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Glenn Westfield

@romanx.bsky.social
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Husband, Father, Superman fan, from the Midwest. A lapsed chemist and current CISSP.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 13h
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14h
where can i, a man, possibly find books written by men?
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Glenn Westfield @romanx.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This. I really think more thought (folks more knowledgeable than I), needs to be spent on oversight that *is* self executing and ideally a little more resistant to outright partisan capture/negligence. Have there be a grace period to de-Trump agencies, but more bulwarks versus a lawless executive.
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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
JB Pritzker you could buy so much 2028 cred by bombing Ashley Moody into the Stone Age with TV ads
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The right has been gloating that the #MeToo era ended, but we're due for a reckoning that's going to make that look like nothing by comparison.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is devastating and also a remarkable instance of public leadership from a candidate. There is some indication here the assault was politically motivated, which is even more disturbing.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 07/10/2026
Spectrum Allocation xkcd.com/3307/
Comic: Modern Spectrum Allocation Chart. [Long line of rectangles of different widths in shades of gray. From top to bottom: radio (shouting), TV test patterns, 1G cellular, radio (music), radio (static), reserved for zeppelin navigation, TV channels 2, 5, 7-13, 16, 17, and 28 with 2G cellular in between, interference, WKRP in Cincinnati, spaceship beeps, all other TV, car dealership ads, numbers stations, weather balloons, amateur radio, HAM radio, “weather balloons”, *Choosing Texas* 24/7, [extra large rectangle] boat captains say they need this for something and we don’t ask what because they’re scary, the secret radio waves that make planes stay up, defunct satellite phone company, radioastronomy, radioastrology, [extra small rectangle] all modern wireless infrastructure, death rays, LoFi hip hop beats to relax/study to, security guard walkie talkies, amateur military satellites, left open in case aliens try to call, one brand of garage door openers with a lot of political pull.]
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
they're all just lying, it is tremendous lying, but it is just lying
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Show me 😡
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Glenn Westfield @romanx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Having been a fan (in the midwest no less) since Don Mattingly, I feel you on this, sir.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Freddie Jackson, the RnB legend known for multiple hits, including “You Are My Lady,” has died. He was 70
Freddie Jackson, the RnB legend known for multiple hits, including “You Are My Lady,” has died. He was 70
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
someone call up will smith we need him to do something
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I fully buy that frontier AI models advanced labs are working on differ from less powerful models available to the public. What I don't fully buy is that any comment from anyone working in those labs must be an accurate assessment of what the tech really is, rather than inflected with AI psychosis.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Raven's fed up w/ghosts 👻 @writeravenwrite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What the absolute fuck??
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"But it’s abundantly clear that there is no public official in Washington who lies like Trump – not as constantly, not as obviously, not about as many topics ... we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar."
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
'Mark Anthony Neal joined OFFICE HOURS with Marc Lamont Hill to discuss his new book on fatherhood. Dr. Neal opens up to Marc about his relationship with his father and what exploring that relationship taught him about his mother and raising his daughters.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfqL...
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Mark Anthony Neal & Marc Lamont Hill Unpack Being Sons, Husbands & Girl Dads
YouTube video by Marc Lamont Hill Network
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2026
ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled. The spike alarmed many experts. One said it should “be a never event.”
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"
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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Americans may not get results of Alzheimer’s study due to Trump cuts: Shutdown of study is latest for Trump administration, which has canceled, frozen and otherwise disrupted more than 5,700 medical research grants over two years www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #Project2025 #science #Blues
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Hundreds of ageing Americans may not get results of Alzheimer’s study due to Trump cuts
Shutdown of study is latest for Trump administration, which has canceled, frozen and otherwise disrupted more than 5,700 medical research grants over two years
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Glenn Westfield @romanx.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just a good reminder, exposure isn't net neutral. We all think we are immune these very factors, in reality we are all very...very susceptible to this type of self-delusion.
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orithyia blue. @javeauriel.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
And ppl think we are exaggerating. I lost my job in Jan 2025 and was unemployed literally until three weeks ago. 19 months.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds
A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 11/09/2026
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/09/2026
French prosecutors have found new investigative leads in the Epstein case, and have identified 13 new victims. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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France's Epstein probe identifies 'potential recruiters'
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau revealed said that new leads had been identified as part of an investigation into alleged human trafficking.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Glenn Westfield @romanx.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Paul Verhoeven has to be screaming..."it was satire!". Also, Emperor Palpatine approves....
