
https://bookshop.org/p/books/model-home-rivers-solomon/21068713
8 months ago
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Alt18F
8 months ago
"The people who were laid off arenât gone â theyâre watching."
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We came in believing. We left in silence.
DOD's first-ever customer experience officer shares his thoughts on government service amid massive reductions of the federal workforce.
https://defensescoop.com/2025/04/11/savan-kong-public-service-op-ed/
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Robert Reich
8 months ago
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Some thoughts...
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-69d
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We Were Right to Side-Eye Everything: The Gen X Origin of Cynicism
Gen X wasnât born cynical. We were built that way. One betrayal at a time. The job, the war, the dad on TV. Cosby didnât break us. He confirmed what we already knew.
https://genexgeek.com/2025/04/20/gen-x-cynicism-betrayal/
8 months ago
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Elizabeth Bear
8 months ago
This morning is the 250th anniversary of the first battle in what would become the American Revolutionary War. One quarter of a millennium. Lots of bad and good along the way; lots of corruption and moral compromise; some moments of real courage and honor. A Republic, if we can keep it.
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It was never about âefficiencyâ
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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5 takeaways about NPR's reporting on the whistleblower report about DOGE at the NLRB
Here's a summary of NPR's findings about the report that a whistleblower filed to Congress about how DOGE violated security protocols and could have removed sensitive labor data.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355895/doge-musk-nlrb-takeaways-security
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Rogue SSA
8 months ago
đ§” I just want to clear up some misconceptions about what Social Security actually is and how it works. You, as an individual, do not have an "account" with SSA where your FICA contributions have been saved for when you retire. It's not at all comparable to an investment account.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever
8 months ago
Read this.
open.substack.com/pub/thelastm...
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This Is Not a Retreat. Itâs an Attack.
The American experiment is over, and the lunatics are running the asylum with a sledgehammer.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thelastmilewithusaid/p/this-is-not-a-retreat-its-an-attack?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=f0s7
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Victor Shi
8 months ago
Remember Fiona Hill? Sheâs now sounding the alarm again: âWeâre definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. Thereâs no question about it. Iâve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.â When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.
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DollParts69
8 months ago
Justice isn't aggression or retribution; it's accountability.
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An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a âModerate Risk.â Now Heâs No Longer Eligible for Parole.
A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release. Civil rights attorneys say it could disproportionately harm B...
https://www.propublica.org/article/tiger-algorithm-louisiana-parole-calvin-alexander
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Christopher Hutton
8 months ago
NEW POST: I got to sit down and talk to Free League (ALIEN THE RPG, Dragonbane, Etc) about how they're changing ALIEN with their new Kickstarter. Biggest change in my opinion? Better tools for long-term campaigns.
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Alien The RPG's Revamp Adds Tools to Allow for Long-Term Campaigns
How Free League's upcoming update to the horror-focused space RPG will allow players to play longer and enjoy deeper and darker campaigns while facing the Xenomorph threat in space.
https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/u001.ZVI2hsnhJHs0IP228bBeaahquA2R1_c6oJ5jjWQTcBWkC-SnhA02xdLriZJ_I1YYXxr_kOlE-Bw0uAr1WDSKjEm8V9bdEOPv6aZrlTpvnyjpwH3tV0NNkYAC-Odo-xYiWQNO2toMA08D8vupHqNRer-GBf37H6bZevU4NSXc0gAqE3v6_wntfV8HfgfeIyUG2Ucq1Mmg6TQyA220I4KDLplRq-TCu6Ix77_xqr9Uem0C6kwf0GvgqMaqV_hlgHk3QMfTY_ZKMfBHw3ZH80xY-j54qLh5MOZhRYgjtFBiL6slSvMz3Y0aKYI-FRq8Bb5NL2KMDX4edEJEvOWFSQ7mY4abNSVW0ZCYAge0BMuCCn67mMUnvdqKxfIeI_ggLa9OBiTsxCOoV4tADRkj77q_WsVnV99FSB7QgeTXKvVL3lfEW_oPjOIVc3SlEX9wS58G8bcEpw7Taj1UqTr4Pf-JTJzmk3IffwBzVvAGHQJ0OgPyippc1D4um-x2UckS_bkae4Ryeda5un_OFdz4505yzfFXx8M3d6BvpAuzPGIu9g4R9IyYSC8QI4YZcEDxxefBS7zc-bHn0PajfyFA5sWhKARi8zxAoQ9RJj-dYabgYUSttrVJyZziP8z4NKmHb6jx_GNym11QYBv_3811BOhxxTQWiaCLu5nL-TlzHah7jEUq1ifs-I_cRy0Y1SVnBosNXe7ZgejxqB3dxbCcJ-U6fgWds6ow4P6ODj_kTL8G12qSh31fhmBP6pv5RMrBpDIEE5rKNruut3EnlD4gkCRUZ3nTyEhJSV5xDV8Z_fmMNt6nlDDOHmW6b3AaKsqfTSwcg6-rdDnpTXvmIwQLPQGQg7C8OiN6MbYdcF5XSXsAq16GP1WY9O6X6JPzRPx99qlJ7CcmpM6QuxjcJ4-rk0o_Q5iOwgfMxKFp0nRj0DQ9GP0/4fg/EHFiqIqVQxW3ApoLGcM_ag/h0/h001._KU1oF1DQxaappLREJjnrc07u5Su5yS8olS1vMAINQw
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#legionsimperialis
is the best 40Kâtiny tanks rule!
