Chris
@cjthered.bsky.social
Political kibitzer, sometimes some law stuff. Boston by way of LA but born and always a Wolverine.
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Chris
@cjthered.bsky.social
· Nov 7
Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter
Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.
www.impactcounter.com
The New Yorker article is paywalled but you can get info here, including numbers that should chill the shit out of you (e.g., 5.6 MILLION excess child malaria cases, of which 42,000+ were fatal)
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
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operator: Suicide Hotline
me: yes hi i accidentally listened to a Sufjan Stevens Christmas song
operator: oh my god hold on let me get my supervisor
me: yes hi i accidentally listened to a Sufjan Stevens Christmas song
operator: oh my god hold on let me get my supervisor
December 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
operator: Suicide Hotline
me: yes hi i accidentally listened to a Sufjan Stevens Christmas song
operator: oh my god hold on let me get my supervisor
me: yes hi i accidentally listened to a Sufjan Stevens Christmas song
operator: oh my god hold on let me get my supervisor
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At a minimum, Prasad and Makary should lose their licenses for blatantly lying to the public about kids dying from the COVID19 vaccine, when the actual investigation found that zero deaths were certain to have been caused by vaccination.
Despicable, egregious, murderous behavior.
Link below.
Despicable, egregious, murderous behavior.
Link below.
December 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
At a minimum, Prasad and Makary should lose their licenses for blatantly lying to the public about kids dying from the COVID19 vaccine, when the actual investigation found that zero deaths were certain to have been caused by vaccination.
Despicable, egregious, murderous behavior.
Link below.
Despicable, egregious, murderous behavior.
Link below.
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This is a grim story, on the President and his Administration exerting political pressure to have an accused sex trafficker who boasts of beating and coercing women freed. Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
How a Manosphere Star Accused of Rape and Trafficking Was Freed
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
This is a grim story, on the President and his Administration exerting political pressure to have an accused sex trafficker who boasts of beating and coercing women freed. Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
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Wow, not just a disgusting (and embarrassing) decision, but nice work writing out the Canadian indigenous skywalkers who actually built the damn thing in the first place.
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Wow, not just a disgusting (and embarrassing) decision, but nice work writing out the Canadian indigenous skywalkers who actually built the damn thing in the first place.
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Post a bird to tell your followers not to buy Starbucks through the duration of their ULP strike 🪶
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Post a bird to tell your followers not to buy Starbucks through the duration of their ULP strike 🪶
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Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."
December 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."
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I don’t like how Alvin treats the other two squirrels
December 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I don’t like how Alvin treats the other two squirrels
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Tinsel is also terrible for wildlife once you dispose of the tree!
Other holiday dangers for cats:
Lillies (do not even bring them in your home!)
Poinsettias
Essential Oils (Lavender and others)
Grapes/Raisins
Garlic & Onions
Chocolate
Other holiday dangers for cats:
Lillies (do not even bring them in your home!)
Poinsettias
Essential Oils (Lavender and others)
Grapes/Raisins
Garlic & Onions
Chocolate
Seasonal reminder that ribbon and tinsel can be DEADLY for cats. Please keep ribbon stored safely and tinsel out of your home completely. ⚠️ hhvh.net/2018/01/13/w...
December 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Tinsel is also terrible for wildlife once you dispose of the tree!
Other holiday dangers for cats:
Lillies (do not even bring them in your home!)
Poinsettias
Essential Oils (Lavender and others)
Grapes/Raisins
Garlic & Onions
Chocolate
Other holiday dangers for cats:
Lillies (do not even bring them in your home!)
Poinsettias
Essential Oils (Lavender and others)
Grapes/Raisins
Garlic & Onions
Chocolate
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If you are a comic artist or writer that wants to talk to me, on or off the record, about the Disney OpenAI deal, shoot me a line. [email protected]
December 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If you are a comic artist or writer that wants to talk to me, on or off the record, about the Disney OpenAI deal, shoot me a line. [email protected]
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This confirmed something I've been saying for a while about what Great Replacement Theory gets wrong about immigrants in general: The 1st-gen immigrants represent an opportunity for the right, which is undone among 2nd-gen immigrants by the racism cooked into the right's anti-immigrant politics.
December 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This confirmed something I've been saying for a while about what Great Replacement Theory gets wrong about immigrants in general: The 1st-gen immigrants represent an opportunity for the right, which is undone among 2nd-gen immigrants by the racism cooked into the right's anti-immigrant politics.
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"The country has yet to understand these changes and runs the risk of collapsing distinct histories into a singular Black experience, exacerbating rather than reducing racial tensions, and clinging to a caricature of what it means to be Black in America."
Very informative piece.
Very informative piece.
Opinion | There are two Black Americas. Not everyone is happy about it.
The divide between natives and newcomers shows disparities in income, education and politics.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
"The country has yet to understand these changes and runs the risk of collapsing distinct histories into a singular Black experience, exacerbating rather than reducing racial tensions, and clinging to a caricature of what it means to be Black in America."
Very informative piece.
Very informative piece.
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the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry
Really refuse to let the worst people have ownership of techno-optimism
December 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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Watch the whole thing. Absolutely chilling.
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Watch the whole thing. Absolutely chilling.
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Unfortunately I did not pay for Premium Grandma w/out Ads and had to settle for free Grandma, and she starts every conversation telling me it would be cool if I got a job with ICE.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Unfortunately I did not pay for Premium Grandma w/out Ads and had to settle for free Grandma, and she starts every conversation telling me it would be cool if I got a job with ICE.
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I maintain that this is the best Christmas album in no small part because the movie itself is about being sad at the holidays (a thing pop culture was allergic to depicting for a long time) but which most people are, and the album just captures that vibe perfectly
And since you asked, it's this one.
December 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I maintain that this is the best Christmas album in no small part because the movie itself is about being sad at the holidays (a thing pop culture was allergic to depicting for a long time) but which most people are, and the album just captures that vibe perfectly
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It’s important to remember that Laura Ingraham went to Dartmouth. She’s not as stupid as she sounds. She’s just a shameless liar.
December 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It’s important to remember that Laura Ingraham went to Dartmouth. She’s not as stupid as she sounds. She’s just a shameless liar.
A.i.’s effect on the Internet is going to be the standard example of the tragedy of the commons in Econ 101. Within a generation, they won’t believe that we had a working, useful system and allowed it to be poisoned like this.
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A.i.’s effect on the Internet is going to be the standard example of the tragedy of the commons in Econ 101. Within a generation, they won’t believe that we had a working, useful system and allowed it to be poisoned like this.
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This is very cool. The manipulation-busters of the future will be hacks like this one: reengineering the system to expose the algorithms beneath and how they trick us...
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This is very cool. The manipulation-busters of the future will be hacks like this one: reengineering the system to expose the algorithms beneath and how they trick us...
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December 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
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If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
December 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
Before we *were* people, people were doing this
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DOING IT FOR MILLENNIA WITHOUT CHAT GPT YOU COMPLETE HOLLOWED-OUT GOURD OF A HUMAN
December 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Before we *were* people, people were doing this