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HalfAstorian

@halfastorian.bsky.social
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Full time Seattleite Finnish American Old family recipe for Molotov cocktails 🖖 (Warning: if you have followers but no posting activity I will instantly block)

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The satellite that watches the eastern United States for storms went blind for 20 hours in July. NOAA cannot yet say why. Its backup sits weeks away from taking over. This is what a warning system looks like after the people who ran it were cut and its research arm marked for the axe.
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 17/07/2026
Whole Nation Misses President’s Speech Because Jimothy: tinyurl.com/2tp3na55
Local viral social media sensation, Jimothy--a raccoon in Ballard with short spine syndrome--loping across the grass
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
In April, we published our first story about the surveillance machine at Madison Square Garden—an operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. Read that here:
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The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Let’s check in on how Jared and Ivanka’s luxury Albanian resort is doing…
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Hannah Levintova @h-lev.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Given the news that Trump has just appointed Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence, it feels timely to revisit the three different episodes of financial impropriety by Pulte that I’ve reported on in the just last six months! Let’s recap:/1
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HalfAstorian @halfastorian.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Drama drained
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a man with a mustache says " i am so done with these special " people today
Alt: says " i am so done with these special " people today
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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
"We're gonna need a bigger ballroom"
that guy from 'Jaws"
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Josh Rogers @iamjosh.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
After a preponderance of evidence I am now convinced this argument is wrong. Instead, they both seem designed to embrace a far right authoritarian party with open arms .
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The corruption is just stunning. www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...
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Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report
At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.
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HalfAstorian @halfastorian.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Why is Trump so enthusiastic about destroying Iranian civilian infrastructure? It won’t win the war. It is likely for another reason: to provoke an Iranian response that Trump can use for his own purposes. (2/17)
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Just a Dad 📎 @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Well done Seattle 👏 The Seattle Seahawks have declined the White House invitation,
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HalfAstorian @halfastorian.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Servant of the people
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HalfAstorian @halfastorian.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I don’t know if you get more Seattle than this! “Blaine confirmed the modernized line will at least include the addition of a tiny man vaping in his tiny car.”
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 24/03/2026
BREAKING: Democrats just flipped the Florida House district that includes Mar-a-Lago. Yes, Donald Trump is going to be represented by a Democrat. Our complete recap -->
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Florida Democrats flip Donald Trump's home district in Palm Beach
Emily Gregory will now represent Mar-a-Lago—and Trump himself
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Dann @dann1960.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
www.yelmonline.com/stories/face... SEATTLE — Law enforcement officers in Washington state can no longer cover their faces to conceal their identities.
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Face mask ban for police in Washington state is signed into law - Nisqually Valley News
SEATTLE — Law enforcement officers in Washington state can no longer cover their faces to conceal their identities. The law, signed Thursday by Gov. Bob Ferguson, seeks to unmask federal …
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 18/03/2026
I want to be clear: it would literally be IMPOSSIBLE to conduct a legitimate election in WA state in November 2026 in compliance with the SAVE Act. We cannot do it. No way, no how. Same for OR and other vote-by-mail states. Better to refuse to comply and confront the Constitutional crisis head on.
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HalfAstorian @halfastorian.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
“He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions. He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong. Instead, he acts on whim and impulse, and when he changes his mind—when he feels new whims and new impulses—he simply lies about whatever he said or did before.” 👏👏👏 Anne!
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HalfAstorian @halfastorian.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Beautiful (nearly) spring day in Seattle
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The nuclear winter and decimation of medical research in America. Murdered by RFK Jr and Trump regime. Next time you/your family suffers an illness, remember who killed our future cures and preventions. Never forget.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?” Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth
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100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?
Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
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HalfAstorian @halfastorian.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I’ve been looking at this 8 year old’s photo for awhile. Thinking about careless power hungry men and the innocents they throw away
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I thought I’d be tired of the Rubio couch memes by now, but nope.
