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Farouk "Peter" Beardsley @sodiumboat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Fun to log in to research dot gov to see how my NSF proposals are faring. I wonder what changed in 2025?

screen grab of the NSF proposal status and date columns from research.gov, showing a series of successful proposals before May 2025 and a series of declined proposals starting in May 2025.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Essential, non-negotiable The government is kidnapping & torturing adults & kids in concentration camps, where many people have died, & it is trafficking them to unsafe countries, often to their deaths How on earth could the Dems NOT hold public tribunals & jail people for these horrific abuses?

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Farouk "Peter" Beardsley @sodiumboat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Whenever we regain control of this country, we need huge, showy tribunals that make clear how unacceptable this is. Stephen Miller needs to appear in history books in chains, weeping

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Actually, one more - I feel like I should say this directly, so here goes. In the 90s and 00s, the groups I remember pursuing this strategy (hyperpublicize mugshots, Black crime statistics, etc) were Stormfront, the Klan, etc. Now it's the New York Times and the Telegraph. That is the story here.

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Jesse Coburn @jessecoburn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

You and I — all of us taxpayers — funded this $533 million artillery plant outside of Dallas. It hasn’t produced a single usable shell. Yet the defense contractor, General Dynamics, has never been held publicly accountable. Nor has it had to pay a penny back… 1/

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Farouk "Peter" Beardsley @sodiumboat.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The treasonous US media strikes again. This time they're publishing pictures of our secret "duck penis" artillery and putting OUR TROOPS in danger

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Curtis Mitchell, Paramount’s director of advertising and publicity, said, “The screen is the only real medium that adequately brings home the horrors of the bomb and it has done so indeed in this reel. I hope it is shown in every theater in the world.” For more, read this excellent @thr.com article:

hollywoodreporter.com

The Pictures Not Seen in ‘Oppenheimer’

After the public got a newsreel glimpse of what the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki did to the Japanese, the footage lay dormant for more than two decades — shaping how the U.S. populat...

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Farouk "Peter" Beardsley @sodiumboat.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

As a hater of war and a professional physicist (non-nuclear), I try to be aware of the passage of Aug 6 and 9 each year. The thread below sent me down this year's rabbit hole, landing me at @archive.org watching a 1969 film of footage from the aftermath: archive.org/details/hiro...

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Hiroshima-Nagasaki, August 1945

Harvard Film Archive, projection print somewhat scratched, HFA Item no: 9675. From The Amos Vogel Annenberg School of Communications CollectionRunning time on release was 16 minutes, Cf. OCLC website ...

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404 Media @404media.co · 06/08/2026

Rather than get rid of ALPR cameras entirely, many cities and towns are switching from Flock to Axon, whose cameras can be mounted to an existing streetlamp, helping them blend into their surroundings. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. @josephcox.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/cities-are-d...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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the nintendo shamecube @futuresushi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

this comic is from 2014 and is one of the most singularly vindicated comics. even if it was already correct then it is even more correct now

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

They're continuing to kill people because this administration has told them that the people they're apprehending -- and those who defend them -- deserve violence, that no amount of violence is too much, and that no matter how egregious the abuse, they'll never be held accountable.

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ICE agents involved in fatal Biddeford shooting, lawmaker says

It's at least the 11th fatal shooting involving an ICE or Border Patrol agent since President Donald Trump took office last year.

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Farouk "Peter" Beardsley @sodiumboat.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Sometimes you scroll and scroll and suddenly land on the perfect benedictory post, and your scrolling can end. May the nut shots video free you, as it has freed me. Go in peace.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever before

Google's total energy consumption more than new zealand

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Rosie Knight @rosiemarx.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🚨 ICYMI - DES WAS JUST IMPRISONED FOR HAVING ZINES IN HIS CAR!!! 30 YEARS FOR HAVING SELF PUBLISHED MATERIALS THE GOVERNMENT DOESNT LIKE!!?!? WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE CBLDF AND ACLU?!? 🚨 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison

Activists accused of being part of antifa face harsh sentences in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/06/2026

roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.

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Jeff Blankenburg @jeffblankenburg.com · 15/05/2026

Love baseball? Miss the days of reading through the box scores each morning, ad free? I built a thing. boxscore.email

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

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🎃ℌ𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴 ℑ𝔞𝔫👻 @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I can't believe this. @normcharlatan.bsky.social you're a Minnesota Legend, my man.

