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Trump and Kennedy launch unhinged anti-science tirade in autism press conference Monday’s press conference represents not merely a return to Trump’s prior medical quackery, but a deepening of what can only be characterized as a policy of deliberate social murder that has developed...

Trump and Kennedy launch unhinged anti-science tirade in autism press conference

Monday’s announcement reveals the administration’s willingness to terrorize pregnant women and families with autistic children to advance its broader anti-science agenda.
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Charlie Kirk and the concealed legacy of American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell If there is any individual whom Kirk most closely resembled, in terms of persona and political tactics, it is George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party in the 1960s.

If there is any individual whom #CharlieKirk most closely resembles, in terms of persona and political tactics, it is George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party in the 1960s.

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Sheesh. Why are so many people confused about what socialism means? It's not that hard, just ask any right-winger. It means anything capitalism does that they can't defend.

Can't disagree, really.

"The fight against censorship is inseparable from the fight against the system that produces it."

That'd be a first, wouldn't it?

Of course. I may arrange a tour and deliver the eulogy in many cities throughout the world. This may be the start a new career.

I am eagerly looking forward to the opportunity to write the obituary.

Zohran Mamdani and Elizabeth Warren in a campaign video.

The bulk of the party establishment opposes Mamdani not because it fears his mildly reformist program—on which he is already backtracking—but because his primary victory reflects a radicalization of broad masses.

After adjusting for inflation, the wages of sin is now a mild head-cold.

The first computer I used was an IBM 1620. The first computer I owned was an R2E XP3--solid steel case (built for CAM), and, check it out, A FIVE MEG HARD DRIVE!!!! Shown on the dust jacket of the hardcover of To Reign In Hell.

To be fair, I stole that from Clausewitz.

As soon as you get to "The victim is the lead's love interest" you know you're already deep into eyeroll territory.

The inability or unwillingness to accept that both of these are true causes immense confusion, frustration, and demoralization among many who fight for a better world.

Human thought is deeply conservative; it will struggle to resist any change in beliefs, attitudes, and habits.
Human thought is exceptionally volatile; under the pressure of events, it can overnight undergo fundamental changes in beliefs, attitudes, and habits.

No, it's from "Over My Dead Body."

"When an international financier is held up at gunpoint, Archie, he immediately hands over not only his cash, but his pants and his shoes. Because it does not occur to him that even a common thief would draw the line somewhere." -- Nero Wolfe

We’ve been asked to believe a lot of intensely stupid narratives throughout this genocide, but “it’s actually HAMAS who’s starving Gaza” has got to be the dumbest one yet.

I salute @kenwhite.bsky.social for his principled stand. So long as academia functions within a capitalist society, intellectual honesty and integrity will remain commodities for sale. The rare exceptions deserve our respect. The rest must be opposed on every front.

So much this. Thank you for the stand you are taking, and for expressing it so eloquently.

The leadership of Columbia University is contemptible Vichy scum. To its professors who stay: that’s who you choose to work for, the obeisance to totalitarianism you choose to promote? To students who stay: those are your values?

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Yeah. And my problem with women is that they're always so gender essentialist.

LOL

The worst thing about Millennials is they always making sweeping generalizations about people based on when they were born.

I'm so old, I remember when we'd talk about the weather to AVOID politics.

Mostly, it's just, "I could have tightened up that scene," or, "Dammit, that's the almost right word," and so on.

Yeah, also looking for loose ends that I feel like tying up, and bits of business that might be worth a callback.

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