Reposted by Sparky ClarksonEric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 3hNow THIS is how you write a story. Devastating. 462166665
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6hREPORTER: “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.” 932931655
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 5hI'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. 7516122
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonKevin 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 9241641006
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 8hHegseth 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. 131732349
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonPrzemek Dutka @przemekdut.bsky.social · 15hOur 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... 03319
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonThe Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social · 13hDemocrats will never learn. 452617542
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12hThe 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. 22863196
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 13hThis 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... 6436123
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16hIn 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. 1735299
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 17hThis is horrifying Tuskegee-level shit. 281389465
Sparky Clarkson @sparkyclarkson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Call 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...theguardian.comLeon Botstein resigns from Bard roles as key Democrat demands investigation into Epstein linksJamie Raskin says ‘startling’ email asked whether young woman was ‘for me, or are you keeping her for yourself’ 000
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Former @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...nytimes.comLeon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College PositionsLeon 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. 351043385
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonVirginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 07/10/2026YES. 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 17732
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonMark 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.nytimes.comAn 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. 12510108
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026begging 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 2339184
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Unprecedented corruption 1831393
Reposted by Sparky Clarksonmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026one 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) 412718722
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonMatt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026When Trump posted a video of the Obamas as apes the NYT claimed "it was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware" that he posted it 491868394
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonDrug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Weird how Republican self-declared principled positions suddenly reverse themselves when their perceived route to election advantages shift. 293
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonPatrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A Kavanaugh Kidnapping-and-Dumping-in-a-Forest 58746
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonMicah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026remember 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 14825142
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026These 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! 4620170
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Biden: 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 81409316
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 06/10/2026About 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. 13672102
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Trump 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...nytimes.comFacing 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. 13383122
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Listen, 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. 510921
Sparky Clarkson @sparkyclarkson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Boy, you play one tidy up game and then you get ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL that shit in your discovery queue and there is a LOT of it. 000
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Faced 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. 1291412296
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonJoe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 06/10/2026hot 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...youtube.comGarry Asked for Accountability. Let’s Talk About s&boxYouTube video by Crayz “Crayz” 913950
Reposted by Sparky Clarksonjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026anyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast 667312409
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonYour Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 05/10/20269/ 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. 39212
Reposted by Sparky Clarksonryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 05/10/2026I 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 161129
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonElizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026never the wrong time for this classic 56119923561
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This 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 10994532972
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonErin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For 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...nytimes.comA 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. 516158
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Elon 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. 31194330
Sparky Clarkson @sparkyclarkson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Zuck 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. 010
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonZoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 05/10/2026yes 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. 232116379
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It’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: 17472771509
Sparky Clarkson @sparkyclarkson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Well, 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... 100
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Here'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...publiccomment.blogThe PUBLIC COMMENT 2026 California Voter Guide — Part 2The ballot propositions 85717
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Why 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. 421367175
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I 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. 17058751199
Reposted by Sparky ClarksonNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hitler 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. 67695163
Reposted by Sparky Clarksonworm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If 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 10260991709
Reposted by Sparky Clarksonlauren @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 572938475