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Jerry Newmark

@jerryn13.bsky.social
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Old nerd, one time sailboat racer, recovering audiophile. If things get desperate here, also @jerryn13@mastodon.coffee

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 58m
As we reported this week at @autonomynews.co: www.autonomynews.co/what-was-thi...
Does Trump actually want criminal investigations of abortion-pill providers? That’s not clear, though plenty of Republicans—including Hawley—do. Other anti-­abortion hardliners have been moving into influential positions in the administration, including pro-fetal personhood lawyer Josh Craddock at the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel and Dr. Heidi Overton, Trump’s new pick to lead the FDA. No one expects any big moves from the administration before the midterms. Then all bets are off.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24m
Scoop: Podcaster Benny Johnson is being sued for defamation over his ICE ride-along videos calling protesters "terrorists." www.ms.now/news/benny-j...
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MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’
Johnson accompanied top DHS officials last year to an ICE protest, where he pointed out “left-wing terrorists” for his millions of followers across social media.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1h
News that @susanrinkunas.com @garnethenderson.com have been writing about for weeks and months at @autonomynews.co: The Trump regime is holding fire against abortion rights (pills) until the elections are over. They are coming (again get to know #Comstock)
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 11m
The #FDA has announced a recall of thousands of bottles of eye drops over concerns the drops are not sterile. fox8.com/news/massive...
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Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 9m
In an update from Secrets of the Ice, researchers reveal that this year alone, 48 prehistoric arrows have been discovered and recovered from melting ice in Jotunheimen. ​While these finds offer insights into ancient hunting,they also signal an urgent & sobering reality: the oldest ice is now melting
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Year of the Arrows - Now the Stone Age Is Melting Out - Secrets of the Ice
48 prehistoric arrows emerge from melting ice in Jotunheimen in Norway as increasingly ancient artefacts are revealed.
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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 9m
Orlando-san, a mute swan who can’t fly and has a tower on its head, is the mascot for the town of Ora, in Gunma Prefecture.
A portly swan with a blue tower atop its head stands, small wings outstretched, in a convention centre.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 14m
this is a good thread by Ben. I'll boil it all down to one thing: labor demand has been low. It's likely bottomed, but isn't rising quickly...yet. Without stronger labor demand, openings are low, so hires are low, so quits are low, so fewer wages are set at the market rate, so wage growth is slow.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28m
"What is becoming increasingly clear is that the administration does not see itself as a litigant before the court and does not see its attorneys as bound by court orders. It sees DOJ attorneys as somehow coequal with SCOTUS, the only attorneys in the federal system not bound by ethical rules."
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The mendaciousness of the latest DOJ attack on judges
Blanche created a new rule out of thin air and is mad it’s not being followed.
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 32m
This particular innovation falls under the popular category of "We realized using a big box of heat is super inefficient so we switched to electricity/pressue/sound waves/microwaves/electron beams/lasers to actually accomplish the thing precisely".
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 23m
There is nothing more annoying to a specific kind of New Yorker than other New Yorkers having fun
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 11h
ICYMI: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to block abortion protections in blue states @autonomynews.co www.tiktok.com/t/ZPL1TT5va/ www.instagram.com/reel/Dd7gtkG...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 32m
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Cornbread Countess @breadbae.blacksky.app · 43m
Kids just be doing shit
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 23m
President Zelenskyy: "From intelligence reports and individuals within Putin's inner circle, we know that in early September Putin declared: 'From now on, there are no rules.' The Russians failed to occupy us, so now they are resorting to massive strikes and mass killings.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h
Big development: Dems are growing increasingly bullish on sweeping the big House races in South Texas. A DCCC official tells me internal polling shows Trump's approval cratering in key districts there: TX-15: 36% TX-28: 28% TX-34: 35% This and much more on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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Trump’s Weird Tirade on Midterms Accidentally Reveals Key GOP Weakness
As Trump’s monologue about his Texas midterm convention exposes a problem for the GOP, a Democratic operative argues that his collapse in South Texas is a real tell about what’s coming.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h
The Senate recessed on Wednesday. And so Trump waited until today to whine that Tom Cotton held up a bill that would change Daylight Savings, which pisses Trump off bc (Trump says) it hurt the PGA. Tom Cotton is probably the 17th least endangered GOP Senator. But this year? In the south?
A very long Trump post complaining that Tom Cotton held up a bill that would change Daylight Savings. Trump's mad bc that hurts the PGA.

