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Dennis Dimick

@ddimick.bsky.social
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Forensic BS Detector. Spent decades making sense of geography, photographs, and maps from places like, among others, The Strait of Hormuz. Antifascist since 1951. Elbows up. ddimick.com

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 13h
Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13h
Thanks be to God that we no longer have to live under the tyrannical yoke of the woke radical left language police.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The White House considers anyone that uses the term, "Artificial Intelligence," as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term,
"Super Intelligence," THE ENEMY! President
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
what did you think about the part where he differentiated between 'safety' questions and 'wisdom' questions--like, for reasons of human meaning is it even wise to be going down this path?
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026
It's Artificial Intelligence. It's Twitter. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Lake Ontario. It's the Department of Defense. It's the Kennedy Center.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/10/2026
In Opinion Almost 70 years after its inception, “The Twilight Zone” remains incredibly relevant, Alan Sepinwall writes. It tackled “prejudice, creeping authoritarianism, the dangers of humans being replaced by technology and the peril of conformity as a societal ideal in ways that still resonate.”
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Opinion | ‘The Twilight Zone’ Was a Warning America Ignored
With “The Twilight Zone,” Rod Serling created a durable blueprint for understanding our surreal reality.
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 08/10/2026
“When a new technology untethers thoughts from their thinkers, we go from thinking for ourselves to thinking that we are thinking for ourselves.” —Dan Rockmore
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The Work of Math in the Age of Artificial Reproduction | Dan Rockmore
There are seven questions in pure mathematics deemed important enough by the Clay Mathematics Institute, a nonprofit foundation devoted to “furthering the
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Dennis Dimick @ddimick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White coats and padded truck standing by.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026
I really hope so. It won’t be enough to get us to a full reconstruction, but it may enable the essential work of prosecuting Trump administration criminals, ending the current Court majority one way or another, and getting a new Voting Rights Act (at bare minimum)
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reasons to vote Republican in 2026: • There are parts of the White House that haven’t been torn down yet. • We still haven’t lost a war to North Korea. • Your investment in AI stocks in your 401k will help cushion the blow when you lose your job to AI. • Someone you don’t like may die of measles.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
mr smith we have text message evidence you were the halftime performer at last years super bowl
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Would just note that illiterate medieval peasants during the bubonic plague understood the value of social distancing better than the current U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
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Dennis Dimick @ddimick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Preview video for his upcoming perp walk.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Dennis Dimick @ddimick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wendell Berry wrote: "There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Now, I know you Chinamen think you're the shit when it comes to tricking your population with stupid propaganda, but—COME ON—you can't touch this beauty here. And there is more where that came from, trust me."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Washington Post once got attention by cracking and exposing Watergate. Now, it's going viral with articles about whether you should drink iced coffee at interviews. What a comedown.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Poor, sad, stupid orange white man. He would sell his soul—and country—for a few hollow words of praise."
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On top of the immorality of casting Russian aggression and Ukrainian self-defense as the same, there’s a huge practical problem: doing so prolongs the war. Putin and Russia are the ones choosing war. They’re doing it in pursuit of conquest. We get peace only when they’re forced to choose otherwise.
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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is like the propaganda that plays everywhere you go in a dystopian sci fi movie in which the characters are always hearing the voice of their leader.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When OpenAI asks for a bailout—not if, when—say no. The chances the company can honor its financial commitments are very low. They’ll say they’re too big to fail, and taxpayers should cover their losses. Govt will have to help unwind commitments and contain the damage, but shouldn’t save OpenAI.
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Ammonia emissions, which can harm a person’s ability to breathe, are more than three times higher when emitted from manure that has been through a digester compared to manure that is directed into storage lagoons or sprayed on fields, according to a new study.” There’s no reforming CAFOs, folks.
