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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There's a lot of discourse about a new podcast about Biden's senior natsec team & the fallout from how they dealt w/the aftermath of Hamas's 7 OCT attack on Israel. As I've related before, the real problem is that they had decided they wouldn't deal w/the Israeli-Palestinian issue in term 1. 1/

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Reinstate Sarah Kendzior

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

This brought out a bunch of doomers "...but! but!"-ing with all of the obstacles facing a pro-democracy movement in the USA, but I think it is worth thinking about the question from the other side. What does MAGA need to do to do (not how, just what) to hold power long-term? Are they doing it?

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Rick Danforth @rickandwrite.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I have a sci-fi flash fiction out with @metastellar.bsky.social today! If you have 4 minutes and fancy a fun take on what the future of advertising may hold, please have a read. www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...

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Adverts - MetaStellar

“They know your search history!” Priya shook her head and sighed. “So stop living your wish fulfillment fantasy and bloody ask him before you end up in a contract, a cult, or even worse, an MLM.”

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Kira Nerys 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @kiraresists.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The new Popemobile is an interesting choice.

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Chase Johnson - VA / Audiobook Narrator / Video game reviewer @ardailec.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

You'd make a great horror writer man. It inspired me a bit if you don't mind.

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Stewart Horn he/they @thenakedpoet.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I just read this. It's beautiful and heartbreaking and true. Go on, you know you want to. Incidentally, Premee's first collection was amazing, so the new one is worth buying. Probably...

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Measles was completely eradicated in the United States by the MMR vaccine. It is not possible for anything to be better than that. It is journalistic malpractice to present this as anything other than stupidity, lies, and outright fraud.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Mom & minor daughters are citizens who just moved from MD to Oklahoma. This statement from the Mom should be read, absorbed & circulated. ICE cannot be allowed to terrorize vulnerable families. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @ericswalwell.bsky.social kfor.com/news/local/w...

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Madeline Ashby @madelineashby.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a baby swearing, forever. That’s what this is: a kid trained to say “fuck” because grown-ups think it’s funny, without ever wondering, caring, or learning why.

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I am not being remotely hyperbolic or overstating things when I say that Elon and RFK et al should be treated alongside Hitler and Stalin and Pol Pot in terms of history's greatest mass murderers, assuming nothing is done to stave off the impending disaster

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Jesse Lunsford, PhD @jesselunsford.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Exactly this. I tell my students that measles outbreaks are signs of a collapsing society because the systems that prevent measles spreads do so much other good. Once measles appears, systems are failing, and society is in trouble.

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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

benion
Grieving a wasted life
At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to
re-elected in contrast to standing up for the
reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades
greater good?
were devoted to protecting America. Sacri
A compromised Supreme Court recently
fices were made both by myself and my fam-
trotted out a shallow token standards of
Ily in military service. The tip of the spear:
conduct for themselves. Apparently it's
Countless weeks over the years were spent
not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people?
living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since.
way?"
The purpose: if required, be airborne
Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un-
in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a
challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts
nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly:
of interest abound. The rule of law is situ-
ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet-
ational if adhered to at all. America can no
nam provided a brief interlude, but overall,
longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of
this long line of silent sentinels stood firm
power and wealth driven by unquenchable
to protect America by deterring external
greed has left service above self and Con-
threats to our freedoms and way of life
stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint
across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued
Recently the VA said exposure to Agent
with a sense of service.
Orange is the probable cause of the can-
I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered
cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause
on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than
military pilots to have significantly higher
founded on mere beli…

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The moment is so big, and our leaders are so small.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

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Claudia Koerner @claudiakoerner.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.

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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The name’s QINLIANFF. ACCYOD QINLIANFF, British suit, British spy suit two piece, 100% MI6 her majesty’s secret service MACHINE WASHABLE, separates, men’s suit tailor fit two piece classic wedding business sui

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SvetBeard @svetbeard.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Great story! Dr. Davies’ experience shows the use of computing as a tool to process knowledge and further human insight rather than as the end-all be-all of everything.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Just a reminder that Germany was the center of scientific progress until the Nazis suppressed, drove away, or killed all the non-Nazi scientists.

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Dylan Freedman @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com · 14/02/2025

This bombshell investigation from yesterday with six bylines is already off the NYT homepage. Behind the scenes on how Senator Tillis flipped to support Hegseth amid threats of retaliation from Trump. Give it a read. 🎁 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

By Annie KarniSharon LaFraniereCarl HulseKate KellyJonathan Swan and Karoun Demirjian
Reporting from Washington

Feb. 13, 2025

Four days after President Trump was sworn in for his second term, his nominee for defense secretary was teetering on the brink of defeat on the Senate floor, and the president was on Air Force One talking about political retribution.

Mr. Trump had gotten word that Senator Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, planned to oppose Pete Hegseth, the former “Fox & Friends” weekend host who was his choice for Pentagon chief, and who faced accusations of excessive drinking and abusing women. If Mr. Tillis could not be brought to heel by that night, there would be enough Republican “no” votes to sink Mr. Hegseth’s confirmation, a humiliating defeat at the dawn of Mr. Trump’s second term.

Turning to a group of North Carolina lawmakers who were flying with him to survey storm damage in their state, Mr. Trump noted Mr. Tillis’s impending defection and posed a question: Which of them wanted his endorsement for a primary challenge to the senator next year?

The implication was clear: Mr. Tillis’s refusal to back Mr. Hegseth could cost him his seat. By that night, Mr. Tillis, who had been toiling behind the scenes for days to kill Mr. Hegseth’s nomination so he could avoid having to publicly cross Mr. Trump, would vote to confirm Mr. Hegseth to control the most powerful military force in the world.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Decades of political spending by business interests have finally produced the conditions that will destroy America's status as a good place to do business. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-busine...

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The Business Community Is Extraordinarily Stupid

Is a dictatorship good for business?

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Human beings cannot afford journalism to be euphemistic or blinkered about what the US is proposing in Gaza, nor about what that proposal will unleash.

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Blowback Like Never Before Will Follow A U.S. Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza

Trump is proposing unambiguous ethnic cleansing. That will mean oceans of blood

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 31/01/2025

StopRFKjr.com is a simple link you can send to your friends, family, colleagues that makes it incredibly easy for them to call their U.S. Senators and tell them to oppose the disastrous nomination of RFK Jr to run all federal health programs. Please share StopRFKjr.com as widely as you can

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Call TODAY to stop RFK Jr

RFK Jr is a danger to every single American… and Trump wants him to lead Medicare. Help us stop him!

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SvetBeard @svetbeard.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

As far as I’ve seen, all week the US Treasury’s ASAP system for wiring grant payments to recipients has been down. I can’t get into it to even check past transactions in any case.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Literally nothing should be happening with Trump's nominees in Congress until this stops. Again, this is last-gasp Helms Deep sort of stuff in re: the constitutional order. Either Article I exists, or it doesn't. Is Trump an absolute monarch or does the rule of law & the constitution still exist?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Our A.I. times ;-)

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SvetBeard @svetbeard.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Spent the last weeks preparing to spend $200,000 on made in USA vehicle chargers. However, they were DOE grant funded. With freeze, we can’t be certain when or if our local government can access the funds to reimburse ourselves. Order paused (canceled?) at the last minute. (1\2)

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 27/01/2025

"Zionism is the national self-determination movement of the Jewish people, as well as a force for ethnic cleansing, racial apartheid, and genocide, which makes it just like every other national self-determination movement." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-banality...

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The Banality of Zionism

Zionism is just 19th century nationalism, and its conflicts are ordinary nationalist conflicts.

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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Hey everyone…had a conversation with the @uoftpandemics.bsky.social SM manager about why they should get off twitter A plea: their bsky account is a shell right now, but if we could get them some followers here I bet we could get them to switch Please consider following 🙏🙏🙏

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Not everyone can fight Trumpism and Trumpists directly. But remember this: kindness, decency, and fidelity to American values are defiance in the face of Trumpism. So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1

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SvetBeard @svetbeard.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Just at an EV related technical meeting for local governments getting and applying for grants. An embarrassed Department of Energy person popped in and said per higher ups, all technical programs are halted until further notice.

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aaronleavy.bsky.social @aaronleavy.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I'm always reminded of this from Jay Smooth - the importance of focusing on the "what they did" instead of "what they are" www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Ti...

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How To Tell Someone They Sound Racist

YouTube video by Jay Smooth

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Oh... www.axios.com/2025/01/13/w...

Octavia E. Butler, the late-pioneering Black science fiction novelist who wrote about a wildfire from climate change starting on February 1, 2025, in her novel "Parable of the Sower," is buried in an Altadena cemetery.

The cemetery caught fire, the LA Times reports.

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Dem Trump @demtrump.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

GOP called climate change 'hoax.' Now our BEAUTIFUL Los Angeles (I call it L.A.) is on fire! GOP let climate get HOT, did nothing as temps became VERY HIGH. SICK!! Democrats will fight climate change and make our environment NUMBER ONE AGAIN!!!! www.thewrap.com/donald-trump...

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Trump Rages at 'Incompetent' Gavin 'Newscum' Over Los Angeles Wildfires: 'He Is to Blame for This'

He also took a dig at President Joe Biden over the matter: "This is what Joe Biden is leaving me. Thanks Joe!"

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

They absolutely got away with it. They are likely to continue to get away with such things for a while. But here’s the thing: I’d rather be unsuccessfully decent than successfully evil.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post

Democracy can't function without a free press

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The Democrats always preemptively concede and I’m so fucking sick of it. Just do some good things for us. Fucking one thing even if it gets swatted down eventually. You should be pulling out all the stops right now.

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Please read Adeel Mangi’s letter to President Biden. He pulls no punches, and none deserve to be pulled. aboutblaw.com/bgA0

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Marc "Candy Corn" Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

One thing that's been pointed out about Bluesky and that I've tried to practice is that because there's no algorithm, 'likes' don't really give a post much traction. Ya gotta repost if you want to get the word out.

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