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slate.com/human-intere... @slate.com anarchists are by and large left just anti authoritarian left as opposed to socialist and communist so how on earth do you class us with alt right groups? (slate subscriber since the 90s here and widow of a prolific slate writer who knew the difference here)

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The current definition of pro Americanism seems very anti Christian and anti Capitalist to me so I cannot compute this.

pallet vs palate has joined my long list of word conflations that irritate me. An unusual volume of usage of pallet to mean palate in my feed in the last few days. Below is a pallet factory. Palates have to do with taste. oxnardpalletco.com

Well now it is clear. Vance questions mayo on fries. And he met with the pope the day before said pope died. It's a war on *my* culture.

Democratic Socialism is sweet and well intentioned but does not work. It creates an apparatus ripe for an autocratic demagogue to take over, use, and destroy. Not both-siding here. No siding here.

One of the many incredible quiet things my recently late husband Paul Boutin did that few realized was to act as the English language editor for Vladimir Bukovsky's massive Judgment in Moscow indictment of western complicity in Soviet war crimes. www.powells.com/book/judgmen...

I did not know about this illustrious predecessor of yours @rbreich.bsky.social www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...

Christian Nationalism is an oxymoron. There, I said it. The rot at the core of Protestantism, and Constantine, to begin with.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

I would feel a traitor if I’d agreed every time I’d had serious professional advice to go by Chris instead of the full name of my 500 years of documented Christina ancestresses. But each person’s choice is their own. The assumption here about Jay is unconscionable on the part of the letter writer.

slate.com/news-and-pol... Props for Vidal vs Buckley reference in first few sentences. I doubt most readers would get it without clicking through. Even then. Shelf full of Vidal here. Best American antihistorian ever.

Reciprocal ratings are breaking a lot of systems. Along with collaborative filtering, the most backfiring shallow concepts of our age.

My mother was live in help with me around ‘86 for a gentleman born 1916 who was a polio survivor. He had a good life, became a local official, two marriages, children, swam everyday - but not a normal life - a walker and cane from childhood, considered himself lucky to live at all. We need vaccines.

c4ss.org/content/31283 to the point. Labor unions are misunderstood today because they have become legalized and hence enmeshed with government. But an association of workers is just that. Especially in an era of monopsony.

America earlier: "One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police" "White nationalists pervade law enforcement 10,000 family dogs killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic") "Police solve just 2% of all major crimes "NYPD Costs $10 Billion a Year "50% of municipal budgets

A very basic test of Trump's justification for sending armed officials into DC (to reduce crime) is whether its residents feel safer or not. They do not. They are not going to public spaces. They are not going to restaurants. They are more afraid of the occupiers than risks from crime.

UFW is the only caller for donations I always give to. However it was sad that a caller from Minnesota for them last month did not know the city name Bakersfield - UFW’s home city and home of Cesar Chavez. I gave anyway because they do feed us.

I decided at 16 to never participate in a 401k or other US gov ‘protected’ retirement account. BC I assumed the US would not exist by my retirement. Social Security not optional - have been contributing since I was 6 as a child actress supporting parents. But this end of humanity cult is different.

“Police” vests on humans rn are no different than “service dog” labels on canine harnesses. Easily bought at big box stores and complete BS.

slate.com/technology/2... I will start worrying about this when Siri stops interpreting my clearly enunciated “going to” as the awful “gonna” and ‘our president’ stops Capitalizing for Fascist Emphasis.

Masked men jumped a San Bernardino family in unmarked cars, opened fire, and shattered their truck windows—all while the family was just coming home from work. The feds later admitted it was CBP, but the family says the agents never showed warrants or IDs.

www.cnn.com/2025/08/15/u... wtf?

"If you look at page 1 of the tariff handbook, it says: Don't tariff inputs. It's the simplest way to make it harder—more expensive—for Americans to do business. Any factory around the world can get the steel, copper, and aluminum it needs without paying a 50% upcharge, except an American factory."

I am just out of words and out of ideas. My friends and community are scared to leave their homes and have family in black sites.

States are a recent phenomenon in the anthropocene era. It seems like a good week to remind ourselves of that. Enjoy my chat. chatgpt.com/share/685a09...

The US runs on both the incarcerated and undocumented immigrants. It is still a slave society. I’ve given today to this org that helps get the truth out. Will you?

let’s not think Newsom is a white knight. He is also a would be king. He’s left people he harmed in the dust.

great thread

c4ss.org/content/60390 love it - great work today - exit and voice - from my friend @kevincarson1.bsky.social

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This is not a remotely liberal organization.

great thread. full disclosure - early buoyant advisor and shareholder here. I am no longer actively involved but I think you are saying what no one else of stature is willing to say rn. OSS needs smaller projects w viable single commercial companies behind them and no bottomless vc behind that.

Polio is no joke. I spent one year growing up living in the house of a great man who survived childhood polio born in 1916 in San Francisco son of a pharmacist. My mother was his live in housekeeper/ caretaker. He never walked after his teens but did become Marin’s tax assessor and married twice.

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I am personally constantly torn between my love of tradition and my deep feeling about personal freedom. Today is Santa Lucia day. When little Swedish girls light the early night with their candles on their heads. I chose Santa Lucia as my patron saint when I was 12. She is the L in cfrln. Goodnight

@chicagotribune.com - suggest you fix your ad algos. They are all selling me items customized for Irvine, well over an hour, and an entire life, away.

Beautiful. “ I remain grateful for the day I picked up “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” and realized that a woman could speak without hedging her bets, without hemming and hawing, without making nice, without poeticisms, without sounding pleasant or sweet, without deference, and even without doubt.”

✨✨✨ The paradox of tolerance: If a tolerant society allows hate and intolerance to grow, it risks being destroyed by them. ❗ Remember: tolerance has its limits.