@cenodoxus.bsky.social
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The El Salvador government is using its concentration camp as a kind of Disneyland thrill ride for right-wing influencers. The reason those guys are standing silently shirtless behind Noem is that they’ve been asked to do it again and again, it’s part of the whole ride
March 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The El Salvador government is using its concentration camp as a kind of Disneyland thrill ride for right-wing influencers. The reason those guys are standing silently shirtless behind Noem is that they’ve been asked to do it again and again, it’s part of the whole ride
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Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.
Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country."
March 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.
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(Bloomberg) - Car owners are missing their monthly payments at the highest rate in more than 30 years.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
March 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
(Bloomberg) - Car owners are missing their monthly payments at the highest rate in more than 30 years.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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Part of the lesson here is that Trumpists, like many bullies, don’t handle it well if you stand up to them rather than caving. If Trump or Vance or their supporters had any character this petulant display and Zelenskyy’s defiance would be humiliating to them.
Zelenskyy gives a thumbs up after getting berated by a visibly agitated Trump
February 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Part of the lesson here is that Trumpists, like many bullies, don’t handle it well if you stand up to them rather than caving. If Trump or Vance or their supporters had any character this petulant display and Zelenskyy’s defiance would be humiliating to them.
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Thank you for your patience! Read my latest long-form analysis of how the 2022 Wings Over Dallas air show went tragically wrong. admiralcloudberg.medium.com/passing-the-...
Passing the Buck: The story of the 2022 Wings Over Dallas air show collision
How unsafe practices in the air show industry caused the deaths of six crewmembers and the loss of two iconic aircraft.
admiralcloudberg.medium.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Thank you for your patience! Read my latest long-form analysis of how the 2022 Wings Over Dallas air show went tragically wrong. admiralcloudberg.medium.com/passing-the-...
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Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.
February 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.
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People need to understand this: Trump did not leave office willingly the first time. If his health holds up, he will not leave office willingly this time. He is not joking about serving more than two terms.
February 21, 2025 at 1:11 AM
People need to understand this: Trump did not leave office willingly the first time. If his health holds up, he will not leave office willingly this time. He is not joking about serving more than two terms.
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my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator
Trump’s decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico may be upsetting to some, writes @giladedelman.bsky.social, but “in a democracy, values are determined by majority rule, and they don’t shift in only one direction. They can shift back”:
‘The Gulf of America’ Is the Wrong Fight to Pick
The more that politicians mess around with place names, the more important it is to respond according to consistent principles.
www.theatlantic.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator
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i need a 52 year old man with $800 billion to impregnate my wife . i am worried our offspring wont be sufficiently feeble and/or annoying
February 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
i need a 52 year old man with $800 billion to impregnate my wife . i am worried our offspring wont be sufficiently feeble and/or annoying
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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::taps sign::
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: an administration (and its supporters) who believe that they are not limited by the rule of law have no moral or philosophical claim to the protection of the rule of law. “The law is whatever we say it is” warrants the same in response.
February 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
::taps sign::
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"If Trump is denying access to outlets that refuse to lick his boots, then any media outlet that has access is compromised. Journalists who want to be worthy of the name have a moral obligation to follow the AP’s example in enraging the toddler in chief."
The AP provides a model of effective press resistance
Credibility is more important than access.
www.publicnotice.co
February 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"If Trump is denying access to outlets that refuse to lick his boots, then any media outlet that has access is compromised. Journalists who want to be worthy of the name have a moral obligation to follow the AP’s example in enraging the toddler in chief."
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The reports are from 2023, in states where abortion is banned. They contradict what doctors and researchers say is happening on the ground, raising concerns about data integrity.
Some red states report zero abortions. Doctors and researchers say it's not true
The reports are from 2023, in states where abortion is banned. They contradict what doctors and researchers say is happening on the ground, raising concerns about data integrity.
www.npr.org
February 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The reports are from 2023, in states where abortion is banned. They contradict what doctors and researchers say is happening on the ground, raising concerns about data integrity.
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READ Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Pam Bondi, via @nytimes.com:
"Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
"Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
February 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
READ Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Pam Bondi, via @nytimes.com:
"Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
"Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
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Emil Bove is Stringer Bell
February 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Emil Bove is Stringer Bell
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aging well, sadly
Trump’s closing message is a full blown hate campaign against black and brown people. Historians will look back in astonishment that this terrifying reality wasn’t the subject of wall to wall coverage and commentary in weeks leading up to this election. He’s not hiding anything.
February 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
aging well, sadly
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If the Trump administration continues targeting DEI in science and seeking to slash funding, American science will look fundamentally different.
'Unprecedented': White House moves to control science funding worry researchers
If the Trump administration continues targeting DEI in science and seeking to slash funding, American science will look fundamentally different.
www.npr.org
February 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If the Trump administration continues targeting DEI in science and seeking to slash funding, American science will look fundamentally different.
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As the Trump administration and Elon Musk work to dismantle USAID, the government’s lead agency for delivering humanitarian aid for generations, right-wing influencers have flooded the internet with falsehoods about its work, promoting unfounded claims and conspiratorial thinking. nyti.ms/4htWHN0
February 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
As the Trump administration and Elon Musk work to dismantle USAID, the government’s lead agency for delivering humanitarian aid for generations, right-wing influencers have flooded the internet with falsehoods about its work, promoting unfounded claims and conspiratorial thinking. nyti.ms/4htWHN0
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The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem
February 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem
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This is a backdoor. Elon's coders are creating a backdoor into the US Treasury. This is incredibly dangerous both because of its intended use (by Elon and Trump) and the risk of other actors exploiting a major security vulnerability to cause a massive disruption to the US government.
February 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This is a backdoor. Elon's coders are creating a backdoor into the US Treasury. This is incredibly dangerous both because of its intended use (by Elon and Trump) and the risk of other actors exploiting a major security vulnerability to cause a massive disruption to the US government.
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What @kairyssdal.bsky.social is saying is that BLS produces the official economic statistics that we all rely on and if they start messing with those, no one will no what is really happening -- and whoever is manipulating them can make a killing by knowing the numbers in advance
If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
NEWS: Sources tell me that DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor next. DOL workers have been ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for—or risk termination.
“We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”
“We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”
February 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
What @kairyssdal.bsky.social is saying is that BLS produces the official economic statistics that we all rely on and if they start messing with those, no one will no what is really happening -- and whoever is manipulating them can make a killing by knowing the numbers in advance
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no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
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Murphy: "That's just fancy talk to say, 'we're gonna give money to people who pledge loyalty to Trump, and we're not gonna give money to people who don't pledge loyalty.' Today it may be government contracts, but tomorrow it may be your tax refund."
February 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Murphy: "That's just fancy talk to say, 'we're gonna give money to people who pledge loyalty to Trump, and we're not gonna give money to people who don't pledge loyalty.' Today it may be government contracts, but tomorrow it may be your tax refund."
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An update with latest data available for graph of life expectancy vs health care expenditures per capita for 20 countries and one outlier.
February 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
An update with latest data available for graph of life expectancy vs health care expenditures per capita for 20 countries and one outlier.