Steven Pennebaker

This Is Fascism

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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Want more friends? A better social life? Be like my 85-year-old buddy Gerry Friendship falters due to the belief it should just happen on its own. The solution: make a conscious effort to be social

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arctic!

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Sisimiut Greenland

If you don’t understand Oklahoma, you can’t understand America A Black man like me is not supposed to love Oklahoma. But in studying my home state’s history of violence, theft and wild ambitions, I learned to reckon with its legacy

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YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury Rep. Stansbury: America has no kings

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She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election. How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.

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YouTube video by BBC Music God Only Knows - BBC Music

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YouTube video by MeidasTouch EXCLUSIVE: Governor Newsom ADDRESSES State and Nation LIVE

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Trump says he'd arrest Gov. Newsom It's the latest escalation in a simmering battle between the Trump administration and California.

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YouTube video by TelePearl "I am Steve" Jack Black - A Minecraft Movie FULL CLIP

alright, here we go www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLG8...

Falstaff!

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys TANK VS TESLA

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YouTube video by Screen Junkies Honest Trailers | Monty Python and the Holy Grail

and now for something completely different www.youtube.com/watch?v=2148...

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Trump & Deportations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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YouTube video by Associated Press LIVE: Mike Pence receives JFK Profile in Courage Award for Jan. 6 actions

Mike Pence accepting JFK Profile in Courage Award, about minute 34.
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rhubarb quick bread

miso chocolate chip cookies, nobody knows why

YouTube video by OK Go OK Go - Love (Official Video)

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Trump and El Salvadoran president Bukele are "powerless" to boost an innocent man from an El Salvadoran prison? how weak are these guys?

ideas? boingboing.net/2025/04/10/i...

Justices direct government to facilitate return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador - SCOTUSblog The Supreme Court on Thursday evening largely left in place an order by a federal judge in Maryland directing the government to return to the United States a Maryland man who is currently being held i...

the "no dissents" is encouraging.

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How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is c...

NEW: How Elon Musk’s SpaceX, a major military contractor, secretly allows investment from China.

Court records reveal execs there see $ from China as fraught but will let it in if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Caymans.

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YouTube video by Civic Media Gov. Walz in Eau Claire: "You're Not Overreacting" About the Threat to Democracy

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