@memccarron.bsky.social
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A knock-on effect of Trump suddenly looking weak is people feel emboldened to push back against his flunkies too. Turns out the media knows exactly how to do this when they want to
KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true?
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
November 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A knock-on effect of Trump suddenly looking weak is people feel emboldened to push back against his flunkies too. Turns out the media knows exactly how to do this when they want to
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PSA: if you are a cannabis grower in the United States or have been thinking about starting to grow, get any seeds you’ve been wanting to buy online before the end of the year. The new changes to the hemp laws make buying seeds online illegal again as of January 1, 2026
November 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
PSA: if you are a cannabis grower in the United States or have been thinking about starting to grow, get any seeds you’ve been wanting to buy online before the end of the year. The new changes to the hemp laws make buying seeds online illegal again as of January 1, 2026
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The broad mainstream concensus is generally that Occupy was an embarrassing failure, but you can trace a ton of language, tactics, protest ideas and political figures (for good and ill!) out of that movement and into subsequent fights
I've listened to several podcasts and read several articles on why people are souring on capitalism and they all don't mention Occupy which is weird to me because of nothing else they mainstreamed a lot of the language we use today. And it was a genuinely big deal at the time.
November 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The broad mainstream concensus is generally that Occupy was an embarrassing failure, but you can trace a ton of language, tactics, protest ideas and political figures (for good and ill!) out of that movement and into subsequent fights
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Everyone else heard it too? RIGHT????
November 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Everyone else heard it too? RIGHT????
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Yup all of this
I’ve changed my interaction settings to only people who follow me and people I follow. I’m really sick of people who do not follow me and therefore do not know anything about me hopping into my mentions to write a novel. Gtfo.
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Yup all of this
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and literally every woman in astronomy is having flashbacks to
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azee...
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azee...
November 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
and literally every woman in astronomy is having flashbacks to
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azee...
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azee...
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We now can say with high levels of confidence that what he was downplaying was how his own shitty behavior impacted women
“According to the transcript, Summers does in fact suggest that one reason there are relatively few women in top positions in science may be ‘I ssues of intrinsic aptitude.’ And while he acknowledges that discrimination exists, he generally plays it down as a factor.”
—Inside Higher Ed
—Inside Higher Ed
November 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We now can say with high levels of confidence that what he was downplaying was how his own shitty behavior impacted women
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I was in a relationship for a time with a professor I had in undergraduate who was 37 when he came on to me at 19.
It had an abusive power dynamic from the start that eventually morphed into actual physical abuse.
It cost him his tenure track position, so he transferred to another uni where he
It had an abusive power dynamic from the start that eventually morphed into actual physical abuse.
It cost him his tenure track position, so he transferred to another uni where he
Sometimes I think about the time that I ran into a senior physicist on the street with a woman who was much younger than him and who I learned later had been an undergraduate in his department just the year before and was, at the time, a grad student at his university
November 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I was in a relationship for a time with a professor I had in undergraduate who was 37 when he came on to me at 19.
It had an abusive power dynamic from the start that eventually morphed into actual physical abuse.
It cost him his tenure track position, so he transferred to another uni where he
It had an abusive power dynamic from the start that eventually morphed into actual physical abuse.
It cost him his tenure track position, so he transferred to another uni where he
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That "clubby" NYT headline is awful, but the piece itself is clear-eyed & observant, if cool in tone — it's by a strong writer & it documents the creepy, backpatting insider world of guys griping about MeToo as it happens. The NYT is always doing this! If the hed was different, the piece wd be legit
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
That "clubby" NYT headline is awful, but the piece itself is clear-eyed & observant, if cool in tone — it's by a strong writer & it documents the creepy, backpatting insider world of guys griping about MeToo as it happens. The NYT is always doing this! If the hed was different, the piece wd be legit
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“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. …There will always be one more thing.”
Imagine the things we could do with our time if we didn’t have to do this bsky.app/profile/chan...
I did my job. And then I did a job that never should have been my responsibility afterwards, sending emails and having meetings about how this was allowed to happen in the first place. Other women scholars had to spend their time explaining to Aspen leadership why this was not ok.
November 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. …There will always be one more thing.”
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Thread. We only hear how women are problems. We rarely hear that men are problems. Next time someone mentions a woman and says, "I've heard she's difficult or a problem," ask why. I've done this and have rarely gotten a legit answer.
Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
November 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Thread. We only hear how women are problems. We rarely hear that men are problems. Next time someone mentions a woman and says, "I've heard she's difficult or a problem," ask why. I've done this and have rarely gotten a legit answer.
