Alex pretti was a Va nurse and a dog owner

A dark blue mug with an American flag reads “AMERICA 1776 – 2026”

Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…

I will reiterate that I've never had cause to regret abandoning the former Twitter more than two years ago now, and have suffered neither personally nor professionally for doing so. Since I left it's become more toxic and, yes, evil. The people who are still there should really consider moving on.

After almost a year of Trump 2.0: What’s it REALLY all about?

Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/after-almost-a-year-of-trump-ii-whats

this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken. “The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

Pro wrestler Mick Foley parts ways with WWE over its Trump ties, cites Rob Reiner remarks as 'final straw' The wrestling star, formerly known as Mankind, said, "I no longer wish to represent a company that coddles a man so seemingly void of compassion."

Legendary pro wrestler Mick Foley announces he's done with WWE for at least three years, citing the company's close ties to President Trump and his "incredibly cruel comments in the wake of Rob Reiner’s death."

I see this so often that I think it might qualify as a law:

The time people take to notice demographic trends is equal to the time required for the results to materialise.

In other words, however obvious the maths might be, we cannot or will not see it coming.

Image of Shax from Star Trek Lower Decks with the words "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Well we have corollary:

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare.

Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.

Getting big money out of politics.

Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages.

If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.

"Trump admin moves to keep fact-checkers out of the country" sounds like an Andy Borowitz bit but alas

Blatant corruption on full display.

I learned a lot about the tragedy of the commons when I minored in environment studies, but it has taken me decades to learn a corresponding amount about the tragedy of the uncommons.

How to Get Rid of "Citizens United" We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way

How to get rid of Citizens United?

We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment.

There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united

The EPA is starting to allow the use of pesticides containing PFAS on food.


The move is part of an effort to roll back the regulation of what are called "forever chemicals" because they don't break down easily in the environment.

How to Get Rid of "Citizens United" We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.

Intriguing!

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November 12, 2025 It turns out Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and House Democrats were right to call it the “Epstein Shutdown” for the last several weeks on social media and in interviews.

November 12, 2025

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

“A rising tide lifts all boats…”

So many hidden assumptions!

A rising tide lifts all sound (seaworthy) and prepared (i.e. not full of rain water, turned upside down, or sideways) boats that are actually in the tidal zone!

Have you ever even owned and cared for a boat?!

Metaphors bewitch you.

The University system doesn't have a left-wing bias, it has a 'open-mindedness to truth' bias, which it shares with left-wing politics. #Politics #Left #Right #TheSystem

Election Reform Turns Down the Temperature of Our Politics Politics isn’t working for most Americans. Our government can’t keep the lights on. The cost of living continues to rise. Our nation is reeling from recent acts of political violence. 79% of voters sa...

Between government shutdowns & extreme polarization, our politics isn't working.

#RankedChoiceVoting & #ProportionalRepresentation can push lawmakers to work together for all voters, healing our toxic politics.

More from Meredith Sumpter in @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social⬇️
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Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people? Does anyone work anymore?"

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

October 26, 2025 Economist Paul Krugman probably didn’t have the Erie Canal in mind today when he wrote about the rise of renewable energy, but he could have.

October 26, 2025

Another bit of good news -- clean energy stocks are significantly outperforming the S&P500, and outperforming oil stocks by even more

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

6. There is no such thing as free violence. All violence harms the wielder.

Every time someone tries to sell you on the idea that there is something we can do, without cost, that harms other people, realize that they are lying to you.

YouTube video by Science Fiction with Damien Walter The 7 science fiction books that ALMOST made me a believer

m.youtube.com/watch?v=1KUf...

I don't know half of these stories half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of them half as well as they deserve.

I take my science fiction seriously so I’ll rewatch soon.

Or maybe just buy a Do Immanentize the Eschaton T-shirt. Way less effort! 🤣

The 7 theological science fiction books you might like to read

via @damiengwalter.com

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1KUfWP7zC-I

Good write up.

But I think he meant inured rather than inculcated in that last sentence.