Bill O'Neil
@billoneilmd.bsky.social
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Important to remember that on top of the fascism and incompetence, everybody in the Trump admin is also stealing everything they can as quickly as possible.
NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
Kristi Noem-Tied Firm Secretly Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Campaign
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Important to remember that on top of the fascism and incompetence, everybody in the Trump admin is also stealing everything they can as quickly as possible.
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For my love of Children & Dogs
Timeline Cleanse
Sweetness
Timeline Cleanse
Sweetness
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 AM
For my love of Children & Dogs
Timeline Cleanse
Sweetness
Timeline Cleanse
Sweetness
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
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Here’s a gift link to my New York Times piece on what Dems can learn from bad bunny
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...
Opinion | What Chuck Schumer Can Learn From Bad Bunny
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Here’s a gift link to my New York Times piece on what Dems can learn from bad bunny
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...
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I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email
September 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email
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🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel.
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
September 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel.
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
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Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
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A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.
In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
July 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.
In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
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MoCo (Montgomery County MD, outside DC) took big, important step in phasing out dirty, grossly polluting gas leaf-blowers. As DC has done, to wide public support.
Some MoCo politicians trying to undermine it. How/why to stop them @vivianthomson.bsky.social
marylandmatters.org/2025/07/10/l...
Some MoCo politicians trying to undermine it. How/why to stop them @vivianthomson.bsky.social
marylandmatters.org/2025/07/10/l...
Latest proposal to undermine Montgomery County leaf blower ban endangers worker, public health - Maryland Matters
Gasoline-powered leaf blowers are more than a nuisance, they're a health hazard, and Montgomery County was right to ban them, write Vivian E. Thomson and Kit Gage. Now's not the time for backsliding b...
marylandmatters.org
July 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
MoCo (Montgomery County MD, outside DC) took big, important step in phasing out dirty, grossly polluting gas leaf-blowers. As DC has done, to wide public support.
Some MoCo politicians trying to undermine it. How/why to stop them @vivianthomson.bsky.social
marylandmatters.org/2025/07/10/l...
Some MoCo politicians trying to undermine it. How/why to stop them @vivianthomson.bsky.social
marylandmatters.org/2025/07/10/l...
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“There was a point at which I stopped asking myself the question: What do I want to do? And I finally fell to asking myself: What can I do?”
— @lylelovett.bsky.social, interviewed by @woolyknickers.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
— @lylelovett.bsky.social, interviewed by @woolyknickers.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
An Interview with Lyle Lovett - Believer Magazine
Lyle Lovett has been a mainstay of the American music scene since he was playing the bars and burger joints around College Station, Texas, in the 1980s. He learned to sing in his Lutheran school choir...
www.thebeliever.net
July 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“There was a point at which I stopped asking myself the question: What do I want to do? And I finally fell to asking myself: What can I do?”
— @lylelovett.bsky.social, interviewed by @woolyknickers.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
— @lylelovett.bsky.social, interviewed by @woolyknickers.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
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what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.
June 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.
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The most important words of our Constitution are the first three: We the People. We have no Kings here, no monarchs, no slaves and no subjects.
We the People.
We the People.
June 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The most important words of our Constitution are the first three: We the People. We have no Kings here, no monarchs, no slaves and no subjects.
We the People.
We the People.
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Philip Sunshine, a Stanford University physician who played an important role in establishing neonatology as a medical specialty, revolutionizing the care of premature and critically ill newborns who previously had little chance of survival, has died at 94.
Philip Sunshine, 94, Dies; Pioneer in Treatment of Premature Babies
www.nytimes.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Philip Sunshine, a Stanford University physician who played an important role in establishing neonatology as a medical specialty, revolutionizing the care of premature and critically ill newborns who previously had little chance of survival, has died at 94.
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New Column: On Musk. The headline says it all. Well, actually, the subhed says some of it, too! newrepublic.com/article/1947... via @newrepublic.com
Elon Musk Is an Evil Piece of Garbage—and an A-Level Fraud Too
He is stupid. He is incompetent. He is cruel. He is sinister. And people will die because of what he’s done.
newrepublic.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
New Column: On Musk. The headline says it all. Well, actually, the subhed says some of it, too! newrepublic.com/article/1947... via @newrepublic.com
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April 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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The world’s longest-running diabetes trial has led to more than 200 scientific publications and collected hundreds of thousands of samples, which serve as a sort of time capsule of America’s health. The project was terminated by the Trump Administration.
