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@kfunk937.bsky.social
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Cradle to grave: mostly healthcare (some disaster litigation tourism). Housing 1st; medical attendance; and fed. (<--Lower-case.) Raised by pirates.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17h
I've been meaning to do a post, but all these pressers violate DOJ's pre-election rules, which Todd Blanche swore were sacrosanct when he represented someone charged over a year before an election.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 12h
Almost all the vets I've known actually cringe when they hear that phrase, too (exceptions seem to lean REMF)
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: A Florida lawyer who previously pleaded guilty to illegally accessing election websites monitored the primary election in Maricopa County, Arizona for the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to records viewed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ lawyer convicted of hacking election sites monitored voting in Maricopa County, Arizona
The involvement of the two lawyers in a state where President Donald Trump challenged the 2020 election results adds to concerns that the administration’s monitoring program for the fall — which it ha...
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 06/10/2026
ok we have a new kick-ass piece going up on @theflytrapmedia.com tomorrow so let me once again flog my latest before it's too late: an interrogation of the normalization of fascist fashion
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The 'MAGA Makeover' is Over, and Its Replacement is (Even More) Terrifying
Fascists are using fashion to normalize radical perspectives and groups into normie society.
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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 17h
DOJ lawyer convicted of hacking election sites monitored voting in Maricopa County, Arizona www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ lawyer convicted of hacking election sites monitored voting in Maricopa County, Arizona
The involvement of the two lawyers in a state where President Donald Trump challenged the 2020 election results adds to concerns that the administration’s monitoring program for the fall — which it ha...
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putin's I.B.S. @putinsibs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The Angry Birds are flying!" 🤣🤣🤣 From #dronebomber 🚨00:28 | Air situation over the swamps There are a lot of drones again today. The most significant activity is in the area of #Bryansk/#Kursk regions towards the #Kaluga/#Smolensk/#Oryol regions, with #Russian monitoring groups
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yup
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In other news, it turns out I'm *really* good at getting blood out of carpeting
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Suggestive evidence includes: no direct commercial flights to/from US Turkey, several ME airlines, a very few other commercial airlines to/from US, already a long flight 🙃
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Wendy Orent @wendyorent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This. Is. Ridiculous. 1) one case of lab-caught plague infection is not an outbreak. 2) the Russians are perfectly capable of controlling the outbreak. They likely won't admit it's plague, but they know exactly what to do. They've had many decades of practice. 3) You're not at risk, Adam. Just stop.
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Although it's incredibly annoying It's been suggested that he may have been making a sarcastic one-off, aping Trump's ill-considered CoVID-19 statement, the one that clogged up all the airports Carry on
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
RFK Jr, who makes a HUGE profit from suing vaccine manufacturers & from selling kooky anti-vaxx books, on top of the $500k a year he was getting from a very extreme anti-vaccine, anti-science group, is out there arguing that, um, pediatricians believe in vaccination because it makes them money 🤯
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
An estimated 2.3 million new cancer cases globally in 2024 were linked to infections. HALF WERE VACCINE PREVENTABLE (Hep B and HPV) Read more from the study spkl.io/61877pZ9S
Figure: Age-standardised incidence rates of infection-attributable cancers per 100,000 person-years in 2024 for the six infectious agents with the most attributable cases.
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've helpfully outlined the Pentagon's choice of experts to write a new report on the future of the U.S. military. The Future of War Is These Four Jerks, Apparently: gizmodo.com/the-future-o...
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 01/10/2026
The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next
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The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, and while it makes sense given their ties to the administration, critics could point out that Musk's and Luckey's companies already sell the kinds of technology the study is likely to recommend.
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Michael @mjfromla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The one guy in the corner cubicle who knew COBOL and FORTAN got the retire or be fired letter and was like ✌🏿, good luck...
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026
As data breaches go, this is pretty sizable, significant, and also bafflingly bad in terms of time it took to discover and that the stolen data was unencrypted. News of this breach comes weeks after a huge theft of FBI agents' personal data. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260930...
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a gecko who comes to the bathroom window each night when I turn on the light. No wonder she can scale anything... look at the grippers on her feet!!!!! #lizard #herps #Maui #adorbs #photography #nokings
Close up thru a window of the underneath of a gecko against the dark night and reflection.  Her toes are lined with rubbery stickers.
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Rahm Bomb robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-b...
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The Rahm Bomb
He’s the single worst Democratic hopeful now (almost) running for president. Democratic midterm candidates be warned: stay away from him.
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pick Up, Drop Off johanuniverseends.substack.com/p/pick-up-dr...
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Pick Up, Drop Off
How a country trained its people to stop asking questions, and sent the bill to the planet
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Phil Hare's Ghost @mrlepus.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
Irving Finkel has done a new video. If you don't know who Irving Finkel is, this is him. He is a national treasure and must be given appropriate attention. youtu.be/3MZq_ZQDhJA?...
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Irving Finkel reads the Pharaoh's private mail | Curator's Corner ep 100
YouTube video by The British Museum
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thanks. Terrible timing, though. The ED tends to be overcrowded on weekends.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
Breaking News: OpenAI’s technology went rogue and meddled with three U.S. government websites this summer without the A.I. lab’s knowledge. nyti.ms/4y5MY7n
Open AI headquarters in San Francisco is pictured. Headline reads: "OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites." Photo credit: Manuel Orbegozo for The New York Times.
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rep Payee here At least one of them was probably SSA Year-end is June 30th
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Retrieve the boats
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My passport is still soaking wet
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yikes
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Also, sink your multiple boats Super-huge storm, 30 ft rise Tied off between trees Have to swim down to get it and bring it back up Anthro people are pretty weird
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We do actually know one another, though ha ha ha ha ha ouch
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sorry for misspelling your name
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you know you know
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I really did love Stanislov Yegrafovich He was so gentle and a keeper
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Plus make friends with your monkeys on the way down Anthro It could be a lot worse
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One of my favourite persons I really wish he were still here
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yes Chose peace and humanity
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm cold war, but I get where you come from, also
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bless the memory of Stanislav Yevgrafovich, the Man Who Saved the World. At a moment when it mattered, he chose humanity.
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Aw all the way down
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's not like I care that much
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
hah ha
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
pinchegerro all the way down I wish it were better still laugh
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can still flip in midair
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
oops
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
on a handtruck could you possibly be better at your job probably not
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thanks
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Me too
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@kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Song: You don't know me I am not not yo little girl
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