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My friends: Smoothsom can't hurt you
Smoothsom:
December 6, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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It’s so cool to have hitched your wagon 20 years ago to an industry that was booming beyond anyone’s expectations and have it turn out to be stripmined and utterly hollowed out by Shareholder Value, and every other industry you could slot into has been, surprise, hollowed out by Shareholder Value
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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“Stella why do you put up with x or y” what would you like me to do man. I was unemployed for 18 of the last 36 months. Jobs don’t exist anymore. We take what we can get now, warts and all.
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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"Instead of choosing the executive by national plebescite, we'll choose it in the rational way: a random assortment of low-information voters in states that are relatively populous and politically closely divided."
I don't want the executive chosen by national plebescite, Elie. I've had about enough of populism and I'd think you would have too. You can fix the proportionality problem with a bigger House, but as a resident of Rhode Island, I will keep my 4 ECs, thank you :)
November 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Homegrown Ameriboos are so pathetic
Federalism, by definition, does not care about giving votes equal weight, it cares about balancing the power among members of the federal union.

American schools *do* teach civics, but everyone flunks it now
This is the definition of the slippery slope fallacy.

Arguing that votes should be given equal weight regardless of geography does not equate to arguing that states should not exist.
November 22, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Filming at an abandoned uranium mine in Arizona. The mining waste is uncontained, open to the winds. Professor Kearfott, University of Michigan, telks me the Geiger counter readings I took here are similar to those remaining around Chernobyl.

vimeo.com/ondemand/thi...
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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every wants dem tea party and then cry when the dem tea party arrives lol
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Only 2 years since the ban on neonics, France's population of insect-eating birds has risen 2-3% - from banning a single type of insecticide. Demonstrating just how much harm we cause birds when pesticides kill off the insects they need for food.
@paneurope.bsky.social
Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban

UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study
Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Mamdani is a child of privilege therefore his socialism is cosplay designed to rile up downwardly mobile youngsters into stealing money from job creators. Wilson is poor and her socialism is just a way to get job creators to pay for her expenses.
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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I don't know why we still call them ICE and treat them as a legitimate organization. They are an armed Militia and should be designated as a terrorist group. No other legal force in America wears masks and strips people of due process. They are a terrorist organization
November 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Hmm
You certainly wouldn't trust your local cops or state police or local officials in ANY way, because they wouldn't be YOURS. And if they abuse you, you'd best shut up and take it. (See the part about "Courts"). You'd fear that every interaction would be an interaction with The State, the Regime.

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November 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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they spent 4 years studiously avoiding confrontations with the supreme court because they have no interest in court reform. they’re quiet about ICE because they do not want to a single thing about it when they have power. it’s a shitty reality to confront but it is the reality.
November 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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the sooner people internalize this about the dems, stop projecting their fantasies on the party, and start demanding more, the better off we’ll all be.
they spent 4 years studiously avoiding confrontations with the supreme court because they have no interest in court reform. they’re quiet about ICE because they do not want to a single thing about it when they have power. it’s a shitty reality to confront but it is the reality.
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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literally every reason you can think of that they use to not invest in clean energy (not cost effective yet, tech isnt there yet, etc) is 100% true of ai by the way, the difference is that clean energy will mean less money for rich people and ai means more money for rich people
November 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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what if, as a thought experiment, we imagine leadership class that isn't addicted to basement-tier incel whining
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Why hello there former US Treasury Secretary, president of Harvard, and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers.

Sharing with alt so we can all bask in his hidden insights that we are NOT allowed to share.

And here's the source link:
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Wow and I always thought the most damning citation of Larry Summers was the epigraph from *Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor* (2011)
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Your regular reminder that there's a profession where the employees are so violent, so untrustworthy, that they are required by law to have personal video supervision every time they interact with the general public, just so there is any sort of factual record of what occurs.
"Police dishonesty, even on the stand and under oath, is so common that it has its own name (“testilying”), and it has forced prosecutor offices to create what are called “Brady Lists” of officers they will not put on the stand out of fear they’ll commit perjury."
My latest, in @msnbc.com, on how ICE, CBP, and Bovino may be overplaying their hand in Chicago.

Also: this will only make hiring go ICE harder.

And: I hope ppl appreciate that the lying Judge Ellis calls out is NOT an aberration, but a very consistent problem w police claims.
November 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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incredible that "we cannot deliver cities that are free of pogroms of ethnic terror by secret policy" is actual policy in practice
SCHUMER is on the floor now making this offer to end the shutdown:

Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care

"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"the world is better with you in it" - the Omelas, probably
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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There would be articles during the Obama era about how the border patrol could conduct interrogations and all kinds of heinous shit 100 miles from the border and most people would be like “did you watch the new dancing with the stars?” And you’d be burning inside becuase you’d been awake since bush
October 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM