Brian Wooley

Now that’s character

Thank you. That was more needed than I knew.

This is so lovely. And so needed.

Dick Cheney Doesn’t Deserve Your Heartfelt Eulogies Former Vice President Dick Cheney died Monday night. Now is not the time to whitewash his bloody legacy of war and destruction.

Cheney's "legacy of blood, destruction, and death, however, is one that must be accounted for, rather than made a footnote in the career of a so-called public servant."

♫ How do you solve a problem like Cthulhu? How do you catch Old Ones and pin them down? How do you even pronounce Cthulhu? I'm horrified as my shattering mind melts down! ♫

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

non-Euclidean clown posse

If Bluesky existed in the 1970s.

🎶 Boogie nights are always the best in town 🎶

@ Well, actually, I've had nights without Boogie that were very enjoyable.

@ Show your research. This is fake news. Typical CBS viewer.

@ How can you be talking about Boogie Nights when Kissinger is bombing Cambodia?

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. "Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

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"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands. Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."

Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...

NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.

We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:

While reporting this, we came across this ProPublica story from 2019 about a Border Patrol Facebook group.

Hardly any differences between this and other cop pages we've reported on. It's all the same dehumanization and racism, just different targets (w/ Chicago cops—usually it's Black people).

the Harvard Crimson called Epstein a “child sex offender” while the Chronicle of Higher Ed called him a “disgraced financier” and that pretty much sums up where we are with higher ed journalism

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

A still image of the character Roger De Bris from THE PRODUCERS with the caption: “Forgive the pun”

Bret Maverick cosplay?

After unprecedented autism-vaccine messaging change, scientists, advocates say CDC no longer trustworthy

Scientists tell Americans not to trust the CDC.

Instead of a global leader in science, the CDC has devolved into “a propaganda machine for RFK Jr.'s fixed, immutable, science-resistant theories,” said @pauloffit.bsky.social.

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ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

The law of conservation of fucks or something

It is particularly galling that Trump is calling for the execution of people who actually served honorably in the military, while he took a bone spur exemption and famously boasted that his Vietnam was dodging syphilis in 70s New York.

Just a historically loathsome figure by any measure.

I know I’m a libtard but I think it’s bad the U.S. president keeps calling for the killing of specific sitting elected officials who didn’t even commit crimes

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country

My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.

Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.

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Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

i only cook to make sure my smoke alarm works

Guy who almost joined military now enjoying career as ICE agent He may still join the military, but only after his mom gets back from Bingo.

NEW: Guy who almost joined military now enjoying career as ICE agent www.duffelblog.com/guy-who-almo...

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