j_warren_hauser
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progressive evangelical PC(USA) they/them; Interreligious Dialogue; Gender Issues; Third-Culture Identities; Justice; Media.
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their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more
that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts
that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more
that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts
that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts
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This is kinda funny. A nerdy patent lawyer was unhappy with the options for home automation products, so he started his own company as a side hustle - with all open source firmware and explicit instructions for hacking. He has bulbs, plugs, and switches so far.
kaufha.com/about/
kaufha.com/about/
About – Kaufman Home Automation
kaufha.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This is kinda funny. A nerdy patent lawyer was unhappy with the options for home automation products, so he started his own company as a side hustle - with all open source firmware and explicit instructions for hacking. He has bulbs, plugs, and switches so far.
kaufha.com/about/
kaufha.com/about/
We'd love for J.D. Vance to meaningfully join Christianity!
JD Vance slammed for saying he hopes his Hindu wife will ‘join Christianity’
JD Vance slammed for saying he hopes his Hindu wife will ‘join Christianity’
JD Vance slammed for saying he hopes his Hindu wife will ‘join Christianity’
www.independent.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
We'd love for J.D. Vance to meaningfully join Christianity!
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This is literally Nazi shit. This is what the Nazis did. If you support this, you are a Nazi, and if that makes you upset, then STOP BEING A FUCKING NAZI
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This is literally Nazi shit. This is what the Nazis did. If you support this, you are a Nazi, and if that makes you upset, then STOP BEING A FUCKING NAZI
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The flawed story:
*doesn’t quote a single medical expert
*fails to apply skepticism to claims CPCs make about their medical services
*doesn’t explain health risks CPC clients face
*will likely be republished by other outlets that pay for AP content
*doesn’t quote a single medical expert
*fails to apply skepticism to claims CPCs make about their medical services
*doesn’t explain health risks CPC clients face
*will likely be republished by other outlets that pay for AP content
The Associated Press Does Free PR for Crisis Pregnancy Centers
A recent story is a glaring example of how traditional journalistic “objectivity" is far from unbiased, and can even facilitate the spread of disinformation.
www.autonomynews.co
October 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The flawed story:
*doesn’t quote a single medical expert
*fails to apply skepticism to claims CPCs make about their medical services
*doesn’t explain health risks CPC clients face
*will likely be republished by other outlets that pay for AP content
*doesn’t quote a single medical expert
*fails to apply skepticism to claims CPCs make about their medical services
*doesn’t explain health risks CPC clients face
*will likely be republished by other outlets that pay for AP content
This is their goal. Let people starve to death, blame it on the Democrats, and they've reduced the number of those who vote for their opponents. Same as with letting COVID rip. 'So (poor, disabled, elderly, veteran, pregnant, rural, young, Black, brown, queer) people die? So what?'
Thinking about how poor disabled and aging people may be impacted this is a multitude of ways–they may not be able to get food, and their care workers may not either (for those who have them), leading to less good support for disabled folks as starving people don't make the best workers.
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk
October 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This is their goal. Let people starve to death, blame it on the Democrats, and they've reduced the number of those who vote for their opponents. Same as with letting COVID rip. 'So (poor, disabled, elderly, veteran, pregnant, rural, young, Black, brown, queer) people die? So what?'
'I'm as good as Duterte for this!'
Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."
October 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
'I'm as good as Duterte for this!'
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An image of the Trump-Vance presidency smashing a wrecking ball into the White House to build a monument to Dear Leader—during a government shutdown—captures 2025 pretty well
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
An image of the Trump-Vance presidency smashing a wrecking ball into the White House to build a monument to Dear Leader—during a government shutdown—captures 2025 pretty well
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The metaphor is inescapable.
October 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The metaphor is inescapable.
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Quietly devastating. How AI firms lied, cheated and robbed their way to killing the open web and decades of mutually agreed, protocol-based technical cooperation
All technologists who work for them are culpable.
They murder knowledge and systems of informal and hard-learned collaboration and care.
All technologists who work for them are culpable.
They murder knowledge and systems of informal and hard-learned collaboration and care.
"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025)
The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell.
www.heise.de
October 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Quietly devastating. How AI firms lied, cheated and robbed their way to killing the open web and decades of mutually agreed, protocol-based technical cooperation
All technologists who work for them are culpable.
They murder knowledge and systems of informal and hard-learned collaboration and care.
All technologists who work for them are culpable.
They murder knowledge and systems of informal and hard-learned collaboration and care.
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OpenAI’s planned data centers will use more power than New York City & San Diego use at their peak consumption, combined. More power than the entire nations of Switzerland & Portugal combined. And San Altman’s buddies in this administration have been cutting all of our energy infrastructure upgrades
Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune
Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”
fortune.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
OpenAI’s planned data centers will use more power than New York City & San Diego use at their peak consumption, combined. More power than the entire nations of Switzerland & Portugal combined. And San Altman’s buddies in this administration have been cutting all of our energy infrastructure upgrades
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The headline here is “Hegseth announces changes that will protect domestic abusers in the military.” Even though this is incontestably true, no news organization will use this headline, because telling the truth is deemed impermissible if the truth hurts the right too much
Hegseth: "We are overhauling an inspector general process that has been weaponized, putting complainers and poor performers in the driver seat. We are doing the same with the equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complains ... no more walking on eggshells."
September 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The headline here is “Hegseth announces changes that will protect domestic abusers in the military.” Even though this is incontestably true, no news organization will use this headline, because telling the truth is deemed impermissible if the truth hurts the right too much
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Again this is because they have a desired moral economy which has no relationship to the actual economy.
1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."
September 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Again this is because they have a desired moral economy which has no relationship to the actual economy.
Cisgender women: trans people now; then they're coming for IVF, for perimenopause HRT, for birth control.
They've already classified any birth control that prevents implantation as an abortifascient.
They've already classified any birth control that prevents implantation as an abortifascient.
oh look, it’s literally the thing i wrote about for @rollingstone.com happening in real time. as we speak. like exactly what i reported, like a carbon copy.
as a reminder, here’s what i said people within the party and trans care advocates believe will most likely happen next.
as a reminder, here’s what i said people within the party and trans care advocates believe will most likely happen next.
September 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Cisgender women: trans people now; then they're coming for IVF, for perimenopause HRT, for birth control.
They've already classified any birth control that prevents implantation as an abortifascient.
They've already classified any birth control that prevents implantation as an abortifascient.
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This is absolutely ridiculous, would devastate numerous academic fields, and would destroy the lives of people I love very much. Please, please join me in sending a comment in on this telling them so
DHS is proposing a rule that would end "duration of status" for J, F and other visa holders. This would decimate the international graduate student and postdoc population, which are a crucial part of the United States biomedical workforce. There's still time for you to comment on the proposed rule.
Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media
Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...
www.federalregister.gov
September 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is absolutely ridiculous, would devastate numerous academic fields, and would destroy the lives of people I love very much. Please, please join me in sending a comment in on this telling them so
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yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats
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No really, I am s h o c k e d
September 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
No really, I am s h o c k e d
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Of all the wrong things, this may be the most wrong.
The BBC's self-described "far-right expert", too, construes it all as antifa.
September 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Of all the wrong things, this may be the most wrong.
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This is something that I think needs to be said more for the young people. This shit got worse. Google was more useful in 2006 than it is today. Meemaw and Peepaw regularly post shit on Facebook that would have got you banned from Newgrounds.
Silicon Valley also just doesn’t make good shit anymore and are mad they lost the deference that comes with a reputation for competence.
September 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This is something that I think needs to be said more for the young people. This shit got worse. Google was more useful in 2006 than it is today. Meemaw and Peepaw regularly post shit on Facebook that would have got you banned from Newgrounds.
Recalling the time a young person read scripture during a worship service at our national gathering, and pronounced the tribe "hi-Tit'-eez". The response from the crowd was subdued, thankfully. Practice what you'll read liturgically with others, folks!
Once when I was a kid, in Sunday school I was called on to read a verse from the Bible. I was a very shy, easily flustered kid. The verse I had to read contained the word gentiles. The way I mispronounced it made the Sunday school teacher turn bright red 😅
August 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Recalling the time a young person read scripture during a worship service at our national gathering, and pronounced the tribe "hi-Tit'-eez". The response from the crowd was subdued, thankfully. Practice what you'll read liturgically with others, folks!
Don't have a heart attack on the Friday of a three day weekend! The hospital insists on keeping me whilst no one reviews my echocardiogram, & cath lab isn't staffed until TUES. So I sit and WAIT through Sat, Sun, & Mon?! Getting charged godless amounts of $ to get my vitals checked every 4 hours.
August 31, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Don't have a heart attack on the Friday of a three day weekend! The hospital insists on keeping me whilst no one reviews my echocardiogram, & cath lab isn't staffed until TUES. So I sit and WAIT through Sat, Sun, & Mon?! Getting charged godless amounts of $ to get my vitals checked every 4 hours.
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For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
I keep thinking about how the COVID vaccine was rolled out for free for all Americans in 2021 by the federal & state governments with support from local health departments & universities. Since, we have seen the privatization of delivery thru commercial pharmacies & the need for insurance coverage.
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
August 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
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I have said this before and will keep saying it but scholarly/expert communities—and I very much include musicology in this—need to be establishing ways to continue knowledge preservation and transmission without the academy for the next while
There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.
“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
August 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I have said this before and will keep saying it but scholarly/expert communities—and I very much include musicology in this—need to be establishing ways to continue knowledge preservation and transmission without the academy for the next while