wyrd dad
@jhaas.bsky.social
12th house stellium. current: stay at home dad, writer previous: learning games | comedian | bass
@jhaas on twitter too.
@jhaas on twitter too.
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Found the Associated Press article where the existence of this letter was first disclosed two years ago, in response to a FOIA request
It's definitely real
apnews.com/article/jeff...
It's definitely real
apnews.com/article/jeff...
December 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Found the Associated Press article where the existence of this letter was first disclosed two years ago, in response to a FOIA request
It's definitely real
apnews.com/article/jeff...
It's definitely real
apnews.com/article/jeff...
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kinda weird how liens are harder to enforce if you insist on being paid in a paper check and not direct deposit, and always go to the bank and cash it instead of ever letting money hit your bank account
real weird. definitely nobody do that. too weird.
real weird. definitely nobody do that. too weird.
December 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
kinda weird how liens are harder to enforce if you insist on being paid in a paper check and not direct deposit, and always go to the bank and cash it instead of ever letting money hit your bank account
real weird. definitely nobody do that. too weird.
real weird. definitely nobody do that. too weird.
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Overall, this big @nytimes.com investigation identified $500m+ that was donated to Trump-backed groups AFTER the election from 346 donors.
It found that more than half of the donors have benefited in some way from actions by Trump or his administration. (gift link)
It found that more than half of the donors have benefited in some way from actions by Trump or his administration. (gift link)
December 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Overall, this big @nytimes.com investigation identified $500m+ that was donated to Trump-backed groups AFTER the election from 346 donors.
It found that more than half of the donors have benefited in some way from actions by Trump or his administration. (gift link)
It found that more than half of the donors have benefited in some way from actions by Trump or his administration. (gift link)
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Goodbye, Windex!
December 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Goodbye, Windex!
Fuuuuuuuuuuck this!
I wrote on @boingboing.net about Sally’s Apizza, a tiny, legendary family pizza shop in Connecticut that was bought by an investment conglomerate that plans to make it “the Chipotle of pizza.”
boingboing.net/2025/12/22/n...
boingboing.net/2025/12/22/n...
New Haven's Sally's Apizza plans to become "the Chipotle of pizza"
Sally's Apizza on Wooster Street in New Haven, Connecticut, is an iconic institution among pizza lovers. The small restaurant crammed with photos and memorabilia on the walls and a coal-fired…
boingboing.net
December 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Fuuuuuuuuuuck this!
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A full archive of The Hairpin (iykyk). [thehairpinarchives.com]
The Hairpin
Ladies first
thehairpinarchives.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A full archive of The Hairpin (iykyk). [thehairpinarchives.com]
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ending solitary confinement is the necessary first step in imagining a justice system that truly serves justice, that serves the people. Solitary Watch helps people whose humanity the current system tries to destroy. at the end of the year, consider helping them in their work.
Friends, exciting news! We’ve just received a second matching funds grant from The Public Concern Foundation. TRIPLE MATCH!
That means a gift of $50 now is actually $150 to Solitary Watch!
solitarywatch.org/donate
That means a gift of $50 now is actually $150 to Solitary Watch!
solitarywatch.org/donate
BREAKING: We Have a Triple Match!! - Solitary Watch
Friends: This is really exciting for us. We’ve just received a second matching funds grant from The Public Concern Foundation. TRIPLE MATCH! That means a gift of $50 now is actually $150 to Solitary W...
solitarywatch.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
ending solitary confinement is the necessary first step in imagining a justice system that truly serves justice, that serves the people. Solitary Watch helps people whose humanity the current system tries to destroy. at the end of the year, consider helping them in their work.
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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I’m so glad Dem leaders circled the wagons to protect Cuellar in his 2022 primary. What an asset to his district and America.
7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds.
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Adam Gray (CA-13)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Adam Gray (CA-13)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
December 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I’m so glad Dem leaders circled the wagons to protect Cuellar in his 2022 primary. What an asset to his district and America.
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"The project—[Bari Weiss's] and that of her backers—is to establish herself and her cohort not as new-right media, but as the new liberal media, staking out the leftmost acceptable position within the new right-wing paradigm." (This is a gift link, from October) defector.com/bari-weiss-s...
Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector
On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...
defector.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:51 AM
"The project—[Bari Weiss's] and that of her backers—is to establish herself and her cohort not as new-right media, but as the new liberal media, staking out the leftmost acceptable position within the new right-wing paradigm." (This is a gift link, from October) defector.com/bari-weiss-s...
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Fascist activist Bari Weiss, recruited to align CBS News with the goals of American Nazism, again heeds the instructions of her boss.
December 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Fascist activist Bari Weiss, recruited to align CBS News with the goals of American Nazism, again heeds the instructions of her boss.
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I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
December 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
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Breaching the ceasefire again, Israeli forces bombed a shelter school in Gaza’s Al-Tuffah neighborhood, killing seven Palestinians and injuring others, including children. A day earlier in Khan Younis, a woman was killed while checking her home, and rescuers were targeted.
December 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Breaching the ceasefire again, Israeli forces bombed a shelter school in Gaza’s Al-Tuffah neighborhood, killing seven Palestinians and injuring others, including children. A day earlier in Khan Younis, a woman was killed while checking her home, and rescuers were targeted.
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Me to a trans person: You watching I Love LA?
The most vile asshole you've ever seen: The toilet.
The most vile asshole you've ever seen: The toilet.
Absolutely fucking freak outcast behavior to care about or talk about trans people as a group and not as just some guy or lady you know. "Hey bud how's it going" etc.
December 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Me to a trans person: You watching I Love LA?
The most vile asshole you've ever seen: The toilet.
The most vile asshole you've ever seen: The toilet.
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By my estimation, "trans equality activists" basically includes any trans person who doesn't want to be considered less than human by their government, so I'm sure this is gonna go well.
Pam Bondi wants the government to create cash bounties for turning in trans equality activists
www.lgbtqnation.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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www.lgbtqnation.com/...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Pam Bondi wants the government to create cash bounties for turning in trans equality activists
Bondi wants the FBI to ignore right-wing terror attacks and target anti-fascists and trans people instead.
www.lgbtqnation.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
By my estimation, "trans equality activists" basically includes any trans person who doesn't want to be considered less than human by their government, so I'm sure this is gonna go well.
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STOP CALLING IT AN IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN! TAKING CITIZENSHIP FROM EXTREMELY VETTED NATURALIZED CITIZENS IS NOT A CRACKDOWN! IT'S BETRAYAL.
Breaking News: The Trump administration plans to ramp up efforts to strip some naturalized Americans of their citizenship, internal documents obtained by The New York Times show, marking an aggressive new phase in President Trump’s immigration crackdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
December 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
STOP CALLING IT AN IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN! TAKING CITIZENSHIP FROM EXTREMELY VETTED NATURALIZED CITIZENS IS NOT A CRACKDOWN! IT'S BETRAYAL.
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Meritocracy may be a mirage, but blaming Black people for your own professional disappointment is a pretty reliable indicator of mediocrity
At the risk of hugging the third rail, the truth of the academic job market, at least in history or classics, is neither DEI or anti-DEI.
It is that that 1) there are no jobs and 2) our hiring culture treats candidates like they 'spoil' after a few years.
No one knows who is mediocre or not.
It is that that 1) there are no jobs and 2) our hiring culture treats candidates like they 'spoil' after a few years.
No one knows who is mediocre or not.
December 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Meritocracy may be a mirage, but blaming Black people for your own professional disappointment is a pretty reliable indicator of mediocrity
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Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu
December 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu
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I swear to fucking god mozilla, *everyone hates this idea*. Do NOT succumb to The Fear & the Monetization Disease. You don't need to have a "modern AI browser", at all, ever. You need to be th comany that respects user privacy, meaningful consent, & choice; the one w/ The Browser That Fucking Works
December 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I swear to fucking god mozilla, *everyone hates this idea*. Do NOT succumb to The Fear & the Monetization Disease. You don't need to have a "modern AI browser", at all, ever. You need to be th comany that respects user privacy, meaningful consent, & choice; the one w/ The Browser That Fucking Works
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Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations
December 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations
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Are You on Trump’s List of Domestic Terrorists? There’s No Way to Know.
The Trump administration is using NSPM-7 to compile the names of alleged domestic terror groups. It won’t tell us who’s on the list.
theintercept.com/2025/11/04/t...
The Trump administration is using NSPM-7 to compile the names of alleged domestic terror groups. It won’t tell us who’s on the list.
theintercept.com/2025/11/04/t...
Are You on Trump’s List of Domestic Terrorists? There’s No Way to Know.
The Trump administration is using NSPM-7 to compile the names of alleged domestic terror groups. It won’t tell us who’s on the list.
theintercept.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Are You on Trump’s List of Domestic Terrorists? There’s No Way to Know.
The Trump administration is using NSPM-7 to compile the names of alleged domestic terror groups. It won’t tell us who’s on the list.
theintercept.com/2025/11/04/t...
The Trump administration is using NSPM-7 to compile the names of alleged domestic terror groups. It won’t tell us who’s on the list.
theintercept.com/2025/11/04/t...
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If you want to celebrate the life of Rob Reiner tonight and you haven't seen it, the documentary about his best friend, ALBERT BROOKS: DEFENDING MY LIFE, is as much about Brooks as it is Reiner's love for his lifelong best friend. As fall down hilarious as it is sweet & touching. It's a must see.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
If you want to celebrate the life of Rob Reiner tonight and you haven't seen it, the documentary about his best friend, ALBERT BROOKS: DEFENDING MY LIFE, is as much about Brooks as it is Reiner's love for his lifelong best friend. As fall down hilarious as it is sweet & touching. It's a must see.
Mel Brooks outliving Carl *and* Rob must be so horrible. Losing Rob is terrible for the world. I'm not enchanted with loss at this moment.
December 15, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Mel Brooks outliving Carl *and* Rob must be so horrible. Losing Rob is terrible for the world. I'm not enchanted with loss at this moment.