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The current definition of pro Americanism seems very anti Christian and anti Capitalist to me so I cannot compute this.

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How do I know you are a federal agent? (Oh, and when did I consent to caring about whether you or another attacker are one?)

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you might want to correct the typo 'topic' vs 'top' in this passage: "The conventional understanding is that there is a hierarchy of authority, with constitutions at the topic, followed by statutes, rules and regulations, and then common law"

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Molly, you are too smart, and the daughter of too smart and influential a person, to use initial caps for a non proper noun such as 'tariffs' as this 'president' does. I suspect you have people who will hopefully read this.

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pallet vs palate has joined my long list of word conflations that irritate me. An unusual volume of usage of pallet to mean palate in my feed in the last few days. Below is a pallet factory. Palates have to do with taste. oxnardpalletco.com

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Oxnard Pallet Co. – Oxnard Pallet Company

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Right wing American Catholics *should* reconsider whether they are Catholic. Lifelong Catholic and very flawed attempted follower of Christ here. Franciscan Richard Rohr is my most solid anchor. I appreciate our last two popes directionally.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Well now it is clear. Vance questions mayo on fries. And he met with the pope the day before said pope died. It's a war on *my* culture.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Democratic Socialism is sweet and well intentioned but does not work. It creates an apparatus ripe for an autocratic demagogue to take over, use, and destroy. Not both-siding here. No siding here.

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Sterling Dodge (aka Justin Eger) @fugitivecourier.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Most people hear "factory jobs" and think "1950s economic prosperity," which was only possible through strong unions. The GOP says "factory jobs" and means "1880s corporate dominance over the working class." Recognize the difference.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

One of the many incredible quiet things my recently late husband Paul Boutin did that few realized was to act as the English language editor for Vladimir Bukovsky's massive Judgment in Moscow indictment of western complicity in Soviet war crimes. www.powells.com/book/judgmen...

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Judgment in Moscow Soviet Crimes & Western Complicity | Powell's Books

Bukovksy's Judgment in Moscow (updated in 2001), details Soviet meddling in Western politics in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the activities of the USSR in the Third World and the regime's suppression o...

cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

for those that knew or cared about Paul, I do have a document with details about funeral and burial and where to honor him with charities. It's too private to post publicly here, but DM if you would like it.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

nothing new. Tesla roadsters were infamous for getting bricked and unrepairable when their new tech money owners took off for a few months to go work in Japan or whatever. And my newly deceased husband who worked with Eberhard at NCD 94 and wrote the first mainstream article reviewing one called it.

cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Yes. His wife here. He passed from an extremely aggressive cancer Saturday night and everyone is shocked and in mourning. We will have notices out with service details in bit thanks to our great friend Owen Thomas taking the lead. Others are compiling his best music and writing over decades.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I will probably not be posting much for a while here as my absolutely one of a kind rehusband Paul Boutin passed of a suddenly advancing cancer last night. Polymath musician engineer journalist and generous to a fault.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Nations are fictions of the powerful marketed to the masses via music and sport

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Not Barbie Ken like Newsom

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Angus is a good, principled, forward looking man whom I had the pleasure of interacting with 20 years ago. As much as I hate government, as long as we have one, this is who I want in it.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Christian Nationalism is an oxymoron. There, I said it. The rot at the core of Protestantism, and Constantine, to begin with.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

So no one will fondle my then 20 something ass at a conference like he did in 1996 or so sitting next to him at his Network Computer launch? True story. Also, he should read some Floridi for the basics of the number of bits to record all the bits.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

very conflicted here. My purple heart wwII vet father died of cancer in 1983 at a VA hospital after months of care. Vets deserve this care — but we need to work for a world in which young people don't get damaged for old people's wars. Yet we have a debt to those who have had their youth stolen.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

there are signups for protests? that is some police state stuff right there.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I would feel a traitor if I’d agreed every time I’d had serious professional advice to go by Chris instead of the full name of my 500 years of documented Christina ancestresses. But each person’s choice is their own. The assumption here about Jay is unconscionable on the part of the letter writer.

cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Both of them are self serving and corrupt. Stop passing legislation that makes it hard to maintain and transfer existing housing and be a small time builder, landlord, host, or homeowner in California.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

slate.com/news-and-pol... Props for Vidal vs Buckley reference in first few sentences. I doubt most readers would get it without clicking through. Even then. Shelf full of Vidal here. Best American antihistorian ever.

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Something Vital Is Missing From Our Discussions of Charlie Kirk’s Death

Hasan Piker sees how we got here.

cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Reciprocal ratings are breaking a lot of systems. Along with collaborative filtering, the most backfiring shallow concepts of our age.

cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I keep being amazed by the ignorance of AI before and other than LLMs in the mainstream discussion. Not much more than an amateur coder but 3 decades of data product leadership and former exhibiting artist working with gen AI now. Surprised daily by ignorance of cyc & autonomic computing history.

cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The sentiment is correct here - we should mourn anyone assassinated in cold blood - but this is what is wrong “to put principle and country before fear and tyranny.” ‘Principle’ and ‘country’ will forever be opposed. ‘Country’ will always lead to fear and tyranny. We are seeing the zero sum.

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One of the more astute takes in the recent fog

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Once upon a time, as a baby anarchist, I used to say all governments were unjust, but the US was the least so. No more.

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and to be clear to the short attention spanners here, I read it cover to cover, from sincere interest.

cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

your book is genuinely good and any social media nonsense about it or you is nonsense.

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My mother was live in help with me around ‘86 for a gentleman born 1916 who was a polio survivor. He had a good life, became a local official, two marriages, children, swam everyday - but not a normal life - a walker and cane from childhood, considered himself lucky to live at all. We need vaccines.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

c4ss.org/content/31283 to the point. Labor unions are misunderstood today because they have become legalized and hence enmeshed with government. But an association of workers is just that. Especially in an era of monopsony.

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Labor Day Retrospective: Liberty in the Workplace and Labor Unionism

Labor day has come and gone. In spite of the fact that it was made a Federal holiday by a president who used government power to crush the Pullman strike, it’s still worth using it as an occasion for ...

which is like <2% of the anthropocene

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My father was an obsessive reader who died a few months before I turned 9. Our best times were taking our library books to read together Sundays.

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why is this even a state matter?

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Born in Europe in 1974 to a European woman who was seriously damaged by being a 6 yo watching Nazi war crimes and an American father who was an officer in the final push in 1944 in Italy ww2 has been more of the background of my life than other gen xers. Unfortunately nothing now surprises me.

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America earlier: "One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police" "White nationalists pervade law enforcement 10,000 family dogs killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic") "Police solve just 2% of all major crimes "NYPD Costs $10 Billion a Year "50% of municipal budgets

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Things that make you go huh 🤔 Chico spends 48.7% of it’s budget on the Police Department. By comparison, NYC spends 7.7%, Los Angeles 25.5% and Chicago comes in high at 37%.

Posted in r/ChicoCA by u/StandUpChico • 807 points and 491 comments

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

A very basic test of Trump's justification for sending armed officials into DC (to reduce crime) is whether its residents feel safer or not. They do not. They are not going to public spaces. They are not going to restaurants. They are more afraid of the occupiers than risks from crime.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

UFW is the only caller for donations I always give to. However it was sad that a caller from Minnesota for them last month did not know the city name Bakersfield - UFW’s home city and home of Cesar Chavez. I gave anyway because they do feed us.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

I decided at 16 to never participate in a 401k or other US gov ‘protected’ retirement account. BC I assumed the US would not exist by my retirement. Social Security not optional - have been contributing since I was 6 as a child actress supporting parents. But this end of humanity cult is different.