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Jolly Confused

@riteofpassage.bsky.social
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Doctor, teacher, gardener, political junkie, history nerd, europhile. Martin Luther King said "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." I hope he's right.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h
> @nytimes.com @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 9h
Another ICE shooting, in NYC abc7ny.com/post/person-...
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Person shot during interaction with ICE agents in Marble Hill
A person was shot during an interaction with ICE agents in Manhattan on Thursday.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 9h
Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose six trials in the same Mississippi murder case became a national symbol of racial bias in jury selection, leading the Supreme Court to reverse his capital conviction in 2019, died at home this week in Winona, Miss. He was 56. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/o...
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 9h
Wikimedia Foundation: "AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and protect the public from the harm they cause. That burden is falling onto everyone else, including smaller organizations." wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/10...
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OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects – Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation found “rogue” OpenAI agents on its wikis, raising concerns about risks to its free knowledge projects and the open web.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h
Just today: - The Trump admin announced the first public execution since 1936. - Trump tried to incite a race war against Somalis. - Trump said anyone using the phrase AI is "THE ENEMY" - The NYT reported on a potential ICE plan to deport migrants on military boats and ferries.
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Jolly Confused @riteofpassage.bsky.social · 8h
Hegseth gets more unhinged every day.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9h
Disgusting www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
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Jolly Confused @riteofpassage.bsky.social · 10h
"....two Cities that I love..." 😂😂😂
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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 15h
Story by my colleague Alistair Gray (with some input from me) here: as.ft.com/r/f7e34da8-4...
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Former prince Andrew wins legal challenge over search warrants
Police accept unlawfulness of warrants obtained to search properties belonging to younger brother of King Charles but said investigation ongoing
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Jolly Confused @riteofpassage.bsky.social · 14h
I think both my eardrums have perforated....🙉
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Jolly Confused @riteofpassage.bsky.social · 14h
Exactly, the laboratory in Wuhan.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 19h
RFK Jr.'s NIH reportedly kept sending money to a Russian institute tied to the plague lab at the center of an outbreak, despite Biden's order to end these partnerships. Fuckface is calling Putin about it now. Why the hell was this still being funded, and what else is?
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RFK Jr. Reportedly Sent Nearly $800K to Research Project Linked to Russian Plague Lab
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has reportedly overseen nearly $800,000 in federal funding for a research project involving a Russian laboratory with ties to the Siberian facility at the center...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The editorial board of the Philadelphia @inquirer.com becomes the first at a major newspaper to endorse (sorta) Trump's impeachment. share.inquirer.com/BnINC5 "A clear and present danger to the republic... the case against Trump is strong... the time has come to again contemplate his impeachment."
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The Case for Impeachment: What would the founders do? | Editorial
The list of the president’s high crimes and misdemeanors is breathtaking.
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Taken on August 11, 2026. Details on the photo here from JPL: www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-curiosi…
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Catches Stunning Martian Dawn | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 07/10/2026
I grudgingly find this refreshing because for once we have a Supreme Court justice acknowledging that judges are real people who have policy preferences, not magical law wizards who never think about politics
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 07/10/2026
President Trump says he "could have done very bad things" to Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Barack Obama — but chose not to, because "you have to treat the office of the presidency with respect." What he said next stunned onlookers.
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Trump bizarre impeachment rant stuns Oval Office onlookers: 'This is not normal'
President Donald Trump left onlookers stunned Wednesday when he went on a bizarre rant about what Democrats will do to him if they take back control of Congress after the midterm elections. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump told Peter Doocy of Fox News that he's aware that Democrats pl...
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Forbes @forbes.com · 07/10/2026
Elon Musk lost $21 billion on Wednesday morning as SpaceX shares fell 2% after reports that the company plans to raise $40 billion to buy chips from Nvidia.
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Elon Musk Loses $21 Billion In A Morning As SpaceX Shares Slip
Elon Musk lost $21 billion on Wednesday morning as SpaceX shares fell 2% after reports that the company plans to raise $40 billion to buy chips from Nvidia.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 07/10/2026
Months ago, we called for an IG investigation into a $620 million Pentagon loan to a Trump Jr.-linked company. Now, Trump's sons' investments are tied to over $6 billion in active or promised government contracts. This is exactly why we need answers.
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Trump sons' investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election
The contract for a new plant in Baltimore is the latest linked to the brothers.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 07/10/2026
Ukraine war latest: Russian attack on Pryluky kills at least 20, including 5 children • Russia slams Ukraine with missiles, drones on Putin's 74th birthday, at least 26 dead including 5 children • Huge blaze breaks out at Russian oil facility in Samara Oblast
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Ukraine war latest: Russian attack on Pryluky kills at least 20, including 5 children
Key developments on Oct. 7: * Russia slams Ukraine with missiles, drones on Putin's 74th birthday, at least 26 dead including 5 children * Huge blaze breaks out at Russian oil facility in Samara Ob...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
MAGA grandpa ready to call ICE on Black woman-for using gym equipment.
