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TW: political. Lurker and dog person and husband and supporter of Ukraine and liker of conjunctions

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Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · 3h
Factcheck of Trump’s (Putin’s???) lies about Ukraine.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I think we should look at Scott Bessent's FinCEN decision as akin to Todd Blanche's bid to immunize Trump and the failsons. Even just Trump Org has hundreds of beneficial orgs. Imagine how many the crypto corruption has? Now, poof! All gone. www.fincen.gov/news/news-re...
fincen.gov
FinCEN.gov
Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is issuing a final rule that permanently removes the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to repor...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Charting the creation of Trump's Lysenkoism. To realize ‘a new golden age for science’, the United States needs open borders and must properly fund studies in the social sciences, public health and the humanities — not just research in technology and engineering. A blistering assessment from Nature.
nature.com
What’s missing from the White House plan for the future of US science
To realize ‘a new golden age for science’, the United States needs open borders and must properly fund studies in the social sciences, public health and the humanities — not just research in technolog...
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 29/07/2026
A decade ago, Facebook was so worried about rising misinformation that it paid various news outlets to hire writers specifically tasked with publishing Snopes-like fact-checks. Today, the company is leaping into bed with a purveyor of misinformation to toy with a tool known for getting facts wrong.
The top part of a Newsmax press release dated 28 July 2026 headlined "Newsmax and Meta Enter AI Content Partnership." The screenshotted text of the press release reads:

BOCA RATON, FL / ACCESS Newswire / July 28, 2026 / Newsmax Inc. (NYSE:NMAX) ("Newsmax" or the "Company") announced today that the Company has entered into an AI content partnership with Meta Platforms ("Meta").

Under the agreement, Meta will have access to Newsmax's digital news content. Meta will be able to draw upon Newsmax's significant current reporting as well as archived content across its platforms to support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices.

"Newsmax applauds the significant resources Meta is putting into AI to keep America at the forefront of this emerging technology," commented Chris Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax. "We are pleased to work with Meta to help ensure users have access to timely, high-quality journalism through AI technologies."
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I have been shouting this for a while now. The message to scientists: "Your funding is safe as long as your work, your institution or public statements remain acceptable to the Trump administration." This would go into effect BEFORE the midterm elections. 🧪 www.propublica.org/article/fede...
propublica.org
How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery
A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled th...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/07/2026
Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.
science.org
The Assault On Science Funding Continues
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is major attack on higher ed and a perverse narrowing of its purpose. newrepublic.com/post/213446/...
newrepublic.com
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
An understatement: The “call for the administration to de-prioritize “life sciences,” which encompass molecular biology, genetics and other fields in biomedicine, as well as clinical trials aimed at testing new therapies, raised alarms among biomedical researchers and academic medical centers.”
nytimes.com
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Less than 24 hours after RFK Jr. became health secretary, his press secretary delivered an order from him to the CDC: Take down your ad campaign promoting flu vaccines. That same day, the CDC reported flu-related ailments that season had killed 68 children — 11 that week alone — and 16,000 overall.
nytimes.com
Inside the C.D.C.’s Mad Scramble to Meet Kennedy’s Demands
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/06/2026
If someone from the FBI visits you about your algae posts the correct thing to do is to say you won’t talk with them. Please do not talk to the FBI. Like, at all. They have no sense of humor and they will take your stupid joke and charge you with lying to an agent.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 22/06/2026
Exclusive: The National Science Foundation is trimming this year’s budgets for hundreds of its traditional basic science programs by roughly 20% to 30%, even though its overall budget is down just 3%. scim.ag/4xY2KCm
science.org
Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say
Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Might be a hot take but I think Senators should experience consequences for lying
aap.org
Fact Checked: There Is No Link Between Vaccines and Sudden Infant Death
Extensive research and scientific review have found no evidence that vaccines cause sudden infant death.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
OMB is forcing “the Smithsonian to spend congressionally appropriated funding in a way that’s ‘consistent with the FY 2026 President’s Budget’ in order to receive it. The president’s budget differed widely from what Congress ultimately chose to fund.” www.notus.org/trump-white-...
notus.org
Trump Is Eyeing Control of Smithsonian's Budget
The administration is creating a conflict with how Congress intended its money be spent.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The push to cut funding from the National Academies of Science will involve illegally impounding funds on the claim that fringe Republican lawmakers understand what constitutes the “gold standard” for science better than the best scientists in America. www.aip.org/fyi/republic...
aip.org
Republican Lawmakers Suggest Cutting Off Funding for National Academies
A letter from 11 Republican representatives has caught the White House’s attention.
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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This is fucking insanity www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
insidehighered.com
Report: NIH, NASA Restrict Co-Authoring With Foreign Scientists
The National Institutes of Health and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are targeting collaborations between U.S. scientists and foreign researchers, Science reports.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Well, would ya look at that! NSF is going to send >10% of its current budget to industry (read: tech start ups) instead of universities…it’s as if the admin is trying to dismantle our basic science mechanism and use it as a start up fund for private companies 💁🏻‍♀️ www.nsf.gov/tip/updates/...
nsf.gov
NSF announces $1.5B NSF X-Labs initiative to pursue generational breakthrough science efforts
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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 01/05/2026
🧪 House lawmakers voted to cut NSF’s budget by 20%, a deep cut, though far less than the 55% slash proposed by the administration. NASA’s science missions face a $1.2B drop despite flat funding. The real worry is that OMB delays may stall new grants anyway.
nature.com
US lawmakers vote to reduce science spending — but reject Trump’s massive cuts
A draft bill would preserve NASA’s overall funding but downsize the National Science Foundation’s budget by 20%.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion. His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Neither of those calculations is correct. (It's a 500% increase and an 83.3% decrease.)
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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 10/04/2026
Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.
theunpopulist.net
RFK Jr. Lied His Way Into Office and American Health Is the Victim
He is pushing quackery as science as health secretary
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 02/04/2026
Trump was warned this would happen. He did it anyway. Now, over 10,000 Veterans lost their homes. 90,000 more are on track for foreclosure. On top of cutting jobs, slashing benefits and throwing our heroes into an unnecessary war. The most anti-Veteran President in history.
NPR: Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Somebody is making a fortune on the war with inside information and it is grotesquely corrupt.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New from me: by the end of the week, the war in Iran will likely have cost $25 billion, with Trump poised to ask for $200 billion more Below is a writeup, but the meat of it is this table, which shows what an equal amount of funding could cover domestically www.americanprogress.org/article/by-t...
What the cost of the Iran war could cover if used differently
Select services and how many more people they could support with funding equivalent to what is being spent on Iran war

Table with 6 columns and 6 rows.
People covered by Medicaid for a year	Children receiving free school lunch for a school year	People housed in Section 8 for a year	Children covered for year of child care	Adults with free tuition at community college for a two-year associate degree
$25 billion
Estimated likely cost of war as of March 26, 2026
3,106,000	29,614,000	3,147,000	1,780,000	2,865,000
$200 billion
Reported likely request for additional war funding
24,850,000	Every child in the United States, with >$170B left over	Every eligible person, with >$60B left over	14,237,000	22,917,000
One 30,000-pound bomb	625	5,925	625	350	575
One Tomahawk missile	275	2,600	275	150	250
One THAAD missile	1,575	15,050	1,600	900	1,450
One Patriot interceptor	500	4,850	525	300	475
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
So: The BEST possible reading for Mullin here is Mullin - nominated to be Secretary of Homeland Security - does not understand what "classification" means and confused "covered by an NDA" with classified. Disqualifying for that job. The alternative is he knew the difference and perjured himself
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 04/03/2026
Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Trump is draining the US’ weapons stock. Hope there are no more enemies anywhere.
wsj.com
U.S. Races to Accomplish Iran Mission Before Munitions Run Out
President Trump says the Iran campaign might last a week or longer, but dwindling stockpiles could limit his options.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
i really thought they called it operation epic furry
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups sued Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) for refusing to turn over key records related to his office’s sweeping 2025 voter roll purge — a purge that canceled nearly 471,000 registrations, about 6% of the state’s voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Voting rights groups sue Georgia for refusing to release voter purge records
Without full access to the records, plaintiffs say they cannot determine whether eligible voters were wrongly removed.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
#SOTU bingo @punchbowlnews.bsky.social punchbowl.news/article/wash...
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
If you exclude healthcare jobs, the US labor market has actually declined for the past 24 months straight. And the healthcare coverage cuts have only just barely started to kick in.
Graph

“If you exclude healthcare employment, the U.S. has actually lost jobs since 2024”

Cumulative change in payroll employment by sector (Thousands of jobs)

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

Healthcare & Private Ed. (Only increase, all the following sectors combined have seen decline:)
Leisure and hospitality
Construction
Government
Other services
Utilities
Financial activities
Transportation and warehgusing
Mining and logging
Wholesale trade
Retail trade
All Non-Healthcare Jobs
Professional and business services
Manufacturing
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 23/02/2026
I will vote NO on Trump’s tariffs when they come up for a vote in the Senate. Why on earth would I support a new 15% tax on virtually everything you buy? Things are expensive enough to begin with.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/02/2026
Trump: "I am allowed to cut off any and all trade…I can destroy the trade, I can destroy the country, I'm even allowed to impose a foreign country destroying embargo…I can do anything I want to do to them…I'm allowed to destroy the country, but I can't charge a little fee."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Undocumented immigrants don’t vote Trump was not “exonerated” re: Epstein The board of peace is a huge grift The Melania movie was a bribe You pay the tariffs The boat bombings are murder The ceasefire is not a ceasefire Ice is not targeting criminals And on and on
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“it’s always a choice when journalists decide to clean up quotes – or not. It’s always revealing which politicians have “uh” or “um” removed...For instance, how often does the mainstream media let Donald Trump’s words speak for themselves?" Today’s First Draft email, on the media's coverage of AOC:
zeteo.com
First Draft: AOC Under (Unfair?) Attack
Prem on how reporters and Republicans want to undermine Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's big foreign policy event, Jesse Jackson's death, and more fallout from the Epstein files.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!) This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 16/02/2026
(around an image of a masked ICE agent holding a gun) Republicans "One Big Beautiful Bill' nearly tripled funding for ICE. That money came from your benefits:

paid for by cuts to reproductive health care

paid for by cuts to Medicare & Medicaid

paid for by cuts to SNAP

paid for by cuts to clean energy projects

paid for by cuts to obesity prevention

paid for by cuts to disaster response

paid for by cuts to energy tax credits
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16/02/2026
They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
🎯🎯
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The U.S. Department of Defense has barred military personnel from enrolling in courses at many of the nation’s top universities, including Harvard, Yale, MIT, and Johns Hopkins. A leaked email is said to contain the full list of affected schools. Shared by MeidasTouch.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/02/2026
ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 13/02/2026
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
academic.oup.com
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Terrible. The bill now goes to the Senate. Make those calls. 202-224-3121 www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
nbcnews.com
House passes SAVE America Act, sending Trump-backed election bill to the Senate
The legislation would overhaul federal election laws in all 50 states by imposing new voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements. But it faces a daunting path in the Senate.
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Wes Bos @wesbos.com · 12/02/2026
Thought y’all would enjoy. Yesterday over on x: They removed dim mode because the overhead of CSS variables was too much AI will skip coding and write binaries directly by end of year
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11/02/2026
So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
washingtonpost.com
FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine
The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 09/02/2026
I didn't have TikTok on my phone when it was Chinese spyware, I'm not going to have it on my phone when it is US spyware
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
That highly classified whistleblower report Tulsi Gabbard covering up? Guardian reports it’s an NSA intercept of a call between a close Trump associate and “an individual associated with foreign intelligence.” Sounds similar to Trump’s campaign chair meeting Russian intel and sharing data in 2016.
theguardian.com
NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
So incredibly racist. Would be a huge scandal for any president where everyone in the world didn’t already know he was a horrible human being with no moral compass.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Moderna announced that they’re cutting back late-stage vaccine trials due to the uncertainty in the US market www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emergin...
cidrap.umn.edu
Moderna chief: Company won’t invest in new late-stage vaccine trials
Moderna has already been facing declines in sales after a boom during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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