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Brain in a box. Half Human Half Vulcan. Just want a Piece of the Action. Blogger at Digby's Hullabaloo digbysblog.net Crooks & Liars crooksandliars.com spockosbrain.com SF, CA, USA, Section 0.1.1 @spocko@mastodon.online @spockosbrain

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 46m
Pennsylvania reports fifth measles-related death of the year amid outbreak #TheGuardian
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Pennsylvania reports fifth measles-related death of the year amid outbreak
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Spocko @spocko.bsky.social · 3h
Gary the Raygun cat says, "The vast left-wing conspiracy will see YOU at the next Hawks game! Unless Eric Schmitt finds out.." - Gary the @raygunsite.com cat #AtlantaHawks #EricSchmitt #JackSmith Get yours at Raygun T-shirts! www.raygunsite.com/collections/...
The Atlanta Hawkeyes! The official sports team of the vast left wing conspiracy! https://www.raygunsite.com/collections/data-centers/products/the-atlanta-hawkeyes
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Gary the Raygun cat says, "The vast left-wing conspiracy will see YOU at the next Hawks game! Unless Eric Schmitt finds out.." Get your shirt at Raygun T-shirts! www.raygunsite.com/collections/...
The Atlanta Hawkeyes! The official sports team of the vast left wing conspiracy! T-SHIRT FROM  https://www.raygunsite.com/collections/data-centers/products/the-atlanta-hawkeyes
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Rebecca Rauber @defeatthefascists.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Marisa IDed em bsky.app/profile/mari...
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Believe the women, save America!!!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Education Department today removed the Biden-era Title IX rule that addressed discrimination against students based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
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U.S. Department of Education Formally Rescinds the Biden Administration’s Illegal Title IX Rewrite, Reinstating the 2020 Regulation
Today, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) formally rescinded the Biden Administration’s illegal regulation implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX).
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The U.S. and Russian teams also removed a provision requiring that humans review military targets developed by AI before a strike..." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When that orange asshole finally leaves the WH, and he WILL be leaving, the American people need to sue him and the rest of his criminal syndicate of a so-called family, for every fucking dime they stole from us. Every. Fucking. Dime.
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Spocko @spocko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
To get the GOP to use the 25th Amndt on Trump requires a Cabinet that's loyal to the Constitution, not the man. Madam Secretary had an episode about using it after the President planned an attack that would start a war. It worked because THAT Cabinet followed their oath. @emptywheel.bsky.social
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soundgood2 @soundgood2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You can subscribe for $1 for 6 months. It is worth it to read this.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics. He’s just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows corporations to buy and sell politicians so they can rig it against the rest of us. Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All.
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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Glass, Like Glass. Sunday's sunrise at the entrance to the Chicago River.
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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Donald Trump. Corrupt as hell.
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Spocko @spocko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Is this real? Nah, it's fake, but studies show uncorrected #disinformation posts slip into people's minds. Esp when repeated. @emptywheel.bsky.social taught me to annotate or cross out RIGHT ON THE TEXT any posts from the WH. I ruined the joke to make a point. www.snopes.com/fact-check/f...
Post saying that  the Flat Earth Society has members around the globe. Annotated with @snopes@infosec.exchange 
12-2023 to show its a fake. 

www.snopes.com/fact-check/flat-earth-society-facebook/
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a very confusing post from the Flat Earth Society. 🥴
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Twitter not laughing at your jokes, buy Twitter. HBO owns streaming rights to an unflattering exposé, buy a piece of HBO. Government regulations threaten your businesses, buy the government. Elon Musk seems determined to be a case study in the problem with unfettered wealth.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you’re a random person and you have to deal with death threats and harassment from internet stalkers, it’s my understanding that the FBI basically ignores you in most circumstances. But the Millers are so powerful they can demote the head of the FBI’s DC field office for investigating too slow.
The orders from the bureau's DC chief Darren Cox stemmed from frustration shared by the Miller family that the field office was moving slowly in probing allegedly harassing phone messages left with prominent conservative podcaster, Katie Miller, added the people, who spoke anonymously to avoid retaliation.
Several of the individuals said Director Kash Patel was also displeased with the office's progress on the case.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Spocko @spocko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Made of 12,500 quilt squares representing Minnesota immigrants taken by ICE from the start of Trump 2.0 to the end of Operation Metro Surge. There's been 900 abductions since March due to 287(g) agreements between local agencies & DHS fightbacknews.org/articles/gia...
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Spocko @spocko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Belated Birthday @markhamillofficial.bsky.social In 2026 with AI it's like that Simpsons episode of the monkeys typing, "It was the best of times it was the blurst of times." Hopefully we'll learn from this & get to the Star Trek future, the best of times. LLAP, your fan @spocko.bsky.social
 Simpsons clip Mr. Burns reading a text page of from a monkey typing. text reads "it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times "Kirk saying to spot message spot? Spock replies none that I'm conscious of. From the Star Trek movie Spock saying "except, of course, happy birthday. Surely the best of times.
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Nurse Ratched @nurseratched64.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Shero
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
American Century of Humiliation
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Spocko @spocko.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a great story @minplosion.bsky.social we may never know how our actions, in support of others, will have on the world, but it's the right thing to do. #EmpathyAvengers
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We must be allowed to break laws with impunity so we can birth the machine god before others, and if we can’t steal and hack and crime, then the inevitable machine god won’t have the values we want and you’ll be sorry. Sounds insane, but that’s a prevalent, influential, respected ethos today.
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Author JL Meredith @jlm-writes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 31/07/2026
Autopsies of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests often conclude that movements produced tough-on-crime backlash. My new study in Work and Occupations finds a different kind of movement outcome: BLM changed how local reporters cover cops and jails. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Beyond Police Stenography: How Disembedding Enables Critical Crime News Work

Prior research finds that crime journalists reproduced criminal justice organization standpoints through close working relationships with law enforcement. How do crime reporters relate to police sources today? Drawing on interviews with 58 journalists across 40 local newsrooms in 24 U.S. states, I find that disembedding from law enforcement organizations restructures many reporters’ source relationships, creating conditions under which some journalists enact a distinct professional identity through occupational activism. I argue that the critical crime journalist role is distinguished by a commitment to alternative sourcing practices, structural framing, and reinterpreted objectivity. Informants connect critical orientations to repeated exposure to official dishonesty and the influence of Black-led social movements against police violence. Critical crime journalists amplify civilian and prisoner voices and engage in contextual reporting, treating coverage as a vehicle to shift how readers understand criminalized people and the criminal justice system more broadly. These findings extend scholarship on occupational activism into crime journalism and identify pathways into this form of empirical and expressive occupational activism.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
NEW: 8 sailors aboard the Lincoln attempted suicide per a letter from the Secretary of the Navy to Congress. That is “incredibly high”. www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/p...
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Eight sailors assigned to US carrier group that fought in Iran war attempted suicide, Navy secretary tells Congress | CNN Politics
Eight US Navy personnel assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during a period that included when the ships undertook combat operations against Iran and the carrier...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
BREAKING: Judge Kelly just concluded there's no "national security" argument in this case (CNN/MSNOW/Politico)
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Nobody’s ever seen ratings like this before. Last night, we had 566 people watching Trump TV.”
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Spocko @spocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Roddenberry made it a point to show human's love, compassion & sacrifice vs our violent nature. Kirk: We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers, but we're not going to kill today. #StarTrek #EmpathyAvengers
Kirk from A Taste of Armageddon Star Trek TOS episode 
"All right. It's instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers, but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes. Knowing that we won't kill today."
