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Its the horror movie version of "Opposites Day." Everything out of TrumpMagaFox is the opposite of truth. I'm wondering if the pull of their cult is to never be honest or accountable. Say one thing today and deny you said it tomorrow and be cheered or nominated for cabinet.
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Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think. www.wired.com/story/karen-...
You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong
Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think.
www.wired.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think. www.wired.com/story/karen-...
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Put aside that it isn't actually all that horrible to say such a thing, he actually didn't say that. Why are people incapable of taking on someone's words as they actually exist?
Here's what he actually said on the right
Here's what he actually said on the right
![If I were 20 years old, born into Gaza, a giant open-air jail ... if my father is a fisherman and he goes too far out into the sea, he might get shot by somebody inside of Israeli boats ... if my mother picks the olive trees and she gets too close to the wall, she might be shot ... if my little sister has cancer and she needs treatment because there are no facilities to do that in Gaza and I don't get the right permit, she might die ... if I grow up under that oppression, and that poverty ... when the wall comes down lon October 7], am I also strong enough, or even constructed in such a way where I say: "This is too far"?
I don't know that I am. I don't know that I am. I don't know that I am. I just wish we had room to work through that, you know what I mean? And to think about that and
to talk about that.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vlpy6zuqqum5tumv7b6dw5fp/bafkreih5bnm3maheoeaeob722bzljt6fjbcaytw7xkmgsoppxmht4ddtam@jpeg)
December 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Put aside that it isn't actually all that horrible to say such a thing, he actually didn't say that. Why are people incapable of taking on someone's words as they actually exist?
Here's what he actually said on the right
Here's what he actually said on the right
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We don't have to guess how an at-will public employment system will be used under Trump, because we have a de facto at-will system already in place.
Under that system, here are some of the reasons you can be fired from the federal government:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/at-will-wh...
Under that system, here are some of the reasons you can be fired from the federal government:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/at-will-wh...
December 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
We don't have to guess how an at-will public employment system will be used under Trump, because we have a de facto at-will system already in place.
Under that system, here are some of the reasons you can be fired from the federal government:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/at-will-wh...
Under that system, here are some of the reasons you can be fired from the federal government:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/at-will-wh...
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A 10-minute soup recipe you’ll want in your holiday cooking rotation.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/syrian-lentil-soup-brings-the-holidays
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/syrian-lentil-soup-brings-the-holidays
December 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A 10-minute soup recipe you’ll want in your holiday cooking rotation.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/syrian-lentil-soup-brings-the-holidays
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/syrian-lentil-soup-brings-the-holidays
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Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/b...
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/b...
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Unlawful Orders and Killing Shipwrecked Boat Strike Survivors
An Expert Backgrounder by @mikeschmitt.bsky.social, @rgoodlaw.bsky.social and @tessbridgeman.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/125948/illeg...
An Expert Backgrounder by @mikeschmitt.bsky.social, @rgoodlaw.bsky.social and @tessbridgeman.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/125948/illeg...
Unlawful Orders and Killing Shipwrecked Boat Strike Survivors: An Expert Backgrounder
An expert backgrounder on the reported Hegseth "no quarter" order to kill everyone aboard a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean on Sept. 2.
www.justsecurity.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Unlawful Orders and Killing Shipwrecked Boat Strike Survivors
An Expert Backgrounder by @mikeschmitt.bsky.social, @rgoodlaw.bsky.social and @tessbridgeman.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/125948/illeg...
An Expert Backgrounder by @mikeschmitt.bsky.social, @rgoodlaw.bsky.social and @tessbridgeman.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/125948/illeg...
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Pete Hegseth South Park song
December 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Pete Hegseth South Park song
So heartbroken for Sarah Beckstrim and her family. They are real, not always narrative.
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 AM
So heartbroken for Sarah Beckstrim and her family. They are real, not always narrative.
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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it's several years old but the Adele SNL Thanksgiving sketch is still perfect
A Thanksgiving Miracle - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2024 at 2:57 AM
it's several years old but the Adele SNL Thanksgiving sketch is still perfect
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Today, in Utah, homeowners *or renters* can simply buy a solar panel at Costco, take it home, and plug it in to a wall socket, like an appliance. It just sits there & trims about 15-20% off a residential power bill. If you move to another apt., you can take it with you.
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Today, in Utah, homeowners *or renters* can simply buy a solar panel at Costco, take it home, and plug it in to a wall socket, like an appliance. It just sits there & trims about 15-20% off a residential power bill. If you move to another apt., you can take it with you.
