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Benjamin Fahlgren
@fhlgrn.bsky.social
HR pro working remotely from Eugene, sci-fi nerd and outdoor adventure addict.

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This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:

“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Spam or confidence building daily affirmation?
November 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Goldy Hawn
Protocol (1984)
November 9, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Read about WHY Ketanji Brown Jackson stayed the SNAP order. Her move is probably the best solution for getting SNAP benefits approved quickly. open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
@lawandchaospod.bsky.social Made me frustrated to hear an ICE recruitment ad while listening to your latest episode. Probably nothing you can do, but 🤮.
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Listening to the Supreme Court oral arguments this morning really made me miss General Elizabeth Prelogar's preparedness and skills of persuasion.
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This is really beautiful and powerful www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
Opinion | It’s Halloween, but the Monsters Are Already Here
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
In the wake of Vasco da Gama!
October 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
What do you call it when a company glamorizes an oligarch’s vandalism to stay in his good graces, @nytimes.com?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/r...
October 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
wapo.st/49gZB6w

This is really cool. Not a cure, but a way to increase the chances for other solutions perhaps.
Study finds mRNA coronavirus vaccines prolonged life of cancer patients
A study found that covid-19 vaccines appeared to awaken the immune system in lung and skin cancer patients, helping them live longer than those not vaccinated.
wapo.st
October 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Good time to read @mollyroberts.bsky.social:

“It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.”

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...
October 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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every single person claiming to yearn for this would kill themselves if they were subjected to the tyranny of the 56k modem for one hour
This is doing numbers on social media right now and it's so depressing how people truly yearn for this shit and want to preserve that feeling indefinitely like a mausoleum of false memories.
September 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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I had missed this post from Ed Whelan questioning whether Lindsey Halligan was even validly appointed in the first place. One minor point: Whelan says that the 1986 Alito memo "might not be in the public domain," but in fact it is, thanks to the Alina Habba litigation!
Was Lindsey Halligan Validly Appointed as United States Attorney? | National Review
As I understand the facts, it seems highly doubtful that Lindsey Halligan has been validly appointed as United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia. If her appointment is invalid, so…
www.nationalreview.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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September 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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In @nytopinion

“Trump is the first president in our history to invert Lincoln: He speaks with malice toward all and charity for none,” Bret Stephens tells Frank Bruni. “He makes Nixon look like Churchill.”
Opinion | America Darkens
After the heartache and fury of the past week, it’s good to talk.
nyti.ms
September 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Recently ICE agents appeared on a Little League field in Manhattan. Coach Youman Wilder told a group of kids who were being interrogated to get behind him and said to the officers, “You don’t have more rights than they do.”
ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field
Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....
www.newyorker.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Shout out to Heather Cox Richardson! Thank you for your consistent and incredible work!
July 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM