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/
“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...
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A Freudian analysis…
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
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
A Freudian analysis…
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
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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. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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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
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.
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"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.
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.
October 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"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.
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.
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Hey, normal people, tracking disease and keeping people from unnecessarily getting sick and dying is a "Democrat-thing." Vote accordingly.
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
Hey, normal people, tracking disease and keeping people from unnecessarily getting sick and dying is a "Democrat-thing." Vote accordingly.
Shut up and eat your gagootz.
October 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Shut up and eat your gagootz.
Wait til they find out about Trump!
October 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Wait til they find out about Trump!
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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....
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
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....
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Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today.
h/t @tisserand.bsky.social
h/t @tisserand.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today.
h/t @tisserand.bsky.social
h/t @tisserand.bsky.social
What they actually said was, “We’d wait for you to come to your senses but biden we’d all be dead.”
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
What they actually said was, “We’d wait for you to come to your senses but biden we’d all be dead.”