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· Apr 7
When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.
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“I think most Americans would be stunned to learn that international adoptees have not all been automatically granted the same status as their U.S. parents. Several grown adoptees have already been deported, including individuals who came to the United States as infants”
A mother shares the terrifying reality that her internationally adopted son, raised in the U.S. since childhood, could be detained or deported by ICE because he was never granted citizenship. 35-70k adoptees remain in this legal limbo. Urge Congress to pass the PAAF Act. 🥚
I'm A U.S. Citizen. I'm Terrified My Adopted Son Will Be Snatched By ICE Due To A Heartbreaking Loophole.
"I lie awake at night worried that he’ll be snatched off the street and taken to a nightmarish prison in some other country, and I’ll never see him again."
www.huffpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“I think most Americans would be stunned to learn that international adoptees have not all been automatically granted the same status as their U.S. parents. Several grown adoptees have already been deported, including individuals who came to the United States as infants”
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Trump’s special envoy Witkoff put his hand over his heart when Putin walked in the room. Like he’s reunited with a loved one. That really tells you all you need to know.
November 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Trump’s special envoy Witkoff put his hand over his heart when Putin walked in the room. Like he’s reunited with a loved one. That really tells you all you need to know.
Maybe the analogy breaks here: The numerical result of a calculation is not just a representation, but the object itself. Expressions of language, on the other hand, are always representations.
This is an ad hoc response but perhaps computing things and knowing things are not the same class of mental activity, and there isn’t a parallel between automating the process of computation (which is what calculating and arithmetic are) and automating the process of knowledge.
The curmudgeon in me says we’re paving the path to our own stupidity
But engineer me wonders how different this is than the introduction of the calculator/computer?
The story of human evolution for the last 100 years has been technology replacing human skills previously thought irreplaceable
But engineer me wonders how different this is than the introduction of the calculator/computer?
The story of human evolution for the last 100 years has been technology replacing human skills previously thought irreplaceable
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Maybe the analogy breaks here: The numerical result of a calculation is not just a representation, but the object itself. Expressions of language, on the other hand, are always representations.
Some day, if we're lucky, they'll make a movie about this and most everybody will believe that they would have taken the side of the postal worker.
A U.S. postal worker on Long Island is accused of trying to help a man escape from ICE custody earlier this month, according to a federal criminal complaint: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/YNagDp
US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island
Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.
gothamist.visitlink.me
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Some day, if we're lucky, they'll make a movie about this and most everybody will believe that they would have taken the side of the postal worker.
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These are always fascinating, to think of the meetings and memos circulating before these changes. The first headline is direct about the founders timely warnings of abuse.
The second is as banal as Trump finding a new putter.
The second is as banal as Trump finding a new putter.
November 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
These are always fascinating, to think of the meetings and memos circulating before these changes. The first headline is direct about the founders timely warnings of abuse.
The second is as banal as Trump finding a new putter.
The second is as banal as Trump finding a new putter.
It seems like October 29, 2016 might have been one of those hinges in history.
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
It seems like October 29, 2016 might have been one of those hinges in history.
DirectTV did this just as the 16th inning started. 😐
October 28, 2025 at 6:06 AM
DirectTV did this just as the 16th inning started. 😐
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Enten: "Canada is far more popular than Donald Trump is here in the United States. The net popularity of Canada is +49. Trump is -10. We're talking about Canada coming out nearly 60 points ahead on the net popularity ratings versus Donald Trump here in the US"
October 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Enten: "Canada is far more popular than Donald Trump is here in the United States. The net popularity of Canada is +49. Trump is -10. We're talking about Canada coming out nearly 60 points ahead on the net popularity ratings versus Donald Trump here in the US"
People want to believe there is a line that the newspapers will not cross as the trappings of representative government are dismantled. Evidence is mounting that there's no such line.
I can’t believe there are not one but two articles, in major papers, with this dumb framing. It is not NIMBY to express dismay when a big part of the White House is suddenly rubbled
October 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
People want to believe there is a line that the newspapers will not cross as the trappings of representative government are dismantled. Evidence is mounting that there's no such line.
The GOP, in becoming a shell corporation for Trumpism, has embraced kleptocracy: Socially conservative, fiscally criminal.
President Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, whose crypto exchange has been boosting the Trump family's own crypto venture.
Exclusive | Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder
The pardon follows months of efforts by Changpeng Zhao to boost Trump crypto company
on.wsj.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The GOP, in becoming a shell corporation for Trumpism, has embraced kleptocracy: Socially conservative, fiscally criminal.
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This is quite a hed/subhed.
1) Start with Vance. Use strong action verb. Accept the autocratic premise that the “Marines’ Might” are Vance’s to flex.
2) Mention the protest second and absurdly describe them as in the thousands
3) Treat Trump’s strong man use of the military as a partisan scuffle.
1) Start with Vance. Use strong action verb. Accept the autocratic premise that the “Marines’ Might” are Vance’s to flex.
2) Mention the protest second and absurdly describe them as in the thousands
3) Treat Trump’s strong man use of the military as a partisan scuffle.
