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Science, Secularism, Human Rights, and Beauty —
Computer Hardware Engineer
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Bc Israel only wants to kill Arabs and steals their land
The Truce Is 2 Months Old. So Why Have Hundreds of Gazans Been Killed?
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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NFL going out of their way to force-schedule 3 games on Christmas Day featuring 5 of the best teams last year only to end up with matchups with 5 teams whose season is already over and will be starting backups is the holiday spirit we all needed
December 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.

It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
YouTube video by eoin higgins
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.

Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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America is going to be well-positioned to win World War I. bsky.app/profile/wsj....
President Trump will announce on Monday a new type of large warship he is calling “battleships,” marking a step toward achieving the president’s vision for a new “Golden Fleet.”
Trump To Announce Navy Will Buy New ‘Battleship’
The new warship will be the latest in what the White House envisions as a “Golden Fleet.”
on.wsj.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.
Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Future=never
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
December 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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legitimately love this guy.
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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December 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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You know who isn’t in the Epstein Files and who doesn’t have to repeatedly redact and delete his name and photo from the Epstein Files? This actual orange leader.
MeanCat. The Leader We Deserve
December 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I am Superman
December 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
In addition to Trump trying to buy loyalty of the armed forces so they follow him and not the Constitution, 100% this is a grift. Next will be for Trump to announce the payments will actually go to a charity run by his children on behalf of the servicewomen and servicemen or something like that.
In this week’s newsletter, I explain how Trump’s $1,776 payments is actually one of the most dangerous things he’s ever done. Armies loyal to a paycheck and not the government is how you get authoritarian overthrows of republics.
Trump’s ‘Warrior Dividend’ Might Be His Scariest Idea Yet
In this week’s Elie v. US, The Nation’s justice correspondent explores the authoritarian threat beneath Trump’s bonuses for military families. Plus, a case for getting rid of the Second Amendment.
www.thenation.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Oh, it's just incredible and effortless how Kristen Stewart dismantles and diagnoses the pathology and ego of Brando (and... well, all the dudes in Hollywood) here. www.youtube.com/shorts/_h-iK... There's just so many parallels to tech in this. And I'm so glad she's solid in herself to just SAY it.
Kristen Stewart on Men and Method Acting
YouTube video by The Interview
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This is so stupid. Russia should lose as much as possible
European Union leaders have struck a deal to give Ukraine a €90bn (£79bn; $105bn) loan. But they couldn’t agree on using frozen Russian assets.
December 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Most American historians will say that it was rather the Supreme Court coup in Bush v Gore in 2000. That changed everything. It corrupted the constitutional order as well as the presidency and our political discourse. And of course it also led to the 2003 Iraq War. But it started with Bush v Gore.
December 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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plunging crypto prices puts money in your pocket deanbaker22.substack.com/p/public-mak...
Public Makes Trillions on Plunging Crypto
Crypto looks to be on the down escalator
deanbaker22.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.
December 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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This is a science counterpart to demolishing East Wing at the White House. But with far greater consequences.

These people are dangerous zealots (sort of as Susie Wiles has put it), and every decent person must stand up to stop them.

www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...
Trump administration plans to break up largest federal climate research center
Russ Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said the National Science Foundation "will be breaking up" the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.
www.nbcnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
gift link
December 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
let me guess-- Anne Hathaway is the one on the left without the beard
December 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Why should other countries sign deals with the United States when this president is breaking **his own deals** after less than 6 months?
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
US suspends technology deal with Britain, FT reports
The United States has suspended a technology deal it struck with Britain earlier this year, which was intended to boost ties in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and civil nuclear energy, the...
www.reuters.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker.

This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
December 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
If the US is ever going to have hyperinflation it’s going to be the fault of Trump or some other such dummy
Word for the day: Fiscal dominance.
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM