@peace-quiet.bsky.social
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You've been hit by a car and you're fading in and out. You ask the EMTs to price the ambulance ride. You get to the ER and tell the docs you'll need a price on each service before it's done. You get cancer so it's time to put treament out to competitive bid. I can keep going...
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
You've been hit by a car and you're fading in and out. You ask the EMTs to price the ambulance ride. You get to the ER and tell the docs you'll need a price on each service before it's done. You get cancer so it's time to put treament out to competitive bid. I can keep going...
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Despicable
December 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Despicable
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Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱
December 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
What the hell are we doing here?
Violets are blue
What the hell are we doing here?
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Roses are red
Violets are blue
What the hell are we doing here?
Violets are blue
What the hell are we doing here?
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These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.
The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!
Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.
FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.
The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!
Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.
FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.
October 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.
The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!
Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.
FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.
The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!
Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.
FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.
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Corporate income taxes are $77 billion lower than last year, primarily due to the Republican tax cuts for the rich.
itep.org/trump-tax-la...
itep.org/trump-tax-la...
Well, That Was Fast: Trump Tax Law’s New Corporate Breaks are Already Worsening the Deficit
Corporate income taxes for the fiscal year that ended in September are $77 billion lower than in the previous year, a 15 percent drop.
itep.org
October 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Corporate income taxes are $77 billion lower than last year, primarily due to the Republican tax cuts for the rich.
itep.org/trump-tax-la...
itep.org/trump-tax-la...
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October 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.
The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.
The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.
October 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.
The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.
The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.
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"In an authoritarian context, all journalism will tend toward propaganda unless it is explicitly formulated as anti-authoritarian. Unless an institution is explicitly designed to counter authoritarianism, it will end up aiding the authoritarians."
The Washington Post and CBS News are dying. The Bulwark is the future.
We drink their milkshake.
www.thebulwark.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"In an authoritarian context, all journalism will tend toward propaganda unless it is explicitly formulated as anti-authoritarian. Unless an institution is explicitly designed to counter authoritarianism, it will end up aiding the authoritarians."
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Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
September 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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TBH there is no way to design any system to counteract an executive declaring "I have all power and can exercise it arbitrarily" when a majority of the legislative and judicial branches responds with "that's right." Such a society is too primitive for modern governance and the rule of law.
Again, this is what I mean when I say the Constitution is broken
Which of the institutions it establishes, exactly, ISN'T broken?? Which is acting to maintain the constitutional order?
Which of the institutions it establishes, exactly, ISN'T broken?? Which is acting to maintain the constitutional order?
Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats.
The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit
The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit
September 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
TBH there is no way to design any system to counteract an executive declaring "I have all power and can exercise it arbitrarily" when a majority of the legislative and judicial branches responds with "that's right." Such a society is too primitive for modern governance and the rule of law.
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This ought to be a huge story everywhere. It is imperative that we not normalize sending troops into blue cities on false pretenses. The consequences could be tragic. Journalists must rebut the lies and quote the outraged at the top of their articles and segments. www.cnn.com/2025/09/27/p...
Trump says he’s sending troops to Portland to | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump is directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “provide all necessary troops” to Portland, Oregon, a city he says is “war ravaged” and protect ICE facilities he claimed are “und...
www.cnn.com
September 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This ought to be a huge story everywhere. It is imperative that we not normalize sending troops into blue cities on false pretenses. The consequences could be tragic. Journalists must rebut the lies and quote the outraged at the top of their articles and segments. www.cnn.com/2025/09/27/p...
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Let’s call a lie a lie, shall we?
I just spent a week in Portland. The city was busy with tourists and locals enjoying late summer. A prosperous downtown. Factually, there is no observable evidence of a city needing military intervention. A reminder that this is not normal. Please pay attention.
September 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Let’s call a lie a lie, shall we?
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A must-read Q&A by Eugene Fidell, who teaches military justice at Yale Law School:
FAQ for Senior Military Officers at Hegseth's Quantico Meeting
Military justice expert Eugene Fidell answers crucial questions ahead of next week's senior military meeting with Secretary Hegseth.
www.justsecurity.org
September 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
A must-read Q&A by Eugene Fidell, who teaches military justice at Yale Law School:
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They’re afraid of facts and the truth
Why is the Pentagon afraid of the press? - by @nancyayoussef.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
September 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
They’re afraid of facts and the truth
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I thought it might be time for a reality check for those people who fear the complications from vaccines without any apparent understanding of the diseases themselves.
September 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I thought it might be time for a reality check for those people who fear the complications from vaccines without any apparent understanding of the diseases themselves.
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Our abdication of the field in both green energy and in science and technology more broadly – read up on battery technology coming out of China – is going to ensure that this century, which could have been ours to lead, will belong to China. Entirely an own goal.
Important.
1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering.
www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...
www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...
September 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Our abdication of the field in both green energy and in science and technology more broadly – read up on battery technology coming out of China – is going to ensure that this century, which could have been ours to lead, will belong to China. Entirely an own goal.
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The Hatfields keep blaming the McCoys every time a Hatfield shoots another Hatfield.
September 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The Hatfields keep blaming the McCoys every time a Hatfield shoots another Hatfield.
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Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
September 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
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Cut immigration, cut labor supply, add tariffs on imports… and voilà: higher food prices.
August 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Cut immigration, cut labor supply, add tariffs on imports… and voilà: higher food prices.
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Both Trump and Zelenskyy were on their best behavior.
If you listen carefully, Trump delivered all Russian standpoints.
FOX confirms WH message that “Trump will make a case for land swap, but it’s up to Ukrainian people to accept it. Plus no NATO.”
So Ukraine will be blamed.
NOTHING IS NEW.
If you listen carefully, Trump delivered all Russian standpoints.
FOX confirms WH message that “Trump will make a case for land swap, but it’s up to Ukrainian people to accept it. Plus no NATO.”
So Ukraine will be blamed.
NOTHING IS NEW.
August 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Both Trump and Zelenskyy were on their best behavior.
If you listen carefully, Trump delivered all Russian standpoints.
FOX confirms WH message that “Trump will make a case for land swap, but it’s up to Ukrainian people to accept it. Plus no NATO.”
So Ukraine will be blamed.
NOTHING IS NEW.
If you listen carefully, Trump delivered all Russian standpoints.
FOX confirms WH message that “Trump will make a case for land swap, but it’s up to Ukrainian people to accept it. Plus no NATO.”
So Ukraine will be blamed.
NOTHING IS NEW.