Steve Mirsky
@stevemirsky.bsky.social
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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Hey MAGA and GOP Republicans - you probably haven’t seen a demonstration of true religious faith before - so here you go:
Clergy are being arrested in Minnesota for peacefully protesting - 1/23/2026
January 23, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Hey MAGA and GOP Republicans - you probably haven’t seen a demonstration of true religious faith before - so here you go:
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1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Vance: If we're trying to find a sex offender, tell us where the guy lives.
January 22, 2026 at 8:38 PM
1600 Pennsylvania Ave
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I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white
Despite Trump’s promises, grocery prices are still rising fast. Families can’t afford this… when is he going to get serious about lowering costs?
January 19, 2026 at 9:51 PM
I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white
All Nobel Laureates have a moral obligation to offer their prizes to Trump—in exchange for policy concessions. Med Nobel to restore vaccine schedule. Physics Nobel to rejoin climate agreements. Literature Nobel to read Camus’s Caligula.
January 17, 2026 at 10:44 PM
All Nobel Laureates have a moral obligation to offer their prizes to Trump—in exchange for policy concessions. Med Nobel to restore vaccine schedule. Physics Nobel to rejoin climate agreements. Literature Nobel to read Camus’s Caligula.
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Voyager is 31!
"Much will be made of the political correctness of this new venture, not least in that the captain of this ship is a woman".
A woman, captain of a ship 😱
Just a reminder that we've come a long way, and that the reactionary whiners of today are just the latest in a long line. 🖖
"Much will be made of the political correctness of this new venture, not least in that the captain of this ship is a woman".
A woman, captain of a ship 😱
Just a reminder that we've come a long way, and that the reactionary whiners of today are just the latest in a long line. 🖖
January 16, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Voyager is 31!
"Much will be made of the political correctness of this new venture, not least in that the captain of this ship is a woman".
A woman, captain of a ship 😱
Just a reminder that we've come a long way, and that the reactionary whiners of today are just the latest in a long line. 🖖
"Much will be made of the political correctness of this new venture, not least in that the captain of this ship is a woman".
A woman, captain of a ship 😱
Just a reminder that we've come a long way, and that the reactionary whiners of today are just the latest in a long line. 🖖
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After lying about this baby they gassed and almost killed in their own neighborhood, DHS deleted their post
After lying about this baby they gassed and almost killed in their own neighborhood, DHS deleted their post
January 16, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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After lying about this baby they gassed and almost killed in their own neighborhood, DHS deleted their post
After lying about this baby they gassed and almost killed in their own neighborhood, DHS deleted their post
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📌URGENT: Trump's regime is trying to turn Stars & Stripes into state-run media.
I was the ME of S&S.
It's MANDATED BY CONGRESS to be an editorially independent paper that reports ON the troops FOR the troops.
So I type this with precision: The draft-dodging, America-attacking slob can KISS MY ASS.
I was the ME of S&S.
It's MANDATED BY CONGRESS to be an editorially independent paper that reports ON the troops FOR the troops.
So I type this with precision: The draft-dodging, America-attacking slob can KISS MY ASS.
Pentagon says it will ‘refocus’ Stars and Stripes content
The Pentagon suggested it would take over editorial decision making for Stars and Stripes, which has long retained independence under a congressional mandate.
www.stripes.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:01 AM
📌URGENT: Trump's regime is trying to turn Stars & Stripes into state-run media.
I was the ME of S&S.
It's MANDATED BY CONGRESS to be an editorially independent paper that reports ON the troops FOR the troops.
So I type this with precision: The draft-dodging, America-attacking slob can KISS MY ASS.
I was the ME of S&S.
It's MANDATED BY CONGRESS to be an editorially independent paper that reports ON the troops FOR the troops.
So I type this with precision: The draft-dodging, America-attacking slob can KISS MY ASS.
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I've got a new essay up at my (free!) Substack, Inverse Square, in which I use a new report out in Nature about the genetic roots of differing responses to pathogens to speculate on what would Jesus (or the religious leader of your choice) do if asked to get a jab?
Spoiler: not what RFK Jr. does.
Spoiler: not what RFK Jr. does.
What Would Jesus Do (Contemplating A Vaccine)?
