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A NYTimes headline from last week: Kennedy Shifts Tone on Vaccines in Congressional Hearing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has sought to roll back longstanding vaccine policy, testified that the measles vaccine is safe and effective "for most people" and agreed it was safer than getting measles.
But the NYTimes said he shifted his tone!
One of those times we could use a functioning government, including a legit investigatory unit. www.cnn.com/2026/04/21/u...
Oh well.
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Sarcasm
I vacillate constantly about whether he's a true believer or a manipulative charlatan. Maybe both? Of course, the people ending up six feet under due to him and his ilk won't care about the distinction. Dead is dead.
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I don't always play, so a big ol' gap between when it was finally allowed and my first successful time makes sense.
Only online! Kinda Well-ish. 😄
I keep trying the ones that - well, excluding them is just absurd. LANAI finally got through today - first time.
This is so great.
This is so unnecessary.
I don't mean to be a snob, but if Nabokov used the word, I think maybe Spelling Bee could accept it.
The parent company - as so many papers - is struggling horribly, lots of layoffs, magazine outlets closing, because it has yet to find a workable, digital model.
This is not it. Get your shit together. We need our newspapers.
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The wide eyes, the string of saliva, the "Who just goosed me???" gape - best choice of illustration EVER.
"Bezos and two of the world’s other richest men—Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk—have clearly left the world of consequences behind. They float in a sensory-deprivation tank the size of the planet, in which their actions are only ever judged by themselves."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The wide eyes, the string of saliva, the "Who just goosed me???" gape - best choice of illustration EVER.
Man. I'm doing life wrong.
Putting this together with @adamkinzinger.substack.com's deep dive today into whether the US is worth saving - www.adamkinzinger.com/p/is-the-uni...
Good read, critical question. But does the answer matter, if no mechanism exists to reclaim the US - the world - from those who own it now?
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When Peter Thiel said, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible,” he wasn’t talking about your freedom. He was talking about his own. You don’t exist. When Musk took a chainsaw to the federal government as part of the inside joke he called DOGE, he did so with the air of a man who believed that nothing matters—poverty, chaos, human suffering. He was having fun. It didn’t even matter that the entire destructive exercise ultimately yielded no practical financial gains. For him, the outcome was a foregone conclusion: He could only win, because losing had lost its meaning.
Last excerpt - really, though, read this for yourself. How the hell we can possibly put this genie back in the bottle, I can't fathom. I *can* tell you hordes of bright minds have warned us for decades this was where we were going, and were written off as fringe hysterics. What now?
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It’s not that the wealthy become evil; it’s that their environment stops teaching them the things that nonwealthy people are forced to learn simply by living in a world that pushes back. When you can buy your way out of any mistake, when you can fire anyone who disagrees with you, when your social circle consists entirely of people who need something from you, the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark.
And more:
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"If everything is free and nothing matters, then the world and other people exist only to be acted upon, if they are acknowledged at all. What I’m talking about is a self-definition in which the individual grows to the size of the universe, and the universe vanishes."
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"Bezos and two of the world’s other richest men—Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk—have clearly left the world of consequences behind. They float in a sensory-deprivation tank the size of the planet, in which their actions are only ever judged by themselves."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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I found a customer service email. Which of course adds another layer/wait where a potential subscriber can be lost.
Book title saying “the case of the overcomplicated bong” and it’s a Nancy drew mystery and a girl is playing a bagpipe
Happy 420, fellow kids!
Welcome to the internet. 😄
Yeah, it's frustrating.
The parent company - as so many papers - is struggling horribly, lots of layoffs, magazine outlets closing, because it has yet to find a workable, digital model.
This is not it. Get your shit together. We need our newspapers.
5/5
For me, it's tax deductible. And for my work, I need as many news sources as possible. I have more impetus to fork over the money than most. So if I'm not willing to wield my virtual machete and hack my way through a forest for basic info, who's going to? And one more thought:
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Not naming them - this isn't about shaming, but about servicing subscribers *because you are flailing and failing and we are your lifeline*. Example: say how long a promo rate lasts. Basic.
This is one of the three largest papers in the state. Its usual sub rate is unattainable for most people.
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