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s-isabelle.bsky.social @s-isabelle.bsky.social · 6h

I have exceeded my WTF quota for the day so time to turn my phone off.

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s-isabelle.bsky.social @s-isabelle.bsky.social · 6h

Love hearing the impeachment talk!!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 13/10/2026

Dario Amodei of Anthropic is Very Normal and Can Be Trusted With the Future of Humanity: “…in my case I'd say that I think an adult death is perhaps 2 or 3 times worse than an infant's death.” blog.givewell.org/2010/06/03/m...

GiveWell makes explicit cost effectiveness estimates (based in part on those of the Disease Control Priorities report) for both organizations: ~$545 per infant death averted for Village Reach, and ~$150-750 per death averted for Stop TB. These are roughly comparable, but don't take into account the fact that Stop TB mainly treats adults, while VR mainly treats infants and children. I feel that adults are capable of deeper and more meaningful experiences than are infants, and also deeper connections with other people, so an adult death seems worse to me than an infant death (though both are of course bad). Trying to quantify exactly how much worse is very subjective and can also seem calculating ("how many babies would you kill to save an adult?i, but on a practical level one is forced to make difficult decisions with limited funds, and in my case I'd say that I think an adult death is perhaps 2 or 3 times worse than an infant's death. Thus, adjusted for my personal values, Id say that Stop TB is ~2-3 times more cost-effective than VR, though I understand that others may validly disagree with this subjective assessment.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h

DHS also told Benny Johnson that Ms. Comans had been fired because she was "illegally funding migrant luxury hotels in NYC against the orders of President Trump." DHS, as before, admits now that it "knew this information was false at the time it was provided to Mr. Johnson."

v. February 11, 2025, Statement by DHS Employee to Political Commentator Benny
Johnson
On February 11, 2025, a DHS employee told Benny Johnson, a political commentator with
a significant following, that “FEMA’s Chief Financial Officer Mary Comans was just fired for
illegally funding migrant luxury hotels in NYC against the orders of President Trump.” DHS
officials provided this information to Mr. Johnson with the expectation that he would further
disseminate it to his audience and on-line followers. Mr. Johnson then posted the information on
X. The Government concedes and the Court finds that other than the fact that Ms. Comans had
been fired, the information provided to Mr. Johnson was entirely false. The Government further
concedes and the Court further finds that officials at FEMA and DHS knew this information was
false at the time it was provided to Mr. Johnson.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 13h

JUST IN: Mag. judge in EDVA clears former FEMA CFO Mary Comans of claims she directed tens of millions in payments for housing undocumented immigrants in NYC. Judge: Statements by Musk & others were 'little more than state-sanctioned intimidation.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h

In early 2025, Ms. Comans was directed *by DOGE employees themselves* to continue payments to local governments for sheltering migrants. She followed those orders. Then other DOGE employees found out, and the Trump admin decided to blame her personally and smear her in public for the payments.

early point of confusion was whether the Executive Order required a pause in funding only to nongovernmental organizations or whether it also paused funding to state and local governments. This
was not a decision to be made by the CFO. In fact, as CFO, Ms. Comans had neither the authority
nor the ability to direct money to or away from a particular grant recipient. Defining the scope of
the Executive Order was left to senior DHS or FEMA leadership, their general counsels, or at the
very least other FEMA employees who had direct authority over the grant programs at issue.
Ultimately, the agency’s decision was that payments should continue to state and local
governments. This decision was explicitly approved by employees of the newly
created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who were embedded with DHS
and were reviewing and approving all funding initiatives. As a result of DOGE’s approval, Ms.
Comans was directed to continue payments to state and local governments.
Thereafter, other DOGE employees embedded with the Department of Treasury claimed
FEMA’s payments to state and local governments violated the President’s Executive Order. What
followed was a series of finger pointing and backtracking that resulted in the decision to blame
Ms. Comans and three other career officials. On February 11, 2025, Ms. Comans was fired and
DHS and DOGE officials began their public campaign to use her as a scapegoat.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h

WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."

In conducting this hearing, the Court is not called upon to resolve factual disputes between
the parties. The facts set forth in this Memorandum Opinion and Order were proposed by the
Plaintiff, unobjected to by the Government, and then deemed admitted by the Court. Dkts. 74, 75,
77.2 These facts establish that high-ranking government officials, including then Secretary of DHS
Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, engaged in a coordinated public relations campaign to impugn the
personal and professional integrity of Ms. Comans. For reasons unfathomable to this Court,
officials chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an
impeccable record of public service. In short, Ms. Comans was professionally targeted and
personally attacked by government officials for no legitimate reason. The attacks against Ms.
Comans were based entirely on false information, and many government officials knew the
accusations were untrue at the time they were made. With no regard for the truth and with no
consideration for the personal and professional effect on Ms. Comans, government officials
exploited their access to mass media outlets to broadcast false information. These false
statements reached hundreds of millions of people. The purpose of this Order is, to the best of
this Court’s ability, to correct the public record and establish as a matter of law that the
statements made by these officials about Ms. Comans were objectively and demonstrably false.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

Mike Johnson: "The nightmare scenario…If this group took over, heaven forbid, they would turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body. They'd spend every day investigating the president, the first family, the Cabinet, donors to the party."

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🏄🏼‍♂️Surfing The Law ⚖️ @surfdudeken03.bsky.social · 13h

You mean, doing it's Constitutionally derived duty to check the power of the executive branch? Heaven forbid!

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 13h

‘Brent crude first-month futures are back to $106 per barrel, while the price for six months hence has reached a record as investors abandon the notion that this conflict will be over soon.’ www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · 15h

My latest for Salon, on Rubio's speech in Greece last week. With ongoing ICE violence, Hegseth calling for a public execution, $6/gal diesel, and embrace of AI nobody is falling for it anymore

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h

Q: "Does Russia need a new president?" Trump: "Does anybody want to see a great work of art, a great thing of beauty? The helipad has unbelievable architecture."

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s-isabelle.bsky.social @s-isabelle.bsky.social · 14h

I was just thinking about that book and how I want to reread it.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 14h

Ohio Trump voter: Things don't look good. What do we gain out of war? Nothing. Death, destruction, frustration, and disappointments. So many people are suffering.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 15h

Q: Russia hit six energy sites yesterday. President Trump: Well, Ukraine hit many sites the day before.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 15h

Trump on Iran: Bottom line, it's gonna all work out. You know why? It always does.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

OMG she is brutally bad at this

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

JD Vance running around the country saying he’s fighting health care fraud while his nominee for the senate in TX who he completely supports is partying in Dubai with a guy whole stole over $300 million in health care fraud and gave Paxton $190,000. This is the Republican Party.

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 11/10/2026

SOMEONE has vandalized our sunflower garden. Hmmm. Wonder who that could have been on this particular weekend. My friend Connor O’Brien, who has watered and cared for the sunflower garden across from the #gatesofhell, is running for ANC commissioner and made this video.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23h

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18h

I don’t think the president of the United States should lie on behalf of China and Russia, publicly defending their work helping Iran kill Americans. To me, siding with US enemies is bad, not good, and the US president should oppose that instead. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

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s-isabelle.bsky.social @s-isabelle.bsky.social · 18h

It's genuinely shocking to me that Rogan hadn't heard of Clausewitz even if he didn't know much about him. Like I don't know much about him but it's hard not to stumble onto his name if you're online, right?

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Godspeed You! BOOsky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · 19h

this is my new favorite clip in the world. not even close.

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 18h

it’s official: 2026 has now tied 2022 for the most days ever with the national average price of gasoline above $4/gal. 157 days and counting. one more and it’s a new record

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 19h

These guys are extremely intent to grab everybody in the country by the face and scream “WHEN I SAID WE ARE A DEATH CULT DID I STUTTER?”

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s-isabelle.bsky.social @s-isabelle.bsky.social · 19h

I would never advocate for the death penalty but I do understand the fairness that some people feel like it brings. Like I said, I will never be able to talk about it neutrally and without emotion.

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s-isabelle.bsky.social @s-isabelle.bsky.social · 19h

Because someone died in order for the death penalty to be applied. But I do understand the pain people feel knowing that the person that took a loved one's life is still existing and in some cases thriving with love and attention. It definitely doesn't feel right.

