J. Gray Dingler
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Never get too comfortable on any one social media platform. None of them are trustworthy and none of them are obligated to remain functional.
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as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable
The headline I feel like is that all the philanthropic donations from billionaires typically have a shitload of restrictions.
Mackenzie is like “you’re doing work to stop something horrible or to help something good? Cool. Here’s a few hundred million.” and the paper is like “wow… so novel”
Mackenzie is like “you’re doing work to stop something horrible or to help something good? Cool. Here’s a few hundred million.” and the paper is like “wow… so novel”
Mackenzie Scott’s signature philanthropic style is giving unrestricted gifts—a rarity in the industry. trib.al/DjrurgM
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable
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The thing is, Scott's applications still take tens if not hundreds of person hours to complete, and that's totally wasted time for non-winners. Written answers plus videos and complex budget forms that require info that's publicly available.
I'm not complaining, it keeps me employed. But Scott
I'm not complaining, it keeps me employed. But Scott
December 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The thing is, Scott's applications still take tens if not hundreds of person hours to complete, and that's totally wasted time for non-winners. Written answers plus videos and complex budget forms that require info that's publicly available.
I'm not complaining, it keeps me employed. But Scott
I'm not complaining, it keeps me employed. But Scott
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Newsmax turning on Trump feels like a bellwether moment
I think there’s a lot more internal pressure behind the scenes on the administration from even their usual allies to give Hegseth the boot before he brings the whole house of cards down
but they won’t because they’re all stubborn assholes so
I think there’s a lot more internal pressure behind the scenes on the administration from even their usual allies to give Hegseth the boot before he brings the whole house of cards down
but they won’t because they’re all stubborn assholes so
Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.”
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
December 3, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Newsmax turning on Trump feels like a bellwether moment
I think there’s a lot more internal pressure behind the scenes on the administration from even their usual allies to give Hegseth the boot before he brings the whole house of cards down
but they won’t because they’re all stubborn assholes so
I think there’s a lot more internal pressure behind the scenes on the administration from even their usual allies to give Hegseth the boot before he brings the whole house of cards down
but they won’t because they’re all stubborn assholes so
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So the outcome of “ultra processed food” lawsuits gonna be banning all preservatives, and food will go stale/moldy/bad super fast -sickening even more people and wasting folks’ money
And meanwhile, polluters will slip their bribes in and we’ll still have pesticide contamination in food
And meanwhile, polluters will slip their bribes in and we’ll still have pesticide contamination in food
December 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
So the outcome of “ultra processed food” lawsuits gonna be banning all preservatives, and food will go stale/moldy/bad super fast -sickening even more people and wasting folks’ money
And meanwhile, polluters will slip their bribes in and we’ll still have pesticide contamination in food
And meanwhile, polluters will slip their bribes in and we’ll still have pesticide contamination in food
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When I talk to my students about law and resistance, I talk about how people tend to think in terms of whether they would’ve acted in 1942, but that they should instead ask themselves what they would’ve done in 1933.
“I think we have to be careful with the Nazi comparisons” people are always waiting until we are five minutes until the Holocaust and then they’re like well it’s only ethnic cleansing not a Holocaust
Is this clear enough or are we still doing that whole thing where we pretend it’s about “crime”?
December 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
When I talk to my students about law and resistance, I talk about how people tend to think in terms of whether they would’ve acted in 1942, but that they should instead ask themselves what they would’ve done in 1933.
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IMO, we have to figure out how to take care of each other NOW as if "the collapse" has already happened, because it's already underway
I just saw a skeet about someone saying they couldn’t wait for the collapse and I am genuinely wondering how that would play out cause ik this idea has been floated even more given the direction we’re going.
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
IMO, we have to figure out how to take care of each other NOW as if "the collapse" has already happened, because it's already underway
I think I was pretty lucky personally but this old skeet is a good excuse for me to post this screenshot I've been sitting on for years:
December 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I think I was pretty lucky personally but this old skeet is a good excuse for me to post this screenshot I've been sitting on for years:
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I had Peter Daou quote tweet me because I wasn’t a big fan of Marianne Williamson, lots of harassment ensued
What’s the worst thing you experienced on the bird app? It could be something that happened to you or another person.
