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Sarah Dougherty
@flubber.bsky.social
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Int’l human rights lawyer (JD/MPH). Health, detention, torture, natsec, medical ethics & medical complicity. Prior: Physicians for Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, GlobalPost/PRI, DC Courts, American Political Science Association
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RFK twitter: “medical decisions should be made based on one thing: the wellbeing of the person-never on a financial bonus or a government mandate. Doctors deserve the freedom to use their training, follow the science & speak the truth without fear of punishment”

Tl;dr: THOSE HOLES ARE SPEEDHOLES
An old black and white photo of RFK and convicted pedophile Epstein at a formal dining table strewn with wine glasses. No children are present.
August 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Cartoon image of businessman Mr. Burns of the Simpsons. He’s staring with dismay at a growing pile of ticker tape depicting Black Tuesday
August 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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I once would have considered this a wildly oversimplified and problematic meme. Now it’s just a distillation of reality.
July 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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They remind me of Johnny the Snitch
Johnny the shoeshine character from The Naked Gun
June 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Sign seen today:
June 15, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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The Simpsons’ Kent Brockman, stacking his papers, says: LITTLE MAN... LIKES HIS PARADE.
June 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Please tell me “mistakenly deported” is the result of exhaustion. And not an editorial decision at The New York Times to “both sides” a human rights and constitutional crisis to the point of factual inaccuracy. Even the article uses “wrongful deportation.”
June 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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June 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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If the Silo series was a romance
May 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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The New York Times chased away Paul Krugman for this fawning and solipsistic garbage?

@nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Well that was a fun dive into the NYT archives
SEMICOLON CLOSED SALOONS. Decision Which Affected Bostonians Based on a Punctuation Mark. BOSTON, Dec. 5.-The decision of the Supreme Court, given yesterday, that the law prohibited the sale of liquor by hotels between the hours of 11 o'clock P. M. and 6 A. M., which caused a suspension of traffic at all places in Boston last night, was the subject of much discussion here to-day. It developed that the whole question hinged on a semicolon contained in the statute, the prohibitory clause of which reads: "No sale of spirituous or Intoxicating liguors shall be made between the hours 12 al night and & In the morning; nor during the Lord's Day, except that if the 11-censee is also licensed as an inn-holder he may supply, such liquor guests have resorted to his house for food or lodg-in 1885 the "12" was changed to " 11." If instead of the semicolon after "6 in the morning" there had been a comma, the decision of the court would have been differ- 185 such a comma was there. nt. As the law was originally The com mission aboointed to consolidate and range the statutes in 1880 reported their consolidation in 1881 and the semicolon ap-peared. The difference in punctuation was overlooked.and the statute with the semicolon instead of the comma was passed. The retall liquor dealers already have decided to ask the Legislature, which con-vener Jan. &, for legislation permitting hotels and saloons to keep open until mid-night. SEMICOLON PLEA FAILS TO SAVE MURDERER High New Jersey Court Calls Its Omission From Joint Verdict Not Pertineni. TRENTON, N. J., May 76 (P).-The semicolon upon which Salvatore Merra staked his life has failed him, and the Court of Errors and Appeals today affirmed the sentence of.death imposed by, the Essex County Court of Oyer and Términer for the murder of Theodore Conway in a hold-up in a Public Service Corporation car barn at Newark on June 4, 1926.. . Merra, was convicted of, murder in the first degree with Salvatore Ran-nelli, but the jury recommended that the latter- be imprisoned for life, the verdict appearing on the court records as follows: "We find the defendant, Salvatore Merra, guilty of murder in the first degree and the defendant, Salvatore Ran-nelli, guilty of murder in the first degree and recommend life imprisonment at hard labor." State • Senator • Alexander Simpson, counsel for both men, argued that the recommendation for life imprisonment was applicable to each, declaring that a semicolon would have followed the word degree where it first occurred if it had not been so intended. The Court of Errors, however, voted 13 to 2 for affirmation of the sentence after examining a certified copy of the verdict. Merra's only hope now is a plea for clemency before the Court of Pardons.
May 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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I feel the same way
A wildly disturbing and inaccurate AI-generated anatomical chart showing a man with made-up, flesh colored appendages on his body.
May 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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THIS is the kind of headline I want to see

palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2...

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May 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Can only be a misguided attempt to honor Val Kilmer’s work
May 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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I dunno, maybe your columns were rambling and unpersuasive to anyone under the age of 50?
May 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Slight “PhD” tangent: god I miss old internet
May 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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You know when something you read just makes perfect sense?

@jessgrose.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/o...
May 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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It is frankly embarrassing for the @nytimes.com to put out shitpieces like this, given this admin’s rejection of the Constitution and fixation on mass incarceration of non-criminals.

You get rid of Paul Krugman for this shit?
May 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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a pleasing juxtaposition
May 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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👀
May 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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“dollar store action figure” in matte beige
May 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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JD Vance: a real-life monkey’s paw
April 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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I mean, he is a fucking racist pig and she’s Mrs. Fucking Racist Pig, so they have each other
April 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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April 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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BOY BROWS???
April 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM