Patrick Rogers

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This is kind of an incredible figure. Via @deanbaker13.bsky.social. cepr.net/publications...

My favorite sign from today's strike #Local1000 #UnfairPracticeStrike

There needs to be severe penalties to states that have waiting times longer than 10-15 minutes, and 2 hours should be investigated with possible criminal penalties.

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I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

People don't realize how necessary cheap rent is to the arts.

Fascists cynically deploy liberal values to fascists ends wherever doing so is convenient (and then drop those values when they no longer serve a purpose). We've seen this with "free speech," "meritocracy," "freedom of religion," "free markets," etc. etc.

There do seem to be strong parallels between the US economy today and Japan in the late 80s, right before the lost decade began.

Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...

People too young to remember but the day after Obergefell, the gays invaded our Churches and forced them to close, as they remain today. abcnews.com/Politics/thr...

(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇

A huge chunk of elite poli-tastemaking is writing essays from the unstated perspective “Let’s just act as if this obvious liar is being genuine,” like people’s lives are just the score in a debate competition.

Our ancient wisdom traditions have good reason for asking us to cultivate more compassion for present suffering, not less. If your ethical theory rejects this, then it's not worth the tokens it cost you.

This is idiotic. For any of this to work, both sides have to be willing to engage in good faith. When one side happily transitions from free speech absolutism to firing librarians in the space of a single year, it becomes clear that they aren't having discussions in good faith.

When military police found Adrian Martinez's body, his bags had already been packed for his trip home to Houston. The army says he took his own life, but their investigation seemed to ignore one key fact: He was a sexual assault whistleblower.

The NYT is basically "Völkischer Beobachter" + Wordle.

Note how there is no (0) person, whether politician or activist, quoted in this piece who‘s in favour of more liberal asylum policies, and as for quoting any actual refugees, their function is to be the silent object of other people’s violent imaginings, not to have a voice or personhood

I don't think NPR is actually terrified of being tagged as left-wing. There's a whole cohort of "left-wing" media whose entire purpose is laundering conservative talking points and acting as the "thin entering wedge" of right-wing propaganda. They need the facade of leftism to make that work.

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

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I was reading a short thread where people were discussing how increased fuel charges are making everything super expensive in Alaska and it took all my willpower not to drop into the thread with screenshots of the Alaskan presidential vote in 2016, 2020 and 2024.

The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State www.erininthemorning... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Rewatching this video for a post on Jim Comey. It lays out what Trump and Todd Blanche are trying to argue: Not only that Trump can order up politicized prosecutions, but that defendants can't focus on how Trump intervened. All bc of Trump v. US. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwyG...

Honestly, if this person is capable of being so confidently incorrect, maybe we should talk another look at their published research. What else have they gotten wrong because of their biases?

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Nixon conspired with North Vietnam. Reagan conspired with Iran, Bush Sr was directly involved with Iran-Contra, Bush Jr only won after the Supreme Court intervened, and Trump conspired with both Russia and conservatives within the FBI. Eisenhower was the last Republican to be legitimately elected.

Google is signalling their willingness to act as Trump's agents when he attempts to fully subvert democracy.

the moderate democratic position on Gaza is that if Israel’s opponents do not comport themselves perfectly, if they don’t dance flawlessly through the rhetorical minefields every day, then it’s dead children forever.

so Trump 2.0’s war on every single non-evil job did destroy my career and traumatize me a lil bit, but the thing is that, like many people in my position, I’m quite capable of synthesizing that trauma into a single-minded thirst for revenge

There it is. While you struggle to afford groceries, or find any that are edible, and pay thousands more every year in gas, rent, utilities, childcare, and healthcare, they are laughing all the way to the bank. 

Republicans are evil

BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Editor of Stars and Stripes says he is being fired for insubordination after saying any censorship is a 'red line.'

The majority of Republicans were apathetic about trans people up until the last 5-10 years. What happened around then? Metoo and Epstein. Hegseth leans so hard into anti-trans because it forces progressives to shift from going after pedophiles to protecting trans people. He's protecting himself.

Hey @apsphysics.aps.org...why the hell are you bringing in Heritage Foundation supported people to steer the direction of the NSF????? www.aps.org/initiatives/...

Twitch added a new "Opt-Out" feature to use your content for AI-Slop. I made a handy guide to help you turn it off! :) #Twitch #Vtuber

THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper.

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