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Mr Hamster

@david-in-design.bsky.social
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Hoping that humanity’s constructive traits will vanquish the self-destructive ones. It’s not going great at the moment.

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Mr Hamster @david-in-design.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
To: Apple iOS 26 math equation: Terrible usability + Buggy slow functionality ————————————— = Terrible user experience
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Mr Hamster @david-in-design.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Pelosi Says Police May Arrest Federal Agents Who Violate California Law www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
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Pelosi Says Police May Arrest Federal Agents Who Violate California Law
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Mr Hamster @david-in-design.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
How do you know you’re now an autocracy? edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...
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Mr Hamster @david-in-design.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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The Psychology of the Portland Green Frog
YouTube video by Dr. Geoff Grammer
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Mr Hamster @david-in-design.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Teapot Dome. Watergate. They’re Nothing Compared to This. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/o...
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Opinion | Teapot Dome. Watergate. They’re Nothing Compared to This.
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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Beginning Nov 1, Trump announced he will cut off food assistance for 3m New Yorkers.     He’s starving our communities all to punish Democrats for protecting affordable health care.     I joined my colleagues from across NYC to condemn this unacceptable assault on our working families.
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Mr Hamster @david-in-design.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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Russell Vought: The Shadow President
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Mr Hamster @david-in-design.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
‘I am the only one that matters’: Trump deals praise and insults at Gaza summit www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘I am the only one that matters’: Trump deals praise and insults at Gaza summit
Self-styled world’s greatest peacemaker calls Meloni ‘beautiful’ and Erdoğan a ‘friend’, but takes jab at Iraqi and Canadian leaders
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
“The upcoming No Kings has set off klaxons for Republican lawmakers…Some in party leadership are going further by branding it a pro-terrorism demonstration—an unambiguously false allegation meant to get ahead of a potentially massive protest against the president.” www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-r...
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‘No Kings’ Has Republicans in Disarray
Why GOP lawmakers are spreading fear about the upcoming rally.
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Mr Hamster @david-in-design.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Lack of weather data due to Trump’s budget cuts impacted forecast for deadly Alaska storm www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...
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Lack of weather data due to Trump’s budget cuts impacted forecast for deadly Alaska storm | CNN
The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
“In an authoritarian context, all journalism will tend toward propaganda unless it is explicitly formulated as anti-authoritarian…Unless an institution is explicitly designed to counter authoritarianism, it will end up aiding the authoritarians.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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The Washington Post and CBS News are dying. The Bulwark is the future.
We drink their milkshake.
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Mr Hamster @david-in-design.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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Trump’s ‘Alpha Male’ Routine Is a Scam
YouTube video by Adam Kinzinger
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Man. This is a lot. The strategic, logistical underpinnings of what was a essentially a big pyramid scheme to rape and traffic teenagers and pay off powerful people to cover it up
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Just today, we saw evidence the president sent a lewd drawing with a deeply creepy birthday message to a notorious sex trafficker AND an appeals court upheld an $83 million judgement against him from a woman who a separate court found he sexually abused. And Republicans fully support this man.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
That is…uh, not a drawing of an adult woman. *shudder*
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Because what Trump has drawn here are the breasts of an underage girl. And I think everyone sees that—whether they’re willing to say it or not. I am. I fully understand the relationship Trump and Epstein had for 17 years, and fully understand what Trump is conveying to his co-conspirator here. 🔗:
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The Top Ten Most Incriminating Elements of the Newly Released 2003 Trump-Epstein Communication—Which Clearly Reads As Being About Pedophilia
This is the closest thing to a smoking gun with respect to Trump and Child Rape that America has ever seen—which explains why Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths (even for him) to lie about it.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 21/04/2025
It’s a footrace between Trump’s autocracy and American patriots. While Trump is losing steam—we’re just getting warmed up! @normeisen.bsky.social highlights the latest pro-democracy victories in his Publisher’s Roundup
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Trump’s autocracy is growing—but patriotic opposition is growing faster
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 21/04/2025
“The fox is not just guarding the henhouse; it has changed the locks.” Brian O’Neill on DOGE’s unchecked access to sensitive federal systems—a counterintelligence threat in plain sight.
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Not with a bang but a backdoor
DOGE’s quiet access to government networks is a counterintelligence threat in plain sight.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The Trump economic meltdown accelerates as stock markets plunge another 3%, bond markets weaken and the dollar loses more ground following the president's latest attack on Powell's Fed. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/b...
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Trump’s Renewed Attacks on Powell Drive Markets Lower and Weaken Dollar
President Trump’s pressure on the Federal Reserve, on top of the uncertainty about his tariff policy, continued to jar investors as stocks, bonds, oil and the U.S. dollar all tumbled.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
“He did say he was a U.S. citizen, but they didn't believe him,” Layva said. “I think they would have kept him..." www.azpm.org/p/headlines/...
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U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days
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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Since Inauguration Day: Nasdaq: ↓19.67% S&P 500: ↓14.73% Dow Jones Industrial Average: ↓13.30%
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 11/04/2025
Joe Kent: never won a race, but now he might run the National Counterterrorism Center—despite ties to white supremacists, Nazi tattoos, and conspiracy theories.
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White nationalist could soon be in charge of counterterrorism unit
Former Central Intelligence Agency officer Joe Kent never won any of his bids for Congress, but thanks to President Donald Trump, the man with ties to white nationalism might soon be in charge of ...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11/04/2025
“Donald Trump has just given us a pitch-perfect demonstration of why legislatures are necessary, why checks and balances are useful, and why most one-man dictatorships become poor and corrupt,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes: theatln.tc/9yE9mTHf
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 11/04/2025
Rümeysa Öztürk said she has experienced several asthma attacks while in custody at a Louisiana facility, and had her hijab ripped off by a nurse.
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Tufts Student Describes 'Inhumane' Conditions In ICE Custody As She Suffers Asthma Attacks
Rümeysa Öztürk said she has experienced several asthma attacks while in custody at a Louisiana facility, and had her hijab ripped off by a nurse.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 11/04/2025
Companies are slapping "Trump tariff" surcharges on customers' bills in a bid to signal where price hikes are coming from
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Trump Tariff Surcharges Are Now Getting Added to Customer Bills
Companies are slapping “Trump tariff” surcharges on customers’ bills in a bid to signal where price hikes are coming from, a marketing gimmick that could help some niche brands cash in on the politica...
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WIRED @wired.com · 11/04/2025
SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.
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The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
The SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.
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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I’ve long said that if rule of law ceases to exist such that the president can get away with deliberately ignoring court orders, the country is no longer a democracy by definition. That’s currently being tested in the US—and it’s up to the judiciary to not back down.
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Mr Hamster @david-in-design.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) - The United States will identify the cause of autism by September, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Thursday, setting a deadline for an answer that has eluded scientists for decades.
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 10/04/2025
trump’s net approval on his handling of the economy, first and second terms:
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Katie Porter @katieporterca.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Good news: the Trump Administration has backed off its planned cuts to Social Security’s phone services. Putting pressure on the Administration can work—let’s keep at it! www.axios.com/2025/04/09/s...
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Social Security backs off cuts to phone services amid outcry
"Telephone remains a viable option to the public," the agency said in a statement.
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Mimi Rocah @mimirocah1.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
“In a Trump administration, white-collar criminals are given breaks and treated as victims, while civil servants, especially prosecutors, are punished and demonized.” My latest for @contrariannews.org open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Trump’s twisted world: Where criminals are victims and public servants are villains
His dangerous use of executive power to target perceived enemies comes with the weight of DOJ loyalists.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 02/04/2025
“The United States has become a secret-police state,” writes M. Gessen. “Trust me, I’ve seen it before.”
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Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived.
Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 02/04/2025
This episode of “The Opinions” features Times Opinion columnist David French, who explores how Poland managed to turn the tide against right-wing populism and restore constitutional order.
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Opinion | To Save Democracy, the U.S. Should Take a Page From Poland’s Playbook
Poland pulled back from an authoritarian slide. What can the U.S. learn from its nonpartisan approach?
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Paul Nuki @paulnuki.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Some very bad news: New modelling predicts up to 10 million additional HIV infections following aid cuts www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Because I was raised politically by institutional conservative organizations, I’m still, even now, amazed and disoriented by how thoroughly they’ve abandoned everything they once stood for. The intellectual dishonesty is breathtaking.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Stock markets close worst month in more than two years as Trump tariff policies stir uncertainty and fear of economic troubles. @danielledkaye.bsky.social Joe Rennison www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/b...
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Stocks Mark Worst Month in Years as Trump’s Tariffs Loom
Markets around the world have wavered as fear and uncertainty over tariffs and trade wars rattle investors. The S&P 500 just recorded its worst month since 2022, shedding 5.8 percent in March.
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KimberCanada @kimberleybsb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
From a WH Reporter, “ I’ve covered a lot of Donald Trump press conferences over the years. I’ve seen him lie, deflect, and embarrass himself in countless ways. But what I just witnessed in the Oval Office may have been the most off-the-rails, 2/
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KimberCanada @kimberleybsb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Copied from FB… Report by #BenMeiselas A report on a recent meeting between Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, by a WHITE HOUSE REPORTER, someone who was present in the room quoted below... 1/
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
America better find its backbone, and soon.
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Trump is deporting people with legal status and no criminal convictions to foreign hellhole’s without due process. His idiot team is sharing classified attack plans on insecure channels and accidentally including a reporter. He’s pushing us toward a recession. He’s threatening to invade allies.
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"America’s new guard are almost all white, all male, and mostly unqualified to lead the departments they are vandalizing. It's not just foreigners who are remaking plans. US scientists are looking abroad. Trump has given the world a giant poaching opportunity." My column. www.ft.com/content/5100...
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Ten weeks that shook the world
On many fronts, and with deliberate haste, America is vaporising its soft power
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
NEW: The Trump administration acknowledged deporting a man to El Salvador in “error” but said there was nothing it could do to seek his return to U.S. custody. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 28/03/2025
The Kremlin has a deliberate strategy to test how far US President Donald Trump is willing to go in pressing Europe to ease sanctions, according to people familiar with the situation
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Putin Tests How Far Trump Will Go Against Europe on Sanctions
The Kremlin has a deliberate strategy to test how far US President Donald Trump is willing to go in pressing Europe to ease sanctions, according to people familiar with the situation.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 28/03/2025
It sounds like something from a lawless or dictatorial foreign country, but it's happening here: Masked men are snatching students off the street and shipping them to far-flung detention centers.
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The Biggest Scandal of the Second Trump Term Isn’t “Signalgate”
The national-security chat debacle certainly merits attention. But the Trump administration is now blatantly disappearing students and others who are in the country legally.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Hillary Clinton in a new NYT op-ed: “As a businessman, he bankrupted his Atlantic City casinos. Now he’s gambling with the national security of the United States. If this continues, a group chat foul will be the least of our concerns, and all the fist and flag emojis in the world won’t save us.” 🍿
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