@alanrstadler.bsky.social
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Matt did a critical post about me some months ago, and I have instructed my attorneys to sue him for 14.35 bazillion dollars and 38 cents.
December 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Matt did a critical post about me some months ago, and I have instructed my attorneys to sue him for 14.35 bazillion dollars and 38 cents.
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Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
December 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
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Via Richard Tofel: "What it’s like getting comments these days from the regime in Washington."
"Comments" in this context means giving the people involved in a news story the chance to respond before publication.
link.propublica.net/view/5f0a0ac...
Here's a case I found particularly creepy:
"Comments" in this context means giving the people involved in a news story the chance to respond before publication.
link.propublica.net/view/5f0a0ac...
Here's a case I found particularly creepy:
December 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Via Richard Tofel: "What it’s like getting comments these days from the regime in Washington."
"Comments" in this context means giving the people involved in a news story the chance to respond before publication.
link.propublica.net/view/5f0a0ac...
Here's a case I found particularly creepy:
"Comments" in this context means giving the people involved in a news story the chance to respond before publication.
link.propublica.net/view/5f0a0ac...
Here's a case I found particularly creepy:
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What a beautiful way to summarize the past year
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
What a beautiful way to summarize the past year
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Some ~personal news~
Yes, I'm being sued by Matt Taibbi
Does that make me the realest free speech warrior?
open.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Some ~personal news~
Amerikkka!
It’s very very frustrating to know that there isn’t much chance of any accountability for this behavior after Trump
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Amerikkka!
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Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found.
More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.
(Published Jan. 2024)
More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.
(Published Jan. 2024)
How Walmart’s Financial Services Became a Fraud Magnet
Scammers have duped consumers out of more than $1 billion by exploiting Walmart’s lax security. The company has resisted taking responsibility while breaking promises to regulators and skimping on tra...
www.propublica.org
December 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found.
More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.
(Published Jan. 2024)
More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.
(Published Jan. 2024)
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Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Trump administration is considering giving nearly 800 acres of land in a federal wildlife refuge in Texas to SpaceX, the rocket and satellite maker run by Elon Musk, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
Trump May Give SpaceX Some Land In A Texas Wildlife Refuge
In exchange for the land in Texas, the rocket and satellite company would give the government some of its own property nearby, documents show.
nyti.ms
December 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The Trump administration is considering giving nearly 800 acres of land in a federal wildlife refuge in Texas to SpaceX, the rocket and satellite maker run by Elon Musk, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
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Al Jazeera’s journalists continue their coverage despite the destruction caused by the relentless Israeli bombing, mounting casualties and intolerable working conditions across Gaza.
Watch the film, The Price of Truth EP 3: aje.me/thepriceoftr...
Watch the film, The Price of Truth EP 3: aje.me/thepriceoftr...
December 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Al Jazeera’s journalists continue their coverage despite the destruction caused by the relentless Israeli bombing, mounting casualties and intolerable working conditions across Gaza.
Watch the film, The Price of Truth EP 3: aje.me/thepriceoftr...
Watch the film, The Price of Truth EP 3: aje.me/thepriceoftr...
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my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)
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Israel extends law that banned Al Jazeera for two more years https://aje.io/930g3h
December 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Israel extends law that banned Al Jazeera for two more years https://aje.io/930g3h
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A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
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You might question her methods, but credit to Bari Weiss: her leadership has pushed 60 Minutes into new formats and attracted a bunch of new viewership outside the normal broadcast audience.
here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social
I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here
I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here
December 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
You might question her methods, but credit to Bari Weiss: her leadership has pushed 60 Minutes into new formats and attracted a bunch of new viewership outside the normal broadcast audience.
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is shooting down a Republican-led bipartisan bill to end stock trading so that Democrats can counter with their own bill that is unlikely to succeed. From @ddayen.bsky.social:
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Jeffries Undercuts Congressional Stock Trading Ban - The American Prospect
A bipartisan solution was gaining momentum, but the House Democratic leader just issued his own bill that will prevent consensus.
trib.al
December 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is shooting down a Republican-led bipartisan bill to end stock trading so that Democrats can counter with their own bill that is unlikely to succeed. From @ddayen.bsky.social:
trib.al/5zmkTDg
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These guys are fighting an opposition that would be happy to see all of them in jail, and they come up with this weak shit.
WELKER: Massie and Khanna say they are looking at options including impeachment and contempt for DOJ officials. Would you support those steps?
KAINE: I think that's premature
KAINE: I think that's premature
December 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
These guys are fighting an opposition that would be happy to see all of them in jail, and they come up with this weak shit.
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The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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endorse
BRENNAN: What are you going to do to force DOJ to comply?
MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.
MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.
December 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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If the right to free speech does not include the right to oppose an active genocide using strong and unmitigated language, then there is no freedom of speech.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-youre-n...
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-youre-n...
If You're Not Free To Oppose A Genocide, Your Society Is Not Free
Reading by Tim Foley:
www.caitlinjohnst.one
December 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
If the right to free speech does not include the right to oppose an active genocide using strong and unmitigated language, then there is no freedom of speech.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-youre-n...
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-youre-n...
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legitimately love this guy.
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
🧵 1 of 9
🧵 1 of 9
December 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
legitimately love this guy.
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We created a new tool that uses prescription label information to identify where your drug was made.
It also lets you see if and when that factory was inspected for quality and safety violations.
Try it out 👇
It also lets you see if and when that factory was inspected for quality and safety violations.
Try it out 👇
Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
projects.propublica.org
December 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
We created a new tool that uses prescription label information to identify where your drug was made.
It also lets you see if and when that factory was inspected for quality and safety violations.
Try it out 👇
It also lets you see if and when that factory was inspected for quality and safety violations.
Try it out 👇
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NEW: I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.
I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.
www.propublica.org
December 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.
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I don’t think the law passed by Congress said that DOJ has to release less than 1% of the materials by Dec 19.
December 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I don’t think the law passed by Congress said that DOJ has to release less than 1% of the materials by Dec 19.
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If you're rich, you get to help your fellow elites create problems while you're in power - and then you get to be valorized by media after you leave office when you conveniently claim you want to fix those problems you created, but now you have no power to do so.
Confessions Of The Retired And Powerless
Mitt Romney’s reversal on taxes comes only after he's given up the power to fix the problem he fortified.
www.levernews.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
If you're rich, you get to help your fellow elites create problems while you're in power - and then you get to be valorized by media after you leave office when you conveniently claim you want to fix those problems you created, but now you have no power to do so.
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1. BREAKING
Congressman Ro Khanna — who co-authored the Epstein bill with Congressman Thomas Massie — says the Trump Department of Justice’s Epstein files release today DOES NOT comply with federal law.
Congressman Ro Khanna — who co-authored the Epstein bill with Congressman Thomas Massie — says the Trump Department of Justice’s Epstein files release today DOES NOT comply with federal law.
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
1. BREAKING
Congressman Ro Khanna — who co-authored the Epstein bill with Congressman Thomas Massie — says the Trump Department of Justice’s Epstein files release today DOES NOT comply with federal law.
Congressman Ro Khanna — who co-authored the Epstein bill with Congressman Thomas Massie — says the Trump Department of Justice’s Epstein files release today DOES NOT comply with federal law.