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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 6h

Nixon is my state rep. Showed up to our tiny public school auditorium when the board was threatening closure. She's good at her job whether you agree with her policy positions or not. And even if that weren't true she would belong in America. Get out of here with this racist, volkish garbage.

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Andrew Rothstein @asrothstein.bsky.social · 13h

Lethal injection is not a medical procedure. Lethal injection is not “humane”. Lethal injection is a bad attempt at sanitizing and making acceptable the murder of an individual in the eyes of the public. That the states are allowed to use and keep secret the mystery slurries should be illegal.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 30/09/2026

Here's the topline for me on the permitting bill: we need to double or triple the grid with clean electricity if we are going to solve climate change. We need to do this in concert with communities & the environment, and do this quickly on a climate-relevant timeline. The contours of this look good.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The annoying guy in your D&D group that won't role play at all, just constantly tries to fight, steal from, or be a sex pest to NPCs.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Never thought I would get to live in the glorious few days before the new Taytweets gets shut down.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In his speech about new passport application processes, Marco Rubio called the passport "an expression of the unbreakable bond between the nation and the citizen". If the bond is unbreakable why is the DOJ trying to denaturalize people?

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"But the people refused to listen to Samuel. 'No!' they said. 'We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.'" 1 Samuel 8:19–20

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Legislative rule has been overthrown by violence or threat of it, but by bored indifference? That's new.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why did they go with Tilly Norwood instead of AI Jolson?

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh my god Oooof @dialhforhagai.bsky.social did a work of art

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Critical gap in America.gov's knowledge base.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I guess none of what I said about attribution, mitigation, or adaptation was interesting enough so I need up being quoted for something that any auntie could have said. 😩

David Ho, a professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, was at home in Honolulu when Lala hit. His neighborhood flooded, and he was one of 200,000 electricity customers across the state who lost power. More than 200 homes and an estimated $67 million worth of public infrastructure were damaged, according to
*he Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.
"We have a lot of houses that were built before the building codes were modernized, Ho told me. "So once in a while, you have roofs that just fly away."

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On two fronts—WH press access and third-country removals—the administration appears to be ignoring court orders.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026

“to the victor go the spoils” is basically the whole thing the UN was designed to prevent

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🦉 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE YOU WANT ON THE PLAN

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Craft beer market seems to be bifurcating into NA and >7% ABV segments.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A free society cannot allow the government to disappear people in order to cutoff access to legal remedies.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"I think we all have to accept that the restraining order is why I can' see my kids" energy

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

your honor I admit I did illegal bundling, but not to avoid campaign finance limits. It was a text spam filtering service

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So close to making the argument for trains

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

(as they drag me away from the drive-thru speaker where I have been yelling for the last 20 minutes) Bring back the old fries, you cowards!

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Marcus Nelson @marcuscnelson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is tragic. It's even more tragic knowing JTA has spent the last decade lavishly spending on a dysfunctional autonomous vehicle program of questionable value, that the public has shown little interest in using. For its troubles, Jacksonville gets to watch CEO Nat Ford pack his bags for Dallas.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If JTA were an 50-year op by anti-transit advocates, it would not have operated any differently, at least at the top (line workers are good!). I keep expecting to find out it's run by Judge Doom.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Like many dudes, I had a libertarian phase. They make some good points sometimes! So I have a little experience in arguments from that side. But if someone had suggested this, from a Senator, as a caricature of laissez-faire, I would have laughed at it and refused to engage.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026

Short thread: 18 months ago, as part of their assault on higher ed, Trump/DOGE/Vought terminated my friend Kelton Minor's NIH Director's award that would have allowed him to take a faculty position there. Without the funds, Columbia ultimately rescinded the position. Kelton moved to Denmark.

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Since I got my Covid vaxx yesterday, I thought I'd look up the latest estimates of its effectiveness. A JAMA overview published on Sept 2 provided good news: vaccines aren't perfect but do cut "COVID-19–related deaths, hospitalizations, and emergency department/urgent care visits" by ~50% ...

Excerpt from article: "Data from 155 recent publications indicate that COVID-19 vaccines continue to reduce the risk of severe disease across all ages, including among individuals with underlying medical conditions. Seasonal patterns of SARS-CoV-2 remain difficult to anticipate because epidemiologic trends depend on the emergence of new variants, waning immunity, and population dynamics, among other factors.173 Evidence suggests that even in the context of cocirculation of variants outside the JN.1 lineage, such as BA.3.2, vaccination continues to provide measurable benefit against severe infection. Vaccine effectiveness is generally highest for children and older adults, who also have the highest baseline risk of COVID-19–related hospitalization. Estimates of VE from the most recent 2025-2026 season demonstrate that COVID-19 vaccination (LP.8.1-adapted vaccines) are associated with significant reductions in the risk of COVID-19–related deaths, hospitalizations, and emergency department/urgent care visits among adults, generally reducing the risk of these events by half, which is consistent with the effectiveness reported since vaccines were updated to target new variants (JN.1 lineage) in 2023."

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Maybe we should try electing some kind of larger body of people who can decide law and policy instead of vesting near-absolute power in one man, checked only at the extreme outer margins by his own party's judicial appointees.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13/09/2026

This will be bad for: - the students - the research progress - the universities - the towns the universities are in - the companies hiring students - the states the universities are in - the national economy - national security - the country - the world

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Why am I not shocked that the dudes LARPing as an elite SS unit look like Volkssturm kids and retirees who just got handed a broken Great War rifle and a Panzerfaust before being pointed in the direction of Chuikov's 8th Guards in Treptow?

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 11/09/2026

Long Term Sauce Per Nugget Yield Curve Flashing Red 4 pc = 0.25 SPN 6 pc = 0.167 SPN 10 pc = 0.2 SPN 20 pc = 0.15 SPN 40 pc = 0.1 SPN

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Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There are so many outrageous qualified immunity decisions out there - but this one, ruling officers who pinned a woman down on a hill of fire ants while handcuffed were entitled to qualified immunity because there was no other case in which officers were so depraved, is beyond the pale.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10/09/2026

this is just ransomware with more emissions

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Honestly, as a sometimes tort defense lawyer, I would suggest less public comments about your prior knowledge of your own products' dangerousness.

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New undergrad game theory midterm question just dropped

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Interesting paper just dropped in the great data center debate and it's not great news. Data centers seem to raise the yields on local govt debt since they have a very low long term multiplier and large perceived externalities on public infrastructure. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

papers.ssrn.com

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Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The "trying to find the guy who did this" image was truly groundbreaking, expressing an idea that lacked a memetic reference entirely. It shaped culture. But now it's been superseded.

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think this is less about how people measure inflation and more about how people perceive time.

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Der Amtsrat 🏝️ @deramtsrat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sieben fuhrn nach Düsseldorf und einer fuhr nach Köln. 🎶

Reservierungsanzeige im ICE: Ein Platz reserviert bis Düsseldorf, ein Platz bis Köln.

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 31/08/2026

We’ve gone from “natural climate variability on the timescale of geologic eras means humans aren’t causing modern climate change” to “natural climate variability over geological eras means AI-driven solar radiation modification is the only sustainable climate solution”

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