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s-isabelle.bsky.social @s-isabelle.bsky.social · 19h

The feeling I had when the first man died (while I was still in highschool) was relief. Not happiness by any means. But this person that stole the lives of 3 people was gone and that gave a slight reprieve in the grief. I'll never understand finding anything to celebrate in the death penalty

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s-isabelle.bsky.social @s-isabelle.bsky.social · 19h

This. My feelings about the death penalty are complicated because a friend and his parents were brutally murdered in their home when I was a freshman in high school. Both killers got the death penalty but died of other things over the years.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20h

FIFA signed a more than seven-year lease at Trump Tower, worth about $4 million, according to two officials directly involved in the deal and documents reviewed by The New York Times. The suite mostly sits empty. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/w...

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FIFA Pays Millions for Trump Tower Office Said to Be Rarely Used (Gift Article)

The deal is another sign of how Gianni Infantino, the leader of soccer’s global governing body, has sought closer ties to President Trump.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

He truly believes that because Putin and Xi put on a show for him that they are his allies. He's childlike and gullible even as he is unspeakably brutal and corrupt. What a horrifying combination. And such a mark for powerful leaders who are smarter than him. Which would be all of them.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 20h

Trump lies on behalf of Putin and Xi. The weakest American president ever.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/10/2026

To "revel in the death of those who truly deserve it...is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order," Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey wrote on X.

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Pete Hegseth's firing squad livestream has fans in the defense industry

Co-founders of Palantir and defense tech firm Anduril are defending "public and brutal" executions.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 20h

Should make one wonder why you never see the CEOs of the big primes (Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed, NG, GD, L3Harris) talking like this but all the new startup CEOs are straight up fascists and repeatedly remind you of this fact on live.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Deeply grateful to Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester for coming out to Michigan to join us on the campaign trail, spread joy, and feel the love in our great state.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My family's roots in mid-Michigan trace back to the early 1800s. I lived with Grandma and Grandpa during my time at Michigan. And they’ve always had my back. They mean the world to me❤️ I’m honored to introduce them to you, too, in our new ad:

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 13/10/2026

How to defeat tech billionaire power? Look at Solano County. When billionaires invaded their community with plans to build a "tech utopia," Democrats AND Republicans banded together to fight back. In a triumph of local democracy, they stopped the project...for now. 🎁 www.wsj.com/us-news/sili...

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Silicon Valley’s Dream City Has Crashed Into Small-Town Politics

A bitter standoff between tech-backed developers and local county leaders helped doom a $3-billion project at the edge of the Bay Area.

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 21h

My son was 1 when world leaders pledged to keep global warming below 1.5C in an attempt to avoid irreversible climate collapse. When he was 10 the planet spent a whole year above 1.5C. By the time he’s 14, 1.5C will likely be crossed forever. The greatest betrayal in the history of our species.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A simple “yes” would have sufficed.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026

Real America's Voice interviewed a guy at the Trump rally in Ohio who blasted Trump for peddling "lies and garbage." He went so hard on Trump and JD Vance that they cut the interview short.

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s-isabelle.bsky.social @s-isabelle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm only on Bluesky so no algorithms! Just not enough of the people I'm following have been talking about it! I did see Bill Kristol mention it so how I finally heard about it!!

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s-isabelle.bsky.social @s-isabelle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'll be interested to see the No Kings turnout this Saturday. I just found out about it over the weekend. It's weird that I don't feel like it's been communicated as well as past events.

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s-isabelle.bsky.social @s-isabelle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Well that part isn't working because I would walk over broken glass to go vote against these people!

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s-isabelle.bsky.social @s-isabelle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's all so terrible. It's like they know there are too many things for us to focus on - the Iran war, energy prices, the Russia/Ukraine war, ICE continuing to menace the US, this live streaming a firing squad execution, etc. Not to mention the corruption, the troops in DC, and DC destruction.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 12/10/2026

this isn’t dementia, it’s just contempt for the question and the person asking it

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s-isabelle.bsky.social @s-isabelle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I admire your perseverance. I've tried not to hate my Trump voting family but Trump's weekend performance with Putin and Zelensky has pushed me to the edge. I know this is who Trump is but I realized that they know it too and they either don't care or are okay with it😡😢

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