J.P.
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Geriatrician. Rocketeer. Amateur astrophysicist. Ski patroller. In my free time I have anemia.
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I was mailing a package at the post office after a 20 minute wait in line. I was a few seconds from completing my purchase when an elderly woman in line fainted. My clerk turned out to be a former paramedic and he beat me to her (he saw the fall). She is okay. I am okay after a 10’ delay.
December 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I was mailing a package at the post office after a 20 minute wait in line. I was a few seconds from completing my purchase when an elderly woman in line fainted. My clerk turned out to be a former paramedic and he beat me to her (he saw the fall). She is okay. I am okay after a 10’ delay.
Out for breakfast. When they come around with the coffee pot after I’m done eating, I ask for “just 3/8 cup, please”.
December 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Out for breakfast. When they come around with the coffee pot after I’m done eating, I ask for “just 3/8 cup, please”.
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A DOJ memo to federal prisons explicitly instructs them to stop enforcing anti-rape laws against transgender & intersex prisoners.
We are governed by monsters.
We are governed by monsters.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A DOJ memo to federal prisons explicitly instructs them to stop enforcing anti-rape laws against transgender & intersex prisoners.
We are governed by monsters.
We are governed by monsters.
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Paramount, which now owns CBS News, is taking Saudi money to fund its bid for Warners. So if the new anchor of the Evening News doesn’t work out, he won’t be fired, just dismembered.
December 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Paramount, which now owns CBS News, is taking Saudi money to fund its bid for Warners. So if the new anchor of the Evening News doesn’t work out, he won’t be fired, just dismembered.
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Instant all-timer here:
December 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Instant all-timer here:
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Wow. Trump personally intervened to block more than 4,100 Jan. 6 documents records that injured police officers had subpoenaed as part of their lawsuit after being violently attacked by MAGA rioters. The Department of Justice confirmed in a new court filing that Trump invoked
December 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Wow. Trump personally intervened to block more than 4,100 Jan. 6 documents records that injured police officers had subpoenaed as part of their lawsuit after being violently attacked by MAGA rioters. The Department of Justice confirmed in a new court filing that Trump invoked
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Given the high suicide rates for veterans, cutting mental health and suicide prevention jobs at the Veterans Administration is UNCONSCIONABLE. The Trump administration is full of incompetent, hateful monsters.
December 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Given the high suicide rates for veterans, cutting mental health and suicide prevention jobs at the Veterans Administration is UNCONSCIONABLE. The Trump administration is full of incompetent, hateful monsters.
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Jeffries calls for video of the September 2 boat strikes to be released and asks, "if Hegseth and the administration think their actions are justifiable, what are they hiding from the American people?"
December 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Jeffries calls for video of the September 2 boat strikes to be released and asks, "if Hegseth and the administration think their actions are justifiable, what are they hiding from the American people?"
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After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"
December 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
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FOX: What do you say to Americans who say to Republicans, where's your healthcare plan? If they're not getting their subsidy, what's option B?
McCORMICK: In the short term, we're still wrestling with how to deal with this
McCORMICK: In the short term, we're still wrestling with how to deal with this
December 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
FOX: What do you say to Americans who say to Republicans, where's your healthcare plan? If they're not getting their subsidy, what's option B?
McCORMICK: In the short term, we're still wrestling with how to deal with this
McCORMICK: In the short term, we're still wrestling with how to deal with this
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Consumer Reports ranks Teslas as the least reliable used cars. "The best of the worst [ten] was Chevrolet at a score of 40. But Tesla makes that failing grade seem respectable with its absolute rock bottom rating of 31, trailing Jeep by just one point.” futurism.com/advanced-tra...
Old Teslas Are Falling Apart
On Consumer Reports' latest ranking of used car reliability, Tesla came in dead last with a rating not even half of the top placed brand.
futurism.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Consumer Reports ranks Teslas as the least reliable used cars. "The best of the worst [ten] was Chevrolet at a score of 40. But Tesla makes that failing grade seem respectable with its absolute rock bottom rating of 31, trailing Jeep by just one point.” futurism.com/advanced-tra...
