Anodyne Handle
@tommyg.bsky.social
'But doubts and loves/ Dig up the world' - Amichai
'It is not my nature to join in hate, but in love' - Sophocles
'stones, flesh, stars, and those truths the hand can touch' - Camus
Honorary moon.
In my cringe era.
Av: A dog looks mournfully to left.
'It is not my nature to join in hate, but in love' - Sophocles
'stones, flesh, stars, and those truths the hand can touch' - Camus
Honorary moon.
In my cringe era.
Av: A dog looks mournfully to left.
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To go after a family for no other reason than that their daughter sparked sympathy is appalling. Absolutely appalling. Beyond cruelty into outright sadism.
They are going after that college students' family now. JFC www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
Immigration Agents Target Family of Deported College Student
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
To go after a family for no other reason than that their daughter sparked sympathy is appalling. Absolutely appalling. Beyond cruelty into outright sadism.
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The military’s official story for why it conducted a second illegal strike on two survivors of a vessel sunk off the coast of Trinidad has morphed multiple times. Now, footage from that strike has raised even bigger questions for lawmakers. My write-up in the replies.
December 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The military’s official story for why it conducted a second illegal strike on two survivors of a vessel sunk off the coast of Trinidad has morphed multiple times. Now, footage from that strike has raised even bigger questions for lawmakers. My write-up in the replies.
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"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...
The only way to assure individual liberty is to hand unprecedented governmental power to the guy engaged in blatant democratic backsliding
Kavanaugh: Broad delegations to unaccountable agencies are dangerous for individual liberty! We have used the major questions doctrine to prevent agencies from overreaching.
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...
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Apparently Norway found a kill switch from Chinese electric buses.
Too bad the economics are making the victory of electric vehicles inevitable, and European firms dropped out of the race.
m.economictimes.com/news/interna...
Too bad the economics are making the victory of electric vehicles inevitable, and European firms dropped out of the race.
m.economictimes.com/news/interna...
Norway uncovers kill switch in Chinese buses that can be shut down remotely - Denmark scrambling for solutions
Norway's electric bus system has unearthed a troubling security issue involving Yutong buses manufactured in China, which may be hackable from afar. This unsettling news has raised eyebrows throughout...
m.economictimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Apparently Norway found a kill switch from Chinese electric buses.
Too bad the economics are making the victory of electric vehicles inevitable, and European firms dropped out of the race.
m.economictimes.com/news/interna...
Too bad the economics are making the victory of electric vehicles inevitable, and European firms dropped out of the race.
m.economictimes.com/news/interna...
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The president’s screed against Paramount’s ownership — which he had previously praised incessantly — came at the same time the media giant launched a hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery that was joined by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
MTG on 60 Minutes sends Trump into tailspin rant against ‘No Better’ CBS-Paramount
The president’s screed against Paramount’s ownership — which he had previously praised incessantly — came at the same time the media giant launched a hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery tha...
www.independent.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The president’s screed against Paramount’s ownership — which he had previously praised incessantly — came at the same time the media giant launched a hostile takeover bid of Warner Bros. Discovery that was joined by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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now here's an idea!
Yesterday, I held a music festival in my district to register voters and speak directly to young people who don’t usually attend political events. 4,500 tickets. Music + advocacy go hand in hand. Madsoul Festival 2025 was a success.
December 8, 2025 at 3:02 AM
now here's an idea!
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The “worldview that Epstein helped architect: the elevation of a self-defined cognitive aristocracy; scepticism toward democratic accountability; obsession with racial and gender hierarchy, and genetic “optimisation”; the legitimacy of population culling to root out inferior groups”
EXCLUSIVE: Epstein didn’t just prey on children. He helped bankroll and embed a worldview of race science, climate “culling” and eugenics inside Silicon Valley’s elite AI networks. Tonight we publish the final part of my
@bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
@bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
How Epstein Channelled Race Science and 'Climate Culling' Into Silicon Valley’s AI Elite
The Epstein files expose how racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling circulated inside Big Tech circles
bylinetimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The “worldview that Epstein helped architect: the elevation of a self-defined cognitive aristocracy; scepticism toward democratic accountability; obsession with racial and gender hierarchy, and genetic “optimisation”; the legitimacy of population culling to root out inferior groups”
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my one very sincere piece of business advice to universities:
it takes *a lot* of indignities to kill the goodwill of people who choose to work at universities but managing to do so is not something to be proud of
it takes *a lot* of indignities to kill the goodwill of people who choose to work at universities but managing to do so is not something to be proud of
December 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
my one very sincere piece of business advice to universities:
it takes *a lot* of indignities to kill the goodwill of people who choose to work at universities but managing to do so is not something to be proud of
it takes *a lot* of indignities to kill the goodwill of people who choose to work at universities but managing to do so is not something to be proud of
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The New England states -- and MA especially -- have long led the nation on climate and clean energy policy. As national political headwinds mount, political leaders in these states can stand strong and show the rest of the country how it's done, or cave.
www.eenews.net/articles/new...
www.eenews.net/articles/new...
New England is on the brink of clean energy victories. Why are Democrats embracing gas?
Three of the nation’s largest carbon-free projects are being completed in a region whose progressive political leaders are shifting toward gas as
www.eenews.net
December 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The New England states -- and MA especially -- have long led the nation on climate and clean energy policy. As national political headwinds mount, political leaders in these states can stand strong and show the rest of the country how it's done, or cave.
www.eenews.net/articles/new...
www.eenews.net/articles/new...
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For reasons completely unrelated to any opinions about regulatory policy, a Day 1 executive order here in the US should be ending every government agency account on X. Just delete them all, plain as that. For the same reason the US government need not have accounts on Stormfront or 4chan.
Pretty crazy that nearly all of the EU Commission is still on X even as Elon Musk is literally talking about destroying the EU.
You can leave X. It's really not that difficult.
You can leave X. It's really not that difficult.
So what's the outcome?
2️⃣5️⃣ of the 27 Commissioners have posted in the last week
2️⃣4️⃣ of the 27 generally post every week (Albuquerque has never been on X, Ribera is sporadic, McGrath has somehow stopped)
0️⃣ have stopped as a result of what Twitter has become since the Musk takeover
2️⃣5️⃣ of the 27 Commissioners have posted in the last week
2️⃣4️⃣ of the 27 generally post every week (Albuquerque has never been on X, Ribera is sporadic, McGrath has somehow stopped)
0️⃣ have stopped as a result of what Twitter has become since the Musk takeover
December 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
For reasons completely unrelated to any opinions about regulatory policy, a Day 1 executive order here in the US should be ending every government agency account on X. Just delete them all, plain as that. For the same reason the US government need not have accounts on Stormfront or 4chan.
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Your Sunday education! 👀
I am clearly team potato! 🥔
👋
I am clearly team potato! 🥔
👋
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Your Sunday education! 👀
I am clearly team potato! 🥔
👋
I am clearly team potato! 🥔
👋
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Elon Musk’s X found a reason to disable the ad account of the EU Commission.
December 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Elon Musk’s X found a reason to disable the ad account of the EU Commission.
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Pretty crazy that nearly all of the EU Commission is still on X even as Elon Musk is literally talking about destroying the EU.
You can leave X. It's really not that difficult.
You can leave X. It's really not that difficult.
So what's the outcome?
2️⃣5️⃣ of the 27 Commissioners have posted in the last week
2️⃣4️⃣ of the 27 generally post every week (Albuquerque has never been on X, Ribera is sporadic, McGrath has somehow stopped)
0️⃣ have stopped as a result of what Twitter has become since the Musk takeover
2️⃣5️⃣ of the 27 Commissioners have posted in the last week
2️⃣4️⃣ of the 27 generally post every week (Albuquerque has never been on X, Ribera is sporadic, McGrath has somehow stopped)
0️⃣ have stopped as a result of what Twitter has become since the Musk takeover
December 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Pretty crazy that nearly all of the EU Commission is still on X even as Elon Musk is literally talking about destroying the EU.
You can leave X. It's really not that difficult.
You can leave X. It's really not that difficult.
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After the little Musk-Sikorski spat this, and Musk's statement to abolish the EU (after the Commission fined X), let's ask ourselves simply:
HOW ARE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS USING X NOW?
In this 🧵 I'll document it, Commissioner by Commissioner. When did they last post? How often do they post?
HOW ARE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS USING X NOW?
In this 🧵 I'll document it, Commissioner by Commissioner. When did they last post? How often do they post?
December 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
After the little Musk-Sikorski spat this, and Musk's statement to abolish the EU (after the Commission fined X), let's ask ourselves simply:
HOW ARE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS USING X NOW?
In this 🧵 I'll document it, Commissioner by Commissioner. When did they last post? How often do they post?
HOW ARE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS USING X NOW?
In this 🧵 I'll document it, Commissioner by Commissioner. When did they last post? How often do they post?
