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Each year I take stock of what stuck with me most from the last 12 months. Not a "best of" list, but a "most resonant." Here's 2025's.
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> 202: What resonated, 2025
Andrew Wyeth, Otherworld Hi hi, For an indeterminate number of years I’ve wrapped up each year not with a “best of” list but a slightly different way of...
https://buttondown.com/lauraolin/archive/202-what-resonated-2025/
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mtsw
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the stories they're gonna tell about how far gone trump was mentally, going back to 2024, are gonna be wild. "everyone knew" they'll say.
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dorian
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this point is everything like, large language models are structurally incapable of fact-checking; you have to assume everything they produce is bullshit (which is why they work with code, because code can be bullshit and still run)
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Lisa Kadonaga
about 16 hours ago
U of Minnesota has named a new School of Nursing scholarship after Alex Pretti.
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Brad Lander
about 19 hours ago
Democratic senators: It's time to draw a line in the sand. A nominee for Attorney General will soon come before you. Make the confirmation process about releasing ALL of the Epstein files (without redactions) and prosecuting the Epstein class. (1/2)
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Quinta Jurecic
about 19 hours ago
Boooooo
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andy™
about 21 hours ago
you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
1 day ago
Get ready, New York. Cardi B will be judging YOUR jingles to help spread the word about universal childcare for 2 year olds — aka 2-K. Submit your song by April 17. Full guidelines at
nyc.gov/jingle
. (Tag
#NYC2KJingle
and @nycmayor if you post your jingle on social media.)
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Norm Charlatan
1 day ago
Thirty-one years ago today, the New Orleans-based alternative rock band Better than Ezra released its hit single “Good,” marking the first-ever Good Friday, which has now grown into a major holiday celebrated throughout the world.
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Cameron Blevins
1 day ago
This is so, so well-articulated.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
1 day ago
This is powerful, if true. More of this. Refuse. Stand on principle.
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Keith A. Eddins
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Now any white man promoted has to be considered suspect because he may well have taken the place of a more qualified black or female officer personally removed from the promotion list by Hegseth.
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Aaron Rupar
1 day ago
Trump is committing war crimes in Iran and is threatening more and worse ones. His entire war strategy at this point is war crimes. A functional Congress would be far down the road of impeachment and removal.
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the two genders
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Again you can’t just say “see you at Nuremberg 2.0” and leave it there. How and when, senator?
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Katie Mack
2 days ago
Reminder that the moon that orbits the Earth has a name in English and that name is the Moon. There are lots of nicknames and names in other languages (Luna, for instance) but technically in English it is just the Moon. The concept of a moon is uncapitalized; our moon is the Moon.
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David Roberts
2 days ago
Rooftop solar has come out of nowhere and is now 20% of Puerto Rico's energy generation mix -- more than natural gas.
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Rooftop solar reaches 20% of Puerto Rico’s generation mix
Rooftop solar capacity in Puerto Rico reached around 1.5 GW in 2025, passing natural gas and becoming the territory’s second-largest generation source, according to the Energy Information Administrati...
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/rooftop-solar-puerto-rico-generation-mix-eia/816499/
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It’s OK to root against America when America is doing relentless war crimes
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bob barker 🍸
2 days ago
Everyone upset about “America bad” posting needs to reckon with this being what America does
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Sahil Kapur
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Manosphere update
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Tim Carmody
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Yahoo Pipes lives
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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat
2 days ago
Absolutely S-tier illustration style
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Necessary? No. Essential? Yes
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Jennifer N. Victor
2 days ago
Another example of the US abdicating its global leadership position.
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jamelle
3 days ago
the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit
morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.
https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-administration-orders?utm_medium=ios
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Greg Greene (he/him/his)
3 days ago
Friends, I love you, but with regard to Chief Justice Roberts: c’mon now. You do not, in fact, gotta hand it to him.
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Alex Blechman
3 days ago
The Supreme Court ruled that nobody is a U.S. citizen Chief Justice Roberts stated “No person can be in this country. We all have to leave. Now.” The judges packed up their robes and are getting on a boat
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
3 days ago
firmly believe that rejecting this outlandish position should not earn the Supreme Court credibility as apolitical it is discrediting that the Court even entertained the outlandish position in the first place
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Jerad Walker
3 days ago
At Kennedy Space Center astronauts have to take elevators to the top of launch pad towers in order to enter their space capsules before lift off. This is the elevator panel at Pad 39A.
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"Part of the theory originally with No Kings was, Let’s figure out a way to [make visible] the fact that ... elite institutions might have folded to Donald Trump, but American society really hasn’t."
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Transcript: Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall
As Trump’s unpopularity hits a crucial new milestone, Indivisible co-founder Leah Greenberg reflects on what the massive turnout at the No Kings protests shows about his cratering with the public.
https://newrepublic.com/article/208453/transcript-donald-trump-presidency-free-fall
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Modest proposal: The next No Kings march should be on July 4th weekend. What better way to celebrate the anniversary of ridding ourselves of a king?
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Adam Serwer
4 days ago
The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.
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Imani Gandy
3 days ago
It's a shitty ruling. No question. And I know "court reform" sounds like something Democrats won't ever do and perhaps that is also true. But I refuse to let ADF win by default because everyone thinks the fight is over. Our way out of most of this *waves hands around* horseshit is court reform.
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Lee Hurley
3 days ago
April fools only works when reality isn't this stupid.
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geoffrey
4 days ago
lying about it happening on april fool's day: mean-spirited, hurtful, not funny at all it actually happening on april fool's day: possibly the funniest thing of all time
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Ingrid Burrington
4 days ago
www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...
is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this
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Jay Willis
4 days ago
A single vote for Trump in the birthright citizenship case would be as bad as anything the Court has done since Bush v. Gore. This issue has been settled for more than a century. It is the jurisprudential equivalent of asking what 2+2 is. Any answer other than 4, something is deeply, deeply wrong.
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Roxane Gay
4 days ago
Yes, this is real.
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Ed Zitron
4 days ago
Good stuff from the creator of Claude Code at the end of December
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sorry Pete but making your imaginary anecdote soldier a woman is DEI
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Oliver Willis
4 days ago
It was called the Iran nuclear deal. You threw it out because it was negotiated by a black president.
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Please stop saying “we” voted for this and “we” are now paying the price. Many millions of “we” voted against that man thrice.
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This president has a 35% approval rating and is about to personally drive the price of gas to $8/gallon and institutions are still torching their credibility to appease him?
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Eric Michael Garcia
5 days ago
The same night Kamala Harris lost, a Jewish woman won a Senate seat in Michigan and a lesbian won re-election in Wisconsin. And a straight white Catholic guy named Bob Casey lost re-election in Pennsylvania when everyone (myself included) thought he was unbeatable.
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Robert Black
5 days ago
Plausibly, this should (if it happens) be understood as the death of the federal Constitution Not just, to be clear, a mortal wound: imo that's already happened. The actual death. Such that it should no longer be understood to be in force
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Adam Weinstein
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If I ever retained literally anything I read it would be so over for you bitches
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Airports are going to start running out of jet fuel in about a week, according to a former Biden official
www.rawstory.com/iran-war-267...
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Chris Ingraham
5 days ago
Per YouGov Rahm Emanuel is the 78th most popular Democrat, behind everyone from Michael Dukakis to Barney Frank. He is 12 places behind Harry Reid, who died five years ago. To the extent anything's happening here it's *entirely* media-driven.
yougov.com/en-us/rating...
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Andy Craig
5 days ago
I don't know what SCOTUS will do on birthright citizenship case, it's anybody's guess. But if they endorse Trump's diktat, the only response is defiance. Outright, open defiance by the states. A decision not just erroneous but illegitimate, beyond their power, null and void from the day it's issued.
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Literally laughed out loud at the end. A real one.
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