December 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I had Peter Daou quote tweet me because I wasn’t a big fan of Marianne Williamson, lots of harassment ensued
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His "last post was unanswered and deleted by the group's administrator." Always a cover up with this regime. He did fucked up shit in his home country on our orders, and we left him hanging out to dry... that's what we do, folks
December 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
His "last post was unanswered and deleted by the group's administrator." Always a cover up with this regime. He did fucked up shit in his home country on our orders, and we left him hanging out to dry... that's what we do, folks
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Let me get this straight: we trained this guy to be an elite killer, abandoned his country to the Taliban, isolated him, arbitrarily banned him from working and so left his family unsupported.
I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.
I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.
Alleged D.C. Shooter Begged CIA for Help as He Tried to Find Work newrepublic.com/post/203784/... via @newrepublic.com
Alleged D.C. Shooter Begged CIA for Help as He Tried to Find Work
The National Guard shooting suspect felt abandoned by the CIA after working together for so long, his fellow unit member said.
newrepublic.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Let me get this straight: we trained this guy to be an elite killer, abandoned his country to the Taliban, isolated him, arbitrarily banned him from working and so left his family unsupported.
I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.
I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.
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This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
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 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
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this is the thing.
I DONT CARE if *some* students have managed to get accommodations by allegedly "gaming the system" or "doctor shopping"
I DON'T CARE.
Because my experience tells me how hard it is to be disabled in higher ed, as both a disabled student, and disabled faculty member now.
I DONT CARE if *some* students have managed to get accommodations by allegedly "gaming the system" or "doctor shopping"
I DON'T CARE.
Because my experience tells me how hard it is to be disabled in higher ed, as both a disabled student, and disabled faculty member now.
How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?
December 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
this is the thing.
I DONT CARE if *some* students have managed to get accommodations by allegedly "gaming the system" or "doctor shopping"
I DON'T CARE.
Because my experience tells me how hard it is to be disabled in higher ed, as both a disabled student, and disabled faculty member now.
I DONT CARE if *some* students have managed to get accommodations by allegedly "gaming the system" or "doctor shopping"
I DON'T CARE.
Because my experience tells me how hard it is to be disabled in higher ed, as both a disabled student, and disabled faculty member now.
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Don't blame the turner diaries troglodytes literally dismantling the Department of Education, blame the 11 year old with ADHD who needs an extra 30 minutes for the test.
So they're just transparently starting the drumbeat against a new vilified group just like they did with trans athletes, racial minority students, MeToo/BLM/anti-genocide activists, etc. right?
There always needs to be a group who's "unfairly taking your kid's spot"
There always needs to be a group who's "unfairly taking your kid's spot"
Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
December 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Don't blame the turner diaries troglodytes literally dismantling the Department of Education, blame the 11 year old with ADHD who needs an extra 30 minutes for the test.
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This is why people who insist that capitalism/profit motive will ultimately trump racism are unfortunately and demonstrably incorrect
We’ve had endless examples of how much money there is to be made, and yet they consistently do this
We’ve had endless examples of how much money there is to be made, and yet they consistently do this
I still can't believe Sony sold K-Pop Demon Hunters to Netflix thinking it would be a flop, but are betting that basketball movie with a goat is going to be a huge hit in cinemas.
December 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This is why people who insist that capitalism/profit motive will ultimately trump racism are unfortunately and demonstrably incorrect
We’ve had endless examples of how much money there is to be made, and yet they consistently do this
We’ve had endless examples of how much money there is to be made, and yet they consistently do this
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LIBERALS: If only we'd elected Hillary Clinton none of this would have happened
HILLARY CLINTON, APPEARING AT AN EVENT SPONSORED BY A RIGHT-WING BILLIONAIRE TRUMP MEGADONOR: People who have sympathy for Palestinians getting genocided are dumb kids duped by communist propaganda
HILLARY CLINTON, APPEARING AT AN EVENT SPONSORED BY A RIGHT-WING BILLIONAIRE TRUMP MEGADONOR: People who have sympathy for Palestinians getting genocided are dumb kids duped by communist propaganda
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
LIBERALS: If only we'd elected Hillary Clinton none of this would have happened
HILLARY CLINTON, APPEARING AT AN EVENT SPONSORED BY A RIGHT-WING BILLIONAIRE TRUMP MEGADONOR: People who have sympathy for Palestinians getting genocided are dumb kids duped by communist propaganda
HILLARY CLINTON, APPEARING AT AN EVENT SPONSORED BY A RIGHT-WING BILLIONAIRE TRUMP MEGADONOR: People who have sympathy for Palestinians getting genocided are dumb kids duped by communist propaganda
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Remember to be kind to animators.
They make your favourite shows and movies, don't get enough credit, and take the brunt of all the shitty things online and behind the scenes.
They make your favourite shows and movies, don't get enough credit, and take the brunt of all the shitty things online and behind the scenes.
December 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Remember to be kind to animators.
They make your favourite shows and movies, don't get enough credit, and take the brunt of all the shitty things online and behind the scenes.
They make your favourite shows and movies, don't get enough credit, and take the brunt of all the shitty things online and behind the scenes.
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it’s not just that you don’t need Clintons to win elections anymore; it’s that a Clinton endorsement might actually hurt more than it helps, and that makes them mad specifically at us, the ungrateful Democrat electorate who isn’t obeying them
to a lesser extent it’s even true of the Obama folks
to a lesser extent it’s even true of the Obama folks
December 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
it’s not just that you don’t need Clintons to win elections anymore; it’s that a Clinton endorsement might actually hurt more than it helps, and that makes them mad specifically at us, the ungrateful Democrat electorate who isn’t obeying them
to a lesser extent it’s even true of the Obama folks
to a lesser extent it’s even true of the Obama folks
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DHS’s post suggesting “if you help kick people out of the country you’ll be able to afford housing” is OG Nazism.
December 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
DHS’s post suggesting “if you help kick people out of the country you’ll be able to afford housing” is OG Nazism.
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A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools:
“It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”
(Published October 2025)
“It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”
(Published October 2025)
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
www.propublica.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools:
“It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”
(Published October 2025)
“It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”
(Published October 2025)
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This has gotten a good bit of traffic today but not a lot of newsletter signups! I don't bother you much, please sign up so I can convince myself I should keep doing stories like this!
NEW: I heard from a bunch of NREL employees after the announcement of a name change yesterday. They're not thrilled.
"Morale is bad. Funding is tenuous.... I've been through two W administrations, many R congresses, and [the first] Trump admin. This is the worst."
"Morale is bad. Funding is tenuous.... I've been through two W administrations, many R congresses, and [the first] Trump admin. This is the worst."
'A Collective WTF': National Renewable Energy Laboratory Gets a Trumpian Name Change
NREL employees, many of whom joined the lab specifically to work toward its clean energy mission, are not happy about the oil-soaked leadership's moves.
www.gravityisgone.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This has gotten a good bit of traffic today but not a lot of newsletter signups! I don't bother you much, please sign up so I can convince myself I should keep doing stories like this!
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I can't emphasize this enough: If you're struggling to find work in games, you're not the only one and please don't blame yourself. The horrible state of the industry is unprecedented. The crash in the 80s and the recession in the late 2000s weren't as rough as this. There are so few opportunities.
December 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I can't emphasize this enough: If you're struggling to find work in games, you're not the only one and please don't blame yourself. The horrible state of the industry is unprecedented. The crash in the 80s and the recession in the late 2000s weren't as rough as this. There are so few opportunities.
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Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
Things were better when they sucked less.
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Things were better when they sucked less.
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Not just no. Fuck no.
DOJ sues WA secretary of state, demanding info on all state voters
The Department of Justice sued Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs over his refusal to turn over personal information on all state voters.
www.seattletimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Not just no. Fuck no.