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Dan Robitzski
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Editor at SpaceNews. Epee Fencer and Coach at Swordplay LA. Producer at Super Trashed TV. He/Him.
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"testing"
November 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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asherelbein.bsky.social
New, on Heat Death! Thrilled to run this absolute banger from @goldwagnathan.bsky.social, on the bizarre way that concepts from 20th century Golden Age sci-fi have lingered in the scientific imagination, despite never coming within spitting distance of becoming — what's the word? — real
The Fatal Allure of Yesterday's Tomorrows
On the dangers of seeing science fiction as a template for the future.
heat-death.ghost.io
November 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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gaaaaaaaaaaaaavin.bsky.social
Skeleton lifting weights, edited caption with inserted headlines reads: Microsoft is a corporation that turns [Microsoft CEO claims 30% of its new code is written by AI] into [Microsoft finally admids almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken]
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i know we've all laughed about the worm and the affair but this is a profoundly dangerous person who should be expelled from the government.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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jamisonfoser.bsky.social
Members of congress releasing a video message to members of the United States military telling them "you must refuse illegal orders" might be the most extraordinary thing I've ever seen.
slotkin.senate.gov Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 8d
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.

The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.

Don’t give up the ship.
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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lapublicpress.bsky.social
Law enforcement physically attacked 72 journalists covering immigration in LA this year—more than double the city’s 2020 BLM protest total, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.
lapublicpress.org/2025/11/indy...
Scrappy and underpaid, LA's independent reporters are risking everything to cover the ICE opposition
Law enforcement physically attacked 72 journalists covering immigration in LA this year—more than double the city's 2020 BLM protest total, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.
lapublicpress.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
danrobitzski.bsky.social
"As rot spreads across journalism, politics, academia, law, and more, achieving success has become more of a riddle than a road map."
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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joshmccrain.bsky.social
new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Photographed the Den Music Festival this weekend
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
The Day I Put $50,000 in a Shoe Box and Handed It to a Stranger I never thought I was the kind of person to fall for a scam. Portrait of Charlotte Cowles By Charlotte Cowles, The Cut’s financial-advice columnist.
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
danrobitzski.bsky.social
I co-host a monthly pub video game night in LA (tonight! 7 PM! Brews Brothers' Noho location! @supertrashed.bsky.social ) and a main reason our event has immaculate vibes is co-host OJ's doodling contest. Read all about it on his latest blog: supertrashed.substack.com/p/getting-st...
Getting Sticky: How We’ve Fostered Creativity at Super Trashed LA
by OJ Patterson
supertrashed.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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attackerman.bsky.social
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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sammyroth.bsky.social
NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.

I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
CBS News just gutted its climate team
Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
conspiracy to make a cop go slow
It was further part of the conspiracy that the co-conspirators, including RABBITT, ABUGHAZALEH, MARTIN, SHARP, STRAW and WALSH, physically hindered and impeded Agent A and the Government Vehicle such that Agent A was forced to drive at an extremely slow rate of speed to avoid injuring any of the conspirators and in doing so slowly progressed towards the BSSA to discharge the duties of his office.
October 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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couts.bsky.social
Hurricane Melissa intensified so quickly and unusually that meteorologists are stunned, @mollytaft.com reports. Jamaica is going to need a lot of help once this storm is over. www.wired.com/story/hurric...
Hurricane Melissa Has Meteorologists Terrified
The storm, which is set to make landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday, has stunned meteorologists with its intensity and the speed at which it built.
www.wired.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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davekarpf.bsky.social
Okay I’m reading it now and, no surprise, it suuuucks in exactly the ways you would expect.
davekarpf.bsky.social Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · Oct 27
Should I have a couple drinks and rip apart the new centrist dem manifesto tonight?

Y/N
October 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
danrobitzski.bsky.social
You can just close your eyes and imagine things instead of reanimating dead celebrities for lazy braindead slop!
October 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.
October 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
danrobitzski.bsky.social
Scenes from Division 1 Men's epee at last weekend's @usafencing.bsky.social North American Cup
Two epee fencers compete in a national tournament. Fencer on the left fleches at his opponent, who recoils like he's doing the iconic matrix dodge. It didn't work. Two epee fencers compete in a national tournament, running and jumping at each other and barely avoiding a collision. Fencer on the Right's blade is bent to an impossible degree, stuck on Fencer on the Left's hand. Two epee fencers compete in a national tournament. Fencer on the Left lunges at Fencer on the Right, sending him recoiling in defense. Two epee fencers compete in a national tournament. Fencer on the left scores a headshot, and his blade arcs in a sine wave shape as it sticks on Fencer on the Right's mask.
October 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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"Mourn, or else" by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
The president of the United States has both direct coercive power of the state and, by and large, indirect power over communication institutions. He has shown how he will use that power. He will punish enemies, yes. And if you agree that teachers, librarians, professors, left-leaning journalists and anyone who isn’t white, conservative and Christian are enemies, you may enjoy this comeuppance. But he has also shown that he will punish people who agree with him — but not enough or not in the right way or just because it is a Tuesday. The merging of state power and economic power around one man who accepts that power as his due would not be possible without the algorithmic grift that has so all-consumingly captured our attention. The internet and the people who, for all intents and purposes, now own it have excelled at making Trump good at authoritarianism. They commodified information. They quelled regulation. They escaped blame for degrading collective action while raking in profits for spectacles of violence that degradation predictably produces. Now, via their president, they are using it to crush the First Amendment, to supercharge the Second Amendment, to stand up bot armies and real armed militias to defend their ownership of your civil liberties.
October 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
danrobitzski.bsky.social
In today's episode of "You'll Miss It Once It's Gone," The Corporation for Public Broadcasting closes its doors today thanks to the Trump administration cutting funds for public media.
September 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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lukeoneil47.bsky.social
Stunning piece. A horror movie of sorts. Will be familiar to anyone on the left trying to navigate the centrist American legacy media, albeit made all the more difficult when your bosses and colleagues all assume your people are by default murderous barbarians. bidoun.org/articles/hou...
I was assigned, at some point, a piece about a spree of killings and land thefts carried out with impunity in the West Bank since October 7th. The piece mostly focused on a single settlement where a man who had gone to pick olives on his land one Saturday was shot by an off-duty Israeli soldier. His execution had been captured on video. The story included a cast of settlers, anti-occupation rabbis, and West-Bank Palestinians who had spent their lives fearing that their homes would be stolen, and that if they were killed or dispossessed, there would be no recourse for them. I ran into the story editor in the hallway, who said he was having trouble balancing the narrative because all the Israeli characters seemed evil, while all the Palestinians were angels. A long section that documented, without any editorializing, that Palestinian dispossession was an ongoing process that had begun long before October 7th was whittled down to a single paragraph after a series of fights between the editor-in-chief and the story editor on one side, and myself and the freelance writer on the other. Though the man’s killing had been filmed, a fact checker is obliged to seek comment from any party alleged to have committed a crime. I called the soldier’s lawyer. He picked up from a café, where I could hear trance music blasting in the background. The lawyer told me that while, yes, his client did shoot the man picking olives, and yes, the man did die, the Israeli military court found his client not guilty of murder because the man picking olives was a terrorist who was throwing stones. Even though the video did not show the Palestinian man throwing stones, the court said that he was, so he was. QED, his client did not murder anyone, and it would be slanderous for us to say so.
September 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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premthakker.bsky.social
It’s official: the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concludes Israel is committing genocide.

The UN body calls on nations to stop sending weapons to Israel, ensure people within their jurisdiction aren’t aiding or inciting the genocide, and hold those who are accountable.
September 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM