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Timothy Burke
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Old Seminole Heights — Tampa — Florida — U.S.A.

Journalist. Consultant. Neighborhood president. Voting rights advocate. Non-profit theater board member. Citrus grower. Beagle foster dad. Wife guy.

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We've hit another storage shortage so putting out another call for your hard drives: HDD, SDD, NVME, SAS or SATA, whatever you've got, aren't using, & can donate to the cause it'll be used directly for the long time archival of NCAA football broadcasts (and occasional news coverage). DM me! Thanks!
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Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal

The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you'd think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across major outlets are breathlessly…
Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal
The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you'd think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across major outlets are breathlessly reporting that Donald Trump "blocked states from passing AI laws" with an executive order. Except, that's not how any of this works, and anyone who stayed awake during middle school social studies should know better.
www.techdirt.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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In St. Louis, a historical marker is going up for a prison where a slave trader kept Black people he bought and sold. It’ll be located on what sits there now: a parking garage for the Cardinals baseball stadium. The team declined to contribute money toward the marker. www.stlpr.org/culture-hist...
New plaque will mark notorious St. Louis slave prison site near Busch Stadium
The bronze historical plaque will be installed at the site of a slave prison once owned by Bernard M. Lynch, a nationally known trader of enslaved men, women and children.
www.stlpr.org
December 13, 2025 at 4:50 AM
they are... clustered, so to say.
December 13, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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this is a stupid idea on its own but the idea of giving any new power to this administration at all, for any reason, is unconscionable

do better
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
also another reminder that all the people who defended Biden/Garland for slow-walking the Trump prosecutions "the right way" because otherwise they'd claim the prosecutions were illegitimate were wrong because they claim the prosecutions were illegitimate anyway
this feels like that peanuts gag where lucy sets a football for a punt and you can't believe charlie brown fell for it
December 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
she's also a seamstress
Do you know Nebraska's Italian player?

No? Well, allow me to invite you to....

🎶 Meet Virginia 🎶

huskers.com/sports/volle...
Virginia Adriano - Volleyball 2025
Virginia Adriano - Volleyball 2025
huskers.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
>> the winning bidder will have the option of taking delivery of their new piece of punk rock history in the San Francisco Bay Area where Jello will take them for a cruise around some of his favorite historic sites

i genuinely wish i could buy this for my wife
December 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Please consider supporting @freedom.press with a tax-deductible gift.

Any donations made before Dec. 31 will be DOUBLED, to $75,000.

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December 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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NEWS: Kyle Whittingham, the all-time winningest head coach in the history of Utah’s football program, will step down from leading the Utes.

He’ll wrap up his career with the Las Vegas Bowl on Dec. 31.
December 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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gonna see the hell outta this movie when I get home though
December 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
this is a prankster after my heart.

<< “Pedophiles, I want you to know how important you are to me,” reads another email from Trump’s campaign to Epstein

what an amazing thing to read in a news article
December 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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USF just signed ANOTHER GRAMATICA
December 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
this is an argument for protecting cops who abuse people because all workers deserve strong unions and protections
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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is Rep. Michael Rulli okay? he looked and sounded like a complete maniac during this Newsmax interview
December 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Thanks to John for flagging this, the new Eastern Michigan president is our friend and colleague Brendan Kelly, a grad school classmate & fellow EMU forensics coach, he & Tressa are truly marvelous people, EMU is in great hands, I am overjoyed about this
December 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
wow the impact of BYU missing the playoff came fast
Viral cookie chain Crumbl has blanketed the country with its Instagrammy desserts powered by new private equity backing. It’s also battling layoffs, chaotic operations and paper-thin margins.
Crumbl’s Cookie Empire Is Showing Cracks
The trendy chain has Instagrammy treats and private equity backing. But layoffs, chaotic operations and paper-thin margins may be leading it down a familiar path.
bloom.bg
December 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
WHOSE IDEA OF A GOOD TIME IS THIS
December 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Marky Marco y el Grupo de Funk
December 12, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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A rivalry unlike any other
December 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Literally nobody has ever referred to her as a "birthing person," yet the existence of the term was enough to turn her into a full-on anti-trans crusader.
Ana Kasparian claims the left turned on her over her opposition to being called a "birthing person".

Ana Kasparian: "I don't have kids, I don't want to have kids, and I don't want to be called a 'birthing person', I find it super insulting."
December 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Definitely what I think of when I think of Charles Schulz's Peanuts: pizza
December 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
the child at the end of The Emperor's New Clothes points, laughs, and tells the truth about the emperor's vain stupidity.

gavin newsom thinks the kid at the end takes off his own clothes instead
Gavin Newsom is hawking a 48th president-themed spoof of Donald Trump’s “Art of the Deal” book, pitching it as “Gavin gold” with a personal note from “King Newsom.”
Newsom Trolls Trump With His Own ‘Art of the Deal’
His webstore pitches the gag as a donation to his Campaign for Democracy.
trib.al
December 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Marky Marco y el Grupo de Funk
December 12, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Even for me, this is pretty in the weeds, but the shift in tone in SCOTUSblog's coverage since Sarah Isgur and The Dispatch took over—more deferential to the Court, more reverential of the justices as celebrities, more credulous and stenographic across the board—has been...notable
Maybe this new blog can respond, in one of its first posts, to the argument that the term “interim docket” is a deliberately misleading attempt to minimize the (very permanent) doctrinal and real-world consequences of #SCOTUS’s rulings on emergency applications?

www.stevevladeck.com/p/177-the-no...
December 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
today would commence my 20th year on Twitter, if Elon hadn't nuked my account
December 12, 2025 at 5:16 AM