Michael B
@parkeffects.bsky.social
Recovering data scientist, physicist, and sports fan. I enjoy outdoorsing. No room for bigots.
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"I’ve been on a journey that I know Ross approves of," Barbaro said, referring to his ending his same-sex marriage and marrying a woman.
"It’s no secret that [Douthat] wants people to have children and to enter into monogamous heterosexual relationships."[41]
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NYT:
"It’s no secret that [Douthat] wants people to have children and to enter into monogamous heterosexual relationships."[41]
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NYT:
"Elite" doesn't apply to the party of the world's richest families
"Working class" luxury pickup truck owners, but not POC
"Faith voters" but not the most religious group, Black Americans
"Midwest" means White
Obvious narrative biases pushed even by centrist "MSM" like NYT's senior editors:
"Working class" luxury pickup truck owners, but not POC
"Faith voters" but not the most religious group, Black Americans
"Midwest" means White
Obvious narrative biases pushed even by centrist "MSM" like NYT's senior editors:
April 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"I’ve been on a journey that I know Ross approves of," Barbaro said, referring to his ending his same-sex marriage and marrying a woman.
"It’s no secret that [Douthat] wants people to have children and to enter into monogamous heterosexual relationships."[41]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael...
NYT:
"It’s no secret that [Douthat] wants people to have children and to enter into monogamous heterosexual relationships."[41]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael...
NYT:
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November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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the MSM is a corrupt menace to democracy
Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
![From:
Thomas Jr., Landon
Sent:
9/27/2017 2:47:47 PM
To:
Subject:
Got another call from Connelly..
Importance:
High
Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too.
Anyway, for what its worth...
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h
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November 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
the MSM is a corrupt menace to democracy
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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By March, they are gonna be pretending they were fooled by him.
By this time next year, they're gonna be suggesting they never REALLY liked the guy.
By the time the 2028 GOP primaries get started, every single one of them will be like Donald who??
By this time next year, they're gonna be suggesting they never REALLY liked the guy.
By the time the 2028 GOP primaries get started, every single one of them will be like Donald who??
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
By March, they are gonna be pretending they were fooled by him.
By this time next year, they're gonna be suggesting they never REALLY liked the guy.
By the time the 2028 GOP primaries get started, every single one of them will be like Donald who??
By this time next year, they're gonna be suggesting they never REALLY liked the guy.
By the time the 2028 GOP primaries get started, every single one of them will be like Donald who??
Now if only we had clear skies… 🙁
A Geomagnetic Storm Watch for Severe (G4) conditions is ongoing for tonight, which is what cause the aurora over most of the the U.S., Canada and Europe last night.
Strong (G3) conditions still continue at this hour.
www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g3-stro...
Strong (G3) conditions still continue at this hour.
www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g3-stro...
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Now if only we had clear skies… 🙁
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People aren't really paying attention here, but the wipeout of the GOP in VA is turning out to be pretty complete.
Spanberger ended up winning Montgomery by 17%, Harris won the county by 2.5%
She got 90%(!) of Harris’ vote total there, and received more raw votes than Harris (by a ton) in all of the Virginia Tech precincts
She got 90%(!) of Harris’ vote total there, and received more raw votes than Harris (by a ton) in all of the Virginia Tech precincts
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
People aren't really paying attention here, but the wipeout of the GOP in VA is turning out to be pretty complete.
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WTF, the Kansas City Star is reporting that a mysterious group hired a fake 'campaign canvasser' who'd join the effort to collect signatures to halt the GOP's gerrymander... but who'd be a spy on the inside.
www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
Inside mysterious push to block signature-gathering against Missouri redistricting
The source of the contract remains a mystery. But its existence has raised alarm as Missouri gears up for a potential statewide vote.
www.kansascity.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
WTF, the Kansas City Star is reporting that a mysterious group hired a fake 'campaign canvasser' who'd join the effort to collect signatures to halt the GOP's gerrymander... but who'd be a spy on the inside.
www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
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One horrific thing to me is that the president- a man who has gotten away with everything including literal murder up to this point- seems extremely nervous about anything regarding Epstein coming out. Like how bad does it have to be
November 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
One horrific thing to me is that the president- a man who has gotten away with everything including literal murder up to this point- seems extremely nervous about anything regarding Epstein coming out. Like how bad does it have to be
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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In 2005, Summers said women aren't as mentally equipped to be scientists as men (link below). Harvard didn't fire his ass then.
Now in this 2017 email, he's making an insufferable, faux-clever "joke" about women's supposedly inferior IQ.
He's been garbage for decades.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...
Now in this 2017 email, he's making an insufferable, faux-clever "joke" about women's supposedly inferior IQ.
He's been garbage for decades.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...
Harvard President Summers' Remarks About Women in Science, Engineering
Harvard President Lawrence Summers faced intense criticism for remarks he made about the shortage of women in the sciences and engineering at a Jan. 14 closed-door conference.
www.pbs.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
In 2005, Summers said women aren't as mentally equipped to be scientists as men (link below). Harvard didn't fire his ass then.
Now in this 2017 email, he's making an insufferable, faux-clever "joke" about women's supposedly inferior IQ.
He's been garbage for decades.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...
Now in this 2017 email, he's making an insufferable, faux-clever "joke" about women's supposedly inferior IQ.
He's been garbage for decades.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...
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if dante’s inferno were written today, satan would be chewing on Judas, Brutus, and Merrick Garland
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
if dante’s inferno were written today, satan would be chewing on Judas, Brutus, and Merrick Garland
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yeah it's a good thing Landon didn't publish any of this shit. the Times might have had to bump an article about trans people.
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“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
yeah it's a good thing Landon didn't publish any of this shit. the Times might have had to bump an article about trans people.
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This 💯
And, “useless” is too kind. Fetterman’s office doesn’t even have voicemail - I called his DC office after dinner and just got a message saying “call back during biz hours”. Not even pretending to care.
And, “useless” is too kind. Fetterman’s office doesn’t even have voicemail - I called his DC office after dinner and just got a message saying “call back during biz hours”. Not even pretending to care.
I would make an argument we're not being mean enough to this useless ogre
Here's John Fetterman complaining on CNN about how mean Bluesky is to him -- and how the far-left is way more "poisonous" than the far-right.
November 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This 💯
And, “useless” is too kind. Fetterman’s office doesn’t even have voicemail - I called his DC office after dinner and just got a message saying “call back during biz hours”. Not even pretending to care.
And, “useless” is too kind. Fetterman’s office doesn’t even have voicemail - I called his DC office after dinner and just got a message saying “call back during biz hours”. Not even pretending to care.
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I would make an argument we're not being mean enough to this useless ogre
Here's John Fetterman complaining on CNN about how mean Bluesky is to him -- and how the far-left is way more "poisonous" than the far-right.
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I would make an argument we're not being mean enough to this useless ogre
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Todd Blanche would have had these emails before interviewing Maxwell. Why didn’t he question her directly about her exchanges? Why did he not follow up when she said things that were onviously a lie?? This shows that was a performance intended to dupe the public and benefit her (and Trump)
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Todd Blanche would have had these emails before interviewing Maxwell. Why didn’t he question her directly about her exchanges? Why did he not follow up when she said things that were onviously a lie?? This shows that was a performance intended to dupe the public and benefit her (and Trump)
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It's entirely fitting that one of the first big AI-generated music producers is a Deloitte consultant.
for my @newyorker.com column I profiled Nick Arter, a consultant turned musician who began producing AI songs under the name Nick Hustles a year ago and has hit millions of streams and gone pro. Where is the line of human creativity in the post-AI music industry? www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
That New Hit Song on Spotify? It Was Made by A.I.
Aspiring musicians are churning out tracks using generative artificial intelligence. Some are topping the charts.
www.newyorker.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
It's entirely fitting that one of the first big AI-generated music producers is a Deloitte consultant.
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"There is a non-zero chance we repeat this all over again at the end of January when the funding deal will run out. There’s a reason you’re not supposed to negotiate with terrorists." www.thebulwark.com/p/dems-rewar...
Dems Reward the Hostage-Taker
Perhaps ending the shutdown was the responsible thing to do. But by caving, Democrats risk legitimizing Trump’s maximum-pain shutdown tactics.
www.thebulwark.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
"There is a non-zero chance we repeat this all over again at the end of January when the funding deal will run out. There’s a reason you’re not supposed to negotiate with terrorists." www.thebulwark.com/p/dems-rewar...
Scheduling this same skeet for December. 🤡🤡🤡
UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Scheduling this same skeet for December. 🤡🤡🤡
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it’s gonna be super fucking cool to watch MSM further normalize this fascist organization as if they didn’t just help to generate literally thousands of death threats against some random teachers *checks notes* last week.
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
it’s gonna be super fucking cool to watch MSM further normalize this fascist organization as if they didn’t just help to generate literally thousands of death threats against some random teachers *checks notes* last week.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Attention Katie Wilson voters!!!
If you live in Seattle, and you vote, and you care about who your next mayor is, log in to the King County Ballot Tracker (it’s very quick and easy) and check that your ballot was counted. This race is so close that it might make an actual difference. info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
King County Elections
Led by Director Julie Wise, King County Elections conducts accurate, secure, and accessible elections for King County's over 1.4 million registered voters.
info.kingcounty.gov
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Attention Katie Wilson voters!!!
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That old metaphor about the frog and the boiling water isn’t true: If you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will jump out before it gets boiled to death.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
How news coverage eases us into tyranny
When the media act like things are normal, they don’t reassure us – they gaslight us
www.stopthepresses.news
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
That old metaphor about the frog and the boiling water isn’t true: If you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will jump out before it gets boiled to death.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
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On the Cave Caucus, and the 10D chess required to completely and utterly betray the trust of your longsuffering constituents
Thanks for nothing, guys
I honestly don't know what I expected.
www.wordsaboutwork.news
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
On the Cave Caucus, and the 10D chess required to completely and utterly betray the trust of your longsuffering constituents