In which recent discoveries in genetics make clear how vaccination is an act of love.
tomlevenson.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:02 AM
I've got a new essay up at my (free!) Substack, Inverse Square, in which I use a new report out in Nature about the genetic roots of differing responses to pathogens to speculate on what would Jesus (or the religious leader of your choice) do if asked to get a jab?
Spoiler: not what RFK Jr. does.
Spoiler: not what RFK Jr. does.
A tapestry of bullshit from editorial board of the new Washington Post, saved only by the hundreds of comments pointing out flaws.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Where do Americans want to live? The U-Haul index proves a point.
Decline is a choice.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:43 PM
A tapestry of bullshit from editorial board of the new Washington Post, saved only by the hundreds of comments pointing out flaws.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
“Whatever complicates the world more I do.”—Trump, 1997 New Yorker profile. www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
Searching for Trump’s Soul
Donald Trump’s modus operandi has a sharp focus: never budge from the premise that the universe revolves around you, and, above all, stay in character.
www.newyorker.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:17 PM
“Whatever complicates the world more I do.”—Trump, 1997 New Yorker profile. www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
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And the rest of these man, Jay Bhattacharya at NIH, Marty Makary at FDA, Mehmet Oz at CMS and Donald J. Trump share this responsibility, this culpability for the coming waves of suffering, sickness and death of children.
January 5, 2026 at 10:47 PM
And the rest of these man, Jay Bhattacharya at NIH, Marty Makary at FDA, Mehmet Oz at CMS and Donald J. Trump share this responsibility, this culpability for the coming waves of suffering, sickness and death of children.
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Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
How about the Ozymandias Kennedy Center? Or the Ruth’s Chris Performing Arts Jamboree.
December 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
How about the Ozymandias Kennedy Center? Or the Ruth’s Chris Performing Arts Jamboree.
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An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
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Many of the Christmas songs that Miller’s Christian Nationalist pals will be enjoying this season were written by Jewish immigrants who, like Miller’s ancestors, were considered at the time to be unassailable threats to American civilization who should be prevented from becoming Americans.
Stephen Miller's cousin unloads on him:
“We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing. Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing his own family benefited from: that ability to prosper, to build community, to live a rewarding life.”
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
“We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing. Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing his own family benefited from: that ability to prosper, to build community, to live a rewarding life.”
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Many of the Christmas songs that Miller’s Christian Nationalist pals will be enjoying this season were written by Jewish immigrants who, like Miller’s ancestors, were considered at the time to be unassailable threats to American civilization who should be prevented from becoming Americans.
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Making America Poisonous Again.
"Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them."
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Making America Poisonous Again.
The medicine prize will go the clowns who just delisted the HepB vaccine.
December 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The medicine prize will go the clowns who just delisted the HepB vaccine.
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Because I have sucky hobbies, I have followed the Social Security 'reform' debates for a long time, and those can't hold a candle to these ACIP meetings in terms of aggressive disingenuousness. It's really *that* bad.
The sheer ability of the majority of this ACIP to misinterpret and fail to explain basic scientific data is stunning. The sky is blue and they would say its gold everytime.
December 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Because I have sucky hobbies, I have followed the Social Security 'reform' debates for a long time, and those can't hold a candle to these ACIP meetings in terms of aggressive disingenuousness. It's really *that* bad.
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We can no longer trust the C.D.C. for vaccine recommendation.
We must turn to reputable medical and public health groups for guidance
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
We must turn to reputable medical and public health groups for guidance
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We can no longer trust the C.D.C. for vaccine recommendation.
We must turn to reputable medical and public health groups for guidance
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
We must turn to reputable medical and public health groups for guidance
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
Revolutionary war history in the Bronx. Ironic that the war was to get rid of people who lived in castles.
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Revolutionary war history in the Bronx. Ironic that the war was to get rid of people who lived in castles.
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Apart from being a heartbreaking meditation on death, the fury Tatiana Schlossberg feels towards her shithead cousin RFK Jr. radiates off this piece www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Apart from being a heartbreaking meditation on death, the fury Tatiana Schlossberg feels towards her shithead cousin RFK Jr. radiates off this piece www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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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
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.
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
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.”
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
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...