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💙 Awake & aware. Former public school educator, still a teacher. Pro-science, pro-facts, pro-humor-that-uplifts, pro-just-let-them-exist, pro-people-over-money. C(A-Z)O of too many things…

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 6h
Here's my obituary of Jim Bakker, religious grifter scumbag. Let me provide a few highlights too. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/a-ca...
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A Cancer on the Body of Christ: The Ballad of Jim Bakker - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jim Bakker is dead, at the age of 86.   Among the grosser religious grifters of American history, Bakker was a pure thief, someone who may or may not have really believed in his version of far-right C...
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 6h
I'm just not all that inclined to give grace to a demagogue who feeds his followers a steady diet of lies and incitement when he stumbles over his lies and incitement.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 6h
It's not so much what "Trump meant to say" it's what he wants his rally crowd to hear.
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Carl Doss @unixdoss.bsky.social · 6h
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h
Big deal for Anduril, funnily enough shortly after CEO Palmer Luckey joined Hegseth’s new weapons group.
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Anduril lands $2.9 billion Navy submarine shipyard contract days after CEO joins Pentagon weapons group
Defense tech leaders are gaining sway in Washington in President Donald Trump's military reindustrialization push
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 6h
Since the mid-1950s, we have changed the thing that "AI" refers to every 5-10 years. The current thing we're calling "AI" is about a decade old, and all this label-switching leads to a lack of clarity as to what (this) "AI" is.
The First Bank of Chicago, a Grecian temple to money. It is surrounded by flames. A skeleton in academic robes and mortarboards has been lynched from its roof. In the foreground are banded packages of US $100 bills.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 9h
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 6h
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... MariMar Martinez, who survived being shot five times by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, filed a federal civil lawsuit against the US government as her attorneys allege that new evidence shows the agent was not in danger for his life and should face criminal charges.
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Chicago woman shot 5 times by Border Patrol officer files federal lawsuit
Attorneys for Marimar Martinez alleged a new analysis of the bullets’ trajectories shows Border Patrol agent Charles Exum wasn’t in front of her vehicle and the last shot went through the rear passeng...
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KDOrgGetPOd @kdorg.bsky.social · 5h
I didn’t think there was defending of trump - just noting that he *maybe didn’t *actually say what it’s being reported he said - but he liked the response the audience gave when they misheard him - so now that will be what he actually wants
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
Fox Business commercial offers a roll of 25 Trump dollar coins for $49 😆 You do the math
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h
it is actually worth reading the entire op ed. it is Alito condescendingly explaining that yes, his “originalism” is made up bullshit that is *superior* for being made up bullshit apple.news/ACn4mQ2uDS7C...
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Opinion | Justice Samuel Alito: Even Originalists Make Mistakes — The Wall Street Journal
An interpretive method disciplines the decision-making process, but it doesn’t free judges of the need to exercise judgment.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h
i also read his op ed on originalism in the WSJ and i would love to know how presidential criminal immunity emerges from the structure of the constitution, especially when the literal authors of that constitution insisted that a president could he tried and even straight up executed
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 8h
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.
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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 6h
Trump suspends highway tax on red diesel, allowing the restricted fuel to be used on roads.
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Donald Trump eases red diesel limits in attempt to quell fuel inflation
US president announces the move during a trip to the agricultural state of Nebraska
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h
MIT Media Lab’s Kevin Esvalt: “Russia's five-hospital quarantine, FSB involvement, and…hazmat use in response to the death of a single researcher at a weapons-lineage Irkutsk lab are inconsistent with a lab-acquired plague infection, which would have been treated with prophylactic antibiotics.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 22h
you know if the power of the purse includes the power to fund agencies, it surely includes the power to say "on absolutely no condition may you spend any monies on this bullshit"
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Stephen Miller's Office of Remigration deliberately announces right in its name that white nationalism is the basis for US immigration policy. Dems should defund it. The great Posting Through It pod invited me on to talk about my reporting on Miller. We went deep: open.spotify.com/episode/5OAX...
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146: Taxpayer-Funded White Nationalism feat. Greg Sargent
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White House Watchdog @whitehousewatchdog.bsky.social · 20h
A lab technician's unexplained death raises concerns about potential public health implications as the cause of death remains undisclosed.
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Trump says U.S. is “looking strongly” at alleged Russian plague case
A lab technician's unexplained death raises concerns about potential public health implications as the cause of death remains undisclosed.
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Kav also saying the Court's precedents are backed up by the "equal sovereignty principle." You know, the thing they made up in Shelby County to gut the Voting Rights Act. So it's a weapon to be used against Acts of Congress that states don't like...and state law suits that industry doesn't like.
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This excellent @slate.com piece by @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social buttresses my own sense that Alito's Suncor recusal is because he didn't have the votes to get to the merits for the oil companies
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The Supreme Court’s Term-Opening Blockbuster Will Test the Conservative Justices Like No Other Case
The results could shape responses to climate change for decades to come.
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KDOrgGetPOd @kdorg.bsky.social · 11h
“Impliedly”?
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19h
Nothing to worry about, just the attorney general of Texas and a possible future U.S. senator engaging in a conspiracy-fueled crackdown on pediatricians administering life-saving vaccines to vulnerable children www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 15h
The thing about not trying to find an innocent alternative to the worst interpretation of what Trump says is if he indeed meant something less inflammatory, let the White House issue a correction. Why give them the means to have it both ways?
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resistence47.bsky.social @resistence47.bsky.social · 15h
The courts ordered the FBI to deliver (since july) the instructions the 1,000 FBI agents were given to redacted Trump's name from all the Epstein files. The FBI has refused, and want to wait until after the midterms to release the information. It's clear the instructions show a cover up.
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FBI Forced to Reveal New Details on How It Redacted Epstein Files
A bombshell FOIA request revealed how the FBI and Department of Justice trained agents.
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Dr Oddman - #AntiFa @droddman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A dramatic surge in the stock price of Elbit Systems, Israel's largest defense electronics and weapons manufacturer, since the outbreak of the Gaza war of 165% If the war ends, the value will drop.. Guess who is one of the major stockholders? Not Hunter Biden..
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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Dance
ALT: Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Dance
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW: RFK Jr. is bragging to MAHA audiences that the massive changes he's made to HHS are permanent. "Even if I got hit by a truck tonight, HHS will never go back to what it was.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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RFK is gloating that his changes to HHS are permanent
“Even if I got hit by a truck tonight, HHS will never go back to what it was.”
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17h
@gilduran.com draws the links between Yarvin and JD Vance in NERD REICH. Take this seriously. sfstandard.com/2026/07/28/t...
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The Nerd Reich: Are Silicon Valley billionaires building a new fascist world order?
Gil Duran’s new book traces a through-line from SF school board recalls to Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, and JD Vance.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hegseth (who I swear is a Russian asset) is blowing through our military arsenal. Soft power is all we have left. And a combination of Trump and Elon have depleted that too. Democrats have to plug the leak and restore what it can by taking back every cent from those two. Restore all aid.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Also, this isn't an either-or situation. You can focus on investigations and ethics reform at the same time.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Investigate EVERY member of the Supreme Court. Investigate EVERY senator. Investigate EVERY congressperson. Investigate EVERY cabinet member. Audits for everybody. Medical physicals for everybody. Psychological exams for everybody.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is why there should be blanket investigations. Republican and Democrat. One, as a show of impartiality. Two, you can pick up any stray dirty Dems and get them out too.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Any Democrat who says something like this is likely corrupt himself and should be investigated.
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That girl with The Posts @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 05/10/2026
There is a bleak sort of pleasure in telling people who bring up AI in casual conversation, “Actually, I’m one of the authors AI stole from. Not an exaggeration. The judge ordered them to send me a check.” It hits them different when it’s a real person saying it.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 15h
Good(?) news: A Nevada county will pay $1.6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a woman who spent two years in prison for a stillbirth before her conviction was overturned. Her son’s ashes were returned to her as part of the settlement thenevadaindependent.com/article/she-...
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Addled Pixie @addledpixie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My perspective on any elected official who is stating that Trump shouldn’t be impeached or prosecuted, is that they are protecting themselves against that type of future action and accountability because they, too, are crooked af.
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KDOrgGetPOd @kdorg.bsky.social · 14h
This is how he side-steps into doing terrible things, however. He starts out just being word-salad-confusing, but then gets support from his folks for the misconstrued point in the room, and when it’s regurgitated in media he likes cranking his “enemies” so then it seems ok to do the actual thing
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Sybill Trelawney @sybilltrelawney.bsky.social · 17h
Isn’t it a problem that the president of the United States is so incapable of straightforward communication that he says things that read literally could be construed as inciting an attack on two major cities?
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17h
U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17h
This may be the first time U.S. forces have retreated in Europe during a major conflict. Not before the Nazis. Not before the Soviets. Not before Al Qaeda. Not until the Trump administration.
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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 23h
Auto transcription (I was curious, sharing for access. Agree this is fantastic.)
Screenshot of a transcript. It says: “Exactly right, but I want to say a couple things. One thing about cities that I found in this reporting: cities are very unfairly labeled as these problem centers by Donald Trump and others. And one thing is worth remembering: if you look at the population of well, all people in cities, particularly people who come to cities from elsewhere, but particularly homeless and other vulnerable people in cities, look at youth homeless. A pretty large chunk of those people who end up in cities were failed in some other parts of this country. Okay, in the fraction of youth homeless who are LGBTQ, whatever, pretty high. So there are a lot of families in this country who fail the first duty of family, which is to love your kids more than any other thing, and there's a lot of families in this country that look at some verse in some book, and their child's face, and choose theSecond screenshot says: “verse in the book over their child's face, and drive their children out of Nebraska or out of Florida or out of Idaho, and those kids come to San Francisco, and those kids come to New York, and those kids go to Chicago, and we have friends giving dinners with them. You live in L.A. You are surrounded by people who have those kind of stories, and so cities. Every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of America can sort of say, "Ah, look at these cities.” But we are holding a lot of your people who you fail to love and take care of.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23h
Holy shit.
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jarjarforspeaker.bsky.social @jarjarforspeaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You have to separate effective altruism (mosquito nets are a better use of funds than "raising awareness") from effective altruism (the only thing that matters is ensuring that we have a galaxy-spanning civilization of a quadrillion quadrillion people in the year 5000).
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Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Their critique is simplistic to me as is their conception of the transformative power amassing wealth so you can theoretically gift some of it to people who are only recipients. And the theories that accompany EA have some disturbing implications www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/t...
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Alice Crary · The toxic ideology of longtermism (2023)
The intellectual movement that calls itself longtermism is an outgrowth of Effective Altruism (EA), a utilitarianism-inspired philanthropic programme founded just over a decade ago by Oxford philosoph...
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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thank you to everyone sharing in this moment! I’m so grateful to all my trainees & collaborators… dlab.stanford.edu/group-members (pic: Peter and I together in 2017) Reading for all those asking: for technical details: dlab.stanford.edu for everyone: deisseroth.org/projections
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15h
A lot of what’s happening doesn’t seem to be spreading anymore by mainstream media. A tree that stood for an estimated 150–250 years was destroyed today to make way for Trump’s border wall.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18h
folks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see*
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15h
meanwhile, over on twitter dot com
Michael Tracey © @mtracey
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You know who could have easily brokered a reasonable, amicable solution to the Cornell fiasco? I'm not even kidding: he would've done an exponentially better job than the imbecile Title IX bureaucrats and Keystone Cops campus police
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17h
The MAGA outrage machine is having another meltdown. This time, it’s over Jack Smith’s shirt. Nowhere on the shirt is Trump’s name, unless they’ve decided he’s a king.
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