Sabin Russell
@sabinwiki.bsky.social
Retired observer, word-stacker
Will someone let me know when the old MSNBC stops scrolling their various awful new acryonym logos in the lower right corner of their shows, so I can start watching the shows again? Seems that distracting the watchers from the shows they want to watch is a bad idea, but so is the name change.
November 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Will someone let me know when the old MSNBC stops scrolling their various awful new acryonym logos in the lower right corner of their shows, so I can start watching the shows again? Seems that distracting the watchers from the shows they want to watch is a bad idea, but so is the name change.
Keep an Eye on it. www.facebook.com/reel/1327816...
Facebook
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October 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Keep an Eye on it. www.facebook.com/reel/1327816...
With Walt Disney and its subsidiary ABC complicit in the shredding of the First Amendment, isn't it time for folks to reconsider the need to book expensive vacations for their kids at Disney properties? And cancelling your Hulu + Disney subscription is remarkabley easy, and sort of fun.
September 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
With Walt Disney and its subsidiary ABC complicit in the shredding of the First Amendment, isn't it time for folks to reconsider the need to book expensive vacations for their kids at Disney properties? And cancelling your Hulu + Disney subscription is remarkabley easy, and sort of fun.
Soundtrack for tomorrow's dictator display. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqaj...
"Oh-RE-Oles, OH-Rioles" (music from The Wizard of Oz)
YouTube video by Willhelm von Nordbach
www.youtube.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Soundtrack for tomorrow's dictator display. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqaj...
It seems like the world is waking up to this reality. Maybe it took Bill Gates to point it out. This is what should be discussed during Trump's Triumph of the Will parade on June 14. bsky.app/profile/sabi...
“I can’t buy medications with a waiver.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...
June 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
It seems like the world is waking up to this reality. Maybe it took Bill Gates to point it out. This is what should be discussed during Trump's Triumph of the Will parade on June 14. bsky.app/profile/sabi...
When all this passes, the quick dispatch of PEPFAR and the sledgehammer blows to HIV prevention, treatment and cure programs are topics worthy of consideration by The Hague.
Trump’s Revenge on Public Health
The attacks on HIV research are just the beginning of unraveling decades of progress.
www.theatlantic.com
April 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
When all this passes, the quick dispatch of PEPFAR and the sledgehammer blows to HIV prevention, treatment and cure programs are topics worthy of consideration by The Hague.
Seems to me that before we are frog-walked or disappeared into Trump's Dachau in El Salvador, half of America needs to boycott the T-shirts, knitted and crocheted clothing that amounted to $1.24 billion in imports from there. Sometimes the power of the purse is just the power of underwear.
April 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Seems to me that before we are frog-walked or disappeared into Trump's Dachau in El Salvador, half of America needs to boycott the T-shirts, knitted and crocheted clothing that amounted to $1.24 billion in imports from there. Sometimes the power of the purse is just the power of underwear.
Dems have GOT to clean up this mess before the 2026 elections. Dems need small Blue State donors to persuade the fence sitters in "battleground states," so don't f*ck with us. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...
Meet the 23-Year-Old Student Who Raised $25 Million in Democratic Losses
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Dems have GOT to clean up this mess before the 2026 elections. Dems need small Blue State donors to persuade the fence sitters in "battleground states," so don't f*ck with us. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...
Hope Springs Eternal....
April 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Hope Springs Eternal....
Weekend protest at University Village Tesla, Seattle.
March 31, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Weekend protest at University Village Tesla, Seattle.
My placard at protests says Elon Musk is Killing Children, Save USAID, Save PEPFAR. Some might find this offensive to to the richest man in the world, who literally wears a child on his shoulders at photo ops. Here is a story that verifies exactly what the sign says:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
My placard at protests says Elon Musk is Killing Children, Save USAID, Save PEPFAR. Some might find this offensive to to the richest man in the world, who literally wears a child on his shoulders at photo ops. Here is a story that verifies exactly what the sign says:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
When Alito is 'stunned,' the patient is showing signs of life. Huzzah! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/u...
Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Bid to Freeze Foreign Aid
The move came after Chief Justice Roberts temporarily paused a trial judge’s order requiring the administration to release more than $1.5 billion.
www.nytimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
When Alito is 'stunned,' the patient is showing signs of life. Huzzah! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/u...
DOGE held an Oscar party and Big Balls "accidentally" threw Hulu into the chipper.
