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not even the pretense of a coalition of the willing this time
December 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
not even the pretense of a coalition of the willing this time
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Something else to notice beyond Ahmed's extraordinary courage: when he approaches the shooter, another person follows him. Courage multiplies courage. If we can find it in ourselves to stand up & do what needs to be done to stop evil, others will join us. It just takes one brave individual.
Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
Video shows the man rushing one of the alleged gunmen who shot dozens of people on Sunday evening in Australia
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Bondi beach shooting live updates
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Bondi terror attack: full report
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What we know so far about the shooting in Australia
A bystander tackled and wrestled a gun from one of the two alleged gunman during the Bondi beach mass shooting in which at least 12 people were killed, footage shows.
Video of the scene shows the alleged gunman standing on a footpath between a grassy area and parking lot holding a shotgun and firing into the distance. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Something else to notice beyond Ahmed's extraordinary courage: when he approaches the shooter, another person follows him. Courage multiplies courage. If we can find it in ourselves to stand up & do what needs to be done to stop evil, others will join us. It just takes one brave individual.
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Went to bed thinking about Brown and woke up to the news about Bondi Beach. Heartbroken and angry.
December 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Went to bed thinking about Brown and woke up to the news about Bondi Beach. Heartbroken and angry.
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This is getting lost: For weeks Trump officials had the option to remove Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica, but refused to do so. Instead they kept trying to send him somewhere more dangerous. Costa Rica wasn't cruel and dehumanizing enough.
This is deeply sick conduct.
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
This is deeply sick conduct.
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
December 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is getting lost: For weeks Trump officials had the option to remove Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica, but refused to do so. Instead they kept trying to send him somewhere more dangerous. Costa Rica wasn't cruel and dehumanizing enough.
This is deeply sick conduct.
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
This is deeply sick conduct.
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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You can only remove universal birthright citizenship from the 14th Amendment by inserting words that are not present in the text, like “allegiance,” then defining them in an idiosyncratic way engineered to produce your preferred result. No one should credit this fundamentally fraudulent enterprise.
December 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
You can only remove universal birthright citizenship from the 14th Amendment by inserting words that are not present in the text, like “allegiance,” then defining them in an idiosyncratic way engineered to produce your preferred result. No one should credit this fundamentally fraudulent enterprise.
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Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis
The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“Only about half of cases before 1991 were a result of transmission from an infected mother.”
just…staggeringly dangerous stuff
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
just…staggeringly dangerous stuff
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
December 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
“Only about half of cases before 1991 were a result of transmission from an infected mother.”
just…staggeringly dangerous stuff
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
just…staggeringly dangerous stuff
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
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Unless proven otherwise, every Republican in Congress supports this image:
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Unless proven otherwise, every Republican in Congress supports this image:
"He could’ve gotten the virus when he was born. Or maybe from his brother, or his caregivers, or his friends. Nobody knows. That’s why vaccinating everyone is so important, regardless of their perceived risks."
Opinion | My Father Died of Hepatitis B Before the Vaccine. We Must Not Go Back.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
"He could’ve gotten the virus when he was born. Or maybe from his brother, or his caregivers, or his friends. Nobody knows. That’s why vaccinating everyone is so important, regardless of their perceived risks."
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Strangely moving — just a guy and his Sharpie taking it upon himself to warn his neighbors
Today I passed a CPB/ICE checkpoint on the Clara Barton Parkway—an unwelcome reminder of the administration's authoritarian aspirations.
But I wasn't surprised. A minute prior, I drove by a young man. He held a simple sign. Sharpie on poster board, written in thin, neat letters: "ICE Ahead"
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But I wasn't surprised. A minute prior, I drove by a young man. He held a simple sign. Sharpie on poster board, written in thin, neat letters: "ICE Ahead"
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November 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Strangely moving — just a guy and his Sharpie taking it upon himself to warn his neighbors
"We have a 2000s housing bubble level of financial engineering on top of a 1920s level of private unregulated lending on top of something bigger than a 1990s internet (or 1870s railroad) level of technology and infrastructure build-out."
The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think - The American Prospect
It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.
prospect.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
"We have a 2000s housing bubble level of financial engineering on top of a 1920s level of private unregulated lending on top of something bigger than a 1990s internet (or 1870s railroad) level of technology and infrastructure build-out."
". . . doesn’t the 'right' to buy health insurance lose a bit of its luster if said insurance costs $3,700 a month for a family of four, as it will next year in Vermont, West Virginia, and Alaska for families of four with household incomes greater than $128,000?"
