Dan Butcher
@danielbutcher.bsky.social
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams—this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness—& maddest of all: to see life as it is & not as it should be!" -Cervantes
Leaked Memo: DOJ To List, Target Anti-Trump Activists as ‘Domestic Terrorists’ - Democracy Docket share.google/zfSBY52dhSBR...
Leaked Memo: DOJ To List, Target Anti-Trump Activists as ‘Domestic Terrorists’
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December 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Leaked Memo: DOJ To List, Target Anti-Trump Activists as ‘Domestic Terrorists’ - Democracy Docket share.google/zfSBY52dhSBR...
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25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
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TPUSA rep now discussing how they want to use these chapters for making sure kids remain Christians and know “true” American history.
December 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
TPUSA rep now discussing how they want to use these chapters for making sure kids remain Christians and know “true” American history.
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Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.
December 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.
Homelessness In The New Gilded Age : Fresh Air www.npr.org/2025/12/08/n...
Homelessness In The New Gilded Age : Fresh Air
In New York City, 100,000 people sleep in shelters every night. Patrick Markee has spent decades fighting for them with the Coalition for the Homeless. He’s written a new book that gives an on-the-gro...
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December 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Homelessness In The New Gilded Age : Fresh Air www.npr.org/2025/12/08/n...
From ancient globes to cosmic shrouds: The stories maps tell www.npr.org/2025/12/07/n...
From 400-year-old globes to cosmic shrouds: A Maine library brings maps to life
From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
From ancient globes to cosmic shrouds: The stories maps tell www.npr.org/2025/12/07/n...
'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40: Bill Watterson's comic strip transmogrified everything www.npr.org/2025/11/18/n...
40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes' raucous adventures burst onto the comics page
The adventures of a precocious 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger debuted on November 18, 1985. NPR's Renee Montagne spoke with the comic strip's editor, Lee Salem, in 2005.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM
'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40: Bill Watterson's comic strip transmogrified everything www.npr.org/2025/11/18/n...
Meet the Connectors prospect.org/2025/12/05/m...
Meet the Connectors - The American Prospect
Middlemen, our economy’s most shadowy characters, sit in between buyers and sellers and get rich in the process. It can even be a matter of life or death.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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U.S. health care is broken — and it’s getting worse www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
U.S. health care is broken. Here are 3 ways it's getting worse
One year after UnitedHealthcare's CEO was shot and killed, the crisis in U.S. health care is intensifying — even for the companies and investors who make money from it.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
U.S. health care is broken — and it’s getting worse www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
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As private health insurers jack up premiums for tens of millions, a majority of Americans now want Medicare for All — even if it entails eliminating private health insurers and raising taxes.
Momentum Is Building for Medicare for All
As private health insurers jack up premiums for tens of millions, a majority of Americans now want Medicare for All — even if it entails eliminating private health insurers and raising taxes.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
As private health insurers jack up premiums for tens of millions, a majority of Americans now want Medicare for All — even if it entails eliminating private health insurers and raising taxes.
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This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
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Today is the start of 2 days of meetings of RFK Jr.'s ACIP, where vaccines skeptics outnumber actual scientists and medial experts. Their target: the Hep B vaccine, which has a ~90-98% (after 3 doses) effectiveness rate in preventing infection for up to 30 yrs.
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Doctors warn delaying hepatitis B shot for newborns could revive a deadly threat
As RFK Jr.'s new vaccine panel ponders changing the hepatitis B vaccination schedule, some doctors recall past patients, including children, who died painful deaths before there was a vaccine.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Today is the start of 2 days of meetings of RFK Jr.'s ACIP, where vaccines skeptics outnumber actual scientists and medial experts. Their target: the Hep B vaccine, which has a ~90-98% (after 3 doses) effectiveness rate in preventing infection for up to 30 yrs.
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