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  • By “Personal Responsibility” We Meant “Impunity”

    Decades ago, people in Trump’s orbit, such as Roy Cohn and Roger Stone, taught him that rules are malleable, that winning is all that matters. Democrats, however, are by and large a party of rule followers. Despite being forced out of the race…

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  • Social Media and Me

    Twitter was my favorite social media site. It was a great way to stay up-to-date on just about anything. I could get news of all sorts there from big headline news to news for my relatively niche hobbies. I never…

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  • When Trump Invades Canada

    Get the women and children and the maple syrup to safety. Julie Nolke, Canadian When Trump Invades Canada (Julie Nolke)

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  • Will Republicans Steal the North Carolina Supreme Court Election?

    The State Board of Elections’s final count shows Justice Allison Riggs, the Democratic incumbent in the race, to be the winner, by a margin of 734 votes out of the more than 5.5 million ballots that were cast. But Judge…

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  • Mantracks

    Every Folding Ideas video that I’ve watched has been a worthwhile use of time, and his latest one about fake fossils is no exception. Mantracks: a True Story of Fake Fossils (Folding Ideas)

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  • Ecology & Climate

    It was in the midst of this cross-disciplinary ferment that it occurred to him that the people talking about ecology and the people talking about climate were talking about the same thing. It was an observation he apparently mused on…

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