Ghost Tsongas
Ghost Tsongas
@lapsedcentrist.bsky.social
I must be the director of the FBI, because there’s a bottle of bourbon with my name written all over it.
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A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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Timothy Burke comes out against all minimum wage laws and the 40 hour work week. A true Lochner-era progressive!
I am defending what I believe to be my inalienable right as an individual to seek whatever compensation a firm is willing to offer in exchange for my labor (w/the understanding I'm not immune from social consequences for it). I believe any rule that denies me that right is immoral.
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The thing about the two douchebag staffers is they know in a normal world they would be so fucking fired for this, but in MAGA world willingness to eat Trump’s ass is the only job qualification, so they are safe. It’s not like Schmitt can replace them with smarter employees.
renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid
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Nina Totenberg catching strays. As if “journalist” and “chair sniffer” are mutually exclusive.
it is just monumentally depressing that at the time we need honest supreme court coverage the most, the place that used to be the best resource for it has been turned - like most other media outlets - into a sycophantic shitshow dedicated to glazing the worst people in america
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This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
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Your refrigerator wants you to shut the fuck up.
We can either accept that these systems have become human-like in ways that are quite unsettling, and try to deal with the world as it exists. Or we can work to disguise that fact by instituting a bunch of rhetorical rules that make it hard to discuss. One option seems wiser to me than the other.
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The same right-wing motherf––ers slapping work requirements on SNAP, Medicaid, and Section 8 consider it hunky dory to take 11 weeks off over a span of 3 months.
House GOP leaders cancel votes on Thursday - sending lawmakers home later today until after the elections. That means the House can avoid a vote on the Hegseth impeachment plan from Rep. Thomas Massie R-KY.
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For years, Meta pushed products on young people that were designed to addict them, despite the known risks and harms. Today's settlement makes clear that our kids’ well‑being will always be more important than a tech company’s bottom line. Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...
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Subway stock will go through the roof as people buy sandwiches just to throw them at douchebags wearing Meta glasses.
We all have to be one of two people now: The person who rips these fucking things off the face of anyone doing this, OR, the bystanders who 100% have the back of the person who rips the fucking things off the face. The aggressives and the passives must unite to make it unsafe to wear these.
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Again worth mentioning that, best I can recall, Goebbels mentioned in his diary that they did not have to give party line directives or actively censor the press. They just invited them to briefings and they dutifully passed whatever the government said along to their readers. Helpful indeed.
"The White House press secretary was helpful for me personally," says high profile mainstream journalists, evidently totally unaware that they were being managed. Successfully, turns out.
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There is only one conclusion to draw from this: George Clooney should murder Elon Musk.
For any number of reasons, vigilante justice should make us all a bit anxious. But we should also consider who gets to be a vigilante, and who gets romanticized for it. If Mangione weren’t white and hot, I doubt we’d see anything like the defenses and adoration we’ve seen of him.
i’m so tired of “Trump is doing [evil thing] and nobody cares” posts. He’s doing 1,000 evil things, there is not enough time to complain about each one regularly. Maybe we should all list the top 1,000 evil Trump actions we care about in a thread each morning so the “discourse” remains vital.
I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.
Can this genie grant our wish of making this asshole shut the fuck up?
“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.
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How much would he have to lose before he's subject to the criminal justice system again? finance.yahoo.com/markets/stoc...
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This seems true but weirdly specific.
Yeah but I think orcas are the assholiest of dolphins. Like dolphins are that weird uncle who won’t stop jumping out from behind furniture and sticking his finger in your ear. Orcas are the cousin who holds you under in the pool until you have to take a lungful of water then beats you up if you tell
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Arizona, thank you. From day one, I’ve stayed focused on the work at hand— protecting Arizona families, holding greedy corporations accountable, defending our water, and keeping communities safe. Now we’re heading into the general election ready to win and keep delivering results for every Arizonan💪