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Tony Photon

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Optical scientist and sci fi fan.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not only are the insurrection supporters desperately grasping at straws,they are incompetently grasping at non-existent ones. thehill.com/homenews/sen...
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Eric Schmitt seems to confuse basketball teams in attempt to link Jack Smith, Fani Willis
Apparent confusion over team names derailed a line of questioning as Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) grilled former special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday about his attendance at a basketball game, sugges…
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Who could possibly have guessed that removing competent professionals and replacing them with political hacks would result in something like this? www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Hill investigates after F-35 parts diverted to Hong Kong
The incident raises the possibility that top secret weapons technology may have been exposed to a foreign adversary — including China.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Operation Dessert Shield
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Got to love it when American tax dollars are used to pay off a company so that electricity prices will go up while simultaneously reducing the energy independence of the US. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump administration to pay German firm to halt US wind projects
The RWE payout is the latest in a string of deals cancelling wind energy projects, a power source long derided by Trump.
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 26/07/2026
The National Academy of Sciences is on Trump’s radar because they are in his way." from Benjamin Santer in a new essay on "Carnage in pursuit of power, revenge, personal financial gain, and ego."
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American Nero: Why Trump is trying to burn down the National Academy of Sciences
Carnage in pursuit of power, revenge, personal financial gain, and ego.
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I'm pretty sure every corporate CEO and board member would fail the marshmallow test
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
They'll throw a fit if you try to make them get vaccinated, but happily be forced to get tested for a ill-define and made up "diagnosis". www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
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Hegseth announces new policy to test troops for low testosterone and offer them hormone replacement therapy
Many influencers and proponents of Robert F. Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement tout testosterone as a way to look younger, build muscle and stay mentally sharp — although those uses aren...
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The GOP just does not believe in democracy.
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
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Simpsons Flanders: We're All Out of Ideas
Alt: Simpsons Flanders:We've tried nothing and we're All Out of Ideas
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
ACCURATE.
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The next administration needs to audit and claw back the billions of dollars illegally doled out by this one. If they can claw back an accidental overpayment to a fed employee or beneficiary, they can darn well claw this back too.
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
So who convinced him that he looks good in this picture, and not like a constipated and confused muppet?
Trump photo appearing on new passports
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Posting both an iconic blonde AND a movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs
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a man is sitting on a bench smoking a cigarette and meditating .
Alt: A scene from the movie Real Genius whereVal Kilmer is sitting on a balcony at night meditating.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
What Bovino means: About a third of the population isn’t white.
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So now rge DOJ is openly stepping up to the plate to defend terrorist groups? www.npr.org/2026/04/21/g...
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Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges
The Justice Department alleges that the SPLC improperly raised millions of dollars to pay informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups.
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Everytime something like this happens I always wonder why those documents exist in the first place. Why do people still document their crimes?
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
So, he started a war to distract from the Epstein files, then sent out his wife to bring up the Epstein files to distract us from the fact that he lost the war he started.
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
To this day I've never been able to understand why the "Yeehaw!" tanked his primary bid.
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
If a Democratic administration tried this, Fox and the Republicans would be up in arms about big government over reach. But when PedoDon does it, crickets.
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Our markets are driven by gullible fools. It's always depressing to be reminded of this.
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The first reporter to stand up and ask Trump, “What the fuck is wrong with you?” Should be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for journalism.
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Why does my country keep supporting these genocidal maniacs? www.npr.org/2026/03/15/g...
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Israeli soldiers fire on family car in occupied West Bank, killing 4
Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank, killing four people including two children, the Palestinian Authority's Health Ministry said.
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"However, at the urging of other officers, that ambulance was used to take away a white police officer, Erin Perrotta, who had been involved in the foot chase, the report said." www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/off...
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Connecticut officer having "mild anxiety attack" took ambulance sent for man dying from police shooting, investigation finds
The report raised questions about what took place after the shooting, which left Dyshan Best bleeding with fatal injuries.
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Trustworthy Loyal Helpful Friendly Courteous Kind Obedient Cheerful Thrifty Clean Reverent
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Wow, the issue of ICE's abuses has gotten so bad for the Admin that they've decided to release some more of the Epstein files to distract us.
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Gee, a person who ran a gossip site gains control of CBS nees and pledges to turn it into a gossip network. Who could have predicted that?
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Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Hey, I remember this vibe.
Infamous 1988 presidential-campaign photo of Mike Dukakis wearing a helmet and riding a tank.
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Hey @washingtonpost.com After the election you published many articles bemoaning the failure of the press to adequately cover the mental decline of Biden. Is there a reason you seem to be not only repeating this "mistake" when it comes to the current president, but vastly surpassing it?
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Monica Beckett @moniemouse.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This is on you, Congress. Every single member of Congress who does not support impeachment, removal, and prosecution right now is complicit.
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UAW @uaw.org · 14/01/2026
🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.
Statement on Ford Plant Visit from VP Laura Dickerson, Ford Department Director
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Just once I'd like a reporter to respond to one of these utterly ridiculous claims by saying something like, "That is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. That make absolutely no sense. How would that possibly happen?"
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
It looks like Trump is trying to get the first ever Nobel participation prize.
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Every installment of this MTG rehabilitation tour feels like “Nice Scorpion Regrets Past Stings, Needs Help With River Crossing!”
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Racist pater runs another racist story.
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 25/12/2025
A few excerpts from Darmok's Christmas Story: Ralphie and Flick, at the flagpole. Randy, his arms down. The Old Man, when the lamp broke. Santa and Ralphie, on the mountain.
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Watching this while filling stockings and I'm once again wondering about the rest of that Wallace and Davis crew.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/12/2025
"Are we still capable of talking to each other," asks the woman hired by billionaires whose economic model is predicated on fomenting polarization to install an actual criminal who dismantles the regulatory state that kept them from fully extracting what remaining wealth there was from the lower 99%
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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/12/2025
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this…
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
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Microplastics Sommelier @eephus.biz · 12/12/2025
all i'm saying is that there were better options
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PERSON OF THE YEAR
SANDWICH THROWING GUY
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The official policy of the Trump Administration is ignorant bigotry. We’re asked, under principles including charity, to assume that people support the administration despite that policy, not specifically because of it. I am increasingly unwilling to extend that charity.
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, . . . OK, I see now why Hegseth doesn't like the scouts.
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 24/11/2025
X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’ For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety teams…
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X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety teams at social media platforms working to identify and remove coordinated inauthentic behavior—particularly foreign influence operations. They've insisted that any attempt to study and limit such operations is actually just "censorship" with various forms of cover, whether academic or operational.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/11/2025
"Didn’t anyone ever teach you manners? Were you raised in a barn, piggy? Our guest came all the way from Camp Crystal Lake. Traffic was a nightmare, but he showed up anyway."
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How Dare You Embarrass My Esteemed Guest, Jason Voorhees
“President Trump assailed an American journalist in the Oval Office on Tuesday for asking Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, about t...
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The administration is now literally letting its bigot flag fly! www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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Tony Photon @tonyphoton.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
That's rich coming from a man who arguably attempted a coup in 2021. www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/p...
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Trump accuses Democratic lawmakers who urged military to disobey illegal orders of ‘seditious behavior, punishable by death’ | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Thursday called for the arrest of Democratic lawmakers who urged service members and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders that might be issued by the administrati...
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 07/11/2025
While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Running gag goes meta as Johnson says he knows nothing about Trump knowing nothing
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