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Steve Mirsky
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Retired layabout. ❤️🇨🇦 Former staffer, current contributor at Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/acknowledging-reality-is-an-excellent-way-to-function-within-it/
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ladylinds.bsky.social
Reminder that DHS and ICE were created under the Cheney/Bush. So Cheney is directly responsible for the evils we see on our streets today.
November 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
stevemirsky.bsky.social
As Gore Vidal said upon the death of William F. Buckley: "Hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in life, applauding their prejudices and fanning their hatred.”
November 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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The amount of additional energy ocean waters have available to fuel storms is impossible for the human mind to fully grasp. phys.org/news/2020-01...
November 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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mlafineman.bsky.social
A Freudian analysis…
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
The politics of the potty
Trump’s defecating fighter jet is an emblem of a man in revolt against civilisation
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Donald Trump pardoned the “Camp Auschwitz” guy, dined with Holocaust deniers, and said, “any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion.” The Young Republicans chat isn’t a coincidence. It’s a culture.
October 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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audacityofdespair.bsky.social
"House slave."
Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.
joncooper-us.bsky.social Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26d
😡😡😡😡
October 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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matthartings.bsky.social
Hey, normal people, tracking disease and keeping people from unnecessarily getting sick and dying is a "Democrat-thing." Vote accordingly.
pamherd.bsky.social Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · Oct 11
RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.
October 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
stevemirsky.bsky.social
Shut up and eat your gagootz.
October 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Wait til they find out about Trump!
October 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
I see this and I think of all of my friends who have lost media jobs and in many cases their whole media careers despite actually doing good work and being intellectually honest while this cynical charlatan has bullied and bullshitted her way to the top. bsky.app/profile/npr....
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Oct 6
JUST IN: CBS' parent company is buying The Free Press and installing Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.
Bari Weiss joins CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news
CBS' parent company is buying The Free Press and installing Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.
n.pr
October 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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scottmccloud.bsky.social
Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today.

h/t @tisserand.bsky.social
Scan of a typed letter from 1970, from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, addressed to "Joel Lipton, 622 N. Foothill Road, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210" It reads: "Dear Joel: I think it is more difficult these days to define what makes a good citizen than it has ever been before. Certainly all any of us can do is follow our own conscience and retain faith in our democracy. Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call "American Virtues" who lack this faith in our country. I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities. Sincerely yours, Charles M. Schulz" At bottom is an illustration of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, a kite wrapped around the dog house.
October 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
stevemirsky.bsky.social
What they actually said was, “We’d wait for you to come to your senses but biden we’d all be dead.”
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 2
Bessent on China: "At the meeting in Geneva when I asked them, 'Why didn't you continue buying soybeans and the other products' then had one word, and guess what it was? Biden."
October 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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danvergano.bsky.social
Stand Up for Science: Statement on Compact Corrupting Higher Education

"(W)hen the White House takes over what is defined as 'truth' regardless of scientific evidence, we are no longer in a free nation" - @standupforscience.bsky.social
Stand Up For Science Statement on Compact Corrupting Higher Education Washington, D.C. — Today, the administration has unveiled their proposed "compact" for higher education. This document is antithetical to the free academic inquiry that forms the foundation of American excellence in higher education. Further, while the compact is framed as a way to promote fairness in higher education, this compact runs counter to the scientific method by prioritizing federal grant funding to go to universities who have signed, rather than proposals that have been selected by experts. We call on university leaders to unite and reject this overreach of executive power by the White House. The compact lies in the context of an ongoing and multi-pronged attack on the integrity of the American scientific ecosystem, but this also tangibly represents the President seizing control of public spaces and higher education. Each university represents a beacon of free thought, vibrant educational empowerment, and public enrichment, and we must demand President Trump stay out of dictating universities. "Trump's compact is yet another form of attack on the American institutions that provide evidence that counter's the core belief of MAGA — racism, misogyny, and regression of the human race to name a few. If universities agree to these terms, academic freedom in America will be over," says Colette Delawalla Founder and Director of Stand Up For Science. She continues "when the White House takes over what is defined as 'truth' regardless of scientific evidence, we are no longer in a free nation. Universities must understanding the seriousness of this moment and respond accordingly." Stand Up For Science will reliably sound the alarm when science and scientists are under attack, and our platform empowers scientists to speak out and organize against corruption of American science. The proposing of this document represents an extreme authoritarian escalation for American higher education. It is …
October 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
stevemirsky.bsky.social
Trump believes that all of the United States and everything in it, including you and me, is now his personal property.
October 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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manakanda.bsky.social
In light of today’s absolutely fucking deranged “I’m in a war movie” speeches by Trump and Hegseth, I give you the plaque at West Point.
September 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
stevemirsky.bsky.social
This is no time to take a phone call.
September 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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wessiler.bsky.social
In personal news, the right's persecution of free speech has come to outdoor media too: wessiler.substack.com/p/outside-ju...
Outside Just Fired Me Because Of My Politics
I'm hardly Jimmy Kimmel, but that's also a reason this should worry you
wessiler.substack.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
stevemirsky.bsky.social
I assume he’s still stuck on it.
marcofoster.bsky.social Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · Sep 23
Donald Trump and Melania get on an escalator at the UN and it immediately stops working 🤣
September 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
The destructive nature of the current feudalized version of capitalism needs to be talked about more on social media.
"The 1% who rule the world may have turned the pursuit of money and power into a kind of pathological game that are ends in themselves, but for the rest of us, having money, having an income, being free from debt, has come to mean having the power to pursue something other than money. We all want to ensure our loved ones are safe, and taken care of. We all want to live in healthy and beautiful communities but beyond that, the things we wish to pursue are likely to be wildly different. What if freedom were the ability to make up our minds about what it was we wished to pursue, with whom we wished to pursue it, and what sort of commitments we wish to make to them in the process?" . - David Graeber
September 23, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
"In the name of 'fighting antisemitism', the Trump administration is publicly making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish public intellectual in the country today."
Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson
What is happening to Judith Butler – a Jewish intellectual – in the name of fighting ‘antisemitism’ is outrageous
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Chimps consume alcohol equivalent of nearly 2 drinks a day. It's the latest evidence in support of Robert Dudley's controversial "drunk monkey" hypothesis. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Chimps consume alcohol equivalent of nearly 2 drinks a day
It’s the latest evidence in support of Robert Dudley’s controversial “drunk monkey” hypothesis.
arstechnica.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Review revealing 'shame' among troops deployed to cities accidentally sent to WaPo

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Review revealing 'shame' among troops deployed to cities accidentally sent to WaPo
An internal review from the National Guard on the occupation of cities was mistakenly sent to the Washington Post and it reveals dismay among both the public and the deployed soldiers who admitted fee...
www.rawstory.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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September 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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atrupar.com
"The GOP is signing on to mass murder of children based on the novel theories of a man who has no party ties except a single Trump endorsement. It is a measure of the party’s utter hollowness, brokenness, and evil that even in this case, it can barely find the resources to demur."
RFK Jr gives Republicans a chance to defy Trump on easy mode
They're failing — so far.
www.publicnotice.co
September 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM