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Norm Borden

@normbord.bsky.social
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Superannuated database and web developer. Former goat wrangler. My only hero is Clinton Tyree. Also a fan of the Oxford comma. Vehemently anti-fascist but obsessively pro-facetious.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h
An investigation reveals 3 other cases in which Ken Paxton covertly interfered with criminal investigations and prosecutions to protect Republican men who were facing sexual abuse or rape charges or order to get charges dropped or downgraded. It's not just Hoffman in Waco, but a consistent pattern.
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Ken Paxton's office struck plea deals in three other sex abuse cases beyond one facing scrutiny
The revelation comes as the Texas Attorney General struggles to gain ground with voters in his U.S. Senate race.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h
Pete Hegseth, who has been rebuked by the pope and the leaders of several other churches for a stream of heretical statements (statements inconsistent with Christian theology and dogma), appoints himself the supreme authority over all chaplains serving in the US Armed Forces.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h
The war on empathy, led by Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and embraced by Trump and his MAGA movement, is a systematic rejection of Christian systematic theology as established from the second century. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Why Empathy Is Now ‘Toxic,’ ‘Suicidal,’ and a ‘Sin’
According to Gad Saad and his powerful acolytes, compassion is a recipe for “the collective suicide of the West.”
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 6h
Per Politico citing 6 diplomats familiar with the matter, Trump admin is excluding the UK, France and Baltic countries from a NATO meeting on alliance’s future next month in Poland — after threatening to deploy a “naughty and nice list” against governments that have run afoul of Trump’s priorities.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h
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Norm Borden @normbord.bsky.social · 4h
тrump , Putin's service animal, is trying to wreck NATO.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h
violence, mostly targeting people around him. He recounts grabbing and slamming his wife into a door, throwing his toddler son across a room, punching a teenager until he bled, and boasting of a 'gift for violence.' He shows no remorse for any of it.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h
Colorado Republican gubernatorial nominee Victor Marx has talked frequently about getting away with murdering a man when he was young (and he declines to say whether this is his only homicide), but a review of his public comments reveals much more gleeful talk about acts of extreme
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‘Christian Warrior’ Candidate’s Dark Past Revealed
Fresh videos and posts unearthed by the Daily Beast have placed the Republican under growing scrutiny as the midterms loom.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5h
“It’s kind of a let’s-take-matters-into-your-own-hands situation. No one’s coming to save us; we have to save ourselves.”
motherjones.com
Inside the clandestine network of abortion-pill mules
“There may come a time where we are one of the only, if not the only, option for the nation.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h
The Tennessee execution system is in fact constitutionally impermissible torture, and it was given a seal of approval from the Opus Dei court.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h
Reminder: Hegseth's "no beardo" policy is just his not-so-subtle way to push out Black troops.
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If only Pete Hegseth's military shaving crusade was just stupid
Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops.
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Norm Borden @normbord.bsky.social · 8h
Mumps is not good for you. www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/n...
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Norm Borden @normbord.bsky.social · 8h
Autowarcom? Now that is stupid.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h
The mumps outbreak at San Diego State University now has 14 confirmed cases and one probable case, up from five confirmed cases a couple of weeks ago.
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Mumps Outbreak Expands at SDSU Campus
The mumps outbreak associated with San Diego State University now includes 14 confirmed cases and one probable case. The County first reported the outbreak on Sept. 18 and the updated case count refle...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h
An important message from the Reich minister for propaganda and popular enlightenment. www.reuters.com/world/us-fcc...
reuters.com
US FCC chair says government ads featuring Trump do not raise concerns
The chair of the Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday ​that taxpayer-funded television ads featuring President Donald Trump are not improper ‌and do not raise any red flags.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h
Someone needs to tell JD Vance that the Bible is full of examples of men who didn't identify as male and resorted to surgery to conform their bodies to their identities. They were called eunuchs. And Jesus noted that some chose to be eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of Heaven. Matthew 19:12
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
JD Vance: "Think about this. If your 6-year-son comes home one day and says he's a girl, Talafreako says, and I quote, it is abusive -- abusive! -- if you don't let school officials but him on hormones and change his pronouns. Nothing in the Bible supports any of this, of course."
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WIRED @wired.com · 9h
President Donald Trump still thinks Republicans have a shot. His aides are less convinced. www.wired.com/story/the-wh...
wired.com
The White House Is Starting to Panic Over the Midterms
President Donald Trump still thinks Republicans have a shot. His aides are less convinced.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 10h
“The growing panic over AI is about more than technology—it’s a sign of what happens when a people lose their confidence in God’s providence.” - 9/25/26 via American Reformer whose director, Chris Buskirk, is a close ally of Peter Thiel & JD Vance … 1/ www.americanreformer.org/p/data-cente...
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Data Centers, Demons, and the De-Churching of America
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10h
Norway launches probe into 11 senior officials over US Epstein files links aje.news/3uf6ii
Norway launches probe into 11 senior officials over US Epstein files links
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Norm Borden @normbord.bsky.social · 10h
— Cameras catch US President in moment of deep introspection.
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Norm Borden @normbord.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Guilfoyle, Don jr's x friend and now our ambassador to Greece told a Greek minister regarding the collapse of the Romanian gov. “We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here."
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Norm Borden @normbord.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
— Rent-a-Peer If you've done any science for publication, you appreciate what a bunch of fuckery this is. - "Paid to peer review: firms are paying researchers to assess manuscripts for journals" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Paid to peer review: firms are paying researchers to assess manuscripts for journals
Freelance peer-review jobs through third-party companies raise practical and ethical questions.
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Norm Borden @normbord.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good men all.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Norm Borden @normbord.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
— Don't you feel better now? I was so worried about someone messing with the election. Hegseth says national security, military cyber forces will guard US election systems during midterms apnews.com/article/nsa-...
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Hegseth says national security, military cyber forces will guard US election systems during midterms
The U.S. National Security Agency and military intelligence forces are set to guard election systems during the November midterms.
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Norm Borden @normbord.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pentagon chief set to announce additional 20% cuts in senior officer positions — Goal is to have just Pete at the top. www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...
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Pentagon chief set to announce additional cuts in senior officer positions
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to announce a 20% cut in the number of positions for generals and ​admirals when he speaks with hundreds of junior service members at ‌Quantico, Virginia, two ...
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Norm Borden @normbord.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Data center developer offers $10,000 checks to 4,500 households if the 1,300-acre facility is approved www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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Data center developer offers $10,000 checks to 4,500 households if the 1,300-acre facility is approved — locals push back over noise and 'bribe' concerns
Report says that many residents are rejecting the offer due to fears of noise, falling property values, and mistrust.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The Party insisted that you defy the evidence of your own eyes..." www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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DoorDash driver shot by ICE in Texas is charged with assaulting officers
Wilber Garcés Pérez is accused of striking an agent with his rear-view mirror before he was arrested with a bullet near his spine
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Norm Borden @normbord.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump launches government chatbot — if grok wasn't twisted enough to satisfy you, try this. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
washingtonpost.com
Trump launches government chatbot, urging a wary public not to fear AI
Washington’s concerns are at a peak after rogue AI agents probed government websites, but the White House has focused on the technology’s promise.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
3/ “Palantir’s Co-Founder [Joe Lonsdale] Thinks We Should Be Less Judgmental About That Deadly Iran School Strike” 9/26/26 share.google/i1ebpdFa4pqS...
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Palantir’s co-founder thinks we should be less judgmental about that deadly Iran school strike
The AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump's war killed more than 150 people, mostly children.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
2/ “U.S. war planners' overconfidence in artificial intelligence tools and misplaced belief that the tools possessed capabilities beyond their intended scope were among the factors in the deadly strike on an Iranian school, Bloomberg reported…)
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Overreliance On Palantir AI Technology Played Role In Iran School Bombing: Report” 9/18/26 (Palantir was co-founded by Peter Thiel & Joe Lonsdale) … 1/
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Overreliance On Palantir AI Technology Played Role In Iran School Bombing: Report
U.S. war planners were too confident in unreliable artificial intelligence tools, leading to a strike on an Iranian school, Bloomberg reported.
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Norm Borden @normbord.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
and visions of trollops danced in his head...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/09/2026
What does it mean that someone who believes a fourth-grader should be forced to give birth to her rapist’s child is now leading the anti-abortion mainstream?
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Kristan Hawkins helped kill Roe. Now she’s fighting to control the movement she created.
How the Charlie Kirk of abortion moved from the fringes to the mainstream.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 28/09/2026
A judge ordered Texas to install air conditioning in all state prisons, The Texas Tribune reports:
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Texas ordered to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029
High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled. Texas will appeal.
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Norm Borden @normbord.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This seems a bit worrisome.
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Norm Borden @normbord.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No one believed this anyway — except for the 1% who has the help do the grocery shopping.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
President Trump has asked Chinese President Xi Jinping if he wanted to buy weapons from the United States, the U.S. ambassador to China said. www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/tr…
washingtonsun.com
Trump Asked China's President if He Wanted to Buy U.S. Arms
The U.S. ambassador to China said Trump raised the idea that would upend U.S policy in the region.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/09/2026
Wary of Trumpian tampering, scientists have taken matters into their own hands. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Germany is building a digital Noah’s Ark for US climate data
Wary of Trumpian tampering, scientists have taken matters into their own hands.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2026
Requirements for becoming a private school teacher vary by state. We recently reported on a woman who pled no contest to felony child abuse charges in Florida, but was still able to open a school. Here's how you can research private schools like an investigative reporter:
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How to Research Private Schools Like an Investigative Reporter
It can be really hard to get transparent, comprehensive information about private schools. Our investigative reporters share some suggestions for parents and guardians who want to collect it themselve...
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A CAMERA IS NOT A CRIME. ICE handcuffed a volunteer filming agents and pulled down her pants. Record EVERYTHING. Preserve evidence. Demand accountability. Know your rights: PAXIS.app Help keep PAXIS free: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS
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IrishStar.com @irishstar.com · 28/09/2026
Donald Trump has been accused of making a "remarkable number of lies" over the past 10 years.
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CNN reporter rips into Donald Trump and his 'remarkable number of lies'
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rejecting the ads for Musk’s documentary is bringing more attention to it than if they just let the ads run. Hilarious.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Now would be a good time for @pallone.house.gov to send Fox a letter promising an investigation into why they accepted this ad and how much they got paid to run it.
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Norm Borden @normbord.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A Defense Department inspector general report cited the loss of nearly 60 aircraft and other equipment, resulting in around $3.7 billion going up in smoke. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Iran Exposed How Vulnerable Our Bases Are
The Pentagon must revamp how it positions its troops and equipment amid the proliferation of low-cost drones and precision missiles.
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Norm Borden @normbord.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
David French (@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social) What Hegseth Is Hiding www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | What Hegseth Is Hiding
Soldiers want to tell their stories, and we need to hear them.
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Norm Borden @normbord.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
IRGC repeats claim to have seized US underwater drone in Hormuz www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
aljazeera.com
US refutes Iran’s claim that ‘advanced’ drone seized in Hormuz
A top Iranian general says the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until US economic warfare ends.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/09/2026
The billionaire cofounder of Microsoft says, without restrictions, AI could 'cause a billion deaths' aje.news/fk9w3g
The billionaire cofounder of Microsoft says, without restrictions, AI could 'cause a billion deaths'
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 27/09/2026
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor defend findings on Israel’s killing of Palestinians amid threats from Israeli officials
theguardian.com
NAZA film-makers address threats at documentary’s New York City premiere
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