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New England born, Alaska grown, Seattle currently. Sports fan. Very gay. A bit too into the Boston Red Sox.

Fuck these fascists.
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dylanwilliams.bsky.social
The difference between this and Nazi propaganda against Jews is that this is AI-generated.
June 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Whether it's Democrats putting flyers on Chris Cillizza’s Tesla or Republicans assassinating Democratic lawmakers, it's time for both sides to turn down the temperature.
June 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
lj34.bsky.social
Call me crazy but I don’t want my elected officials to be idiot drones without a moral compass who change with the winds of public opinion that is heavily influenced by misinformation. Moral convictions and a backbone is sexy, y’all!
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · May 25
The two obvious flaws here are that 1) it makes policy choices reactive instead of proactive and 2) it ignores the problem being addressed by the (probably misguided) original idea: that there is a robust narrative universe that excludes Democratic ideas.
May 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
lj34.bsky.social
Joe Biden ultimately decided not to run for re-election (admittedly very late) and we have an actual President right now who is clearly in cognitive decline and was when he was elected…how the fuck is Biden the story right now?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 22
folks they're still at it

(yes, this is happening right now on CNN)
May 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
lj34.bsky.social
LFG!!!!!
April 1, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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clintsmithiii.bsky.social
They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
March 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
lj34.bsky.social
If MLB Radio isn’t working for you, I just downloaded @audacyinc.bsky.social and am able to get the Red Sox game on WEEI. Was hoping MLB Radio would be better this season but that’s clearly not the case. Sigh.
March 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
lj34.bsky.social
Clearly the wrong guy for this moment. His colleagues need to get him the fuck out of there or they are all complicit in this bullshit
brandonfriedman.bsky.social Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Mar 14
Schumer had this written and sent over to the New York Times for edits before he told either his Senate colleagues or his constituents how he would be voting. This spineless quisling has to go.
New York Times: Opinion guest essay: Chuck Schumer: Trump and Musk Would Love a Shutdown. We Must Not Give Them One.
March 14, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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pftompkins.bsky.social
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The first transgender suicide hotline is now up and running in the U.S. You can reach Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860
March 8, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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kyivindependent.com
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
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February 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this
February 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
lj34.bsky.social
He isn’t their boss. He isn’t formally in the chain of command in any way. Of course you ask what your staff is working on because they actually work for you. How can you possibly not get this?

Somehow I continue to be surprised by the complete ineptitude of democratic “leaders”.
markwarner.bsky.social Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · Feb 24
Listen – it’s not nuts to ask federal employees to report what they’re working on. My staff has to do weekly reports too.

But the WAY Musk is doing this? What’s he gonna do, read 2 million emails? This is just not serious stuff.
February 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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purplechrain.bsky.social
I am so sick of this shit. It’s a Sieg Heil. It’s a Nazi salute. Anyone who sees it knows. It’s ridiculous that legal departments presumably won’t let media call it what it is. Bannon made “a provocative gesture that resembled the salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally”? Fuck off.
The Daily Beast tweet: “Steve Bannon whipped up the CPAC crowd by talking about the possibility of Trump staying in office for a third term - and concluded his speech by giving a provocative gesture that resembled the salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally last month.”
February 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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adambonica.bsky.social
How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes?

Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce.

Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.
Title: What Costs More: Billionaire Tax Avoidance or Federal Workers? Subtitle: Musk’s tax avoidance could fund 677K federal jobs • Current Tax Rate: 3.27% • Top Federal Tax Rate: 37% Cost Comparison (Bar Chart): • Cost of Musk’s Tax Avoidance (smallest bar, purple) • Cost of Top 100 Billionaires’ Tax Avoidance (largest bar, red) • Total Federal Workforce Salaries (mid-sized bar, green) X-axis ranges from $0B to $380B, showing that billionaire tax avoidance covers a significant portion of federal workforce salaries. Impact on Federal Workforce: • Average Federal Salary: $106,000 • Jobs Musk’s Avoidance Could Fund: 677,782 (29.5% of all federal employees) Federal Workforce Breakdown (Pie Chart): • A segment representing 29.5% of the workforce highlights the share Musk’s avoided taxes could fund, labeled “Share Equal to Musk’s Avoided Taxes: 29.5%”. Sources: • Musk’s Tax Rate: ProPublica • Billionaire Gains: Bloomberg Billionaires Index (Dec. 31, 2024) • Federal Employee Data: USAFacts
February 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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iwashyna.bsky.social
Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading

