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Go Bruins!
December 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Maybe you should read the article? “Not helpful” was in quotes
Mayor Holly Andreatta, who recently launched her campaign for Placer County Supervisor, spoke for about 25 minutes at the inaugural meeting of Club America at Twelve Bridges High School. In her remarks she tied her daughter's sexual orientation to childhood trauma, said that separation of church and state was a myth and relayed Kirk's belief that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Marxist and that his civil rights activism was "not helpful."
December 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Just gonna say that I found this part hilarious—clearly Ellison didn’t realize this is a mafia-style gig and he’s not a made man, so the patronage ($$) is expected to be *ongoing* and Daddy Trump is not feeling appreciated at the moment.
But their bet on having a firm ally in the White House appears to have over-read the transactional nature of a Washington in which insiders thrive, but outsiders should be careful about taking the president for granted.
December 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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It’s interesting how surveillance overlaps with regulation and the tech bros are very heavy into regulation of others and not themselves. Notice the focus of this teacher on stifling innovation
I found working in an institution so heavily policed and controlled by inspection emotionally draining. Once, in the middle of an inspection, I was sitting exhausted in the staffroom and saw a copy of George Orwell's Nineteen Bighn-Four on a table. T flicked through and read the following passage in which O' Brien, tho representative of the state, describes power to the captive Winston, who is the embodiment of Everyman: always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever. (Orwell. 1989: 230) To me, this was exactly what being inspected felt like. This sparked my interest in power, and its effects on teachers, which led me to Foucault. I recognised inspection, and espocially Spocial Measures, as a classic manifestation of power knowledge, as inspectors are credited as experts with specialist knowledge of effective schools, and with the power to praise or punish. I was especially struck by Foucault's writings on Bentham's Panopticon. Foucault suggests that Bentham's Panopticon, a design for a model prison, can be seen as a memphonear disclothary necaanism that operates through a vancy of anstitutonal apparatuses and discourses, In the ranonticon, ind oud cels were arranged around i central tower. By the use of backlighting, a supervisor could observe every cell without the 'inmate' knowing if they were being watched or not. Bentham (1787; iii) called this 'a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind in a quantity hitherto without example'. He wrote that 'the object of the inspection principle is to make them not only suspect, but be assured that whatever they do is known even though that should not be the case' (Bentham, in Miller, 1988: 43). Thus, institutional authority is invisible, but the objects of power, …
December 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Sounds familiar
“A byzantine court system where promotions were based on the favor of a man who did not have the character to set a consistent policy made for a state that was not a credible partner. The Chancellor might say one thing, the diplomatic service another, military attachés still a third, and then all may, at any time, be contradicted by the Kaiser in a speech commemorating a battle or commissioning a ship. This, even more than Germany's increasing power, was why the Entente powers formed an encircling pact against it. Germany's interests were incomprehensible and thus there was no option other than to balance against this rogue state in the heart of Europe. Wilhelm's unsuitability was not fully understood, and the incoherence of German foreign policy led its contemporaries to assume the worst. This was not entirely unjustified. While Wilhelm himself may have balked at throwing Germany into a Great War, his power over personnel meant that he was the one who appointed officers that pressed for war and diplomats that were willing to risk one. When war finally did come, the Kaiser eventually found himself truly sidelined.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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There is no place for this in modern society
A selection from the student essay “I live my life based on this truth and firmly believe that there would be less gender issues and insecurities in children if they were. raised knowing that they do not belong to themselves, but they belong to the Lord.”
November 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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This is outrageous

www.thebulwark.com/p/let-them-e...
The median Tesla worker earned about $57,000 in 2024, according to a company securities filing. The company announced no incentives package for the workers. From https://www.thebulwark.com/p/let-them-eat-ai-generated-cake-elon-musk-trillionaire?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=The%2BBulwark&utm_campaign=publer
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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However Wall Street legend Steve Eisman told the Daily Mail there is a key difference between the market now and then. The investor, who famously predicted the 2008 financial crash, said that in the 1990s very young companies that had no revenue were spending borrowed money. They overspent and the returns weren't there, and many of them went bankrupt. And then those that survived eventually thrived.'
November 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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I can’t believe the billionaires don’t see this as a major issue for the economy, bc it so obviously is

www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Rising prices on a subset of consumer goods hit with tariffs has Sopped to oe ter ate dire tenants were hiater income leanwhile, lower-income customers will simply "walk out the door" if they see higher prices, Waller said.
November 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Beta Technologies visitor pass valid for Aug 15 only
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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I was recently told using the term spirit animal is wrong if you aren’t Native American. Isn’t it cultural appropriation for La Civita to be doing Native American rituals for fun? It’s incredibly insulting, no?

From www.politico.com/playbook
WHAT CHRIS LaCIVITA HAD FOR LUNCH: A mouthful of raw buffalo's heart, per an unbelievable hunting video filmed in rural New Mexico at the weekend, which shows the Republican strategist picking up the bloodied organ in his hands and taking a bite. Yes, he really did it. Luckily for those with a weaker stomach, his Insta videos are private — but these pictures on X with a dead stag give you half an idea. Asked for comment by aybook's Adam Wren, LaCivita said via text: "I was honoring an ancient tradition. Washington can interpret as they wish." LaCivita also sent us a link to this famous scene from "Dances with Wolves." You may wish to wait until you've finished your breakfast before clicking.
October 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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We are all saved bc slope 2 on this graph is a much “slower acceleration” than 1
Picture of the same graph above, showing inflation hitting a bottom in April and steadily increasing since
October 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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A picture of two frogs sitting on the ground with a sign that says HOP
October 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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“He did say "My delegates I bring will vote for the most right wing person"” -RH PG: “Great. I love Hitler” Hendrix was a communications assistant for Kansas' Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach until Thursday. He also said in the chat that, despite political differences, he's drawn to Missouri's Young Republican organization because "Missouri doesn't like f--s." When Luke Mosiman, the chair of the Arizona Young Republicans, asked if the New Yorkers in the chat were watching an NBA playoff game, Giunta responded, "I'd go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkey play ball." Giunta elsewhere refers to Black people as "the watermelon people."
October 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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There is serious moral rot in the GOP
"I was about to say you're giving nationals to (sic) much credit and expecting the Jew to be honest," Brianna Douglass, Sam's wife and Vermont Young Republican's national committeewoman, replied to her husband's message. Brianna Douglass did not respond to repeated requests for comment. 'If we ever had a leak of this chat....' Mosiman was derided by members of the chat as "beaner" and "sp-c." "Stay in the closet faggot," Walker of New York also jested in July, though he is the group's main target for the same epithet. "They support slavery and all that shit. Mega based," he said. The term "based" in internet culture is used to express approval with an idea, often one that's bold or controversial. Weeks later, someone in the chat staying in a hotel asks its members to "GUESS WHAT ROOM WE'RE IN." "1488," Dwyer responds. White supremacists use the number 1488 because 14 is the number of words in the white supremacist slogan "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." H is the eighth letter in the alphabet, and 88 is often used as a shorthand for "Heil Hitler."
October 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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SCOTUS maybe should look at the GOP group chats before claiming racism doesn’t exist in America
"If your pilot is a she and she looks ten shades darker than someone from Sicily, just end it there. Scream the no no word," Giunta wrote. Douglass did not respond to requests for comment.
October 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Doesn’t look like Portland is burning
Three frogs standing in the street with snipers pointing guns at them from the top of a building A small crowd of protesters with gunmen on the roof of a nearby building A third photo of a small crowd with law enforcement on the roof
October 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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I have been saying this…one major innovation (in power/energy) would make power so much cheaper and simultaneously make trillions of dollars of investments worthless overnight. The real money maker is in conquering one of the bottlenecks and selling the solution to others.
It added: "Material bottlenecks to Al progress - from power, data or commodity supply chains - as well as conceptual breakthroughs which change the anticipated Al infrastructure requirements for the development and utilisation of powerful Al models could also harm valuations, including for companies whose revenue expectations are derived from high levels of anticipated Al infrastructure investment." The committee also said the Trump administration's continued threats against the US Federal Reserve were putting financial stability at risk. From https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/08/bank-of-england-warns-of-growing-risk-that-ai-bubble-could-burst?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
October 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Despite all our rage we are all just rats in a cage
If you're being treated like a rat in a Skinner box, are you really not going to take the chance to get out of the lab by single-shotting Mamdani on your November ballot?