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like so much of what Silicon Valley is up to these days, it's almost impossible to figure out how much of this "Network State" stuff is serious efforts at techno-fascism, and how much is just grifting a childish elite with gobs of cash and a child's understanding of politics
I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
like so much of what Silicon Valley is up to these days, it's almost impossible to figure out how much of this "Network State" stuff is serious efforts at techno-fascism, and how much is just grifting a childish elite with gobs of cash and a child's understanding of politics
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Me: Ah, cats
Me: So graceful, so majestic
Fiasco: *hits the window full force, topples off the cat tree onto the floor like a sack of potatoes*
Me:
Me:
Me: You all right there buddy
Me: So graceful, so majestic
Fiasco: *hits the window full force, topples off the cat tree onto the floor like a sack of potatoes*
Me:
Me:
Me: You all right there buddy
December 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Me: Ah, cats
Me: So graceful, so majestic
Fiasco: *hits the window full force, topples off the cat tree onto the floor like a sack of potatoes*
Me:
Me:
Me: You all right there buddy
Me: So graceful, so majestic
Fiasco: *hits the window full force, topples off the cat tree onto the floor like a sack of potatoes*
Me:
Me:
Me: You all right there buddy
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Given that the Russians quite literally drafted our capitulation plan for Ukraine one has to wonder about whether there wasn’t at least a bit of cutting and pasting here.
"The Kremlin on Sunday welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump's new national security strategy and said it largely accorded with Russia's own perceptions, the first time that Moscow has so fulsomely praised such a document from its former Cold War foe."
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Kremlin says new US security strategy accords largely with Russia's view
It was the first time that Moscow has so fulsomely praised such a document from its former Cold War foe.
www.reuters.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Given that the Russians quite literally drafted our capitulation plan for Ukraine one has to wonder about whether there wasn’t at least a bit of cutting and pasting here.
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like i have been saying, if you have ADHD you should be standing with trans people on their medical rights for basic moral and solidarity reasons but also the practical reason that you can fight at their barricade or you can fight at ours but it's the same fight
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
like i have been saying, if you have ADHD you should be standing with trans people on their medical rights for basic moral and solidarity reasons but also the practical reason that you can fight at their barricade or you can fight at ours but it's the same fight
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Also there is a lot of evidence its intended purpose went beyond that, including, you know, quite a bit of SCOTUS precedent afterwards and also the fact that birthright citizenship is the overwhelming norm in countries in the Americas.
Just bad faith from Wurman.
Just bad faith from Wurman.
December 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Also there is a lot of evidence its intended purpose went beyond that, including, you know, quite a bit of SCOTUS precedent afterwards and also the fact that birthright citizenship is the overwhelming norm in countries in the Americas.
Just bad faith from Wurman.
Just bad faith from Wurman.
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the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
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Anyone who knows this history should know there’s no contested issue.
December 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Anyone who knows this history should know there’s no contested issue.
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On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”
December 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”
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In Massachusetts and across the country, the Trump admin is turning the pursuit of the American Dream into an American Nightmare. This is wrong, this is immoral, and this is exactly why we must continue to fight back against Trump’s racist anti-immigrant agenda.
December 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
In Massachusetts and across the country, the Trump admin is turning the pursuit of the American Dream into an American Nightmare. This is wrong, this is immoral, and this is exactly why we must continue to fight back against Trump’s racist anti-immigrant agenda.
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After 99 years, Michigan clockmaker Howard Miller is shutting down. The culprit: Trump's tariffs.
"If the federal government had said, ‘Oh, it's a 10% tariff, constant,' … they might've worked things out," an employee said. "But no. It's just chaos."
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
"If the federal government had said, ‘Oh, it's a 10% tariff, constant,' … they might've worked things out," an employee said. "But no. It's just chaos."
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
In Congress, He Said Tariffs Were Bad for Business. As Trump’s Ambassador to Canada, He’s Reversed Course.
Pete Hoekstra once testified that “the market should dictate the price of steel, not the government.” But he now champions the Trump trade policies that are being linked to job losses in his former Mi...
www.propublica.org
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
After 99 years, Michigan clockmaker Howard Miller is shutting down. The culprit: Trump's tariffs.
"If the federal government had said, ‘Oh, it's a 10% tariff, constant,' … they might've worked things out," an employee said. "But no. It's just chaos."
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
"If the federal government had said, ‘Oh, it's a 10% tariff, constant,' … they might've worked things out," an employee said. "But no. It's just chaos."
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social