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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

i think an important formative childhood/teenagehood experience is to go over to your friends house for a sleepover and realize some people's families are way more fucked up than yours

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Sad trombone

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

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Lindsay Toczylowski @l-toczylowski.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Posting tonight ti shine a light on what the Alien Enemies Act looks like IRL. Our @immdef.bsky.social client fled Venezuela last year & came to US to seek asylum. He has a strong claim. He was detained upon entry because ICE alleged his tattoos are gang related. They are absolutely not. 🧵

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Steve Liesman @steveliesman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

More than $3 trillion of wealth evaporated from the S&P 500 since Inauguration Day as policies meant to put us in the Golden Age hurtle us back to the Iron Age.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

So this was a campaign promise not an observation.

STOCK MARKETS ARE CRASHING, JOBS NUMBERS ARE TERRIBLE, WE ARE HEADING TO WORLD WAR III, AND WE HAVE TWO OF THE MOST INCOMPETENT "LEADERS" IN HISTORY. THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!

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KC Murphy @kcmurph.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

What would John Lewis do tonight if he were still with us? He would cause GOOD TROUBLE. Boycotting the speech is not that - that's playing into Trump's hands. Instead, dear Congresspeople, show up. Shout down the lies. Spread the truth. Push Trump's buttons - make him show himself for what he is.

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David Allen Lambert @dlgenealogist.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Apparently 1620 wasn't such a good year either! #GraveHumor #Genealogy

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Vermont Public @vermontpublic.org · 01/03/2025

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Waitsfield on Saturday morning to protest Vice President JD Vance, who is visiting Vermont with his family for a ski trip this weekend.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I wish reading the news felt less like binge watching the final season of a long running series that’s been a major part of your life for decades.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 21/02/2025

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Here’s a good model for responding to this dipshit’s letters:

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

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KC Murphy @kcmurph.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

There's no widespread fraud in Social Security payments, as Elon Musk claims. The number of people receiving benefits by age is available online. In Dec 2024, 89,106 people 99yo & older received benefits. There are about 101,000 people in the US over the age of 100. www.ssa.gov/oact/progdat...

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Retired worker beneficiaries distributed by age

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

reading the Declaration of Independence and it is so fucking wild to me how Trump is literally doing like 75% of this

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as a shadow government across the entire federal government. Each agency/dept will be assigned a DOGE minder who will work with the Secry or Director and essentially be in charge of all new hiring and/or firing. People have been saying the Elon is ...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private email server or Elon Musk giving full access to all government information to a nineteen-year old named Big Balls with ties to a child pornography collective known for its extortion techniques, both sides have played loose with security.

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KC Murphy @kcmurph.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

If DOGE messes with the National Archives, I'm going to be REALLY pissed. #genealogy

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KC Murphy @kcmurph.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Why is Elon Musk hiding what they are doing inside the USAID building?

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Is there a word for when a bunch of private citizens following orders from an unelected billionaire occupy government buildings and cut off communications

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us national archives stuff @heycheckthisout.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A man of Japanese ancestry wears his WWI US Navy uniform as he enters an incarceration camp in 1942. catalog.archives.gov/id/537044

A man of Japanese ancestry in a US Navy dress uniform exits a car. A man with an armband that says STAFF is writing something on a notepad.

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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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KC Murphy @kcmurph.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Regarding Pete Hegseth, I can't get past the fact that he doesn't wash his hands. I'm a NO right there. www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

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Fox host says he 'hasn't washed hands in 10 years'

Harvard and Princeton graduate Pete Hegseth says germs don't exist because he can't see them.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

A millionaire co-founder of real estate investment firm, who bragged about not paying taxes, offered to throw cash at any concierge private fire department to protect only *his* house. We are living in the age of selfish plutocrats. (The account was subsequently deleted.)

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

everything about this new Meta AI bot is so dystopian but for me the AI-generated images of nonexistent donated coats is up there

AI-generated image of boxes of coats for donation with a caption that reads “kicking off the new year in service of our community”

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Rob Joyce @rgblights.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

For all my math peeps out there: 2025 is pretty amazing mathematical arrangement. 1. 2025 is a perfect square (45×45=2025) 2. 2025 is the sum of digits of cubes from 1 to 9 (1³ + 2³ + 3³ + ... + 9³ = 2025) 3. 2025 is the first square year after 1936 (Cont…)

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KC Murphy @kcmurph.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

When I volunteer to help people with their #genealogy I always warn them to be prepared to find out unpleasant things about your ancestors. Well, just this week, as I'm working on my husband's tree, I come to find his 3GGfather was a murderer, who disemboweled a man. Yikes. #GenHour

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

TRUMP: I’m going to use the FBI illegally to go after my political enemies! BIDEN: Um, I guess I’ll pardon my son then because fuck that. MEDIA: Biden is breaking norms!

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

OMG, these are the initial vetting questions for NIH Director 🤦‍♂️ H/T @statsepi.bsky.social

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

You all MOCKED George Lucas and said this was boring or dumb but who’s laughing now???

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Ernie Tedeschi @ernietedeschi.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

A broad 25% tariff on all goods imports from Canada and Mexico would, before substitution & other 2nd stage effects, put upward pressure on the level of consumer prices of +0.6%. That's the equivalent of an average loss in after-tax income of about $980 per household in 2023$.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

UMass/Amherst (left) and Wesleyan University are both warning their international students to be on American soil before noon on Jan 20 -- Inauguration Day.

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Lara Diamond @laradiamond.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Relatives not US citizens in 1940 (or some who were but weren't sure themselves), you need to check out AR-2s, newly available from NARA. You may get maiden names, arrival info, signatures+more. And you get them quickly! #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2024/08/alie...

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Alien Attack: Get Your Relatives' AR-2s!

Genealogy tips & stories tracing family with microfilmed records, records in Ukrainian archives, and (sometimes) online records. Jewish genealogy blog

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/11/2024

Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app is there a way to help Leigh and stop this kind of squatting?

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Binyamin Appelbaum @bcappelbaum.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Congratulations to Matt Gaetz on breaking the Susan Collins concern-o-meter.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Animation of daily normal precipitation throughout the year using stations data from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Probably my favorite animation.

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KC Murphy @kcmurph.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

On this Veterans Day, I’m thinking of my dad who joined the Navy during the Korean War so he could go to college on the GI bill. He grew up in rural Arkansas, was the first of his family to go to college, and then grad school. As a physics PhD he worked in the space program, among other things.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11/11/2024

Judge James Ho wants you to know he isn’t *that* committed to birthright citizenship reason.com/volokh/2024/...

Q: One of your opinions that has been recently trashed by academics concerns the states having the power to declare illegal immigration as an invasion. Some critics have charged you with being hostile to immigrants.
This criticism is a bit rich, considering you are yourself an immigrant. And you've argued in support of constitutional birthright citizenship—a topic that I agree with you on. Is the criticism of your invasion opinion the kind of academic commentary that you were thinking of?
A: I'm not going to talk about any pending case, of course. But anyone who reads my prior writings on these topics should see a direct connection between birthright citizenship and invasion. Birthright citizenship is supported by various Supreme Court opinions, both unanimous and separate opinions involving Justices Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and others.
But birthright citizenship obviously doesn't apply in case of war or invasion. No one to my knowledge has ever argued that the children of invading aliens are entitled to birthright citizenship. And I can't imagine what the legal argument for that would be. It's like the debate over unlawful combatants after 9/11. Everyone agrees that birthright citizenship doesn't apply to the children of lawful combatants. And it's hard to see anyone arguing that unlawful combatants should be treated more favorably than lawful combatants.

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