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David Rosnick

@rosnick.bsky.social
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Fallen physicist. Avid bridge player. Longtime CEPR (DC) Most likely to understand you if you refer to me with he/him; feel free to go with they if that helps; won’t be offended but if you pick she/her you’re likely adding noise to the signal

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 22h
Thread. I agree with all this. I will jokingly use "guillotine" rhetoric sometimes, and I will not personally be unhappy if certain well-known fascists got caught up in the machinery of death they operate. But it's still a death machine, and you don't throw *anyone* in the death machine. Ever.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 22h
Whenever I say I am opposed to the death penalty - which I would argue is consistent with, not contradictory to, my abolitionist worldview - people say the death penalty is necessary to deal with fascists. And don't get me wrong, I get the appeal, at least on an intuitive or emotional level.
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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Not capital offenses but it is certainly a crime to treat them as such
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026
Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8
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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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Wolf 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.sleeplesswolf.com · 05/10/2026
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026
If Democrats think winning back congress this year and the presidency in 2028 is enough, they are sorely mistaken. We'll be right back where we're at in 2032 with an even more fascist and white supremacist Republican party. It's not enough to win power.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I was making potato salad and I found a tiny brown shriveled raisin and I was pretty upset but it turned out to just be JKR's soul so I threw the whole thing out and power-washed my kitchen.
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Kavi Kat 🌬️ @katinthestars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Capital punishment doesn't benefit society. It's time we abolish it. 👀 deathpenaltyinfo.org/studies-deat...
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Evidence Does Not Support the Use of the Death Penalty
Capital punishment must come to an end. It does not deter crime, is not humane and has no moral or medical basis
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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
omg do i have to do everything around here
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this isn’t real life it’s a clip from veep, right??
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One day I hope to convince conservatives that we should enforce the rule of law, reduce the deficit, and not carelessly tear down the institutions prior generations built, but today is not that day.
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Harry Heymann  @harryh · 16h
The GOP literally cut funding to IRS enforcement so more people could commit tax fraud.
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Austen Allred @Austen
It cut funding to IRS because the assumption that the way to catch tax fraud is to hire tens of thousands of auditors to look through paper tax returns by hand is insane
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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So long as half the House or 34 Senators like it, Article II just takes over for Article I. Probably usurps Article III, as well. But the Republicans are fine with the dismantling of the Constitutional order to get what they want. There must be consequences
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/09/2026
tucker carlson is a foppish frozen TV dinner empire heir, a virulent bigot, and a grotesque opportunist/propagandist. it's embarrassing that NPR editors think he needs more attention for his phony-ass pivot away from a nightmare he helped build
NPR headline for tucker carlson interview: "Tucker Carlson has reconsidered Trump. And quite a bit else."
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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another day of fuckery at SCOTUS
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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Having removal orders do not justify such brutality even if the targets run. This is all the more true when running from winding up in a camp where people die if they don’t get deported (illegally) to countries that torture or refoul
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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absolutely wild
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026
Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/09/2026
10000000000X yes
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/09/2026
Aaron Swartz is no longer here to tell us what he saw like twenty years ago. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Swartz had been batchmates with Altman in the inaugural class of 2005 at the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, and warned his friends about Altman shortly before his passing.

“You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one confidante. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Buying into a ludicrous fantasy vision of how immigration stops function in the real world is a moral choice, not a matter of cognitive horsepower. You don’t have to be terribly bright to grasp that’s not actually how things work; you just have to care.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There are very few scenarios more dangerous more dangerous than Trump being able to serve out his full term, but the first one here might be among them.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So “I cover techbros and those fascists are all being open about it on X now and that makes my job easier so X is better than ever” is maaaaybe a bit too insular a take. But I fear not uncommon among journalists, same as the WH press pool
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 21/09/2026
#OtD 21 Sep 1976 Chilean socialist refugee Orlando Letelier and think tank worker Ronni Moffitt were murdered in Washington, DC by a car bomb planted by US and UK-backed dictator General Pinochet's secret police stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9441...
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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One of the Great American Film Directors.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Honestly at this point just bring back cable. I would rather have cable.
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
it's trans rights or we all go to hell
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If someone posted this about a Jewish Senator, it would be rightly condemned as anti-semitism. El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan, but because he is Muslim he is perpetually foreign and under suspicion.
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anarchic aesthete @anarchicaesthete.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I never understood why one of the first doctors to push handwashing before surgery was hated and ostracized by his colleagues. I understand now, but wish I didn't.
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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Very fun how Americans are always “remember Tiananmen Square” and never “remember Kent state”
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
plausible deniability machine goes whirrrrrrr
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on
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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
lol at this chart and the disclaimer
A Connect Four style chart labeled "Illustration of the Proportion of the Courses or Talks Offered by the University" with blue circles as "left-leaning" white circles as "most centered" and red circles as "right-leaning." There are many more blue circles. The disclaimer on the side reads "Note: the proportions shown here are purely illustrative and may not correspond to the actual proportions of course of talk offerings."
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trans rights are human rights. Don’t fuck with my trans homies or you’re not a friend of mine.
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What's up with judges not understanding that for constitutional purposes, whether something is a search or not hinges on the scope of the things searched and not the things that are found in the search? Like is it not a search of my car if the cops don't find contraband? No! Still a fucking search!
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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is an extreme techno-libertarian goal though. If they cannot make viable their dystopia elsewhere they’ll happily unmake what we have here
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Stew Elliott @stewcelliott.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is very good but am again reminded how bizarre it is that a step-through frame almost automatically makes it a "women's bike" whereas a top bar that you can crush your testicles on is a men's bike www.cyclingelectric.com/in-depth/ele...
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Electric bikes built for women: Design experts share their buying tips
Something that most people in the bike industry now accept is that for far too long products designed specifically for
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Wolf 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.sleeplesswolf.com · 16/09/2026
one thing that comes out of this for me is that solving the problem is only half the battle. Explaining and understanding it is the other half and throwing millions in compute power at a math problem as OpenAI did doesn’t actually do anything if it can’t be understood.
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David Rosnick @rosnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
WTF
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New: Police arrested human rights lawyer Noura Erakat during a Palm Beach County budget hearing. Over 100 residents were giving comments against the county’s $1 billion investment in Israel bonds. One commissioner insulted a protesting veteran, saying he was an embarrassment to his uniform.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Literacy crisis: everyone is mad at Ed Sheeran, but if you actually read his statement he specifically said he’s not complicit
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
99.5% authorization 😎 www.wtaj.com/news/local-n...
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Bellefonte teachers’ union authorize strike following a year of contract negotiations
CENTRE COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — Teachers in the Bellefonte Area School District voted 99.5% in favor of union leaders authorizing a strike after roughly a year of contract negotiations and beginning th…
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trans people are not the cause of any of your problems, and only assheads want you to believe they are.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026
We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'm Jewish and if a candidate triangulated on antisemitism to win an election, I would most certainly pressure him to do better *right now* and would hope my fellow Americans would do the same. I see no reason why our trans siblings and those who support them should demand anything different.
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