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interlude: six views of miss popcorn
sorry for the unexpected radio silence! but there is a lot of cuteness inside!
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couldn't write my newsletter for three weeks cause i had to take a grippy sock vacation—yes, again—but here are six (6) photos of my dog the popcorn in this year's halloween costumes: omgwtf.fyi/interlude-si... (p.s. attn @darthbluesky.bsky.social)
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oh hey look it’s the thing literally everyone said would happen
Two months after President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting H-1B visas, soaring costs are roiling rural health care facilities that have long struggled to find staff.
Rural America relies on foreign doctors. Trump’s visa fee shuts them out.
The Trump administration’s demand for companies to pay a $100,000 fee to hire an immigrant worker using an H1B visa has created turmoil among rural health providers.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
oh hey look it’s the thing literally everyone said would happen
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Thing is, you flirt with white supremacy, you get a big hit of publicity & approval from the white supremacist media network that sprawls across this country. It's heady.
But then you leave that bubble & encounter the larger public & realize, oh, huh, they're not into this garbage, oops.
But then you leave that bubble & encounter the larger public & realize, oh, huh, they're not into this garbage, oops.
Sydney Sweeney tried again to address her American Eagle jeans ad controversy, saying she is ‘against hate and divisiveness.’
Sydney Sweeney Says She Is ‘Against Hate’
Sydney Sweeney tried again to address her American Eagle jeans ad controversy, saying she is ‘against hate and divisiveness.’
www.thecut.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Thing is, you flirt with white supremacy, you get a big hit of publicity & approval from the white supremacist media network that sprawls across this country. It's heady.
But then you leave that bubble & encounter the larger public & realize, oh, huh, they're not into this garbage, oops.
But then you leave that bubble & encounter the larger public & realize, oh, huh, they're not into this garbage, oops.
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Just noodling on an idea—US power in the world for nearly a century has been military, sure, as well as economic, but both of those were based on technical and scientific skill. Ability to maintain weapons and build new stuff. And we're nixing all of that. Bill's gonna come due.
December 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Just noodling on an idea—US power in the world for nearly a century has been military, sure, as well as economic, but both of those were based on technical and scientific skill. Ability to maintain weapons and build new stuff. And we're nixing all of that. Bill's gonna come due.
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how are you gonna tell me trans women aren't women when every single one i've complimented on a cute outfit has come back with THANKS GIRL IT'S GOT POCKETS
December 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
how are you gonna tell me trans women aren't women when every single one i've complimented on a cute outfit has come back with THANKS GIRL IT'S GOT POCKETS
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They're all pieces of shit and, if any are replaced they'll be replaced by pieces of shit. I am, however, greatly looking forward to the diva shit that she and Patel and Hegseth and whoever else gets canned pull when they're forced to give up their military housing and cars and planes and shit.
December 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
They're all pieces of shit and, if any are replaced they'll be replaced by pieces of shit. I am, however, greatly looking forward to the diva shit that she and Patel and Hegseth and whoever else gets canned pull when they're forced to give up their military housing and cars and planes and shit.
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god this is a satisfying sentence
December 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
god this is a satisfying sentence
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By the way, my story is free to read for everyone today, no subscription required, as part of a new feature The Verge introduced :-)
December 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
By the way, my story is free to read for everyone today, no subscription required, as part of a new feature The Verge introduced :-)
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the balance hasn't remained constant, but people have long wrongly seen the NYT as a liberal publication that feels the need to bend over backwards for conservatives to fight bias charges, when in fact it's a conservative publication aimed at convincing liberals. they're more open about that now
December 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
the balance hasn't remained constant, but people have long wrongly seen the NYT as a liberal publication that feels the need to bend over backwards for conservatives to fight bias charges, when in fact it's a conservative publication aimed at convincing liberals. they're more open about that now
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"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...
The only way to assure individual liberty is to hand unprecedented governmental power to the guy engaged in blatant democratic backsliding
Kavanaugh: Broad delegations to unaccountable agencies are dangerous for individual liberty! We have used the major questions doctrine to prevent agencies from overreaching.
