Mark Donovan
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Mark Donovan
@joygantic.bsky.social
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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
January 9, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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To my Republican colleagues, the Vice President is spitting in your face and openly flouting your constitutional authority.

Time to decide if you came here to be a Member of Congress or a cheerleader for whatever Trump wants.
JD Vance: "The War Powers Act is fundamentally a fake and unconstitutional law"
January 8, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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They are going to Epstein Files a murder
The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"
January 8, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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You can feel like something is inevitable and still experience shock. Many of us knew something like this would happen, bc things like this have already happened, bc law enforcement functions with impunity, bc ICE kept drawing its guns on observers. But emotional and moral shock can still occur.
January 8, 2026 at 6:07 AM
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Something incredible I learned (re-learned?) tonight is that the blog post where the first SARS-CoV-2 genome was shared - six years ago on Saturday - included the most iconic footnote of all time
January 8, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.
January 8, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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politicians shouldn't swear it sets a bad example for the kids orphaned by ice agents
January 8, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8
Abolish ICE
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtu.be
January 8, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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A concise encapsulation of how Trump and his supporters and enablers have rewritten the history of their insurrection attempt.
According to the White House, this is the "true" timeline of January 6th.
January 6, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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My friend @charlotteclymer.bsky.social has written about Mark Kelly’s distinguished military career. This is not to be missed. open.substack.com/pub/charlott...
The Extraordinary Military Career of Mark Kelly
Good lord, has this man done a lot.
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:25 AM
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A non-comprehensive list of things my parents thought were wonderful resources when I was a child, and which they credit for my education and passion about science, that they subsequently voted to dismantle and destroy:

* National Parks
* PBS
* Public libraries
* Public schools
* NASA
January 5, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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I don’t think we rank that highly tbh; there’s no way we’d do so well in comparison to other countries. Probably something wrong with the survey or something.
January 4, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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It’s sobering to look back on the run-up to the Iraq war—a period of unceasing chattering-class debate, elaborate official lies, media complicity, unavailing global protest, in the end a giant stitch-up—and have it seem like some sort of paradise of public deliberation compared to these gangsters.
January 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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Days after his third dementia screening in six months the president of the United States, who is an open pedophile, abducts a foreign head of state
January 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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I wish Congress would finally realize it can impeach officials below the President, which would be an excellent way of tying an Administration in knots.
January 3, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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Grok issued an apology; however an air fryer and a Maytag top-load washer close to the situation have told us he was lying.
January 3, 2026 at 6:02 AM
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Comical, @wsj.com.
January 2, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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The quiet dignity of a self-confident nation.
I’m currently at the Washington Monument:
January 1, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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Remembering how 2025 started, which was just way too on the nose for what it was.
January 1, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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If I had a dollar for every British astrophysicist named Brian who put their career on hold to join a chart-topping pop group and then successfully pivoted back to astrophysics, I’d have two dollars, which isn’t much but it’s weird that it’s happened twice www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/w...
Before This Physicist Studied the Stars, He Was One
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Good thing for her she’s not a disinformation researcher.
Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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A more detailed account of the purchase by @ricksteves.bsky.social of a neighborhood hygiene center, his plans to help improve it further, and him calling out a failure to support vulnerable people. What a mensch. Be Rick.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Rick Steves buys ‘the most beautiful Christmas present’ for homeless neighbors
Five years after the Lynnwood Hygiene Center opened, serving hundreds in poverty, the landlord planned to sell. Steves stepped in to buy it.
www.seattletimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA
Although health care expenditure per capita is higher in the USA than in any other country, more than 37 million Americans do not have health insurance, and 41 million more have inadequate access to c...
www.thelancet.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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My whole timeline is made up of folks watching a 60 Minutes report the Trump administration tried to kill and unredacting Epstein files that weren't supposed to have been posted yet. Can't stop the signal.
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM