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Just me. Sharing the things that make me think.
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minakimes.bsky.social
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.
May 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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chriswarcraft.bsky.social
About to write a doctoral thesis on the century of American politics that took place over Easter weekend of 2025

- the president posting falsified evidence to deny due process
- the secretary of defense leaking classified information for a second time
- a congressional rep posting a public meltdown
April 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
April 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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profgalloway.com
Don’t drink and text.
March 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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howiecohen.bsky.social
In times like these, we need punk music more than ever. Very glad that the Seattle Pop Punk Fest continues through the tireless efforts of Ean (Sicko). Looking forward to seeing Sicko live again tonight www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7ya...
Sicko Closer To Fine
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March 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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thegreatrecalibration.org
March 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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thegodpodcast.com
That press conference was the most disgraceful act of betrayal I’ve ever seen.
February 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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akallabeth24.bsky.social
Oops 😬
February 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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junlper.beer
broke - Kamala Harris: “i will follow the law when it comes to transgender individuals”

woke - Stephen Smith:
February 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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dankaszeta.bsky.social
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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guygavrielkay.bsky.social
There are many issues with Trudeau, and his party is in a leadership race to replace him in March, AND words are only words at some level, but …

this is still a good speech.
chrisdornan.bsky.social Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · Feb 2
Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.
Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods
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February 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Not sure why every story on this subject doesn't lead with Trump firing people responsible for air safety
January 31, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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amysiskind.com
Please tell me our senate is not going to confirm a Secretary HHS that doesn’t know the difference between Medicare and Medicaid 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
January 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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ndb410.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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resistrebelrevolt.net
Rest is not a retreat from progress, it's the foundation that sustains it.

It takes enormous fortitude to be aware of the truth and not be destroyed by it.

So pay attention a little less (or focus on truths that are not demoralizing) to sustain the path forward.
Photo of a smiley Dalmatian. Photo of the sun coming through some Spanish Moss. Photo of the sun coming up on the horizon of a church steeple. Photo of the sun shining through an oak tree in a cemetery.
November 30, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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eladn.bsky.social
Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."

She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.
January 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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wutangforchildren.bsky.social
You’re the US Marines band at the White House and Mavis Staples 👑 walks into the room so you start playing "I’ll Take You There" and this happens👇
December 24, 2024 at 1:37 AM
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johnnyasheville.bsky.social
Media need to do stories about polio and the joy when the vaccine was discovered. Footage of kids in iron lungs and then the lines as parents queued up to get their kids the vaccine.
December 15, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
I post about politics, climate, feminism, but also poetry and beauty because we have to remember what we're for, as well as what we're against.
November 19, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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wsdot.wa.gov
If you're looking for an excuse to delay your travel today. THIS IS YOUR SIGN. In flashing neon letters!

It will only be a winter wonderland in the sense that you'll be wondering where the heck you are on any given patch of land.
A map of the state of washington with various BIG WIND and BIG SNOW warning messages on the coast, to the southwest and in the mountain passes. Two stick figures ponder the situation. One says "Wow, that doesn't look fun to travel in!" The other says "It's like they're trying to tell us something!" There's also some snow in the eastern foothills, and while it won't be as bad, we didn't want them to feel left out.
November 19, 2024 at 7:04 PM
42ndquestion.bsky.social
November 15, 2024 at 7:43 PM