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Meandering Me

@meanderingme.bsky.social
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I used to automate physical operations, but I succumbed to software a couple of decades ago. Now, I automate information exchanges.

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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Can we please just eradicate mosquitos now? We don’t seem to mind driving other species to extinction, so why don’t we focus our destructive energies here and save the others? www.economist.com/science-and-...
Photo of an Economist headline and cover photo of a mosquito. Headline says, “Mosquitos seem to be getting over insect repellent. They learn to associate it with food”
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
September 12, 2025
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September 12, 2025
Since a gunman murdered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, both social media circles and the political sphere have been alight with accusatio...
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Well, this is pretty cool www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/s...
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Rock discovery contains ‘clearest sign’ yet of ancient life on Mars, NASA says | CNN
Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars may have potentially been made by ancient life.
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Ben Schiff @bschiff.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
But wait. There's more (in case you missed it)! european-security.com/cesspool-and...
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Cesspool and Chaos: the Russian Connection in the Epstein Affair - European Security
In this explosive article, French historian Françoise Thom highlights the close relationship between the late financier Jeffrey Epstein and the father of his
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 16/08/2025
How much money is Donald Trump really making off the Presidency? David D. Kirkpatrick spent months tallying up how much the Trump family has pocketed off Trump’s time in the White House—golf course by golf course, crypto deal by crypto deal.
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How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency?
A comprehensive estimate of how much Trump and his family are making, from hotel mega-deals to crypto schemes, has been elusive—until now.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I hate when I go to bed early on a Saturday night and wake up Sunday morning only to discover we’ve gone to war in the Middle East without the consent of Congress. 😡
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
June 18, 2025
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June 18, 2025 (Wednesday)
Tomorrow is the federal holiday honoring Juneteenth, the celebration of the announcement in Texas on June 19th, 1865, that enslaved Americans were free.
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
It’d be hilarious if it weren’t costing us our jobs. They really don’t understand the consequences of their actions, do they?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
CHATTANOOGA-based @FreightWaves CEO: "I did not vote for a neutron bomb to wipe out supply chains and small businesses 100 days in.” www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ap...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
theconversation.com/women-are-st...
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Women are steadier leaders in times of crisis, but they are still being overlooked
Although women have long been stereotyped as being “too emotional” for leadership roles, new research suggests it’s actually men who are more likely to let emotions drive their behaviour.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
They’re going after the children, just like they said they would www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-next...
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Trump’s Next Target: Poverty-Stricken Kids
Head Start and other early-childhood programs are among those affected by massive cuts to HHS.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company IG 3sixteen
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
April 4, 2025
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April 4, 2025
The stock market rout continued today.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/04/2025
America, you f**ked up! She warned us. She had a plan that would have benefited everyday Americans. But too many ignored her—because it was never really about the economy. Now folks are scared, struggling—and we’re cooked.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
April 3, 2025
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April 3, 2025
Trump’s announcement last night that he was placing high tariffs on countries around the world came after the stock market closed, but it drove stock futures dramatically downward.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
March 28, 2025
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March 28, 2025
“Another wipeout walloped Wall Street Friday,” Stan Choe of the Associated Press wrote today.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵
US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
It’s a turnip Twaddler!!
Bloom County Nov 13, 2018 cartoon of Bill the cat sitting on FedEx boxes labeled “turnip twaddler”. Opus, with a bandaged nose, holding one aloft. Quotation above image reads, “some men see things the way they are and ask why. I dream of twaddling and ask why not more than turnips?” Quotation attributed to “our president, Paris, France 2018. Solemn world war 1 commemorartion
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Welp, there goes the US defense industry.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/03/2025
www.reuters.com/world/us-sus...
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Exclusive: US suspends some efforts to counter Russian sabotage as Trump moves closer to Putin
Several U.S. national security agencies have halted work on a coordinated effort to counter Russian sabotage, disinformation and cyberattacks, easing pressure on Moscow as the Trump Administration pushes Russia to end its war in Ukraine.
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
“Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies. … CoreCivic made over $560m from Ice contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m from Ice contracts.”
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
What a good story to hear right now. Happy birthday, Maine
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
www.linkedin.com/posts/ejohns... It’s as if this US administration looked at the early Covid supply chain disruptions and said, “let’s give everyone more of that!”
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#tpm25 | Eric Johnson | 16 comments
There's a hard reality that the international trade community needs to realize. No, it's not the ongoing game of tariff ping-pong. No, it's not accounting for… | 16 comments on LinkedIn
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FloofMcGoof @floofmcgoof.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Senator Chris Murphy took to the Senate floor on Friday to break down the corruption flowing from the WH. He connects the dots, and makes a clear argument regarding who what where and why Shitler and Muskrat are destroying our govt!! This needs to be shared far and wide!! youtu.be/hycoCYenXls
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Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/03/2025
This is it, right here. 🔥 “I’m always curious what exactly conservatives mean when they say they love America because you hate most of the people who live here.”
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If Donald Trump can override our elected officials’ control of the purse strings, we are effectively entering a period of taxation without representation.
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Martin Matishak @martinmatishak.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions. On @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/hegseth-orde...
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Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning
The secretary of Defense has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, sources tell Recorded Future News.
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion
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DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion
The Department of Government Efficiency is funded — and acts — like a federal agency. But the White House has shielded DOGE from the rules that govern such agencies, ProPublica found as it examines th...
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Joe "I'm a Zeppo Marxist" Bacon @josephebacon.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Texas refuses to study how its abortion ban hurts women...so ProPublica stepped in and did it! www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
February 4, 2025:
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February 4, 2025
Shortly after 1:00 this morning, Vittoria Elliott, Dhruv Mehrotra, Leah Feiger, and Tim Marchman of Wired reported that, according to three of their sources, “[a] 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez...
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
But her emails… open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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February 2, 2025
Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually a...
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Walter Masterson @waltermasterson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Send this to anyone mentally struggling with Trump’s Tariffs. Tariffs Explained to MAGA by a Professional Importer/Exporter youtu.be/xwZT_nisxsQ
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Tariffs Explained to MAGA by a Professional Importer/Exporter
YouTube video by Walter Masterson
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Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Proud to stand shoulder ti shoulder with women who serve in uniform www.thebulwark.com/p/women-in-c...
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Having Women in Combat Is Still Controversial—But Shouldn’t Be
We’re all better off with women bravely serving the country.
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Meandering Me @meanderingme.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I just had a conversation with a group of older guys complaining about today’s military and praising Hegseth. Main issue was they had to watch their language and can’t be naked while washing their clothes. Of all the possibilities, they chose “men can’t show each other their willies anymore”
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
January 12, 2025
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January 12, 2025
Almost ten weeks after the 2024 election, North Carolina remains in turmoil from it.
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lila pearl @lilashapiro.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
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There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Lots to learn from Rwanda www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Rwanda’s Marburg response is a masterclass in how to prevent pandemics
Today marks the official end of the outbreak. Swift action saved many lives and helped protect the rest of the world from potential disaster
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Kat @koyotathey.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
"...women around the world have followed the case, discussed it, thought about it. But have men? Until men engage earnestly and honestly with the pervasiveness of sexual assault and the aspects of the culture that celebrate and normalise it, not enough will change."
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Gisèle Pelicot has rewritten her story – and electrified women all over the world. But what about men? | Rebecca Solnit
This was an extraordinary response to unimaginable crimes. Yet true change will only come when men engage with the culture that led us here, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Best article I’ve seen about expectations from the next administration www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-well-k...
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How we'll know if Trump is going to sell America out to China
Keep an eye on the export controls. They are the key.
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Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Just four months after his release from Russian prison, Evan Gershkovich has the lead byline on an incredible story about the ultrasecret Russian agency behind his kidnapping. He and the Journal identified the precise individuals involved. Astonishing. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
DKRO leaders also enjoy rare access to Putin himself. One of the few Russian officials privileged enough to play ice hockey with the president is the head of the FSB’s first service, which oversees DKRO, Lt. Gen. Vladislav Menschikov. He personally briefed Putin before and after my arrest, the Journal reported while I was incarcerated. Barely known outside a small circle of Russia analysts, the spy chief previously ran the presidential directorate responsible for Russia’s nuclear bunkers.

His subordinate, who runs DKRO itself—the goateed Lt. Gen Minaev—has a hands-on role in selecting which Americans to arrest, and which Russians to trade them for. Awarded the prestigious Hero of Russia medal for bravery during Russia’s war in Chechnya, he is described by intelligence chiefs who have met him as frighteningly perceptive. “He understands everything about his environment—everything,” said one Western officer who has met him several times. “He knows immediately who is a shark and who is a pussy.”

Minaev usually stays in the shadows, but he was present from the beginning to the end of the Aug. 1 swap. I first saw him when I was escorted from the Lefortovo prison onto a gray coach with other prisoners on the morning of the exchange. At 10:30 a.m., Minaev climbed aboard and stood at the front, resting his arms on the backs of two seats on either side of the aisle. He was a representative of the FSB, he announced, and we prisoners were gathered for an exchange. He didn’t give his name.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
You may not understand why, but the healthcare insurance and PBM contracts YOU have signed for Tesla, SpaceX , @X, along with CEOs of other big companies , have more impact on healthcare costs and quality of care in this country, than anything you can do with DOGE
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 06/12/2024
And that's the other thing. Even if there will be presidential elections in 2028, which I am absolutely not convinced there will be, they'll be redesigned to disadvantage minority voters.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/12/2024
This is sobering. USC is advising foreign students to return to campus from winter break BEFORE Trump takes office.
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Secret Agent Number Six @designationsix.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
A disturbing thing that's happened in the Trump era is that anti-corruption as an ideal, as something that gets respect in the broader culture, has been badly corroded. @noahbookbinder.bsky.social and I had a bracing exchange on that, and why things look so grim: newrepublic.com/article/1890...
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