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#BList baseball, books, biking, beans, beach #girldad, retired EE, enjoys Disney theme parks, fantasy baseball, cycling and coffee. Married to the smartest woman I know. 74.9% chance I will follow a fellow Jim. Looking for my next read
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Woody Harrelson has done an ad "for Exxon". Well worth watching
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little bit of a tangent: i once had a department chair who physically threatened me because the graduate student he was having an affair with was struggling in my class. i ended up resigning a few months later. so dating a student can have far-reaching consequences beyond the abuse of the student.
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conservatives in washington state want freedom and small government in the form of state-mandated genital exams for high school students: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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bring back shame
NEW on @zeteo.com — Venues are *pulling out* of hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for his bus tour across Ohio in the closing days of the election. “We’re getting calls that people don’t want him there,” a top Ohio Republican says. “It’s that damn ad.” From @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social:
Pick another cut of beef? I’d rather pick a new head of HHS bsky.app/profile/scol...
RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."
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Every year transphobes say the wave of detransitions will begin any day now, and every year the number of detransitioners who will work with them, worldwide, remains in the low to mid countable-on-one-hand
We had an interaction, probably in 2019, where I just wanted to know what evidence he'd need to accept that detransition actually was rare, and it became clear that there was none. He's ideologically invested in something having gone wrong with trans care and will accept no evidence to the contrary.
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has mmfa or someone like that compiled a comparison of airtime and front page headlines given to hunter biden vs jared kushner, given that kushner's alleged corruption is about 1000x larger, you would expect it to receive more coverage than Hunter's, right?
This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...
What are the odds I could contact Randy Komisar and get a copy of this 10 year old podcast episode? is there a wayback machine for podcasts? These topics are even more relevant today. techcrunch.com/2016/01/12/l...
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So apparently the Republican facing Ed Markey is a straight-up groomer pedophile? When he was 20 years old, he started a relationship with a 15-year old and had her move in with him after she graduated high school! And nobody is talking about this?!?!? wmasspi.com/2026/10/op-e...
“Just three to four decades ago, men with metastatic prostate cancer lived an average of 28 to 36 months. Today, the average life expectancy of someone with this diagnosis has increased to about five to six years” www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/...
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"Honestly, if we end up with two hundred and twenty-five seats on the White Council, I would be disappointed. I would rather Sauron keep control of Middle-earth by five seats than have the Fellowship win by five, because then we’d be hostage to the Ents." buff.ly/9WluK1y
You rarely hear the term “exploratory surgery” anymore. “Let’s just cut you open and see what’s the problem in there” Medical imaging is orders of magnitude better than when I was a kid
Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
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Yglesias being wrong about ICE confirms my priors
Matthew Yglesias continues to say that talking about ICE and excessive force in immigration enforcement helps Republicans. He is obviously wrong about this and refuses to acknowledge the data. Way past time for everyone to update their priors on this.
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New: Low-info voters, who put Trump in the White House, now look even more anti-Trump than high-info voters, and give Dems bigger margins on the generic ballot. 1 out of 3 Trump voters who can't name the party in charge of Congress now back Dems for 2026. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/poll-low-i...
Gonna guess that giving kids one share of SpaceX stock is not gonna make up for this
About 2 million kids have lost SNAP since deep cuts were enacted last year. The ripple effects: Kids losing SNAP also lose automatic enrollment for free meals at school. And as more kids lose SNAP, their schools may be forced to drop Community Eligibility.
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I keep seeing South Asian folks making grand gestures of disclaiming Ramaswamy, as with Haley or Jindal. The thing to understand is, NONE of these candidates have ever, in any race, won a majority of the South Asian vote in any jurisdiction where they were running. They are products of white voters.
W gave his “mission accomplished“ speech 43 days after the invasion. 10 years later “first withdrawal“ ongoing.
It's striking how exactly they repeated Putin's mistake in Ukraine - assuming a quick war that's over in several days without making any contingency plans for what would happen if things go wrong and the war drags out