www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...
February 18, 2024 TO: Dr. Matthew Memoli, Acting Director, NIH CC: John Burklow, Chief of Staff, NIH Julie Berko, Director, OHR, NIH FROM: Nathaniel James Brought, Director, ES, NIH SUBJECT: Resignation Dear Dr. Memoli, On July 3, 2001, I stepped off a bus on Marine Corps Recruit Training Depot Perris Island. Scared out of my mind, I stood on a pair of freshly painted yellow footprints, raised my right hand, and recited the oath of enlistment: I, Nathaniel James Brought, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God. For the last 23 years, 7 months, and 15 days, I like to believe I have faithfully carried out the duties of each office to which I've been appointed in my military and civilian service to this nation. That Service has taken me from the Marine Corps to 3 different federal departments, spanned 3 continents, included service in one war zone, and has included: • For the Marine Corps and the National Security Agency, I worked on intelligence operations at the highest classification levels using bleeding edge intelligence tools to ensure America's special operators put boots-to-asses on America's enemies overseas (including commendations crediting my work for the kill or capture of dozens of terrorists), ensuring America's policy makers were able to track the movement of dangerous dual nuclear technology across international borders, and monitored the flow of terrorist financing across the international banking system. • Utilized information from all-source intelligence to ensure the continued security of America's homeland from international and domestic threats. • Worked with some of the finest lawyers in the world to ensure America's security operations were effective, while upholding the rights of all those who interacted with them. • Ensuring that America's rural communities had access to programs like rural development loans, farm aid, and that America's children wouldn't be hungry as they sat in their classrooms and tried to learn. • Most recently, and frankly most dear to my heart, working with each of you here at the National Institutes of Health to advance the future of science and medicine. Not for Americans. Not for any one group of people. But for ALL of humanity. I am unbelievably proud to be able to say that there are Americans who are alive, and terrorists who are not, because of the work I've done to serve this nation. I am proud to say that my service to this country has allowed me to ensure that my children have never faced the struggles of poverty that I grew up with. That service didn't begin because of some great altruistic impulse or drive. I didn't grow up saying "I want to do the great work that needs to be done to weave the fabric of America and ensure her people are not only safe, but healthy." Frankly, that service began because I was poor, and I was inspired. I grew up as a free lunch kid who lived in project housing. It was my fellow Americans who made sure I wasn't hungry in class and that I had enough food to excel academically the way I did. It was Americans who had more than we did that made sure I had good schools to attend where I could learn things that expanded my mind. As I approached the end of high school, I dreamed of going to college and figuring out how to make a living that would allow me to do more tha… to go to college. I knew my grades weren't good enough to compete for scholarships with kids who were as smart as me but also had private tutors and didn't have to work after class to be able to drive their brand-new cars to our school each day. So, I gave up. I nearly failed my senior year of high school with an attendance failure, even though I only needed two classes to graduate. I didn't see the point. What was the point of learning calculus? So it would be that much harder when my dream of being a brain surgeon died not because I was incapable, but because I didn't have the means to make it come true? I resigned myself to being one of the working poor. I resigned myself to needing a spinal fusion before I was 50, like my father, because he literally broke his back trying to make his dreams come true. The example of my father didn't inspire me at that time. It reminded me of the futility of trying to escape the rung of the social ladder I had been born onto. No matter how smart or "gifted and talented" I may have been, I saw no path that led me to a place where I could realize my potential. So, instead I accepted that it would be wasted. Ultimately, the reason I find myself here today, rather than in the place I saw as my only end, is because of another young man who committed to serving his country. Shamefully, I do not remember his name, but there was a young corporal from the United States Marine Corps who had been assigned as a recruiter in Reading, Pennsylvania at that time. This man spoke to me about my plans for my future during lunch one day at school. I told him I planned to do what my father had done. Work hard jobs until my body broke down, maybe start a struggling business, and try to do what I could to stay above the poverty line and off welfare. I told him I hoped to be successful enough that my kids never had to watch me use food stamps at the grocery store. It had been hard to watch my mom go through that. How sad is that? I was a smart young 18-…
February 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
lj34.bsky.social
Crossing my fingers for some player activism on the biggest stage.
nbcnews.com NBC News @nbcnews.com · Feb 4
NEW: NFL will remove 'End Racism' from the end zones ahead of Super Bowl.

