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Sparky Clarkson

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 3h
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h
REPORTER: “Why does Mike Rogers have to answer for Trump and you don’t have to answer for Hasan Piker?” 🤡 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “Is that a serious question? Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 5h
I'd add that there are lots of Republicans actually taking money from Elon Musk, and they are rarely or never asked about his more radical/racist statements.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h
“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 8h
Hegseth got the job not because of his clown antics on Fox News but because during the first term he made it his personal crusade to get Trump to pardon war criminals who had murdered civilians and desecrated corpses. That’s who he is and it’s what Trump hired him to be.
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Przemek Dutka @przemekdut.bsky.social · 15h
Our latest development is now on bioRxiv: cryoSHIELDs — amphipathic peptide additives that make cryo-EM grid prep far more reliable. Tested across 24 protein systems, they enabled the first ABCC6 structure and GPCR–G protein structures at just 0.1–0.5 mg/mL! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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The Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social · 13h
Democrats will never learn.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h
The American Dream is amazing: within just a few years you can go from being the child of Cuban immigrants to the great-grandson of Spanish settlers.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 13h
This is as clearly as I've seen this spelled out. If the PCSA smelled off to you but you didn't know quite why, this interview offers very lucid proof that you were correct. defector.com/an-antitrust...
What you're saying is, the antitrust exemptions in the NBA, MLB, NFL, etc. are allowed as a result of the collective bargaining process, whereas the PCSA seeks a similar exemption by circumventing the collective bargaining process. Is that correct?

Generally, yes. When we talk specifically about labor markets, all of the restraints that we see in labor markets of our professional sports leagues—the salary cap, the draft, the limits on player movement, every single one of them—to the extent that they're exempt from antitrust law, are the products of good-faith collective bargaining between the management group and the players group, and exist in a collective bargaining agreement that was reached through good-faith bargaining.

What is being proposed with the Protect College Sports Act is to establish the exact same types of labor restraints, specifically a salary cap, specifically a number of years of eligibility to compete in college sports, and specifically limits on transfers, but not to do so in collective bargaining where there are representatives in the room, on behalf of employer and employee, but rather through a legislative bill, which seems to be negotiated by a number of different constituent groups, none of which is a representative of the players in any meaningful sense, and absolutely none of which have been chosen and selected by the players as a union representative.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h
In a political system where companies can be gouged for unlimited cash, inconsistent application of the law is a powerful financial opportunity. At some point some of these companies might realize they are better off under a predictable and impartial legal system rather than a personalist one.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 17h
This is horrifying Tuskegee-level shit.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19h
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Sparky Clarkson @sparkyclarkson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Call me an old-fashioned conservative, but I, for one, think we should not allow known associates of sex-trafficking rapists to lead our institutions of higher learning, whether or not they have inquired about the availability of a specific sex-trafficked girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Leon Botstein resigns from Bard roles as key Democrat demands investigation into Epstein links
Jamie Raskin says ‘startling’ email asked whether young woman was ‘for me, or are you keeping her for yourself’
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
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Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions
Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i have a theory
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Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
YES. Ex: many El Nino specialists have been fired from NOAA. NOAA issues forecasts as usual, but without the decades of experience that made the models *excellent* AND that knowledge will never be passed to the next hires, even if positions are filled in the future- it's like hitting a reset button
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Trump has moved the ethical line" drives me crazy. It pretends there are no other actors with agency in 🇺🇸 politics or the media. You could have treated this as a nonstop five-alarm scandal & crisis for democracy. You didn't do that. You did for EMAIL & BIDEN OLD. Other choices were right there.
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An Outrage in 2019. No Problem in 2026. Trump Has Moved the Ethical Line.
The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Jack from 30 Rock saying “that’s Republican, we count those”
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
begging people not to let the right get away with their decade of support for trump the way we let them get away with backing bush and the iraq war (and reagan before that) i am pleading
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Unprecedented corruption
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When Trump posted a video of the Obamas as apes the NYT claimed "it was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware" that he posted it
NYT: "It was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware that the clip had been included in the video before he shared it."
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Weird how Republican self-declared principled positions suddenly reverse themselves when their perceived route to election advantages shift.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A Kavanaugh Kidnapping-and-Dumping-in-a-Forest
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026
remember after citizens united when everyone pretended super pacs wouldn't coordinate with politicians and would be truly independent entities? that was a fun five minutes
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
These are the layups. All these actions are crimes. All the perjuries are crimes. Find one vicious bastard prosecutor and have them chew through these ICE/DHS cases starting Day One. Just enforce the law! The lowest bar possible!
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Biden: The MAGA wing, well gosh, listen, they’re, it’s, a bit of a flirt with fascism, no kidding around Media: Democratic rhetoric invites political violence Trump: The nuclear flames that burn every mongrel soul in San Diego will be a cleansing fire. Media: Trump makes his case in Nebraska
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
About 10, 15 years ago these people started the “was Hitler really so bad? Hitler only wanted what was best for the Germans, what’s wrong with that!?” talking point and I knew I would live to see it become the mainstream GOP position. The end of living memory of WWII is going to be ruinous.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump calling his Super PAC “my money” will make bribery charges a snap. Both accepting and making. Like the entire crypto industry for starters. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...
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Facing Backlash, Trump Says His Super PAC Will Pay for Taxpayer-Funded Ads (Gift Article)
The president said that his PAC, MAGA, Inc., would pay for TV ads promoting him that had been paid for with taxpayer money.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Listen, I know we have so many bigger fish to fry, but as we have recently launched a superPAC, I can tell you with confidence: our lawyers would spontaneously combust and have simultaneous cardiac events if I so much as *had the thought in my head* to coordinate like this.
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Sparky Clarkson @sparkyclarkson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Boy, you play one tidy up game and then you get ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL that shit in your discovery queue and there is a LOT of it.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Faced with outrage over his use of taxpayer money for campaign ads, Trump now says he’ll use his PAC money. Will he pay back the money from ads that already ran? I want proof of what he says, because he’s a lying criminal.
Trump: The Radical Left is upset with the fact that I am taking Ads, which I consider to be a positive promotion for our Great U.S.A., and paying for them with U.S.A. money. This is a rather standard thing to do but, rather than doing that, although nothing will make them happy, I have decided to do the Patriotic Ads, among others, and pay for them myself, and with money I raised for MAGA, Inc. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 06/10/2026
hot scoops on how horrible the s&box people are. worth a look if that engine has ever interested in you. always worth not driving into a tar pit www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezAd...
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Garry Asked for Accountability. Let’s Talk About s&box
YouTube video by Crayz “Crayz”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
anyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
9/ So should you be concerned? Here's what I'm looking at: This is serious, as any lab leak is, but the odds of this turning into a pandemic are really, really low. It’s not very contagious, we have antibiotics that successfully treat it, and health officials seem to be on top of quarantining.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 05/10/2026
I agree that the brain does not work like an electronic computer. but at the end of the day either it is made of matter and therefore works via some physical processes, or it works via metaphysical dualism, the conclusion tacitly endorsed by this article but never defended or acknowledged
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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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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For the last four years, I have said that Spencer Cox is the most dangerous aspiring Republican presidential candidate: he is an extremist who hides behind a calm demeanor. The exact pivot I think Republicans will want to make in 2 years. An example of extremism www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/u...
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A Gender War Explodes in Utah Over the Courts, Abortion and Representation (Gift Article)
When Republicans tried to repeal a law that voters passed banning gerrymandering, they found an opposition that flew in the face of Utah women’s “tradwives” imagery.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Elon Musk, who is estimated to have ensured the mass deaths of 16 million people by 2030, most of whom will be children, is also history's most prolific creator and distributor of CSAM. He has basically infinite money to avoid facing any legal consequences whatsoever for his vast, vast crimes.
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Sparky Clarkson @sparkyclarkson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Zuck and Musk facilitated or directly caused hundreds of thousands to millions of deaths and they absolutely deserve to burn for it. Bruno Dias did nothing wrong.
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 05/10/2026
yes keep banning good posters over the mildest shit about dipshit tech billionaries that are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, that aren't even on here, that'll help your platform.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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Sparky Clarkson @sparkyclarkson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well, I rolled credits on CONTROL: RESONANT and it is a mixed bag for me. The quality of the build on PC put a real damper on it for me; lots of audio desynch and load failures. Remedy often did not build themselves a graceful way out of a failed zone load. bsky.app/profile/spar...
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Here's part 2 of my California voter guide. This one covers how I'm voting on all 14 propositions that are on the ballot this year: publiccomment.blog/p/the-public...
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The PUBLIC COMMENT 2026 California Voter Guide — Part 2
The ballot propositions
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why is reducing ideological bias a goal? To what end? Politics is almost always a fight over values, not facts. I don’t care if I am “biased” towards social justice, whatever that means.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hitler would have murdered every Jewish person in Germany, every queer person, every person on the left. Tucker doesn't care because he wants to murder all those people as well.
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026
"I should get to sit down when I work but you shouldn't" is a great high level summary of labor disputes
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