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Kevin Hardiman

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Data and software guy; system V init was perfectly fine. Brooklyn, NY, USA.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 7h
Several hospitals in Irkutsk have been placed under quarantine, and a mask mandate has been introduced at the aluminum plant due to the plague ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/04/v...
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В Иркутске закрыли несколько больниц на карантин и ввели масочный режим на алюминиевом заводе из-за чумы - Русская служба The Moscow Times
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h
It’s why nobody can sign any agreement with Trump. It’s worth nothing.
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 6h
At least he’s on the same page that this is the Kennedy Center
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 20h
I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have about 200 people under observation after a laboratory worker died from plague. www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In which I explain (away) the incriminating photo of me with...President Nixon.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In econ terms: nominal wages are up. Real wages are down.⁣ ⁣ In normal terms: congrats on the raise, sorry about the pay cut. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0f8dsDt0o4
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
TGIF 🙄 @wsj.com @financialtimes.com @bloomberg.com www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
AP-NORC poll: 71% of U.S. adults disapprove of how Trump is handling Iran. 69% say the war with Iran has not been worth fighting.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump wants to claim Nixon got a raw deal. Just to be clear, Nixon should have gone to prison. Pardoning him may have paved the way for the mess we’re in: www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In which the SecDef openly proselytizes to the military under his command.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The entire interior U.S. should be alarmed as Canada fast tracks a new crude oil pipeline from Alberta to Canada's West Coast that will push more of Canada's oil away from U.S. refineries that rely on it, and could negatively impact U.S. refineries.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Refi market running on fumes. Down 8.7% last week, slowest pace in a year. (via Schwab)
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m confident he learned his lesson.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OTD in 1938 Nazi Germany started occupying the Sudetenland. The west tried to appease Hitler by giving him bits of someone else's country without asking the owners. It didnt work & led to a terrible war. Imagine it happening today....
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Reuters @reuters.com · 01/10/2026
Three oil tankers hit by projectiles in Hormuz strait on Tuesday, Marisks says reut.rs/3VKKy0d
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Three oil tankers hit by projectiles in Hormuz strait on Tuesday, Marisks says
Three Liberian-flagged oil tankers were struck by unknown projectiles when ​transiting the Strait of Hormuz on ‌Tuesday, shipping intelligence service Marisks said.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
RAPIDAN: “.. The Houthis plan .. a large-scale, coordinated missile and drone barrage on Jazan, Asir, and Najran. The Jazan refinery .. is already offline and unlikely to restart before end-year. .. we still assess 75% odds of strikes .. the Houthis intend to intensify attacks in October.”
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At a minimum, impeach.
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wherein the NYT headline very unironically overlooks the - shall we say - shortcomings of the candidate himself. Inside baseball, non-news masquerading as news; does nothing to serve the public’s interest. Shame. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Ken Paxton, G.O.P. Nominee in Texas, Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt Him
Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tax credits are controversial, but make sense when an org will provide a benefit to the community they reside in, specifically expanding the future tax base. In this case: what is the benefit to the community? These data centers require little staffing, and the beneficiaries… reside elsewhere.
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“According to PRRI, white Catholics, white Christians and even white, mainline, non-evangelical Protestants are only slightly more likely to vote Republican. But when it comes to politics, white evangelical Christianity is essentially a one-party religion.”
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mark me down as very, very suspicious - if a company can raise funds to grow, it will. Typically a company won’t raise funds… when it can’t (investors aren’t interested), or markets aren’t favorable.
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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pure, uncut buffoonery
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The truth never mattered, it was just theater.
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Currently listening to this OA, and it continues to irritate me how much judges find themselves carefully pretending that there isn't an underlying problem with this government failing to operate in good faith. They just don't want to say it.
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Actually, we didn’t have to do it.
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Journalists please: ask OpenAI to be very specific about their safety concerns.