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

as an aside to the whole pope fight … politicians aren’t celebrities or people to idolize. they’re nerds that need to be constantly bullied into taking positions that benefit their constituencies. weird as hell to treat them like stars when they work for you, relying on your money to do their job

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Wyatt Sinclair @crumblsucks.wyattswickedgoods.com · 08/04/2026

Baseball is outstanding.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

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Farouk "Peter" Beardsley @sodiumboat.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Sunday evening Costco gas line looking like we're engaged in some sort of illegal war of aggression near the straight of hormuz.

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Farouk "Peter" Beardsley @sodiumboat.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Trump wanted 50% NSF cuts, congress passed few % cuts. But maybe we'll get 90% cuts anyway? Appropriations are just suggestions? A lot of work and pain goes into proposals for programs that had 2021-24 success rates of 20% to 5%. Not sure how I'll convince myself to go through that this year.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.

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Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee · 10/02/2026

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

Screenshot of Amazon customer support chat getting refund for a Ring Floodlight Cam

https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4jc9xz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Screenshot of chat with Amazon customer support getting refund for a Ring product bought in October 2020

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Infographic telling Ring customers they can get refunds for their purchases through Amazon

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I just read the declaration that Kira Kelley asked J. Blackwell to consider. This immigrant describes being -unlawfully arrested -taken from one overcrowded & filthy prison to another over 19 days -held incommunicado & ICE never telling him a court ordered his release He describes an American gulag

CASE 0:26-cv-00749-NEB-DLM Doc. 67 Filed 02/03/26 Page 7 of 8
33. At the time of my release, I had been detained by ICE for about 19 days. In those days, ICE never told me why they detained me. They didn't tell me that a judge had ordered my release just five days into my detention. I only knew about the release order through my attorney.
34. My father was deported to Guatemala by ICE after he was detained with me. So was my
cousin. They were deported on January 23rd.
35. Right now, I am happy that I have been released. I am grateful I have my family and an attorney. Other people are not so lucky. I am trying to adjust to my life now but am still dealing with the emotional trauma of being detained. When I think of my time in detention, I think of so many ways I could have died there: the way my car was stopped in the middle of the road, the diseases I could have caught at the Whipple, the driver who was falling asleep at the wheel driving us from El Paso to New Mexico, and exposure to COVID multiple times.
I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
Date: February 2, 2026
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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.230969/gov.uscourts.mnd.230969.67.0_1.pdf

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States." www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...

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Philly DA vows to prosecute ‘wannabe Nazi' ICE agents who violate the law

YouTube video by NBC10 Philadelphia

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 26/01/2026

Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 24/01/2026

Every member of congress has a duty & right to conduct oversight on DHS. They should all come do rapid response. Come inspect the Twin Cities ICE HQ. Push in and do some oversight. Do not let the guards turn you away. Make them arrest you or beat you or let you in.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This woman has been handed a WORLD HISTORICAL opportunity to serve her constituents and skyrocket to a place of national prominence, including the top of 2028 contender lists. She'd just need to show some leadership and vision. But she can't. So she's posting about the weather at hockey games.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Let this radicalize you.

An elderly Hmong-American man being led, in cuffs, from his home by ICE gestapo. He is wearing boxer shorts and slippers.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17/01/2026

Seen in Minneapolis this morning

Sticker on crosswalk sign with image of masked ICE agent and text WIFE LEFT KIDS HATE ME PLEASE HELP

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Good summary of “don’t give him what he wants” from relatively comfortable white liberals.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 16/01/2026

Our partner @evidentmedia.org has also published a short video on our analysis here: www.youtube.com/shorts/ETSQd...

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Analyzing one federal agent’s use of less-lethal launcher in Minneapolis (Graphic content warning)

YouTube video by Evident Media

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Farouk "Peter" Beardsley @sodiumboat.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Palm trees are bullshit. "Look at me! I'm a palm tree! I look like a telephone pole in a Beaker wig! I provide thin line of shade in return for dropping a billion seeds and 100 giant sharp branches in every windstorm!" That's what you sound like, you overgrown straw bundle asshole.

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