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...
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we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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New in PN: Let's call Trump's anti-Somali hate for what it is
It's not "heated" or "divisive." It's Nazi stuff.
It's not "heated" or "divisive." It's Nazi stuff.
Let's call Trump's anti-Somali hate for what it is
It's not "heated" or "divisive." It's Nazi stuff.
www.publicnotice.co
December 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
New in PN: Let's call Trump's anti-Somali hate for what it is
It's not "heated" or "divisive." It's Nazi stuff.
It's not "heated" or "divisive." It's Nazi stuff.
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If Democrats were smart, they'd find ways to give ICE the USAID treatment while putting CBP under the jurisdiction of DOJ instead of DHS since it technically is law enforcement. Also, potentially spinning of ICE-HSI versus ICE-ERO.
This actually means effectively defunding ICE but funding the ever loving hell out of CBP and putting a hard-nosed chingón from the RGV in charge of it.
This is the big thing. One of the fascinating trends with Latino voters is they typically do not prioritize immigration (they tend to care about the economy, health care and education) UNLESS they feel uniquely targeted. This happened with Prop 187 and SB 1070
December 8, 2025 at 4:19 AM
If Democrats were smart, they'd find ways to give ICE the USAID treatment while putting CBP under the jurisdiction of DOJ instead of DHS since it technically is law enforcement. Also, potentially spinning of ICE-HSI versus ICE-ERO.
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Sadly, Trump saying that word would always going to open up the floodgates. When Trump won, FT quoted a banker saying he felt "liberated" to say "pussy and retard." When Trump said the word, Jack Posobiec said "Trump just officially gave us the word retard back."
www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
December 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Sadly, Trump saying that word would always going to open up the floodgates. When Trump won, FT quoted a banker saying he felt "liberated" to say "pussy and retard." When Trump said the word, Jack Posobiec said "Trump just officially gave us the word retard back."
www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
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i miss the old days, when weirdo billionaires were relatively harmless, holed up in las vegas penthouses, storing their urine in jars
December 8, 2025 at 4:50 AM
i miss the old days, when weirdo billionaires were relatively harmless, holed up in las vegas penthouses, storing their urine in jars
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Not to worry, I'm sure the Trump Administration's antisemitism task force will be looking into this pronto and coming up with measures to counteract this trend.
Survey of GOP voters: nearly four in ten (37%) "believe the Holocaust was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe. Younger men are especially likely to hold this view (54% of men under 50 vs. 39% of women under 50)." www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/repu...
Republican voters and conspiracism - Lawyers, Guns & Money
“Conspiracism” is the neologism that Nancy Rosenblum and Russell Muirhead have invented to describe what they call “conspiracy theory without the theory,” that is, the classic Trumpian claim that “a l...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Not to worry, I'm sure the Trump Administration's antisemitism task force will be looking into this pronto and coming up with measures to counteract this trend.
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I will literally give a reporter $1,000 bucks if they ask Elon Musk how it felt to be a DEI admit at UPENN
December 8, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I will literally give a reporter $1,000 bucks if they ask Elon Musk how it felt to be a DEI admit at UPENN
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
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The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
December 8, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
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Literally a week ago Musk said that falsely labeling people as Nazis "should be treated as incitement to murder." And here he is (falsely) labeling the EU as Nazis.
December 8, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Literally a week ago Musk said that falsely labeling people as Nazis "should be treated as incitement to murder." And here he is (falsely) labeling the EU as Nazis.
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Lot of rain last night some localised flooding. Driving through the village saw 2 kids in full waterproofs waiting patiently by a massive puddle. So I slowed and drove around the puddle looking in my mirrors to see the disappointment.
December 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Lot of rain last night some localised flooding. Driving through the village saw 2 kids in full waterproofs waiting patiently by a massive puddle. So I slowed and drove around the puddle looking in my mirrors to see the disappointment.