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@debkegel.bsky.social
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San Diego via Baltimore. Librarian and provider of information. recently retired, but rarely retiring. I block those purveying stupid products or with creepy profiles. You know who you are.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5h
Of course when Russia said Ukraine had bioweapons labs what they really meant was that they did. There's a lot we don't know about the current situation. Russia should be bringing in experts from the WHO to clarify and advise. Will they? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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U.S. officials seeking details of reported Russian plague death, quarantines
Officials said they need to learn more about the evolving situation before determining the potential threat to the United States.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6h
Reminds me of my favorite part of Sen. Michael Bennet's epic floor rant in 2019 about how they couldn't pass immigration reform: "Because of the stupidest rule ever created, called the Hastert rule! Named after somebody who is in prison! That has allowed a minority of tyrants in the Congress."
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I disagree with the idea that Trump is the symptom, not the cause of US foreign policy changes. Leaders also have agency. These mysterious structures did not compel the US to got to war with Iran, blow up our alliances, destroy our trade relations or threaten to invade Greenland. Trump did.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.
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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Marty Feldman grabbing the “Abby Normal” brain in Young Frankenstein
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Through the end of August 2026, the House was in session for roughly 383 hours total. That’s an average of about 48 hours per month. Their average monthly floor time is well below the 80-hour monthly threshold the same Congress imposed on Medicaid recipients.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In 2012, Mehmet Öz operated a pyramid scheme for a maker of nutritionally worthless dietary supplements; he has been involved in a series of other quack medicine scams including hydroxychloroquine sales and RealAge.com. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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I’ve Had Enough of This @debkegel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Childrens Health, it’s not. Tinfoil Hat-wearing conspiracy mongers making $$$ from people who think their child’s differentness is caused by vaccines. MAHA Institute‘s Gorton and discredited researcher Andrew Wakefield both spoke @ the conf. Bobby Jr said he’d be looking into chemtrails. Lordy.
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Republicans often take credit for accomplishments despite voting against them, while also attributing blame to Democrats for issues they either caused or allowed to occur. It is time for Texas to shift its political alignment.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That's an incredibly mealy mouthed headline that manages to downplay a Republican candidate's extreme racism *and* insert a "both sides" frame that diffuses blame even more.
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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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I’ve Had Enough of This @debkegel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Can citizens setup their own infrared monitoring system to reveal the offending wells since the heads of EPA & DOE don’t give a damn?
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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Midterm convention played the cultic "God made Trump" video: bsky.app/profile/atru... I wrote about this video when they used it during campaign rallies in 2024: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/prayers-of...
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 04/09/2026
Product safety is not always like the movies. Here, we have resources.
A realistic coyote sitting in a cave on a gaming chair at a laptop as the sun sets outside. They are wearing reading glasses and looking at SaferProducts.gov. The text reads: In the real world, the coyote checks and reports unsafe products on SaferProducts.gov. A sign next to the coyote says, "Air fryer trash! Started smoking without roadrunner!" There is an air fryer in the corner on fire labeled, "Roadrunner air fryer X.L." In the background, outside the cave, a roadrunner says, "Beep! Beep!" and leaves a big trail of dust. Other text reads: Check for injuries before you buy or sell a product, and report unsafe products to CPSC!
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Why are people still telling scientists that we need to compromise with MAHA? How about if we tell MAHA that they can come to the table when they respect the scientific method instead.
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KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The first Lingít opera in recorded history debuts this Friday in Juneau at the Thunder Mountain Middle School auditorium. KTOO published several stories in anticipation of the opera, compiled in this post:
ktoo.org
‘Ḵutulagaaw: The Tlingit-Russian Battles’ to debut Friday
The first Lingít opera in recorded history debuts this Friday at the Thunder Mountain Middle School auditorium.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump promising everyone free money
"Why would I deceive you?" meme from You Can See Everything
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Texas is delaying the release of the state’s maternal mortality statistics until after the midterms. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
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Texas' first post-Roe look at maternal deaths won't be ready by midterms
Democrats say the timing is suspicious, given the Dec. 1 deadline is after Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans who supported the state’s abortion ban are up for reelection.
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I’ve Had Enough of This @debkegel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ari Sarsalari on Fox Weather was surprised to learn about the presence of the Salton Sea tonight around 10:10 pm Pacific. Off camera the guy Chris says it’s the Salton Sea, an artificial lake. God, the night crew is dangerously ill-informed about geography in the Pacific coast states.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“If you just need a few stitches, an extra half-hour drive is a nuisance. If you are dealing with a stroke or heart attack, that is precious time”. The incredible @mirandayaver.bsky.social has a new piece out on the current and future impacts of looming Medicaid cuts, including hospital closures.
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Opinion | The bill for Trump’s Medicaid cuts is coming due — for everyone
Though much attention has centered on the closure of rural hospitals, quieter transformations could reshape healthcare for publicly and privately insured patients alike.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/09/2026
Isaac Newton famously wrote “if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Academic progress is always iterative and builds on the work of others, and a key component of academic culture is proper citation & attribution. It would be a travesty to let LLMs destroy that.
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
For the one millionth time: THIS IS FASCISM. IT'S MORE THAN JUST GRANT FUNDING. SCIENCE IS A CRITICAL PILLAR OF DEMOCRACY. democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Sand campaign would respond by showing a photograph of Charles Grassley at the same age, but photography had not yet been invented then
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"For the next two minutes, Cloud detailed three issues impacting women that she believes deserve more attention than Freedom: domestic violence, sexual assault and food insecurity." www.nytimes.com/athletic/754...