I've marked that logic with blue boxes and numbered labels;
1) Trump attacks Tom Cotton
2) during election season
3) because he was mean to PGA
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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 2h
Exactly what we’re seeing in AI in the life sciences: wine and dine a cluster of thinkers, then invite the ones who aren’t put off or critical to contribute to paid-off think tanks
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2h
this is one of the issues we see rampant on the right these days. they assume the stuff that rockets around their bubble is what normal people are seeing. its especially a problem when your bubble is curated by elon musk to cater to his fetishes and racism.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2h
he will be fodder for us political junkies for a long time but some perspective: most normal people didnt hear about eric schmidt's fail and they will never hear about it. our bubble amplifies that sort of thing but it rarely reaches normies.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3h
According to the International Energy Agency, total global investment in solar energy (including both rooftop solar and utility-scale projects) was less than half of this figure, despite our dire ecological situation
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 2h
IDK this surge of “if every rape survivor self-IDs on the internet change will happen” is sure making me wonder if you all have collective amnesia from 2017
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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 2h
“No one from any of the states asked us about our backgrounds or qualifications, though West Virginia did ask for proof of a high school diploma. No one questioned what we plan to teach or how we would measure whether students are learning.”
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 2h
This Day in Labor History: October 2, 1968. The Mexican military slaughtered students protesting in the Tlateloco Plaza at the edge of Mexico City. The Tlateloco Massacre demonstrated the complete corruption of the Mexican Revolution’s ideals!!!
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h
The Hill reviewed the texts from which Eric Schmitt invented his conspiracy. They never mentioned the Hawks OR the Hawkeyes. thehill.com/homenews/sen...
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Smith’s game-day texts reviewed by Schmitt never referenced basketball team names
Text messages obtained by The Hill show former special counsel Jack Smith’s staff didn’t reference any basketball team names, adding to the confusion around why Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) errantly a…
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 19h
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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Audrey Dutton @audreydutton.bsky.social · 13h
A mother posted a family photo on social media in 2022 that shows three kids and a baby. That baby died. The next family photo in 2024 shows the kids, now older, with a different baby. That baby died -- followed in 2025 by another. Three dead sons in 4 years. www.propublica.org/article/idah...
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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 14h
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 15h
Every single newspaper that reported that Jane Doe “changed her story” should be rushing to publish retractions right now. This case should be a lesson in taking a DA’s victim-blaming statements at face value. Victims do not report to the police because they thought nothing happened to them.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 13h
Most of the commentary about this concentrates on how it's just an asshole move. And it definitely is. But it's also a violation of ADA
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19h
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.
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Mike Stucka @mikestucka.bsky.social · 22h
FEMA's new director, previously ousted for saying the agency shouldn't exist, now appears to be saying the agency should have no role in mitigation or recovery. Also, that the Red Cross, power company etc. have no role in emergency operations. eos.org/research-and... w/ @samlmontano.bsky.social
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A Redefinition of “Emergency Management” Could Upend FEMA’s Mission - Eos
Last week, FEMA administrator Cameron Hamilton issued a memorandum outlining the agency’s scope and essentially redefining “emergency management.”
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13h
bonkers
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 13h
Pal sent me the video, so....
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 17h
They failed to make this happen in 2020. It was Trump’s fever dream. This time they might make it work.
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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 13h
An 8 x 11 inch 1951 painting by Gertrude Abercrombie called “Alderman Merriam’s Shells” purchased for $30 at a Michigan estate sale sold at a New York art auction yesterday for $1,060,000. www.wbez.org/arts/2026/10... The painting had been originally traded to a doctor in
photo of the paitnign showing manyshyells
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 16h
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14h
If you need to send a fundraising email with the header “We know you’re not an ATM” maybe it’s a sign you ought to reign in the grifter consulting firms that are alienating supporters with a constant stream of panhandling spam to raise money that mostly gets poured back into their own coffers?
Dem fundraising email headed “We know you’re not an ATM”
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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 13h
DMV folks: The AFI Silver Classic Film Weekend returns this year! Participants include biographer Scott Eyman, historian David Stenn, @sheilakathleen.bsky.social, and me. Tomorrow, from noon to midnight, the AFI holds a flash sale for the weekend! Link: silver.afi.com/events/detai...
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AFI Silver Classic Film Weekend | AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
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Walkable City Texas Ranger @energyturtle.bsky.social · 13h
so good
a package of chicken. and waffle oreos
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18h
Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him theonion.com/man-who-lost-everythin…
Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 18h
US foreign affairs agencies violated federal law by unilaterally appointing members of the Foreign Service Grievance Board, the independent body that reviews challenges to personnel decisions affecting Foreign Service employees. - AFSA afsa.org/afsa-condemns-unlawf...
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AFSA Condemns Unlawful Appointments to the Foreign Service Grievance Board | American Foreign Service Association
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19h
Will is obviously smart and has made many excellent arguments in his time, but if Republican appointees appoint conservatives to amicus roles like this all the time and Democratic appointees do the same to show they're getting ~balanced arguments~, when do liberals get appointed?
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 14h
NEW: It’s unclear how much of about $600 million will be used for Emergency Housing Vouchers in NYC.
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Millions From Congress to Cover Rent for Thousands Left in Chaos by Trump Defunding
It’s unclear how much of about $600 million will be used for Emergency Housing Vouchers in NYC.
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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 14h
Oh dear
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 14h
Here's the crux of the ruling blocking Trump from firing court-appointed US Attorney Roger Rogoff in Seattle: Allowing it would "upend" the constitutional order. Trump's tried to end-run Senate confirmation for US Attorneys in five states and failed. Now, he's gunning for the judiciary's power.
Allowing the President to fire a court-appointed U.S. Attorney would upend
the framework created by the Constitution and the statutory framework, which together balances the President’s right to appoint and the Senate’s right to confirm. Allowing the President to fire a court-appointed U.S. Attorney also eliminates the incentive to nominate a candidate that can be conferred by the Senate—in other words, bypassing the requirement that the Executive and Legislative branches work together to nominate and confirm the U.S. Attorney.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 14h
phew glad that contentious issue was settled
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 14h
I really don't understand America's culture of forcing service workers to be on their feet all day.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 14h
Big Balls' grandfather was KGB Colonel Valery Martynov. He was coerced back to Moscow under false pretenses after the Ames affair, arrested, & executed for being a double agent. His grandmother was stripped of all assets & forced to do drudge work to support herself, his mom. & uncle. Details👇1/
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Prominent DOGE Staffer Is Grandson Of Turncoat KGB Spy
Edward “Big Balls” Coristine happens to be the descendant of Valery Martynov, a KGB agent who spied for the US.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you’re shocked by a Senator who doesn’t know the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes, wait until you hear about the president who only recently learned that dumb is spelled with a b. 🤣 🤪 😂
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