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Emma Goldman
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this should be the entire text of the article
The US government has backed a Supreme Court review of thousands of lawsuits alleging a key ingredient in Bayer’s herbicide Roundup causes cancer, pushing shares in the German group up more than 12 per cent on Tuesday. US solicitor-general John Sauer filed a briefing on Monday at the Supreme Court agreeing with Bayer’s argument that federal law on herbicides such as Roundup takes precedence over lawsuits brought under state law. Bayer inherited the legal claims on glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, through its $63bn acquisition of Monsanto in 2018. Because US regulators deem glyphosate safe, no warning label is required under federal law. This has left the company open to state-level “failure-to-warn” litigation. Bayer has set aside $7.6bn in litigation provisions. By 2020, it had paid out about $10bn in claims but many lawsuits remain pending. Plaintiffs claimed in their filings that they developed cancer after exposure to Roundup, with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma the most cited in the filings. The company welcomed the support of the US solicitor-general in its bid to have the case heard by the Supreme Court. A ruling by the court would bring “regulatory clarity”, Bayer chief executive Bill Anderson said in a statement on Tuesday. The company has said it plans to “significantly contain” the litigation surrounding the case by the end of next year. Bayer could still be required to pay settlements in some cases, but a US Supreme Court ruling that would reduce the threat of future litigation would “allow Bayer to close the cycle of glyphosate litigation and focus on rebuilding the balance sheet”, UBS analysts said in a note.
December 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Jacob Soboroff with a microphone poking into the snout of a pink unicorn
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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This was the scene I was trying to find (it’s in the New Yorker piece):
On the day of the visit, Swensons distress deepened at the sight of the young women. "They were models. Eastern European, definitely," she told me. Among the lab's staff, she said, "all of us women made it a point to be super nice to them. We literally had a conversation about how, on the off chance that they're not there by choice, we could maybe help them."
November 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Checked to see if he had stepped down from his Harvard positions and found this:
Larry Summers Wikipedia entry has been updated to say: “was a close personal friend of convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.”
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Sarah Kendzior © 1h Sarah Kendzior's Newsletter Subscribe I was suspended from BlueSky for defending the honor of Johnny Cash. I wish I were joking. In early October, I referenced the "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die" lyric of "Folsom Prison Blues" in response to a terrible Wall Street Journal article saying that Johnny Cash was uncool. quote-tweeted the article and everyone understood the reference. There was no outcry. I stand by my assessment that Johnny Cash is cool. I do not like being the subject of so much attention, especially when I cannot see the discussion. But the BlueSky admins are now claiming that wrote a post saying, out of nowhere, "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die". They are not posting a screenshot of the actual tweet, which shows that am quote-tweeting an article about Johnny Cash, and that my post is obviously not a threat but a play on "Folsom Prison Blues." BlueSky is lying and saying I posted this line on November 10. I did not. I posted it in early October, when the WS article came out. You can see that they are lying about the date from this page showing my last BlueSky tweets: I was not given any explanation for my suspension the first two times I inquired. Later I was told it was for the "Folsom Prison Blues" reference, and I asked for clarification but did not receive it. I thought it might be a prank until a reporter reached out this morning and confirmed it. BlueSky's behavior is bizarre and unwarranted. have lost access to friends and all my posts and photos. I am incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support here on Substack and also on BlueSky - though cannot see it, because am suspended. To quote another Johnny Cash song: "I ain't never done nothin' to nobody/ I ain't never got nothin' from nobody, no time/ And until I get somethin' from somebody, sometime, I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody, no time." As for BlueSky...
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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This reminds me of the guys that watched Mad Men and thought it was cool to be Don Draper. Recent events have me wondering how many guys watched WWII movies and thought it was cool to be the murderous SS thugs in tailored attire.
Bovino posing in his Nazi SS styled overcoat.
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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we thought it was a Cooper visiting this afternoon, but it is probably a Sharpie

it’s the Wild Kingdom out there in our yard

it was exciting for us, but brutal for the poor Mourning Dove
Probably a juvenile Sharp-shinned Hawk standing astride a Mourning Dove that is definitely not having a good afternoon.
October 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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for a second there I was picturing the guy on the left, and honestly, I can see him giving that advice too
Bill Nye the Science Guy & Bill Nighy the brilliant actor
October 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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a turtle stuck on its back
October 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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With alt text (which truncates to 2,000 characters, apparently)
The National-Local Interface of Social Control frequently used to undermine social movements, including the provision of disinformation or propaganda, interference with resources, recruitment, and planned public action, and encouragement of conflict within a group or between groups. McCarthy, Britt and Wolfson 1991) studied the control aspect of channeling mechanisms on social movements, such as the impact of the nonprofit provisions of the federal tax code and state charitable solicitation laws, which limit the movement's organization and strategy through incentives rather than overt force. The state utilizes numerous strategies against movements, including physical and legal attacks. In their study of the American Indian Movement, Stotik et al. attributed the failure of the movement to direct attack social control efforts of a severe nature, including "legal action, FBI infiltration and surveillance, and murder" (1994:66). Similarly, Carley, in his study of the American Indian Movement, identified physical and legal attacks as two of the means of social control employed by the FBI through its counterintelligence program (1997:166). He noted that the effectiveness of legal attacks on social movements depends as much on the disruption of social movement activity caused by court proceedings as it does on actual legal success. According to Marx, the "largest single activity of control" and "prerequisite for most other activities" is information gathering (1979:98). Intelligence gathering can involve tactics as diverse as the use of informants, physical surveillance, tracking of computer usage and electronic tracking, with new technology frequently creating new means of undercover information, gathering (Marx 1991). Informants, for instance, not only provide information that can be used for social control measures, but they can also encourage unlawfulness through cooperating in illegal acts or through generating motives and opportunities to act illegally (Marx 1981). …
October 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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🫡

Mid October is not the customary time of year for a naked bike ride in the PNW!
Portland is 55 degrees with rain forecasted to start soon and continue.
October 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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if this is what you mean by “brick by brick"
The Kool-Aid mascot smashing through a brick wall with an “Oh Yeah!” If I had any skills, I would put RFK Jr.’s face on the Kook-Aid pitcher’s face, but, alas, I can’t be bothered to figure it out.
October 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Really wish someone would force Kavanaugh to watch this.
The famous Clockwork Orange scene where his eyes are pried open.
October 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Saeed Jones skeet: “HR is actually evil.”
July 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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@ americapartyx just brings American History X to mind, so if you wanted me to associate your party with Nazis, congrats on the branding:
movie poster for American History X with the shirtless skinhead image of Edward Norton as the neo-Nazi character he portrays
July 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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or Kabul pre Taliban
(1972)
black and white photo of 3 young women (20 somethings?) walking in Kabul in 1972 wearing above the knee length skirts/dresses, heels, one has a choker style necklace, and all have their hair uncovered “Cabul antes do Taliban"
July 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
“No one saw it coming,” but what they mean is that they consider the people who saw it coming to be no one. The category of “no one” includes the people smeared by Trump in his propaganda: immigrants, black Americans, Muslim Americans, Native Americans, Latino Americans, LGBT Americans, disabled Americans, and others long maligned and marginalized—groups for whom legally sanctioned American autocracy was not an unfathomable horror, but a personal backstory.”―Sarah Kendzior,Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
June 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Times Opinion asked our columnists to reflect on key moments during President Trump’s first 100 days that were revealing about the administration or that reshaped the country. Read Ezra’s Klein’s essay below and the others here. I’m going to break the boundaries of the prompt and say that the most important — or at least most predictive — day of Donald Trump’s second term came before it even began: It was July 15, 2024, the day he announced that JD Vance was his choice for vice president.
May 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Swedish Fish in assorted colors
May 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Cover of the book Treat Everyone Like a Dog
April 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Pinochet and Kissinger shaking hands.
April 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Time for a reboot:
missing poster from 1982 movie Missing, starring Jack Lemmon & Sissy Spacek
April 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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I plan to spend the next couple of days with these books, as the 🌎🔥

(I really appreciate that both of you read your own work.)
Screenshot of Elie Mystal’s Bad Law and Sarah Kendzior’s The Last American Road Trip in my Audible library. (I know, I know, but I got sucked into Audible years before Jeff bought it).
April 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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I searched for the text (because I couldn’t believe it either) and it does actually exist:
A screenshot of the horrendous text.
March 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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did someone mention ducks in puddles?
A pair of ducks just chilling in a Home Depot parking lot puddle.
March 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM