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Rob Boone
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once described as "the weirdest guy i know" by a reliable source. he/him
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This is where cities can learn from Chicago: www.no2ice.com

Free, LEGAL, resistance materials and toolkits for almost every situation.

I’ve heard they don’t even take donations so there is no tracking…hosted somewhere abroad..over there yonder. Somewhere where people are still free.
www.no2ice.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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“The day is coming soon where good men are going to have to do bad things to very bad people…”
January 8, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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The US government is now freely killing people at sea, in other lands, and on its own streets.

It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.
January 7, 2026 at 9:39 PM
re-reading bertrand russell's "in praise of idleness," for no reason in particular and certainly not for reasons that are pertinent to this moment in history files.libcom.org/files/Bertra...
files.libcom.org
January 8, 2026 at 4:13 PM
psa: vox's today explained newsletter is approximately 348% better since caitlin dewey (of the links i would gchat you if we were friends newsletter fame) started writing it www.vox.com/today-explai...
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January 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
the astonishingly fragile masculinity of these asshats, who go into a full-blown existential crisis when they realize that women can do the jobs they do. man up, buttercup
Pentagon will begin review of 'effectiveness' of women in ground combat positions
The review, outlined in a Pentagon memo obtained by NPR, comes after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told admirals and generals in September that women must meet the "highest male standard."
www.npr.org
January 6, 2026 at 7:37 PM
i regularly wonder the impact a mature tupac would've had on the world

a lot of musicians die young but i feel like we were robbed of what could've been a genuinely transformative presence
January 6, 2026 at 7:23 PM
i can't explain it but macos tahoe feels so much more hectic than sequoia. less bicycle for the mind and more hamster wheel
January 5, 2026 at 3:45 PM
it boggles my mind that we didn't just elect someone uniquely unsuited for the presidency, we elected *the single most uniquely unsuited person*

in a random selection of a million multiverses, this schmuck is as bad as it can get: dumb as a box of rocks and not a single decent bone in his body
January 5, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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* Fascism is first and foremost an attack on reality *
January 4, 2026 at 6:20 AM
goddammit, the one time i actually want the browns to blow it
January 4, 2026 at 8:54 PM
'The whole operation took a little over two hours; Trump followed along on screens at Mar-a-Lago. “I watched it, literally, like I was watching a television show,” he told Fox News.'

what terrifies me about this is that to a power-hungry, tv-loving imbecile like trump, this could get addictive
The Morning: The Venezuela takeover
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January 4, 2026 at 2:38 PM
"If what he is doing to Maduro is lawful, it would be just as lawful for another nation to capture Trump and put him on trial in their own courts."
Trump’s War | David Cole
“It was a brilliant operation, actually.” So claimed Donald Trump early this morning in a phone call with The New York Times about the US military’s
www.nybooks.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:26 PM
when all you have is an $850 billion defense budget, everything looks like a war
January 3, 2026 at 7:17 PM
ngl mamdani's tenure makes me super nervous... i've no doubt he intends to keep all his campaign promises, but if he runs into structural roadblocks, as he is bound to, critics of socialism will have an easy time painting any and all of his failings as inherent flaws in socialism
January 2, 2026 at 4:12 PM
ummmmmmmm
January 1, 2026 at 7:56 PM
i miss rock music
January 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
resuming most books after a day or so: flip back to the previous page so you can get some context for the thing that’s happening now

resuming 100 years of solitude: flip back to the previous page to remember the 47 world-changing events that happened on that page
January 1, 2026 at 3:20 PM
for some reason unbeknownst to me i decided to resubscribe to the nyt after five years or so and i cannot believe the degree to which the old grey lady is not so much a news organization anymore but a brand, firmly embedded in its enshittification phase
December 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
just unsubscribed from sooo many newsletters and i feel 10 pounds lighter
December 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
should not have chosen eddington to watch tonight, i *really* don’t need to relive this particular strain of anger
December 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
my laptop is in the shop (trackpad issues) so all i have is my ipad and my iphone and i somehow feel naked and free at the same time
December 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
i'm positive i've read more thoughtful, more nuanced, and smarter variations on this exact thing but a one-sentence summary just landed in my brain with a thud:

donald trump is the logical conclusion of a world in which everything is competing for eyeballs
December 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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BREAKING:

Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See

Video (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5
December 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM