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Laoshi

@palecompanyn.bsky.social
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Teacher. Tabletop board gamer. Lover of languages, history, literature, art, music.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 5h
"The amount of fuel Russia could export is too small, the impact on pricing too slight, the narrative too late to shape electoral outcomes: This looks, instead, like something very different: an abrupt, Hail Mary attempt to force Ukraine to surrender" www.theatlantic.com/idea/2026/10...
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Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15h
There is, writes @davidfrum.bsky.social, an "implicit quid pro quo in these lucrative deals offered to Trump’s family and friends: If you compel Ukraine to surrender, we will enrich you beyond reckoning" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Trump Is an Easy Mark for Putin
The president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nyt had a zillion photos to choose from to illustrate the story of Sen. Marshall’s campaign not paying a cookie debt to a small Kansas bakery. And they chose the one of a guy who looks like he just got caught stealing a cookie from a small Kansas bakery.
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Laoshi @palecompanyn.bsky.social · 21h
@msnowcomms.bsky.social how does msnow square showing these same trump ads that its commentators all say are illegal? Now fed judge too! Remove them asap. Your hypocrisy is showing. Not a lot of trustworthy news orgs these days and this is a bad look. Taking money for state propaganda.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Whoever wins the governorships in the battleground states will certify the 2028 presidential election. There are election deniers running, in Wisconsin and elsewhere. We've got to beat them. My new NYT op-ed:
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Opinion | Want to Avoid Another Jan. 6? Defeat These Republicans. (Gift Article)
The 2028 election is on the ballot right now.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
Team of Mercenaries by @GrahamDavidA www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Trump’s Team of Mercenaries
People around the president are using their roles to cash in. They learned it by watching him.
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
American "free speech defenders" pressure other people not to exercise their right to free speech www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🔥 @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social : “THIS CITY WANTS ICE OUT. We do not need them to keep us safe. All they do is terrorize our city.”
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For the first time on record, a majority of Americans have not much/no confidence in the government to ensure food safety. news.gallup.com/poll/715430/...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
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Dead men tell no Epstein-Trump tales
When witnesses, whistleblowers and accusers die, it’s time to look at whether they have anything in common. Here is a list of some of the recent deaths.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump admin is suspending a bunch of tech companies (Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, Capgemini) from participation in the H-1B PERM program, alleging fraud. Some other tech firms (Apple, Amazon, Google, etc.) notably absent from the list.
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The Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program, alleging fraud
The Trump administration is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using H-1B visas, accusing the company of fraud.
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Laoshi @palecompanyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Laoshi @palecompanyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
An Infamous Traffic: Second Edition Big fan of the Wehrle oeuvre. Been reading about the opium wars. It looks perty. www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...
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An Infamous Traffic: Second Edition
A new edition of the acclaimed game of cutthroat capitalism in the nineteenth century opium trade.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine "have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner" reports @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This line by @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com might be the best short description of "originalism" I've read yet.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is just despicable by MS NOW, which has accepted stolen taxpayers dollars for 38 illegal ads. Give me a break with this bullshit statement too. So your hosts are on air all day saying this is illegal while you are taking the money and running the ads? Just gross.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 30/09/2026
School voucher advocates are exploiting the culture wars to promote the policy—and public schools can thwart that effort only if they resume their role in uniting students with a shared vision of America, Richard D. Kahlenberg writes.
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How the Culture War Put Public Schools at Risk
Allegations about “woke nonsense” imperiled a crucial source of Americans’ common identity.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 29/09/2026
🔊 Teaching children to code was meant to prepare them for the future. But AI is changing the rules. On this episode of The Big View podcast, Daniel Susskind tells Peter Thal Larsen why forecasting future jobs is futile and critical thinking is key reut.rs/4htvWJU
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PODCAST: The right way to prepare future workers for AI
Teaching kids to code was supposed to equip them for tomorrow. Then artificial intelligence came along. In this episode of The Big View, academic and author Daniel Susskind tells Peter Thal Larsen why...
