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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
New: I spent the week looking into the cancelled mRNA contracts. Interviews with HHS officials and MAGA and MAHA influencers reveal an HHS agency plagued by dysfunction as Kennedy chips away at the nation’s public health. www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
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How RFK Jr. alienated MAGA, MAHA and the White House in a single week
The botched announcement about mRNA vaccines reveals a health department full of dysfunction and infighting.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
This is just deeply depressing: women who spoke up during #MeToo often found their lives upended, as powerful men used defamation suits to target them, e.g. Roy Moore is still suing many of his accusers. What Happened to the Women of #MeToo? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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What Happened to the Women of #MeToo?
Tina Johnson accused Roy Moore of sexual assault. Then the world moved on, and left her behind.
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Paul Moment @paulmoment.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Theocracy is a cancer. Trump-vangelical Christians are like the Islamists in Turkey - determined to rot American democracy from the inside, taking over our system and using it against us. #TheocracyIsCruelty
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Paul Moment @paulmoment.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
This was enabled by white Evangelicals, who voted in massive numbers for a degenerate adjuticated rapist and his cruel group of thugs... *three times in a row*. Their whiny resentful cruelty is bottomless and wicked. #TheocracyIsCruelty
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
This is the most infuriatingly witless talking point. No history is “erased” by the removal of a monument. What he means is “we want to celebrate and honor racism,” but that sounds bad, so we’re supposed to pretend this illiterate goon has some deep interest in the study of history.
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Paul Moment @paulmoment.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I know from growing up in the subculture that Evangelical Christians have the capacity for endless abuse and cruelty. They are willing to torture children/family in deeply invasive psychological and physical ways for an ideology that is paper-thin, obvious nonsense. #TheocracyIsCruelty
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/08/2025
Everyone in DC knows that if you want to hide something, announce it on a Friday in August. Better yet, make it nearly impossible to track down. That's exactly what SCOTUS did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: SCOTUS has decided it's time to destroy the Voting Rights Act.
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The Supreme Court prepares to end voting rights as we know it
And they don't want you to notice.
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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 06/08/2025
We figured out to *cure cancer* (ref: last year’s pancreatic cancer trials) and the Trump administration decided “nah.” That a society could reject a cure for cancer is astounding.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/08/2025
well well well
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Paul Moment @paulmoment.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Evangelical Christians voted for this, for Donald Trump - convicted criminal, adjuticated rapist, and long-time friend of pedophile sex traffickers Epstein and Ghislane - in massive and growing numbers... *three times in a row*. They are utterly morally degenerate. #TheocracyIsCruelty
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
one thing that keeps happening is Trump taking major steps which impose large, often asymmetric costs on American business, and American business doing fucking nothing in response
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The former CEO of My Faith Votes, a nonprofit that encourages "Christians in America to vote in every election," has pleaded guilty to possessing child sexual abuse images, months after his arrest. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Former CEO of Christian nonprofit pleads guilty to possessing child pornography
Jason Yates, former CEO of Christian faith-based nonprofit My Faith Votes, pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography.
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Paul Moment @paulmoment.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Rightwing politics are a civic auto-immune disorder. They use a free democratic society's defenses and hard-won freedoms against it - to cripple, and ultimately destroy, the whole creative endeavor. It's anti-social, asymmetrical warfare. We can't limit their freedom to attempt to abolish ours.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/07/2025
"Right-wing operators in particular are groomed and trained to argue to embrace bad-faith argument as a tactic. And yet even in the Trump era, when the bad faith is so thinly veiled, liberals remain reluctant to treat it as disqualifying." Man oh man is @brianbeutler.bsky.social right about this.
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How Liberalism Sabotages Itself
Our intentional blindness to bad faith is a loophole fascists use to gain respectability and power.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/07/2025
We thought the internet -- having all of recorded thought, art, & language at our fingertips -- would make us smarter. Instead it's driven us crazy. I'm increasingly convinced that LLMs are going to the same thing, only much, much more so, much faster.
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We Need To Talk About Sloppers
The best ever death metal bot out of Denton
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/07/2025
I have this thought over and over again. Even after everything, I just can't believe it.
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Paul Moment @paulmoment.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Land of the sheep. Home of the slaves. One of America's dumbest myths is that we're rugged courageous pioneer revolutionaries. Reality: Wave some cheap resentment propaganda or a stack of cash or a threat in our faces, and we fold like a wet paper sack.
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Paul Moment @paulmoment.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Marc Thiessen is a former Republican luminary and an actual well-paid columnist for the Washington Post... and he's acting like he doesnt know what a fucking battery is. This obvious stupid trash propaganda is just one example of how much the GOP and billionaires like Bezos disdain the public.
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Paul Moment @paulmoment.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Fascists hate freedom. They hate anything they can't control. They are weak and nothing compelling to give the public except their own domination fantasies. That's why they get feral about strangling factual reporting, scientific inquiry, informed dissent, and creative chaos. They are antu-human.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The cowardice of institutions and people who have claimed to be brave is endemic.
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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
When you strip away humanity
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/07/2025
The Trump admin. is preparing a plan to kill millions more people, many children, by ending a program even most Republicans support. This is low-key the most sociopathic thing on their agenda.
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U.S. Quietly Drafts Plan to End Program That Saved Millions From AIDS
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Justice Kagan cuts to the chase: "By means of [its repeated, unexplained grants of emergency relief to the Trump administration], this Court may facilitate the permanent transfer of authority, piece by piece by piece, from one branch of Government to another."
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The death cult know as "The Republican Party" wants you to die, so their President took action on Friday to make it more likely you get cancer and die.
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Trump Hands Another Victory To Cancer’s Profiteers
A hundred industrial sources of carcinogenic air toxics will now be exempt from Biden-era rules intended to reduce cancer risk around the country.
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Paul Moment @paulmoment.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
No one can lie or slander as desperately, brazenly, savagely, repeatedly as a right-wing Evangelical. They seem to get an extra thrill out of the act of trying to subert reality. #TheocracyIsCruelty
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Democrats @democrats.org · 23/07/2025
Kendrick Lamar performing his diss track "Not Like Us" on stage during the Super Bowl, wearing a blue jacket.
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Democrats @democrats.org · 23/07/2025
No wonder the Pedophile Protection Party shut Congress down early.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
SCOTUS doesn’t have to come up with an excuse for allowing Obama or Biden to be prosecuted despite their ruling about Trump. They only have to refuse without explanation to intervene, and stay without explanation any lower federal court’s attempt to intervene.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/07/2025
Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer. “I practically felt like an animal,” González told The Post.
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U.S. deportee, freed from Salvadoran prison, describes ‘horror movie’
Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
we really have no idea what our product might do, though it seems like a safe bet it will disobey and immiserate you. anyway we are releasing it today. good luck every body!
In a post on X, Altman noted that OpenAl had built more safeguards, warnings, and mitigations into this model than any of its predecessors. "We don't know exactly what the impacts are going to be," he continued, adding that "we think it's important ... that people adopt these tools carefully and slowly." This was a notable rhetorical departure from the unfettered hype that typically emanates from Silicon Valley. It was underscored by a warning from cybersecurity researcher Rachel Tobac, who suggested that users avoid the model for now: "Let experts work out the integration issues and build in safeguards before you cause a data breach, leak your sensitive photos, post client
personal data, or worse," she wrote on X. Indeed, OpenAl's own system card for the model noted an accuracy rate below 95 percent across two common benchmarks
intended to evaluate the model's propensity for hallucination. OpenAl also noted that the model might, for instance, buy the wrong product or leak private data online-two risks the company is trying to mitigate by training the model to ask users for confirmation before doing anything. In internal tests, however, the company noted that ChatGPT correctly confirmed its actions with the user only 91 percent of the time. OpenAl told The Verge that the model's ability to perform financial transactions has been restricted "for now." Despite these factors, OpenAl is still releasing
the product into the "wild," according to Altman, so that it can
"begin learning from contact with reality."