 A Taste of Armageddon S01E23 Written by Robert Hammer, Gene Coon & Gene Roddenberry https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708414/?ref_=ext_shr
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Spocko @spocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I recently rewatched #Idiocracy & there's a whole sub theme about #Brawndo Corp buying the FDA & the FCC "enabling them to say, do & sell anything they wanted." Sound familiar? #Brawndo It's got what shareholders crave. @karlbode.com
Shows the logo for Brawndo on the FCC building subtitles read " Brawndo bought the FCC enabling them to say, do and sell anything they wanted." From the movie Idiocracy. In 2330 Brawndo Corporation simply bought the FDA. Shows Brawndo on the FDA building, from the movie Idiocracy Shows water tower  text reads "It's got what plants  crave. It's got electrolytes!" Brawndo from the movie Idiocracy Show cows drinking Brawndo from a trough text reads "It's got what cows crave."
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 22/09/2026
Remember that fascist who verbally assaulted my friend who is Black and Muslim in Florida? Meet Theodore Thomas Mooningham. My friends @tizzyent and @thatdaneshguy found him. Turns out Mooningham is a convicted criminal for domestic violence against women. Every MAGA accusation is a confession.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lucille Ball is the Godmother of #StarTrek. As head of Desilu Studios, she overrode her own board of directors to finance the show & convinced network executives to greenlight a second pilot after the first one failed. That second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before," first aired #OTD in 1966. 🖖
A digital portrait of Lucille Désirée Ball (1911–1989), the legendary Emmy-winning actress, studio mogul, and "Godmother of Star Trek" whose decisive studio leadership famously saved the franchise from cancellation. This artwork is an AI-adjusted version of an original piece by artist Jamie Fay—which initially depicted her in Captain Janeway’s uniform—now modified to show her in an Original Series Starfleet uniform. Ball sits confidently in a prominent command chair on a starship bridge, legs elegantly crossed at the knee and hands resting on the armrests. She wears a form-fitting, gold command-division tunic featuring a classic black collar, rank braids on the cuffs, and the iconic Starfleet delta insignia pinned to her chest, paired with sharp black trousers and low-heeled black boots. Her signature red hair is styled into an elegant upward coiffure, framing a poised, contemplative expression as she gazes slightly away from the viewer. The background features a sweeping, cinematic view of a colorful interstellar nebula glowing with purple, green, and blue cosmic stardust. The overall composition blends mid-century Hollywood glamour with classic sci-fi iconography, evoking an empowering, authoritative mood that celebrates her immense historical impact on television history.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government. Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president. (Published Oct. 2025)
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What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Have any US farmers gotten any of that cheap Belarus potash yet that Trump promised you? Maybe call the Republican you elected to Congress and see if they can help you out with that.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
He can't raise the retirement age without Congress. Vote.
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Nat 🪶🏴‍☠️ FUCK AI @nattydreadwolfe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lauren Boebert was the one yelled at by Blanche, Bondi and Patel. She was also one of the people who got to see the unredacted files and announced that they were still 65% redacted and that she wanted to see what was in those files. That's why Trump vetoed the bill for clean water in Colorado.
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Artemis @artemisprime.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There’s more to the Epstein shit if they are trying this hard to destroy anyone asking for more transparency.
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
But Wait! There's More! In this ethics complaint, it says that Boebert and Navarro went to Mar-A-Lago together ... where they were having sex with Matt Gaetz -- together and separately! (On our dime, of course.) And during all of this...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has tossed the defamation lawsuit by Cassidy Hutchinson's former lawyer, Stefan Passantino, against MSNBC commentator Andrew Wesissman. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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ICE Goons Tracker @icegoons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A DoorDash driver did not pose a threat when we was shot in the back by ICE goons. They then refused to render aid and so a local police officer had to intervene and find the bullet hole. The bullet is still in his back after a day & they didn't give him medication for the pain. Sadistic monsters.
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ICE Shot a DoorDash Driver in the Back in Austin
Rather than getting him medical help, they carted him off to an ICE detention complex—and the bullet is still in his back.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor.
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