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A fascinating portrait of a terrifying President. Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Battle for Self-Preservation

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This is a weird sort of Christmas card, I guess. https://medium.com/@benwerd/an-atheist-kid-at-christmas-b5951351f3ef

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Listening to KRCB North Bay because my sister is going to show up and sing on it tonight. http://radio.krcb.org/programs/north-bay-songwriters

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Sometimes, just sometimes, I want to set this industry on fire, make a Ben-shaped hole in the wall, and go running for the hills. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-07/silicon-valley-is-sneaking-models-into-this-year-...

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The flow of data is subject to trade rules - and therefore, NAFTA negotiations. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trumps-trade-deficit-obsession-could-hurt-leading-am...

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Another excellent episode of the Daily, interviewing that bigoted cake shop owner, and the same-sex couple he turned down. https://play.radiopublic.com/the-daily-GMB3yp/ep/s1!401740dd4524a43fc06a77c57c1125a861e7a460

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“Here, you shed your clothes and your inhibition, and there’s a rawness.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/technology/silicon-valley-esalen-institute.html

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While the Republicans deservedly implode, and while we fight this atrocity of a tax bill, the Democrats are readying a candidate who will win 2020 by winning back disillusioned working class people in economically unstable swing states, right?

... Right ...?

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I sincerely wish I could kill the part of my brain that tells me I'll never be good enough and reminds me all the reasons why. I think it's always going to be whispering at me somewhere in the background; the trick is to keep it there.

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Interested in getting into investing? Want to help create a more progressive society? New Media Ventures is hiring: http://www.newmediaventures.org/were-hiring-2/

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I so badly want this to exist. Join me? http://mailchi.mp/8e698d483056/were-halfway-there?e=5111f5c455

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Looking for a technical cofounder? Here's how I think you could go about it. https://words.werd.io/searching-for-a-technical-cofounder-7ffd401c04b4

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The Post sounds like a solidly good movie. Brave of this reporter to break the press embargo. https://medium.com/@SaraJBenincasa/an-honest-review-of-the-post-ca4026e3e430?source=linkShare-3b1640...

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The Daily continues to be excellent. The US has set aside $5M for payments to civilian casualties in the war against the Islamic State - so why has nobody been paid? https://play.radiopublic.com/the-daily-GMB3yp/ep/s1!7532ed751d08f20dc38f99f403e0474a76f3887d

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“We’ll unsubscribe you from our mailing list within ten business days” should be illegal. There’s zero reason to not do it right now, except that you want to keep spamming me.

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Dirty tricks are in play in the Roy Moore story. This is yet another example of why real journalism is so important. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic--and-false--...

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