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“This is a recipe that will make you glad you need to go to the grocery for one more thing. Because while you’re there you can pick up the ingredients for this savory shortbread.”
Savory shortbread
Be warned: These are more-ish. You will want more.
contrarian.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
“This is a recipe that will make you glad you need to go to the grocery for one more thing. Because while you’re there you can pick up the ingredients for this savory shortbread.”
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NEW: ByHeart says that a lab found botulism-causing bacteria in its baby formula. 31 babies in 15 states have been hospitalized.
One dad of a baby who was gradually paralyzed by the botulism toxin said his son's cry became a "prolonged, soft moan."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
One dad of a baby who was gradually paralyzed by the botulism toxin said his son's cry became a "prolonged, soft moan."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
Botulism Bacteria Found in Infant Formula, Company Confirms
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
NEW: ByHeart says that a lab found botulism-causing bacteria in its baby formula. 31 babies in 15 states have been hospitalized.
One dad of a baby who was gradually paralyzed by the botulism toxin said his son's cry became a "prolonged, soft moan."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
One dad of a baby who was gradually paralyzed by the botulism toxin said his son's cry became a "prolonged, soft moan."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
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SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Employee of a Federal Official Charged with Conspiracy to Falsely Report Violent Attack and Giving False Statements to Law Enforcement
A New Jersey woman was charged with conspiring and falsely reporting to law enforcement that she had been violently assaulted with a firearm due to her employment with a federal official.
www.justice.gov
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.
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All right, people. I need some book recommendations for my kid. He's been ploughing through the Wimpy Kid series and he's never been happier or better behaved. But we are more than halfway through already after only two weeks. Are there any similar book series he might love the same way?
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
All right, people. I need some book recommendations for my kid. He's been ploughing through the Wimpy Kid series and he's never been happier or better behaved. But we are more than halfway through already after only two weeks. Are there any similar book series he might love the same way?
Consider joining me in not clicking on any story and I mean ANY sort about Nuzzi or written by Douthat, and more to be added later. In the attention economy, collective no-click is power.
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Consider joining me in not clicking on any story and I mean ANY sort about Nuzzi or written by Douthat, and more to be added later. In the attention economy, collective no-click is power.
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
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1. Yesterday, the State Department designated four Antifa-affiliated entities as global terrorist organizations. It’s part of the Trump regime’s effort to inflate the threat posed by “Antifa.” None of these supposed groups is even alleged to have attacked Americans.
www.state.gov/releases/202...
www.state.gov/releases/202...
Designations of Antifa Ost and Three Other Violent Antifa Groups - United States Department of State
Today, the Department of State announces the designation of Antifa Ost, Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front, Armed Proletarian Justice, and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense...
www.state.gov
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
1. Yesterday, the State Department designated four Antifa-affiliated entities as global terrorist organizations. It’s part of the Trump regime’s effort to inflate the threat posed by “Antifa.” None of these supposed groups is even alleged to have attacked Americans.
www.state.gov/releases/202...
www.state.gov/releases/202...
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If the Biden administration had sent federal agents to do a law enforcement operation 10X milder in a white suburban neighborhood in order to apprehend a serial pedophile and violent domestic abuser who happened to be a white Christian pastor, the MAGA crew would have reduced the country to rubble.
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
If the Biden administration had sent federal agents to do a law enforcement operation 10X milder in a white suburban neighborhood in order to apprehend a serial pedophile and violent domestic abuser who happened to be a white Christian pastor, the MAGA crew would have reduced the country to rubble.
I get it. Its mind boggling to choose where to start releasing snark and scorn for the nyt. 🤮 I am irrevocably open to an alternative to nyt, amazon, anything meta, and so on. For now I am reducing use as much as I can.
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I get it. Its mind boggling to choose where to start releasing snark and scorn for the nyt. 🤮 I am irrevocably open to an alternative to nyt, amazon, anything meta, and so on. For now I am reducing use as much as I can.
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Kevin Curry, a food influencer and a former SNAP recipient, explains where SNAP recipients can get the most up-to-date information on their benefits, and how anyone can find free or affordable food. n.pr/4nPEa0c
November 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Kevin Curry, a food influencer and a former SNAP recipient, explains where SNAP recipients can get the most up-to-date information on their benefits, and how anyone can find free or affordable food. n.pr/4nPEa0c
Lots of bits, but the big bit is that Republicans both refused and can't govern for the people. Democrats do.
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Lots of bits, but the big bit is that Republicans both refused and can't govern for the people. Democrats do.