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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

No better time to post Hunter S. Thompson on 9/12/2001. www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...

We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or what will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at once. Who knows? Not even the Generals in what remains of the Pentagon or the New York papers calling for WAR seem to know who did it or where to look for them.
This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.
Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy.
OK. It is 24 hours later now, and we are not getting much information about the Five Ws of this thing.
The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators.
The lid is on. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Don't say anything that might give aid to The Enemy.

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The Art of Asty @theartofasty.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 30/07/2025

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

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Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work

A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

South Park > Columbia University

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 24/07/2025

The American battery industry was booming during the Biden years, with investment even exceeding the Chinese industry in some of 2024. But will it survive the Big Beautiful Bill’s onerous regulations? From @ryanlcooper.com:

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Can the American Battery Industry Survive Trump?

For solar and grid storage, it’s a race between technological progress and Republican malice.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 24/07/2025

To connect the recent Steam and Itch situation to another ongoing bit of news: Visa and Mastercard (and other US companies like PayPal, Stripe, and Meta) clearly believe they are entitled to dictate how people spend money not just through their services, but anywhere at all archive.ph/jigm3

Brazil rallies to defend much-loved payment system from Donald Trump’s attack

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/07/2025

Rooftop solar power in Australia is the cheapest power available to consumers in the world, full stop. I wish more people knew that.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 23/07/2025

New York Times 1977. Renee Richards, a trans woman, won the right to compete in tennis.

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Mike Quigley @quigley.house.gov · 22/07/2025

Speaker Johnson doesn't mind keeping the House in session to cut healthcare for 17 million Americans, but he draws the line at exposing child predators.

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Jeremiah Baumann @jdbaumann.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Old news but I still can’t get over that it looks like the pinewood derby designs I drew with a ruler and pencil as a 10-year-old

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

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Jeremiah Baumann @jdbaumann.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I don’t mean to be that guy but what do you mean what if? We’re building torture prisons, arresting people on the street who’ve done nothing wrong, and the government is shutting down basic services like disaster response

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Jeremiah Baumann @jdbaumann.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I know it’s easy to say this these days but I don’t understand how the press isn’t absolutely hounding the administration over this. They refused to provide *search and rescue* services in the middle of a disaster! What else do we have government for

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Man who advocates for system where people can be jailed or killed for their beliefs asks for money and sympathy because he was fired for his beliefs thecatholicherald.com/article/self...

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Self-proclaimed Catholic fascist fired after Jubilee appearance

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Not sure why Trump thinks it’s clever to release everyone’s files MLK, Hillary) but Epstein’s. It just makes his coverup of the Epstein files more glaring.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Politico & Punchbowl report House Republican leadership is shutting down the Rules Committee - which is essential for moving party-line bills on the floor - for the week rather than vote on Democratic amendments on the Epstein files. Dems have effectively halted Republican legislation in the House:

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 22/07/2025

“Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner. But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger"

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

One can certainly debate the degree to which the Trump campaign knew about or encouraged Russian operations to influence the 2016 election, or the relevance they had to the outcome. But the evidence that such operations were real is overwhelming and widely attested by non-US intel agencies.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them

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Jeremiah Baumann @jdbaumann.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I don’t know why people are talking about labubu, I thought it was something I drank in the rainforest

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

As long as I live, I will never understand how "it should be easier for chemical companies to poison the water my family drinks" became a politically popular position www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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EPA eliminates its scientific research arm

The move to dismantle the Office of Research and Development comes as Trump officials cut the agency’s total staff by 23 percent.

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Jeremiah Baumann @jdbaumann.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Back when I was bike-commuting daily, I took a little bike maintenance course at the local bike shop and it blew my mind that I was supposed to inflate weekly (and what a difference it made when I sometimes did it)

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The Senate Intel Committee unanimously concluded that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. If there had been some Obama conspiracy, we would have found it. This latest lie is another sad, dangerous example of Tulsi Gabbard trying to rewrite history and erode trust in the IC.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/07/2025

"the constitution mandates anti-black racism"

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

So basically what these people have done is reinvent the idea of disparate impact, but inverted it, so that the negative impact you need to look out for is when black people receive any kind of benefit whatsoever, even accidentally

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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Jeremiah Baumann @jdbaumann.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Whole article is worth reading…March review, 1000+ FBI agents, NY field office, 100K records

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Trump's dialogue on the card to Epstein suggests a shared relish in a common "secret" about "enigmas [that] never age." It's so sick and dark that it can't be dismissed as locker room talk. Trump's only out is to claim it's simply a fake--and hope there isn't compelling evidence it's authentic.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Bump

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Tom Scocca [lock icon] @tomscocca • Oct 7 2016
Nothing about Trump has ever looked kinda bad at first but turned out OK. He's always worse than you thought.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

“I never wrote a picture in my life.” bsky.app/profile/jswe...

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

American president, 1963: "Ich bin ein Berliner" American president, 2025:

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

BREAKING On April 24, Elon Musk's Neuralink falsely self-certified as a "small disadvantaged business" on a federal filing, a designation that qualifies the company for preferential treatment as part of a racial and ethnic diversity initiative.

muskwatch.com

Musk’s Neuralink falsified federal forms, claims to qualify for racial diversity program

The company, owned by the world's wealthiest man, says it is a "small disadvantaged business"

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 17/07/2025

Direct File exists. We already paid for it. So we are now trashing software that we have already paid for, that people are using, that people *love*, in the name of "efficiency." Yes, blame the Trump administration for this, but Intuit has been desperate to murder Direct File for years.

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 17/07/2025

The president calling the editor of the WSJ to quash a story about his relationship with Epstein - hoo boy. That won't stir the coals.

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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I had to shake his hand once. (YUCK AND IT WAS c1993.) It was a disgustingly limp, half-hand, no-grip, doughy thing. My point is, no one’s gonna grip that thing till it bruises.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 17/07/2025

New bombshell from my investigators on Epstein's sex trafficking operation: the Trump administration has an Epstein file detailing 4,725 wire transfers and almost $1.1 billion flowing through just one of his banks. Hundreds of millions more through others.

nytimes.com

This Democrat Won’t Let Go of the Jeffrey Epstein Case, Either

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Warning people in rural areas about natural disasters, for starters.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Today in Partisan Asymmetry in Adhering to Norms www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

In the biggest Democratic-controlled state, California, maps are drawn by an independent commission. In the second-largest, New York, there's little appetite to reopen the redistricting process mid-decade after a failed effort last cycle.
"It sets a bad precedent in that you could just redraw the lines anytime you want," New York Democratic Assemblymember Michaelle Solages said. "I don't think folks would be interested in doing that."

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Jeremiah Baumann @jdbaumann.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I hope they do it with that bad redaction method where if you look right you can still see the text under the black highlighting

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Jeremiah Baumann @jdbaumann.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Sounds like when my friend Allen and I convinced our high school physics teacher to let us do an independent study in “astrophysics,” and other than fucking around, we would sit in the library brainstorming things like “but dude what would happen if the thing orbited the black hole like this?”

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/07/2025

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Jeremiah Baumann @jdbaumann.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This is the thing I hate most about exercise

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