skooks
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they told me we'd be finished by now
📍New Orleans
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sitting next to a sweaty guy on a plane who just finished a workout at terminal 8 while wearing a shirt, tie, and suit
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
sitting next to a sweaty guy on a plane who just finished a workout at terminal 8 while wearing a shirt, tie, and suit
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
What grade would you give this student?
December 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
What grade would you give this student?
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If I told you hey there's a guy at the airport raving about the Nourishment of a Mother's Breast, who would you think it is. Wrong it's the U.S. secretary of health and human services
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If I told you hey there's a guy at the airport raving about the Nourishment of a Mother's Breast, who would you think it is. Wrong it's the U.S. secretary of health and human services
Son of state senator to face son of city councilman in race to fill state house seat vacated by nephew of city councilwoman www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
Ed Murray, son of former state senator, running for Louisiana House seat in New Orleans
The son of a former state legislator, lawyer Ed Murray has joined the race to replace Rep. Matt Willard. Thed district covers Gentilly and Pontchartrain Park in New Orleans.
www.nola.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Son of state senator to face son of city councilman in race to fill state house seat vacated by nephew of city councilwoman www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
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Glad I saved this by @longwall26.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Glad I saved this by @longwall26.bsky.social
DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
apnews.com/article/immi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
December 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
apnews.com/article/immi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
Shough is the QB. Do not draft anymore QBs please
December 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Shough is the QB. Do not draft anymore QBs please
Of course it is unknowable what the nature of a catch us but...
December 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Of course it is unknowable what the nature of a catch us but...
Kellen Moore neglects to challenge a spot then calls the dumbest 4th down play ever
December 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Kellen Moore neglects to challenge a spot then calls the dumbest 4th down play ever
As bad as they've been, this team was still fun to watch all year. Right up until that Atlanta game. And now it's just a slog
December 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
As bad as they've been, this team was still fun to watch all year. Right up until that Atlanta game. And now it's just a slog
Why are they laughing at the notion that Chukwuma is good at computer?
December 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Why are they laughing at the notion that Chukwuma is good at computer?
Is this the first game the Saints have played in normal uniforms this year?
December 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Is this the first game the Saints have played in normal uniforms this year?
Rain game in Miami last week. Rain game in Tampa this week. It's not a coincidence. It's the black cloud that follows the Saints everywhere they go
December 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Rain game in Miami last week. Rain game in Tampa this week. It's not a coincidence. It's the black cloud that follows the Saints everywhere they go
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The reasons for the 14th Amendment are unambiguous.
On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The reasons for the 14th Amendment are unambiguous.
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Some people (not me) use Sunday morning to catch up on their politics, so here was my Say No to AI piece from this week for that. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
The time has come to declare war on AI
"It's now in everything, even if you don't want it there."
www.sfgate.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Some people (not me) use Sunday morning to catch up on their politics, so here was my Say No to AI piece from this week for that. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
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Fernando Mendoza, absolute psycho. Like seeing Steve Ballmer in college
December 7, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Fernando Mendoza, absolute psycho. Like seeing Steve Ballmer in college
Oh no Mendoza is a meathead
December 7, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Oh no Mendoza is a meathead
College football should not have a playoff. The very idea that the broad and diverse cultural landscape of college football can or should be condensed into a single "national champion" is fascist
December 7, 2025 at 3:56 AM
College football should not have a playoff. The very idea that the broad and diverse cultural landscape of college football can or should be condensed into a single "national champion" is fascist
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Almost literally every single year of the playoff era, the final discourse has been either "should we leave out Alabama" or "should we leave out Ohio State"
The right answer is always pretty obvious, and the committee's dragged itself kicking/screaming to the right/obvious answer every time but one
The right answer is always pretty obvious, and the committee's dragged itself kicking/screaming to the right/obvious answer every time but one
it doesn’t matter how big or small the playoff is, we are doomed to do alabama discourse every year until the end of time
December 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Almost literally every single year of the playoff era, the final discourse has been either "should we leave out Alabama" or "should we leave out Ohio State"
The right answer is always pretty obvious, and the committee's dragged itself kicking/screaming to the right/obvious answer every time but one
The right answer is always pretty obvious, and the committee's dragged itself kicking/screaming to the right/obvious answer every time but one
I really appreciate Rick Perlstein. I very much enjoy his books. But I think there is a trap people can fall into, because I have fallen into it many times, of thinking that because things happened one way in the past, they can happen that way in the future. The older I get the less I believe this.
An even better example: 1924-1932. The '24 convention split over whether to endorse the Klsn or not. Largely pro-temperance and nativist. By 1932, the left had lots of power in the party at thy highest levels.
Gramps here, lecturing leftists who say the Dems can't change that in 56 it was aligned with Southern segregationists (who got the VP noms), but by 64 with MLK, because of successful social movement organizing. Take the party over, leftists. Else you're not actually involved in US politics.
December 7, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I really appreciate Rick Perlstein. I very much enjoy his books. But I think there is a trap people can fall into, because I have fallen into it many times, of thinking that because things happened one way in the past, they can happen that way in the future. The older I get the less I believe this.
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Nearly all of these people revealed themselves to be monsters.
6 Republican Voters on U.S. Strikes on Boats Suspected of Smuggling Drugs
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Nearly all of these people revealed themselves to be monsters.
Look at this shit. She is promoting this reactionary hostile article on her own IG feed
December 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Look at this shit. She is promoting this reactionary hostile article on her own IG feed