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You know you're a corrupt dictator when...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...
Donald Trump awarded inaugural FIFA Peace Prize by Gianni Infantino
FIFA never announced nominees for the new award and has not said how or by whom the winner was chosen.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
I am a woman who joined the Let’s Rethink Chicks Having The Right To Vote Party and I am concerned they do not take me completely seriously, somebody please help me
jlazarus.bsky.social Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 1d
A member of the House Republican caucus said this.

Oh. So things are BAD bad.
December 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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@federalreserve.gov requests public input on the impact of potential strategic changes to check services provided by the Fed, as well as check usage and preferences: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...
Federal Reserve Board requests public input on the impact of potential strategic changes to check services provided by the Fed, as well as check usage and preferences
The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday requested public input on the impact of potential strategic changes to check services provided by the Fed, as well as che
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December 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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steveliesman.bsky.social
The enormously complex trump tariff regime represents an enormous level of hypocrisy. The admin promised deregulation but created a tariff regime that costs businesses massive amounts of time and money to comply with. Below is a graphic from Scott Lincicome of Cato showing its complexity
December 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
So far, in less than one year, Donald Trump has issued over TEN TIMES as many pardons as he did in his entire four-year first term. That’s a lot of criminals released onto our streets.
December 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
"The net effect would be to disadvantage the people the FDA exists to protect. ... The proposed new directives are not small adjustments or coherent policy updates. ... These arguments misrepresent both the science and the regulatory record." —former FDA commissioners writing in NEJM
The NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL of MEDICINE Perspective A Threat to Evidence-Based Vaccine Policy and Public Health Security at the FDA As former commissioners of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — who collectively guided the agency’s oversight for more than 35 years, through myriad public health crises — we are committed to medical product safety and identifying new medical evidence with the speed, rigor, and openness that the public should expect. We are deeply concerned by sweeping new FDA assertions about vaccine safety and proposals that would undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure that vaccines are safe, effective, and available when the public needs them most. The existing regulatory model builds public trust by encouraging open information exchange and rigorous, transparent scientific debate. Yet a memo sent last week to FDA staff will upend core policies governing vaccine development and updates.1 These measures, and the unilateral way they are being imposed, undermine the public interest. They are the latest in a series of troubling changes at the FDA, including substantial departures of FDA staff, that could diminish both the FDA’s strength and Americans’ health and safety. The memo (available at https://www-biocentury-com.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/article/657740) was written by Vinay Prasad, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), who also serves as the agency’s chief scientific officer, chief medical officer, and acting head of CBER’s office of biostatistics, as well as overseeing the division responsible for vaccine review and approval. His memo characterizes the actions of FDA scientists who express concerns about agency processes or decisions to outside parties as “unethical” and “illegal.” It calls for scientific debates to be kept within the agency “until they are ready to be made public,” and instructs staff members who disagree with the new framework to “submit your resignation letters.” The proposed guidelines would dramatically change vaccine regulation on the basis of a reinterpretation of selective evidence and by a process that breaks sharply with the norms that have anchored the FDA’s globally respected scientific integrity. If enacted, the framework would impede the ability to update vaccines to keep up with the natural evolution of respiratory viruses or changes in the prevalence of bacterial serotypes; it would also suppress innovation and competition. The net effect would be to disadvantage the people the FDA exists to protect, including millions of Americans at high risk from serious infections. The new framework rejects the agency’s long-standing reliance on “immunobridging” studies for well-understood vaccines with extensive safety data. Using this approach, once a reliable correlation with effectiveness has been established, a vaccine’s ability to stimulate the immune system to produce protective antibodies can serve as a surrogate for its efficacy in helping patients avoid infections and complications from rapidly evolving viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and influenza. Because these viruses change frequently, repeating large-scale efficacy trials for every new seasonal strain is not feasible within the time needed to update the vaccines. Bridging studies have also been used to broaden vaccine protection to additional serotypes of bacteria.2 The FDA continually updates the correlate strains used for immunobridging studies to ensure that vaccines remain safe and effective as threats evolve. Immunobridging studies have also been used for some new products, including the human papillomavirus vaccine that could largely eliminate cervical cancer. The proposed new directives are not small adjustments or coherent policy updates. They represent a major shift in the FDA’s understanding of its job. The memo states that “no amount of cell or humoral mediated immune surrogates” can justify approval of new or updated vaccines — logic that Prasad claims is implied by the lack of a full biosimilar pathway for vaccines. These arguments misrepresent both the science and the regulatory record, especially in the case of vaccines that target well-understood pathogens through an established mechanism of action. Abandoning the existing methods won’t “elevate vaccine science,” as the memo asserts. It will subject vaccines to a substantially higher and more subjective approval bar. The proposed measures will slow the replacement of older products with better ones and will create potentially prohibitive expenses for new market entrants, especially small biotechnology companies. It’s true that vaccines can generate substantial profits and that their complexity thwarts true generic competition, as the memo observes. But the proposed policy response would reduce competition and raise prices by demanding premarketing randomized clinical trials “for most new products.”1,3 Moreover, insisting on long, expensive outcomes studies for every updated formulation would delay the arrival of better-matched vaccines when new outbreaks emerge or when additional groups of patients could benefit. It is important to create a clear, science-driven, and well-reasoned pathway to approval; otherwise, innovators will have no reliable way to design their development programs. The people most affected by the FDA’s proposed framework will include older Americans and those with weakened immune systems who rely most on the protection that timely and updated vaccines can offer. The new approach would also evade public transparency, including long-standing statutory and regulatory mechanisms that enable disagreements about benefit–risk balance, clinical tria…
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Why is Donald Trump’s name now on the @usip.org building? Who put there? And when?
December 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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it gives me no pleasure to inform you that I have embraced Hakeem Jeffries Is Part of the Fucking Problem Thought
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d
UPDATE

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries tells CNN that the charges against Congressman Henry Cuellar and his wife were “very thin,” and that President Trump’s pardon of the couple was “the right outcome.”
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d
1. BREAKING

President Trump says he is granting a pardon to Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar and his wife Imelda.

Federal prosecutors said they accepted around $600,000 from an oil-and-gas company wholly owned and controlled by the government of Azerbaijan and a bank in Mexico.
December 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The new chair of ACIP, Kirk Milhoan, is a spreader of vaccine disinformation.

He was fact-checked by AFP for wildly misinterpreting a study about myocarditis in athletes, claiming the vaccine was to blame.

None of the athletes had been vaccinated.

They had, however, had COVID19.
Malone asks: "Are we going to see significant numbers of death in damaged hearts in California, from the vaccine?" Milhoan responds: "If we allow those kids to stay active and play, I think there's a lot of myocarditis under the radar." As evidence, Milhoan cites a study on heart risk for athletes in the Big Ten, which includes colleges such as Michigan State University and Pennsylvania State University. The study cited by Milhoan also did not examine athletes vaccinated against Covid-19. "Our study looked at cardiac MRI of athletes with Covid-19 infection, not with the vaccine," Saurabh Rajpal, an associate professor of internal medicine at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and one of the paper's co-authors, told AFP in a September 1, 2022 email.
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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It's wild but not surprising that last week the White House was leaning into "these seditious Democrats dared suggest that troops were receiving illegal orders!!!" and this week they are scrambling to figure out who to blame for issuing illegal orders.
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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BREAKING: @OpenAI.com & @Microsoft.com have been sued for $10 Billion+ by 9 newspaper groups, including the @LATimes.com, who claim direct and secondary © infringement + violation of the DMCA by removing © management info. Plaintiffs allege their works were "copied" and "memorized":🧵👀
December 1, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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A+ headline work from the AP apnews.com/article/dona...
AP Trump MRI results Make a year-end gift Sign in AP Top 25 Stockton shooting Lane Kiffin Nick Fo POLITICS Trump says he'll release MRI results; he doesn't know what part of his body was scanned President Donald Trump speaks with reporters while in flight on Air Force One from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., to Joint Base Andrews, Sunday, Nov Read More Updated 5:33 PM CST, November 30, 2025
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Whiskey Pete definitely doesn't know about Shut The Fuck Up Fridays.
helldude.bsky.social rich traditions @helldude.bsky.social · 6d
"that's correct, i intended to do the war crimes"
November 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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“.. the 10th straight month of declining Tesla sales in Europe.”

@yahoofinance.com $TSLA
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November 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Happy Gävlebocken season! Every year since 1966, Gävle, Sweden, has erected a massive version of Scandinavia's traditional straw Yule goat. It is so attractive to vandals—particularly arsonists—that in the previous 59 years, only 17 goats have survived fully intact. Good luck in 2025, Gävlebocken!
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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bobeunlimited.bsky.social
Tarriff collections keep slowly creeping up and now represent a roughly 1% of GDP tax hike since the new admin took over.
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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weratedogs.com
This is Bear. He is in charge of supervising Thanksgiving dinner preparation. Appointed himself to the role, but takes it very seriously. 14/10 (TT: emileebellant)
November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
racephoto.bsky.social
Breaking news: executives want to control the narrative.
atlantafed.org Atlanta Fed @atlantafed.org · 9d
Business executives at in-person or hybrid firms say their employees are more productive in the office. Executives at fully remote firms say the opposite. See more: atlfed.org/4pCO3Qe.
Atlanta Fed 11-25-25 Survey of Business Uncertainty line chart
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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NEW: DOJ said tonight that it was DHS Secretary Kristi Noem who made the call to proceed with the deportation of more than 100 Venezuelan men to El Salvador, despite a judge's order seeking to block the transfer.

w/ @joshgerstein

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November 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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bobeunlimited.bsky.social
The last time that US homes were this unaffordable was at the peak of the housing boom. It's going to take far more than 50bps drop in mortgage rates before there is a sustainable bottoming and reacceleration in the housing market.
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Ugly #Retail sales **volumes** show consumer struggling to push trough #tariffs

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November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
racephoto.bsky.social
The first 30,000 of the Substance abuse, behavioral disorder, and mental health counselors are just to cover the expected increase in lawyers.
usbls.bsky.social U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics @usbls.bsky.social · 11d
Projected job openings in occupations typically requiring a graduate-level degree, 2024–34 www.bls.gov/opub/ted/202...
Bar chart showing occupations, among those typically requiring a graduate degree to enter, that are projected to have the most openings each year, on average, 2024–34
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM