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Arvin W. Casas
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Former CD now winding my way through fatherhood at 78rpm in the Philly burbs. Friends education survivor. Lifetime Beatles / Trek / Python junkie. Antique Gramophone collector / restorer / researcher (for this I use @gramophilia.bsky.social).
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Plus: Travelers to the US may have to hand over five years of social media history, South Korean CEOs are resigning due to cyberattacks, and more. www.wired.com/story/securi...
AI Toys for Kids Talk About Sex, Drugs, and Chinese Propaganda
Plus: Travelers to the US may have to hand over five years of social media history, South Korean CEOs are resigning due to cyberattacks, and more.
www.wired.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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🚨The Trump administration has dropped MLK Day and Juneteenth from free national-park days and added June 14, the president’s birthday, according to Interior Department listings.
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December 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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“The relationship between the president and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned in her dissenting opinion. “In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law.”

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John Roberts and the Cynical Cult of Federalist No. 70
Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and misquote.
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December 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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At an FDA discussion of testosterone replacement therapy, a top official called for special health centers to address a “men’s health crisis.” Others called to ease men's access to hormones. www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...
RFK Jr.'s Health Department Is Pondering a National Men's Health Initiative
At an FDA discussion of testosterone replacement therapy, a top official called for special health centers to address a “men’s health crisis.” Others called to ease men's access to hormones.
www.wired.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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The United States Department of Agriculture is threatening to withhold federal funding for food stamps for more than 20 Democratic-led states that have refused to hand over sensitive personal data about millions of participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
December 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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"Hamlet might be the big man on campus, but that doesn’t mean he’s got it all figured out. This drama puts a much-needed spin on a classic by imagining a world where Hamlet is young and hot."
Casting Notice for the Unaired CW Pilot Young Hamlet
SYNOPSIS High school is no picnic for anyone, but especially if you’re one of Shakespeare’s most iconic leading men. Hamlet might be the big man on...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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He's going to kill our kids

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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More tech monopolies! Yay!

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. in $83 Billion Deal to Create a Streaming Giant
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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The white nationalist Trump administration has rescinded free admission to national parks on MLK Day and Juneteenth, offering it instead on President Trump's birthday
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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🔥How Epstein Channelled Race Science and 'Climate Culling' Into Silicon Valley’s AI Elite

The Epstein files expose how racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling circulated inside Big Tech circles @nafeez.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
How Epstein Channelled Race Science and 'Climate Culling' Into Silicon Valley’s AI Elite
The Epstein files expose how racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling circulated inside Big Tech circles
bylinetimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Trump hasn’t lowered inflation. If anything, he’s raised it.

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December 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Tariffs are not going to eliminate income taxes — they would need to bring in 10x more revenue for that to happen.

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December 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Since Trump took office, only upper-class wages have outpaced inflation. Everyone else is losing purchasing power.

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December 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Trump claimed that health insurance stocks have risen 1000%. The reality is quite the opposite.

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December 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Despite his Wharton education, Trump can’t do basic math — he continuously insists that prices can drop more than 100%, which is impossible.

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December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Jane Fonda Op-Ed: The WBD Deal Puts Hollywood, and Democracy, at Risk
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Jane Fonda Op-Ed: The WBD Deal Puts Hollywood, and Democracy, at Risk
What terrifies me — and should terrify anyone who cares about a free society
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December 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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My tribute to my dad, who passed away last month in the UK.

He was a proud Indian immigrant *and* a proud British citizen.

His life story is one long rebuttal to the nativists, bigots and xenophobes.
Mehdi Pays Tribute To His Late Father
YouTube video by Zeteo
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December 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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The Daily Mail has an accurate headline.
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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It is shameful-and expected-that the Supreme Court has chosen to side with those who seek to undermine our democracy and disenfranchise voters of color.
December 5, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Trump’s USDA is threatening to withhold food stamp funding for 20 Democrat-controlled states if they don’t share recipients’ sensitive personal data.

Yes: Trump is weaponizing hunger against millions of Americans, including children, to score cheap political points.

The cruelty is endless.
December 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Once again, this is all John Roberts' fault.

Read @ariberman.bsky.social + @pemalevy.bsky.social on why Trump owes all his corrupt and abusive reign to the chief justice.
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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🔴The ‘Pink Ladies’ Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream

An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist, @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social reports
The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM