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Talos_XLIV

@talos-xliv.bsky.social
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Retired R&D/applied science in a variety of fields with environmental emphasis. Used to do a lot of math; now I enjoy cat videos. Object lesson in failing to reject the null hypothesis at α = 0.05 "Pain lasts, kid. It's how you know you're alive."

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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 12h
Can someone please kick Teddy Cruz in the nutz so he could actually have something to scream about? His fake outrage is channeling Lindsey Graham's worst moments and is an embarrassment of gaslighting riches.
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 12h
Ted Cruz working his mouth like an insufferable "Harvard Debate Man". Just totally misleading, maliciously duplicitous, and 100 percent infuriating as he mewls endlessly trying to score FOX News points. He seems extraordinarily worried about subpoenas for phone toll records. I wonder why?
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 13h
John Cornyn, once again demonstrating he will do what he can to help cover for Trump's crimes (Mar-a-Lago stolen documents case and Trump's involvement in obstructing the investigation) and that he's also a dumb-dumb.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17h
The Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History from @adamtooze.bsky.social adamtooze.substack.com/p/the-bigges...
A table titled, Average annual infrastructure spending as percentage of GDP.

It has six circles showing percentage of GDP spent on each tech: 
Canals .66%
Railroads 2.24%
Electrification .5%
Highways 1.13%
Telecom and fiber 1.1%
AI 3.63%
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 16h
Which is ... what, exactly?
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 23h
Stepford Aide
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So is he just going to keep running ads until election day and then courts rule they are illegal sometime in December?
Frame from another illegal Trump ad featuring his constipated face in black and white and captioned Paid for by the US Government.
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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My goodness, what an incredible moment. After Justin Verlander secured the final out of his career, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout...to summon Verlander's daughter out to embrace her dad on the mound.
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
America would be better off if Trump just . . . stopped.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/09/2026
Donald Trump’s attempt to ban reporters from the White House is “a preview of what to expect over Trump’s remaining time in office—especially if Democrats take control of one or both chambers of Congress,” @qjurecic.bsky.social argues.
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The Two-Year Temper Tantrum to Come
Trump’s recent kerfuffle with the press is a preview of his next era.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's my update on the flood of right-aligned polls into the battleground Senate races - 36 polls, 14 states, 7 pollsters, 15 days.
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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 24/09/2026
In a report released this week, GAO said the FAA isn't doing enough to prevent hackers from interfering with aviation communications channels: www.gao.gov/assets/gao-2...
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This tiny fix solves a problem you never realized you had, and once you see it, it makes perfect sense.
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Dance, Susie, dance.
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Man in Tutu Does a Happy Dance
Alt: Man in tutu doing a crazy dance.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As litigation foe, Trump is a moving target. Yesterday, 4 days after Trump tossed 3 news organizations out of the White House, DOJ attys concocted post-hoc bases for his having done so & claimed to offer post-hoc chances to challenge the ousters. 1/6 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Response to motion – #16 in CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC. v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-03287) – CourtListener.com
RESPONSE re 2 MOTION for Temporary Restraining Order filed by STEVEN CHEUNG, SEAN M. CURRAN, DONALD J. TRUMP, SUSAN WILES. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit CNN Letter, # 2 Exhibit MSNOW Letter, # 3 Exhibit P...
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🤮 Would not surprise me if Crimin' Ken has MAD information on his estranged (soon to be ex) wife that he keeps in his pocket for emergency purposes. These two deserved each other.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#ELB: Missouri gerrymandering: you’ll get whiplash from the speed of the SCOTUS reprimand electionlawblog.org/2026/missouri-g…
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is so familiar. But I know my old girl "lies" and ignore her pleas of "I'm starving!" This is why she weighs the same at 17+ as she did at 3–4 y.o. Please don't let your cat become obese; it's as bad for them as it is for us. That said, Kevin surely deserves an Emmy or an Oscar.
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Grave of the Firefly
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Goodfella
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
👀🧵
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Get out of my bunker."
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Trump says he’s banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House
The president has a history of feuding with news organizations and has at times tried to ban them and their journalists.
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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 18/09/2026
"The power of this office is crazy" Yeah, we're gonna fix that.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There's always room for new angles on the madness of King Trump, so this account of his "portfolio reasoning"—where he approaches the US as a personal real estate holding whose value he's seeking to increase—is fine fodder. But he's clueless about how to do that, as his dismal career would suggest.
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
