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There's a new beer around town! 🍺 Marz Brewing has launched Block Club Beer, a "sparkling lager" that supports neighborhood news. buff.ly/UXTlEHT
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We need electoral and economic reform in this country SO BADLY, and it's never going to go right unless and until more people realize that a) those systems have been deeply entined if not the exact same thing, for us, for a very long time, and b) that's a bad thing.
My appearance on @npr.org's "Morning Edition" this week to talk about something that didn't get nearly enough attention: Elon Musk has already **doubled** the record for election donations in a midterm cycle—and that's only for donations we know about. www.npr.org/2026/10/14/n...
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Again, this seems to be Republicans' big closing message for the midterms, so it's worth asking -- what the fuck are they talking about. Ask any parent with a kid in public schools if they'll so much as give them an Advil without written and signed permission. Then show them this insane shit.
Ashley Hinson claims Josh Turek supports "allowing kids to change their gender at school and not tell their parents"
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“Even though transit through the Strait of Hormuz has increased, the cost of hiring a tanker rose to about $1.2 million a day, compared with less than $50,000 a day before the war.”
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Welcome to Hater Week, a week of stories examining what it means to be a hater (and a lover), where we'll vent about some of our biggest pet peeves in games and life, and give others space to do the same. aftermath.site/aftermath-site...
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"It’s possible to create new symbology in an age of totalitarian vulgarity. It just requires looking beyond the murky surface of a pool enscummed by failure. It requires new kinds of heroes, those on bread and those that wield them." Brilliant!
In an age of fascism, Theodor Adorno wrote, "culture has also relinquished the salt of truth." But, I propose in this latest piece, "sometimes the salt of truth are nitrates in processed turkey, compressed in a hero, and hurled at a jackbooted agent of the state." buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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They sent Martha Stewart to jail for 5 months for having a chat with her broker and selling some stock to avoid about $45,000 in losses.
Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, his financial disclosure report says.
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the founders did not foresee every problem the nation would face, because they lived hundreds of years ago and also because many of them were awful slaveholders but they knew men like Donald Trump and they were extremely clear that such men should never be President
"Speaking as an early American historian who spent decades immersed in what the founding generation thought about political power — specifically about executive power — this presidency is entirely out of bounds and beyond anything the founding folk could have conceived of." — @jbf1755.bsky.social
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South Africa’s unemployment crisis continues to fuel calls for a permanent Basic Income Grant (BIG). Article suggests expanding income support is no longer only a welfare issue, but an economic necessity due to high unemployment, poverty, and inequality. zurl.co/QcdPp
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Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr
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Join our friends at Citizens Action Illinois and the IL Revenue Alliance to call fellow Illinoisans to educate them on progressive revenue proposals that would rebuild IL’s current tax system and create more dollars for our neighborhood public schools.
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they like him and want to help him rule us. events like last night excite them to spring into action because they think its an opportunity to help trump rule us better.
The media lives for opportunities to say “Democrats should be nicer to Trump.” They want to exist in the permanent state of “both sides” and are uncomfortable with straight reporting on Trump being a dementia-addled, incoherent, narcissistic fascist.
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Don't kid yourselves. The economics will absolutely make sense when compared to the salaried employees this replaces. They've raised their last series before they have no choice but to start fucking their customers over, but the results are already enough to lay off a ton of devs, PM's, and QA.
Anthropic is no different to OpenAI. The Claude Code you use today is unsustainable, and Dario Amodei will continue to rug-pull developers with variable rate limits and changing T&Cs to build press hype and raise money. The economics will never make sense. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...
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Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”
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Reading this story—about how the Pentagon has been given so much extra money it's struggling to spend it all—while thinking about the formerly homeless tenants I've spoken with in recent weeks whose housing vouchers are being discontinued for "lack of funds."
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So you can keep the Super PACs straight: IL-02: AIPAC (pro-Donna Miller), AI (pro-Jesse Jackson Jr.), crypto (anti-Robert Peters) IL-07: AIPAC (pro-Melissa Conyears-Ervin), crypto (anti-LaShawn Ford) IL-08: AIPAC (pro-Melissa Bean), AI (pro-Bean) IL-09: AIPAC (pro-Laura Fine)
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Just saying, if that is the current situation here in the United States—having not been our situation for 200+ years—such that law enforcement cannot operate without concealing their identities, then obviously the ruling party, the Republicans, has failed and must thrown out of office and disbanded.
Ron Johnson: "In Central America, I found out that if you become the new police chief, you get a DVD from the friendly drug cartel with your children and wife going into school and church ... there's such a demand for unmasking ICE officers, but they've been doxxed."
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