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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. #IDIC🖖🏼#ProtectTransKids. Read "Parable of the Sower" and "The Fifth Sacred Thing"
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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Trump is, and has been for years, the leader of a terrorist movement.
“He isn’t worried about Trump’s political wrath; he doesn’t plan to run for reelection.
His fear of speaking out is much more personal: ‘I’d rather my house not get firebombed’”
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His fear of speaking out is much more personal: ‘I’d rather my house not get firebombed’”
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Fear Taking Hold Among Indiana Republicans
“I’d rather my house not get firebombed.”
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November 27, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Trump is, and has been for years, the leader of a terrorist movement.
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry
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Trump Cuts to Counterterrorism Funds for New York Reach $187 Million www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/n...
Trump Cuts to Counterterrorism Funds for New York Reach $187 Million
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November 27, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Trump Cuts to Counterterrorism Funds for New York Reach $187 Million www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/n...
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2/ nor can we forget Thomas Fugate, the 22 year old Trump campaign worked appointed as the lead counter terrorism coordinator at DHS.
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 AM
2/ nor can we forget Thomas Fugate, the 22 year old Trump campaign worked appointed as the lead counter terrorism coordinator at DHS.
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Trump's speech about the shooting in DC veered into him attacking the Somali community in Minnesota, which of course had nothing to do with the shooting. Gives away his bigoted game.
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Trump's speech about the shooting in DC veered into him attacking the Somali community in Minnesota, which of course had nothing to do with the shooting. Gives away his bigoted game.
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data centers are driving up electricity prices for households — and price relief may not be coming anytime soon… Residential retail electricity prices in September were up 7.4%, to about 18 cents per kilowatt hour, according the Energy Information Administration... www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...
AI data center 'frenzy' is pushing up your electric bill — here's why
Energy-hungry data centers that underpin artificial intelligence are contributing to higher residential electricity bills, say experts.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
data centers are driving up electricity prices for households — and price relief may not be coming anytime soon… Residential retail electricity prices in September were up 7.4%, to about 18 cents per kilowatt hour, according the Energy Information Administration... www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...
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It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
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U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
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November 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Prediction: Some will seize on the shooting to try to pull Dems back to a position of cowardice on Trump's deportations, and Stephen Miller will scam dimwit commentators into making this case as well, but what happened ultimately won't dent public disapproval of the raids/arrests in the slightest.
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Prediction: Some will seize on the shooting to try to pull Dems back to a position of cowardice on Trump's deportations, and Stephen Miller will scam dimwit commentators into making this case as well, but what happened ultimately won't dent public disapproval of the raids/arrests in the slightest.
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Also these are people at the heights of the industry, and both Nuzzi and Lizza were almost instantly rehabilitated by top media companies after a first round of scandals that should have made them radioactive. Now lo and behold, much bigger shoes to drop, and we probably haven't seen the last of it.
The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Also these are people at the heights of the industry, and both Nuzzi and Lizza were almost instantly rehabilitated by top media companies after a first round of scandals that should have made them radioactive. Now lo and behold, much bigger shoes to drop, and we probably haven't seen the last of it.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump calls for reinvestigation of all Afghan refugees who entered under Biden admin after National Guard shooting.
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump calls for reinvestigation of all Afghan refugees who entered under Biden admin after National Guard shooting.
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journalism is often functionally the institution of paying young people who speak Left and Young fluently to justify the behavior of the establishment, which is neither Left nor Young
Every journalist post: hey guys I know you think that we should have said something about the child trafficker who hung out with our boss and emailed with our coworkers, but you guys are making some real journalistphobic assumptions and forcing us to do emotional labor, please examine your attitude.
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
journalism is often functionally the institution of paying young people who speak Left and Young fluently to justify the behavior of the establishment, which is neither Left nor Young
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The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
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Honestly the combination of the alleged source betrayals and secret recordings and the way this has rolled out has just fundamentally fucked us all in a way that’s bigger than the Stephen Glass scandal by a significant margin, and I think everyone is grappling with that in real time
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Honestly the combination of the alleged source betrayals and secret recordings and the way this has rolled out has just fundamentally fucked us all in a way that’s bigger than the Stephen Glass scandal by a significant margin, and I think everyone is grappling with that in real time
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Just thinking about the profound impact on our lives that the craven, selfish, petty choices made by ‘access journalists’ has had. Never working again is the bare minimum of accountability.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Just thinking about the profound impact on our lives that the craven, selfish, petty choices made by ‘access journalists’ has had. Never working again is the bare minimum of accountability.
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My mom told her physical therapist she wears a mask because her husband and daughter are immunocompromised. The PT said she is too but isn't worried bc she knows if she dies she is going to heaven. Then her co-worker yelled, “Shut up Debbie you wear a seatbelt and take blood pressure meds” 👀
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
My mom told her physical therapist she wears a mask because her husband and daughter are immunocompromised. The PT said she is too but isn't worried bc she knows if she dies she is going to heaven. Then her co-worker yelled, “Shut up Debbie you wear a seatbelt and take blood pressure meds” 👀
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I have said for years that they’re all up to the same tricks. You didn’t want to hear it. Now it comes out a member of the sainted Beltway press bugged the once and future President of the United States to help a political opponent she was screwing.
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I have said for years that they’re all up to the same tricks. You didn’t want to hear it. Now it comes out a member of the sainted Beltway press bugged the once and future President of the United States to help a political opponent she was screwing.
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i've been wrestling with--on a theoretical-liberal-theorist level--the perennial tension between professionalization and accountability
technical competence requires professionalization... but strategic clarity requires accountability
www.liberalcurrents.com/good-governa...
technical competence requires professionalization... but strategic clarity requires accountability
www.liberalcurrents.com/good-governa...
November 27, 2025 at 1:25 AM
i've been wrestling with--on a theoretical-liberal-theorist level--the perennial tension between professionalization and accountability
technical competence requires professionalization... but strategic clarity requires accountability
www.liberalcurrents.com/good-governa...
technical competence requires professionalization... but strategic clarity requires accountability
www.liberalcurrents.com/good-governa...
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"An essential step in the fascist march to acceptance and power was to persuade law-and-order conservatives and members of the middle class to tolerate fascist violence as a harsh necessity in the face of Left provocation."
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
November 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
"An essential step in the fascist march to acceptance and power was to persuade law-and-order conservatives and members of the middle class to tolerate fascist violence as a harsh necessity in the face of Left provocation."
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
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the beltway press is rotted through and that's significantly to blame for our current situation
November 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
the beltway press is rotted through and that's significantly to blame for our current situation
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“Every year, the ACC sets out dishes full of rice, pasta, dumplings, sambusas, pies and, of course, turkey. Signs over the shoulders of the smiling volunteers serving food inform guests where the dishes originated, from Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine to Ethiopia and Venezuela, among others.”
For more the two decades, the African Community Center “has hosted a ‘First’ Thanksgiving to introduce refugees and other immigrants to the holiday and life in the United States, but the nonprofit believes it has hosted the annual feast for the last time as the Trump admin freezes resettlement …”
Denver Refugees Enjoy Annual Thanksgiving Dinner, but It Could be the Last
The African Community Center isn't sure if it will survive much longer under the Trump administration's cuts and immigration revisions.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
“Every year, the ACC sets out dishes full of rice, pasta, dumplings, sambusas, pies and, of course, turkey. Signs over the shoulders of the smiling volunteers serving food inform guests where the dishes originated, from Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine to Ethiopia and Venezuela, among others.”
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Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
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yeah it’s bad that Lizza has been sitting on this for so long but also how cursory and inept was that Vox investigation that not only managed to miss the biggest scandal in the history of American political journalism but affirmatively exonerated her bsky.app/profile/bkel...
So the editor of New York Magazine said there was no bias or ethical problems with Olivia's articles?
Does he still think that?
They should retract all of her stories
Does he still think that?
They should retract all of her stories
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
yeah it’s bad that Lizza has been sitting on this for so long but also how cursory and inept was that Vox investigation that not only managed to miss the biggest scandal in the history of American political journalism but affirmatively exonerated her bsky.app/profile/bkel...