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Jesse Sands

@thejessesands.bsky.social
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Mets fan; privacy and free speech advocate; scuba diver; golfer; dog rescuer; big fan of urban trees; IP and cybersecurity enthusiast; attorney interested in antitrust & securities; he|him.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Fluoride in drinking water has no effect on IQ or brain function, a long-term study shows. The new research is the first to measure community water fluoridation exposure during childhood and any potential impact on cognition up to age 80. The results contradict RFK Jr. statements.
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Fluoride in drinking water has no effect on IQ or brain function, long-term study shows
The new research is the first to measure community water fluoridation exposure during childhood and any potential impact on cognition up to age 80.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 14/04/2026
For decades, Aadam Jacobs recorded live music shows. His collection of over 10,000 shows since 1984 features Nirvana, R.E.M., The Pixies, Björk, Depeche Mode, The Cure, and so many more — and they're now available on the Internet Archive for free. [kottke.org]
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Now Online: a Treasure Trove of 1000s of Secret Concert Recordings
For decades, a guy named Aadam Jacobs has been recording live music shows. His collection of over 10,000 shows since 1984 feature the likes of Nirvana, R.E.M., The Pixies, Björk, Depeche Mode, Liz Phair, Sonic Youth, The
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/03/2026
SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings? CPAC CROWD: *cheers* SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.
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Jesse Sands @thejessesands.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Same for my 15 year old Verizon Wireless plan. Every time they try to offer me a "better plan" the math doesn't math.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.
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Jesse Sands @thejessesands.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Yes, because if you don’t, defenses will learn that they don’t need to protect up the middle and can stack defenders on the edges.
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
is this about Greenland or Minneapolis?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
"'If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient,' Ms. Alfonsi wrote." {gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
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‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
CBS News Exclusive | While it's appropriate to mourn the students murdered at Brown University, we cannot be distracted from the real tragedy at America's colleges: the silencing of conservative voices.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
Duke has an amazing repository of the nation's historical gun laws...hundreds of laws which, if today's 2nd Amendment fundamentalists are to be believed, were 100% unconstitutional...and yet, no one seemed to notice that until the last 50 years or so. firearmslaw.duke.edu/repository-o...
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Repository of Historical Gun Laws | Duke Center for Firearms Law
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Otto von Biz Markie @donachaidh.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Unless you're the state of Minnesota
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Dirt Dork. @dirtdork.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
A screenshot of a post from r/nostalgia with a blurry picture of a Christmas tree (dated 11/23/2013) and the caption "Why doesn't Christmas feel like magic anymore? Do you remember the joy of baking cookies and decorating a Christmas tree with your family?"
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor. Some changes that they can look forward to:
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
There’s a lot not to like about this administration, but I really appreciate its bursts of incompetence
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
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Jesse Sands @thejessesands.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Happy Punch A Nazi Day to all who celebrate
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Jesse Sands @thejessesands.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I never thought I'd see an AUSA Glomar a federal judge.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Oh they don’t like the whistles? Hey everyone, they don’t like the whistles. If you use them it makes the armed goons sad.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Jesus to his disciples:
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Mr Burns speaking harshly to a crowd

captioned with a Troy Nehls tweet: I'll be voting NO on the Epstein Hoax.Smithers whispers in Burns's earMr. Burns shoos Smithers awaya chastened Mr. Burns speaking to the crowd

captioned with a Troy Nehls tweet: Today, I voted YES to release the Epstein files.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/11/2025
Maya in 1933: "I met the publisher responsible for Der Stürmer and its publication of Jewish crimes. They told me how they they didn't want Jewish crimes recorded as German crime so they set up the publication to ensure accuracy to the Volksgemeinschaft."
“Screenshot of a social media post. At the top is a profile photo of a woman next to the name ‘Maya Forstater’ and the handle ‘@MForstater.’ The post reads: ‘This evening I met the woman responsible for the trans crime UK website. She told me how she didn't want men's crimes to be recorded as women and so she set up this website to record the facts. transcrimeuk.com.’ Below the post is a timestamp of 5:44 PM, Nov 18, 2025, and a view count of 11.9K.”
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Jesse Sands @thejessesands.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
He should appoint Sliwa as the new rat czar. Team of rivals 2 — it’s a natural fit for a cat rescuer.
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Jesse Sands @thejessesands.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This is all addressed in excruciating detail in Campbell’s Lost Fleet series.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 30/10/2025
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.
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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The last 3 years have been the hottest in 125,000 years. CO2 levels are their highest in about 12 MILLION years. Scientists predict 4C+ this century & BILLIONS of deaths. Not interested in this? Then you should consider a career in centrist politics & the mainstream media.
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Jed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Trump has done more to establish a unitary executive than all the judges or legal scholars in the world could ever do. And Trump has done more to discredit and expose the unitary executive theory as lawless authoritarianism than any judge or legal scholar could ever do.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 12/09/2025
Check it out! The team at Acepodia reports efficacy of cetuximab-conjugated allogenic gamma/delta-T cells against EGFR+ tumors in mice, off-the-shelf, safer alternative to CAR-T. Currently in phase 1 clinical study (NCT06415487). Cell-surface chemistry for the win 👏 jitc.bmj.com/content/13/7...
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Allogeneic cetuximab-armed gamma delta T cells using antibody-cell conjugation technology for the treatment of EGFR-expressing solid tumors
Background Targeting epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) has become a strategic approach in cancer therapy, using various modalities including chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-αβT cell therapies. D...
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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 09/09/2025
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Choose your fighter.
Screenshot of a headline from Jacobin magazine. It reads:

"Zohran Mamdani: “New York City Is Not for Sale

by Zohran Mamdani

At a Brooklyn town hall with Bernie Sanders on Saturday, Zohran Mamdani recounted how Bernie “gave me the language of democratic socialism to describe my politics” and called on supporters to keep organizing after Election Day. We reproduce his speech here."Screenshot of a NYTimes headline that reads:

"Wealthy New York Developers Hold Meeting to Plot Mamdani’s Defeat

Some of New York’s biggest business leaders convened on Tuesday morning for an urgent gathering to support former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, saying the “time to act is now.”

There's a photo of Andrew Cuomo and another man entering a building.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
on the one hand I agree with this piece in principle. on the other hand as soon as people get sentimentally attached to punctuation (see: people who make a big deal about liking the Oxford comma) I feel obligated to find ways around it. This is an immature response which I will never, ever abandon
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Psy Costanza @ganondalf.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
CPSC has fallen
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this. Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Worth remembering: The Constitution explicitly gives the power to set tariffs to Congress. They could stop this nonsense by the end of the day.
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Jesse Sands @thejessesands.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I like Lander more now than before. Hard to pull that off while losing. Ranked choice works.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
After the Tree of Life massacre we went to shul and as we lined up to go through the metal detectors a huge crowd of Muslim folks stood outside with signs chanting their love and support for us. It was one of the most moving things I’ve ever seen and it’s a testament both these NYC communities.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 24/06/2025
Fuck yeah 🐻🍯🐻
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Bears eat week’s worth of honey after escape from Devon enclosure
Five-year-old Mish and Lucy get their paws on some snacks before being safely contained at Wildwood Devon
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This decision is bad enough on the merits. But it also gives the government relief in a case in which it defied the district court at least *twice.* That’s quite a message to send to the government with respect to the costs of its litigation behavior in other cases—or the complete lack thereof.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Aside: people who use chatgpt to write code are generally semiliterate, so I don't expect them to get that reference. Or, be able to actually read it. users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklor...
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The Story of Mel
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I'm generally pro-civility. It's just that I realize "we'll take your rights or murder you" and "we'll verbally criticize you with harsh language" are not equal threats to civility—especially not when the latter responds to the former—so falsely equating them harms, rather than improves, civility.
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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Our new paper in The Lancet Regional Health--Americas is out. We began this work in 2020 so it's been in the works for a while. We systematically developed and validated a forecasting tool predicting SARS-CoV-2 critical care occupancy: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Derivation and validation of a point-based forecasting tool for SARS-CoV-2 critical care occupancy: a population-based modeling study
The requirement for critical care in even a modest fraction of SARS-CoV-2-infected individuals made critical care resources a key societal chokepoint …
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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The one laudable thing George W. Bush did during his monstrous tour of awful was AIDS drugs to Africa. It's his one redeeming legacy, and as his project gets destroyed, he remains silent. I think about that when people do a revisionist history of how he wasn't so bad, comparatively.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Diego Rivera, El Niño del Taco (The Boy with the Taco), lithograph, 1932
Image of a young boy eating (or sucking on?) a rolled taco, with a small dog looking up at him
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Jesse Sands @thejessesands.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I'd think divesting from companies run by guys who give Nazi salutes should be the first thing you do to ensure your members' dignity.
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