Bradley David S Pumpkins
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Historian at the Evergreen State College, occasional/lapsed banjo player, IndyCar fan. Olympia, WA. 🏳️‍🌈
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There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)
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finally AI comes for my job, a guy who writes erotica containing heavy use of the phrase “as a result”
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my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
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From work with Danielle Purifoy on #CreativeExtraction, I derive methodological recommendations for using these mechanisms, which usually work against our research, as objects of study themselves—drawing on historians’ attention to official absences/studying up. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Lately I've been checking timestamps on random internet articles--the sort of simple "how to get rid of a stain" stuff--and if it's after 2022 I don't trust the information in it at all.
Wow — new AI-made articles online are already outnumbering human-generated content.
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my dream job is to be the guy who renames streaming services every 12-18 months ($725k/yr)
Apple says Apple TV+ streaming service is being renamed as Apple TV, with "a vibrant new identity" (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)

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the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?
A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”
Loving the economy where I can't afford to own a home but I'm old enough to start messing up the names of celebrities like "Christine Dion"
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It would be interesting for someone to run for US president on the platform of firing every one hired to work for ICE over the past 4 years. Firing all of them on day 1.
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every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
It would be cool sometime if higher ed journalism remembered now and then that Evergreen has been doing this sort of thing since our founding!
Student Success | Team Teaching Benefits Faculty and Students

Most first-year courses at @hmc.edu are team-taught, exposing students to a variety of disciplines, teaching styles and resources on campus. https://bit.ly/46UyH1C
Multiracial team of teachers talking in the hall at a university
Surely this is not a true thing. Surely he does not have such abject moral cowardice that he won't do anything to protect his home state...
Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”
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i don't think the news media believes that things actually happen anymore

they're only aware of people *saying* a thing happened, and perhaps some other people saying something different

but the thing itself? they all suddenly become hardline kantians: "no no no, we can't perceive the *noumenal*"
no they're LITERALLY exaggerating this issue. there is absolutely no data backing up their claims. ffs just say that!!
NBC news: The discussions come as Trump has sought to deploy National Guard troops in several major cities — including Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon — saying they’re needed to reduce crime and protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from protesters. Critics have said that the Trump administration is exaggerating issues in those cities.
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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
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BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.
Journalism is one of those things like public education, libraries, and being kind to people that 21st century capitalism will not only destroy, but make it seem impossible that it ever existed. As if it were against human nature for it to exist.
Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist
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I get why people are mad Bari Weiss is once again failing upward based on her power to bamboozle tech idiots but that's all that's happening, here, and it will end n CBS dissolution which should have just happened anyway
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Remember when these guys ran a completely fabricated story about trans kids sourced to a single bigot who worked at St Louis Children’s Hospital and it got so much traction that they ended a bunch of programs for trans kids because of all the bomb threats
David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press
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When I wore that “freedom isn’t free” t-shirt back in the Obama administration, I wasn’t so much honoring veterans as I was warning people that if they expressed their freedom in a way I didn’t like then they should have their freedom taken away from them. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
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also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)
Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.
Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude
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ESPN shares an interview with a UNC student going into commercial, with Clemson leading 28-3.

"TCU was... I went to that game. And that was, that was one of the saddest feelings I've had in University so far. I've failed midterms before, so that's saying something." 🏈💀 #CFB
Forgot to do my annual October name change until now. Hi y'all.