A Life-Changing Scientific Study Ended by the Trump Administration
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., declared chronic diseases an “existential threat.” Then his agency terminated one of the world’s longest-running diabetes trials.
www.newyorker.com
April 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The world’s longest-running diabetes trial has led to more than 200 scientific publications and collected hundreds of thousands of samples, which serve as a sort of time capsule of America’s health. The project was terminated by the Trump Administration.
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Jessica Chastain shared my column on the Blue Origin Flight, so now I have to learn the difference between her and Bryce Dallas Howard. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
April 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Jessica Chastain shared my column on the Blue Origin Flight, so now I have to learn the difference between her and Bryce Dallas Howard. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This is absurd and atrocious. Imagine sending someone to a brutal jail by mistake and officially acknowledging that, and then doing nothing to redress the matter. How cruel is that? How depraved is your soul? How uncaring and mean-spirited must you be? These are broken people who feast on hate.
Trump is asked if he’s planning to ask Bukele to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia & Trump punts to Pam Bondi.
Bondi claims it’s “up to El Salvador if they want to return him – that’s not up to us. [SCOTUS] ruled that if El Salvador wants to return him, we would ‘facilitate’ it, meaning provide a plane.”
Bondi claims it’s “up to El Salvador if they want to return him – that’s not up to us. [SCOTUS] ruled that if El Salvador wants to return him, we would ‘facilitate’ it, meaning provide a plane.”
April 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This is absurd and atrocious. Imagine sending someone to a brutal jail by mistake and officially acknowledging that, and then doing nothing to redress the matter. How cruel is that? How depraved is your soul? How uncaring and mean-spirited must you be? These are broken people who feast on hate.
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Truly vital work. It shouldn't be down to the brilliant @chrischirp.bsky.social, a Professor or Operational Research in the UK to be doing it. But thank god she is.
This is turning into such an important project by @chrischirp.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/christin...
“A republic, if you can keep it” - but can the US keep it? How Trump is dismantling democracy
Mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information
open.substack.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Truly vital work. It shouldn't be down to the brilliant @chrischirp.bsky.social, a Professor or Operational Research in the UK to be doing it. But thank god she is.
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Because the idea was never to eliminate waste and corruption — it was to gut the government to end regulation of waste and corruption and end social welfare funding, in a giant act of parasitism by the richest bandit on earth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
In Cabinet Meeting, Musk Seems to Drastically Lower DOGE’s Savings Goal
Musk said his group was on pace to cut $150 billion from the federal budget in one budget year. That would be a sharp drop from his previous stated goal of $1 trillion.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Because the idea was never to eliminate waste and corruption — it was to gut the government to end regulation of waste and corruption and end social welfare funding, in a giant act of parasitism by the richest bandit on earth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
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I love paying TurboTax a few hundred bucks every year to figure out how much money I owe the government, which the government already knows, but won't tell me because TurboTax pays legislators to keep the government from telling me. 😻
April 8, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I love paying TurboTax a few hundred bucks every year to figure out how much money I owe the government, which the government already knows, but won't tell me because TurboTax pays legislators to keep the government from telling me. 😻
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This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.
I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat
NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
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I spoke with current and former staffers at CDC and NIH about the massive layoffs yesterday for @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Inside Trump and RFK Jr.'s Health Agency 'Bloodbath'
Current and former staffers say that after thousands of people were laid off, the future of agencies like the CDC and FDA are uncertain.
www.rollingstone.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I spoke with current and former staffers at CDC and NIH about the massive layoffs yesterday for @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Before USAID was gutted, transport contracts sent U.S. search-and-rescue crews abroad within 24 hours for major disasters like Myanmar's earthquake.
The once-effective system lies in ruins as DOGE cut disaster crews, dog search teams, and heavy equipment needed for rescue operations.
The once-effective system lies in ruins as DOGE cut disaster crews, dog search teams, and heavy equipment needed for rescue operations.
March 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Before USAID was gutted, transport contracts sent U.S. search-and-rescue crews abroad within 24 hours for major disasters like Myanmar's earthquake.
The once-effective system lies in ruins as DOGE cut disaster crews, dog search teams, and heavy equipment needed for rescue operations.
The once-effective system lies in ruins as DOGE cut disaster crews, dog search teams, and heavy equipment needed for rescue operations.