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Scientist & engineer: ❤️ Theater, music, books, film, comedy, comics, cooking, art, history, social justice & a pluralistic democracy. “The whole entire world is a very narrow bridge, and the main thing is to have no fear at all” -Rabbi Nachman of Breslov.

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08.08.2025 20:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hey, it’s on Tubi! Thanks for the recommendation.

Apparently they have it dubbed in Spanish, but I speak Spanish so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(The Spanish announcer renamed it “The Legend of the Great Fighter” which seems like an odd choice.)

08.08.2025 18:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Friendly reminder that school administrators tend to take complaints from parents much more seriously than the same complaints from teachers. So if your kids’ school district is using PragerU stuff, please speak up.

08.08.2025 14:35 — 👍 2347    🔁 1499    💬 31    📌 27

As the piece notes, the PragerU propaganda is being used in schools in Louisiana, Florida, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Montana, Arizona, South Carolina and Idaho.

Check with your district to see if they're using this garbage to brainwash your kids.

08.08.2025 14:40 — 👍 3973    🔁 1886    💬 88    📌 71
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OutKick host celebrates WNBA sex toys pranks on Fox: ‘It’s funny’ and a ‘good time’ ‘I wish they would laugh about it’ and ‘embrace it,’ Dan Dakich declared on Fox News.

The same folks who kept saying they were really concerned about protecting women's sports when it came to trans athletes are the ones out here cheering on crypto bros tossing green dildos at female athletes because it's "funny" and a "good time"

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

08.08.2025 17:34 — 👍 155    🔁 46    💬 10    📌 6

“Right leaning educational material” is an overly polite and misleading term. They generate patently false and often outrageously racist propaganda.

08.08.2025 18:38 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

no more educational material for your children. just poisonous right wing slop.

08.08.2025 13:57 — 👍 9053    🔁 2637    💬 435    📌 188
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Every day I’m inspired by the bravery of these courageous ICE agents.

08.08.2025 16:10 — 👍 14957    🔁 4974    💬 931    📌 396
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we didn’t have to do this

that’s what I keep coming back to, over and over again, on subject after subject

we had a solution

we didn’t have to do this

08.08.2025 15:51 — 👍 1382    🔁 370    💬 47    📌 8
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Retreat in CUSTER'S LAST FIGHT (1912).

Custer was correctly viewed as a hot-headed fool immediately after his defeat but the hagiographic view championed by his widow had completely rewritten history and the film portrays him as a hero.

08.08.2025 04:30 — 👍 118    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 0

Odd, how South Park is covering Kristi Noem and her ICE hooligans more accurately than The New York Times.

08.08.2025 16:08 — 👍 27914    🔁 6786    💬 612    📌 255
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Who owns @propublica.org?
Spoiler: No one.

Consider a donation if you are able: give.propublica.org/give/346423/...

31.07.2025 17:57 — 👍 394    🔁 121    💬 10    📌 5
Public Shaming: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Public Shaming: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

For those just being introduced to either 1) John Oliver, or 2) John Oliver's thoughts on Leno, may I offer the following video.

The Leno part starts at ~12 minute mark, but the whole thing is worth a watch IMO.

youtu.be/Yq7Eh6JTKIg?...

08.08.2025 15:41 — 👍 365    🔁 32    💬 0    📌 9
 You’ve had success having a point of view on your show, as Colbert has, at least in the ratings. Late night used to be broad, unifying entertainment. I know Jay Leno recently spoke on this topic, about making a show for everyone …

I’m going to take a hard pass on taking comedic advice from Jay Leno.

You’ve had success having a point of view on your show, as Colbert has, at least in the ratings. Late night used to be broad, unifying entertainment. I know Jay Leno recently spoke on this topic, about making a show for everyone … I’m going to take a hard pass on taking comedic advice from Jay Leno.

John Oliver just says the thing. I'm happy for him.

08.08.2025 15:02 — 👍 6579    🔁 823    💬 2    📌 49

Again, anyone claiming how great crypto is really has to explain to the rest of us why it attracts the absolute worst human beings.

08.08.2025 15:13 — 👍 165    🔁 29    💬 10    📌 2

A key detail about Epstein that is missing in reporting about him: what was his legitimate business?

At most, he's vaguely referred to as a "financier". Okay, what did he finance? Was he a fund manager? What were the names of his funds? Where did his money come from? Inheritance? Limited partners?

08.08.2025 15:26 — 👍 948    🔁 255    💬 114    📌 40

Nazis did this and canceled pensions.

08.08.2025 01:43 — 👍 91    🔁 20    💬 3    📌 0

we all know that the proof for the administration that an institution is not implementing affirmative action will be the percentage of nonwhite admits. the lower the better. any more than a smattering of black and Hispanic students will be evidence of illegal discrimination (against whites)

08.08.2025 00:11 — 👍 4392    🔁 1161    💬 161    📌 52

…while they work relentlessly to get people they disagree with fired and fight for the right to deny service to minorities.

08.08.2025 13:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

once again, it is a core belief of people on the american right that it should be illegal for you not to like them or want to be around them or work with them

07.08.2025 23:53 — 👍 10374    🔁 1863    💬 255    📌 58

More than two weeks ago I called for Democratic governors to redistrict 30 Republicans out of their seats.

I stand by that.

08.08.2025 00:22 — 👍 5481    🔁 1442    💬 255    📌 75
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It’s on!

Prices are climbing, and the big question is—how much worse will it get, and when does it stop?

Trump’s tariffs are the highest in nearly 100 years. And the promise of a manufacturing boom is just a hope and a prayer when profitability is tanking.

No one’s going to invest in uncertainty.

08.08.2025 05:16 — 👍 2180    🔁 751    💬 157    📌 56
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The Rise of Silicon Valley’s Techno-Religion

Whenever wealthy people turn to a religion to justify their wealth, it always seems to boil down to eugenics. Weird.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...

08.08.2025 12:31 — 👍 277    🔁 46    💬 3    📌 2

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

08.08.2025 03:04 — 👍 18586    🔁 3869    💬 298    📌 233

Literally Andy Weir’s second novel.

08.08.2025 13:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He ABSOLUTELY plans to stay in power forever.

The only potentially saving grace here is that the man is a total imbecile so his plans may not come to pass.

08.08.2025 13:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

hell is empty and all the devils are here

08.08.2025 12:39 — 👍 1112    🔁 251    💬 21    📌 0
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The two planets will increasingly be 'moving' closer to each other over the next four mornings. Look out for them from 4am (BST) looking to the east. They're easy to spot. Very bright! #astronomy #astrophotography

08.08.2025 05:32 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
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A $200 million ballroom, and now this. He doesn’t ever plan on leaving.

08.08.2025 12:29 — 👍 11963    🔁 4849    💬 2007    📌 544

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