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David Whitehouse, Ph.D
@davidw38.bsky.social
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Ph.D physicist retired from the tech industry where I worked on the early internet, cloud adoption and most recently data and AI. Now focused on the energy transition and trying to save democracy in the US.
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theophite.bsky.social
jeffries needs to be the fuck out of office
January 3, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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zavaletas.bsky.social
Modern authoritarian states no longer need mass killing to produce mass suffering. They govern by deciding who will be protected — and who can be left exposed.
#Necropolitics #Authoritarianism #Immigration #HumanRights #Democracy
The Grammar of Abandonment
How Modern Authoritarianism Governs Through Exposure Rather Than Extermination
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December 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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riseandresist.bsky.social
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THE WHITE HOUSE HAS JOINED BLUESKY.

CLICK THE LINK BELOW FOR A LIST OF THIER ACCOUNTS SO YOU CAN BLOCK THEM.
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GRAPHIC OF WHITE HOUSE WITH A SYMBOL TO BLOCK IT ON BLUESKY
October 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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thebulwark.com
If we want an independent media that isn’t the plaything of oligarchs, we’re going to have to build it together.

That's why were offering 30 days free right now for Bulwark+. Get it here: lnk.thebulwark.com/48QbKyS?utm_...
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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warrenjwells.bsky.social
"Officers must not make Kavanaugh stops."
December 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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davidjbier.bsky.social
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
We are in the maelstrom of a multi-century struggle for this nation. If we don’t understand that, then we will fail to understand what’s at stake.

And we will under-react to the danger of this moment. That is why we need to know how history brings us here.
sifill.bsky.social Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14d
“The white supremacist, anti-14th Amendment, post-Brown movement has the complicity or active engagement of all three branches of government as it works to undo the constitutional infrastructure of Reconstruction and the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.”

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Is It Too Late?
No. But We Must Better Understand the Nature of the Battle
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December 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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adamrose.bsky.social
Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.
60minutes.bsky.social 60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 13d
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report “Inside CECOT” will air in a future broadcast.
December 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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timcarvell.bsky.social
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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billamend.bsky.social
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
December 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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ditzkoff.bsky.social
Bari Weiss is really bad at her job, until you realize it's her job to be really bad at her job, in which case she is excellent at her job
60minutes.bsky.social 60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 13d
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report “Inside CECOT” will air in a future broadcast.
December 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Anyone at CBS with the details is morally obligated to leak what happened and who did what

ASAP
60minutes.bsky.social 60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 13d
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report “Inside CECOT” will air in a future broadcast.
December 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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ricksteves.bsky.social
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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melissjpeltier.bsky.social
Please patronize independent bookstores this holiday season (& always!)
And don’t forget your local libraries!
December 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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December 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.

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December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna plan to draft articles of impeachment against AG Pam Bondi over the DOJ’s failure to release all Epstein files as required by law.
December 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
In light of the Epstein Blackout, shouldn’t Khanna and Massie demand Johnson call the House back into session? (If he won’t, can they somehow hijack the pro forma session scheduled for Tuesday Dec. 23?) And Senators should make a similar demand of Thune.
December 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
davidw38.bsky.social
Hey @nytimes.com, why do you give this clown a platform?
kleinman.bsky.social Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 17d
If you think the system doesn't seem interested in rewarding white guys at all that seems to be an issue of your media diet and not a reflection of reality
December 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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December 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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noupside.bsky.social
The Administration is making noises about not wanting to “lose to China” in AI while letting abject idiots gut scientific research across the board virtually everywhere else.

This is intentionally-produced ignorance.
Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center Russell Vought, the White House budget director, called the laboratory a source of "climate alarmism." HHS cuts millions in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics The move is an escalation in the agency's clash with the medical group, which is suing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine policy.
December 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
this right here is what's actually happening & really ought to be a part of every pundit panel and news story. The GOP made it's choice, it chose to fund the secret police that is back in my city of Chicago again today terrorizing hard working people.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19d
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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volts.wtf
How about a nice pointless tweet thread? OK.🧵

So, Trump said some ugly & horrible things about Rob Reiner on Truth Social. I have been watching with fascination as several Republican policymakers -- & even commenters on Truth Social! -- reacted with horror. It has brought to mind ...
December 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
davidw38.bsky.social
F$&k Trump and every craven Republican who has enabled this sick, sick man. I will never forgive or forget.
December 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a more transparently corrupt government and I'm from India
kidvanguard.bsky.social Kid Vanguard @kidvanguard.bsky.social · 24d
trumpcard.gov is live and the million dollar fees are all referred to as “gifts” or “contributions” to an undisclosed party lol
Special Benetits. For Individuals For Business Trump Gold Card For a $15,000 DHS processing fee* and, after background approval, a contribution of $1 million, receive U.S. residency in record time with the Trump Gold Card. *Additional small fees to the U.S. Department of State may apply depending on the applicant. Trump Platinum Card Coming Soon* An official website of the United States government Apply Now 个 Corporate Gold Card? The Trump Corporate Gold Card is issued to a corporate sponsor for one or more of the sponsor's employees. To apply, the corporate sponsor must pay a nonrefundable, $15,000 DHS processing fee per employee. Corporate sponsors may apply for multiple employees at once. A $2 million per employee gift upon completion of the employee's vetting is evidence that the employee will substantially benefit the United States. The advantage of the Trump Corporate Gold Card is that corporate sponsors may cease sponsoring one employee and use the gift contribution tied to the prior application as a basis for sponsoring a new employee, without a new $2 million gift. The Trump Corporate Gold Card is subject to a small, 1% annual maintenance fee and a 5% transfer fee, which includes the cost of a new DHS background check. Small additional fees to the U.S. Department of State may also apply depending on each employees circumstances.
December 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM