@megazoic.bsky.social
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To the gun lobbyists who will inevitably claim the Bondi shootings show that Australia’s strict firearms laws are ineffective:
In 2023, the US had 4.42 gun homicides per 100,000 people.
Australia had 0.09 gun homicides per 100,000.
worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...
In 2023, the US had 4.42 gun homicides per 100,000 people.
Australia had 0.09 gun homicides per 100,000.
worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...
Gun Deaths by Country 2025
Data, information, and analysis regarding the number of gun deaths in every country of the world, including gun deaths in the United States.
worldpopulationreview.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
To the gun lobbyists who will inevitably claim the Bondi shootings show that Australia’s strict firearms laws are ineffective:
In 2023, the US had 4.42 gun homicides per 100,000 people.
Australia had 0.09 gun homicides per 100,000.
worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...
In 2023, the US had 4.42 gun homicides per 100,000 people.
Australia had 0.09 gun homicides per 100,000.
worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...
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“Oregon’s colleges, universities, and research institutions rely on skilled international workers to keep labs running, courses on track, and innovation moving forward. This threatens Oregon’s ability to compete, educate, and grow.” - AG Dan Rayfield
December 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Oregon’s colleges, universities, and research institutions rely on skilled international workers to keep labs running, courses on track, and innovation moving forward. This threatens Oregon’s ability to compete, educate, and grow.” - AG Dan Rayfield
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Republicans:"Oh ho ho, but what if Bill Clinton is in the Epstein files? Checkmate, libs!"
House Democrats: "Check out this signed photo of Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein."
House Democrats: "Check out this signed photo of Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein."
December 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Republicans:"Oh ho ho, but what if Bill Clinton is in the Epstein files? Checkmate, libs!"
House Democrats: "Check out this signed photo of Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein."
House Democrats: "Check out this signed photo of Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein."
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@warren.senate.gov publishes a report listing all the $$ that Congress gave to DOD to do DOD things that DOD instead spent on Stephen Miller's snatch and grab.
As you look at these numbers, think how much cancer research could have been funded.
www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
As you look at these numbers, think how much cancer research could have been funded.
www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
December 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
@warren.senate.gov publishes a report listing all the $$ that Congress gave to DOD to do DOD things that DOD instead spent on Stephen Miller's snatch and grab.
As you look at these numbers, think how much cancer research could have been funded.
www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
As you look at these numbers, think how much cancer research could have been funded.
www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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A bunch of us did a piece on RFK Jr.'s attacks on vaccines. Please circulate. Scientists and clinicians are sounding the alarm. It's time to act. youtube.com/shorts/4wnNy...
December 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A bunch of us did a piece on RFK Jr.'s attacks on vaccines. Please circulate. Scientists and clinicians are sounding the alarm. It's time to act. youtube.com/shorts/4wnNy...
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Utterly worthless when compared to these two incredible technologies
December 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Utterly worthless when compared to these two incredible technologies
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I sometimes think of the multiverse in which Al Gore won in 2000. I wonder what is happening over there
🔥 AL GORE: “We already have way too many subservient cowards in Congress, the last thing we need is to send another one (Van Epps 🤖) — you can make tomorrow the turning point for our country by getting out and voting for Rep. @aftynbehn.bsky.social .” #TN7
Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...
Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...
December 2, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I sometimes think of the multiverse in which Al Gore won in 2000. I wonder what is happening over there
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NEW: Livestock graze on millions of acres of Western public lands. Congress dramatically reduced scrutiny of the impacts. As Trump seeks to expand grazing, we look at the consequences.
with @highcountrynews.org
with @highcountrynews.org
A Loophole Allows Ranchers to Renew Grazing Permits With Little Scrutiny of the Environmental Impact
With dwindling oversight, cattle are grazing where they’re not supposed to and in greater numbers or for longer periods than permitted. This can spread invasive plants, pushing out native species and ...
www.propublica.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
NEW: Livestock graze on millions of acres of Western public lands. Congress dramatically reduced scrutiny of the impacts. As Trump seeks to expand grazing, we look at the consequences.
with @highcountrynews.org
with @highcountrynews.org
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I happily donate to Wikipedia, incredible resource in this day and age especially.
I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I happily donate to Wikipedia, incredible resource in this day and age especially.
Automobile advertising run amuck! Luv #LifeAfterCars chapter on how the UK banned advertising that promotes environmental degradation. Not "the way I live here!" @thewaroncars.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Automobile advertising run amuck! Luv #LifeAfterCars chapter on how the UK banned advertising that promotes environmental degradation. Not "the way I live here!" @thewaroncars.bsky.social
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This video is AI (notice her hands, spatula, background details). Misinformation is the real purpose of these tools and everyone knows it.
November 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This video is AI (notice her hands, spatula, background details). Misinformation is the real purpose of these tools and everyone knows it.
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NEW: Formal resolution introduced in US House by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
"Expressing the opposition of the House of Representatives to any grant of commutation, clemency, or pardon to federally convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell"
"Expressing the opposition of the House of Representatives to any grant of commutation, clemency, or pardon to federally convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell"
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
NEW: Formal resolution introduced in US House by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
"Expressing the opposition of the House of Representatives to any grant of commutation, clemency, or pardon to federally convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell"
"Expressing the opposition of the House of Representatives to any grant of commutation, clemency, or pardon to federally convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell"
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More mainstreaming of the bike bus thanks to Portland's very own Sam Balto. Pushing bikes into the consciousness of young people is so important!
"Something happened between the '80s and now... and the bike bus is working on reconnecting those core moments created with bikes and your friends. And so it was just really amazing that the Stranger Things/Netflix group saw that connection as well." - Sam Balto
youtu.be/E_M13w97ko4?...
youtu.be/E_M13w97ko4?...
Sam Balto on the Bike Bus / Stranger Things Collab
YouTube video by BikePortland
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
More mainstreaming of the bike bus thanks to Portland's very own Sam Balto. Pushing bikes into the consciousness of young people is so important!
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Disturbing. Incidentally @rutgerbregman.com has written some interesting books that you might want to read.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Reith lecturer accuses BBC of cowardice for censoring his remarks on Trump
Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Disturbing. Incidentally @rutgerbregman.com has written some interesting books that you might want to read.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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The numbers vary from study to study but hundreds of thousands of people have died because of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio illegally disbanding USAID — a body count on par with the first eight years of the Syrian civil war — In just seven months. It’s mass death that is simply unfathomable in scale.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The numbers vary from study to study but hundreds of thousands of people have died because of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio illegally disbanding USAID — a body count on par with the first eight years of the Syrian civil war — In just seven months. It’s mass death that is simply unfathomable in scale.
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The letter details a months-long pattern of excessive force by DHS personnel. It also serves as formal notice that we - with 3 DAs - are actively monitoring federal conduct and will investigate any case where a federal officer appears to be acting outside the reasonable scope of their duties.
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The letter details a months-long pattern of excessive force by DHS personnel. It also serves as formal notice that we - with 3 DAs - are actively monitoring federal conduct and will investigate any case where a federal officer appears to be acting outside the reasonable scope of their duties.
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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We’re grateful to partner with Lincoln County and Newport Fishermen’s Wives in lawsuits to restore Newport's search-and-rescue helicopter.
This helicopter isn’t a luxury—it’s a critical part of how we keep people alive on the Oregon Coast.
Read more: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
This helicopter isn’t a luxury—it’s a critical part of how we keep people alive on the Oregon Coast.
Read more: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Federal lawsuit filed to restore Newport Coast Guard helicopter
Fishermen's group seeks emergency intervention before mid-December crab fishing season begins
www.oregonlive.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
We’re grateful to partner with Lincoln County and Newport Fishermen’s Wives in lawsuits to restore Newport's search-and-rescue helicopter.
This helicopter isn’t a luxury—it’s a critical part of how we keep people alive on the Oregon Coast.
Read more: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
This helicopter isn’t a luxury—it’s a critical part of how we keep people alive on the Oregon Coast.
Read more: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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This is the last of the "assaults" from September 27 that NDIL dismissed, a day where Greg Bovino was deliberately promising a "shitshow."
Basically they knocked over a 70-year old guy and then accused him of assault.
Basically they knocked over a 70-year old guy and then accused him of assault.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes, in dismissing Midway Blitz-related charges against Dana Briggs last week, said he was lifting restrictions on relevant video.
Today he made the video available through the clerk's office at no cost to the public. Here's the first.
Today he made the video available through the clerk's office at no cost to the public. Here's the first.
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This is the last of the "assaults" from September 27 that NDIL dismissed, a day where Greg Bovino was deliberately promising a "shitshow."
Basically they knocked over a 70-year old guy and then accused him of assault.
Basically they knocked over a 70-year old guy and then accused him of assault.
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Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:
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SNL doing Weekend Update on a Monday
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
SNL doing Weekend Update on a Monday
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I actually think this is the reason I feel better having deleted Facebook and only looking at instagram a couple times a year - it’s not the AI slop itself, it’s realizing the people you respected are functionally braindead that is depressing
I've deleted most of my FB info, just kept my account alive to use site for work. So depressing watching people I friended, for whatever reason over the years, share idiotic AI slop. A big neon sign screaming "DO NOT INTERACT WITH THIS PERSON."
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I actually think this is the reason I feel better having deleted Facebook and only looking at instagram a couple times a year - it’s not the AI slop itself, it’s realizing the people you respected are functionally braindead that is depressing
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Finally, the media worm is turning on Trump:
*NYT reports Rs quietly looking beyond Trump
*Axios says "red alert" time for Trump/GOP
*Politico reports MAGA culture-war now failing
*Trump clearly declining in many polls
On the pod we parse through all this evidence:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
*NYT reports Rs quietly looking beyond Trump
*Axios says "red alert" time for Trump/GOP
*Politico reports MAGA culture-war now failing
*Trump clearly declining in many polls
On the pod we parse through all this evidence:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Trump Is a Weak, Failing President, and the Media Is Finally Saying So
As Trump’s downward spiral starts producing harsher media coverage, a writer who regularly dissects MAGA and political media explains why he’s entering a tailspin that will be very hard to reverse.
newrepublic.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Finally, the media worm is turning on Trump:
*NYT reports Rs quietly looking beyond Trump
*Axios says "red alert" time for Trump/GOP
*Politico reports MAGA culture-war now failing
*Trump clearly declining in many polls
On the pod we parse through all this evidence:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
*NYT reports Rs quietly looking beyond Trump
*Axios says "red alert" time for Trump/GOP
*Politico reports MAGA culture-war now failing
*Trump clearly declining in many polls
On the pod we parse through all this evidence:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
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How does Posobiec emerge from the Trump-Mamdani meeting as a “winner” for asking an insulting and racist question?
Didn’t Mamdani emerge a winner by refusing to be flustered by the racist bait and shutting Posobiec down calmly and intelligently?
Seriously @nytimes.com what are you even about?
Didn’t Mamdani emerge a winner by refusing to be flustered by the racist bait and shutting Posobiec down calmly and intelligently?
Seriously @nytimes.com what are you even about?
What a strange framing and characterization. How does one describe his blatantly dishonest, racist question about taxes as “press[ing] the Mayor-elect on his policy proposals”? In what way does this lying troll emerge as a “winner“?
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
How does Posobiec emerge from the Trump-Mamdani meeting as a “winner” for asking an insulting and racist question?
Didn’t Mamdani emerge a winner by refusing to be flustered by the racist bait and shutting Posobiec down calmly and intelligently?
Seriously @nytimes.com what are you even about?
Didn’t Mamdani emerge a winner by refusing to be flustered by the racist bait and shutting Posobiec down calmly and intelligently?
Seriously @nytimes.com what are you even about?
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Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.