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Brendel

@brendelbored.bsky.social

Kurt Vonnegut man

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:
"Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man.
You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?
And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.
I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by.
And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around
And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.
And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

April 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM

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Pete Buttigieg

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

www.theatlantic.com

March 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM

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Ron Filipkowski

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Everything we have stood around the world going back 80 years - collective security, honoring alliances, helping friends & allies, feeding the hungry, treating & curing diseases, humanitarian aid, the rule of law, broadcasting truthful news to people who can’t get it - all gone.

March 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM

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Molly Jong-Fast

@mollyjongfast.bsky.social

Oh look Elon musk cutting pediatric cancer research

March 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM

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Atul Gawande

@agawande.bsky.social

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization

Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

www.thelancet.com

March 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM

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Drew Harwell

@drewharwell.com

The government has never been this efficient www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Upon Musk’s request, Young procured a massive TV for Musk’s office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building so he could play video games, according to a person familiar with the situation granted anonymity to speak freely.

March 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM

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Chris Hayes

@chrislhayes.bsky.social

truly beyond parody

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Mar 11

HE'S LITERALLY READING A SALES PITCH

March 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM

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Amy Fried

@asfried.bsky.social

Maine weather reports are now less accurate due to Trump/Musk. #mepolitics

Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · Mar 7

More fallout from the indiscriminate NWS firings:

"Effective immediately, and until further notice, the [NWS] is temporarily suspending some weather balloon launches in Albany, New York, and Gray, Maine, due to a lack of Weather Forecast Office (WFO) staffing."

www.weather.gov/media/notifi...