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John Scudder @johnscudder.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

How much doc would a Docusign if a dock queue could sign sine?

John Scudder @johnscudder.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

In the beginning of Red Mars, our heroes are (rightly) afraid of radiation from being on the surface. By the time we get to Blue Mars, they’re prancing around the surface buck naked. At no time in the intervening pages has Mars magically developed a magnetic field. WTF, KSR? Make it make sense.

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John Scudder @johnscudder.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Isaac Asimov’s first Lucky Starr juvie featuring John “Bigman” Jones, the plucky Martian, came out in 1952. J’onn J’onzz, the Martian Manhunter, appeared in DC Comics in 1955. In the 1990s Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars series features myths about Big Man, a kind of Paul Bunyan figure. Coincidence?

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AAUP Texas A&M-College Station Chapter @tamu-aaup.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/01/2026

Lost Jan. 6 Rioter Still Searching Capitol Building For Mike Pence theonion.com/lost-jan-6-rioter-stil…

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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/01/2026

Apple Photos Reminds Man He Was Nude In Capitol Building 5 Years Ago

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 06/01/2026

Whoops

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Let's break the Internet with this today.....

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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

On the face of it, the Venezuelan regime has played Trump for a sucker. The details are murky but it appears that now-acting president Rodriguez convinced Rubio that she would accept a US take-over and that the US was given the location of Maduro (and his wife).

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply. I want to make sure this is very clear.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Mamdani rescinded every executive order issued by Eric Adams after Adams's indictment, but still the "New York Times" is focusing exclusively on two of those orders that had to do with Israel. There is someone singling out Israel here. And it isn't Zohran Mamdani.

"New York Times" headline: "Inside Mamdani’s Decision to Revoke Executive Orders That Backed Israel
Mr. Mamdani, a staunch critic of Israel and its treatment of Palestinians, knew he would not extend the orders, but he had to decide how and when he would rescind them."

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John Scudder @johnscudder.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

“Something must be done!” “Term limits are something.” … “Term limits must be done!”

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Every major free speech org has said the IHRA definition suppresses constitutionally protected speech. Every major human rights group has said it suppresses legitimate advocacy. The scandal is that Adams adopted the definition, not that Mamdani rejected it. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...

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Inside Mamdani’s Decision to Revoke Executive Orders That Backed Israel

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

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Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become

1 They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

DOJ is still in violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Ok I really am working out the logistics of permanently shuttering my twitter account - but my god is this funny.

Laura loomer
One thing I dont see anyone talking about is how @zohranmamdani had the AG of NY swear him in as Mayor on a Quran INSIDE A TUNNEL!

This is 100% an homage to Hamas and the Globalize the intifiada movement

He is signaling the beginning of his islamic conquest from a tunnel

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John Scudder @johnscudder.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

The wave of skeets about the FOXification of CBS are a little bemusing to me. I mean, yeah, it’s awful. But all you ppl who are professing shock — are you actually shocked? Because my level of shock would be accurately represented by the old Casablanca clip. This was both predictable, and predicted.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Elon Musk promised a lot of things by 2025 - colonists arriving on Mars - xAI achieving AGI - Tesla robotaxis serving half the U.S. - completely driverless robotaxis - a Tesla Roadster demo - DOGE cutting trillions none of them happened mashable.com/article/elon-mus...

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Everything Elon Musk promised in 2025, but didn't deliver

Musk is now infamous for his false promises, but even this is excessive.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I am determined as God is my witness to start the Trump fake hand conspiracy theory. His hand isn't showing signs of an undisclosed illness. It's a fake painted Halloween costume hand because his hand was already removed. It's time.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 31/12/2025

And actually--Comet Pizza was a page out of a playbook that started with daycare decades before. In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

“Self-deport” is a whitewashed way to describe “fleeing the country under the threat of state violence.” I agree with Maria here — it’s important to call that exactly what it is.

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John Scudder @johnscudder.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Check it out while it’s still legal! www.trumpkennedycenter.org

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HOME | Trump Kennedy Center

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John Scudder @johnscudder.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Apparently my REI package won’t be arriving for a year?

A notice reading “Tuesday Dec 29 Exception”

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

1991: The United States thinks it has decisively won the Cold War against Russia. 2025: The United States' foreign policy is being dictated by Russia.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

This piece is a great illustration of how the long-term effect of Trump’s destruction of US institutions won’t be felt in a dramatic market collapse, but rather in permanently worse economic conditions, and lower prosperity. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... So long, American exceptionalism

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So long, American exceptionalism

For the first time, investors are talking about ‘US risk’

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John Scudder @johnscudder.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

And avionics. And medical devices. And, and, and.

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John Scudder @johnscudder.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

“Instead, what appears to have happened is a lot of empty talk, no real significant change, and backlash that is causing real harm. This is the worst of all possible worlds.”

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

1) these are all answerable questions 2) we don’t get 50% cost savings out of the deal 3) we almost certainly do get significant cost savings out of some of the ways to move to universal coverage

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Oh dear, how awkward...the guy who coined the term "American Dream" gave the last word of his book to a young immigrant girl & said the main lesson of his day was that people who'd amassed great wealth were not "the wisest leader to follow nor the best fitted to propound a sane philosophy of life."

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THE EPIC OF AMERICA
The prospect is discouraging to-day, but not hopeless.
As we compare America in 1931 with the America of 1912 it seems as though we had slipped a long way backwards. But that period is short, after all, and the whole world has been going through the fires of Hell. There are not a few signs of promise now in the sky, signs that the peoples themselves are beginning once again to crave something more than is vouchsafed to them in the toils and toys of the mass-production age.
They are beginning to realize that, because a man is born with a particular knack for gathering in vast aggregates of money and power for himself, he may not on that account be the wisest leader to follow nor the best fitted to propound a sane philosophy of life. We have a long and arduous road to travel if we are to realize our American dream in the life of our nation, but if we fail, there is nothing left but the old eternal round.
The alternative is the failure of self-government, the failure of the common man to rise to full stature, the failure of all that the American dream has held of hope and promise for mankind.
That dream was not the product of a solitary thinker. It evolved from the hearts and burdened souls of many millions, who have come to us from all nations. If some of them appear to us to have too great faith, we know not yet to what faith may attain, and may hearken to the words of one of them, Mary Antin, a young immigrant girl. who came to us from Russia, a child out of "the Middle Ages," as she says, into our twentieth century. Sitting on the steps of the Boston Public Library, where the treasures of the whole of human thought had been opened to her, she wrote, "This is my latest home, and it invites me to a glad new life. The endless ages have indeed throbbed through my blood, but a new rhythm dances in my veins. My spirit is not tied to the monumental past, any more than my feet were bound to my grandfather's house below the hill. The past was only my…

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splendid palace, whose shadow covers acres. No! It is not I that belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.
America is the youngest of the nations, and inherits all that went before in history. And I am the youngest of America's children, and into my hands is given all her priceless heritage, to the last white star espied through the telescope, to the last great thought of the philosopher. Mine is the whole majestic past, and mine is the shining future."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

"If you don't fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition.” -James Mattis as Secretary of Defense testifying before Congress in 2017. Succeeding with soft power is greatly preferable—and a lot cheaper—than having to address something with hard power.

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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Merry Christmas from ??? and Melania….

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

The government has broad authority to control admission but courts have held *repeatedly*, over more than half a century, that the First Amendment bars the government from denying visas to foreign citizens simply because it dislikes what they have to say. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...

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They Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship.

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Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Okay, so at the request of the lovely @trance.bsky.social , I'm going to tell a story about what happens when a shitty person is "just joking", and then discovers there are consequences. AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade. Grab your beverage of choice.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I did not have “the Rhode Island Attorney General namesearches into my mentions” on my dance card but I do appreciate the poster’s spirit

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I'm not saying something that people don't already know. But it's worth making the issue explicit. We have an elaborate jurisprudence of probable cause, rooted in explicit strictures in the constitution that places big limits on what police can do to you. Those limits may be honored in the breach...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

This is critically important. Democrats need to pass it if they retake Congress. Trump will veto it. So pass it again. Campaign on it. Given current polling, corruption of the FBI, and the brutality of ICE and BP, there’s no better time to say, “Federal police are not above the law.”

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Has anyone even discussed this in the mainstream media? It just seems soooo damning and it's been pretty much ignored as far as I can tell. Did I miss it? www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Times have been tough in this Ohio town since they closed the old sex crimes redacting factory. So when Trump, Bondi, and Blanche redacted Trump’s name from hundreds of documents describing sex crimes, they finally had something to cheer about. But now the woke mob wants to take that all away.

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John Scudder @johnscudder.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Today I learned Rahm Emanuel is teasing a presidential bid. At least an inadequate ego isn’t one of his many faults.

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Joe F Spaulding 🦉 @joespaulding.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Matt Maddock, a Republican State Representative in Michigan thinks that opposing pedophilia is a "left-wing scare tactic." His reply was in response to a question asking him to justify his vote against a bill banning child marriage.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

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Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 19/12/2025

Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.

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John Scudder @johnscudder.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

A good point. Malicious compliance? Or just incompetence? … never bet against incompetence.

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I mean this almost entirely without irony; post-Trump, the default rhetoric regarding Trump's second term should be that it was illegitimate according to the plain text of the 14th amendment, not to mention the subsequent Watergate-a-Day Calendar lawbreaking. (1/2)

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

MY 4-YEAR OLD: *calmly, while coloring a picture of the Grinch* If baby grinches die, we can eat them. If they’re clean. That’s ok

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Mary M @maryvvmahon.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Chicago is naming another snowplow. You know what to do. www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...

*Enter your snowplow name

Text box reads "ABOLISH ICE"

Below reads, Deadline for submissions is January 10, 2026.

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