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
They SHUT DOWN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/07/2025
really interesting that we don’t have a cultural panic about group think and intellectual homogeneity among the most powerful money men in the country. all the more interesting when a bunch of them have clearly lost their mind.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut Kicks 10 million off health insurance Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts
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Senator Heidi Campbell @campbell4tn.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
So under the GENIUS Act, your stablecoin is legally required to be backed 1:1 by U.S. Treasuries. here’s the catch: You don’t earn the interest. The issuer does. You take the risk. They take the profit. Welcome to the future of fintech: Public risk, private gain. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Instant View: US House sends "Genius Act" stablecoin bill to Trump to sign
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to create a regulatory framework for U.S.-dollar-pegged cryptocurrency tokens known as stablecoins, sending the bill to President Donald Trump, who is expected to sign it into law.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Yet another example of why ICE must be abolished. Why would any sensible country keep around a security force like this? It doesn't even matter what your views are on immigration, this entire agency and all of its staff needs to go.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Just to get back to where we were as of January 2025, we will need Manhattan Projects across multiple agencies. This particular loss will produce exponentially increasing human injury and economic damage to the U.S. as the ability to investigate and to regulate falls apart.
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Paul Moment @paulmoment.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Survived one fascist state, only to be disappeared by another. This is the American police state Republicans want us to permanently live in.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
cringe and disturbing the degree to which american politics is currently influenced by grown ass adults who are still resentful about their SAT scores or something
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Yeah. It's one thing if a person reaches a level of such comfort that they drive themselves bonkers. But it's quite another thing when their money lets them exert so much influence. Each bonkers billionaire is like if there were 10 million Branch Davidians. No society can withstand dozens of those.
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Paul Moment @paulmoment.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Let's check Noem against the Nazi list, shall we? ✅️ Race-based persecution ✅️ Threatening free press ✅️ Intolerant of dissent ✅️ Defies the law ✅️ Childishly brittle, cruel ✅️ Kills puppies ✅️ Could easily play a villain in Inglorious Basterds 🤷‍♂️
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
From my colleague @foxmike90.bsky.social: As a former public defender, I know the Supreme Court lets immigration agents indiscriminately detain people based on physical appearance. But it was still a jolt to see White House “border czar” Tom Homan say it right out loud.
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Opinion | The Fourth Amendment is on life support — and we’re all paying the price
White House “border czar” Tom Homan said the quiet part out loud on ICE detentions — and we should all take it as a warning.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 18/07/2025
With Colton's conviction, that makes FOUR pardoned January 6th insurrectionists who have faced charges for solicitation of a minor or child sex abuse of some kind.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
NEW — So much happened this week that had nothing to do with a perverted birthday message. I tried to capture the big stories in mass deportation cruelty and federal government corruption that set the stage for the days and weeks to come:
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What happened this week in non-Epstein news?
While MAGA melted down, mass deportation and government corruption stories proliferated.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We feed you. They hunt us.
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Paul Moment @paulmoment.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
In a functional society, we'd send the entire Trump cabinet to CECOT - Noem, Miller, Rubio, Trump, and the rest of the cruel sociopaths who dreamed up this horror show. Republicans thought up Abu Grahib and Guantanamo, and now this fascist rendition scheme. Cruelty is their only language.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
3/ Treated horrifically by the US, abused in an El Salvador prison, and await uncertain fates back in Venezuela. But for now at least they are free: bsky.app/profile/nlan...
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Paul Moment @paulmoment.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
MAGA is a scam from top to bottom. Republican politicians have nothing but contempt for their voters - from their economic to child trafficking concerns. It's all a grift.
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