September 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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This is what I mean
Wikipedia article on Trump classified documents “After repeatedly demanding the return of documents from Trump's team and warning them of a possible referral to the Justice Department, NARA retrieved 15 boxes of documents in January 20221 NARA discovered that the boxes contained classified material, and notified the Justice Department on February 9, 2022. This led the FBI to launch an investigation into Trump's handling of government documents on March 30, 2022. 31) In May 2022, a grand jury issued a subpoena for any remaining documents in Trump's possession. Trump certified that he was returning all the remaining documents on June 3, 2022, but the FBI later obtained evidence that he had intentionally moved documents to hide them from his lawyers and the FBI and thus had not fulfilled the subpoena. (32[1] This led to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago on August 8, 2022, in which the FBI recovered over 13,000 government documents, over 300 of which were classified, with some relating to national defense secrets covered under the Espionage Act. (32) The civil lawsuit Trump v. United States arose from the search, which briefly led to the appointment of a special master by District Judge Aileen Cannon to review seized materials. Cannon's ruling was later overturned, 33)|34) In a November 2, 2022 interview with the FBI, a former Trump White House employee said that Nauta had been promised a pardon, "even if he gets charged with lying to the FBI", should Trump regain the presidency. (35;361)”
September 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Maybe Peter Theil needs to sign up for some continuing education courses on management skills?

He seems to think scapegoating is the best team-building exercise.
"There's always a question of whether politics is like a market... or is it something like a scapegoating machine, where the scapegoating machine only works if you don't look into the sausage factory?" Thiel said, during a 2024 talk at Stanford. He explained the mechanism: "If, say, we're having a lot of conflicts in our village and we have to find some random elderly woman and accuse her of witchcraft so that we'll achieve some psychosocial unity as a village... this sort of thing doesn't really work if you're self-aware." From https://newrepublic.com/article/200471/peter-thiel-obsession-antichrist-religion
September 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Louisa May Alcott had more interesting reads in her record from 1871.
An antique page with Alcott, Louisa M. written at the top and a lost of books with the date they were checked out and returned. One example is Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.
September 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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This is a pic of the list of books Ralph Waldo Emerson checked out of the library in 1832. From the Boston Athenaeum rare books collection.
An antique page of a book with the date 1832 in the left top corner and the name Ralph W Emerson with a list of books with the date they were checked out and returned.
September 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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“Newsom trolls his way to the top of social media!” Headline with picture of Gavin Newsom with an orange face
August 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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My fave parts
Potts: Yeah. It's not too late. I think that they should start calling things like they see them and they should say, You're not coming to our cities, you're not coming to our towns with the military, you're not going to turn this country into a dictatorship. We're not going to let you gerrymander Texas and take over the House unfairly. We want democratic representation in this country. And you do see Democrats in the state of Texas fighting. They're fighting their governor's efforts to change the way that the people of Texas are represented in the U.S. House. And I think that that is really inspiring to people. So it actually, I think, doesn't take much to find a way to communicate through social media and through the platform that all politicians have to really stand up and say, This is about Trump trying to consolidate power. We remember January 6. We remember when he lied about the election. He's lied about the integrity of American democracy for years. We're not going to let him continue to do that. I think there's still time and I think people would rally behind it. And it would put pressure on Trump, I think. Sargent: 1 agree. And the idea that there's still time is really critical. And Democrats, you know, voters like it when elected leaders fight for them. Monica Potts, thank you so much for coming on. That was a great talk. Potts: Thank you so much for having me. It's an important moment and an important topic. There's actually a lot of opportunity to lead on issues like that and on issues like "crime." You can say we should make our community safer, but what Trump is doing is not that. He's leading the military into cities where U.S. citizens are being stopped while they're trying to make deliveries or while they're just hanging out with their friends on the sidewalk. Or you can say we do need to deal with immigration, but we need to create a legal pathway for people who were brought here as children without being able to do anything about it because they were too young to make a decision. But what Trump wants to do is break families apart and send people to foreign prisons and do something that [America] doesn't do, which is close its doors to people who want to work hard. You can make your own case and people may follow you. People may agree with you because when you dig down into the polling, people don't think that families should be ripped apart and they don't think that people should be sent to foreign prisons without being taken in front of a judge. And they don't think that tanks should be rolling through American streets. And so there's a way to frame issues and to attack what Trump is doing without risking alienating the public because public opinion is more nuanced than people give it credit for-and certainly more nuanced than people might know just by looking at the top lines from polling. Sargent: Right. There's another point to be made here too. I think that Miller is banking on this idea that non-white working-class people will automatically be with Trump on this. The game is he's appealing to this idea—a lot of pundits push this as well-that elite white liberals are out of touch with working-class minorities. And that's the fuel of Trumpism, right? But there's a lot of hubris here, I think. Trumpists think that because they made some inroads with those communities in 2024 that they can basically scream crime and they'll get those same voters to mindlessly be all for consolidating authoritarian power and dear leader Trump. But the election was about the cost of living, and Trump's win was incredibly narrow. There's a panicky tone to Miller there.
August 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM