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Kurt

@cursedkurt.bsky.social
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Research Tech. Cat dad. Tired. I usually don’t post on social media but I’m going to try and be more active here. He/him, opinions expressed are my own

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
bootlicking will not save you.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/08/2026
The doctor who claimed that vaccines cause autism lost his medical license for faking for the study. But his lies and the damage he did to public health persist long after his paper was pulled. This is why science communication is so difficult; all it takes is one grifter.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It continues to fuck me up that we stay thinking about 9/11 but want to memory hole Covid so bad we're destroying the entire concept of public health in the US.
In the United States, there have been 103,436,829[3] confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,238,563[3] confirmed deaths, the most of any country, and the 17th highest per capita worldwide.[43] The COVID-19 pandemic ranks as the deadliest disaster in the country's history.[44] It was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer.[45] From 2019 to 2020, U.S. life expectancy dropped by three years for Hispanic and Latino Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for White Americans.[46] In 2021, U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 rose,[47] and life expectancy fell.[48]
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/07/2026
You would say, "they pointed a gun at my head and said 'your money or your life' and so I gave them the money." And almost nobody would say "oh, so it's 'he said/she said'" or "well, so there's no EVIDENCE he was a thief."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I wrote about the irony of Platner and his campaign trying to convince journalists, commentators and voters that they had outsmarted the trappings of traditional masculinity, only to come crashing down as a result of it:
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We didn’t need a rape accusation to know Graham Platner was unfit
Despite months of red flags, his allies insisted he was the vision of positive masculinity the party needed.
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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Dom: Tolkien fought in the bloodiest battle in human history, and he wrote The Lord of the Rings, which is very idealistic. Martin fought in...no battles. And wrote Game of Thrones, wallowing in violence and sexual violence.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
One of today's political prisoners. Cartoonist & zine maker Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada wasn't even at the ICE protest. He was accused of "moving" a box of anti-Trump zines THE NEXT DAY. A rightwing judge sentenced him to 30 years! Just for possessing zines. The darkness is descending.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/06/2026
THERE IS AN ACTIVE POGROM IN NORTHERN IRELAND. FASCISTS IN SKULL MASKS ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR PULLING MIGRANTS OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND SETTING THEM ON FIRE.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I waited a while to write this one. The time finally felt right.
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A tale of two media women
On Bari Weiss and me, and what journalists owe this world.
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Ridley Noah💜 they/them @theghostofprose.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I saw hadestown live on stage w @cursedkurt.bsky.social last night and it was beautiful. The actress who played Eurydice was the very first black wendy darling for a national peter pan musical tour
Playbill for hadestown
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This is like 90% of American politics now, rich assholes who have no interest in progressive outcomes pretending progressive policies aren’t progressive enough.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
this is a masterpiece
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Criticizing Israel and its behavior and policies, even very sharply, isn’t bigoted. Reflexively responding to any mention of Jews, Judaism, Jewish history or culture, or the Jewish community with demands to denounce Israel is absolutely bigoted and also unhinged.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The lab leak continues to be one of the most worrying cases of mass conspiratorial thinking in America. Zero evidence for it, but the right is frothing at the mouth to imprison anyone even remotely involved with COVID origins research and the center still thinks it's important to ask questions.
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Jen Sorensen @jensorensen.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This week's comic on the authoritarian takeover of US media
Hostile Takeover

A Right-wing Billionaire Took over Twitter.

Twitter

@eel_crust

I Rule Now!



As If Fox and Newsmax Weren't Enough, the Right Wing Is Taking over Cbs, Tiktok, and Cnn.

No Libs Here!



Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting Has Been Buying up Local Tv News Stations.

Up Next:

Immigrants Are Scary!



Local Newspapers Have Been Gutted.

The Biweekly Foghorn

4 Pages




Educators Are Being Harassed for Teaching American History.

The Civil War



And Yet...

The Problem with You Kids Today Is That You're Not Open to Other Points of View!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
the push for impeachment needs to continue. trump’s body count grows every single day lawmakers allow him to stay in power. this is no way to live and this is no way to die.
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Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
it's weird to be numb and incandescently angry at the same time
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Lena Heffern, PhD @leenuh-hlfernan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I published a blog essay: The Seven Tenants of Exploration: The Star Trek Franchise and its Impact on My Professional Career medium.com/@lenaheffern...
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The Seven Tenants of Exploration: The Star Trek Franchise and its Impact on My Professional Career
A brief overview of the Star Trek franchise and its influence on my career, resulting in a draft of The Seven Tenants of Exploration.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/03/2026
When you combine this case with Skrmetti, the Supreme Court has initiated a regime where states can ban medical care to affirm trans youth while states cannot ban efforts to engage in conversion therapy on trans youth. This court is such a joke.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Re: my last reposts “Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
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ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony
Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The apparent Scouting move announced by Pete Hegseth today is more unacceptable capitulation. It is a truly embarrassing move by the Scouts in particular. The Scouts capitulating to a lawless murderer is the opposite of the lessons I learned during my time in Scouts.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"
10 hour study with me at Columbia showing lunch Her in the libraryDHS illegally arrested me please help

