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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

“The Vice President, Secretary of Defense, and several Cabinet members and high ranking White House officials were conducting war strategy in a group chat on an iphone app” is such a perfect scandal for Democrats to go scorched earth on. I can’t wait to see how they fuck it up.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I think this is the disconnect. Schumer still focused on POLITICAL STRATEGY. Democratic grassroots focused on the SUBSTANTIVE HARM being done to the United States.

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Zachary Bretton @zbretton.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Okay, not that this matters AT ALL since the base idea here is fucking insanely rude, stupid, and ridiculous... but the idea that THE WHOLE COUNTRY OF CANADA WOULD BE A SINGLE STATE IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE. His complete lack of awareness of the structure of one of our closest allies is mind-boggling.

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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Duterte flown to The Hague after arrest over Philippines drug war killings Ex-president to face charges of crimes against humanity over ‘war on drugs’ that rights groups say left 30,000 dead www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Duterte flown to The Hague after arrest over Philippines drug war killings

Ex-president to face charges of crimes against humanity over ‘war on drugs’ that rights groups say left 30,000 dead

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

man he's a perfect synthesis of patrick bateman and gob bluth, isn't he? so perfect that i don't have to say his name for you to know exactly who i'm talking about

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Faith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Somehow this story is even worse than it first appeared: “When the acting head of the Bureau of Reclamation did not relent, the DOGE agents flew to California with the goal of turning the pumps on themselves, in what people familiar with the incident characterized as a stunt for a ‘photo op.’”

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Alexander Harris @dralexharris.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I am proud to learn that my department chair (and former NIMH director), psychiatrist & neuroscientist Dr. Josh Gordon, will be addressing the NYC rally. linktr.ee/sufsnyc

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Stand Up for Science NYC! | Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | Linktree

Stand Up for Science on March 7th, 2025! 🌎🧪🧬🔭🩺

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Why is our entire political class constantly telling us to put truth and morality aside to focus on optics

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

How could that Trump voter have believed electing him would make IVF free? She must've been into fringey alternative media, maybe saw it from some influencer, professional media outlets would never oh no.

New York Times headline "Trump Called for I.V.F. to Be Free, How Would That Work?" August 30, 2024.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/health/trump-free-ivf-treatment.html

CNN headline "Trump proposes making government or insurance companies pay for IVF treatments." August 29, 2024.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/29/politics/trump-ivf-treatment-proposal/index.html

Washington Post headline "Trump says he wants to cover IVF costs as president." August 29, 2024.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-says-he-wants-to-cover-ivf-costs-as-president/2024/08/29/d480c9ec-d495-4ee7-a1fe-9142ab0334d0_video.html

NBC News headline "Trump says he wants to make IVF treatments paid for by government or insurance companies if elected," August 29, 2024.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-wants-make-ivf-treatments-paid-government-insurance-compani-rcna168804

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

“And therefore, we will _____.”

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Tanya Lewis @tanyalewis.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

First measles death in the West Texas outbreak reported. The patient's age hasn't been released, but most of the cases have been in children. apnews.com/article/meas...

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First measles death is reported in the West Texas outbreak that's infected more than 120 people

A person who was hospitalized has died from measles in West Texas. It's the first since the outbreak began late last month.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Yes! The people defending this as trolling don’t understand what trolling is. “Libs will get offended by ANYTHING these days” only works if the thing you’re doing isn’t offensive!

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

yes we know, that's the problem

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Zachary Bretton @zbretton.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This would be insanely dumb on so many levels... embarrassing, truly.

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Dr. Catherine Macdonald @drcatmac.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Every scientist, long before they were a scientist, was a little kid who stood in front of a fish tank or stared up at the stars or turned over a rock to look at the bugs underneath and said “wow”. On the best days, working in science still feels like that.

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Remember how Trump said he "sent the military in and opened up the water flow" in CA? It appears he forced the Army Corps to just drain reservoirs into recently flooded farmland without telling local farmers or leaders. “In 25 years, I’ve never seen anything like this.” sjvwater.org/decision-to-...

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Decision to dump water from Tulare County lakes altered after sending locals into a mad scramble – SJV Water

Water managers were relieved Thursday evening after the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to back off of a sudden decision earlier in the day to dump massive

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

As true today as it was nearly seven years ago

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Elon Musk thinks he can gut the U.S. government like he gutted Twitter without facing any real consequences. He is dangerously wrong. His ransacking of the federal workforce is going to get people killed. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Let me give you a perfect example of why I think Musk’s approach is so dangerous. As everybody knows, there was a plane crash in D.C. on Wednesday. A helicopter collided with a passenger plane and almost 70 people died. When this collision occurred, the Federal Aviation Administration was leaderless. Why? Musk had Trump fire the former FAA leader as soon as he got into office, because the former leader had investigated and fined one of Musk’s companies, Starlink. This was a sheer vengeance firing. This was not about competence or even truly about political affiliation. Elon Musk was just mad at this guy for investigating his company and wanted him gone on Day 1.

Because of that, the FAA was leaderless during the biggest aviation disaster in this country since 2001. The agency had to scramble to figure out how it was going to respond to this without anyone at the top. And by the way, the day after the crash, FAA employees—including air traffic controllers, who are already badly short-staffed—got an email encouraging them to resign and find work in the private sector.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 31/01/2025

This is not business as usual. It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant. Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.

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EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders

Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Boy, these last eight days feel like a good reminder why democracies generally avoid letting people who attempt a coup come back to power….

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Alexander Harris @dralexharris.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It feels that folks operate with 2 vastly different sets of rules. One side is process oriented & manifestly nonpartisan (if blind to its own political biases). The other side is partisan & willing to use any means necessary. Both sides fantasize that the other side plays their way.

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Hayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com · 21/01/2025

It takes the Acela 6.75 hours to travel from Boston to DC, and in Japan this would take less than 3. This is arguably the most important economic center of the world, with trains as slow as 80 years ago. There’s no “golden age of America” with rail this slow.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Best postgame take

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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

The story of Quinn Ewers at Texas can be told by showing fourth-and-13 in the national quarterfinals, and then fourth-and-goal in the national semifinals.

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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 11/01/2025

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Stepback Stats @stepbackstats.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Bradley Beal and Jusuf Nurkic are to be removed from the starting lineup. Ryan Dunn and Mason Plumlee will take their places. This is big news for the Suns who have been needing to find a new direction. Is this for trade purposes or something else? #NBA #Basketball #Suns #NBASky #NBABluesky

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onion person @junlper.beer · 03/01/2025

tech companies have been anti-consumer for years now but never have i seen them commit to the complete rot of AI integrated technology despite the pushback and annoyance of the general public,

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Brian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I’m enthusiastically endorsing Ben Wikler for DNC chair because I know him and he knows how to win. Ben and his team have been organizing and communicating all over, nonstop, in a tough state. Tammy Baldwin won. 14 state legislative flips. Let’s do this everywhere.

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Zachary Bretton @zbretton.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Okay now we're trying a bit TOO hard to get Cam Thomas shots down the stretch. I get he's our main weapon, but it's stopping the flow completely

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Zachary Bretton @zbretton.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I know it keeps being said but Jordi is a HELL of a coach. He alone will speed up this rebuild immensely. Dude is already a top 15 coach in the league, in year 1

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 03/01/2025

No. 5 Texas vs. No. 8 Ohio State No. 6 Penn State vs. No. 7 Notre Dame Every lower seed in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals is moving onto the semis ‼️

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PodKATT @podkatt.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The CFP Champion will be A team that lost to Michigan A team that lost to NIU A team that lost to UGA twice Or James Franklin

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Zachary Bretton @zbretton.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Wow! All first round byes have been knocked out 😵

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