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This anti-primary culture in the Democratic Party needs to end.
It’s not “drama” or hate, it’s democracy.
Embrace it, make politicians earn your vote, be critical of them, and take note of how they respond.
If they’re dismissive when they need your vote, that says a lot.
It’s not “drama” or hate, it’s democracy.
Embrace it, make politicians earn your vote, be critical of them, and take note of how they respond.
If they’re dismissive when they need your vote, that says a lot.
December 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This anti-primary culture in the Democratic Party needs to end.
It’s not “drama” or hate, it’s democracy.
Embrace it, make politicians earn your vote, be critical of them, and take note of how they respond.
If they’re dismissive when they need your vote, that says a lot.
It’s not “drama” or hate, it’s democracy.
Embrace it, make politicians earn your vote, be critical of them, and take note of how they respond.
If they’re dismissive when they need your vote, that says a lot.
What did the postal clerk say to the wizard who was all indignant that his package had been returned to the sender because he waited too long to pick it up?
“Sorry, sir, but tome and toad wait for no man.”
“Sorry, sir, but tome and toad wait for no man.”
December 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
What did the postal clerk say to the wizard who was all indignant that his package had been returned to the sender because he waited too long to pick it up?
“Sorry, sir, but tome and toad wait for no man.”
“Sorry, sir, but tome and toad wait for no man.”
“…Congress has delegated so much of its lawmaking power to the executive, while clinging to various ineffective checks, such as creating multimember commissions.”
What is the functional difference between a law and a regulation? How much of the… 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/o...
What is the functional difference between a law and a regulation? How much of the… 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/o...
Opinion | We’re Trying to Find a Line the Supreme Court Won’t Cross
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
“…Congress has delegated so much of its lawmaking power to the executive, while clinging to various ineffective checks, such as creating multimember commissions.”
What is the functional difference between a law and a regulation? How much of the… 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/o...
What is the functional difference between a law and a regulation? How much of the… 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/o...
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The issue at stake in 1686 was whether the king was bound by the law.
How are we back here again?
How are we back here again?
In The New Republic, historian Holly Brewer compares the Court's decision to Godden v. Hales, a 1686 case affirming that James II was above the law – which was only repudiated when James II was overthrown in the Glorious Revolution. newrepublic.com/article/1833...
March 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The issue at stake in 1686 was whether the king was bound by the law.
How are we back here again?
How are we back here again?
The Republicans are not wrong: our current healthcare system, including the ACA, is unaffordable. Where we differ is on the solution. They say more free market. I say make for-profit healthcare illegal and create nationalized healthcare — like everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
‘We Are Looking at a Massive Crisis’
Health-care costs are about to spike in a way that Americans can’t afford.
www.theatlantic.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The Republicans are not wrong: our current healthcare system, including the ACA, is unaffordable. Where we differ is on the solution. They say more free market. I say make for-profit healthcare illegal and create nationalized healthcare — like everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The top-10 carmakers by market cap make up 75% of global passenger car sales.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The top-10 carmakers by market cap make up 75% of global passenger car sales.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
It’s Black Friday! I paid the usual price for a drink at my locally-owned neighborhood coffee shop! Living the good life! 😉
November 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It’s Black Friday! I paid the usual price for a drink at my locally-owned neighborhood coffee shop! Living the good life! 😉
“I haven’t hurt anyone, nobody’s hurt me, but nobody wants to help me. Straight-up nobody. Although it’s not really like that. Just that nobody helps me— otherwise straight-up nobody would be nice. I’d love to— why not?— go on a road trip with straight-up nobody…. 🧵
November 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
“I haven’t hurt anyone, nobody’s hurt me, but nobody wants to help me. Straight-up nobody. Although it’s not really like that. Just that nobody helps me— otherwise straight-up nobody would be nice. I’d love to— why not?— go on a road trip with straight-up nobody…. 🧵
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I like these suggestions from @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for Giving Tuesday - immigrants rights organizations -
*Immigrant Defenders Law Center
*National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Out of gift articles for the month - if someone can post a gift link in replies, grateful 🙏
*Immigrant Defenders Law Center
*National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Out of gift articles for the month - if someone can post a gift link in replies, grateful 🙏
Opinion | Give to Groups Defending Immigrants From ICE
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I like these suggestions from @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for Giving Tuesday - immigrants rights organizations -
*Immigrant Defenders Law Center
*National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Out of gift articles for the month - if someone can post a gift link in replies, grateful 🙏
*Immigrant Defenders Law Center
*National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Out of gift articles for the month - if someone can post a gift link in replies, grateful 🙏
The problem with this approach is that myths that can facilitate effective interaction with the world instead of inspiring acts of fatal stupidity are developed over many generations of trial and error, during which many people die due to acts of fatal stupidity. 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...
Opinion | Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The problem with this approach is that myths that can facilitate effective interaction with the world instead of inspiring acts of fatal stupidity are developed over many generations of trial and error, during which many people die due to acts of fatal stupidity. 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...
Atlanta Botanical Garden Christmas lights show
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Atlanta Botanical Garden Christmas lights show
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How to Get Rid of “Citizens United”
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open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
How to Get Rid of “Citizens United”
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
Which wind to believe?
The straying polar vortex
Or southern Fall heat?
The straying polar vortex
Or southern Fall heat?
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Which wind to believe?
The straying polar vortex
Or southern Fall heat?
The straying polar vortex
Or southern Fall heat?
I like to have thirty or forty different wallpapers of castles and fantasy-themed landscapes. The unfortunate side-effect is a powerful but futile urge to play my wallpaper. 😉
November 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I like to have thirty or forty different wallpapers of castles and fantasy-themed landscapes. The unfortunate side-effect is a powerful but futile urge to play my wallpaper. 😉
The Velveteen Football
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The Velveteen Football
When we were younger, we sat by the waters of Babylon, and wept when we remembered Zion. Now it’s
By the counter, the counter Of my own kitchen
We stood there and wondered, and wondered
What we were doing
We remember, we remember
We remember trivial stuff
By the counter, the counter Of my own kitchen
We stood there and wondered, and wondered
What we were doing
We remember, we remember
We remember trivial stuff
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
When we were younger, we sat by the waters of Babylon, and wept when we remembered Zion. Now it’s
By the counter, the counter Of my own kitchen
We stood there and wondered, and wondered
What we were doing
We remember, we remember
We remember trivial stuff
By the counter, the counter Of my own kitchen
We stood there and wondered, and wondered
What we were doing
We remember, we remember
We remember trivial stuff
It’s funny how much I agree but don’t agree with this guy. What he calls “The Machine,” I call the tendency of cultural evolution to create self-organizing cultural systems that are about their own perpetuation, growth, and reproduction, not about human… 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...
Opinion | The Machine Wants to Kill Us
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It’s funny how much I agree but don’t agree with this guy. What he calls “The Machine,” I call the tendency of cultural evolution to create self-organizing cultural systems that are about their own perpetuation, growth, and reproduction, not about human… 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...
Maybe Congress is making a mistake by trying to make things like the CFPB’s funding “insulated from partisan swings.” In a democracy, there is no way to take decisions about how to govern outside of politics. Telling voters we’ve done so just gives them the… 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...
As Consumer Bureau’s Cash Dwindles, Trump Administration Declares Its Funding Illegal
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Maybe Congress is making a mistake by trying to make things like the CFPB’s funding “insulated from partisan swings.” In a democracy, there is no way to take decisions about how to govern outside of politics. Telling voters we’ve done so just gives them the… 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...
“Rather, his life seems a case study in the way ideology often follows self-interest.”
Sounds Marxist! 😱 Physics departments don’t teach Einsteinism 101, biology departments don’t teach Darwinism 101, and nobody but dogma-ridden ideologues should say “Marxism.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Sounds Marxist! 😱 Physics departments don’t teach Einsteinism 101, biology departments don’t teach Darwinism 101, and nobody but dogma-ridden ideologues should say “Marxism.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Opinion | Alex Karp Went From Biden Donor to Trump Enabler. Why?
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“Rather, his life seems a case study in the way ideology often follows self-interest.”
Sounds Marxist! 😱 Physics departments don’t teach Einsteinism 101, biology departments don’t teach Darwinism 101, and nobody but dogma-ridden ideologues should say “Marxism.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Sounds Marxist! 😱 Physics departments don’t teach Einsteinism 101, biology departments don’t teach Darwinism 101, and nobody but dogma-ridden ideologues should say “Marxism.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Just imagine a society where the only thing people wanted Gates’s opinions on were questions about operating systems and monetizing IT innovations. Read the study: we live in an oligarchy. We will always live in an oligarchy until we realize that billionaires and monopolies kill equal rights.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Review of evidence showing how the issue of the massive inequality of wealth and income are kept off the menu of ‘reasonable’ political discussion. And yet it’s the key to where our major problems come from and what can be done. But money talks, gold rules
Review of evidence showing how the issue of the massive inequality of wealth and income are kept off the menu of ‘reasonable’ political discussion. And yet it’s the key to where our major problems come from and what can be done. But money talks, gold rules
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Just imagine a society where the only thing people wanted Gates’s opinions on were questions about operating systems and monetizing IT innovations. Read the study: we live in an oligarchy. We will always live in an oligarchy until we realize that billionaires and monopolies kill equal rights.
If the workplace is ruined, where does the buck stop? At the CEO’s desk. CEO’s are, with overwhelming disproportion, men. If they don’t control the workplaces they’re nominally in control of, what are we paying them millions and billions of dollars for? CEOs did it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
If the workplace is ruined, where does the buck stop? At the CEO’s desk. CEO’s are, with overwhelming disproportion, men. If they don’t control the workplaces they’re nominally in control of, what are we paying them millions and billions of dollars for? CEOs did it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
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10% of Meta's 2024 ad revenue came from outright frauds and scams; the platform shows consumers 15 billion ads for fraud and scams every single day. This doesn't even include agitprop and AI slop.
the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
10% of Meta's 2024 ad revenue came from outright frauds and scams; the platform shows consumers 15 billion ads for fraud and scams every single day. This doesn't even include agitprop and AI slop.
the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough
I voted! Since the highest office I was voting for was mayor of little old Marietta, and the blasted school board incumbent was running unopposed, voting didn’t exactly sate my hunger for change. I guess I’ll go home and eat some ice cream instead.
November 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I voted! Since the highest office I was voting for was mayor of little old Marietta, and the blasted school board incumbent was running unopposed, voting didn’t exactly sate my hunger for change. I guess I’ll go home and eat some ice cream instead.