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8 months ago
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Chuck Wendig
8 months ago
Wrote a thing. Maybe it's a thing you wanna read, I dunno. We'll see. *lays it gently at your feet*
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What It Feels Like, Right Now
When I was in college in North Carolina, I flew home to Pennsylvania for the holidays. My mother and father were going through a divorce at that point (a divorce that shouldâve happened many âŠ
https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/04/09/what-it-feels-like-right-now/
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I have not gamed in many, many years. Why do I keep buying this stuff?
8 months ago
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Album cover mood.
8 months ago
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Good morning,
@matociquala.bsky.social
! Something for your team: on Audible, âAncestral Nightsâ and âFolded Skyâ appear in the âWhite Spaceâ series, while âMachineâ appears in the âAncestral Night Seriesâ series. Minor metadata issue, but it does make book 2 a little more difficult to find.
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George Takei
8 months ago
If you think this canât happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
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For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
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https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2025.02.13_fact_sheet_re_musk_investigations.pdf
8 months ago
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Criminally negligent. Children with janky algorithms running the government. This will kill people.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
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The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired Yesterday
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals in an April Foolsâ Day massacre. Weâre all about to pay the ...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-expert-who-kept-eye-drops-from-blinding-you-was-fired-yesterday
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Robert Reich
8 months ago
Cartoon by Adam Zyglis
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Better Things Are Possible
9 months ago
Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now
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9 months ago
People still need to eat breakfast during a constitutional crisis.
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If you see this, quote it with what you're reading this weekend! Iâm reading Ancestral Night by
@matociquala.bsky.social
Sets you up with a space opera heist adventure story then knocks you out with deeply intimate explorations on the self in a post-scarcity transhuman society. Itâs beautiful.
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Congratulations on your thirty pieces of silver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump backs idea to send some DOGE savings to American citizens
President Donald Trump says he likes the idea to give some of the savings from Elon Muskâs Department of Government Efficiency back to U.S. citizens as a kind of dividend.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-doge-dividend-85f3d001d082aebaefd397035b0b86a9
10 months ago
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Elizabeth Bear
10 months ago
By the way, the Associated Press is a not-for-profit organization and you can donate to support it here:
apnews.com/donate
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Donate to the Associated Press
Donate in support of independent, fact-based journalism. For 177 years, The Associated Press has been the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news. Your donation will help us continue to c...
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Elizabeth Bear
10 months ago
It's always time to listen to
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/to-use-their...
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To Use Their Language Is to Endorse Their Lies
Every crisis is in part a storytelling crisis, and the current one here in the US is also a language crisis. How we use the language and how we listen for lies that are in single words and phrases as ...
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/to-use-their-language-is-to-endorse-their-lies/
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@aoc.bsky.social
last oneâwho signed the ATO (authorization to operate) the new OPM server and did they have the legal authority to do so? All of these things are public records.
10 months ago
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I get that SCOTUS is bought and paid for, but they donât have capacity to handle thousands and thousands of challenges every session.
10 months ago
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@aoc.bsky.social
And when they absolutely cannot produce any of that mandated documentation, file injunctions in a friendly district to keep them tied up?
10 months ago
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Stupid question, but could congressional democrats file FOIA for every EO and OPM memo? Demand PIA for every system they plug in? Demand FISMA complete documents for every program they start?
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Timothy Snyder
11 months ago
"Pete Hegseth: The Short Course â 13 Steps to National Destruction"
snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...
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Pete Hegseth: The Short Course
13 Steps to National Destruction
https://snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegseth-the-short-course
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Matthew Hahn
11 months ago
I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.
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John Rogers
11 months ago
There are a million little Stasi wannabes in this country, from boyfriends suing partners for abortions, book banners contacting the state AG, these guys. You don't need to build an infrastructure, you just have to grant permission.
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