October 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
This is quite a hed/subhed.
1) Start with Vance. Use strong action verb. Accept the autocratic premise that the “Marines’ Might” are Vance’s to flex.
2) Mention the protest second and absurdly describe them as in the thousands
3) Treat Trump’s strong man use of the military as a partisan scuffle.
1) Start with Vance. Use strong action verb. Accept the autocratic premise that the “Marines’ Might” are Vance’s to flex.
2) Mention the protest second and absurdly describe them as in the thousands
3) Treat Trump’s strong man use of the military as a partisan scuffle.
Correspondents were a thing long before anyone uttered the term "remote work". The companies that have bought up journalism continue to dig its grave.
2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.
My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.
My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.
October 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Correspondents were a thing long before anyone uttered the term "remote work". The companies that have bought up journalism continue to dig its grave.
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." — Hannah Arendt, via Pope Leo XIV
October 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." — Hannah Arendt, via Pope Leo XIV
CNN is also doing this.
“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
CNN is also doing this.
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Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.
Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?
October 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.
If Kathleen Parker were a character from Sophocles, she'd have plucked her eyes out by now, but she's on brand for what the Washington Post has become.
October 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
If Kathleen Parker were a character from Sophocles, she'd have plucked her eyes out by now, but she's on brand for what the Washington Post has become.
Those who eulogize Romney as the Last of the Romans are, as he is at pains to prove them, mistaken. At the same time, he is truly representative of the party before Trump in so far as it was the party that made Trump possible and unleashed him on the country.
Mitt Romney has revealed he pleaded with the Joe Biden administration to pre-emptively pardon Donald Trump.
Romney Reveals He Tried to Get Biden to Pardon Trump
He said he feared a slippery slope of revenge prosecutions.
trib.al
September 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Those who eulogize Romney as the Last of the Romans are, as he is at pains to prove them, mistaken. At the same time, he is truly representative of the party before Trump in so far as it was the party that made Trump possible and unleashed him on the country.
There was a good deal of investment in the idea that Bush v. Gore was an outlier. The idea that it signified the future of the Supreme Court was unthinkable for the constitutional order. With the decay of constitutionality, what was once unthinkable is simply yesterday's headlines, and tomorrow's.
6/ and realize, admit that reform is necessary. But quite a few still persist making excuses for the current corruption as though it were a matter of differing judicial philosophies etc. In a way it's professional self-preservation because if the work of the legal judicial/academic system isn't ...
September 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
There was a good deal of investment in the idea that Bush v. Gore was an outlier. The idea that it signified the future of the Supreme Court was unthinkable for the constitutional order. With the decay of constitutionality, what was once unthinkable is simply yesterday's headlines, and tomorrow's.
So at some point do we get an Emmanuel Goldstein or "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism", or are we just supposed to focus on The Brotherhood when we do the Two Minutes of Hate?
September 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
So at some point do we get an Emmanuel Goldstein or "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism", or are we just supposed to focus on The Brotherhood when we do the Two Minutes of Hate?
What a time to be a student. Your teacher might get fired for not honoring an apologist for gun violence, but when your peers in schools across the nation get murdered week after week, there's no state-ordered mourning. At best you get active shooter drills.
INBOX- State Superintendent Ryan Walters says after investigating reports that came in through Awareity, they've identified 70 certified teachers from 44 districts who've made statements regarding Charlie Kirk's murder and 12 school districts who did not participate in a moment of silence. #oklahoma
September 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
What a time to be a student. Your teacher might get fired for not honoring an apologist for gun violence, but when your peers in schools across the nation get murdered week after week, there's no state-ordered mourning. At best you get active shooter drills.
Just what we needed. Another media channel controlled by right wing billionaires.
The new TikTok US entity would be controlled by a consortium of Silver Lake, Andreessen-Horowitz, and Oracle. 80% US, 20% China ownership. One board member appointed by the US government. Existing users would be expected to shift to a new app (lol).
Would not be surprised if this nukes usership.
Would not be surprised if this nukes usership.
Details Emerge on U.S.-China TikTok Deal
Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz are part of an investor consortium that will control an 80% stake.
www.wsj.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Just what we needed. Another media channel controlled by right wing billionaires.
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This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
September 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
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Murder is bad, full stop. The consequences of this particular murder and the people spurred to action by it are likely to be bad. Here endeth all of the even close to nice things you need to say about Charlie Kirk.
Kirk waged a national campaign to tarnish MLK's legacy. This was last year.
September 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Murder is bad, full stop. The consequences of this particular murder and the people spurred to action by it are likely to be bad. Here endeth all of the even close to nice things you need to say about Charlie Kirk.
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Wild. The political murders of legislators in Minnesota were “killings.” The shooting of Kirk which cause is unknown is an “assassination.”
They bend the knee without even being asked.
They bend the knee without even being asked.
September 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Wild. The political murders of legislators in Minnesota were “killings.” The shooting of Kirk which cause is unknown is an “assassination.”
They bend the knee without even being asked.
They bend the knee without even being asked.