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Jolly Confused @riteofpassage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What a disgusting p.o.s.
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Emily Belz @emilybelz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pair with this one too! I love that local reporters are sniffing out pink slime sites floridatrib.org/2026/05/14/t...
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The rise and fall of an AI-driven ‘local news outlet’ in South Florida
The search to find out who was behind the South Florida Standard shows how easy it is for the real people behind digital doppelgangers to remain in the shadows
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."
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Jolly Confused @riteofpassage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
OMG he's not still going on about that is he?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 07/10/2026
Trump Mobile got hacked. When the hackers warned them, the company replied: "We have no team to handle this." So 3,615 customers' names, addresses, and phone numbers hit the dark web, including a GOP congressman and the Trump Org's own cybersecurity chief. Not one Trump family member on the list.
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Trump hit with 'most embarrassing hack' of the year: 'We have no team to handle this'
A phone company launched by President Donald Trump's sons was hacked, and the hackers say they released customer data because the company told them it had "no team to handle this."A new criminal group...
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
WHO: WE HAVE SEEN MEDIA REPORTS OF POSSIBLE SECOND CASE OF PLAGUE IN RUSSIA
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Jolly Confused @riteofpassage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And of course the tax payer will pay for it.
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Jolly Confused @riteofpassage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This man is quite clearly an idiot.
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Jolly Confused @riteofpassage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
WTF?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Inexplicable to me that Leta Mitchell hasn't yet been disbarred. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump shouts out Russ Vought and then says, ominously, "we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's gonna be one of the important people in the history of our country."
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh brother.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 06/10/2026
Discovery of 11 bodies in Johannesburg exposes scale of violence against women
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Discovery of 11 bodies in Johannesburg exposes scale of violence against women
Since July, the bodies of women found either naked or half-naked and brutally beaten have been discovered on the outskirts of the South African capital. Although the theory of a serial predator has faded, the grim reality of widespread daily violence against women in the country has become undeniable.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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Jolly Confused @riteofpassage.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
She has a short memory or she is hoping others do. The LibDems were useful idiots for the Tories and have never recovered politically.
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Jolly Confused @riteofpassage.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My head is going to explode.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Solidarity "After deciding this weekend to block Politico from riding on Air Force One, White House staffers called numerous outlets to ask one to fill the primary print slot for the out-of-town pool rotation .... Each of those outlets declined to step in." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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White House blocks Politico from Air Force One trip, cannot secure replacement
President Donald Trump will travel without a primary print pool reporter for the first time in recent memory.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
More: www.wsbtv.com/news/trendin...
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Recall alert: 122K cases of Gatorade recalled
FDA announces Gatorade recall of Lemon Lime & Orange flavors.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Over 1,700 cases of jalapeño avocado salad dressing have been recalled due to possible contamination with salmonella.
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Jolly Confused @riteofpassage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Imagine wasting your life as a WH reporter asking the same moron the same questions every day and getting the same bullshit answers and treating the answers like pearls of wisdom from the mouth of a sage.
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gayle @gaylechrist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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ICE Kidnaps Mother And Abandons Her 9-Year-Old at Bus Stop
They left him alone on the street alone. So much for “protect the children”.
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Jolly Confused @riteofpassage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Russia also has a GDP one third of the size of California. How can Tucker Carlson be so ignorant. This is a rhetorical question.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
An economics lesson for Tucker Carlson from Britain’s Jacob Rees-Mogg. In reality, the war is what is currently keeping both the Russian economy and Putin’s power afloat. Ending the war will trigger a "demilitarization shock" to Russia’s budget.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The confirmed #measles count in Pennsylvania has topped 1,000. Important to note that confirmed cases make up only a portion of all cases, especially given infections among PA's Amish community probably do not come to public health's attention in many cases. app.powerbigov.us/view?r=eyJrI...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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U.S. sends torture survivor back to Nicaragua, where he is immediately jailed again
Jeffrey Jarquín, a former Nicaraguan political prisoner who said he was tortured for opposing President Daniel Ortega, was jailed at Managua’s Modelo prison immediately after the U.S. deported him, ad...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026
NEW: I have obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Trump's name in the Epstein files for supervisory review. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: MSW Media has Obtained Descriptions of NINE Epstein Files Redaction Training Videos in FOIA Lawsuit
Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.
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