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Cameron Sparkles, PhD

@allegedlycam.bsky.social
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Historian of science and religion in a previous life. Author @Palgrave. Views mine. He/Him. Orange belt in Karate (2002). I'm big in Japan.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 6h
Good thing we didn't elect an insurrectionist, defund everything we needed to fight a pandemic, and basically put a mule-kicked alchemist in charge of our nation's health.
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Reports of a plague outbreak in Russia follow the death of a researcher
Several hospitals in the Irkutsk region have been shut down and up to 200 workers have been quarantined.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah, this may be it: 1989 Teamsters were put under federal oversight bc they’d been mobbed up forever. Ever since they’ve looked to Repubs to help them end the consent decree. Nothing was more important to them I looked, & sure enough, DOJ just ended federal oversight teamster.org/2026/09/u-s-...
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U.S. District Court Grants End to 37-Year Federal Monitorship of Teamsters Union
(WASHINGTON) – After nearly four decades, the U.S. government has officially ended federal monitorship of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, followin
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 03/10/2026
"Agency Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress. The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation's primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 01/10/2026
Another week, another “we’re vaguely familiar with the basic premise of the story while at the same time wilfully missing the entire point” moment
Screenshot:

Is this a 3D model?
@IsThisA3DModel

80% of the children who accepted Wonka's Golden Ticket died

Josh Daws
@JoshDaws 
Rejecting Al is like refusing Wonka's golden ticket.
Anything you want to, do it Wanna change the world?
There's nothing to it
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gosh, why wouldn't people want to visit the country that's disappearing and trafficking human beings every day
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anyone who, in 2026, is already saying “I don’t want to vote for Newsom but I will” is part of the problem. This man is a fucking monster and has betrayed everyone imaginable. He is unacceptable in every possible way. There is no world in which this piece of shit should be trusted with power.
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Cameron Sparkles, PhD @allegedlycam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just the softest, wettest boy.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We're seven months into losing a war that costs $100 million/day in military outlays and raised the price of gas $1.5/gallon. All we have to show for it is more radical Iranian leadership and a blown up school. "Just warriors" isn't working, bring all those other people back and put them in charge.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bluesky Rule/Law/Lore. Always always read a @sarahkendzior.bsky.social post. I urge you.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sen. Roger Marshall says he didn't have the pregnant patient arrested over a $50 late bill. THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS AND DEFAMATORY!!! He had her arrested for not showing up to court when he sued her for being late for $50.
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This child is 13 and was testifying without an attorney present. Monsters.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 28/09/2026
The mayor of Ithaca (my friend and former fellow PhD candidate in Government at Cornell) announces a moratorium on permitting Greek Life activities until Cornell produces new standards of addressing sexual assault.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In 2014, I interviewed a Columbia University student who went from class to class carrying the mattress she was raped on—a protest performance piece to remind college administrators what they put on her shoulders. Twelve years later, we still expect women on college campuses to carry that weight.
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Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
'Unrest' is some way to describe three children being murdered in their house after it was burned down by the UVF.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💥Ok I see other platforms are blocking this. I met Alex Gibney moons ago at ABCNY (the Association of the Bar for the City of New York). He’s the real deal. Here’s the trailer for Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk. Let’s Streisand Effect this: www.firstshowing.net/2026/must-se... 👋🎥
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Must See Full Trailer for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Doc About a Fraudster | FirstShowing.net
"Do we even know this man at all?" Bleecker Street has launched their main official trailer for the must see new documentary film titled simply Musk, about the uber-wealthy tech giant megalomaniac Elo...
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Laura @takeithandy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Would that be these police??
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We don't talk enough about how Russell Vought was given an entire chapter in Project 2025 to explain how he would do his part to wrest the entire Executive Branch into the President's iron grip as quickly as possible before anyone noticed static.heritage.org/project2025/...
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
my man went so rogue that he wrote everything out as a chapter in the single most influential document of the MAGA movement a full year before the election before sliding comfortably into exactly the position he was lobbying for after it
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The British right has now descended to the point where 'the England team are not English' is becoming the consensus position
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. (Published Jan. 2025)
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As shocking as this case is I know @czedwards.bsky.social is shaking their head at the same thing I am - this is some PISS POOR MONEY LAUNDERING. Check 1001 of a brand new account? Jesus we used to be a proper country.
A check made out for
$150,000 to Susan Collins’s
PAC, check number 1001
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.
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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thank you to everyone who has donated so far. We've cracked £4k so we're well over 1/3rd of the way there in 24 hours! I know I'm asking you to put your trust in me and @bristolantifascist.bsky.social, ao thank you. Every donation is a real, meaningful act of solidarity to a comrade and his family.
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Kapitalradio @kapitalradio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is an atrocity and these people need to be prosecuted now
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A cop in rural Texas pulls over a Latino. He demands papers; doesn’t get any. Arrests the guy, throws him in a local jail cell. Hours later, GardaWorld staff show up to put him on a bus with a dozen others. They drive him to the nearest ICE jail; a bus service for the machine of mass deportation.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Concessions don’t work. That’s why the State AGs need to take their case to trial. They've got the Ellisons on the ropes. Protect consumers and workers. Block the Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. Sign the Petition! noparamountconcessions.com
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#BlockTheMerger
Twelve state attorneys general sued to block Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Concessions don’t protect workers, consumers or creators. Tell the AGs to hold strong and take it to trial. SIGN THE P...
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is eugenics
Emily Hilliard, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed on Wednesday that the department had not yet made a decision about whether to provide the shots through that program.
Vaccines for Children provides free shots to children who are uninsured, underinsured or eligible for Medicaid, as well as to American Indian and Alaska Native children.
Pediatric doses are available for children who have insurance, or whose parents can afford to pay for vaccines out of pocket.
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Where did the sacred artifacts smuggled out of Nepal by Mary Slusser end up? One answer is... a flea market. I explain in this video.
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Return of the Living Dan @danlarson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Writers/Musicians/Artists told you from Day 1 that this was theft. Straight up. Always has been.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
My work Gmail has been spammed by AI agents who are pitching reporting and fact-checking assignments. As always, be assured that per @thexylom.com's generative AI policy, I instantly report these emails as spam; however, I assume other well-meaning editors like me are also under siege
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
according to politico, since Jan. 2025, Trump admin has deported 170+ people “in violation of court orders,” “in defiance of legally mandated due process protections,” or “to countries from which they had sought or received protection from torture and persecution” ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
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The Trump Justice Department Is Way Too Comfortable Violating Court Orders
Judges have tools for responding to noncompliance. They just have to use them.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If we are serious about a vengeance tour, every person who appeared in court, making this happen should lose their law license for good
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
promise kept
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026
True story.
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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New essay from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social: "I am part of a movement against AI. A movement for accurate history, environmental protection, and human dignity."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As a "businessman," Umar Kremlëv's major business lines including abducting children in Ukraine and bringing them to Russia, which the ICC declared a war crime.
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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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Cameron Sparkles, PhD @allegedlycam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When I was doing my master's in ethics one of the things we discussed was whether someone can lose their humanity. I'm firmly in the yes camp.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.
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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Also very curious how national news appears to be downplaying this attack in comparison to local news outlets.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is also what happens to news orgs when you fire all the actual power-critical journalists and replace them with either true believing bootlickers or people who are too green to understand what they are contributing to
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