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@drsicknellers.bsky.social

Footy enthusiast, CFB sicko, occasional academic

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President Trump will welcome authoritarian leader who ordered dismemberment of journalist and coddle him with presents. Fixed that for you @nytimes.com.

18.11.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that?

MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement

STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement

01.10.2025 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 22250    πŸ” 6947    πŸ’¬ 1748    πŸ“Œ 670

Alternatively, his mere proximity will sunburn an untold number of Brits

01.10.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is it Dab-over at Clemson?

20.09.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just a reminder - you don't *have* to post anything

10.09.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 464    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3
"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued.
"If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

The New Yorker asked me β€œhow bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

08.09.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 9050    πŸ” 3482    πŸ’¬ 132    πŸ“Œ 120

skeets you can hear

07.09.2025 03:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They believed no big news would happen, because Nick Castellanos hadn't hit a home run in a while. But they were all of them deceived, for another Castellanos was made

30.08.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 902    πŸ” 133    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2

πŸ₯ΉπŸ₯ΉπŸ₯Ή

30.08.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"These devastating reductions will result in an estimated 18 million children losing access to free school meals." good Lord

11.08.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 219    πŸ” 107    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

I have friends everywhere…

03.08.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Obviously this is part of a long running rise in anti-intellectualism, but I will never understand how things like cancer research became a partisan issue. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

21.07.2025 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whew…doesn’t get much worse than that

12.07.2025 02:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nah we still out here

12.07.2025 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reading this as β€œless tethered to reality”

07.07.2025 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.

NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.

By Anas Baba

06.07.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3803    πŸ” 1802    πŸ’¬ 103    πŸ“Œ 165

good for them and would love to see more bands do this.

30.06.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

26.06.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 11072    πŸ” 4431    πŸ’¬ 205    πŸ“Œ 735

How do sycophants like this sleep at night? Say things like this with a straight face? I’m no saint but I can’t imagine being this morally bankrupt.

22.06.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

22.06.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 36838    πŸ” 7808    πŸ’¬ 395    πŸ“Œ 309

No. 2 here is such an important point that gets glossed over all the time. It is literally programmed to generate β€œC” work.

21.06.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah this summarizes the issue pretty succinctly

08.06.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post to the subreddit r/AskHistorians:

What was navigation like for vehicle drivers in the United States before the internet and
GPS?

Before GPS devices and smartphones/cellular internet networks were a thing (Garmin company was founded 1989), millions of Americans were already getting around driving without the use of those inventions. How did they navigate? Did everyone need stacks of maps? Were drivers frequently lost? Did everyone have to understand the interstate system and use intuition to guide them? How burdensome was driving before GPS? Did drivers pay people to calculate an optimal route for them?

Post to the subreddit r/AskHistorians: What was navigation like for vehicle drivers in the United States before the internet and GPS? Before GPS devices and smartphones/cellular internet networks were a thing (Garmin company was founded 1989), millions of Americans were already getting around driving without the use of those inventions. How did they navigate? Did everyone need stacks of maps? Were drivers frequently lost? Did everyone have to understand the interstate system and use intuition to guide them? How burdensome was driving before GPS? Did drivers pay people to calculate an optimal route for them?

I am officially one of The Ancients, Keeper of Knowledge of the Before Time

04.06.2025 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 6423    πŸ” 1104    πŸ’¬ 890    πŸ“Œ 1842
20.05.2025 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Truly the dumbest timeline

15.05.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And what are they getting in return?

11.05.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not my father-in-law wishing my sister-in-law β€œHappy Dog Mom Day” in the family group chat, like that is in any way equivalent to my wife being the mother to his only grandchild πŸ™ƒπŸ™ƒπŸ™ƒ

11.05.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pursue your passions the same way a food subscription service pursues a customer that’s recently cancelled: to the ends of the Earth

07.05.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Put it in the Louvre

03.05.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hmmm, doesn’t seem ideal

28.04.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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