Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2hNothing says a country is serious about science than vanity science awards for the president who has launched a war on higher education 801281238
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitSarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 1hCOULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME? 201067283
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1hWhoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.nytimes.comTrump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary. 114856470
Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 1hHow else to characterize someone who not only claims that “whites are a rapidly dying minority,” but who, according to the Guardian, “posts about how the white race was under threat, made allusions to race science or promoted anti-immigrant conspiracy content” nearly every day?religiondispatches.orgElon Musk, the World’s Richest Human, Is a White SupremacistThe latest warning about the Republican Party’s far-right turn has come from the unlikeliest of places: conservative commentator, George W. Bush Chief of Staff, and renowned Republican strategist Karl... 030
Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 1hSpotify’s Co-Founder Wants to Scan Your Body. It’s As Strange As It Sounds.slate.comTech Bros Have Found a New Creepy Way to Profit Off Your Health AnxietyNeko Health promises advanced body imaging and blood testing for $500. Is it worth it? 000
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitMike Masnick @masnick.com · 4hGuess what? I had some *thoughts* on Michael Shellenberger & the State Dept's Sarah Rogers losing their minds about a disinfo conference in Lithuania having a panel exploring if the US interferes in foreign information systems... and then interfering to get the conference sponsors to pull out. 313850
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitFantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 1h"Moynihan crafts a dizzying, impenetrable epic incorporating elements of various world religions in a mishmash of theology, SF, and psychedelia." – Kirkus Forming by Jesse Moynihan is out now! ow.ly/AqL850ZVEAM 0102
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 2hhey read my latest piece on the weird AI doom cult 77610
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1hI mean, "great grandson of settlers who arrived in the new world from Spain" is quite a creative way to describe "son of immigrants from a place that my boss Donald Trump says is a shithole country" 1228374
Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 1hThe woman with the mattress: the radical, rage-fuelled history of anti-rape art A performance piece from 2014 has gone viral in response to an allegation of rape at Cornell University. But with such defiant pieces stretching back hundreds of years, will things ever change?theguardian.comThe woman with the mattress: the radical, rage-fuelled history of anti-rape artA performance piece from 2014 has gone viral in response to an allegation of rape at Cornell University. But with such defiant pieces stretching back hundreds of years, will things ever change? 000
Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 1hDoJ seeks to charge ex-Trump aide who gave key testimony on January 6 attack Cassidy Hutchinson told panel she had been told Trump lunged for wheel of SUV to try to join mob at Capitoltheguardian.comDoJ seeks to charge ex-Trump aide who gave key testimony on January 6 attackCassidy Hutchinson told panel she had been told Trump lunged for wheel of SUV to try to join mob at Capitol 000
Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 2hThis generosity with the public Treasury, of course, goes against generations of Republican orthodoxy about the evils of fiscal waste and the threat government largesse poses to self-sufficiency and moral rigor, but that doesn’t matter to someone like Trump.nymag.comTrump’s Vote-Buying Checks Are in the MailAfter promising $5,000 for voting GOP, Trump is now diverting public funds to send out checks to offset the health-care costs he’s increased. 000
Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 2hPoll: 70% of Deep South Voters Oppose Abortion Bans They’re are also the *least* likely to say abortion should never be permittedjessica.substack.comPoll: 70% of Deep South Voters Oppose Abortion BansPlus, Deep South voters are the least likely to say that abortion should never be permitted. 000
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitJessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 3hNewsom should do at least one good thing in political career because people should do things that are moral and just. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...nytimes.comNewsom Mulls Sparing Lives of All 563 Prisoners on Death Row in CaliforniaGov. Gavin Newsom ramped up talks after a botched execution in Tennessee. 616430
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 3hThe American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek. 1164293827
Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 3hTrump’s Attempts to Control the Census: Your Questions Answered In our new Q&A, an expert explains how census data shapes politics, and how Trump is trying to skew the count.boltsmag.orgTrump's Attempts to Control the Census: Your Questions Answered - BoltsThe Trump administration plans to upend the census. They’re proposing to exclude noncitizens from the count that determines the distribution of congressional seats, a move that would subtract politica... 000
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7hICE appears to be using the parking lot of the Roxbury warehouse for processing and brief detention, and at least once appears to have taken people inside. But also, read this inside look from a federal contractor about how everyone knew the warehouse plan was insane but Miller demanded inhumanity. 17440263
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7hUniversities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake. 1302880773
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6hNote how in all of this, Vance's comments are suffused with the rhetoric of 1930s Nazi eugenics, including the "elite human being" (in German, Herrenmensch or Übermensch). Straight from Curtis Yarvin, and Elon Musk, by the way. bsky.app/profile/atru... 46713237
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6hbackwardly correct American definition of socialism. Socialism is the disruption of hierarchies of race and gender bsky.app/profile/atru... 49736109
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6hWhite supremacy is, above all, an ideology of stolen valor bsky.app/profile/seth... 22970168
Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 6hBéjar’s daughter was 14 when she told him Instagram was failing to keep her safe. So when he became part of Meta’s ‘wellbeing team’, he knew he had to speak out – and his testimony cost it billionstheguardian.comWhy Arturo Béjar left Meta – and blew the whistle: ‘I don’t recall Mark ever being empathetic’Béjar’s daughter was 14 when she told him Instagram was failing to keep her safe. So when he became part of Meta’s ‘wellbeing team’, he knew he had to speak out – and his testimony cost it billions 041
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15hThis is how historian Robert Paxton defined a certain word that begins with F in his 2004 book. 8537136
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18hNew, from me: Kimberly Guilfoyle was caught soliciting money for government favors. Normally we call that a bribe. If she is corrupt, it is only because she has adapted to Trump's corrupt environment, where everything is for sale. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...donmoynihan.substack.com“Stop Papering Things”: Corruption in Trump's AmericaKimberly Guilfoyle is one more symptom of endemic graft under Trump 341271346
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 9hIt's #WorldOctopusDay! Pictured here a “Polypus levis Hoyle” from a 1910 publication on the German Deep-Sea Expedition of 1898, led by Leipzig University Professor of Zoology, Carl Chun. Buy it as a print here: publicdomainreview.org/product/octo… 06216
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9hStill More Extremists Surface in Senate Candidate Mike Collins’ Orbit talkingpointsmemo.com/the-brief/st...talkingpointsmemo.comStill More Extremists Surface in Senate Candidate Mike Collins’ OrbitHow Many of These Guys Are There? The latest report about far-right... 310637
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitJessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 8h"I think if there’s one thing we can learn from that now, it’s that solidarity is a very potent tool. The state is thinking of all these movements together. There is something to be said about all these movements actually understanding that they are in it together." 0339
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitJessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 8hThe new issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is excellent. Don't miss Lisa Armstrong on Memphis's occupation. hammerandhope.org/article/trum...hammerandhope.orgTrump’s Deadly Invasion of MemphisA Black city tried to rein in abusive policing. Then Trump’s task force arrived. 16026
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitTina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 7hYou can now read Carlos Vargas Moreno's story at The Guardian. Carlos was an H-2A worker who experienced a debilitating heat stroke in 2022 after being subjected to unsafe work conditions by his employer, Florida Orange Gold. Two years prior, another Florida Orange Gold worker died of heat stroke.theguardian.comHeatstroke ruined his health. Years before, it took the life of another farm worker at the same companyA farm labor contractor exposed laborers on H-2A agricultural visas to heat-related health hazards, but the contractor is still bringing hundreds of migrant farm workers to North Carolina 15233
Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 7hThe "Access Hollywood Tape," 10 Years Later A decade under Trump's influenceopen.substack.comThe "Access Hollywood Tape," 10 Years LaterLooking back at the 10th anniversary of the Access Hollywood tape, it’s clear this was the moment the party fully caved to Trump. 010
Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 7hHow Elizabeth Warren’s Stop Wall Street Looting Act Would Rein In the Private-Equity Vampire Let’s build an economy where patients, renters, and even youth hockey teams are given priority over investor profits.thenation.comHow Elizabeth Warren’s Stop Wall Street Looting Act Would Rein In the Private-Equity VampireLet’s build an economy where patients, renters, and even youth hockey teams are given priority over investor profits. 010
Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 7hWhy Bret Stephens is wrong about the National Book Awards The lists don’t celebrate some of the best books published in the United States, he claims. Instead, he suggests, they are yet another example of left-wing elitist propaganda designed to make white men like him feel bad.bostonglobe.comNo, the National Book Awards are not ‘the literary world’s D.E.I. checklist.’ - The Boston GlobeA prominent New York Times columnist got it wrong. 000
Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 8hBernadette Greene-Placentia, the Dem running to represent Arizona’s ultra-conservative 8th congressional district, says she was raped while fixing one of her campaign signs this past summer. Greene-Placentia reported the assault to the Maricopa Co Sheriff’s Office, which is currently investigatingjessica.substack.comCongressional Candidate Raped in Arizona While Fixing Campaign Sign10.7.26 000
Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 8hU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket.democracydocket.comICE probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them. 086
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitSkellyton 🦇 @infinitefinite.blog · 19hokay but when I said "ravage me," I wasn't talking to time, and yet 28733
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitMatthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 21hTrump is foolishly but deliberately shrinking the American presence in several key regions, but because he and Pete Hegseth are total incompetents, they have unintentionally allowed Iran to destroy the entire US military infrastructure in the Middle East archive.is/yviFYarchive.is 24328129
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18hOh cool, he’s doubling down on this. 1925136
Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 16hVaccine safety experts say more research into the side effects would be welcome yet question whether the health secretary’s effort will be grounded in science.nytimes.comRFK Jr. Plans Vaccine Injury Initiative, Drawing Wary Eye From ExpertsVaccine safety experts say more research into the side effects would be welcome yet question whether the health secretary’s effort will be grounded in science. 000
Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 19hGuests Cleta Mitchell and Ed Martin, two lawyers involved in the election denial movement, argued that voting machines are not secure. Mitchell is already pointing at Georgia, a major hub of election denial in recent years.mediamatters.orgGuests on Steve Bannon’s podcast call for Commerce Secretary Lutnick to intervene in state elections 010
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitSpencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This tracks www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comEU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ requestLithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website 0169
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23hIt took three years for these thugs to release the body cam footage. Now we know why. bsky.app/profile/al.c... 13487162
Reposted by Mr. FahrenheitRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23hFuck this. I don’t know what else to say. Prison kills. mississippitoday.org/2026/10/07/c...mississippitoday.orgWrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers diesAfter Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him. 161067274