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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Hard to think of a person who caused more harm in the last 30 years than Andrew Wakefield.
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menacequaid.bsky.social @menacequaid.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
@briandeer.com must be rolling in his… office? He’s not dead. I don’t know where you roll when you aren’t dead. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump signs order attempting to override CDC vaccine schedule and break up MMR shots
President and RFK Jr, the health secretary, repeatedly referred to autism during signing, though studies show no link between it and vaccines
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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
did you know??? Doom3 has a "saving throw" system. Melee enemies auto-miss fatal attacks, on a 5 second cooldown timer #archive
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
89% – percentage of disaster aid requests Trump has approved for states with a Republican governor and two Republican senators 23% – percentage of disaster aid requests Trump has approved for states with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Line chart showing presidential approval rates for disaster aid requests submitted by Democratic- and Republican-led states, covering the period from the Reagan administration to today. The chart is based on a Politico/E&E News analysis of records from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
"RFK Jr. just wants to fight chronic disease!"
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Defense secretary openly states that a pro-Trump billionaire taking over a news network (following regulatory help from the administration) will result in coverage more favorable for the administration.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in: 2008: 0.3% 2024: 19% @nytimes.com #GildedAge www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."
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Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.
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Voice of Europe @V_of_Europe
Hundreds of Islamists shouting "Allahu Akbar" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced… economist.com/britain/2026...
X Posts about London Crime - large growth in number of likes after monetisation introduced
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
When the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Fundraiser for Minneapolis ICE shooter that’s already raised $178,000 casually points out that the mayor is Jewish 😬
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 10/01/2026
In case you’re wondering whether the pro-ICE reactions to Renee Nicole Good’s murder are natural, here’s a comment that was just left on my video. My video about anti-transgender bias at the BBC. I haven’t made a video about Good yet. youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto
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In this video, it seems obvious why an officer could fear she was going to run into him with her vehicle. Wow! I hadn't seen this angle. He had a reason to feel threatened. It is done.
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
i feel like i see a lot of "mysterious new account makes big bet on insider information" news stories and not enough people-being-arrested-for-that news stories
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Preach
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Here's Paul Harvey in Human Events, April 1964 ("I Wanna Hold Your Hand" era Beatles), complaining about the dangerous, rampant immorality on college campuses. The college kids he's complaining about were mostly white, and are today in their early 80s.
'Liberty' on the Campus
By PAUL HARVEY
Nobody knows how much "he-ing" and "sheing" goes on on the campus because most colleges ignore extracurricular sex activities by students unless unfavorable publicity spotlights
Early March in Indianapolis' Clay-pool Hotel, male and female students cavorted for a weekend which police described as an "orgy."
"Wild sex parties at Harvard" were disclosed by officials of the oldest and richest of our nation's colleges.
Harvard men are allowed to entertain women in their dormitory rooms.
UCLA now allows women students to stay out all night
Stanford's Prof. Louis Mayhew says when colleges seek to take a stand against premarital sex, students consider the rules unrealistic.
"Liberty" is what students now choose to call what we used to call
"promiscuity." Has "liberty" made them happier, better adjusted, better balanced?
Prof. Mayhew says, " There has been an alarming incidence of suicide, hypertension, ulcers and narcotics addiction among college youth." Worse perhaps, when college administrations enforce no standards for campus conduct, they lose the respect of students in other spheres.
Prof. Mayhew says the only bright spot in the bleak prospect is that most young people soon discover there is no lasting satisfaction in sexual "lib erty" and they then seek elsewhere for a meaning and purpose for their lives.
The suicides, the narcotics addicts and the mental problems are percentage casualties in the unending q for "liberty."
The British Medical Assn. has my gested
that promiscuity among t agers "is on the increase becaused the climate of disillusionment
Skepticism in which they live"
In the past 10 years in which Bot ain's population increased 6 perce sexually-transmitted diseases increas
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For all our "enlightenment," veng eal disease in the United States ove tinues to increase each year. The Az erican Social Health Assn.'s answel to request" a twelve-million-dollar led eral appropriation."
J. Edgar Hoover says, "Ba tion…
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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
This lady is not your friend.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/11/2025
NEW: Connecticut towers insist they’re selling junk cars. It’s impossible to know the conditions of every vehicle. But an analysis by @ctmirror.org and ProPublica shows that in nearly half the cases, the asking price was 50% or less of the book value.
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Connecticut Towing Companies Frequently Value Cars Low, Allowing Them to Sell Vehicles Quickly
A database created by The Connecticut Mirror and ProPublica of more than 6,000 forms submitted by the state’s towing companies shows a pattern of low values, including for some luxury cars.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/11/2025
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
If Congress could do or say literally anything about this at all, that would be cool!
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 26/09/2025
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Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”
Uncertainty reigns as Trump claims China approved TikTok deal.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Brendan Carr did not “make a joke on social media,” he went on a podcast and said ABC had to take action against Kimmel or the FCC would revoke licenses! We all saw it! Ted Cruz quoted it on HIS podcast in a silly mafia accent!
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This is so bad I can't even begin to explain how bad it is
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness. Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.
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Korlis @korl.is · 15/09/2025
if it's not end-to-end encrypted, it's public
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
When QAnon emerged publicly in August 2018, the media was totally blindsided. Most had either no knowledge, or had actively ignored it. There's no excuse now. The president is sharing insane prophecy cult memes, and it needs to be covered. It's not normal.
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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
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I am as white as a hotel towel, and the closest thing to Mexican I am was a single all inclusive resort stay in Cancun. I put a Mexican flag sticker on my old Tacoma abd was promptly pulled over by ICE in San Antonio. I'm happy to waste their time
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Their big question was like, "why the sticker" I told them it was on the truck when I bought it-and they suggested I remove it. Obnoxious creatures.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
As usual, orders of magnitude worse than anything blue states did during the "left wing illiberalism" panic
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Oklahoma will test some incoming teachers with ‘America-first’ exam
Oklahoma will require teachers from California and New York to pass a test on civics and gender before they can teach in the state.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
finally a cable news channel for our times
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Immigration officers open fire during vehicle stop in San Bernardino
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/08/2025
In October, we published secret recordings of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term. It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism.
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The October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal Bureaucracy
Historians have hindsight when they look into the past; journalists have the facts on the ground and context to help them look ahead. That means we can sometimes be surprised by how prescient a story…
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
“FBI reported that fully 43 cities in those 3 states had higher rates of violent crime in 2024 than did DC. More than 1.2 million live in those cities, including more than 900,000 in Ohio alone. Yet that state’s National Guard is being deployed to DC to protect the capital’s 700,000-odd residents”
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

