Stephen
@shayes287.com
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Stephen
@shayes287.com
· Apr 7
Focus on the love you’ve got.
Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
www.theatlantic.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
Listen to the Cassandras
Listen to the Cassandras
Toby Buckle for the New Republic: The Americans Who Saw All This Coming — But Were Ignored and Maligned.
This is not that far fro
kottke.org
December 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Listen to the Cassandras
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
“Motorists are hostile to measures that slow traffic and favor pedestrians. Local leaders give token or tepid support. Spending on pedestrian-friendly improvements is not prioritized.”
America’s plan to protect pedestrians failed. A young woman’s death reveals why.
U.S. officials adopted Europe's Vision Zero initiative, but many cities have seen an increase in pedestrian fatalities despite efforts to improve road safety.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“Motorists are hostile to measures that slow traffic and favor pedestrians. Local leaders give token or tepid support. Spending on pedestrian-friendly improvements is not prioritized.”
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If a legitimate form of constitutionally-backed rule of law is ever to be restored, perpetrators MUST go to jail for these depredations, the money made MUST be clawed back, and the political enablers MUST be lustrated. The penalties must be so severe that no one will ever dare try this shit again.
When the top JAG at Southern Command told the Pentagon that their plans to blow up fishing boats based on suspicions that they might have drugs in the cargo hold was certainly illegal, Hegseth simply ignored him, while others told him his career was over. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Top military lawyer concerned about Trump ‘drug boat’ strikes was ignored: report
The senior judge advocate general reportedly raised concerns that the airstrikes against the alleged ‘narco-terrorists’ could amount to extrajudicial killings
www.independent.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
If a legitimate form of constitutionally-backed rule of law is ever to be restored, perpetrators MUST go to jail for these depredations, the money made MUST be clawed back, and the political enablers MUST be lustrated. The penalties must be so severe that no one will ever dare try this shit again.
The music leaves you waiting for a final note, I can’t stand it
November 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The music leaves you waiting for a final note, I can’t stand it
Noooo, use / acquire Kagi
Apple’s rumored AI search tool for Siri could rely on Google
We may finally see the new Siri next March.
www.theverge.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Noooo, use / acquire Kagi
Very pleased with this iOS 26 look
August 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Very pleased with this iOS 26 look
“The innovation is going away, and so is the money. Whatever start-ups these rejected students and researchers start up will be started up in another country. Whatever international university welcomes them will get those big donations once these people get rich.”
Welcome to the Era of Big Stupid in America
America is no longer anti-intellectual. We’re actively anti-intellect. It might be the death of us.
www.esquire.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
“The innovation is going away, and so is the money. Whatever start-ups these rejected students and researchers start up will be started up in another country. Whatever international university welcomes them will get those big donations once these people get rich.”
“Our politics revolve around the idea that scarce resources mean keeping people out. We are utterly unprepared for a world in which perhaps the scarcest resource will be people.”
Opinion | Something Extraordinary Is Happening All Over the World
www.nytimes.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
“Our politics revolve around the idea that scarce resources mean keeping people out. We are utterly unprepared for a world in which perhaps the scarcest resource will be people.”
"For many who still pine for white supremacy, patriarchy, and oligarchy, competitive authoritarianism resonates with their sense of how government should work and who it should work for."
"Competitive authoritarianism" and America's slide toward it
You can still vote. It just might not mean much.
www.publicnotice.co
August 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"For many who still pine for white supremacy, patriarchy, and oligarchy, competitive authoritarianism resonates with their sense of how government should work and who it should work for."
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the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
August 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
I hate it when I wake up feeling so good about my body and then it’s like, damn, gotta eat to survive
August 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I hate it when I wake up feeling so good about my body and then it’s like, damn, gotta eat to survive
“This crucial access to the drug, which ultimately sets aside profit for people, is a bold move from a pharmaceutical company – but one that recognizes the desperate need to end the global HIV epidemic.”
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global
An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...
newatlas.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
“This crucial access to the drug, which ultimately sets aside profit for people, is a bold move from a pharmaceutical company – but one that recognizes the desperate need to end the global HIV epidemic.”
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
newatlas.com/infectious-d...
Ah, yes, my favorite shade of green
July 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Ah, yes, my favorite shade of green
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The artist Amy Sherald — who rocketed to fame with her 2018 portrait of Michelle Obama — canceled her show at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery over concerns that her painting of a transgender Statue of Liberty might be removed to avoid provoking President Trump.
Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship
The artist said that she made the decision after she said she learned that her painting of a transgender Statue of Liberty might be removed to avoid provoking President Trump.
trib.al
July 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The artist Amy Sherald — who rocketed to fame with her 2018 portrait of Michelle Obama — canceled her show at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery over concerns that her painting of a transgender Statue of Liberty might be removed to avoid provoking President Trump.
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The "personal life" section of Wikipedia is such a Pandora's box.
Is it going to just be their relationship status? Is it inexplicably just 3 paragraphs on their favourite football team? Am I about to learn about a Vehicular Manslaughter charge from 2015?
Impossible to know.
Is it going to just be their relationship status? Is it inexplicably just 3 paragraphs on their favourite football team? Am I about to learn about a Vehicular Manslaughter charge from 2015?
Impossible to know.
July 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The "personal life" section of Wikipedia is such a Pandora's box.
Is it going to just be their relationship status? Is it inexplicably just 3 paragraphs on their favourite football team? Am I about to learn about a Vehicular Manslaughter charge from 2015?
Impossible to know.
Is it going to just be their relationship status? Is it inexplicably just 3 paragraphs on their favourite football team? Am I about to learn about a Vehicular Manslaughter charge from 2015?
Impossible to know.
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This is genuinely the news every day
July 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This is genuinely the news every day
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The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
July 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
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Trump simply ignoring the TikTok ban has led to Republicans literally passing bills they oppose on the promise they will be ignored
CNBC: It sounds to me like the president persuaded you by saying he's gonna override some of the provisions in the bill. Is that right?
RALPH NORMAN: He's going to on the permitting drive a hard bargain. He's gonna have accountability. You'll see some executive orders.
RALPH NORMAN: He's going to on the permitting drive a hard bargain. He's gonna have accountability. You'll see some executive orders.
July 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Trump simply ignoring the TikTok ban has led to Republicans literally passing bills they oppose on the promise they will be ignored
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Couple this with Trump’s remarks in the same press conference about denaturalizing Mamdani over political views and creating a system of detention centers.
Trump is envisioning concentration camps across the country holding Americans stripped of citizenship as “foreigners” subject to disappearance.
Trump is envisioning concentration camps across the country holding Americans stripped of citizenship as “foreigners” subject to disappearance.
Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
July 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Couple this with Trump’s remarks in the same press conference about denaturalizing Mamdani over political views and creating a system of detention centers.
Trump is envisioning concentration camps across the country holding Americans stripped of citizenship as “foreigners” subject to disappearance.
Trump is envisioning concentration camps across the country holding Americans stripped of citizenship as “foreigners” subject to disappearance.
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This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
July 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)