The announcement comes the same day a White House official told NBC News that President Trump would be attending the game.
NFL will remove 'End Racism' from the end zones ahead of Super Bowl
The announcement comes the same day a White House official told NBC News that President Donald Trump would be attending the game.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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nbcnews.com
NEW: NFL will remove 'End Racism' from the end zones ahead of Super Bowl.

The announcement comes the same day a White House official told NBC News that President Trump would be attending the game.
NFL will remove 'End Racism' from the end zones ahead of Super Bowl
The announcement comes the same day a White House official told NBC News that President Donald Trump would be attending the game.
www.nbcnews.com
February 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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agawande.bsky.social
I oversaw global health programs at @USAID.

They reached 100s of millions of people, added 6 extra years to the lifespan of children in partner countries, and were eradicating health threats worldwide.

What insanity and cruelty to break that.
February 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
lj34.bsky.social
It only took a constitutional crisis for the academy to finally give Beyoncé album of the year
February 3, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
1. Show up. Go to the places Musk is taking over, bring cameras, demand to find out what's going on and where it breaks the law.
2. Refuse to allow standard business to continue unimpeded. Deny unanimous consent, delay votes, etc.
3. Be public about how illegal all of this is
4. Lay out a plan
February 3, 2025 at 4:07 AM
lj34.bsky.social
Dude, I just want to talk about sports and keep up on current events and make little jokes without encountering hate speech at every turn and having most of my followers be porn bots or Russians. Stfu and stop kissing Elon’s ass, Canada.
theglobeandmail.com The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · Nov 22
Opinion - The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons: In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 22, 2024 at 5:22 PM
lj34.bsky.social
Well. At least we have dogs.
November 14, 2024 at 4:03 PM
lj34.bsky.social
Fave sports teams!

MLB: Red Sox (it’s a lifestyle)
NFL: Patriots
NHL: Bruins
NBA: Celtics
WNBA: Storm
FIFA: USWNT
NWSL: Seattle Reign
birdscarddad.bsky.social Butlerian Jihaad Campbell @birdscarddad.bsky.social · Nov 9
Favorite sports teams (many of them):

MLB: Phils
NFL: Eagles 🦅
NHL: Flyers
NBA: Sixers (Iverson is God)
Rugby: Munster, Ireland, Team USA, Old Glory DC
Track & Field: Team USA, but I follow Diamond League
WNBA: working on it, but Mercury/wherever Kahleah Copper plays
snackmyfridgeup.bsky.social Sportsball Dumbfuck Bensalem Witch Trials @snackmyfridgeup.bsky.social · Nov 8
MLB: Phils but I follow the entire sport
NFL: Birds
NHL: Flyers and sometimes Canes
NBA: Sixers, begrudgingly
NCAA: Nobody lol
November 10, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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milesklee.bsky.social
if you ask a white person how it’s going and they say “it’s going,” they are having a rough time. but if they answer “livin’ the dream,” they need an immediate mental health intervention
November 9, 2024 at 7:00 PM