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Just a nerdy dad who loves baseball, pokèmon, and teaching. Go Boston!
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Muslims developed Algebra, most of modern medicine has its roots traced back to the Islamic caliphates from 1000 years ago. The only reason the Muslim world “stopped” developing these things, is that leaders arose who decried math and science the world of the devil. There’s a lesson for us here.
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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Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social
Republicans are the party of rape.
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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted
We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.
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Replying to @ericlipton.nytimes.com
What we learned is that former petrochemical lobbyists now inside the EPA are meeting with former clients and then moving to force career staff at the EPA to rollback public health protections. We found the actual documents detailing these moves. Smoking guns. (Redlines striking protections)
There’s a lot of leopards eating faces going on at the moment, I wonder if these people will ever learn that the Leopard Eating Faces party, will indeed your face too.
Pro-ICE conservative blogger Samuel Sey, a prominent figure on the evangelical right, has himself been arrested and held for potential ICE deportation.
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This is a legitimately insane read but my favorite part is where the reporter gets Rick-rolled by someone who has a microchip implanted in their hand. Just insane.
I’m going to post this, with two comments: Wow is there ever a lot going on here. Also the kicker, what the hell man. And now I’m muting this thread immediately lol.
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Who is ready for another mismanaged pandemic from the same Republican president? www.propublica.org/article/bird...
The “just one more lane will fix traffic” bros are in shambles.
A Sun-Times/WBEZ investigation confirms one driver's lament that it was "the worst traffic I've ever had to deal with." Worse yet, epic delays persist — a year after a three-year construction project ended and Gov. JB Pritzker promised “faster commutes.”
Anyone have that meme of the internet being held up by one piece of code written 20 years ago?
70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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The State Department has asked some foreign service officials up for promotion who they voted for in the 2016, 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, raising concerns the agency is violating a federal law that bars politicized personnel decisions within the nonpartisan ranks.
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Even during the height of WW2 we did not postpone elections. Heck not even during the civil war when DC was on the frontlines did we stop holding elections.
Trump and his allies are pulling out all the stops to rig the midterms. One of their tactics: declaring a national emergency. In our new Deep Dive series, we break down five threats Republicans pose to our elections. Know the playbook before they try to use it: https://demdock.com/4sg6pZP
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