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Philip Hadley
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“ … Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free/The wretched refuse of your teeming shore/Send these, the tempest-tossed to me/I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
The U.S. is not just for highly intelligent nerds. It’s for everyone who wants a better life. 🇺🇸
It’s “Old Yeller” all over again. No one can watch that movie and not cry.
This is how I’m going to look every time someone dislikes one of my posts.
If you want to understand where increasing income inequality is leading, look at the “favelas” in Brazil, where a “drug raid” can lead to the police killing over 100 people.
The judge who set $2 million bail in this case needs to go back to law school and learn some fundamentals. Such as: In this country, subject to some very narrow exceptions, we are free to think anything we want and free to say whatever it is we think.
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Coffee is here and now…
Books, coffee, and the autumn rain as background music. Nothing more, nothing better… just perfect!
There are a lot of disturbing things in that story. It’s disturbing, for example, that a large chunk of Brazilians support this type of police misconduct on the theory that most of the identified victims (78 out of 99 [?]) had criminal records. That’s not how criminal justice is supposed to work.
Around 35 years ago, techno-utopians told us that making the internet public would bring knowledge and enlightenment to the world and lead to the downfall of tyrants everywhere.

How did that work out?

Now they tell us that we have nothing to fear from AI.

What could possibly go wrong?
I just read a post according to which ICE had recently made a contract to purchase “guided missile warheads,” among other things. That is apparently not true. Somebody evidently used the wrong code in filling out some kind of form. Social media are gradually becoming useless as a source of facts.
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Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump’s takeover

Nearly nine months into Trump’s oversight, sales for orchestra, theater and dance performances are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.
Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover
Nearly nine months into Trump’s oversight, sales for the three largest performance venues are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.
www.washingtonpost.com
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@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼
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She made really good chocolate mousse, too.
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Now, if you love New York City, you have to make a lot of sacrifices to actually live here. The plutocrats seem petrified by the idea that those who love New York City might some day be able to live here without making such enormous sacrifices. I’m not sure why that is. #Mamdani
I’m just wondering if this guy would pass Hegeseth’s anti-facial hair rule.
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For the post-war release of "The Maltese Falcon" in Italy.
I just cast my vote for Mamdani. I’m a “centrist,” by the way. But I’m a centrist who understands that there is nothing wrong with “socialism.” In fact, socialism is the only alternative to a society where the top 0.1% controls 99.9% of our wealth.