@brettmonnard.bsky.social
Teacher, gifted advocate, proud medieval nerd, amature radio host, rennie, pastor's husband, he/him
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Setting aside any merits, boy oh boy, the timing on this NYTImesMag cover piece in the midst of:
-RFK Jr.'s wildly conspiracist campaign against SSRIs
-the RW pro-natalist push
-the escalating hideousness of the Epstein story
-an unabated youth mental health crisis
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
-RFK Jr.'s wildly conspiracist campaign against SSRIs
-the RW pro-natalist push
-the escalating hideousness of the Epstein story
-an unabated youth mental health crisis
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
More Teens Are Taking Antidepressants. It Could Disrupt Their Sex Lives for Years.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Setting aside any merits, boy oh boy, the timing on this NYTImesMag cover piece in the midst of:
-RFK Jr.'s wildly conspiracist campaign against SSRIs
-the RW pro-natalist push
-the escalating hideousness of the Epstein story
-an unabated youth mental health crisis
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
-RFK Jr.'s wildly conspiracist campaign against SSRIs
-the RW pro-natalist push
-the escalating hideousness of the Epstein story
-an unabated youth mental health crisis
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
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We have confirmed with two industry sources that Avelo was chartered to make this flight, and assigned N805VL which was sitting idle at the ICE hub in Mesa AZ today.
All the ICE Air carriers also do flights through third-party brokers for sports teams. www.columbiaspectator.com/sports/2025/...
All the ICE Air carriers also do flights through third-party brokers for sports teams. www.columbiaspectator.com/sports/2025/...
Charter airline used by women’s basketball linked to ICE deportation flights
When women’s basketball traveled to Chapel Hill, North Carolina on March 18 for its second-ever March Madness appearance, the team and staff boarded a chartered flight operated by Global Crossing Airl...
www.columbiaspectator.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
We have confirmed with two industry sources that Avelo was chartered to make this flight, and assigned N805VL which was sitting idle at the ICE hub in Mesa AZ today.
All the ICE Air carriers also do flights through third-party brokers for sports teams. www.columbiaspectator.com/sports/2025/...
All the ICE Air carriers also do flights through third-party brokers for sports teams. www.columbiaspectator.com/sports/2025/...
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As reported by @gbrockell.bsky.social in TAP:
“an Avelo ICE flight declared an emergency when the cabin lost pressure, according to air traffic control transmissions. The plane made a rapid descent and landed safely.”
prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...
“an Avelo ICE flight declared an emergency when the cabin lost pressure, according to air traffic control transmissions. The plane made a rapid descent and landed safely.”
prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...
ICE Air’s Sloppy, Dangerous Deportation Flights - The American Prospect
Poor planning, mechanical issues, serious safety lapses, and the shutdown are taking a toll on Avelo, America’s most famous deportation airline, internal documents show.
prospect.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
As reported by @gbrockell.bsky.social in TAP:
“an Avelo ICE flight declared an emergency when the cabin lost pressure, according to air traffic control transmissions. The plane made a rapid descent and landed safely.”
prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...
“an Avelo ICE flight declared an emergency when the cabin lost pressure, according to air traffic control transmissions. The plane made a rapid descent and landed safely.”
prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...
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🏆⚽️✈️ After winning the NWSL championship Saturday night, Gotham FC have just departed San Jose on board the very same all-white Avelo jet (N805VL) that lost cabin pressure with shackled ICE abductees aboard two weeks ago and had to make an emergency landing in Las Vegas 😬
November 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
🏆⚽️✈️ After winning the NWSL championship Saturday night, Gotham FC have just departed San Jose on board the very same all-white Avelo jet (N805VL) that lost cabin pressure with shackled ICE abductees aboard two weeks ago and had to make an emergency landing in Las Vegas 😬
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Hey @cloud9goth.bsky.social I bet you all could make some noise around this if you haven’t seen it yet.
🏆⚽️✈️ After winning the NWSL championship Saturday night, Gotham FC have just departed San Jose on board the very same all-white Avelo jet (N805VL) that lost cabin pressure with shackled ICE abductees aboard two weeks ago and had to make an emergency landing in Las Vegas 😬
November 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Hey @cloud9goth.bsky.social I bet you all could make some noise around this if you haven’t seen it yet.
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The reason people freak out and run from Trump’s racist goon squad is they are literally disappearing people. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The reason people freak out and run from Trump’s racist goon squad is they are literally disappearing people. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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This article is quietly and forensically furious at the bluster and the lies. Lord knows I'd love to forget about covid but we mustn't - the lessons from this are too important for next time - and there will be a next time.
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This article is quietly and forensically furious at the bluster and the lies. Lord knows I'd love to forget about covid but we mustn't - the lessons from this are too important for next time - and there will be a next time.
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Trump officials, including the head of OPM, are saying DOGE no longer exists. DOGE as influential entity seems to be done, but some DOGErs are in the National Design Studio and some burrowed into agencies e.g. Big Balls is at Social Security.
bsky.app/profile/reut...
bsky.app/profile/reut...
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
The Department of Government Efficiency claimed to have slashed tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but it was impossible for outside financial experts to verify that because the unit did not provide detailed public accounting of its work.
reut.rs
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Trump officials, including the head of OPM, are saying DOGE no longer exists. DOGE as influential entity seems to be done, but some DOGErs are in the National Design Studio and some burrowed into agencies e.g. Big Balls is at Social Security.
bsky.app/profile/reut...
bsky.app/profile/reut...