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Laoshi @palecompanyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Straight up bribery
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As a reminder, she’s the Secretary of Education not the Secretary of Labor
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing
Dr. Oz on flight
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Watching David Olusoga’s excellent history of Britain’s slave trade, which begins in the 1500s and spools forward to reveal how much money was made by so many different people www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... B
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Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga - Series 1: Episode 1
David Olusoga reveals the new research that uncovers how the slave trade was driven by the monarchy, beginning with Elizabeth I, and how a royal monopoly was established.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war: With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, database shows. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war
With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 25/09/2026
"internal financial documents show that ticket sales steeply declined after Mr. Trump’s takeover of the institution, and plunged even further after his name was added to the building" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/a...
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Kennedy Center Shelved Repairs Now Cited for Closure, Whistle-Blowers Say (Gift Article)
In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"She *lived* for her job. "For 40 years. "And now it’s gone." -- Dave Barry, writing about how his wife, longtime Miami Herald sportswriter Michelle Kaufman, just got laid off by "two corporate guys she did not know, who did not know her." davebarry.substack.com/p/michelle
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Michelle
A tribute.
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Mr. Ron @mrrevron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is how stupid our moronic president sounds. What a total Idiot and disgrace.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A six year old does not deserve to be in poverty. Full stop.⁣ ⁣ Every kid in poverty is a policy failure. But since kids don't have separate incomes, you can't help the kid without helping the household they're in. That's the whole political tension. youtu.be/gL2kxIbPitU
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 16/09/2026
A motorist was arrested on murder charges after authorities say she slammed her SUV into a city bus in Los Angeles, killing at least two people & injuring six others in a prelude to a second deadly tragedy: the crash of a TV news helicopter that was covering the collision. to.pbs.org/4h4AK8o
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Driver arrested in a bus collision that happened before a deadly news helicopter crash in LA
A news helicopter used by NBC and Telemundo crashed in a Los Angeles neighborhood and burst into flames, killing three people while reporters were covering the collision of an SUV and a city bus, offi...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/09/2026
By the time of his passing on August 31, the 92-year-old had lived many lives—as a farmer, teacher, philosopher, environmental activist—and inspired several generations of writers, farmers, and advocates in turn.
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The inspirational life of environmentalist Wendell Berry
A prolific author, farmer, and lover of nature, he found joy in a world without end.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 09/09/2026
As Jacob Coxon prepared to exit Anthropic, the researcher issued a warning to his co-workers: “Like many of you I think that without international coordination we will incur a risk of causing human extinction. I’ve recently become more concerned about the degree and imminence of this risk."
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An Anthropic safety researcher resigned with a warning about AI to co-workers on Slack
In a message on Slack, Jacob Coxon told his colleagues that without more caution and cooperation, superintelligent AI created “a risk of causing human extinction.”
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Cassandra Jaramillo @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New reporting from my colleagues: Ectopic-related deaths in abortion banned states are increasing. One expert said deaths from ectopic pregnancies should “really be a never event.” www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yes, of course he's aware. Hello? www.citizen.org/article/dona...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trump: “we won the war, gas prices aren’t really high, we control the Strait” 🤥 Reality:
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Jena Nelson @jenanelson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is absolutely heartbreaking. OKC’s Vietnamese & Asian populations have so enriched the city, the state and its culture. Those responsible for this desecration are criminals and represent the worst of the worst. I look forward to supporting efforts to restore this memorial.
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Nate 'The Belated' Carney @inapproprinate.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
When they nuke Iran and Jesus don't come back And your son's still gay and there's no cheap gas When the vengeance of nations finally comes to port Will you be bitchin' 'bout men playin' women's sports I get weary I get nervous They hired a clown we got the whole damn circus
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The Nerd Reich
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
lol
A wikipedia page's recent edit history, all within the last half our or so, of people changing Lake Ontario's name to Lake America and then fighting over it, with one parenthetical reading "aint no one calling it that" highlighted
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Dun Jun @clustertuck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP Dolly Parton ❤️ Here's a lovely Dolly story: We worked together on "Transamerica." She told me that the bible passage that used to puzzle her the most was, "the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men." She said, "How the heck do you sin against the Holy Ghost, and-
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Laoshi @palecompanyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Sorta. I don’t remember Usain Bolt being carried off the field on a stretcher.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"In just his first week in office, Attorney General Todd Blanche has inflicted more damage on the norms and traditions of the Department of Justice than any Attorney General in the DOJ’s history."
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Blanche Is as Bad as We Feared He Would Be
His first week at the helm may be the most transgressive in DOJ history.
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