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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Pretty clear admission that the NYT killed a story about the implausibility of the lab leak because editors believed bad-faith Trump Admin sources over actual scientists.
donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learne...
In early spring 2020, I reported an article for The New York Times on which I put the tentative headline: “New Coronavirus Is ‘Clearly Not a Lab Leak,’ Scientists Say.” It never ran. For two reasons. The chief one was that inside the Times, we were sharply divided. My colleagues who cover national security were being assured by their Trump administration sources — albeit anonymously and with no hard evidence — that it was a lab leak and the Chinese were covering it up. We science reporters were hearing from virologists and zoologists — on the record and in great detail — that the odds were overwhelming that it was not a lab leak but an animal spillover.
April 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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junlper.beer
important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
April 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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jamellebouie.net
rfk jr wants you dead
danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social Dana Rubinstein @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social · Apr 13
“According to an email obtained by The New York Times, H.H.S. intends to revise its web pages to include statements like ‘The decision to vaccinate is a personal one’ and ‘People should also be informed about the potential adverse events associated with vaccines’” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/h...
The Many Ways Kennedy Is Already Undermining Vaccines
The health secretary has chipped away at the idea that immunizing children against measles and other diseases is a public health good.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
There we go. Support this man.
monaburns.bsky.social Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · Apr 14
Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele
To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return

"If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."
April 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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darklock.com
The single best use of ChatGPT is to shine a spotlight on the incompetent when we catch them using it
hellgatenyc.com Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · Apr 14
NEW:

Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board.

hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...
Andrew Cuomo Used ChatGPT For His Housing Plan
"Addressing New York's Housing Crisis" features garbled text and a citation from ChatGPT.
hellgatenyc.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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maxberger.bsky.social
Not Antisemitism (according to MAGA):

- Firebombing a Jewish governor‘s house during Passover
- Doing a Sieg Hitler salute
- Eating dinner with neo-Nazis

Antisemitism (according to MAGA):

- Saying Israelis and Palestinians deserve rights and dignity
- Using freedom of speech on campus
April 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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transtextual.bsky.social
you thought I was kidding?
April 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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jtp.bsky.social
goldman sachs execs showing up to luigi mangione's cell like nick fury recruiting an avenger
April 7, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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professorgetter.bsky.social
do you think we would be here if Kamala said she'd stop the genocide instead of alienating everyone and losing
April 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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madycast.com
1. INVESTIGATION: (w/@tomatoslayers.bsky.social) Maryland trans prisoners have alleged rape, detransition, defied court orders, and torture, despite AG’s (@oagmaryland.bsky.social) statement supporting trans prisoners being housed by gender identity.

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www.madycast.com/p/absolute-t...
"Absolute Terror”: Lawsuit Alleges Maryland Trans Prisoners Face Rape, Medical Detransition, Defied Court Orders, Retaliation, and Torture, Despite AG Brown’s Condemnation of Trump Prison Policy
Gov. Moore's prisons defied a judge’s order to follow standards to keep a woman safe from rape, as AG Brown has mounted "vigorous" defense against her lawsuit and lawmakers sideline meaningful reform
www.madycast.com
April 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Remember how Trump lost in 2020 and then endeavored to listen to his political opponents and compromise and moderate his views and that’s why he won in 2024
March 31, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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denisenorris.bsky.social
And here is how evangelicals are planning overturn Obergefell 👇