Text against image of her knees
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/02/2026
Columbia University reporting that DHS lied to gain admission into a residential building at 6:30am today and detained a student. The government needs a signed judicial warrant to enter private spaces, and Columbia themselves admit it does not appear DHS had one. Let's be clear. This is fascism.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
It’s not true that vaccines only reduce severity. Vaccines significantly reduce transmission, as well as the risk of long COVID.
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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 24/02/2026
Team USA gold medal figure skater Amber Glenn rips Magic: The Gathering packs during the 2026 Winter Olympics closing ceremony kotaku.com/amber-glenn-mtg-2026-win…
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/02/2026
The backlash against MeToo was always rich white men who wanted to avoid accountability and ensure their place in the social hierarchy. www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
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How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo
The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 03/02/2026
As an Eagle Scout, let me say this is an opportunity for Scouting America to stop having a partnership with the U.S. Military.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 02/02/2026
If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 30/01/2026
These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
it’s pretty insane to think about how the dumbest most violent pieces of shit in the country have been given the message that they can kill with impunity if they join this one government agency
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/01/2026
Jonathan Ross—the ICE fascist who killed Renee Good—is an 18-year ICE veteran, firearms instructor, & active shooter trainer. The people claiming "ICE needs more training" are missing the point. Ross's 2 DECADES of training IS what led him to execute Good. ICE Training IS the problem. Abolish ICE.
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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
i nearly burned my apartment down when i did this in japan. turns out they draw a lot of power!
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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
"History teaches that new technologies always make possible new forms of exploitation, and this basic fact has been spectacularly exemplified by the rise of society-scale digital platforms. It has been driven by a remarkable new way of extracting money from human beings: call it 'human fracking'."
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How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’?
Big tech treats our attention like a resource to be mercilessly extracted. The fightback begins here
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Cupric @cupric.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The obvious difference between college protests for Palestinians in 2024 and the seeming lack of them now is that American unis are sanctioned from working with, investing in, and otherwise openly supporting the Iranian regime. The students had *local*, achievable goals for Palestine.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
In short, fuck this Nazi administration, fuck that loathsome Gestapo trash Tom Homan, and fuck the slobbering Nazi losers who support them.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
We are so far beyond "show us your papers." They don't want to see the papers. We are now into the "give us the names" stage of the occupation.
O’Keefe was put into another vehicle with three agents. She says they started taunting and mocking her, and called her ugly.

“The ICE agent who had pepper sprayed into the vents of my car said ‘you guys gotta stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead,’ verbatim, speaking of Renee Good. Which filled me with absolute rage and shock that you could say that to one of her neighbors,” she said.

They were brought to the Whipple Building and released after eight hours. They weren’t charged for a crime. Sigüenza said he was brought to a room with agents from the Department of Homeland Security and asked to provide the names of people he knows that are undocumented or the names of protest organizers in exchange for money or legal protection.
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Kurt @cursedkurt.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
“Note that there is no acknowledgment that international law was already violated, and by whom – only that it is supported, but apparently in no ways in which it can actually be upheld.”
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Trump’s coup in Venezuela didn’t just break the rules – it showed there aren’t any. We’ll all regret that | Nesrine Malik
It’s not just the triumphalism in the White House. Leaders loth to oppose this gangsterism must think how that looks to Putin, Xi and in the UAE, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
This is fucking lunacy. Unprovoked undeclared unilateral invasion of a sovereign country for literally no reason at all
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 03/01/2026
BREAKING: The U.S. has conducted a "large scale strike” on Caracas, Venezuela. Trump says he ordered an illegal invasion and attack on Venezuela, has captured its President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and flown them out of the country. The “pro peace” President just started another war for oil.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 30/12/2025
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.
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Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza.
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gg @ggold328.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
BUT HUNTER'S LAPTOP
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 27/12/2025
Trump cutting US aid has killed more Christian Nigerians than anyone else ever could. And if we don’t stop him, it will get even more deadly. He was never about protecting Christians. He was never about justice. He was always about white supremacy and oil. youtube.com/shorts/q5OeE...
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Nigerian village Trump bombed to “stop Isis” says Isis has never been there
YouTube video by Qasim Rashid
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
no words.
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Bondi beach terror attack: 12 people killed in ‘evil antisemitic’ shooting at park in Australia
Police say one alleged shooter among dead, with second arrested and in a critical condition, after attack on Jewish festival in Sydney
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