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FYI, SCOTUS has denied certiorari in the case of a Phila judge suspended from the bench for FB posts about politics. So Mark Cohen's suspension (leading to mandatory retirement age) stands, and what's left is litigation over whether he loses he entire 50-yr state pension or just his 7 judicial yrs.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 5h

I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions

Jeffrey Archer, former
Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Publisher says author died peacefully at home
'between writing sessions'

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 3h

Having researched it in a little depth, this reads as below the level of care WWI military medicine aspired to as a matter of course.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 1h

Stuff like this makes me think the mega blue wave is real. Campaigns need a convergence of evidence — polling, volunteer enthusiasm, conversations at the door — to make decisions like this.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h

4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

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Haydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 2h

My blood pressure is too high this morning. Visions getting all blurry and face getting numb on one side.

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 2h

Hegseth also specifically referred to it as "fortified," if not for a damn squirter.

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 2h

Granted, a lot of secondary stories are confusing Camp Arifjan with the actual Port Shuaiba "annex" facility, but it doesn't look like there was much consideration given other than "dispersal"

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 2h

Parnell *himself* was the one who claimed it was fortified. 6-foot walls bro! That's like man-height. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-ap...

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Haydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 2h

The easiest stuff that can save life and limb needs to be automatic and trained to failure. Otherwise… you just fail. People just fail at TCCC when not trained to automatic.

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 2h

I've been roundly mocked for suggesting that a SECDEF's actions could very easily kill people, that NO, the US military is simply too big, too "institutional." Then they killed that kid at Lackland with their vaccine horseshit, and fewer grunts trained in Combat Lifesaver will have real impact.

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 2h

Just something to remember, but Pete made exactly this kind of battlefield first aid training optional

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Haydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 3h

The administration hates and punishes those that would sacrifice themselves for others.

Lincón spent seven weeks getting specialized outpatient care at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland, before being sent home to Kansas. Shrapnel is still in his back because it was too close to his spinal cord to remove without risking being left paralyzed. He struggles with dizziness that disrupts his life, he said.
He was awarded the Purple Heart and is back on active duty as an instructor at Fort Leavenworth. But his troubles continued beyond medical care.
Lincón, who was born in Texas to Mexican parents, was issued only a temporary one-year passport after his passport was blown up in the attack and he was asked for additional documentation to prove his U.S. citizenship. After the AP reached out to the State Department to inquire about his case, the 1995 West Point graduate said he received a call saying the request for more information was a mistake and he would be receiving a passport that would be good for 10 years.
"I'm American enough to have fought in three different wars," Lincón said.

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Haydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 3h

This is categorically insane and I understand why active duty folks are willing to put their name on it. This is so beyond the pale of unacceptable.

Soldiers helped save each other after Iranian attack
After the deadly drone strike, soldiers, who are equipped with tourniquets and trained in first aid, tended to each other and then searched on Google to race the wounded to the nearest hospital in Kuwait City about 20 minutes away.

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1h

I don't see it as apathy. The voters wanted Moore-Cox and got what they wanted.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3h

Curious how newsrooms in Maryland are avoiding saying phrases like “the Moore Cox debate” or “voter apathy concerning the Moore-Cox race.”

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1h

I, like many people, have become very, very wary of the left pivoting to making "Zionist" an all-encompassing identity that can be selectively weaponised. It's totally unnecessary. If you want to condemn the state of Israel, you don't need to bring anything else into it.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1h

So radioactive, in fact, that it either comes from a place of total ignorance, or it comes from a place of deliberate provocation. You're a political party. Be *politic*.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1h

Obviously I'm talking about the Greens and Zionism. And I don't necessarily disagree with their *very specific* condemnation. I just don't think everyone thinks "Zionism" means precisely that, and therefore, "motion to condemn Zionism" is such a fucking radioactive thing to say.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1h

Even if the condemnation of what is being described is valid, you're using a term that doesn't have a strict definition, so it sounds more broadly applicable than intended, and that is not a mistake you can afford to make.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1h

