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North

@cnorth.bsky.social

This will go down on your permanent record.
Oh, yeah?
Well, don't get so distressed.
Did I happen to mention that I'm impressed?

Jim LaPorta @jimlaporta.bsky.social · 21d

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Sen. Mark Kelly will face administrative action

January 5, 2026 at 5:37 PM

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NY Times Pitchbot

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

Republicans have tanked the economy and turned the country into a corrupt autocracy. But my NPR-loving neighbor has been giving me a hard time about my gas-powered leaf blower. I've never felt more politically homeless.

December 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM

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ex-Lethality Jane

@lethalityjane.bsky.social

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM

North

@cnorth.bsky.social

Uggh. Come on Tim Apple, really.

https://gizmodo.com/apple-comes-crawling-back-to-x-like-a-dog-2000563701

Apple Comes Crawling Back to X Like a Dog

It fled that platform in 2023 after it was featured next to Nazi content.

gizmodo.com

February 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM

North

@cnorth.bsky.social

Objectively hilarious.

Faith @faith13.bsky.social · Feb 6

techcrunch.com/2025/02/06/g...

Government agency removes spoon emoji from work platform amid protests | TechCrunch

According to a New York Times report, on Thursday, the U.S. government's General Services Administration (GSA) removed the spoon emoji as an option that

techcrunch.com

February 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM

North

@cnorth.bsky.social

Grok, how do I learn COBOL in seven days?

Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · Feb 3

I do not have a source specifically to confirm this, but I’m 100% confident that DOGE does not have a COBOL programmer, let alone someone who could remotely understand these systems.

February 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM

North

@cnorth.bsky.social

Holy sh*t. What is happening?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 30

Insanity — Trump signs an order blaming Biden and DEI for flight dangers

January 31, 2025 at 4:08 AM

North

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@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

…and that’s the rest of the story.- Paul Harvey

CREW @citizensforethics.org · Jan 24

An aide to House Speaker Mike Johnson advised Republican colleagues against subpoenaing former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson as part of their investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack in an effort to prevent the release of sexually explicit texts that lawmakers sent her

Johnson aide discouraged Hutchinson subpoena over concerns about lawmakers’ ‘sexual texts’

The move was intended in part to prevent the release of sexually explicit texts that lawmakers sent Cassidy Hutchinson.

www.washingtonpost.com

January 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM

North

@cnorth.bsky.social

Interestingly, BBC America was running White House Down during the inauguration.

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · Jan 20

Choppers flying in formation. Military salutes. Fighter jets over the White House. A man stares into the distance as the US flag flutters behind him. A bald eagle.

No, it's not a trailer for a sequel to White House Down.

This is the White House website now....

www.wired.com/story/white-...

The White House Website Is Basically a Marvel Movie Trailer Now

The updated White House website now features a Donald Trump hype video complete with helicopters, saluting, fighter jets, and a bald eagle.

www.wired.com

January 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM

North

@cnorth.bsky.social

We’re doomed to four more years of the dumbest sh*t heretofore unimaginable.

January 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM

North

@cnorth.bsky.social

The whole thing was a farce.

Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · Jan 14

How many pushups can you do? I'm done

January 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM

North

@cnorth.bsky.social

Pizzagate gunman pulls a pistol out at a traffic stop. Gets killed.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/09/pizzagate-gunman-dead-police-shooting

Gunman in ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy attack fatally shot by North Carolina police

During traffic stop, officers fire at Edgar Welch, 2016 shooter at eatery inaccurately thought to be center of pedophile ring

www.theguardian.com

January 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM

North

@cnorth.bsky.social

Good 👍🏻

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · Jan 10

Over 60 German and Austrian universities, the German Federal Court of Justice and multiple top German football clubs have announced that they will be withdrawing from Twitter (X), due to US oligarch Elon Musk's "discussion" (collaboration) with Germany's neo-Nazi party (AfD) Alice Weidl.

January 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM

North

@cnorth.bsky.social

I dream of a world in which the political thoughts of feline defecation are just ignored. Can’t we agree to just let his expirations go unnoticed, like a fart in the forest.

Jodie 🇦🇺 @jodie.sheshed.rocks · Jan 10

MAGA are having a meltdown on Twitter. 😂🤣😂🤣

January 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM

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Timothy Snyder

@timothysnyder.bsky.social

1/5. The way Trump, Trump Jr, Tuberville, and Hannity are talking now about Greenland, Mexico, Panama, and Canada plagiarizes Putin in 2013, before the first invasion of Ukraine.

January 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM

North

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This 👇🎯 Trump is actively doing Putin’s work.

Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · Jan 8

Donald Trump is a compromised Russian agent working for Putin. He is telling you to your face.

January 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM

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Adam Parkhomenko

@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social

LET’S GOOOOOOO

January 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM

North

@cnorth.bsky.social

This line of nonsense from Trump and his lackeys comes straight from Russia to destroy our alliances and sow discord among friends.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Jan 7

This whole discourse is stupid (not to mention dangerous), but how exactly do these conservatives think a country full of people accustomed to universal healthcare would vote as the 51st state?