#SilenceIsErasure
March 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
As usual, Jesse pretends to be straddling both sides of the trans youth "debate" — while repeating Trump's talking points verbatim.
March 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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nerdjpg.com
Turns out they can make bold unqualified statements. Just not about the disappearing and torture of legal residents and citizens
Nancy Pelosi @SpeakerPelosi • 11h In my 30 years of experience working with the Intelligence Community, I have never before seen such horrifying incompetence in the securing of our nation's intelligence. How dare they put our Troops at risk with this cavalier behavior. There must be accountability. Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff •14h How many Signal chats with sensitive information about military operations are ongoing within the Pentagon right now? Where else are war plans being shared with such abject disregard for our national security? We need answers. Right now. • 3.3K t7 4.8K 23K Ihl 393K ..• CALL TO ACTIVISN WITHOOE GALLINA CALL TO ACTIVISM & @CalltoActivism • 7h BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker calls for Peter Hegseth to be fired from his job as Secretary of Defense. THE Inside INTERVIEW TRUMP OFFICIALS ACCIDENTALLY TEXT JOURNALIST WAR PLANS 293 172.9K 14K Ill 159K BMSNEX Insidewten Psaki Lawmakers demand investigation into group chat on Trump administration's war plans BY CAITLIN YILEK UPDATED ON: MARCH 24, 2025 / 8:18 PM EDT / CBS NEWS
March 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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markigra.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy
DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/
The Seattle Times "There's nothing you need to do - we've deducted the funds from LEONARD A. JOHNSON's account." Uh oh. It itemized how $5,201 had been stricken from their bank account, on the grounds that Ned wasn't justified to get those benefits - because he was dead. That was for payments he'd received in December and January. Ned found that his February Social Security check hadn't been paid, and he's yet to receive his March check, either. His Medicare insurance had been canceled. He also learned that when you die, your credit score gets marked as "deceased, do not issue credit," which makes it tough to get a loan.
March 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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esqueer.net
They're outright saying they want an uneducated populace without opportunities for women so that they can go back to the kitchen and make babies.

They're eugenicists.
philipncohen.com Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Mar 13
Heritage: "reducing federal higher education subsidies and loan cancellation that place the federal thumb on the scale in favor of spending years in postsecondary work of questionable value will help young Americans to start and expand their families." www.heritage.org/education/re...
Education Policy Reforms Are Key Strategies for Increasing the Married Birth Rate
The fertility rate in the United States has dropped to 1.6,
www.heritage.org
March 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law:

“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.

www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates
The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.
www.nhpr.org
March 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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djdynamic.ca
He's obviously running for President but it's still a good move and also, notably, just light years better than alternative tactics like, just spitballing here, "repeatedly invite fascists on a podcast to help you embrace transphobia"
isaacdovere.bsky.social Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · Mar 13
NEW from me -
Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans who have stopped holding in-person town halls amid the raucous receptions some of their colleagues have gotten across the country. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...
Tim Walz to launch national tour of town halls in Republican House districts | CNN Politics
Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans, some of whom have stopped holding town halls amid the raucous receptions their colleagues...
www.cnn.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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esqueer.net
The scene of Andor getting arrested shows exactly how stupid fascism works. Everything is arbitrary and it's all so stupid.

youtu.be/SayKxc3ee7I?...
March 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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maxberger.bsky.social
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March 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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transmenacebmore.bsky.social
Join chloeethics.bsky.social and others in protesting the digital erasure of trans and gender expansive people. Healthcare, Govt Services, History, Integration into Society - all being challenged and erased. #silence-is-erasure
Don't go quietly.
March 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
"The first guest on Gavin Newsom's podcast was Charlie Kirk" is more than enough for me to say "absolutely not" to any suggestion Newsom play any role in the future of the Democratic Party. People like him are the past, the failures, the ones who got us here.
atherton.bsky.social Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · Mar 5
Gavin Newsom would have put down the Bell Riots with tanks and napalm I can tell you that much
Gavin Newsom v @GavinNewsom Follow Make sure to tune in TOMORROW for the first episode of my new podcast → linktr.ee/govgavinnewsom... Charlie Kirk We had quite the chat!
March 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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denisenorris.bsky.social
Even Reason is debunking Littlejohn's & Trump's lies about her child being secretly transitioned at school.

'It starts to seem a lot less about actually protecting parental choice & family privacy & more about imposing a specific "gender ideology" of their own on everyone.'

#Silence=Erasure
Trump's trans kid story doesn't add up
The Trump administration is "working to protect our children from toxic ideologies in our schools," President Donald Trump told the nation during a
reason.com
March 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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denisenorris.bsky.social
Of course it is a scam.

They are using stochastic terrorism to create/amplify a trans panic as a distraction for their grift and power grab.

We are not just the target, but also the scapegoat to achieve their goals.

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America’s Anti-Trans Panic Is a Scam
While the current wave of discriminatory policies will do obvious harm to the transgender community, they’re also meant to distract from the myriad ways we’re all getting fleeced.
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2024 at 12:31 PM