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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Anthony Fauci is credited for saving millions of lives, including during the HIV/AIDS and Covid epidemics. RFK Jr. is famous for celebrating the courage of antivax parents and doctors who allowed their children to die of preventable diseases.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Donald Trump setting up a protection racket for a problem that didn't exist until he created it is really on brand for our Mafia wannabe president.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
You'd think a guy who stumbled across an extra billion in the couch cushions would be able to pull off a decent spectacle instead of this scotch tape and cardboard debacle, but then you probably didn't find that extra billion this year, either, did you?
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It's worth remembering that the entire declaration in our Constitution establishing birthright citizenship in the United States of America is shorter than this sentence.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
After training our AI on their decades of knowledge and hard work, we were really hoping to be able to fire all our employees. But it looks like the bastards have been keeping secrets all this time. - Ford CEO (probably)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Today feels like a good day to share this video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwxNnqy8YRA
youtube.com
How to Fix a Broken Supreme Court | Robert Reich
Justice Roberts refused to testify in a hearing on SCOTUS ethics.Thomas and Alito accepted luxury vacations from GOP meg
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
NASA image of the day Messier 64, the Black Eye Galaxy ☑️ www.nasa.gov/image-of-the... ☑️ www.nasa.gov/image-articl... 🔭🧪
This image of Messier 64, or the Black Eye Galaxy, easily identified by the spectacular band of dark dust that partially obscures its bright core, is a composite view from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope. It shows Messier 64 captured at near- and mid-infrared wavelengths by Webb, while Hubble’s image shows the galaxy in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light.

Messier 64 is characterized by its bizarre internal motion. The gas in the outer regions of this spiral galaxy is rotating in the opposite direction from the gas and stars in its inner regions. This strange behavior may be the result of a merger between M64 and a satellite galaxy over a billion years ago.

Image credit: NASA, CSA, ESA, F. Belfiore (European Southern Observatory – Germany), J. Lee (Space Telescope Science Institute), A. Leroy (The Ohio State University), and D. Thilker (The Johns Hopkins University); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
A great way to sort people by age is to ask them to identify someone from the 1900's. People over 30 will bring up the Wright Brothers or Henry Ford. Younger people will just say 'Dad'.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The text tells one story and the picture tells another. "A booming thunder of cheers rang out on SpaceX’s webcast at the Starship spacecraft accomplished a stunning feat: manging to swing itself upright and complete a controlled splashdown in the Indian Ocean" (CNN: Starship has splashed down)
What looks like a pretty big explosion after the latest Starship launch "successfully"(?) splashed down.
 
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/22/science/live-news/spacex-starship-flight-12-version-3-launch
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Call it looting. Call it theft. Call it the obvious result of a corrupted Supreme Court giving complete immunity to a convicted felon, clearing the path for him to take control of the government, and stripping away any guardrails against his rampage.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This is not a "settlement". Trump is still on both sides of the lawsuit, here. Ordering the DOJ to "settle" by putting $1.7 billion into to pockets of his minions is only different in degree from putting $10 billion into his personal bank account. The correct word is "looting".
theguardian.com
Trump may settle his lawsuit against IRS for $1.7bn fund to compensate allies
In unprecedented self-dealing maneuver, billions of taxpayer dollars could be paid to US president and his allies
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Alot of research and technical work that would have been called "machine learning" or "advanced algorithms" has been rebranded as "AI" because it's considered a magic encantation by CEOs and politicians.It's often required to get funding.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Elon Musk pretends to have the perfect plan to end the national deficit, that somehow doesn't involve him paying taxes.
fortune.com
‘This is the way’: Elon Musk endorses Warren Buffett’s famed 5-minute plan to fix the national debt | Fortune
The richest man in the world joins prominent financial leaders in supporting a plan to lower the deficit to 3% of GDP.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
"We will use all the tools available to stop the president's assault on our communities and looting of the treasury" Works pretty well, without committing to the specific tool of impeachment if Jeffries thinks that option is too controversial.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I'm pretty sure "cassiecarterauthor" and "authorcassiealexander" are both AI slop, themselves.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵
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ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 months
The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a massive spike in detainee deaths and medical crises.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Happy Earth Day!
Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch views Earth through the window of the Orion spaceship.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I feel like the Senate should be making a lot of noise about the fact that the president is publicly talking about giving himself $10 billion from the US treasury. This is explicit looting and needs to be stopped. Everyone who hears it will understand it.
washingtonpost.com
Agencies in talks with Trump, family to resolve $10B lawsuit over tax leaks
President Trump and his family are suing federal agencies over leaks of their tax information. Court filings say they’re in talks to find a solution instead of heading to trial.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Nero could at least play the fiddle while he burned the world down.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
There is a universe in which this was the biggest international news story of the last 10 days.
Photograph of the Earth behind the edge of the Moon taken by Artemis II astronauts during their flyby (2026).
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." It's a simple clause. The "originalists" of the SC should would have rejected the case outright, if they weren't all frauds.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"In the worst moments of humanity, the best of humanity always shows up." - Jose Andres
youtube.com
Meet José Andrés - My Favorite People
YouTube video by Trevor Noah
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The world can be a beautiful place.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I expect this to backfire spectacularly. Americans already hate ICE. If they start harassing people who don't look like "real" Americans at US airports, then people who've only read about their abuses in the news are going to see them up close and in-person, and that is not a good look at all.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
European Game Theory (Hormuz edition) Best to worst strategies 0.) Europe ignores Trump until he gets bored and the Strait reopens. 1.) Europe joins Trump's coalition, and become trapped to the whims of an eccentric idiot. 2.) Is immediately abandoned as Trump sails his fleet off to conquer Cuba.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The trope is that everything Trump touches, dies, and he's been giving the oil industry a bear hug over the last year. So, hope for the future, I guess.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
"Name them" should be the response to any reporter who starts a question with "people say".
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We'll never understand the war by thinking in terms of American objectives. Trump let Jared and Witkoff decide if we should bomb Iran. The objectives are those of the Saudi family and Netanyahu's Likud party.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
When Trump says he ended "6, 7, really 8 wars" he was talking about the wars he was threatening, but hadn't carried out yet. But then we wouldn't give him the Nobel Prize, so the deal's off.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months," (2003) Donald Rumsfeld predicting length of the Iraq war.
cbc.ca
War likely wouldn't last long: Rumsfeld | CBC News
U.S. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld tells troops any war with Iraq probably won't last more than six months
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Strong "I really don't care do you?" energy with this one.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I'm convinced we all really end up stupider for listening to the man speak because a normal brain will instinctively attempt to make sense of the nonsense, and that just isn't ever going to work out well.
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Larry Hamilton @ichiloe.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Orion's belt through hazy clouds. It was cold tonight but this was the closest to clear sky we've seen here in weeks, so dammit I went out. 🔭
Small-telescope photo: Three blue stars of Orion's belt, with the colorful swirl of the Great Nebula forming his sword
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The Roberts Court has a clear set of guidelines: the president can do anything he pleases, so long as it does not violate the rights of the owning class.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Jesus, Dems are always a mile behind the public. What we need to see: 1.) No masks. 2.) No cosplaying as an army in a warzone. 3.) No warrantless searches. 4.) No assaulting protesters. 5.) No random stops or racial profiling. 6.) Get the hell out of Minneapolis. and of course Abolish ICE.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"This is the part that’s going to be painful for both of us, but we have to praise Brett Kavanaugh." Once again, you absolutely never, never, never, "Have to give it to 'Em".
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Just a reminder that we knew about all this corruption in real-time. Cybersecurity officials were being fired across the government by DOGE when they tried to prevent access to sensitive data.
taxpolicycenter.org
How DOGE’s Access To IRS Data Puts Taxpayer Information At Risk
The Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has pressed the IRS for permission to access individual tax return information of US households and businesses. While the DOGE tea...
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The spirit of Rev. Martin Luther King is still alive in the Trump era.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I'm not convinced this isn't just literal piracy.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Sometimes it's worth repeating, "You do not under any circumstances have to hand it to him". knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-do...
knowyourmeme.com
You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, "Gotta Hand It To Them" | Know Your Meme
You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, "Gotta Hand It To Them" is a catchphrase and phrasal template inspired by a 2017 Dril tweet. The original reads, "issu
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Shu Chen Li @shuchenli.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Boats (2019)
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The US military is not supposed to take it on themselves to remove political leaders, and we wouldn't like the result if they started. It's the members of the Supreme Court and Congress who are standing by and allowing him to go rogue.
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Senator Ruben Gallego @gallego.senate.gov · 06/01/2026
INSANE. This is why I’m taking action. Congress MUST act so I’m introducing my War Powers Resolution to stop this Dumbroe Doctrine. www.reuters.com/world/trump-adviser…
reuters.com
Trump discussing how to acquire Greenland; US military always an option, White House says
U.S. President Donald Trump and his team are discussing options for acquiring Greenland and the use of the U.S. military in furtherance of the goal is "always an option," the White House said on Tuesday.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
"The United States with this action has signed on to the project of destroying the rules based international order." Putin is probably very happy today. Greenland, Taiwan Ukraine and those who care about American democracy should be on high alert.
youtube.com
Understanding the U.S. Strike on Venezuela | Explainer
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
"[Keir Starmer] insisted his Labour administration will “shed no tears” over the end of Nicolas Maduro’s regime" Such a stupid response. Does Starmer realize Trump's "because I want their stuff" argument applies doubly so for Greenland, Panama and Canada?
theguardian.com
Donald Trump says US will ‘run’ Venezuela after military strikes – live
United Nations to hold emergency security council meeting after the US attacked Venezuela and forced Nicolás Maduro out of the country
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The last time we tried something like this, it ended up costing us several trillion dollars, thousands of lives and triggered a mass refugee exodus, so in all seriousness I wish our mob-boss of a president better luck this time around. www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3708757
nbcnews.com
Iraqis’ joy at Saddam arrest quickly fades
On Sunday, the streets of Baghdad rang with celebratory gunfire and shouts of joy as Iraqis caught the news of Saddam Hussein's arrest.  By the next morning, many Iraqis' mood had soured.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
A guy who thought the 2020 election was stolen planted bombs on January 5th and they're pretending his crime wasn't tied to the man who pardoned 1500 like-minded rioters. Are we sure this guy /can/ be tried for the crime? Maybe he was pardoned before he was caught.
en.wikipedia.org
Pardon of January 6 United States Capitol attack defendants - Wikipedia
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
"If True"? We know it's true. Trump started publicly declaring that, "the President can't have conflicts of interest" just weeks after he was elected in November of 2016. He spent the entirety of that term soliciting bribes and he's doubled down since his re-election.
newrepublic.com
Trump’s Corruption Hits Next Level With Shady $2 Billion Crypto Deal
An investment firm backed by a foreign government just made a massive deal using the Trump family’s crypto firm. The conflicts of interest here are unprecedented.
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ireidani.bsky.social @ireidani.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
"Oil, Land, and other Assets they previously stole from us" I think there's a real story in the name of the last oil baron who was in the room with Trump. Because he's clearly not talking about offenses against the US. He's carrying out a vendetta for one of his billionaire buddies.
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