Saganomics
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Hey I'm Mitch, some guy with an engineering degree, a construction job, a lot of cats and a house full of projects that's a local Democratic chair.
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Lowell Democratic City Committee November General Meeting · MassDems
Join the Lowell Democratic City Committee for our November general meeting at the Lowell Telemedia Center (LTC) in the Market Mills on Market St, November 17th, 7pm. Parking is on the street or in the...
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Next Monday, November 17th, 7pm at LTC, is a meeting of the Lowell Democratic Committee! Come on by and discuss the SNAP crisis, the 2025 Lowell election, the upcoming First Middlesex District State Senate special election, the and next year's statewide primaries!
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Propaganda works
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Propaganda works
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another data point for the evaporation of journalists' ability to feel shame is how Ben Domenech's Malaysian payola was seen as something embarrassing and now taking money on the sly to do PR for foreign governments is something our media betters think you'd be stupid not to do
begins here, over this article: www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
another data point for the evaporation of journalists' ability to feel shame is how Ben Domenech's Malaysian payola was seen as something embarrassing and now taking money on the sly to do PR for foreign governments is something our media betters think you'd be stupid not to do
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once a Green (US) always a Green (US)
“‘We are in this magical, unique time,’ Sinema said of Trump’s health department, led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”
Kyrsten Sinema Is Ready for Her MAHA Turn
In a new interview, the one-time Democrat says the movement for psychedelic medicine should capitalize on the Trump administration.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
once a Green (US) always a Green (US)
Although I had been a big Warcraft fan - 1, 2 & 3, I did not initially get WoW. I was a college sophomore, and my roommate got it. He had been a decent student despite an alcohol problem. Over the spring semester, WoW solved his alcohol problem, but his grades horribly cratered. I never played WoW.
On this day in 2004, World of Warcraft was released in North America.
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Although I had been a big Warcraft fan - 1, 2 & 3, I did not initially get WoW. I was a college sophomore, and my roommate got it. He had been a decent student despite an alcohol problem. Over the spring semester, WoW solved his alcohol problem, but his grades horribly cratered. I never played WoW.
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17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
November 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
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“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times
Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...
m.economictimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
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Bill Cassidy has done infinitely more for the antivaccine movement than he can ever claim he has done to promote vaccination. He is one of the worst antivaxxers to ever live.
November 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Bill Cassidy has done infinitely more for the antivaccine movement than he can ever claim he has done to promote vaccination. He is one of the worst antivaxxers to ever live.
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MAHA, baby
Unreal: "The EPA is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing 'forever chemicals' as an active ingredient... The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
MAHA, baby
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I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.
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DOGE was extremely bad at cutting overall spending, but managed to eliminate a bunch of stuff that saved large numbers of lives cheaply
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
DOGE was extremely bad at cutting overall spending, but managed to eliminate a bunch of stuff that saved large numbers of lives cheaply
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The plan was leaked by the Russians and no one in America’s historically inept administration knew what anyone else was doing so people started getting behind it because they thought it was official policy.
Putin totally played the US, knowing full well he was up against incompetents and idiots.
Putin totally played the US, knowing full well he was up against incompetents and idiots.
November 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The plan was leaked by the Russians and no one in America’s historically inept administration knew what anyone else was doing so people started getting behind it because they thought it was official policy.
Putin totally played the US, knowing full well he was up against incompetents and idiots.
Putin totally played the US, knowing full well he was up against incompetents and idiots.
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Republican Senator Mike Rounds said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a call to senators, confirmed the so-called 28-point “peace plan” was actually a Russian wishlist and is “not the administration’s position”. Nor is there any threat to cut off weapons or intelligence to Ukraine.
November 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Republican Senator Mike Rounds said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a call to senators, confirmed the so-called 28-point “peace plan” was actually a Russian wishlist and is “not the administration’s position”. Nor is there any threat to cut off weapons or intelligence to Ukraine.
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I think it is very unlikely that most of these are Russian influence agents, and considerably more likely that they are people from developing economies who have cottoned on to ways to make relatively large amounts of money for them by being paid-per-view by X.
This week we learned that many of the most active Twitter accounts are foreigners, most likely Russian influence agents, operating in the guise of Red State Americans.
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I think it is very unlikely that most of these are Russian influence agents, and considerably more likely that they are people from developing economies who have cottoned on to ways to make relatively large amounts of money for them by being paid-per-view by X.
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“wokeness” is code for queer people and minorities existing and eliminating USAID already has a body count in the mid six figures
Lots of people are responding "DOGE actually achieved it's true goal of destroying state capacity/Wokeness/data security" but I don't think there's a plausible case it did any of that either!
November 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“wokeness” is code for queer people and minorities existing and eliminating USAID already has a body count in the mid six figures
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JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone.
My first political memory - exactly 62 years ago right now, a 4-year-old boy trying to understand his mom's tears - is still the biggest event in my lifetime. We still (IMO) don't *really* know who killed JFK, but we know the public's trust was shattered. It's a straight line to today's mess
November 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone.
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this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
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I hate how every nation is living down to its stereotype because I’m trained to look for complexity in things, yet the USA is run by a caricature of crony capitalism that Soviet propaganda would consider too unsubtle, Russia is run by a Bond villain, the UK is speedrunning Children of Men, etc.
November 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I hate how every nation is living down to its stereotype because I’m trained to look for complexity in things, yet the USA is run by a caricature of crony capitalism that Soviet propaganda would consider too unsubtle, Russia is run by a Bond villain, the UK is speedrunning Children of Men, etc.
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Genuinely insulting even to Heinlein's psuedo-fascist propaganda, which is very explicitly a paean to discipline and duty. The central theme is literally that the privileges of citizenship are dependent on the obligations of service. Don't tell me that anyone in this govt fucking believes that.
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino "also revered Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein's 1959 military sci-fi classic about an interstellar war between humans and alien bugs - a book his sister says he still reads to this day."
An endless amount of deranged details in this interview with Greg Bovino's sister, but most notably that his uncle produced the Jack Nicholson movie The Border and the depiction of the agent as corrupt radicalized him as a 12-yr-old.
"Since then, he was like, 'Dude, I want to do Border Patrol.'"
"Since then, he was like, 'Dude, I want to do Border Patrol.'"
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Genuinely insulting even to Heinlein's psuedo-fascist propaganda, which is very explicitly a paean to discipline and duty. The central theme is literally that the privileges of citizenship are dependent on the obligations of service. Don't tell me that anyone in this govt fucking believes that.
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this tawdry Olivia Nuzzi stuff highlights why I’m turning into a small-c conservative with regards to “it is unseemly and shameful for people in positions of power and influence to subject the public to their messy-ass sex nonsense on a constant basis”
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
this tawdry Olivia Nuzzi stuff highlights why I’m turning into a small-c conservative with regards to “it is unseemly and shameful for people in positions of power and influence to subject the public to their messy-ass sex nonsense on a constant basis”
Tomorrow evening, join the Lowell Democratic Committee at the Lowell Telemedia Center!
Next Monday, November 17th, 7pm at LTC, is a meeting of the Lowell Democratic Committee! Come on by and discuss the SNAP crisis, the 2025 Lowell election, the upcoming First Middlesex District State Senate special election, the and next year's statewide primaries!
www.mobilize.us/massdems/eve...
www.mobilize.us/massdems/eve...
Lowell Democratic City Committee November General Meeting · MassDems
Join the Lowell Democratic City Committee for our November general meeting at the Lowell Telemedia Center (LTC) in the Market Mills on Market St, November 17th, 7pm. Parking is on the street or in the...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Tomorrow evening, join the Lowell Democratic Committee at the Lowell Telemedia Center!
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I’m still against making sports betting illegal - better to have it run by a corporation than by the mob - but I am 100000% against “frictionless” sports betting. You should not be able to place a depraved parlay from your phone
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I’m still against making sports betting illegal - better to have it run by a corporation than by the mob - but I am 100000% against “frictionless” sports betting. You should not be able to place a depraved parlay from your phone
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no see using these photos would be beneath the Times, which would never take material from a dubious source, unless it was, say, hacked documents showing that a guy born in Africa had put 'African-American' on his application form for a university he didn't get into. You know, something important.
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
no see using these photos would be beneath the Times, which would never take material from a dubious source, unless it was, say, hacked documents showing that a guy born in Africa had put 'African-American' on his application form for a university he didn't get into. You know, something important.
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How many of the people who wrote variants of 'Has MeToo gone too far' editorials for our remaining major newspapers sent or received email from mr epstein
November 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
How many of the people who wrote variants of 'Has MeToo gone too far' editorials for our remaining major newspapers sent or received email from mr epstein
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Next Monday, November 17th, 7pm at LTC, is a meeting of the Lowell Democratic Committee! Come on by and discuss the SNAP crisis, the 2025 Lowell election, the upcoming First Middlesex District State Senate special election, the and next year's statewide primaries!
www.mobilize.us/massdems/eve...
www.mobilize.us/massdems/eve...
Lowell Democratic City Committee November General Meeting · MassDems
Join the Lowell Democratic City Committee for our November general meeting at the Lowell Telemedia Center (LTC) in the Market Mills on Market St, November 17th, 7pm. Parking is on the street or in the...
www.mobilize.us
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Next Monday, November 17th, 7pm at LTC, is a meeting of the Lowell Democratic Committee! Come on by and discuss the SNAP crisis, the 2025 Lowell election, the upcoming First Middlesex District State Senate special election, the and next year's statewide primaries!
www.mobilize.us/massdems/eve...
www.mobilize.us/massdems/eve...