Mike
@kingtofu.bsky.social
Still Seattle-ish, still wondering what it’s all about
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Context:
Kennedy has suggested letting bird flu spread for herd immunity (Great Barrington Declaration style).
Right-wing groups and operatives have been laying the groundwork, downplaying concerns about the virus and pre-politicizing government efforts to control it (like they did with COVID).
Kennedy has suggested letting bird flu spread for herd immunity (Great Barrington Declaration style).
Right-wing groups and operatives have been laying the groundwork, downplaying concerns about the virus and pre-politicizing government efforts to control it (like they did with COVID).
December 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Context:
Kennedy has suggested letting bird flu spread for herd immunity (Great Barrington Declaration style).
Right-wing groups and operatives have been laying the groundwork, downplaying concerns about the virus and pre-politicizing government efforts to control it (like they did with COVID).
Kennedy has suggested letting bird flu spread for herd immunity (Great Barrington Declaration style).
Right-wing groups and operatives have been laying the groundwork, downplaying concerns about the virus and pre-politicizing government efforts to control it (like they did with COVID).
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated
it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened
November 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated
@hannahmwrites.bsky.social Happy birthday!
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
@hannahmwrites.bsky.social Happy birthday!
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The Republicans are a bunch of rapists, pedophiles, and violent misogynists, meanwhile they’re trying to smear this guy just for following THOSE DIRTY WHORES
James Talarico, a Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate who has put his faith at the forefront of his campaign, follows several adult film performers, escorts and OnlyFans models on Instagram, according to an Axios review.
Faith-forward Texas Senate candidate follows porn actors, escorts online
James Talarico has become a sensation in Texas politics by talking about how his Christianity is the basis for his progressive politics.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The Republicans are a bunch of rapists, pedophiles, and violent misogynists, meanwhile they’re trying to smear this guy just for following THOSE DIRTY WHORES
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“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"
CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom
EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.
www.independent.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"
@hannahmwrites.bsky.social Sorry but I have to root against the Tigers come Saturday. But, should they win this series, I’ll hop aboard the bandwagon.
October 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
@hannahmwrites.bsky.social Sorry but I have to root against the Tigers come Saturday. But, should they win this series, I’ll hop aboard the bandwagon.
@hannahmwrites.bsky.social The Tigers had it all along.
September 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
@hannahmwrites.bsky.social The Tigers had it all along.
@hannahmwrites.bsky.social Tigers back in the playoffs. Might end up playing Seattle in the second round.
September 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
@hannahmwrites.bsky.social Tigers back in the playoffs. Might end up playing Seattle in the second round.
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I am so deeply embarrassed for my country.
Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."
September 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I am so deeply embarrassed for my country.
@hannahmwrites.bsky.social Sorry about the Tigers tailspin. More unexpected than the one by the Mets.
September 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM
@hannahmwrites.bsky.social Sorry about the Tigers tailspin. More unexpected than the one by the Mets.
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A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”
July 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”
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If you haven’t been paying attention to the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel, ACIP, now is a good time to catch up.
ACIP stands for Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. It holds 3 meetings a year and makes vax recommendations to CDC.
In short: Kennedy and his pals are coming for vaccines.
ACIP stands for Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. It holds 3 meetings a year and makes vax recommendations to CDC.
In short: Kennedy and his pals are coming for vaccines.
July 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
If you haven’t been paying attention to the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel, ACIP, now is a good time to catch up.
ACIP stands for Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. It holds 3 meetings a year and makes vax recommendations to CDC.
In short: Kennedy and his pals are coming for vaccines.
ACIP stands for Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. It holds 3 meetings a year and makes vax recommendations to CDC.
In short: Kennedy and his pals are coming for vaccines.
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In 2024, after Dem Sen. Bob Casey was slammed by PolitiFact for saying GOP Senate candidate Dave McCormick would vote to extend Trump tax cuts & cut Medicaid for nursing homes, McCormick won the election & then...
...McCormick just voted to extend Trump tax cuts & cut Medicaid for nursing homes.
...McCormick just voted to extend Trump tax cuts & cut Medicaid for nursing homes.
July 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
In 2024, after Dem Sen. Bob Casey was slammed by PolitiFact for saying GOP Senate candidate Dave McCormick would vote to extend Trump tax cuts & cut Medicaid for nursing homes, McCormick won the election & then...
...McCormick just voted to extend Trump tax cuts & cut Medicaid for nursing homes.
...McCormick just voted to extend Trump tax cuts & cut Medicaid for nursing homes.
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Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's.
And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today.
Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill
And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today.
Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill
July 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's.
And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today.
Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill
And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today.
Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill
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I think we’ve become so inured to this stuff that it’s easy to lose sight of just how quickly epistemic collapse has accelerated. Ten years ago, the media was wringing its hands over social media misinformation and what it meant that Trump had the gall to lie. Now, the lies control health policy.
BREAKING: RFK Jr. names Martin Kulldorff and Robert Malone and six others to ACIP.
x.com/SecKennedy/s...
x.com/SecKennedy/s...
Secretary Kennedy on X: "On Monday, I took a major step towards restoring public trust in vaccines by reconstituting the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). I retired the 17 current members of the committee. I’m now repopulating ACIP with the eight new members who will attend ACIP’s" / X
On Monday, I took a major step towards restoring public trust in vaccines by reconstituting the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). I retired the 17 current members of the committee. I’m now repopulating ACIP with the eight new members who will attend ACIP’s
x.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I think we’ve become so inured to this stuff that it’s easy to lose sight of just how quickly epistemic collapse has accelerated. Ten years ago, the media was wringing its hands over social media misinformation and what it meant that Trump had the gall to lie. Now, the lies control health policy.
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These 18 Senate Dems just voted to advance the crypto industry's money laundering bill:
Alsobrooks
Booker
Cortez Masto
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Kelly
Kim
Lujan
Padilla
Rosen
Schiff
Slotkin
Warner
Warnock
Alsobrooks
Booker
Cortez Masto
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Kelly
Kim
Lujan
Padilla
Rosen
Schiff
Slotkin
Warner
Warnock
June 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
These 18 Senate Dems just voted to advance the crypto industry's money laundering bill:
Alsobrooks
Booker
Cortez Masto
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Kelly
Kim
Lujan
Padilla
Rosen
Schiff
Slotkin
Warner
Warnock
Alsobrooks
Booker
Cortez Masto
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Kelly
Kim
Lujan
Padilla
Rosen
Schiff
Slotkin
Warner
Warnock
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We need to stop making concessions to the right bc right-wingers get mad.
There’s this big effort to rewrite school closures. Even in ostensibly liberal media, we get solemnly acknowledgments that schools were closed too long.
Not bc of data, but bc right wingers screamed about it long enough.
There’s this big effort to rewrite school closures. Even in ostensibly liberal media, we get solemnly acknowledgments that schools were closed too long.
Not bc of data, but bc right wingers screamed about it long enough.
The truth is, we never, in any systematic way, made classrooms safe, like ensuring upgraded ventilation and air purification in schools.
And COVID ripped through classrooms. Kids fueled household spread and hundreds of thousands of them lost caregivers to the virus.
But we don’t talk about THAT.
And COVID ripped through classrooms. Kids fueled household spread and hundreds of thousands of them lost caregivers to the virus.
But we don’t talk about THAT.
April 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
We need to stop making concessions to the right bc right-wingers get mad.
There’s this big effort to rewrite school closures. Even in ostensibly liberal media, we get solemnly acknowledgments that schools were closed too long.
Not bc of data, but bc right wingers screamed about it long enough.
There’s this big effort to rewrite school closures. Even in ostensibly liberal media, we get solemnly acknowledgments that schools were closed too long.
Not bc of data, but bc right wingers screamed about it long enough.
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The whole thread, up and down,Washington State folks. Local Republicans are trying to sneak bills that criminalize a woman having a miscarriage into law
Republicans bent on this seems to be that women who lose a pregnancy should be investigated to confirm they haven't committed infanticide. So I guess we're embracing the whole Trump line of babies killed after birth on the Republican side. #waleg
April 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The whole thread, up and down,Washington State folks. Local Republicans are trying to sneak bills that criminalize a woman having a miscarriage into law
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i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record
April 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record
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As veteran scientists are forced out of HHS, fringe contrarians are taking key positions.
Take Tracy Beth Høeg, for example, announced this week as a special assistant to the new FDA commissioner, Marty Makary.
Here’s what you need to know about her:
www.importantcontext.news/p/the-fda-go...
Take Tracy Beth Høeg, for example, announced this week as a special assistant to the new FDA commissioner, Marty Makary.
Here’s what you need to know about her:
www.importantcontext.news/p/the-fda-go...
The FDA Goes Fringe: What You Need to Know About the Agency’s New Hire
Tracy Beth Høeg has been a far-right favorite for her COVID contrarianism.
www.importantcontext.news
April 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
As veteran scientists are forced out of HHS, fringe contrarians are taking key positions.
Take Tracy Beth Høeg, for example, announced this week as a special assistant to the new FDA commissioner, Marty Makary.
Here’s what you need to know about her:
www.importantcontext.news/p/the-fda-go...
Take Tracy Beth Høeg, for example, announced this week as a special assistant to the new FDA commissioner, Marty Makary.
Here’s what you need to know about her:
www.importantcontext.news/p/the-fda-go...
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Will even one university in the United States issue a statement saying "We will not embrace fascism"?
March 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Will even one university in the United States issue a statement saying "We will not embrace fascism"?