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Phlegm of Discontent

@astronerd3e8.bsky.social
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He/him. Atheist, antifascist science nerd and beer aficionado. Jack of all trades and master of business administration. Some people call me Matt. Abolish ICE.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h
The GOP has put $2 million to this campaign, and the billionaires have put $23 million in. Their contribution is 92% of the money Tiffany raised.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Todd Blanche Stole the Justice Due Becca Good and Gave It to Katie Miller emptywheel.net/2026/10/02/t...
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Todd Blanche Stole the Justice Due Becca Good and Gave It to Katie Miller - emptywheel
When announcing the arrest of a guy who sent Katie Miller 40 mean messages, Todd Blanche claimed he would give everyone such protection. But a Klan Act lawsuit filed by Renee Good's family proves that...
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026
I keep seeing this Semafor graph that seems to show the Trump administration’s effect on international visits is comparable to the pandemic. My first thought was “that can’t be true” and indeed it is not. This is monthly data. We only have to Jun/Aug 2026. The lines are over-fitted to the months.
Semafor graph with catastrophic drops.
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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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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I might be a little less distrustful of AI if the dudes promoting it, supporting it, insisting on it, and advocating for it weren’t the worst fucking people on the planet.
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Phlegm of Discontent @astronerd3e8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is dumb. I'm not calling it that.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."
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Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ...
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t wanna hear SHIT about woke run amok when protesting genocide gets you banned from campus and sexual assault gets you an apology letter.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
I hope all the middle-aged women whose lives have been vastly improved by an ADHD diagnosis understand that we’re on the list after trans and autistic people. RFK Jr thinks we should be sent to camps instead of taking a daily medication to bring our dopamine pathways up to a normal level.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/09/2026
fb memories kicked up this @rsbenedict.bsky.social tweet from 2016
tweet from RS Benedict 

i drew a venn diagram explaining the Trans Bathroom Panic situation

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caption in red:
men who say people will pretend to be trans to creep on girls in the bathroom

caption in blue:
men who constantly fantasize about creeping on girls in the bathroom
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Phlegm of Discontent @astronerd3e8.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What a fucking embarrassment.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I don't have the energy to rebut everything in this piece, but it reaffirms the impression that these people did not know or care how government works and never bothered to find out. The reporter's framing is pretty credulous "many people disagree" with stuff that is easy to fact check.
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 21/09/2026
This is what happens when the commander in chief is a raving treasonous baboon with a half melted brain who rapes children. GET HIM THE FUCK OUT OF OFFICE!
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026
Why talk about how nuts the AI rationalist sex cult is, and not just focus on the (very real) risks and harms of AI? Well, when we're discussing "who should get to regulate AI, and how," I think it's VERY relevant to talk about the antisocial, unsettling ways many people running US AI think.
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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We're losing guardrails on the BLS, Census, and BEA numbers. I'm not alarmed yet, but if they give us reasons to not trust them, then the US joins a club with Russia, Argentina, and Venezuela. Great crowd platypuseconomics.substack.com/p/th…
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 15/09/2026
Truly incredible to watch a man with the emotional maturity of a three year old be the president of the United States. This is the pettiest, most unnecessary shit I’ve literally ever seen. He’s genuinely one of the most despicable people to ever live. I seriously hate him.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ouch.
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All of Ed Sheeran's Openers Abandon Tour After Macklemore Debacle
Finneas, Lukas Graham, and more have dropped off shows with Ed Sheeran after Macklemore was pressured off the tour after saying, 'Free Palestine.'
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Corporate Media would have crucified Hunter if he had a Russian oligarch pay for his wedding while Biden was president, but they will bury Donald Jr. doing it. Easy to become inured to absurd asymmetric accountability, but critical to hammer home to US that Corporate Media is biased for Trump.
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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Trump administration’s corruption is so massive it’s basically created a whole new job category: pardon brokers.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 15/09/2026
There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but a Russian oligarch bankrolling the wedding of the president’s son is the kind of story that should dominate headlines in any functioning political culture.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the sum total of Sam Alito’s jurisprudence on voting adds up to “You have the right to vote for a Republican and if you aren’t likely to vote for a Republican, then Republicans are allowed to disenfranchise you.”
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Meanwhile EPA says that regulating climate pollution is none of its business, but your uterus is www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump EPA Ends Climate Regulations for Power Plants
This is one of the administration’s most significant climate rollbacks.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/09/2026
Amid all the Republican pearl-clutching over election integrity, ERIC was the single organization best equipped to help states ensure exactly that. And suddenly MAGA Republicans wanted nothing to do with it.
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States already have a good way to ensure election integrity—and MAGA hates it
The rejection of ERIC by GOP officials has, ironically, undermined their own voting systems.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
why would you even care if you dog was autistic. like, even in a world where dogtism is real why would it matter if your dog had it. he’s literally just here to vibe.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A Far-Right International Is Assaulting Democracy MAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵
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A Far-Right International Is Assaulting Democracy
MAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism
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Phlegm of Discontent @astronerd3e8.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
That's how you do it.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/09/2026
it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 11/09/2026
We need to come up with a way to respect due process while also being able to throw guys like this in prison immediately and indefinitely without due process
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Look at this loathsome repulsive creature yelling at a reporter. In addition to the fact that he’s the worst president in US history, he’s one of the worst human beings on planet earth. His supporters have a very serious defect in their character.
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
TRUMP'S TOP 10 9/11 LIES Trump has lied incessantly about 9/11 over the years, above all glorifying himself. We shouldn't let his lies obscure the truth, or desecrate the day. And so, on Sept 10, here's a list of his top 10 9/11 lies over the years. 1/12 www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/202...
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Trump’s Top 10 9/11 Lies -
Trump’s Top 10 9/11 Lies - Until retreating to Florida in the face of criminal prosecution, Donald Trump was a lifelong New Yorker, and no event shook the city more than the 9/11 attacks that destroye...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump offers a bribe of $5,000 in exchange for votes, the bribe is promoted as a dividend and would cost $1.2 trillion dollars. This is a felony under 18 U.S.C. § 597, bribing someone to vote a certain way is a federal crime punishable by prison.
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Kristy Greenberg @kristygreenberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trump pardoned crypto felons and his family’s crypto bank is backed by the UAE’s national security advisor. Todd Blanche gutted crypto enforcement and disbanded DOJ’s National Cryptocurrency Enforcement team. Spare us the tough-on-crypto crime press conference. It’s a farce.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
1. Elon Musk is spending millions pushing Americans to VoteSafe, which bills itself as a voter registration site but is actually a digital surveillance machine.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 07/09/2026
A reminder on Labor Day that Reagonomics scam stole $79 Trillion from the bottom 90% and redistributed it to the top 1%, which is why wealth inequality now is worse than it was after the Great Depression. Stop defending billionaires. Start abolishing them. www.qasimrashid.com/p/9-facts-on...
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9 Facts on Labor Day Legacy Media Won't Mention
This Labor Day, a reminder that the USA ranks worse than Russia and China on economic inequality—without immediate change, we all but ensure economic catastrophe
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I guess I always thought if we had an Administration full of Nazis who support traditionally Nazi shit it would at least be a pretty big story
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This would have destroyed me as a kid. Reading was EVERYTHING. And not children’s books. Even at a young age.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Republicans had a conspiracy theory that the government covered up a lab leak. Now they are in charge, they have not been able to find real evidence of a cover-up, but are trying to prosecute scientists anyway. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/h...
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Inside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists
As Dr. Anthony Fauci has faced public scrutiny from congressional Republicans, the D.O.J. has pursued a quieter and more expansive effort against a wider circle of researchers.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026
trump has a fundamentally zero sum view of the world. if you trade something you are, in his view, losing something. there can be no positive sum gain.
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bergmayer @bergmayer.net · 04/09/2026
counterpoint: companies that bribed Trump including though bogus "settlements" should be criminally prosecuted and dragged through endless hearings pub.bluehorizonproject.org/p/democrats-...
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Democrats Should Focus Oversight Strategies on Trump
Democrats are strategizing about what their agenda should be if they are able to retake the House, or potentially both the House and Senate.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026
every single day elon musk says or endorses stuff on x dot com that is worse than any of the quotes they've pulled up for hasan piker and he will be the single biggest political donor in the entire country, supporting republicans up and down the ballot somehow none of them are asked about it
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Who benefits from cruelty toward Haitian immigrants? Not the economies in places where Haitians live. Not disabled people nursed by Haitians. Not even the haters. They gain nothing. Who benefits? MAGA politicians who exploit anti-Haitian hate to con people and steal from them. That’s who benefits.
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Haitians in Springfield are required to report to Ohio's ICE offices and wear ankle monitors • Ohio Capital Journal
Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 31/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: “Canadians are like the only people in the world who are going to preemptively apologize for something they didn't even do. So if you're starting a trade war with Canada, it's because you're the asshole.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026
you see, no one has standing when it comes time to sue the president because he is a very special birthday boy
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