@dwegeng.bsky.social
Rochester NY, ADK 46er, annoyed liberal, father, husband, he/him, voting blue.
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WSJ: Fannie Mae watchdogs who were removed from their jobs had been probing if Trump appointee Bill Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
WSJ: Fannie Mae watchdogs who were removed from their jobs had been probing if Trump appointee Bill Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
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This is bad. Sarah Kendzior is one of the scholars that most understands authoritarianism and our current moment in the US.
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This is bad. Sarah Kendzior is one of the scholars that most understands authoritarianism and our current moment in the US.
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I’ll say it again: the Senate Democratic leadership’s approach to handle a bully stealing their lunch money every day is to simply carry more lunch money and see what happens.
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I’ll say it again: the Senate Democratic leadership’s approach to handle a bully stealing their lunch money every day is to simply carry more lunch money and see what happens.
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Listen, I'm not saying I endorse brutal mockery of Avi Loeb's claims that every interstellar comet we see is an alien spaceship, but I will link to it because the aliens made me in order to sow doubt about their cometships.
oddnews.com/article/this...
oddnews.com/article/this...
“This Comet Thing Is Aliens,” Says Resident Harvard Fraud Avi Loeb
Like he does every week, without evidence.
oddnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Listen, I'm not saying I endorse brutal mockery of Avi Loeb's claims that every interstellar comet we see is an alien spaceship, but I will link to it because the aliens made me in order to sow doubt about their cometships.
oddnews.com/article/this...
oddnews.com/article/this...
Very interesting. This deserves to be widely shared.
🧵 Okay so yesterday's vote has me needing to share something.
I've been tracking these 8 Democratic senators for months, and yesterday's surrender on healthcare wasn't surprising—it was predictable.
Let me show you why:
#Healthcare #CorporateDemocrats
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I've been tracking these 8 Democratic senators for months, and yesterday's surrender on healthcare wasn't surprising—it was predictable.
Let me show you why:
#Healthcare #CorporateDemocrats
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November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Very interesting. This deserves to be widely shared.
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
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Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
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Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Quick story: I’m a middle aged man who last year finally couldn’t ignore the lump of tissue I could feel in my right breast. I decided to get a mammogram done.
Thankfully, it was a benign cyst that I can safely ignore.
But men, if you are in a similar situation, don’t hesitate—get checked out.
Thankfully, it was a benign cyst that I can safely ignore.
But men, if you are in a similar situation, don’t hesitate—get checked out.
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Quick story: I’m a middle aged man who last year finally couldn’t ignore the lump of tissue I could feel in my right breast. I decided to get a mammogram done.
Thankfully, it was a benign cyst that I can safely ignore.
But men, if you are in a similar situation, don’t hesitate—get checked out.
Thankfully, it was a benign cyst that I can safely ignore.
But men, if you are in a similar situation, don’t hesitate—get checked out.
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Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal".
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal".
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
We can't afford to extend Heath insurance subsidies, but we can afford stuff like this?
apnews.com/article/equa...
apnews.com/article/equa...
Senate Democrat questions Trump administration's $7.5M payment to Equatorial Guinea
The top Democratic senator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says the Trump administration made a $7.5 million payment to the government of Equatorial Guinea amid an effort deport people to th...
apnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
We can't afford to extend Heath insurance subsidies, but we can afford stuff like this?
apnews.com/article/equa...
apnews.com/article/equa...
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Wood Mackenzie confirms new natural gas generation is expensive!
$126/MWh in 2030!
New solar plus batteries are less than half the cost of new gas!
New nuclear ($139/MWh) also is getting close to being cheaper than new gas!
Gas too is dirty, biggest CO2 electricity polluter. #energysky
$126/MWh in 2030!
New solar plus batteries are less than half the cost of new gas!
New nuclear ($139/MWh) also is getting close to being cheaper than new gas!
Gas too is dirty, biggest CO2 electricity polluter. #energysky
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Wood Mackenzie confirms new natural gas generation is expensive!
$126/MWh in 2030!
New solar plus batteries are less than half the cost of new gas!
New nuclear ($139/MWh) also is getting close to being cheaper than new gas!
Gas too is dirty, biggest CO2 electricity polluter. #energysky
$126/MWh in 2030!
New solar plus batteries are less than half the cost of new gas!
New nuclear ($139/MWh) also is getting close to being cheaper than new gas!
Gas too is dirty, biggest CO2 electricity polluter. #energysky
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Christian Nationalists:
QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
ANSWER: Zero times.
QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
ANSWER: Zero times.
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Christian Nationalists:
QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
ANSWER: Zero times.
QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
ANSWER: Zero times.
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This hidden provision is so crooked and selfish, it doesn't even apply to US Representatives. Just US Senators.
Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This hidden provision is so crooked and selfish, it doesn't even apply to US Representatives. Just US Senators.
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KPBS: 'Scientists launch new trial for long COVID treatment'
Eric Topol: "They can't work..function..have a hard time just getting out of bed...the first of trials we hope to move forward with..there are so many other potential candidate drugs interventions to help..."
www.kpbs.org/podcasts/kpb...
Eric Topol: "They can't work..function..have a hard time just getting out of bed...the first of trials we hope to move forward with..there are so many other potential candidate drugs interventions to help..."
www.kpbs.org/podcasts/kpb...
Scientists launch new trial for long COVID treatment
Launched by the Scripps Research Translational Institute, the trial will test a repurposed GLP-1 drug, tirzepatide, and if it can provide relief for long COVID symptoms.
www.kpbs.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
KPBS: 'Scientists launch new trial for long COVID treatment'
Eric Topol: "They can't work..function..have a hard time just getting out of bed...the first of trials we hope to move forward with..there are so many other potential candidate drugs interventions to help..."
www.kpbs.org/podcasts/kpb...
Eric Topol: "They can't work..function..have a hard time just getting out of bed...the first of trials we hope to move forward with..there are so many other potential candidate drugs interventions to help..."
www.kpbs.org/podcasts/kpb...
Seriously?
More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
oh the paul amendment is going down 78-22
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Seriously?
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More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
oh the paul amendment is going down 78-22
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
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Just getting dinner onto the table for the kiddos, will deal with this later.
Trump: "We had a guy named Buttigieg. Boot-edge-edge they say is the best way. Just say two 'edges' like off the edge of a cliff — which is where they were taking us, by the way."
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Just getting dinner onto the table for the kiddos, will deal with this later.
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Take a 13 min break for an interesting discussion on the potential impact of COVID mRNA vaccines on cancer treatments & cancer patients.
Ira talks with Adam Grippin (@mdanderson.bsky.social) and @erictopol.bsky.social (The Scripps Research Inst.).
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/cov...
Ira talks with Adam Grippin (@mdanderson.bsky.social) and @erictopol.bsky.social (The Scripps Research Inst.).
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/cov...
Study Finds COVID mRNA Vaccines Boost Cancer Treatment
New research found that mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 could enhance cancer treatments and help patients live longer.
www.sciencefriday.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Take a 13 min break for an interesting discussion on the potential impact of COVID mRNA vaccines on cancer treatments & cancer patients.
Ira talks with Adam Grippin (@mdanderson.bsky.social) and @erictopol.bsky.social (The Scripps Research Inst.).
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/cov...
Ira talks with Adam Grippin (@mdanderson.bsky.social) and @erictopol.bsky.social (The Scripps Research Inst.).
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/cov...
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Here's an op-ed I wrote recently about the ongoing harm being done by Elon Musk and the importance of making his business partners (like T-Mobile) pay a price for supporting him.
#defundmusk #MuskMustFall #teslatakedown
#defundmusk #MuskMustFall #teslatakedown
Defending Democracy Starts With Your Phone Plan: Why I Cut Ties With T-Mobile | Common Dreams
The most effective way to resist the authoritarian takeover of our democracy is to make it clear to companies partnering with authoritarians that there will always be consequences for such business r...
www.commondreams.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Here's an op-ed I wrote recently about the ongoing harm being done by Elon Musk and the importance of making his business partners (like T-Mobile) pay a price for supporting him.
#defundmusk #MuskMustFall #teslatakedown
#defundmusk #MuskMustFall #teslatakedown
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We're so glad for you, @kaine.senate.gov , that you slept well. That must be so reassuring for those whose lives are at risk and especially reassuring for Trump, who sends along his thanks.
Tim Kaine on backlash he's getting: "I got the first good night's sleep last night that I've gotten since Oct 1, b/c I wasn't worried about being able to look Capitol Police in the eye when I walked in, or what a furloughed fed worker would say to me at church, or what somebody would say about SNAP"
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We're so glad for you, @kaine.senate.gov , that you slept well. That must be so reassuring for those whose lives are at risk and especially reassuring for Trump, who sends along his thanks.
Out of touch.
Tim Kaine is on MSNBC accusing Katy Tur of "overdramatizing" the way he and some other Democrats caved. "This is by far a minor-league issue within the Democratic Party," Kaine said.
He's completely out of touch, or just lying.
He's completely out of touch, or just lying.
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Out of touch.
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2 #LongCovid randomized trials published today
—Online cognitive training, negative
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
—Resistance training, modest benefit
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
—Online cognitive training, negative
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
—Resistance training, modest benefit
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
2 #LongCovid randomized trials published today
—Online cognitive training, negative
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
—Resistance training, modest benefit
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
—Online cognitive training, negative
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
—Resistance training, modest benefit
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...