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NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES

DAY 9 AUGUST 2025

THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES

TODAY, ICE GESTAPO RAMPANT
. . TEXAS DEMOCRATS FIGHT
. . STAND WITH ZELENSKYY

Meet Rob Rodgers, an award-winning cartoonist of 20 plus years
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
FIRED for this cartoon

This is what fascism looks like🧵
August 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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When I was a Boy Scout they used to tell us the number one thing was to leave the campsite better than it was when you found it. So that it looked like no one had ever even been there.
August 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Pay attention. Here’s “the Godfather of Artificial Intelligence,” Geoffrey Hinton, accepting the 2024 Nobel Prize. Hinton co-developed the 1980s backpropagation algorithm, which laid the foundation for A.I.

Hinton left Google in 2023, so he could speak freely about the risks A.I. poses to humanity:
August 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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“The purge of dedicated, patriotic FBI officials like Special Agent Evans is an absolute disgraceful moment in history,” Zaid said in a statement.

www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-...
‘Disgraceful moment’: FBI fires official who was head of Las Vegas field office, attorney says
Attorney Mark Zaid said Spencer Evans was fired without due process because he followed the Justice Department’s COVID-19 policies.
www.reviewjournal.com
August 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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We must refuse to allow the U.S. government and the media to normalize mass censorship in response to a manufactured moral panic about technology and social media.
The UK's Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit | Taylor Lorenz
From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz
www.theguardian.com
August 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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In 1986, Jesse Ventura tried to unionize WWE wrestlers. The effort failed when WWF owner Vince McMahon found out - allegedly tipped off by Hulk Hogan himself. buff.ly/YJHiTzT By Brian Jansen @umaine.bsky.social
Hulk Hogan and the unraveling of worker solidarity
Pro wrestling’s failed unionization effort – and Hogan’s alleged role in undermining that campaign – is part of a broader story about the erosion of labor’s power since the 1980s.
buff.ly
August 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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"Stochastic terrorism [is] the repeated use of ... vilifying, dehumanizing rhetoric by a political leader or other public figure that inspires one or more of the figure’s supporters to commit ... acts of violence against a targeted person, group, or community."

-Britannica
CDC shooter believed COVID vaccine made him suicidal, his father tells police
A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that a Georgia man who opened fire Friday on the U.S.
apnews.com
August 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”
August 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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#r4today
Do yourselves a favour and follow Jenny Cohn. Her comprehensive analysis of some of the most influential people in your lives is the sort of real journalism we deserve, but sadly not what we get from the mainstream media.
Doug Wilson is a “Christian Nationalist” pastor & “biblical patriarchy” proponent whose new DC church is attended by Pete Hegseth. Israeli-American Yoram Hazony—whose Thiel-linked “NatCon” conferences helped propel JD Vance’s political career—platforms Wilson & Wilson’s associates & admirers. 1/
August 9, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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“It felt like I was looking into the face of somebody who had just been tortured,” says Rev. Elizabeth Diop.

More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
August 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...
A deadly shooting at the CDC shook its scientists. Now they want answers from RFK Jr.
CDC Director Susan Monarez convened an online all-hands meeting of the agency division that focuses on vaccines, and employees called out Kennedy’s rhetoric specifically.
www.msnbc.com
August 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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“Why has the White House not issued any statement?” [Dr. John Brooks] asked. “Do they really hate CDC this much? Are they simply incapable of doing anything to support federal workers, including those that aim to reduce exactly this kind of violence against Americans?”
CDC workers in Georgia left to work through grief, anger after shooting
After Friday's deadly shooting at the CDC in Atlanta, workers say they feel unsupported by federal officials.
www.ajc.com
August 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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😳 ICYMI, “Jeffrey Epstein Invested With Peter Thiel, & His Estate Is Reaping Millions ***
Mr. Epstein, the late…sex offender, started by putting $40M into Valar Ventures, a firm backed by Mr. Thiel. Today that investment is worth about $170M.” 6/14/25, By @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social
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Jeffrey Epstein Invested With Peter Thiel, and His Estate Is Reaping Millions
www.nytimes.com
July 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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RFK Jr is doing to the US what he did to Samoa:
“In the small island country of Samoa, lives have been forever altered by an outbreak of the disease in 2019 that caused at least 83 deaths & 1,867 hospitalisations, mostly of babies & young children. Thousands more fell sick” bsky.app/profile/aust...
NEW: The FDA may yank Pfizer's under-5 Covid vaccine this fall. Pfizer has the only pediatric vaccines for all kids over six months, not just those with health conditions. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pfizer Covid vaccine for young children may not be renewed by FDA
Email obtained by Guardian says Pfizer was told approval may not be granted, meaning Moderna may have to fill gap
www.theguardian.com
August 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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When I reported local news in Brooklyn, one of the clearest obstacles to any truly progressive or helpful action for everyday New Yorkers was the IDC. At every given opportunity, they demolished hope for consequential change.
Cuomo helped form the IDC, a group of rogue Democratic state senators who sided with Republicans year after year to keep loopholes in NY’s rent stabilization laws.

The result: tens of thousands of rent stabilized units were eliminated.

www.politico.com/states/new-y...
Another Cuomo noninterference story falls apart
Andrew Cuomo has always been careful to maintain a plausible-looking deniability when it comes to his role in keeping his own party out of power in the State Senate.
www.politico.com
August 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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The fact that Republican extremists want to continue to disenfranchise D.C. voters is simply racist.

Make sure your Congresspeople know that you expect them to support statehood for D.C.

Speak out for voting rights. Oppose voter suppression!
Support our campaign to remove MAGA extremists
dlvr.it
August 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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August 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”
August 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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This movement is unfortunately much bigger than Pete Hegseth. Thread. bsky.app/profile/jenn...
1. Doug Wilson builds mini “fiefdom” in Moscow, ID
2. Doug Wilson disciples set up “hard tech” startups in El Segundo, CA (“The Gundo”)
3. Doug Wilson associates begin building a Christian community in TN
4. Doug Wilson plants new DC church. Pete Hegseth attends.
5. NatCon boosts Doug Wilson 1/
August 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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💯💯💯💯💯
August 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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THREAD: Aug 8, 26 Federal Plaza: There is a look on all their faces when they are arrested, after they come to court for their scheduled immigration hearing. After they showed the judges their papers, they have no criminal record.
August 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.
Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose
The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
www.npr.org
August 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Thinking of you and the rest of the CDC posse 🫂 @altcdc.altgov.info
We knew in our guts while hiding that the shooter was targeting us. This violence is driven by anti-vaccine propaganda. And the rot start at the top.

Just this week RFK Jr canceled all mRNA vaccine research while lying about the technologies safety and effectiveness.
“The shooter was either sick or believed he was sick, and blamed his illness on COVID vaccine — which is why he was targeting the CDC.”
August 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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First they declare porn illegal.
Then they redefine anything they don’t like as porn.
It doesn’t matter what you personally think of porn, policing people’s right to access information and media is wrong, and deciding “I think it’s icky and my opinion is more important than your rights” is Bad.
This bill would criminalize pornography by legally redefining what it means to be obscene.

Period. Full stop. No more porn legally. If you post porn whether free pics or paid vids. this affects you!
August 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM