Patrick Salamat
@missingpoints.bsky.social
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Take a second and think before posting the easy Eeyore reply. You might have something substantive to say instead. Or, even better, you can say nothing at all.
January 8, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Take a second and think before posting the easy Eeyore reply. You might have something substantive to say instead. Or, even better, you can say nothing at all.
Yesterday at EDSA
September 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Yesterday at EDSA
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Episode 40: In Covid's Wake
Looking back at a pandemic that killed more than 1 million people, two political scientists bravely ask, "Could we have done even less?"
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Looking back at a pandemic that killed more than 1 million people, two political scientists bravely ask, "Could we have done even less?"
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"In Covid's Wake": Lying About… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/17/2025 · 58m
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June 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Episode 40: In Covid's Wake
Looking back at a pandemic that killed more than 1 million people, two political scientists bravely ask, "Could we have done even less?"
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Looking back at a pandemic that killed more than 1 million people, two political scientists bravely ask, "Could we have done even less?"
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
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Fewer cars. Faster travel. Less honking. Here are the things that have shifted since congestion pricing went into effect in New York.
Here Is Everything That Has Changed Since Congestion Pricing Started in New York
Fewer cars. Faster travel. Less honking. And some questions we still can’t answer.
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May 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Fewer cars. Faster travel. Less honking. Here are the things that have shifted since congestion pricing went into effect in New York.
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From Feb 22nd to 25th, 1986 millions of people from across the Philippines converged on Manila and stayed until Marcos fled. It stayed peaceful, but they stayed. It wasn't for 2 or 3 hours on a Saturday. They stayed until it was done.
April 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
From Feb 22nd to 25th, 1986 millions of people from across the Philippines converged on Manila and stayed until Marcos fled. It stayed peaceful, but they stayed. It wasn't for 2 or 3 hours on a Saturday. They stayed until it was done.
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I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵
April 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵
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Just because some people have a rotten idea of goodness doesn't mean that the idea of goodness is rotten.
March 16, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Just because some people have a rotten idea of goodness doesn't mean that the idea of goodness is rotten.
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There goes Rodrigo Duterte, in a plane scheduled to fly off to Rotterdam. So, so many emotions. A good number of years of my life spent doing the justice and accountability work in the Drug War as a young lawyer. It was all we ever knew. Today is for the courageous victim community.
March 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
There goes Rodrigo Duterte, in a plane scheduled to fly off to Rotterdam. So, so many emotions. A good number of years of my life spent doing the justice and accountability work in the Drug War as a young lawyer. It was all we ever knew. Today is for the courageous victim community.
The thing about Duterte's "war on drugs" is that no one is actually disputing the deaths. Officially pegged at around 5000+, more realistic estimates based on bodies in funeral parlors and morgues after operations reach as high as 30K.
March 11, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The thing about Duterte's "war on drugs" is that no one is actually disputing the deaths. Officially pegged at around 5000+, more realistic estimates based on bodies in funeral parlors and morgues after operations reach as high as 30K.
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Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was served an Interpol arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court on his arrival at Manila's main airport, the government said reut.rs/4iBOsi1
Arrest warrant served for Philippines ex-President Duterte, government says
Philippine police on Tuesday served an Interpol arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for former President Rodrigo Duterte upon his arrival at a Manila airport and the ex-leader is now in custody, the office of the president said.
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March 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was served an Interpol arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court on his arrival at Manila's main airport, the government said reut.rs/4iBOsi1
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Look if you want to save money you have to start fights with all your allies, throw the global economy into chaos, buddy up with the dour thuggish dictator of a hollowed-out petrostate, and fire 100s of thousands of professionals in key roles across all sectors of society, that’s leadership 101.
March 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Look if you want to save money you have to start fights with all your allies, throw the global economy into chaos, buddy up with the dour thuggish dictator of a hollowed-out petrostate, and fire 100s of thousands of professionals in key roles across all sectors of society, that’s leadership 101.
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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
February 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
Vulture Telematrix No. 1: Feb 26, 2025
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2244
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I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2244
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Telematrix No. 1: February 26, 2025
Can you name an Emmy-nominated TV show starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus?
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February 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Vulture Telematrix No. 1: Feb 26, 2025
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2244
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I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2244
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Play at:
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"The incompetence is a feature of the evil, not an unaccountable departure from it. These evil fuckers didn't just happen upon the worst possible candidates for each job; the job they want done requires hugely important positions to be held by the world's worst people."
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The Worst and the Dimmest
It's not a coincidence that we're being led by the least qualified monsters available; it's a deliberate strategy. Facing the Worst - a series about directional alignment.
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February 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"The incompetence is a feature of the evil, not an unaccountable departure from it. These evil fuckers didn't just happen upon the worst possible candidates for each job; the job they want done requires hugely important positions to be held by the world's worst people."
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American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
January 28, 2025 at 3:58 AM
American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
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child abuse begets authoritarians, who then see the world as a place where abuse is not only justified but necessary. that's why they keep using physical child abuse as metaphor!
Mel Gibson: I’m glad Trump is here. It’s like daddy arrived and he’s taking his belt off
January 25, 2025 at 3:32 AM
child abuse begets authoritarians, who then see the world as a place where abuse is not only justified but necessary. that's why they keep using physical child abuse as metaphor!
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"fundamentally misunderstanding the teachings of jesus christ" is the core tenet of white evangelical christianity
If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
January 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"fundamentally misunderstanding the teachings of jesus christ" is the core tenet of white evangelical christianity
Para hindi magulo, huwag nyo na lang iboto.
Comelec reminds everyone that Sen. Revilla legally changed his family name to "Bong Revilla".
Technically, he is Ramon Bong Revilla Jr. on first mention and then Bong Revilla after that. www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/...
Technically, he is Ramon Bong Revilla Jr. on first mention and then Bong Revilla after that. www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/...
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January 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Para hindi magulo, huwag nyo na lang iboto.
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Filipina journalist @mariaressa.bsky.social warned us all about this. No one listened until it was too late.
Watch: www.pbs.org/video/a-thou...
Watch: www.pbs.org/video/a-thou...
January 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Filipina journalist @mariaressa.bsky.social warned us all about this. No one listened until it was too late.
Watch: www.pbs.org/video/a-thou...
Watch: www.pbs.org/video/a-thou...
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The reviews are right. Two episodes in and I already consider The Pitt on Max as one of the best doctor shows ever. And John Wells corrects ER's oversight by having two Filipino nurses who talk shit in Tagalog in front of the doctors :))
January 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The reviews are right. Two episodes in and I already consider The Pitt on Max as one of the best doctor shows ever. And John Wells corrects ER's oversight by having two Filipino nurses who talk shit in Tagalog in front of the doctors :))
#SquidGame season 2: in case the capitalism metaphor flew over your head the first time.
December 29, 2024 at 6:03 AM
#SquidGame season 2: in case the capitalism metaphor flew over your head the first time.