March 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
DOGE held an Oscar party and Big Balls "accidentally" threw Hulu into the chipper.
Before the chess board is kicked over, and perhaps the game is over, a clear perspective from a well-placed source.
The Putinization of America
Trump’s deference to the Russian dictator has become full-blown imitation.
www.theatlantic.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Before the chess board is kicked over, and perhaps the game is over, a clear perspective from a well-placed source.
You are welcome, Elon. So now, would you mind taking your knee off the necks of starving children in Sudan, off the pipeline for HIV drugs in Africa, off the backs of non-rocket scientists and federal workers in the U.S. so that you can waste, fraud and abuse your way to Mars?
Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding
Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
You are welcome, Elon. So now, would you mind taking your knee off the necks of starving children in Sudan, off the pipeline for HIV drugs in Africa, off the backs of non-rocket scientists and federal workers in the U.S. so that you can waste, fraud and abuse your way to Mars?
Considering the source, read this guy and share if you can. (Published, incidentally, on the day the USA locked arms with Russia and North Korea in the UN.)
"America has a rogue president and a rogue administration, and we need to acknowledge that and respond."
"America has a rogue president and a rogue administration, and we need to acknowledge that and respond."
Opinion | America Has a Rogue President (Gift Article)
The firing of three judge advocate generals is one more element of this administration’s attack on the rule of law.
www.nytimes.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Considering the source, read this guy and share if you can. (Published, incidentally, on the day the USA locked arms with Russia and North Korea in the UN.)
"America has a rogue president and a rogue administration, and we need to acknowledge that and respond."
"America has a rogue president and a rogue administration, and we need to acknowledge that and respond."
Our bully president insults an entire nation, and Canada pushes back. Glad for our neighbors just up the road. Somehow this didn't feel like just a hockey game.
February 21, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Our bully president insults an entire nation, and Canada pushes back. Glad for our neighbors just up the road. Somehow this didn't feel like just a hockey game.
“I can’t buy medications with a waiver.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...
February 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
“I can’t buy medications with a waiver.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...
Seattle, other presidents day.
February 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Seattle, other presidents day.
If ignorance is bliss, we are in heaven.
CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health
Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired
www.statnews.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
If ignorance is bliss, we are in heaven.
For me, almost as unsettling as Elon Musk running the country is the behavior of large crowds. This is a really cool science story, with great visuals; and unlike the Muskovites, crowds seem, most of the time, to adhere to some sort of innate organizing principle.
The Physics That Keeps a Crowd From Becoming a Stampede (Gift Article)
A group of scientists studying the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain, believe there’s a way to predict the motions of a large crowd.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
For me, almost as unsettling as Elon Musk running the country is the behavior of large crowds. This is a really cool science story, with great visuals; and unlike the Muskovites, crowds seem, most of the time, to adhere to some sort of innate organizing principle.
This.
Trump Orders Halt to Aid to South Africa, Claiming Mistreatment of White Landowners (Gift Article)
The president ordered that all foreign assistance to South Africa be halted and said his administration would prioritize the resettling of white, “Afrikaner refugees” into the United States.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This.
Is it to early to consider the 25th Amendment?
Trump Proposes the U.S. Take Over Gaza: Live Updates
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Is it to early to consider the 25th Amendment?
What a great time for the US to pull out of the WHO and turn our medical research over to RK Jr. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/u...
Uganda confirms Ebola case in nurse in capital city
Ugandan health officials on Thursday confirmed a case of Ebola in the capital Kampala, in a nurse who sought care at a number of facilities.
www.statnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
What a great time for the US to pull out of the WHO and turn our medical research over to RK Jr. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/u...
With this SF Chronicle piece 26 years ago, I began coverage of AIDS activists trying to bring to Africa the same drug combos that saved their lives in the US -- the most important work I ever did. The movement led in 2003 to PEPFAR, saving 25 million lives. Now Trump has 'paused' funding of PEPFAR.
New Crusade To Lower AIDS Drug Costs / Africa's needs at odds with firms' profit motive
The payoff is an array of costly new pills that since 1996 have helped slash the American...
www.sfgate.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
With this SF Chronicle piece 26 years ago, I began coverage of AIDS activists trying to bring to Africa the same drug combos that saved their lives in the US -- the most important work I ever did. The movement led in 2003 to PEPFAR, saving 25 million lives. Now Trump has 'paused' funding of PEPFAR.