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DOGE is down to about 45 employees, but others have burrowed their way into government agencies as full time employees. Some are helping Vought's efforts to downsize the government. Others are implementing private AI across government.
November 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
DOGE is down to about 45 employees, but others have burrowed their way into government agencies as full time employees. Some are helping Vought's efforts to downsize the government. Others are implementing private AI across government.
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Some incredible details in this piece
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
November 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Some incredible details in this piece
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
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"Guys, seriously, get your own lawyer if you need it. Elon’s great, but you need to watch your own back.”
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind
What really happened when he logged out of Washington.
www.politico.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"Guys, seriously, get your own lawyer if you need it. Elon’s great, but you need to watch your own back.”
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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“But I did my crimes on behalf of this rich and powerful guy” didn’t work in court as a Jan. 6 defense, and won’t work with DOGE-related crimes either.
"Guys, seriously, get your own lawyer if you need it. Elon’s great, but you need to watch your own back.”
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind
What really happened when he logged out of Washington.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“But I did my crimes on behalf of this rich and powerful guy” didn’t work in court as a Jan. 6 defense, and won’t work with DOGE-related crimes either.
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Definitely one good reason for limiting people's ability to accumulate too much money ...
Sam Altman and husband fund startup to edit babies’ genes
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
Sam Altman and husband fund startup to edit babies’ genes
The Open AI boss and his husband, Oliver Mulherin, have invested in the startup Preventive, which aims to genetically engineer children free from hereditary diseases
www.thetimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Definitely one good reason for limiting people's ability to accumulate too much money ...
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MTG needs to tell us what she knows about Trump and members of Congress leading up to January 6th. Have any reporters catering her media tour asked that question?
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
MTG needs to tell us what she knows about Trump and members of Congress leading up to January 6th. Have any reporters catering her media tour asked that question?
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happy Jair Bolsonaro got arrested after failing to cut off his ankle monitor day
"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee
Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from presidential palace
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
happy Jair Bolsonaro got arrested after failing to cut off his ankle monitor day
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Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
azmirror.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
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The sharp decline in US teenagers’ aspiration to get married and have kids…
…is happening almost entirely among girls, not boys.
At some point maybe men will start trying harder to understand that.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... | HT @conradhackett.bsky.social @pewresearch.org
…is happening almost entirely among girls, not boys.
At some point maybe men will start trying harder to understand that.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... | HT @conradhackett.bsky.social @pewresearch.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The sharp decline in US teenagers’ aspiration to get married and have kids…
…is happening almost entirely among girls, not boys.
At some point maybe men will start trying harder to understand that.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... | HT @conradhackett.bsky.social @pewresearch.org
…is happening almost entirely among girls, not boys.
At some point maybe men will start trying harder to understand that.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... | HT @conradhackett.bsky.social @pewresearch.org
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I’ve made $1500 in a little over two years.
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I’ve made $1500 in a little over two years.
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Come on, @nytimes.com. There is a massive scandal brewing that Russia authored the purported American "peace" plan and *these* are your headlines on what is happening?
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Come on, @nytimes.com. There is a massive scandal brewing that Russia authored the purported American "peace" plan and *these* are your headlines on what is happening?
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I keep thinking about this.
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I keep thinking about this.
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Turns out interest in Metaverse had about a ~9 month half life.
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Turns out interest in Metaverse had about a ~9 month half life.
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The discussion of the 3I/ATLAS comet here on Bluesky vs Twitter shows exactly how bad Twitter has become, especially for science.
Here, it's enthusiasts and astronomers.
There, it is disinfo accounts with millions of likes swearing it's aliens and that NASA is covering it up.
Here, it's enthusiasts and astronomers.
There, it is disinfo accounts with millions of likes swearing it's aliens and that NASA is covering it up.
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The discussion of the 3I/ATLAS comet here on Bluesky vs Twitter shows exactly how bad Twitter has become, especially for science.
Here, it's enthusiasts and astronomers.
There, it is disinfo accounts with millions of likes swearing it's aliens and that NASA is covering it up.
Here, it's enthusiasts and astronomers.
There, it is disinfo accounts with millions of likes swearing it's aliens and that NASA is covering it up.
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Learned this weekend that my late grandfather, a Presbyterian minister, tried to punch the richest guy in town because he was a big Southern Pride asshole who wouldn’t stop running down my grandfather’s hero Abraham Lincoln
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Learned this weekend that my late grandfather, a Presbyterian minister, tried to punch the richest guy in town because he was a big Southern Pride asshole who wouldn’t stop running down my grandfather’s hero Abraham Lincoln
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It actually is pretty rare for anyone in the United States at all to be arrested *indefinitely and without trial*, especially children, yes.
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
It actually is pretty rare for anyone in the United States at all to be arrested *indefinitely and without trial*, especially children, yes.
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The fundamental problem with chatbots, social media, and many internet applications is that the companies are driven by profit-seeking to juice engagement to the detriment of people and society.
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The fundamental problem with chatbots, social media, and many internet applications is that the companies are driven by profit-seeking to juice engagement to the detriment of people and society.