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Until DOJ lawyers + leaders are fined and/or jailed, expect this to continue. If that happened: DOJ lawyers would create a de facto Brady List and choose not to represent certain clients - or just quit.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump is touting a diesel export ban and Goldman Sachs has produced a note to say why it’s a bad idea. Initially US diesel drops by $0.25 a gallon during the week of the ban, but that then pushes gas prices ⬆️ After the ban, global prices would still be higher due to lost US refinery output.
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Modeling Potential US Diesel Export Restrictions
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draw five conclusions.
on US diesel prices as inventories build. We estimate that, initially while storage
under 4% of the current $6.5/gallon.
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production can mean downward pressure on gasoline production, i.e. upward
• Third, restrictions on US diesel exports would add upward pressure on ex-US
with prices elsewhere, including Europe, putting upward pressure on US diesel
• Gasoline markets are tightening rapidly.
would tighten ex-US gasoline markets.
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Using religion as a shield, to get what you want.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"I immediately thought of Viktor Orban as soon as I saw this last ad because they were the same type of thing he did before finally losing his last election earlier this year. He spent 235 million euros of Hungarian taxpayer money on propaganda campaign material." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Donald Trump’s latest impeachable offense
Just before noon today, the President of the United States was standing just inches away from the trophy at the Medinah Country Club outside Chicago, wearing an extra-large suit that bulged along his ...
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This soft “some in his own party are calling” language is not useful. The law is the law, intentionally independent of politics; just say it’s illegal, because it is.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.
Michael Weiss: Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence.
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sometimes we forget the difference between free societies, and not.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 28/09/2026
"These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence." –@michaeldweiss.bsky.social
Screenshot of a quote-tweet by @michaeldweiss dated 27 Sep 2026. The original tweet is from "Sigal Chattah" (@Chattah4Nevada), and reads "Love is in the air [two heart emojis] Congrats [champagne emoji] to our amazing @AlinaHabba & @turhanmildoin [three emojis showing the Hamsa, a blue hand with an eye in it]." That text appears above a picture showing Kash Patel, Alina Habba, and others at a wedding ceremony. In his quote-tweet, Michael Weiss writes: "Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence."
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Because he is. SCOTUS made sure of it.
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Impeachment.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
FEDWATCH: “.. the long‑dated prediction market now assigns roughly a 65% chance that the Strait won't fully reopen until 2028 .. .. That leaves the prospect of a 6% handle on the 10‑year still lurking, driven by increasingly adverse demand dynamics in the Treasury market.”
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Vermont Public @vermontpublic.org · 27/09/2026
As many as 120 white South African refugees will have arrived in Vermont by the end of September, the Boston Globe's Paul Heintz reported. Watch Vermont This Week: sbrew.link/JhbgvEqO
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Yet Saudi Arabia’s biggest long-term problem may be that its longtime security guarantor, the United States, is unable to put out the fire and doesn’t seem especially interested in trying.”
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can someone explain how this is not a violation of either/or: 18 U.S. Code § 597 — Expenditures to Influence Voting 52 U.S. Code § 10307(c) — Prohibited Acts (Voting Rights Act)
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Politics that shields itself from tough decisions is not very democratic. Thank goodness for FOIA.
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fallback to citizens’ band?
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You scared bro?
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court is requiring Missouri to use its 2022 map in the general election, rejecting a late push by lower courts to require the state to implement a GOP-friendlier 2025 gerrymandering.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in U.S. history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge U.S. infrastructure projects such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
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The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History
Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yet, they expect us to trust that they’ll save us from an impending doom - that, if real, they created.
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“… during the opening weeks of the war, Americans were robbed of any way of assessing its progress apart from the dueling news releases and statements from the two… And given the administration’s propensity to lie, we had no way of discerning the course of combat.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/o...
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Opinion | What Pete Hegseth Is Hiding
Soldiers want to tell their stories, and we need to hear them.
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Kevin Hardiman @kevinhardiman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Eh
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Larry David: Confusion
ALT: Larry David: Confusion
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