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That empathy extended well beyond his films. Rob was a passionate advocate for children and for civil rights — from taking on Big Tobacco, fighting for marriage equality, to serving as a powerful voice in early education. He made California a better place through his good works.
December 15, 2025 at 5:12 AM
That empathy extended well beyond his films. Rob was a passionate advocate for children and for civil rights — from taking on Big Tobacco, fighting for marriage equality, to serving as a powerful voice in early education. He made California a better place through his good works.
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So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
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Jealous
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Resigns in the Face of Mass Protests
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Jealous
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One reason this happens is because we're simply not a serious country & don't hold our leaders accountable. The other, however, is institutional. There are no mechanisms aside from impeachment or fixed elections for no confidence votes in the chief executive.
Tl;dr: Juan Linz was right (again)
Tl;dr: Juan Linz was right (again)
January 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
One reason this happens is because we're simply not a serious country & don't hold our leaders accountable. The other, however, is institutional. There are no mechanisms aside from impeachment or fixed elections for no confidence votes in the chief executive.
Tl;dr: Juan Linz was right (again)
Tl;dr: Juan Linz was right (again)
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👇🎯 Again, a system of government in which the only way in real time to remove a lawless authoritarian executive is an extraordinary mechanism, requiring huge supermajorities, that has never been successfully used, & everyone rules out ex ante as poison, is not actually a functioning democracy.
There's a Hill bubble narrative, posing as savvy realism, in treating impeachment as some radioactive poison and so Democrats must squash any talk of it. But there's zero evidence for that. No polls back it up, nor recent history. It's all just pundit-brained conventional wisdom eating its own tail.
December 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
👇🎯 Again, a system of government in which the only way in real time to remove a lawless authoritarian executive is an extraordinary mechanism, requiring huge supermajorities, that has never been successfully used, & everyone rules out ex ante as poison, is not actually a functioning democracy.
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Pay to play. The two most corrupt entities on earth unite.
Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Pay to play. The two most corrupt entities on earth unite.
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There is perhaps nothing more "on brand" for Trump than using all of the power of the US government to coerce a sovereign, democratic nation into releasing someone accused of raping children and trafficking women.
"Gift" article, so no subscription required to read.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
"Gift" article, so no subscription required to read.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
How a Manosphere Star Accused of Rape and Trafficking Was Freed
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
There is perhaps nothing more "on brand" for Trump than using all of the power of the US government to coerce a sovereign, democratic nation into releasing someone accused of raping children and trafficking women.
"Gift" article, so no subscription required to read.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
"Gift" article, so no subscription required to read.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
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In the real world, man's in the mid-30s, underwater by 20 pts, and strong/somewhat is even more brutal. There are two dozen voters in the whole country who are like "hmm, I dislike Trump, but impeachment is going too far," and all of them have newsletters exclusively read by the DC political class.
December 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
In the real world, man's in the mid-30s, underwater by 20 pts, and strong/somewhat is even more brutal. There are two dozen voters in the whole country who are like "hmm, I dislike Trump, but impeachment is going too far," and all of them have newsletters exclusively read by the DC political class.
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You're right. These are the same tired talking points, but I can see how they thought they could get away with it forever - voters rewarded them with a govt trifecta just 1 year ago.
December 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
You're right. These are the same tired talking points, but I can see how they thought they could get away with it forever - voters rewarded them with a govt trifecta just 1 year ago.
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A Golden Age!
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
nbcnews.to
December 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
A Golden Age!
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Today is a dark day for American science and biomedicine. My comments in @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Today is a dark day for American science and biomedicine. My comments in @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
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lol - in order to fool Trump/Maga, Fox News has gone with Green Up Arrows for bad news.
December 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
lol - in order to fool Trump/Maga, Fox News has gone with Green Up Arrows for bad news.
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The Simpsons already did this.
a cartoon of two men standing next to each other with the caption and now the winner of the first annual montgomery burns award for
ALT: a cartoon of two men standing next to each other with the caption and now the winner of the first annual montgomery burns award for
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The Simpsons already did this.
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
this shit is just beyond parody, man
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Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies:
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
So now they’re going to be doing individualized re-review of tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees’ cases on TOP of the re-review of 200,000+ refugees who entered under Biden?
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies:
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
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At a certain point, American officers, analysts and policymakers are going to start fielding questions like ”Do you agree with the official position of the NSS that my country is being mongrelized by immigration and may be expelled from NATO for being insufficiently white?”
December 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
At a certain point, American officers, analysts and policymakers are going to start fielding questions like ”Do you agree with the official position of the NSS that my country is being mongrelized by immigration and may be expelled from NATO for being insufficiently white?”
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The Trump Administration finds new ways to pull the rug out from under Americans every day.
And now they're putting babies in danger.
Illinois just enacted a law to provide our own science-based recommendations to protect access to vaccines so families get the care they need.
And now they're putting babies in danger.
Illinois just enacted a law to provide our own science-based recommendations to protect access to vaccines so families get the care they need.
US vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth
A federal vaccine advisory committee has voted to end a longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.
apnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The Trump Administration finds new ways to pull the rug out from under Americans every day.
And now they're putting babies in danger.
Illinois just enacted a law to provide our own science-based recommendations to protect access to vaccines so families get the care they need.
And now they're putting babies in danger.
Illinois just enacted a law to provide our own science-based recommendations to protect access to vaccines so families get the care they need.
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You can extrapolate this tactic all the way down to local police. No matter how absurd, they’ll frame any victim of their violence as the aggressor. Even if unarmed and drowning.
I cannot imagine the level of moral bankruptcy to describe the actions of people whose boat has just been hit by a missile from nowhere (this was the FIRST such strike) and who were most likely making a desperate attempt not to drown in the ocean as trying to "stay in the fight."
Q: What did you see in the second strike?
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
You can extrapolate this tactic all the way down to local police. No matter how absurd, they’ll frame any victim of their violence as the aggressor. Even if unarmed and drowning.
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Obviously, some 19th century presidents spoke in openly racist ways like Trump did today. But I was trying to think of a similar example of such a publicly racist & xenophobic statement by a sitting president in the modern presidency era, & couldn't come up with one.
December 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Obviously, some 19th century presidents spoke in openly racist ways like Trump did today. But I was trying to think of a similar example of such a publicly racist & xenophobic statement by a sitting president in the modern presidency era, & couldn't come up with one.
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Pure, unmitigated hate.
December 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pure, unmitigated hate.
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Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
bit.ly
December 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry
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Guzmán, an immigrant from Mexico, had a pending petition for asylum and a pending application for a visa for victims of crime. That didn't stop ICE from separating her from her 15-day-old infant in NICU. 19thnews.org/2025/12/post... via @19thnews.org
Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention.
Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. Nayra Guzmán was detained while her 15-day-old baby was in the NICU.
19thnews.org
December 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Guzmán, an immigrant from Mexico, had a pending petition for asylum and a pending application for a visa for victims of crime. That didn't stop ICE from separating her from her 15-day-old infant in NICU. 19thnews.org/2025/12/post... via @19thnews.org
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Trump unleashes xenophobic tirade against Somalis, branding them "garbage" in an outburst that was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry even for a president known for his history of insulting Black people, write Zolan Kanno-Youngs and @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the Country
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Trump unleashes xenophobic tirade against Somalis, branding them "garbage" in an outburst that was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry even for a president known for his history of insulting Black people, write Zolan Kanno-Youngs and @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...