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The judge didn’t draw the map
These people are shameless in their lies
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These people are shameless in their lies
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When judges draw the maps, Utah loses more than district lines - The Salt Lake Tribune
edition.pagesuite.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The judge didn’t draw the map
These people are shameless in their lies
edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...
These people are shameless in their lies
edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...
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Having become the UK's largest energy supplier, @octopus.energy have set sail to the US.
With their soon-to-be independent Kraken platform, they're already cutting Texans' bills.
David @volts.wtf Roberts talks to Octopus US CEO Nick Chaset:
www.volts.wtf/p/octopus-ex...
With their soon-to-be independent Kraken platform, they're already cutting Texans' bills.
David @volts.wtf Roberts talks to Octopus US CEO Nick Chaset:
www.volts.wtf/p/octopus-ex...
Octopus extends its tentacles into America
Nick Chaset of Octopus Energy US joins me to discuss how the UK's biggest electricity supplier plans to conquer the American market.
www.volts.wtf
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Having become the UK's largest energy supplier, @octopus.energy have set sail to the US.
With their soon-to-be independent Kraken platform, they're already cutting Texans' bills.
David @volts.wtf Roberts talks to Octopus US CEO Nick Chaset:
www.volts.wtf/p/octopus-ex...
With their soon-to-be independent Kraken platform, they're already cutting Texans' bills.
David @volts.wtf Roberts talks to Octopus US CEO Nick Chaset:
www.volts.wtf/p/octopus-ex...
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It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.
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Images of Jeffrey Epstein’s Elite Parties Reveal A Different Era When Men Took Fashion Seriously
—Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com
—Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Images of Jeffrey Epstein’s Elite Parties Reveal A Different Era When Men Took Fashion Seriously
—Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com
—Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com
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Zero understanding of how risk pooling and insurance works.
Cassidy: "The president is proposing that we take the $26b that would be going to insurance companies if we just do an extension and give it directly to the American people in which 100% of the money is used for them to purchase healthcare on their own terms. That makes them an informed consumer."
November 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Zero understanding of how risk pooling and insurance works.
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CBS is the network that paid Trump $16m. CBS is the network owned by the Ellisons. CBS is the network that failed to push back in its 60 Minutes interview of Trump.
Of course, CBS is asking questions like this to House Democrats.
Of course, CBS is asking questions like this to House Democrats.
Margaret Brennan to Tom Suozzi: "Can you explain the focus this past week in the House by Democrats on the Jeffrey Epstein files? Is this a tactic to distract from the failure to extract healthcare changes?"
November 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
CBS is the network that paid Trump $16m. CBS is the network owned by the Ellisons. CBS is the network that failed to push back in its 60 Minutes interview of Trump.
Of course, CBS is asking questions like this to House Democrats.
Of course, CBS is asking questions like this to House Democrats.
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Can’t find “signature policy” in the Federalist papers, can someone provide a citation
Bessent on tariffs: "This is one of President Trump's signature policies, and traditionally the Supreme Court does not interfere with a president's signature policy."
November 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Can’t find “signature policy” in the Federalist papers, can someone provide a citation
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KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true?
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
November 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true?
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
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Narrator: Bovino has now fled Chicago, because he was being held to account for his illegal actions there by the courts -- and is overseeing the assault and kidnapping of people elsewhere in the United States.
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Narrator: Bovino has now fled Chicago, because he was being held to account for his illegal actions there by the courts -- and is overseeing the assault and kidnapping of people elsewhere in the United States.
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BRENNAN: Do you regret your confirmation vote for Secretary Kennedy?
CASSIDY: You live life forward. Again, you just do. Let the day's own troubles be sufficient for the day.
BRENNAN: That sounds like yes
CASSIDY: You live life forward. Again, you just do. Let the day's own troubles be sufficient for the day.
BRENNAN: That sounds like yes
November 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
BRENNAN: Do you regret your confirmation vote for Secretary Kennedy?
CASSIDY: You live life forward. Again, you just do. Let the day's own troubles be sufficient for the day.
BRENNAN: That sounds like yes
CASSIDY: You live life forward. Again, you just do. Let the day's own troubles be sufficient for the day.
BRENNAN: That sounds like yes
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Chris Murphy: "He wouldn't be going through all of this effort to try to stop the release of these files if he wasn't seriously implicated in those files. This is most likely the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the country. We know that b/c Trump is going to these extraordinary lengths"
November 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Chris Murphy: "He wouldn't be going through all of this effort to try to stop the release of these files if he wasn't seriously implicated in those files. This is most likely the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the country. We know that b/c Trump is going to these extraordinary lengths"