The Obamacare Boiler Room - The American Prospect
Perhaps no Florida health care scam has so concisely illustrated the burning need to rethink our broken health care system.
prospect.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
". . . doesn’t the 'right' to buy health insurance lose a bit of its luster if said insurance costs $3,700 a month for a family of four, as it will next year in Vermont, West Virginia, and Alaska for families of four with household incomes greater than $128,000?"
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I feel like even a small infant would listen, nod, and then go, “So, just to be clear though: The machines — they didn’t work?”
November 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I feel like even a small infant would listen, nod, and then go, “So, just to be clear though: The machines — they didn’t work?”
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“Older adults and people with disabilities will pay almost $203 per month in 2026 for their Medicare Part B premium, the Trump administration said late Friday. That’s about 10% higher than the $185 per month that Medicare beneficiaries pay this year. Rising health care costs are a major concern”
Medicare premiums to jump 10% heading into 2026
Most Medicare enrollees will face premiums that are 10% higher next year, creating budget anxiety for millions of seniors.
www.statnews.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
“Older adults and people with disabilities will pay almost $203 per month in 2026 for their Medicare Part B premium, the Trump administration said late Friday. That’s about 10% higher than the $185 per month that Medicare beneficiaries pay this year. Rising health care costs are a major concern”
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Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
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Replacing the ACA with PaulRyanCare would be terrible on the merits and terrible politics. Any Democrat voting to replace ACA tax credits with temporary contributions to HSA accounts should face a primary challenge at the earliest possible opportunity www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/i-wa...
I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky - Lawyers, Guns & Money
This proposal would be even worse than the no deal on extending ACA subsidies bill being floated earlier: Democrats and Republicans have been locked for more than a month in a standoff over healthcare...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Replacing the ACA with PaulRyanCare would be terrible on the merits and terrible politics. Any Democrat voting to replace ACA tax credits with temporary contributions to HSA accounts should face a primary challenge at the earliest possible opportunity www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/i-wa...
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BTW it is tempting to ignore these tweets
But Republican lawmakers take them seriously
So we're all out here trying to guess what Trump was thinking -- if he was thinking anything -- and then how various Rs will translate it
Great way to make policy!
But Republican lawmakers take them seriously
So we're all out here trying to guess what Trump was thinking -- if he was thinking anything -- and then how various Rs will translate it
Great way to make policy!
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
BTW it is tempting to ignore these tweets
But Republican lawmakers take them seriously
So we're all out here trying to guess what Trump was thinking -- if he was thinking anything -- and then how various Rs will translate it
Great way to make policy!
But Republican lawmakers take them seriously
So we're all out here trying to guess what Trump was thinking -- if he was thinking anything -- and then how various Rs will translate it
Great way to make policy!
At first glance this seemed purely deranged, but on a second read it seems like the kind of marker you'd want to plant if you anticipated (a) a loss in the tariff litigation followed by (b) a stock market crash.
November 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
At first glance this seemed purely deranged, but on a second read it seems like the kind of marker you'd want to plant if you anticipated (a) a loss in the tariff litigation followed by (b) a stock market crash.
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Musk does not get 1/1000th of the grief he should over this absurd claim about 20 million dead people getting Social Security. Social Security is run far better than Tesla and provides a way more valuable service.
Imagine shareholders willing to give a trillion dollars to a guy who says there are 20 million dead people getting Social Security, but is too incompetent to find any of them.
With Tesla stock at a price-to-earnings ratio of almost 300 it doesn't look like anyone is buying what Elon Musk is selling, other than Tesla shareholders finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Musk does not get 1/1000th of the grief he should over this absurd claim about 20 million dead people getting Social Security. Social Security is run far better than Tesla and provides a way more valuable service.
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www.thebanner.com/community/ho... One of those articles that (a) has clearly been vetted very carefully by lawyers, (b) where a plausible story of what has going on is obvious if you read carefully, and (c) you worry both for people involved and because maybe indicative of _much_ bigger problems.
The housing hustle igniting a foreclosure crisis in Baltimore
The foreclosures could send neighborhoods spiraling and make Baltimore America’s next great housing crisis.
www.thebanner.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
www.thebanner.com/community/ho... One of those articles that (a) has clearly been vetted very carefully by lawyers, (b) where a plausible story of what has going on is obvious if you read carefully, and (c) you worry both for people involved and because maybe indicative of _much_ bigger problems.
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!