It's not even pancakes vs. waffles. It's "We condemn waffles", and then when challenged you explain you only mean *potato* waffles, which we can all agree don't count.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1h

The problem is, you can't really say "we condemn this thing" and then only explain in the small print that you are using one particular definition of "this thing" and very specifically not any other definitions, even though a lot of other people use those definitions and will react accordingly.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 13h

BEGGING people to look up terms before using them for library social media. “BBW” doesn’t mean Banned Books Week

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 2h

The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 2h

Looks like radiation flipped more than a few bits there very meta

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Kissing Coeurl @coeurlskiss.bsky.social · 12h

Oh look. Transphobia used as misogyny against a cis woman. What a shock.

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 3h

now that solar has rendered it all but unnecessary

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David Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social · 3h

Don't think this can be bettered tbh : "The shadow defence secretary, James Cartlidge, likened the phrase “iron dome” to the vacuum cleaner brand name Hoover when he was asked why Badenoch had denied the Conservatives were proposing an Iron Dome-style system."

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Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems @upine.bsky.social · 20h

From his wikipedia. He's on the faculty at Bari Weiss's Right Wing university. "As of 2026 Shellenberger is on the faculty of the University of Austin in the area of "Politics, Censorship and Free Speech."

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 21h

Shellenberger is seemingly preparing to smear a bunch of people attending a conference on disinformation this week. Ten bucks says he’s gonna claim the researchers there are cEnSoRiNg yOu!!!1 In reality they’re presenting their ideas. Talking. Debating. You know, using their speech rights.

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Ben Shultz @benmshultz.net · 21h

Michael Shellenberger appears to be preparing another piece falsely claiming that a conference of researchers studying disinformation is tantamount to a shadowy cabal of censorship. Spoiler alert: conferences, in fact, are the definition of free speech. My response to his questions is below.

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 3h

Since the only other Raymond Radlein (probably, ever?) died more than a decade ago, I guess I'm a "THE" by default

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 3h

I once had gangrene in my leg from an accident. It was the worst smell I've ever known. At a castle in York, other visitors said 'They've added some authentic smells'. No, it was my rotting flesh.

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 3h

I'll be THE Megan Stallion

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 7h

The Bodleian in the early evening light ✨

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 10h

If we had a federal government that wasn't firmly up the ass of Big AI, they'd make it a crime for an AI to put people in mortal danger by sending them into wilderness areas with fictional instructions. If a human kept doing this, they'd probably go to jail, even under existing laws.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 19h

There is a bleak sort of pleasure in telling people who bring up AI in casual conversation, “Actually, I’m one of the authors AI stole from. Not an exaggeration. The judge ordered them to send me a check.” It hits them different when it’s a real person saying it.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 6h

Look, if Trump wanted weirdos like me to scour the internet for photos of his dated looking golf resort in full mildew bloom, mission accomplished.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 7h

Pretty classic Trump to accuse the press of doing exactly what he’s doing here.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 8h

Having scrolled through way too many Doral pictures on TripAdvisor I can say sometimes it looks as nasty as the Times photo, sometimes less so. But it never looks as white and pristine as the publicity shot. My guess is like all buildings in a swamp climate, frequent pressure washing is a must.

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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 6h

Part of the joy is recognizing Steinbeck's original dialogue woven in amongst the new words. This is so great.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 19h

Here’s my photo with a full view of the outside of this Athenian red-figure kylix painted by the artist Douris (he signed the interior of the cup). It shows four schoolroom scenes of boys at their lessons. Here’s a link to the Altes Museum object record: search.smb.museum/en/object/ob...

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 20h

This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me

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accidentalflyer 🇨🇦🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @accidentalflyer.bsky.social · 6h

My stupid pictures of a famous Chinese zombie (殭屍) exhibit at a good museum in Taipei.

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Brady! @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 12h

this will be funny to like 3 people but I’m one of them and that’s all that matters

The poster for The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, but it’s been edited to include And Knuckles at the end of the title, and Knuckles has been edited into the photo of the cast

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