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Ultracrepidarian

@shevek57.bsky.social
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Graphic designer, artist, musician, road cyclist, and occasional blogger who is always reading books about science, philosophy, history, politics, and art. Finally left the musky dark for blue skies.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h
Emily Marris’ daughter got E. coli after drinking raw milk. So she texted the farmer, who said none of the tests showed “anything abnormal.” Marris later learned that the farmer hadn’t tested for E. coli; it seemed like she didn’t know how to.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 10h
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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h
If you are shocked this am that Trump’s government executed a search warrant against a Democratic Member of Congress and ignored a judge’s order then you haven’t been paying attention. Stop saying this isn’t how it works in the US. It is exactly how it works under Trump.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11h
HSI Agents Ricky Patel, Ryan Ribner, Richard Berger, and Timothy Gerber All Made False Claims to Frame Democrats emptywheel.net/2026/10/12/h...
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HSI Agents Ricky Patel, Ryan Ribner, Richard Berger, and Timothy Gerber All Lied to Frame Democrats - emptywheel
There are at least 36 affidavits signed by HSI Agents -- like the goons who just searched Ilhan Omar's house -- who have made false claims to frame Democrats or other Trump opponents.
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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
He's right. Calling people Nazis is not what we do in this country. The result is that Nazis took over one of our two major political parties and seized control of our government without firing a shot, because they got no pushback from right-thinking people like David Brooks.
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Ultracrepidarian @shevek57.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Thread!
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Ultracrepidarian @shevek57.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I have never watched Bill Maher's show and never will.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
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Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.com · 10/10/2026
How about we livestream someone reading the Epstein Files?
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Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When a news organization censors and stops the publication of a legitimate, relevant & timely political story that implicates the president and his family, you live in a competitive authoritarian state. Period. End of the story
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ABC News Mysteriously Deletes Report on Trump Sons’ ‘$6B’ Business Dealings
The apparent deletion came after Alexa Henning, a spokesperson for venture capital firm 1789 Capital, publicly challenged the report’s central claims.
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mleroi.bsky.social @mleroi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Israeli authorities have demolished properties belonging to a Palestinian citizen of Israel, who rescued 30 Israelis from the Nova music festival during the ...
Israeli authorities have demolished properties belonging to a Palestinian citizen of Israel, who rescued 30 Israelis from the Nova music festival during the ...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.
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Ultracrepidarian @shevek57.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yes, indeed.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 08/10/2026
Trump admitted on Wednesday that he wanted to push for privatizing Social Security in his first term in office, contradicting campaign promises he made in 2016 and earlier that he wouldn’t touch the popular social safety net program.
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Trump Admits He Wants to Privatize Social Security
“I wanted to do it so badly,” Trump said of his desire to privatize Social Security in his first year in office.
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Jacquelantyrn Rhys 🍂 @fuliginflipflops.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
in the 1950s & 60s, the US military installed chemical blowers atop the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects, and sprayed zinc cadmium sulfide mist all over the predominantly poor, Black residents of North St. Louis as an experiment in urban chemical warfare, resulting in generations of high cancer rates
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Black people are conspiratorial in our culture, sometimes hilariously & absurdly so, because there’s an actual huge elaborate mind blowing conspiracy to brutalize & exploit & kill us all in real life we must reckon with. It’s called white supremacy.
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Jimmy Malone @malonespeaking.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#1 This is a sick dude #2 Whoever invented this technology is even sicker. "...by AI tools that specialize in “nudifying” images, or taking photos of clothed people and removing the clothes to make the individuals appear nude." fox8.com/news/indiana...
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Indiana man said he made nude images of underage girl with AI to teach her a lesson
Police said a Greenwood, Indiana, man had several nude images of underage girls on his phone, including girls he knew in real life.
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Ultracrepidarian @shevek57.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm not sure I'm capable of responding to stories as egregiously offensive as this one with anything but sarcasm. It's my great character defect.
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Ultracrepidarian @shevek57.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm overwhelmed by his compassion and concern for the well-being of this young girl.
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Phoenix New Times @phoenixnewtimes.com · 07/10/2026
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congre…
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 06/10/2026
SCOOP: Nearly $9 million in federal family planning funds will go to organizations with anti-abortion ties. One org, which received almost $4.3 million, has never taken in more than $50k in a single year. Read more @autonomynews.co:
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Nearly $9 Million in HHS Grants Go to Groups With Anti-Abortion Ties
Millions in family planning funds are earmarked to create training centers, including one dedicated to infertility. The recipients have links to crisis pregnancy centers, the Heritage Foundation, and ...
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Ultracrepidarian @shevek57.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sounds like DJT is preparing a false-flag terrorist attack to sway the election.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Okay I've seen at least 2 posts today that describe Jim Bakker as "having an affair with his secretary" or "getting caught banging his secretary" and just...no. He got caught paying her off because he and another preacher *violently raped her*. That isn't an affair, or a simple "sex scandal".
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
MAGA media figure and former Colorado election official Tina Peters has been adamant that Trump has the power to intervene in the midterms. Yesterday, she allegedly met with the president in the Oval Office.
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Tina Peters allegedly met with Trump to discuss election plans. Here's what that could mean for the midterms.
Former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters, who was released from prison on June 1 after being sentenced to nearly nine years for actions related to tampering with voting machines following the 2...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump said Iran could wipe out major American cities yesterday. Invited them to do it. Not even a headline.
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Ultracrepidarian @shevek57.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The fundamental American mindset (How can I scale up and maximize profits?) is not a universal point of view.
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Ultracrepidarian @shevek57.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
First episode of the Outer Limits in September 1963 had me screaming.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Once again, I ask why the New York Times & every other media outlet immediately & instinctively reports on the 🇩🇪 AfD as a “far right” or “extremist” party but does not regularly cover the 🇺🇸 Republican Party as such: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Ultracrepidarian @shevek57.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ideology supercedes rationality.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Attorney General just announced that the DOJ has filed a formal complaint against Federal District judges in Minnesota -- all but one of them, in fact -- because they did interviews with the NYTimes for this article. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article)
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
According to White House sources, Barron Trump wants to transfer to Cornell University because he's "heard good things about the rape culture."
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Laugh at Eric Schmitt and Co. for Hawkeyes/Hawks, sure. Their screw up is funny and they deserve the mockery. But also, this was the GOP and allied media geared up to defend a coup attempt with lies and jail a prosecutor because he tried to enforce the law against a criminal. How far we've fallen.
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Literally every member of the Putin-backed Wagner group should be up on war crimes charges. This is horrific.
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Ultracrepidarian @shevek57.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes, indeed.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Jones also argued that not every use of the word constitutes racial harassment...." thegrio.com/2026/09/25/t...
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Tesla's defense argued the N-word can be acceptable in some workplace contexts during California discrimination trial
Tesla racism trial examines allegations of racial harassment against more than 6,000 Black workers at its Fremont factory.
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Ultracrepidarian @shevek57.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Magic Man was released in 1975, when people now in their 80s were in their early or mid 30s. So, perhaps, tunes from 1965 might resonate more, but Heart isn't terribly far removed from relevance.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.
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Ultracrepidarian @shevek57.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sigh. . .
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 22/09/2026
While CNN, MSNOW, and Politico are being locked out of the White House, who is being let in? My latest post examines the outlet with documented ties to white nationalist figures—and what this shift means for government accountability. Read the full breakdown below.
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Ultracrepidarian @shevek57.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thread!
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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