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HalfAstorian @halfastorian.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
😩 this is so horrible and unnecessarily cruel
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HalfAstorian @halfastorian.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
“This could cripple the superyacht shipbuilding, AI brainwashing, and local datacenter resource sucking industries,” said critic Heywood. “If approved, a high school teacher who exceeded her expected lifetime earnings by a mere 50,000% may be subject to it and if you ask me, that’s just not right.”
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This is a very big story. apnews.com/article/anth...
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Hegseth warns Anthropic to let the military use the company’s AI tech as it sees fit, AP sources say
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pressuring Anthropic to give the military broader access to its artificial intelligence technology or lose its Pentagon contract.
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HalfAstorian @halfastorian.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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HalfAstorian @halfastorian.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This is great!
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The people and leaders of Ukraine are heroes, fighting valiantly for their own freedom and to help protect ours. The Trump Administration has betrayed them (and by extension us) repeatedly and continues to do so.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
In tonight's speech, the president did what he does best: celebrate himself. But if anyone was looking for leadership focused on easing their current economic pain, he made clear that they'll need to look elsewhere.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2026
We've reached the Nazi part of Trump's speech: "The Somali pirates who ransacked Minnesota remind us that there are large parts of the world where corruption and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception. Importing these cultures through unrestricted immigration ... "
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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
So let’s get this straight. Anthropic “refuses to allow its products to be used for mass domestic surveillance…or in physical attacks where AI makes targeting decisions without human input” but Hegseth wants to use it in that way. Idiocy has no bounds. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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Pentagon sets Friday deadline for Anthropic to abandon ethics rules for AI — or else
The defense secretary has threatened to cancel the AI startup’s Pentagon work and designate it a supply chain risk, according to a person granted anonymity to describe sensitive talks.
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The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 24/02/2026
ICE whistleblower alleges that Todd Lyons cut training on split second decision making and use of force, and says recruits are taught to treat non-judicial warrants as a “permission slip to themselves” to force entry into homes, effectively normalizing constitutional violations.
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HalfAstorian @halfastorian.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
It’s teeth grinding to interact with fembot
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Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Her research laid the groundwork for the Global Positioning System, GPS, a technology that has made getting lost a thing of the past. wapo.st/4c3qzA5
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Mathematician Gladys West dies at 95. She was a hidden figure behind GPS.
Without the mathematical model that she helped refine, “the extraordinary positioning, navigation, and timing accuracy of GPS would be impossible to achieve.”
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LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
When the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the president cannot simply declare sweeping global tariffs under emergency powers, it wasn’t a technical trade decision. It was a constitutional one.
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Trump immediately invokes alternative tariffs authority to reinstate 10% global levies
By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Friday he’s immediately going to enact a 10% global tariff under a trade law known as Section 122 following the Supreme Court’s landmark ...
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Voted for Hubie and Kamala @stef47.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The loss of our constitutional democratic form of government will be the story of the Democrats judged to be not good enough to elect and the Republicans judged to be not bad enough not to elect.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Pleading with people to understand the scope of this. It won’t just be for immigrants. They will use these camps to detain anyone they deem as an “other”. The disabled. The homeless. Trans people. Political dissidents. Your tax dollars will be spent incarcerating people without due process.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
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HalfAstorian @halfastorian.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
“He also told a child that ‘since he was pardoned for storming the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, and he was being awarded $10,000,000 as a result of being a ‘jan 6’er’ ... that he would be putting him in his ‘will’ to take any money he had left over,’ according to the affidavit.”
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 12/02/2026
Pam Bondi brought a document to the Judiciary Committee today that had my search history of the Epstein files on it. The DOJ is spying on members of Congress. It’s a disgrace and I won’t stand for it.
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HalfAstorian @halfastorian.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Emotional to see the reality of history. The perseverance!!
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HalfAstorian @halfastorian.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The 2 hour booming extravaganza on Sunday evening in Seattle a perfect test
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HalfAstorian @halfastorian.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This is absolute madness. mRNA vaccines a freaking modern miracle
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HalfAstorian @halfastorian.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Fog is lighting up all over
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