Kurt
@cursedkurt.bsky.social
Research Tech. Cat dad. Tired. I usually don’t post on social media but I’m going to try and be more active here. He/him, opinions expressed are my own
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BUT HUNTER'S LAPTOP
New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
December 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
BUT HUNTER'S LAPTOP
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Trump cutting US aid has killed more Christian Nigerians than anyone else ever could. And if we don’t stop him, it will get even more deadly.
He was never about protecting Christians. He was never about justice. He was always about white supremacy and oil. youtube.com/shorts/q5OeE...
He was never about protecting Christians. He was never about justice. He was always about white supremacy and oil. youtube.com/shorts/q5OeE...
Nigerian village Trump bombed to “stop Isis” says Isis has never been there
YouTube video by Qasim Rashid
youtube.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Trump cutting US aid has killed more Christian Nigerians than anyone else ever could. And if we don’t stop him, it will get even more deadly.
He was never about protecting Christians. He was never about justice. He was always about white supremacy and oil. youtube.com/shorts/q5OeE...
He was never about protecting Christians. He was never about justice. He was always about white supremacy and oil. youtube.com/shorts/q5OeE...
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When the government admits it broke the law to imprison children, that is not a policy failure. It is a moral one.
ICE now admits that hundreds of children were held past the legal 20-day custody limit set to protect their safety.
Five were kept for 168 days.
Some faced unsafe conditions and went days without medical care.
This crosses a moral line.
Five were kept for 168 days.
Some faced unsafe conditions and went days without medical care.
This crosses a moral line.
About 400 immigrant children were detained longer than the recommended limit, ICE admits
Legal advocates concerned over the prolonged detention of immigrant children in federal custody are sounding the alarm before the federal court. U.S.
apnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
When the government admits it broke the law to imprison children, that is not a policy failure. It is a moral one.
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The Northeast Public Health Collaborative and West Coast Health Alliance have issued statements that continue to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns.
It's encouraging that regional health alliances are stepping up to counter disinformation spread by federal health agencies.
It's encouraging that regional health alliances are stepping up to counter disinformation spread by federal health agencies.
December 9, 2025 at 4:52 AM
The Northeast Public Health Collaborative and West Coast Health Alliance have issued statements that continue to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns.
It's encouraging that regional health alliances are stepping up to counter disinformation spread by federal health agencies.
It's encouraging that regional health alliances are stepping up to counter disinformation spread by federal health agencies.
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No one should be offered death in lieu of treatment.
No one should be offered death when they’re asking for help.
It’s coercive even if they have the “right” to say no, because if no other treatments are offered they’re going to experience tremendous suffering.
No one should be offered death when they’re asking for help.
It’s coercive even if they have the “right” to say no, because if no other treatments are offered they’re going to experience tremendous suffering.
December 9, 2025 at 5:51 AM
No one should be offered death in lieu of treatment.
No one should be offered death when they’re asking for help.
It’s coercive even if they have the “right” to say no, because if no other treatments are offered they’re going to experience tremendous suffering.
No one should be offered death when they’re asking for help.
It’s coercive even if they have the “right” to say no, because if no other treatments are offered they’re going to experience tremendous suffering.
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It would be nice if @cnn.com acknowledged this story was broken last week by The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-emplo...
December 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
It would be nice if @cnn.com acknowledged this story was broken last week by The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-emplo...
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BREAKING: Pope Leo announces that the Catholic Church supports Palestinian statehood. He went on to call out Netanyahu for refusing to recognize Palestinian statehood.
I launched this global petition calling on the USA to recognize Palestinian statehood. Please do sign & share: c.org/zqgdSZKDVn
I launched this global petition calling on the USA to recognize Palestinian statehood. Please do sign & share: c.org/zqgdSZKDVn
Sign the Petition
Demand the United States Recognize Palestinian Statehood
c.org
November 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
BREAKING: Pope Leo announces that the Catholic Church supports Palestinian statehood. He went on to call out Netanyahu for refusing to recognize Palestinian statehood.
I launched this global petition calling on the USA to recognize Palestinian statehood. Please do sign & share: c.org/zqgdSZKDVn
I launched this global petition calling on the USA to recognize Palestinian statehood. Please do sign & share: c.org/zqgdSZKDVn
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I'm an Eagle Scout (once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout).
Scouting made me who I am, gave me a variety of skills, and even helped me get an employment for a few summers working at Sea Base.
Scouting, at its core, isn't about being a good man. It's about being a good person.
Scouting made me who I am, gave me a variety of skills, and even helped me get an employment for a few summers working at Sea Base.
Scouting, at its core, isn't about being a good man. It's about being a good person.
Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I'm an Eagle Scout (once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout).
Scouting made me who I am, gave me a variety of skills, and even helped me get an employment for a few summers working at Sea Base.
Scouting, at its core, isn't about being a good man. It's about being a good person.
Scouting made me who I am, gave me a variety of skills, and even helped me get an employment for a few summers working at Sea Base.
Scouting, at its core, isn't about being a good man. It's about being a good person.
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For the first time in ages my rheumatology labs came back all in the green!!
November 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
For the first time in ages my rheumatology labs came back all in the green!!
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She ran as a moderate. Maybe you think that’s good and maybe you think that’s bad. All I am arguing is that the endless takes about how Democrats should pivot to the center should explain why it didn’t work in this election (there are good reasons!) rather than pretending she didn’t.
November 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
She ran as a moderate. Maybe you think that’s good and maybe you think that’s bad. All I am arguing is that the endless takes about how Democrats should pivot to the center should explain why it didn’t work in this election (there are good reasons!) rather than pretending she didn’t.
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
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"We need solid guarantees that they won't simply renege"
What kind of guarantee can you possibly get from a regime that has been lying and breaking the law from the word go.
Hold the damn line.
What kind of guarantee can you possibly get from a regime that has been lying and breaking the law from the word go.
Hold the damn line.
@schiff.senate.gov is supporting Schumer's deal but is worried:
"They're telling us they're going to cheat on an agreement, and we need in whatever agreement we reach, to have some really solid guarantees in that legislation that they simply can't go and renege after it's done."
"They're telling us they're going to cheat on an agreement, and we need in whatever agreement we reach, to have some really solid guarantees in that legislation that they simply can't go and renege after it's done."
Schiff dismisses Trump's call to send Obamacare subsidies directly to people
Schiff suggests Republicans would "cheat" on any agreement Democrats ultimately reach with them in order to end the government shutdown.
abcnews.go.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"We need solid guarantees that they won't simply renege"
What kind of guarantee can you possibly get from a regime that has been lying and breaking the law from the word go.
Hold the damn line.
What kind of guarantee can you possibly get from a regime that has been lying and breaking the law from the word go.
Hold the damn line.
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thou misshapen Dick
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
thou misshapen Dick
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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Every Watson obituary should begin with some variant of "James Watson, whose uncredited use of Rosalind Franklin's research led to fame, fortune, and the Nobel Prize..."
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Every Watson obituary should begin with some variant of "James Watson, whose uncredited use of Rosalind Franklin's research led to fame, fortune, and the Nobel Prize..."
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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
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I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.
October 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.
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NEW: The entire staff supporting ACIP was laid off, and most working groups haven't met in months.
That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Threat to US vaccines as CDC staff supporting key advisory panel laid off
Critics say scientists ‘held hostage’ by RFK Jr as changes mean vaccine development and guidance in peril
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
NEW: The entire staff supporting ACIP was laid off, and most working groups haven't met in months.
That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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SNAP is not the reason your taxes are high.
SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”.
Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers.
People need & deserve assistance
Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich
Be mad about that
SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”.
Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers.
People need & deserve assistance
Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich
Be mad about that
October 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
SNAP is not the reason your taxes are high.
SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”.
Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers.
People need & deserve assistance
Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich
Be mad about that
SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”.
Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers.
People need & deserve assistance
Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich
Be mad about that
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For those that don’t know, what’s being referred to when we say influencers who were paid by Russia are replacing reporters in the Pentagon: The Tenet Media scandal was just about a year ago (Sept 2024), and one of the most alarming influence ops uncovered in years. (1/9)
October 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
For those that don’t know, what’s being referred to when we say influencers who were paid by Russia are replacing reporters in the Pentagon: The Tenet Media scandal was just about a year ago (Sept 2024), and one of the most alarming influence ops uncovered in years. (1/9)
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he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep
October 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep
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"You cannot be explaining your Nazi tattoo and defeat a multi-term incumbent."
October 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
"You cannot be explaining your Nazi tattoo and defeat a multi-term incumbent."