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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs

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Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 16/04/2026

Two of Rep. Trevor Lee's former bosses say he's a con man. Lee allegedly: ✅ Committed check fraud in 2013 ✅ Borrowed $93K from an employer he was secretly undercutting ✅ Offered to leverage his Capitol seat to wipe out the debt Read more: utahpolitics.news/two-of-rep-t...

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Two of Rep. Trevor Lee's former bosses say he's a con man, and voters should know

Two CEOs say Rep. Trevor Lee committed check fraud and used his legislative seat in a pay-to-play scheme. He refused to comment.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/04/2026

Erica Payne, founder of @patrioticmillionaires.org: "Doing it around the edges is what got us this freak show in the WH sending out memes about him being Jesus & getting in a fight with the Pope in a country that prides itself on the separation of church and state. For heaven's sake! Enough already"

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/02/2026

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I watched the 1st meeting day of RFK Jr’s handpicked committee of vaccine advisors. It was utterly depressing. 1/

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

RFK Jr’s conspiracy approach to medicine will kill people, now and in the future

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

My kids know an American flag when they see one – but they don't yet know all that it represents. When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

The very definition of evil is incarcerating for life in one of the worst hellholes on Earth men who did everything right. But it’s beyond evil—beyond demonic—to then not try to do anything to save the men you consigned to Hell, *and* to in fact libel and slander them daily when they cannot reply.

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Matt @00pi.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." - Frank Wilhoit

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The alluring claim of the wellness industry is that doctors only understand treating disease, whereas wellness focuses on prevention And yet they are obsessed with attacking two therapies that have prevented more deaths than any other medical interventions in history – statins and vaccines

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Moscow has had its clutches on Trump for my entire adult life. Just weeks after returning from the Soviet Union as their guest in 1987, Trump spent more than $100,000 for a series of full page ads in the NYT & other big papers. He called for ending defense alliances unless they paid for protection.

Full page ad from Trump in the NYT (Sept. 2, 1987) calling for an end to US defense alliances unless Japan, Saudi Arabia, and “others” unless they paid the US more money. He couldn’t say NATO outright because this was during the Cold War, but that’s who he means by “and others.”

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Fentanyl is very much like a weapon of mass destruction in the sense that Republicans like to lie about finding it and then use that lie as a justification to do ruinous, destructive things

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children. He's a eugenicist. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.

A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

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USA Disappeared Tracker @disappearedtracker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Disappeared: Mahmood Khalil Disappeared count: 1 Khalil was a Columbia University graduate student, US permanent resident, and husband of a US citizen detained by order of the White House on 3/9/2025. He spoke out against the Israeli government, which is believed to be the reason he was targeted.

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.

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Trump Decried Millions Spent 'Making Mice Transgender.' It Was Cancer and Asthma Research

President Trump falsely claimed that Biden spent $8 million on 'making mice transgender,' but the real research was for human health.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The US built the post war global order. We are now this uncanny paradox, historically inexplicable, angry rebels against our own hegemony.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 03/03/2025

An underrated part of this video is you can watch the Dow go down in real time in the bottom right

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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We're not done yet | 18F

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/02/2025

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83: FAA employees left between you and a Boeing 747 crashing into your house

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Noliwe Rooks @nrooks.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

At this point the U.S. Constitution is in danger of becoming something like a restraining order, only stopping violence if everyone involved believes in its power, ineffective against those who believe more in their right to rage.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Musk is rumored to spend $40M on Super Bowl ads with his wildly distorted claims attacking USAID. Don’t believe them. The last round are debunked below. wapo.st/3ErHBZM And I'll unpack the reality in this 🧵, too. 1/13

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Analysis | The White House’s wildly inaccurate claims about USAID spending

Eleven out of 12 claims about the agency’s work are misleading, wrong or lack context.

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Ryan McCune @ryanmccune.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

Remember what Trump did to the USPS? Next in line are other agencies filled with experts and professional public servants. FDA, OSHA, USDA, NOAA, etc. Next year when hurricane season hits, he won’t need the Sharpie.

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