Attn Dave Portnoy found that stuff you were looking for
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Attn Dave Portnoy found that stuff you were looking for
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If you are near Philadelphia, have 123 dollars, and roughly 28 cubic feet of space to store 1,600 VHS tapes in reasonably climate controlled conditions until I can get up there, I will retrieve this collection of almost guaranteed vital archival value and digitize its entirety.
December 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
If you are near Philadelphia, have 123 dollars, and roughly 28 cubic feet of space to store 1,600 VHS tapes in reasonably climate controlled conditions until I can get up there, I will retrieve this collection of almost guaranteed vital archival value and digitize its entirety.
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"Faculty grew too powerful and too romantic about their role"
Lolll, wtf.
Faculty rank just below the IT guy and first-year advisors who recently started the job. We get exactly zero votes on anything. Everything is "advisory." Shared governance hasn't existed at any point during my career.
Lolll, wtf.
Faculty rank just below the IT guy and first-year advisors who recently started the job. We get exactly zero votes on anything. Everything is "advisory." Shared governance hasn't existed at any point during my career.
Yes we all agree that this is the reason colleges are in trouble
December 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Faculty grew too powerful and too romantic about their role"
Lolll, wtf.
Faculty rank just below the IT guy and first-year advisors who recently started the job. We get exactly zero votes on anything. Everything is "advisory." Shared governance hasn't existed at any point during my career.
Lolll, wtf.
Faculty rank just below the IT guy and first-year advisors who recently started the job. We get exactly zero votes on anything. Everything is "advisory." Shared governance hasn't existed at any point during my career.
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congratulations to Rand Paul on inventing
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single payer healthcare
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single payer healthcare
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
congratulations to Rand Paul on inventing
*checks notes*
single payer healthcare
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single payer healthcare
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
You will be visited by three spirits.
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Trump's farmer bailout will primarily go to massive row-crop farmers. Big Ag as they say. Smaller and diversified farms are getting something else - it rhymes with shackjit.
Trump is going to dump tens of $ billions in payments for huge commodity farmers to compensate for huge losses they will suffer from his idiotic trade war. Meanwhile, small farmers growing for local markets will get nothing. Just canceled grants and "thoughts and prayers". wapo.st/3YXdAbU
A Kansas family farm, barely getting by, grapples with Trump’s cuts
Like many of his rural neighbors in northeast Kansas, Jacob Thomas is trying to compensate for deep losses in federal funding. There’s worry and anger.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Trump's farmer bailout will primarily go to massive row-crop farmers. Big Ag as they say. Smaller and diversified farms are getting something else - it rhymes with shackjit.
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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For you "Civil War" (1990) real heads, here's 100 minutes of raw footage from interviewing Shelby Foote.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS7e...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS7e...
Ken Burns The Civil War Shelby Foote
YouTube video by Shrimboi
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:14 AM
For you "Civil War" (1990) real heads, here's 100 minutes of raw footage from interviewing Shelby Foote.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS7e...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS7e...
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Might be able to see the aurora tonight or tomorrow night. A geomagnetic storm from a coronal mass ejection reaching earth will cause auroras occurring more "equatorward" than usual. Map created by Vincent Ledvina
December 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Might be able to see the aurora tonight or tomorrow night. A geomagnetic storm from a coronal mass ejection reaching earth will cause auroras occurring more "equatorward" than usual. Map created by Vincent Ledvina
Just booked a hotel room in downtown Portland and a rental car for Thurs-Sat and the prices were crazy cheap. And last-minute availability was a surprise.
December 9, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Just booked a hotel room in downtown Portland and a rental car for Thurs-Sat and the prices were crazy cheap. And last-minute availability was a surprise.
I was at an event the other day where there was a guy named Moth
December 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I was at an event the other day where there was a guy named Moth
This could be us but you playin’
December 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
This could be us but you playin’