Every so often on social media the question go around “if you lived in X period of time in history, what knowledge and skills would you still have that would be useful?” So in the information age of digital knowledge, what is that we know that will still be useful in the future?
Okay, don’t worry: this post is not about Rush Limbaugh or birth control pills. Alas! That stories so voluminously begun as the Chronicle of Limbaughpalooza 2012 (or Slutpocalypse Now) should come to so lame...
Good grief, but this is some extraordinary writing from Ta-Nehisi Coates: For an African-American like me, the upshot of all this gorgeous writing is bracing–one is forced to behold beauty in those who saw...
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Sometimes I’m overwhelmed with this sense that all of this is an exercise in futility – that there is simply too much to know, too much I don’t know, too much I don’t or...
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Cory Booker is doing the good old fashioned speaking filibuster: https://bsky.app/profile/andreapitz…
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25NYC Doctor shocked to find going on an anti-Semitic rant gets her fired from the Jewish hospital she… on Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came ForJews are the monkey in the middle as the Right and Left play a game of "No, you're the anti-Semite "… on Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came ForFor what it's worth, most American Jews do not want Khalil and other people detained and deported be…
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