Orion Kidder
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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
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Also required for anyone tasked with redesigning Magneto
Part 144 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
Ancient Greek helmets on display
Ancient Greek helmets on display
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Also required for anyone tasked with redesigning Magneto
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Remember: The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Remember: The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
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oh my fucking god he is 100% confusing cadillac insurance plans with people buying cadillacs
"and it's gonna be locked so they can't go out and buy, uh, a cadillac, they can go out and buy health insurance"
"and it's gonna be locked so they can't go out and buy, uh, a cadillac, they can go out and buy health insurance"
Trump on healthcare: "I've had personal talks with some Democrats about paying large amounts of dollars back to the people. This was my idea ... why don't we just pay this money directly to the people of our country and let them buy their own health insurance?"
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
oh my fucking god he is 100% confusing cadillac insurance plans with people buying cadillacs
"and it's gonna be locked so they can't go out and buy, uh, a cadillac, they can go out and buy health insurance"
"and it's gonna be locked so they can't go out and buy, uh, a cadillac, they can go out and buy health insurance"
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And grown folks should not be interested! A teenager is not "fully baked." Not physically. Not emotionally. Not intellectually. A youth is allowed to have sexual thoughts and feelings. Normal adults should be turned-off by the expression of them. But our culture does not normalize this.
November 17, 2025 at 12:34 AM
And grown folks should not be interested! A teenager is not "fully baked." Not physically. Not emotionally. Not intellectually. A youth is allowed to have sexual thoughts and feelings. Normal adults should be turned-off by the expression of them. But our culture does not normalize this.
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They look young as hell in those photos. Megyn Kelly wants to stress that 5 isn't 15, but 15 damn sure ain't 25.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
They look young as hell in those photos. Megyn Kelly wants to stress that 5 isn't 15, but 15 damn sure ain't 25.
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Health Canada convened an independent expert advisory group in 2020 to provide guidance on safer supply. Health Canada heavily redacted its final report, but unredacted version obtained by CBC shows the expert group said drug crisis is driven by prohibition and recommended expansion of safer supply
November 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Health Canada convened an independent expert advisory group in 2020 to provide guidance on safer supply. Health Canada heavily redacted its final report, but unredacted version obtained by CBC shows the expert group said drug crisis is driven by prohibition and recommended expansion of safer supply
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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My most woke opinion is that rurality inherently lends itself to bigotry because people are isolated and rarely have to be wound people like themselves - and the rural life is uniquely romanticized by white people
November 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
My most woke opinion is that rurality inherently lends itself to bigotry because people are isolated and rarely have to be wound people like themselves - and the rural life is uniquely romanticized by white people
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What’s a movie you can watch over and over again?
November 16, 2025 at 6:38 AM
What’s a movie you can watch over and over again?
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I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
“When the 8 African American sheriffs took over the largest counties in North Carolina, it became a threat to the good ol’ boy system,” says the sheriff of Charlotte. These new sheriffs broke ties with ICE.
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
North Carolina GOP Is Cracking Down on the Black Sheriffs Who Stood Up to ICE
Boosted by new supermajorities, Republicans are closing in on legislation to mandate more collaboration with ICE and preempt local policies hard-won by immigrants’ rights advocates.
boltsmag.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
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was made full professor upon hire, no review.
He was living with a former student when he came on to me.
He married another student after he was done with me.
A few years later, another student reached out to me after he manipulated her into bed to try to sort how he was abusing power non-stop
He was living with a former student when he came on to me.
He married another student after he was done with me.
A few years later, another student reached out to me after he manipulated her into bed to try to sort how he was abusing power non-stop
November 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
was made full professor upon hire, no review.
He was living with a former student when he came on to me.
He married another student after he was done with me.
A few years later, another student reached out to me after he manipulated her into bed to try to sort how he was abusing power non-stop
He was living with a former student when he came on to me.
He married another student after he was done with me.
A few years later, another student reached out to me after he manipulated her into bed to try to sort how he was abusing power non-stop
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I was in a relationship for a time with a professor I had in undergraduate who was 37 when he came on to me at 19.
It had an abusive power dynamic from the start that eventually morphed into actual physical abuse.
It cost him his tenure track position, so he transferred to another uni where he
It had an abusive power dynamic from the start that eventually morphed into actual physical abuse.
It cost him his tenure track position, so he transferred to another uni where he
Sometimes I think about the time that I ran into a senior physicist on the street with a woman who was much younger than him and who I learned later had been an undergraduate in his department just the year before and was, at the time, a grad student at his university
November 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I was in a relationship for a time with a professor I had in undergraduate who was 37 when he came on to me at 19.
It had an abusive power dynamic from the start that eventually morphed into actual physical abuse.
It cost him his tenure track position, so he transferred to another uni where he
It had an abusive power dynamic from the start that eventually morphed into actual physical abuse.
It cost him his tenure track position, so he transferred to another uni where he
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This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...
Someone faved this, and it reminded me of a conversation between my (very activist) cousin and my (lifelong political) uncle. She said, "You're an elder now. It is your responsibility to pass on your knowledge." I liked that framing. It's the opposite of abdication.
1000%. I've been hearing, "the youth will fix it!" since I was one of the youth. it's an abdication of responsibility.
November 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Someone faved this, and it reminded me of a conversation between my (very activist) cousin and my (lifelong political) uncle. She said, "You're an elder now. It is your responsibility to pass on your knowledge." I liked that framing. It's the opposite of abdication.
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We always have events, too! You don't even need a card to attend. There's literally D&D / game nights every Friday at mine, and a sewing hangout (knit in peace, meet new friends, have coffee) class every Saturday. We just like knowing we make your life better.
Love,
Your Local Librarian
Love,
Your Local Librarian
1. Visit the library and just hang out. The library keeps count of visitors!
2. Bring your own book to the library and read. See item number one above
3. Borrow a CD like David Bowie Ziggy Stsrdust
4. Borrow a DVD like marvel’s Iron Man
5. Attend a workshop!
6. Attend two!!
2. Bring your own book to the library and read. See item number one above
3. Borrow a CD like David Bowie Ziggy Stsrdust
4. Borrow a DVD like marvel’s Iron Man
5. Attend a workshop!
6. Attend two!!
November 16, 2025 at 4:36 AM
We always have events, too! You don't even need a card to attend. There's literally D&D / game nights every Friday at mine, and a sewing hangout (knit in peace, meet new friends, have coffee) class every Saturday. We just like knowing we make your life better.
Love,
Your Local Librarian
Love,
Your Local Librarian
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Checking in on this: the school board member who opposed the ban on trans athletes, and who was then challenged by the parent of the HS girl who'd complained, won reelection, 60 to 40%.
I'd totally missed this:
In Tumwater, WA, a HS student complained about a trans basketball player. Then, the local school board passed a resolution to ban trans girls from girl sports.
Now, the mother of that student is running against the sole school board member to vote against the resolution.
In Tumwater, WA, a HS student complained about a trans basketball player. Then, the local school board passed a resolution to ban trans girls from girl sports.
Now, the mother of that student is running against the sole school board member to vote against the resolution.
November 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Checking in on this: the school board member who opposed the ban on trans athletes, and who was then challenged by the parent of the HS girl who'd complained, won reelection, 60 to 40%.
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This is so foundational to our human interactions that they teach kids about how sharing and ownership work in kindergarten and earlier. All the AI boom folks are lacking in the social basics even four-year-olds have a better grasp of.
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:26 AM
This is so foundational to our human interactions that they teach kids about how sharing and ownership work in kindergarten and earlier. All the AI boom folks are lacking in the social basics even four-year-olds have a better grasp of.
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friends pls pay attention because i am hard pressed to think of any time cheryl lynn has been wrong
I'm not trying to be mean, but racists who believe Trump betrayed them by being a child molester are not going to embrace the Democratic Party without forcing that party to embrace racism. And the people gained would in no way make up for those lost.
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM
friends pls pay attention because i am hard pressed to think of any time cheryl lynn has been wrong
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Brooklyn Public Library has vinyl records that you can borrow
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Brooklyn Public Library has vinyl records that you can borrow
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It’s raining in Vegas
November 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
It’s raining in Vegas