Homeland Security
@DHSgov
Which way, American man?

http://JOIN.ICE.GOV

photo of uncle sam with his hat off at a crossroads with title "America Needs You, Join ICE Now"
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Bad Medical Takes @badmedicaltakes.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Twitter user maha_action: RFK Jr: "We're developing a universal vaccine at NIH which is a vaccine that addresses the entire phylum of viruses."
"It's a vaccine that mimics natural immunity and it is effective against any kind of mutation."
"We believe it's gonna be effective against not only coronaviruses but also flu."
"And it's gonna be a much safer and a much more effective vaccine."
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 08/08/2025
this is simply extortion and theft of state monies
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/08/2025
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the Trump administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades. (Published April)
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Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose…
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Again we see the incoherence of right-wing policy. Rounding up homeless people and imprisoning them *is* housing them! Punitive solutions to this problem also cost a shitload and require a massive bureaucracy. They are fine with providing housing, but only if it is ineffective and dehumanizing.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Holy - and I cannot emphasize this enough - shit. Also, this guy was a senior project 2025 organizer.
The answer came back days later in an email from Spencer Chretien, the highest-ranking official in the State Department's refugee and migration bureau, saying the program is intended for white people.
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 24/07/2025
Wait wait wait wait so Columbia MUST create a DEI office for Jewish folks but MAY NOT create a DEI office for anyone else? Am I reading this right?
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
official DHS account posting fourteen word long tweets with the H's randomly capitalized groyper occupied government
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 24/07/2025
OK now everyone who has given Mamdani shit over something he never said has to publicly explain how this quote by a member of the Israeli government makes them feel www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-mi...
Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu said Thursday that Israel is advancing the destruction of Gaza, and that the Strip will be made totally Jewish, drawing outcry among opposition politicians.

“The government is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out,” Eliyahu told Haredi radio station Kol Barama. “Thank God, we are wiping out this evil.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Literally making up a guy to get mad at
Let me tell you about the saddest figures in the American university. They wear black jeans and Chuck Taylors to class, except maybe on the first day, when they stroll in wearing semi-ironic suits designed to contrast with their ample tattoos. Their syllabuses are printed in Helvetica. They mention Chappell Roan in the first fifteen minutes of the first day of class. They tell their students, with a wink, that they don't believe in grades - why, who are they to judge their students! They encourage everyone in class to call them by their first names, or perhaps a contrived nickname. They hope to blow everyone's minds when they theatrically announce that in their classes, students pick the readings, because the students are the ones who really know what's worthy of their time. They describe themselves as "friends" or "guides" or "partners," not as teachers or professors. They disdainfully invoke the words "rigor" and "standards" only with ironic scare quotes and want you to know that they don't believe in deadlines. They subtweet the provost on BlueSky. They are the Cool Professors. And they are frauds.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Uh... I'm pretty sure there's no line in Othello that goes "I'll let loose the forces of Iago." Though it is iambic pentameter. (why I was googling that exact phrase is a longer story, but I was struck to see this laughably false answer pushed to me at the very top of the page)
Google AI overview: AI Overview
In Shakespeare's Othello, when Iago says, "I'll let loose the forces of Iago," the statement signifies his intention to unleash his manipulative and destructive nature, especially toward Othello. 
The phrase reveals that while Iago appears loyal and honest, he will pursue his own selfish interests and seek revenge against Othello according to Quizlet. It unveils his true, malevolent self and his plan to deceive and destroy Othello's life.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I'm stunned. ICE attorneys not identifying themselves in COURT?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The Trump admin sent an Irish tourist in ICE custody to a federal prison that was leasing beds to ICE, where he says "we were treated less than human." Staff at the prison would throw his medicine on the ground rather than deliver it to him in person.
We were treated less than human’
Thomas said the conditions and treatment by BoP were worse than Ice detention: “They were not prepared for us whatsoever.”

He and other detainees were placed in an area with dirty mattresses, cockroaches and mice, where some bunkbeds lacked ladders, forcing people to climb to the top bed, he said.

BoP didn’t seem to have enough clothes, said Thomas, who got a jumpsuit but no shirt. The facility also gave him a pair of used, ripped underwear with brown stains. Some jumpsuits appeared to have bloodstains and holes, he added.

Each detainee was given one toilet paper roll a week. He shared a cell with another detainee, and he said they were only able to flush the toilet three times an hour. He was often freezing and was given only a thin blanket. The food was “disgusting slop”, including some kind of mysterious meat that at times appeared to have chunks of bones and other inedible items mixed in, he said. He was frequently hungry.


“The staff didn’t know why we were there and they were treating us exactly as they would treat BoP prisoners, and they told us that,” Thomas said. “We were treated less than human.”

He and others requested medical visits, but were never seen by physicians, he said: “I heard people crying for doctors, saying they couldn’t breathe, and staff would just say, ‘Well, I’m not a doctor,’ and walk away.” He did eventually receive the psychiatric medication he requested, but staff would throw his pill under his cell door, and he’d sometimes have to search the floor to find it.
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