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Bob Blaskiewicz

@rjblaskiewicz.bsky.social
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Associate Prof. of Critical Thinking and First-Year Studies at Stockton University. I hunt quacks and quackery across time and space. He/him. Huzzah: science, pseudoscience, conspiracy theory studies. Harrumph: fakes, frauds, fascists. #U2, #MST3K, #WWII

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026
GOAT OR BIRD????
This is even better than the
"what color is this dress" dress.
Goat?
or Bird?
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete Hegseth is reducing the total number of positions for general and flag officers by as much as 20 percent, aka hundreds of leaders. Because who needs leadership when you’re in the middle of a losing war, right?
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My department is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor of Public History! I am on the committee so please let me know if you have questions and please feel free to share! Job ID 303951. campus.kennesaw.edu/faculty-staf...
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Careers - Human Resources
find your next great career opportunity by finding jobs through the Department of Human Resources at Kennesaw State University!
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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 29/09/2026
NYers READ SHARE DONATE My friend Chelsea's daughter has leukemia & needs platelet transfusions. She can *only* have AB platelets. You can donate if you are AB+ or AB-. Please go to Sloane Kettering at 1250 1st Ave. Say they're for Stella Suther. DM me for her bday www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/s/a...
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*try* to log into things
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Bob Blaskiewicz @rjblaskiewicz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This week, I decided my book was two books. I wrote 60,000 words this summer on one quack alone and am not yet done with him. That's a book. So, one will be about medicine show men, one will be about this particular fellow.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New whistleblower account: Former employees of the Kennedy Center say that center officials canceled a plan to start overhauling its leaking infrastructure months ago, despite those officials now asserting the leaks posed an urgent safety risk requiring the building to close.
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Kennedy Center Shelved Repairs Now Cited for Closure, Whistle-Blowers Say
In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.
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Bob Blaskiewicz @rjblaskiewicz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social This you?
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Jewish Space Laser Technician @bigtparker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fucking Trump commercials, clearly campaign ads, playing during tonight's football game on Fox. "Paid for by the U.S. Government" at the end. How the fuck does he get away with EVERYTHING? Our courts are a sad joke.
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Benny Six-Cats @teeveeben.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
See @duckworth.senate.gov, this is why we have to impeach the motherfuckers. "Getting stuff done" won't count for anything if they can just flip the table.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The Trump administration’s decision not to invite the leading international election observation body to monitor crucial US midterm polls fuels fears of serious human rights concerns around the upcoming elections, Human Rights Watch said today." www.hrw.org/news/2026/09...
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US: Trump Administration Rejects External Election Observers
The Trump administration’s decision not to invite the leading international election observation body to monitor crucial US midterm polls fuels fears of serious human rights concerns around the upcomi...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is honestly the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard
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Danny Miller @danielmilleresq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm proud to have helped organize this. If you're a lawyer or law student, sign up for this nonpartisan rally next Tuesday. You'll hear from @meiselasb.bsky.social and @normeisen.bsky.social among other champions of the rule law about what YOU can do to protect our free and fair elections.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I just think it’s strange that all the gambling companies have ads with athletes and celebrities instead of featuring all their users who have become millionaires betting, very strange indeed
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It just never ends.
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Bob Blaskiewicz @rjblaskiewicz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not feeling it right now. But I must teach anyway.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What a surprise to learn that a Russian oligarch close to Putin paid for Junior’s lavish wedding. Who could’ve expected it?
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
EPA no longer tracking pollution but will track....checks notes..."America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Bob Blaskiewicz @rjblaskiewicz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ok. I figured how to make AI useful. Put Trump in a room with chatgpt with instructions to fawn over him about how fucking great he is at everything. Trust me, everyone will be happier.
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BanmarNJ @banmarnj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search for Voter Fraud Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.
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Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter Fraud (Gift Article)
Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.
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Anne Cronin @annecronin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
FREE LINK > CDC is still not including two PA measles deaths in its officially tally. Agency's staffers who'd hoped that new director Erica Schwartz would push back against RFK Jr.'s measles skepticism have been severely disappointed. @jessicanix.bsky.social > www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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CDC Measles Death Pushback Stokes Staff Fears About New Leader
For the third week in a row, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention didn’t include two Pennsylvania measles deaths in its 2026 outbreak count.
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Bob Blaskiewicz @rjblaskiewicz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Today, during research for my book, I learned that San Quentin has a 3.6 star Yelp review. Which, you know, not bad considering, San Quentin. It's better than some Burger Kings.
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Bob Blaskiewicz @rjblaskiewicz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Stockton Federation of Teachers, my union, sponsors a Stockton Foundation Scholarship for students. The faculty and staff band I'm in, the Monsters of Academia, donates all the money we make into that scholarship. #HigherEdNJ
A logo. MOA: Monsters of Academia. In the O, there is a moa, flightless bird, and some sort of medieval-looking interlace around it. It's like the bird got caught in interlace.
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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I discussed this rightward shift in the political center of gravity of the antivax movement—and how I first noticed it around 2009-2010—in detail four years ago. www.respectfulinsolence.com/2022/01/28/w...
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Why is there now such an affinity between antivaxxers and fascism?
Increasingly, the antivaccine movement has become allied with fascism, including openly fascist groups marching in their rallies. Why?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The neo-Nazi party made huge gains in the German elections thanks to the backing of the world‘s biggest billionaire and most prominent publicizer of white nationalist conspiracies on the planet. Good thing there’s no comparable relationship in the US for our media to explore.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2
A dinosaur on a white background with the text SAve the academy of Natural sciences museum rally Tuesday Sept 8 10am in front of the academy 1900 ben Franklin Parkway. "Tell Drexel University "Keep the museum open!" with the logos for Philly Science Action, Skype a Scientist, and Green Philly
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This guy wanted to charge the ICE cop who blindly fired his gun into a house with a child inside, then lied to justify the shooting. DHS also tried to deport a witness, and publicly slandered the man who was shot. Trump's people blocked the prosecution, then fired the prosecutor for going public.
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Bob Blaskiewicz @rjblaskiewicz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Today I took the first tentative steps toward my fall project, trying to interest someone in my book project. It's about medicine men and medicine shows. I'm moving from MAKE THE THING mode to THINK STRATEGICALLY ABOUT THE THING mode.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If the President of Harvard had posted what Elon did, an armed DOJ anti-Semitism strike force would already be on the way to seize the campus If just a random Harvard undergrad had posted it, DOJ would cut off its grants and launch an investigation
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Fall asleep to this infinite loop of the modern voice of freedom and justice.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Update your priors, when you see "Johns Hopkins" you shouldn't think "good school" or "medical research," you should think "hedge fund that lives off taxpayer money and drops its claimed standards to collaborate with fascists" because that's what the school decided to make itself.
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Conservative Scholars Are Rare. Johns Hopkins Wants More of Them.
Ronald J. Daniels says the ideological imbalance is bad for the academy and for the country.
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Bob Blaskiewicz @rjblaskiewicz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I made myself a Beatle.
Imagine the Bob in your life. Remove his graying goatee, put him in a monkey suit, and add a mop tap. Now, pose him for a passport photo, and you'll get the idea of what I'm looking at.Remember the Bob you just imagined? Well, add the graying goatee back in, put him in a Sgt. Pepper outfit and give him little round John Lennon glasses and in front of...apparently the Mystery Machine. And remember, all you need is love. Peace and love.
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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Another complaint about the Trump DOJ’s election interference. What woke liberal snowflake state is it this time? Wyoming. Do you think, just maybe, this really is an oppressive regime bent on undermining democracy? www.wjhl.com/news/politic...
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Wyoming governor requests investigation into activity of Justice Department monitors during primary
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Wyoming’s attorney general is investigating how two U.S. Department of Justice officials monitored poll workers and observed voters in the state’s most populo…
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
NEW: Evidence filed in a Colorado case reveals how ICE officers are arresting people without a warrant, which is illegal unless ICE determines the person is a flight risk. A man was dragged from his car after ICE showed him a warrant for someone else and refused to check his ID to see his identity.
NEW: Evidence filed in a Colorado case reveals how ICE officers are arresting people without a warrant, which is illegal unless ICE determines the person is a flight risk.

A man was dragged from his car after ICE showed him a warrant for someone else and refused to check his ID.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Can't believe these Ivory Tower academics left merely because the American government decided it should arbitrarily revoke research funding and visas, dictate what scholars publish & teach, and send students & assistants to concentration camps.
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
DOJ election monitors reportedly tried to access voting machines in Wyoming last week. I’ve spent thousands of hours reporting on past efforts by Trump allies to access machines & copy data. Mark my words: State officials need to be ready for this to happen again. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...
nytimes.com
Wyoming Governor Objects to ‘Very Odd’ D.O.J. Election Monitoring (Gift Article)
Governor Mark Gordon, a Republican, said he was concerned by the behavior of election observers who visited a polling station in Cheyenne.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Wyoming’s Republican governor raises concerns over ‘aggressive’ DOJ election monitors www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Wyoming’s Republican governor raises concerns over ‘aggressive’ DOJ election monitors
Gov. Mark Gordon said the behavior of Justice Department officials who observed the state’s primary elections last week was “irregular.”
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Good. Sue the shit out of them. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Stars and Stripes employees sue Pentagon over firings at military newspaper
The publication’s publisher, its editor in chief and a reporter allege that the government violated their First Amendment rights to free speech.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I know it is said often, but it can't be said enough: the man is an unhinged child. If he wasn't the most powerful man alive, it would be comical. But it isn't comical. It is sickening.
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