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 04/09/2026
Update from @samanticka.bsky.social: Thousands of pages of public comment weren’t distributed to Committee members until 18 hours before the Committee meeting, leading several members to complain that they hadn’t been able to read them, and others to admit they had read them using an LLM (AI). 1/
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Moving on from infant mortality to boner meds
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/09/2026
This iconic 1971 photo of Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes has always said so much without saying a word. Two women. Two raised fists. One shared fight for equality. Dorothy passed in 2022. Now Gloria is gone too. Two giants who helped change America. Rest in power, Gloria. ✊🏼✊🏾
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026
the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Welp, there it is. The CDC is now officially manipulating data and their count of measles deaths in 2026 now stands at ZERO. My understanding of reportable diseases is that the CDC would usually use a state health department’s determination as the final say. The new CDC Director is failing us.
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The CDC left two measles-associated Pa. deaths out of its latest count after RFK Jr. sparred with Gov. Shapiro
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused Pennsylvania of not cooperating with the CDC in its handling of a measles outbreak.
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🏳️‍⚧️ UNBAN LINK @biancamack.co · 30/08/2026
Love a direct, to the point queen. Say it plainly and leave no space for bad-faith bullshit.
Asked why the WNBA continues to experience these heightened distractions, Cloud said, "Men."
"The men now that are like 'Oh, we need to protect the WNBA,’ y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't be paid," Cloud continued. "Y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't have been invested in, saying we're a joke, the same ones that don't respect Black women. So, if you're going to protect women, that means all women. That includes Black women, trans women and the list goes on."
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said. Both were unvaccinated. These the first deaths related to measles within the state in 35 years, it reports
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2 people die from measles in Pennsylvania
Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said Tuesday.
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Glenn Westfield @romanx.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Good. I hope Ms. Attiah, continues to applying boot to butt, to the Post. This is what fighting back looks like.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"That gives some readers something enormously valuable: permission. I am not saying diversity lowered standards. Tyler Austin Harper is saying it. I am not saying progressive academics have become obsessed with race. He is saying it." cloakinginequity.com/2026/08/19/t...
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He Picked a Fight With Black America. I’m Here to Finish It.
Liberals keep reaching out asking me to read Tyler Austin Harper. Not one liberal. Not one conversation. It has happened enough the past few days that I have started wondering why. Why has Tyler be…
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Glenn Westfield @romanx.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Having watched the video, that is an accurate statement. Bouie pushed back strongly on that very framing.
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Brent @danverzone.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Sharing this: 90s comic inker Timothy Dzon (West Coast Avengers, G.I. Joe) faces medical & housing crises. Signed comics ($12+) & completed sketches ($80). Send your own books to be signed too (COA included) Details: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Eh2...
Screenshot of a social media post. Text at the top reads: "If you feel like donating anything please do so a any time. He greatly appreciates your help at this time." Below the text is a photograph of an older, thin man with grey hair, a mustache, and a small goatee, wearing a blue tank top. He is sitting indoors next to a window and holding up two identical trading cards featuring the G.I. Joe character Dr. Mindbender.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 20/08/2026
🚨 75 DAYS TO GO! W/THE VRA DEAD, FLIPPING THE HOUSE IS EVEN *MORE* URGENT. Flipping the House blue is an ABSOLUTE MUST this year. Donate today. #Blue26 --"TBD" donations go to the eventual Dem nominee. --Nothing donated via this page goes to me. secure.actblue.com/donate/house...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.
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andrea shea @whattheshea.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
How do I inject her “Okay, well, let’s see if you can fight. And he couldn’t.” energy directly into my brain stem.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"The Republican Party is not good for the economy. They screw it up every time. And the Republican Party is not pro-military. The last two Republican presidents have started completely unnecessary wars." Good Mike Tomasky intervention: newrepublic.com/article/2143...
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At Long Last, Americans Are Starting to See the Truth About the GOP
A businessman can set this country right. Republicans are better for the economy. Republicans love the military. Lie, lie, and lie.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The mainstream is discovering that trans people are innocent despite being targeted, that those targeting us are unreasonable, irrational, dangerous, and extreme, that the purges will not end with us. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Glenn Westfield @romanx.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I am no legal expert, but this is rooted in the inherent power that Congress has related to the appellate (also in Article 3) jurisdiction of the court (even creation). So no individual fix, but several that would restrain its ideological excess. A layered solution, if you will. No amendment needed.
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