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Natasha Cloud calls Enes Kanter Freedom ‘irrelevant,’ urges WNBA to ban him league-wide (Gift Article)
“I will talk about real issues that face women, and it’s not our trans human beings,” Cloud said.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Ships traveling between the upper Great Lakes and the Atlantic must pass through Canada’s Welland Canal. The 27-mile canal and all eight of its locks are entirely in Ontario, meaning a strategically important portion of U.S. Great Lakes maritime trade depends on Canadian-controlled infrastructure.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
When you hear people discussing the flooding in Nepal, or the power outages in Gary, or any of the other disasters in this moment, by saying that these are what the future looks like, calmly but firmly remind them: that these disasters are what the present looks like.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Amazing to live in a country where the secret police are handling inter-chud beefs. It's like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General.
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I’ve Had Enough of This @debkegel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
But are there pythons?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
After FDR cleaned up the mess created by Calvin Coolidge and blamed on Herbert Hoover, Democrats spent decades reminding voters what the two parties had done. In recent generations, that basic act of politicking has been deemed impolite by Democratic leaders. That needs to end.
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Ioannis Ziogas @ziogas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The American version of Saparmurat Niyazov.
From the Wikipedia entry on Saparmurat Niyazov: 

"During his rule, Niyazov created a strong cult of personality around himself, which resembled the one around the Kim dynasty in North Korea and the Gaddafi regime in Libya. He renamed the town of Jaňga and city of Krasnovodsk after his nickname Türkmenbaşy, and renamed schools, airports, Ashgabat streets, and even a meteorite after himself and members of his family. The city of Kerki was renamed for his father, and city of Ýylanly for his mother. The doting actions of the official Turkmen media supported his cult of personality. The government renamed the months and most days of the week after symbols Niyazov wrote about. The national anthem of Turkmenistan referred to him. According to the newspaper Neytralny Turkmenistan physicians were ordered to swear an oath to the President, replacing the Hippocratic Oath."
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I’ve Had Enough of This @debkegel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
C-SPAN replayed this w/ helpful info about the fact that Howard Lutnick’s wife Allison is also on the board. Lutnick, of course, has drunk the Trump kool-aid, while saying that Trump will be the construction manager (Doesn’t he have a day job?) & is the greatest ever builder. Shame on Lutnick.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
MacFarlane: Lastly, what do you think of that tarp that still blocks the removal of Trump’s name? Miller: What an embarrassment. It is—it is a monument to his shame. They’re trying to say that the Kennedy Center would be nothing without Donald Trump. It has become nothing because of Donald Trump.
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
My friend 
the high school teacher
worries most people
refuse to read 
challenging books. My friend
the epidemiologist 
worries most people refuse to read 
scientific reports. 
My friend
the historian
worries most people refuse to read 
the writing on the wall.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Trump's deployment of National Guardsmen to DC to fight crime was in fact a big and expensive political show—a review found the soldiers rarely play a meaningful role of any sort in battling crime, which in any event, had witnessed record lows before the Guardsmen were deployed.
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Trump put thousands of soldiers on Washington’s streets. They seldom stop crime
The administration told Congress it plans to keep sending soldiers to Washington until the end of Trump’s presidency in ​2029 at a cost of $1.4 billion.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of N Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with S Korea.” This man is failing to defend the United States. This man is a traitor. This man should be removed.
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I’ve Had Enough of This @debkegel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We are living in upside-down land when the president praises the leader of North Korea while threatening South Korea. Oman tries to negotiate a way to open the Strait of Hormuz and Trump threatens to bomb them?! Kim Jong Un sends men to their death in Ukraine because Putin pays North Korea.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026
Ossoff: "I have zero interest in running for president in 2028, and frankly zero interest in the 2028 fantasy football right now ... these midterms are the whole ballgame ... I don't know that we have a free and fair election in 2028 unless we restore checks and balances in these 2026 midterms."
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
SCOTUS lets @ejeancarroll.bsky.social’s verdict against Trump stand. He is formally out of excuses.
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Middlerage @middlerage.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Google works. When Fox does not. 🤡
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/08/2026
Fox News graphic claims falsely that the average price of gas one year ago was $4.13, lower than it is right now. It was actually $3.14!
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Trump immediately orders the seizure of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.
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Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold
The physicists made an unexpected breakthrough
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026
These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13/08/2026
Final update for now with info on the most alarming part of the original statement of work, which asked the charter airline contractor to also help DHS establish foreign "detention centers" in "host countries." Will update if Eastern answers the f*cking question. gillianbrockell.com/breaking-eas...
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BREAKING: Eastern Airlines gets contract to fly DHS 'deportation fleet'
ICE charter airline Eastern Air Express, a subsidiary of Eastern Airlines, has been awarded a contract to operate a fleet of passenger jets acquired by the Department of Homeland Security to conduct d...
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 14/08/2026
“If we ban sports betting, the people at those companies will lose their jobs” good
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MS NOW @ms.now · 05/08/2026
Moldy showers. Food shortages. A lack of toothpaste, deodorant and soap. Military families are sounding the alarm about rapidly worsening conditions on the USS Lincoln. From Priya Sridhar:
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Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln
The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.
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