Richard O'Brien @paypath

Believer in justice for all. Feeling grateful and obligated to improve myself & the safety of systems that impact daily life/Optimist Chicago Joined March 2009

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Brian Allen @allenanalysis

a month ago

🚨 JUST IN: Senator John Thune just blocked Trump from making recess appointments by forcing the Senate to stay in session every 3 days. No recess = No end-run around confirmation. Trump wanted to flood the government with loyalists during the break; judges, cabinet picks, and…

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derek guy @dieworkwear

a month ago

Worse still, they can't be easily repaired. Pure cotton jeans can be patched or darned when they develop holes. While you can still do this with elastane-blended jeans, the repair won't hold very long, so the cost is not worth it. The jeans eventually end up in a landfill.

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Mitch Presnick 柏力 @mitchpresnick

2 months ago

Calling China a “near peer” or merely a pacing challenge in tech is pure nonsense—especially when you factor in relative momentum and the projected returns on current investment. Here’s the reality: China is outpacing the West in almost all areas of technological advancement,…

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Shaun Rein @shaunrein

2 months ago

I'm angry. Intellectually I've railed against America wasting money on wars rather than on roads, hospitals & education in the US. But it was all intellectual - I haven't spent more than 2-4 weeks in the US in a year in 25 years But I have the last month. I've experienced…

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Kiryu @Kiryuok

2 months ago

If you’re a Democrat getting outflanked on Israel by Marjorie Taylor Greene you need to reconsider everything about your pathetic fucking life

The Resonance @Partisan_12

2 months ago

If you’re a Democrat getting outflanked on Israel by Marjorie Taylor Greene you need to reconsider everything about your pathetic fucking life

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Johannes Maria @luo_yuehan

2 months ago

Is there any country besides China where so many people in numerous cities dance joyfully together?

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William Huo @wmhuo168

2 months ago

China’s been quietly terraforming the Sahara for over a decade. No Western outlet thought it mattered. Welcome to Exhibit Q17. Africa leads the largest mobilization in history ― 8,000 km, 11 countries and 100 billion trees share.google/JmH64tmGID05dD…

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Professor Peter Arenella @arenella1

2 months ago

When I was a teenager in the early 60's, I experienced discrimination first hand as white antisemitic bullies mistakenly thought I was Jewish so they took pleasure harassing me physically. That experience prompted me to take racial discrimination against the few black teenagers I

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Leisha @LoneStarChica

2 months ago

I’m just a South Texas woman who’s busted my tail, stretched every dollar, and still believes Texas can do better. I’m tired of politicians who only listen to billionaires and consultants. We need someone who knows what it’s like to live in the real world—not just campaign in…

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Leisha @LoneStarChica

2 months ago

Just one lifetime ago in the United States, our grandfathers could buy a home, buy a car, have 3 to 4 children, keep their wives at home, take annual vacations, and then retire… all on one middle-class salary. What happened?

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Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw

2 months ago

We fought the good fight from emoluments to impeachment to criminal prosecution but Congress failed us and the Supreme Court has been fully complicit. We must keep invoking the lower courts’ fidelity to law but will need massive political mobilization. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/its…

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Brown Eyed Susan @smc429

2 months ago

Once Ronny Jackson said Trump had "2cm of his ear blown off" to a high powered bullet, uncovered it after 3 days of "bandaging" and there were no marks, EVERYONE should've started asking questions. Instead, they cowered. They pretended it made sense. Well, it doesn't.

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tern @1goodtern

2 months ago

I think people have forgotten how empires work. Ukraine now has a flourishing military and a flourishing arms industry. If we let Russia conquer Ukraine, and that's the direction we're heading, then soon we will be facing both Russia AND Ukraine.

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James F. Love IV @JamesFLoveIV

2 months ago

I’ll just leave this right here…

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Stevie_Wonder @StevieW64261083

3 months ago

@carollemieux @atrupar

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Lindsey Boylan @LindseyBoylan

3 months ago

Starting my day of fighting back and fighting to win @dreamfornyc

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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK @doctorow

3 months ago

Back in 2006, AOL tried something incredibly bold and even more incredibly *stupid*: they dumped a data-set of 20,000,000 "anonymized" search queries from 650,000 users (yes, AOL had a search engine - there used to be *lots* of search engines!): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_searc… 1/

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Steven Cotterill @socialiststeve6

3 months ago

After almost 30 years teaching in the U.S. I'm convinced that what passes for education is nothing more than nationalist indoctrination into a life of unquestioning obedience to capitalism, consumerism, militarism, and buying into the fantasy that we live in democracy.

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Claire Lehmann @clairlemon

3 months ago

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Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital

3 months ago

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Aodhán Moran @aodhanpmoran

3 months ago

“The replacement of beauty by comfort and efficiency, the de-poetization of man's life, brings about a dehumanization, a human atrophy, even if the average man is not aware of it.” – Dietrich von Hildebrand