😂It's better to laugh at this "you can't be serious" situation than cry.
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Has no clue he's unintentionally distributing the contents of the Trump playbook from a mirror universe. Attaboy, Cletus!
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Washington Sun (formerly NOTUS) going for the gold.
An email subject from The Washington Sun. It reads: Bestiality in Show
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Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trump will also impose tariffs on the Sudetenland.
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🤣Nice. I'm sure I'll have plenty of good company working to help make things better for folks and not worse. @eleanor.lockhart.contact I don't know how you (or accounts like Stancil) put up with far more, far worse things. *If I meet you there, I'll be sure to say "Hello!" and shake your hand.
Today at 4:06 PM
@fluorescein.myatproto.social
 has added you to the "Send them to Al-Hawwiyah" moderation list
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hey Aaron, at least the flying monkeys at the RR47 keyboard upgraded you to "gutter trash" from "sick, deluded freak". Progress! p.s. Thanks for your tireless, near-Herculean, efforts documenting this eff'd up trainwreck of an administration in video clip format.
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is the way. Thank you, Mike. You're a (principled) street fighter when it comes to this stuff.
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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 14/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/mike...
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
(Humorous) football fanmaxxing. Respect the dedication.
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This just hit my TL. It's simple, very to-the-point, and I like it a lot. Definitely worth re-sharing right now as political ratfucker season has started in earnest.
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
👀🧵
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 11/09/2026
I can’t fucking believe all of you want to give Ken Paxton six years in the Senate by using trans people’s outsized cultural impact to get celebrities and other influential figures to kill Democratic momentum, when trans kids in Texas are BEGGING you to support Talarico What is WRONG with us?
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Is it really that hard for journos to follow up when legit Qs are brushed off with Trump bullshit? When he does this, repeat the Q more firmly: "That didn't address the Q. Again, what are your ideas on how to pay for this $1.3 trillion proposal?" Repeat as needed. Expose him and/or his con.
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026
I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.
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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.
Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
👀👀👀
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ellie speaks the truth (a good follow, BTW). I trust that the vast majority of decent people within the mainstream Democratic "Big Tent" will see through Reed's dangerously misguided(?) efforts and not amplify her sabotage bullshit nor abandon trans folks.
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🧵👀
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm just not ready for this to become our reality. Fortunately, I will be dead long before fruit fly brains operate swarms of Amazon drones for package delivery or start manipulating stock markets. I do, however, see a pretty good t-shirt vendor opportunity.
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🧵Damn straight. Some people need to pull the heads out. It's shopworn, but that does not negate its essential truth: "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good." If Talarico wins (🙏) and becomes some anti-trans reactionary in the Senate, I'll eat my hat with Ghost pepper sauce. —A Talarico Texan
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If he wasn't so overwhelmingly odious and criminally corrupt, I would not go here. But he is and so I will: I love that this Ben Sargent cartoon mocks Paxton's disturbing lazy eye. *IMO, he should have gone harder on "Abattoir" as well.
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Dogs also display obsessive desire to mark fire hydrants.
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Baltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 09/09/2026
A Chinese official attempted some of that Wolf Warrior Diplomacy ™ shit. It did not go well. Philippines' Defence Minister Gilberto Teodoro was speaking up for smaller nations and international law at a forum in Korea when he was handed a note from a Chinese official, meant as intimidating.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trump just gave a slew of pardons and commutations w/o announcing them. (I still suspect Roger Stone may have gotten a SECOND pardon in his first term.) This would have been Eagle Ed Martin's last hurrah. www.lawyeroyer.com/p/trumps-sec...
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Trump’s Secret Pardons
The money and influence-peddling surrounding Trump’s second-term pardons have been much discussed. But less attention has been paid to another alarming feature: the secrecy.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
President Trump wants to soften one of the strongest legal protections American workers have: the right to hold an employer accountable when retirement savings are mishandled. Here's what you need to know:
propublica.org
Wall Street Wants to Change the Rules for Your 401(k). It Could Put Your Retirement at Risk.
Financial firms want a bigger piece of the $10 trillion in America’s 401(k) plans, and the Trump administration is planning a regulatory rollback to encourage  less-regulated — and often riskier — inv...
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Talos_XLIV @talos-xliv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Thank you, Ms. Telnaes. This is savage, and I am here for it. I wish I had the time (and the guts) to drive up I-35 and plaster copies all around the American Airlines Center in Dallas.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Direct link to our SCOTUS amicus brief in the USPS mail ballot case: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/26...
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