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Manure digesters worsen ammonia air emissions from hog farms, study finds
Ammonia emissions, which can harm a person’s ability to breathe, are more than three times higher when emitted from manure that has been through a digester compared to manure that is directed  into st...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Are the bankers finally ready to acknowledge reality? Are they done pretending yet?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 22/09/2026
My new employer is fond of the maximizing excitable headlines, but this is just the bluntest possible expression of my point: Freedom of the press is vital--and you prove that by doing the work that supports democracy, not by talking about doing it.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump banning CNN from the White House has only served to get the channel to go for him full-on. A constant stream of lowest poll ratings ever, billions spent on the Iran War and more. Would have been nice if it happened before, but it’s a good result.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Successive tweets in my Twitter feed; no lies detected.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The punchline is that the war has done nothing, nothing, to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. He sent the world economy down the toilet for nothing.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
florida is one of those post-apocalyptic game settings waiting to happen
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Well *I* think it's a sign that things are going fantastic when you start banning reporters. I mean, things are so great you don't even want the news to talk about it! It's embarrassing! You guys! Get out of here! No, really, get out of here. 
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When you dig into our political history, the level of plain speaking and the clarity of explanations we once had was remarkable. Or it seems so now.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/09/2026
The impacts of the Iran war will intensify in the form of huge jumps in the prices of gasoline and diesel, analysts predict. Attacks on Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline threaten to elevate what had been a shipping crisis into a broader disruption of oil.
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Analysts predict gas price jump, long disruption from damaged pipeline
The forecast of economic impacts beyond November’s midterms contrast with the Trump administration’s optimistic messaging.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The average price of a gallon of regular gas was $2.98 before Republicans started the Iran war. It’s $4.37 now – 47% higher. If you have a car with, say, a 14-gallon tank, you’re paying nearly $20 more every time you fill your tank. Vote against all Republicans.
AAA prices: https://gasprices.aaa.com/
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The Radical Left Lunatic @wokeaflunatic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Department of War better change its name back to the Department of Defense before it has to be changed to the Department of Getting Our Asses Kicked
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Eos @eos.org · 09/09/2026
Despite a lack of federal support, the 2026 Arctic Report Card will be published thanks to a partnership between @agu.org, @cires.colorado.edu, and @uafairbanks.bsky.social. Get the details: eos.org/agu-news/the...
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The Arctic Report Card Matters More Than Ever; AGU Joins Partners to Publish in 2026 - Eos
The critical and highly anticipated yearly assessment will be carried forward through a partnership with CIRES/CU Boulder and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Do you like maps?? I’m in a briefing where the USGS shared these amazing 3D Elevation images that are just so cool. Find your state/district, and behold this example of DC! www.usgs.gov/3d-elevation...
A 3D Elevation Program image from the USGS of the District of Columbia, depicting (in their words) “the ‘bare earth’ surface, stripping away vegetation and structures, revealing ground surface.
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Dennis Dimick @ddimick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Evergreen
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I am a one-issue voter: Get Republicans out of office.
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Photojournalism News @pjournalismnews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER: Few photojournalists have changed the course of history, but this one did – remembering Ian Berry amateurphotographer.com/latest/photo... #photojournalism #journalism #photography
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Few photojournalists have changed the course of history, but this one did - remembering Ian Berry
One of Britain's bravest and most influential photojournalists, Ian Berry, has died. We pay tribute to this giant figure
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/09/2026
If the strait of hormuz is closed, at least we have a backup pipeline to keep prices ... [finger to ear] ... I'm being told we're fucked ...
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Saudi Shuts Oil Pipeline That Bypasses Hormuz After Attacks
Saudi Arabia closed its East-West pipeline, a key alternative to the Strait of Hormuz for its oil exports, following multiple attacks on Thursday.
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dog on the spectrum @sponcon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
the onion did a spoof ad recently lol
from the feb/march 2026 print edition of The Onion:
TOYOTA
We're the Taliban's favorite truck for a reason.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
who was it on here who was saying it must kill toyota's marketing dept that they can't tout one of the most widespread and successful things their pickup trucks are used for
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