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Rory Coker

@gatherdarkness.bsky.social
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Physicist and curmudgeon

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
#squirrel 🐿️
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
an example of all the things included and not included in the BBB/Trump cuts rippling through the country
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Major media seem flummoxed about what to do when Trump shares a fake video of Obama getting arrested. Maybe they think the options are A) take the bait, or B) ignore it. But there's a 3rd option: Gather all the crazy examples and write big, loud stories about how the president is mentally unhinged.
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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How your income taxes will change after Trump signs the ‘big, beautiful bill’ into law
With the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” headed to President Trump’s desk for signature Friday, wealthy Americans are poised to receive significant tax breaks partly offset by steep cuts to social welfare...
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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Do you think Donald Trump is ever going to be held accountable for everything he is doing even if it's after his term is over?
Jay Dee's answer: I read an answer to a very similar question several months ago. I seem to recall that it was posted by a trial attorney. He said, and I'm paraphrasing from recollection only. It's d...
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Surprise! Trump’s New Fragrance Sucks
Donald Trump’s newest scam stinks (literally) of desperation.
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Red states are far different from the stereotypes... they are much, much worse, in cold fact. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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125,000-year-old 'fat factory' run by Neanderthals discovered in Germany
An analysis of ancient animal bones found in Germany suggests that Neanderthals extracted grease from them to gobble up 125,000 years ago.
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Chinese students are using AI to beat AI detectors
As Chinese universities crack down on AI use, some students report false positives — and a booming industry of work-around tools is emerging.
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Is the Democratic Party just "one leader away from a comeback," as MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace claims?
Austin Lewis's answer: I used to work in the corporate world, and I’m gonna tell you a little secret - a lot of organizations, be they political, business, charity, religious, whatever, are just one p...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/07/2025
It’s costing taxpayers $450/M annually & Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp is already flooding. Imagine a hurricane. People are going to die. There’s always enough money to hurt folks, but when it comes to public transit, low-income housing, schools, or public healthcare, “Sorry, we’re broke.”
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Milk Burger @milkpork.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Make no mistake: Alligator Alcatraz IS a concentration camp, and they absolutely ARE planning genocide and ‘ethnic cleansing.’ As a white person, i don’t know what I can do to help, but if all I have is my voice, I will make sure it’s heard.
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Trump asks Supreme Court to remove 3 Democrats on the Consumer Product Safety Commission
The Trump administration on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to remove three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who were fired by President Donald Trump and then reinstated...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2025
Rep. Dean: "The senators voted on this not knowing exactly what was in the bill. I bet they loved the part about no sales tax on silencers. Really, folks? We want to make silencers more plentiful in this country at the behest of the representative who owns gun stores? Conflicts of interest abound."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2025
AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."
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Margaret L Ruwoldt @emelaarghh.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Thinking about tightening university budgets and cancelling individual subjects and whole courses as I read @adapalmer.bsky.social’s succinct account of how it took more than a century for Renaissance Italy’s scholars to develop enough expertise to make a decent translation of Homer’s poetry.
Excerpt from “Inventing the Renaissance” by Ada Palmer.

“The quest for Greek had passed its centennial when Poliziano was born in 1454, into a world where he could access good Greek while he was young enough to learn to translate and compose with fluency. Today Renaissance Penguin Classics all sit side by side, but it took teamwork, decades, and generations to get those texts, each step as different as the generations of our century.”
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Henning Dekant 📎 @quaxquax.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Unwelcome news: "We may have passed a tipping point and entered a new state defined by persistent sea ice decline, sustained by a newly discovered feedback loop." 🧪 theconversation.com/completely-u...
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‘Completely unexpected’: Antarctic sea ice may be in terminal decline due to rising Southern Ocean salinity
Scientists once thought Antarctica might hold onto its sea ice as the world warmed. No longer.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
i'm no stephen hawking but i think what happens is that they cancel each other out
Empty food tray with a label reading "Antipasta Pasta Salad, $7.99 /lb" next to trays with food at a self-service counter.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This is not normal
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 01/07/2025
Removing info on climate impacts is dangerous: as if we’re collectively steering a car down a curving road only looking through the rearview because the windshield that enables us to look ahead to prepare for what’s coming is being painted over, as I say here 😬 More by @borenbears.bsky.social:
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Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites
Legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/07/2025
lol
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Opinion | Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' will end America’s time as a great power www.yahoo.com/news/opinion...
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Opinion | Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' will end America’s time as a great power
The "big beautiful bill" cuts to Medicaid, clean energy and food stamps will deeply harm America’s global competitive edge.
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Opinion | A new study disproves Democrats' most cherished delusion
Colorado Democrats were feeling triumphant.
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it
The application, which allows users to add a pin on a map to show where ICE agents have recently been spotted, has climbed to the to the top of the App Store charts.
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Good thing there are no Dems alive in Congress to see this.
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
We have already gone off the cliff and I can't see any way back. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Imagine being so ignorant and so impossibly stupid that you consistently vote for people who want to see you dead.
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Modern Dem politicians are actually middle-of-the-road Republicans. When they see an actual Dem, it terrifies them.
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
You can protest all day every day, but with no Congress and no Courts, you are just urinating into the wind.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/07/2025
McGovern: "A family making less than $50,000 a year? They get less than $1 a day in tax cuts. You can't buy a damn cup of coffee with that. But those making a million dollars or more? They'll get more than $250 a day in tax breaks ... that's how rigged this bill is to benefit the wealthy."
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
With zero pushback from anybody or any court.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Yes, we warned about all of it last year. Every last detail, every policy. Watched every rally speech, every interview, every campaign video. Posted thousands of clips about it all. Most completely or largely ignored by legacy media. And yes, it is going to get much worse.
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Rory Coker @gatherdarkness.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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‘Signs Of Broken Brains’: Trump’s Latest Sharpie Scrawl Has People Howling
The president’s new attack on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell came in the form of one of his trademark notes.
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