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Xavier Ducrohet

@ducrohet.bsky.social
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Astrophotography, Android development, possibly politics. He/him. Opinions my own. Full res Astrophotography: www.astrobin.com/users/ducrohet

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"Greenwater Services got a no-bid contract and is partly owned by a twice-convicted felon who is a Trump friend..." www.wsj.com/us-news/linc...
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This is one of my pettier impulses but I want the record to reflect just how often this motherfucker said that Kamala Harris was the pro-war candidate in 2024.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Amazon dropped $75M on the Melania doc — with a big chunk going into the Trumps' pockets. Since then, Amazon Web Services got a $580M Pentagon contract. And this week, Pete Hegseth visited Blue Origin facilities as the DoD overhauls how it hands out defense contracts. Always follow the money.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/02/2026
Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3
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BlueRidgeHippy AKA Aunt Arctica 🥶 @blueridgehippy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The Truth about Venezuela.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!” also trump:
NYT headline: Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, who prosecutors said partnered with cocaine traffickers as Hondurass president and is serving a 45-year sentence.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
"Mariana Times" supports deporting Zohran Mamdani butThis account is based in India
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PedsHemeDoc @pedshemedoc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Vaccines DO NOT cause autism - there is extensive research showing this. Resurrecting old, discredited, fraudulent work is shameful. Vaccine-preventable illnesses are serious - this is going to cause real harms. This is dangerous & disappointing.
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PuckFutin @handle.invalid · 22/11/2025
This is brilliant, twitter introduced a feature where you could see the country an account posts from. They had to disable it when all the sock puppet accounts were unmasked.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Well, tens of millions of Americans are going hungry and tens of millions of Americans are losing their health care, but it's all been worth it to ensure transgender citizens can't get passports.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/10/2025
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Sanders: These projects have been appropriated. They were signed by a president. It is illegal to rescind them. And to say to people in Vermont, in New York and California, oh, you didn't vote for Donald Trump, we're going to take away funding that was supposed to go to your state… illegal
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 28/09/2025
When a president brags about gold accessories as proof of “success,” it projects not leadership but authoritarian pageantry.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The Department of Defense is delaying cleanups of forever chemicals at nearly 140 military sites – in some cases, by more than a decade. Meanwhile, the PFAS industry has spent over $70 million lobbying the Trump administration in just the first half of 2025. Always follow the money.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2025
Trump is now whining to the UN about the UN working with another developer and not him on their building
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Quite the Friday fascism dump we’re getting
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
There's so much to unpack -- his childish understanding of the world, his raw nerve of grievances, his sociopathy -- but I can't get past what a whiny, pathetic loser you'd have to be as president to stamp your little feet and cry that the media isn't "allowed" to be mean to you. Mom said so guys!
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2025
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Set aside Sen. Mike Lee's storm of lies and incitement here. Lee literally made jokes on Twitter about the fmr Speaker of the Minnesota state house being murdered in her home by a right wing extremist. Hard to imagine any more twisted and malicious person in public life.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Here’s a long list on incendiary comments. 😬 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’
The far-right commentator didn’t pull his punches when discussing his reactionary views on current events
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
One professor on the watchlist who 404 Media is granting anonymity for his safety said once he was added to the list, he started receiving anonymous letters in his campus mailbox.
''You're everything wrong with colleges,'
'watch your step, we're watching you' kind of stuff," he said, "One anonymous DM on Twitter had a picture of my house and driveway, which was chilling." His president and provost also received emails attempting to discredit him with "all the allegedly communist and subversive stuff I was up to," he said. "It was all certainly concerning, but compared to colleagues who are people of color and/or women, I feel like the volume was smaller for me. But it was certainly not a great feeling to experience that stuff. That watchlist fucked up careers and ruined lives."
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Kirk waged a national campaign to tarnish MLK's legacy. This was last year.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
What we have seen in the USA is that it doesn't matter how many children or normal people get shot, they won't care. But if a CEO or Right Wing Politician/Media Personality gets killed. They will be absolutely furious, livid with rage.
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
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X.com
RFK JR: I'm looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation-you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection

TEXAS "MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN" LEGISLATION
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.
Health & Human Services Secretary
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From CSPAN
C-SPANG*
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/07/2025
Holy shit -- Kevin Hassett completely bombs on ABC when pressed by Jon Karl to explain how Trump can possibly justify 50% tariffs on Brazil even though the country has a trade *deficit* with the US
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
The president of the United States is threatening to strip the citizenship away from an American who says things he does not like. And our media will invariably present this not as a major crisis, an impeachable offense that must lead to his immediate removal, but as “a spat” between Don & Rosie
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Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · 11/07/2025
This is patently false. DHS has authority to question and search people coming into the country at points of entry. But ICE may not detain and question anyone without reasonable suspicion — and certainly not based on their physical appearance alone. This lawlessness must stop.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
“Superman is too woke!” Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
<Thread> I figure I need to explain how extreme and irresponsible is the June 7 Memorandum federalizing the National Guard and authorizing regular armed forces. Those saying anything in support of this action may not realize what they’ve gotten into. (It will also escalate from here.) Preview⤵️
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Bill Mitchell @askbillmitchell.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Remember kids: Jan 6th: Cops beaten, capitol seized, people killed = peaceful and patriotic. Today: Peaceful protesting, non violent = Insurrectionists that require military involvement. According to the present administration / regime.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Excellent question.
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Rogue Citizen One @roguecitizenone.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🚨 ICE agents in masks and no uniforms abducting people from a Phoenix immigration court - no ID, no explanation, no due process. This is not law enforcement. This is authoritarianism. Demand accountability. Stay loud. Stay informed. Stay safe.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
While Trump crows about supporting mothers & kids, remember... -His FDA suspended one of its quality-control programs for milk -He’s trying to repeal limits on lead exposure and cancel grants that protect kids from chemicals -Car seat and stroller prices are up due to tariffs
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 04/05/2025
"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
And you thought the left was censorious. How about actual censoring?
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress are okay with this
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/05/2025
the trump administration, obviously concerned with racial equality, thinks its illegal discrimination to spend federal dollars protecting a predominantly black community from raw sewage
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.
reuters.com
Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation. I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Vance's Easter visit to Rome clogged its streets with a 40-vehicle entourage. He also demanded the Coliseum be closed so he and his family could tour it alone. Tourists who properly booked slots in advance got screwed. He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.
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JD Vance and his forty 4x4s visit the Vatican during trip to Rome
The US vice-president, a self-styled ‘baby Catholic’ who was baptised in 2019, and his family met senior officials from the Catholic Church
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