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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I can't comment on this post because I'm too busy watching tv.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We're gonna need a bigger boson.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Remember when Trump looked cheap for serving cold McDonald's burgers to athletes at the White House? Now that would still be degrading, but not cheap.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

After all the clergy work on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (which ended last night), I heard a rabbi this morning call today Yom Kaput.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The weird thing about social media is that so many other people sometimes see the conversation. It seems worth considering the support they may feel if, for example, you publicly contradict a hateful post, even knowing that you're not going to change the OP's heart or mind.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I was fully vaccinated against measles when I was 1 and again when I was 17, and I currently have no immunity based on recent titers. I don't know if a new series of 2 doses will work, but the once and done for a lifetime idea clearly isn't universal.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

People do this a lot more than they used to. I don't know if a deposit that is only refunded if you show up fixes this behavior.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

By the end of the IEP period, student will successfully cross the street 80% of the time.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I haven't seen that before. Maybe they are currently ambulating or riding in an ambulance? Or they signed their name for ambiance? Is expressing ambivalence the opposite of sincerity?

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

As someone who wants Republicans to have fewer votes in the Senate, I am glad they are not replacing McConnell. A Republican senator who cannot show up to vote is better than one who can.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm going to need 100 more televisions.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Then you'll have to go twice.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

An amorphous syndrome also allows health insurers to deny paying for tests and treatments.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I used to buy those from ULine, but stopped buying anything from ULine some years ago when I found out they were major fascism funders. These days the fold-ups often seem to be more expensive than boxes of equal capacity. If there's a good non-ULine source, huzzah!

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

If McConnell were facing the questions, there wouldn't be the questions.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Pretending McConnell is still alive and able to hold office is a dry run.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Today's phone call to Infantino: "I just want you to find 11,780 more goals, because we won the game."

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

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‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

There are zero unstructured public safe spaces for kids once they are past playground age. My kid's school is petrified of kids talking to each other without an adult listening in.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Trump: "What these terrible Vandals have done is a true affront... They took some form of knife or blade, and put a 250 foot long gash..." Cameras did spot the vandals.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This is really exciting. Could this same approach work against IBD (Crohn's, UC) or RA similarly to a JAK inhibitor, but with less risk of infection or malignancy? I don't know if those risks are raised because existing JAK inhibitors are insufficiently specific.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Have we signed the Iran surrender yet?

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Even money that Trump orders the workers to remove the entire name of the Kennedy Center, not just his name.

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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Always remember that the coup never ended. This un-American action, that would imprison everyone involved in a normal and functioning government, should disqualify all involved.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

My kid's favorite cookies were neckerhoodles for a time.

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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Sadly, every word is true. The American experiment is over. Killed in the middle of Fifth Avenue and no one in power blinked an eye to stop it.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Very much. He really enjoys a weekly Torah study, and loves watching the Simpsons, so it was an excellent blend. And of course skipping out on English class was a bonus.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

That session was really fun!

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Thank you for spotting that! I am pulling my kid out of school to listen to it.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I can't make heads or tails of these instructions.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026

felt like there was not much reporting on Trump's investigation of Yale Med School, and the reporting that did exist undersold how batshit the investigation is I have attempted to remedy these errors ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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Trump DOJ: Yale’s Medical School Has Way Too Many Black Students

The administration’s view is that the mere presence of students of color at Yale Medical School proves discrimination against white people.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

This is exactly right, with one caveat: the reason "no it'll never fucking happen" is there (I bet) is to try (probably not successfully) to stave off dozens of annoying people replying just that. Except that impossible things become possible all the time, and it starts with saying what should be.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I wonder who will be the 3000 this time.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Roberts should be in jail for this.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Jewish tradition says we shouldn't do that. The orthogonal question of how we fight or accept death should not be a response to only certain people, no matter how many times we do that to disabled people. I don't disagree with fight/accept being a question. I disagree with raising it as a response.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Sure, but that inherently requires judgments and assumptions about which are natural processes of life, and who should receive supports (medical, surgical, social, research) and who should not. Here are vulnerable people being denied research and medical supports we provide to others. My own...

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Wow. My takeaway from the article was that the US doesn't care enough about disabled people or aging people to figure out how to support them, especially when those conditions intersect. Your response is we should accept death rather than care or try to do better? I set before you and all that?

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Like or comment if you also have total control of the Strait of Hormuz.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/04/2026

A new investigation from ProPublica and @frontlinepbs.bsky.social examines federal agents’ response to protesters and bystanders at the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps. “We see, just, use of excessive force after use of excess force,” one expert said.

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A Protester Threw a Snowball. Federal Agents Responded With Tear Gas and Pepper Balls.

A new investigation from ProPublica and FRONTLINE examines federal agents’ response to protesters and bystanders at the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps. “We see, just, use of excessive force...

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Doesn't feel very micro to me

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I use gotprint for a lot of collateral, though I haven't done booklets with them.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Were we not paying attention when the Republican party was auctioned off? Did our alarm not go off that day? Because it's certainly been going off for the past 11 years.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The US far exceeds Russia in total wealth, GDP, and number of billionaires. How did we let Russia outbid the US for ownership of the Republican party?

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Vancesplaining Catholicism to the Pope is peak mansplaining.

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Michael @cascadilla.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

While dismissing morality, JD Vance has been establishing a Christian supremacist government. It's the opposite of the separation of church and state valued by JFK, who rejected both a Christian supremacist government and political control by the Pope. www.americanyawp.com/reader/26-th...

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John F. Kennedy on the Separation of Church and State (1960) | The American Yawp Reader

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