Mark Anderson
@emer.net
Known as @markemer on pretty much everything
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This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
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just to be clear Johnny Cash has never been uncool. he was a lot of other things. always cool.
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
just to be clear Johnny Cash has never been uncool. he was a lot of other things. always cool.
Oof. This does not make him look innocent. I mean because he probably isn’t.
Trump desperately pressuring Republicans who signed the Epstein petition before Grijalva signs it at 4:10 PM when it will then be too late to stop it.
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Oof. This does not make him look innocent. I mean because he probably isn’t.
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Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
Trump, Miller, and ICE are leaving a wound in America which we may be able to heal, but will never recover. The scars will last forever.
NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state.
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
US firefighter detained on the job speaks out after deportation: ‘I feel betrayed’
Exclusive: Border patrol arrested José Bertin Cruz-Estrada while he was battling a wildfire in Washington. He is now in Mexico, separated from his family in Oregon
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Trump, Miller, and ICE are leaving a wound in America which we may be able to heal, but will never recover. The scars will last forever.
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BREAKING: Donald Trump Tells White House Press Corps "I Met Miss Aurora Borealis Once, Very Rude, Not a Very Nice Woman, Low Class!"
November 12, 2025 at 6:40 AM
BREAKING: Donald Trump Tells White House Press Corps "I Met Miss Aurora Borealis Once, Very Rude, Not a Very Nice Woman, Low Class!"
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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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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
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Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
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McGovern: He would rather appeal to the highest court in the land to starve people than simply provide them with the food assistance that he is legally obligated to do. That is the Republican policy position. We will give you your food if you let us take away your health care.
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
McGovern: He would rather appeal to the highest court in the land to starve people than simply provide them with the food assistance that he is legally obligated to do. That is the Republican policy position. We will give you your food if you let us take away your health care.
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Katie Wilson (progressive challenger) up by 1,346 votes over incumbent mayor Bruce Harrell here in Seattle — a difference of 0.5%. I think Harrell lost, yay!But I’ll keep my fingers crossed🤞 Go @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social!!!
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Katie Wilson (progressive challenger) up by 1,346 votes over incumbent mayor Bruce Harrell here in Seattle — a difference of 0.5%. I think Harrell lost, yay!But I’ll keep my fingers crossed🤞 Go @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social!!!
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it’s also the name of my new gay bar
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
it’s also the name of my new gay bar
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Think about buying a car, a fun, stress-free negotiating process that everybody loves. Now imagine that if you don’t buy a car you die and if you buy the wrong car you also die
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Think about buying a car, a fun, stress-free negotiating process that everybody loves. Now imagine that if you don’t buy a car you die and if you buy the wrong car you also die
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King: elon why are you here? shouldn't you be back at tesla?
King: you know, running things?
King: earning that trillion dollar bonus?
Musk: eyyy i can't go back to tesla
Musk: itsa bad scene
King: why? what's wrong?
Mus: i thinka joyce carol oates is inna da vents
King: you know, running things?
King: earning that trillion dollar bonus?
Musk: eyyy i can't go back to tesla
Musk: itsa bad scene
King: why? what's wrong?
Mus: i thinka joyce carol oates is inna da vents
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
King: elon why are you here? shouldn't you be back at tesla?
King: you know, running things?
King: earning that trillion dollar bonus?
Musk: eyyy i can't go back to tesla
Musk: itsa bad scene
King: why? what's wrong?
Mus: i thinka joyce carol oates is inna da vents
King: you know, running things?
King: earning that trillion dollar bonus?
Musk: eyyy i can't go back to tesla
Musk: itsa bad scene
King: why? what's wrong?
Mus: i thinka joyce carol oates is inna da vents
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how about a 75 year mortgage, but you receive it upon conception
November 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
how about a 75 year mortgage, but you receive it upon conception
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November 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
After 6 ballots I am finally done voting for the year. I don’t recommend having your house rep die, it’s sad and it’s a lot of very quick decision voting.
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
After 6 ballots I am finally done voting for the year. I don’t recommend having your house rep die, it’s sad and it’s a lot of very quick decision voting.
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
October 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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Oh, the same piece of shit who took the 5th SEVENTY-FIVE (75, sev-en-tee-fyve) times in a Medicare fraud case?
www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...
www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Oh, the same piece of shit who took the 5th SEVENTY-FIVE (75, sev-en-tee-fyve) times in a Medicare fraud case?
www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...
www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...
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welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place
I don't understand why so many people want a 3rd party when we could just be a sane tea party and take over this one.
“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!”
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I don't understand why so many people want a 3rd party when we could just be a sane tea party and take over this one.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM