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I finally beat Super Metroid.
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The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Susan J. Kressly, said "creation of federal immunization policy is ‘no longer a credible process.’”
June 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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allinwithchris.bsky.social
“Americans are being forced to accept masked paramilitary forces stopping you anytime, anywhere—demanding to know where people are from,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social. “It is an assault on the idea of America itself.”
June 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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minakimes.bsky.social
Found this @laist.com piece interviewing graduating seniors in LA—some of whom have family members afraid of attending ceremonies right now—to be quite moving.

laist.com/news/educati...
As we marched through our local streets, we made our voices heard,” she said. “We will be remembered as the class that made a difference. A class that stood up for what we believe in, who spoke up for our parents and grandparents when they were told they didn't have a voice. We were united not only by our culture, but by our shared belief that education can help us fight for justice and freedom. I'm incredibly proud to call myself a member of this class.” Atop their white robes, several of her classmates wore stoles resembling the flags of countries their families hail from. Many of their caps also bore the same message: “Para mis padres” — “For my parents.”
June 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
uhhhhhhhh uhmmmmmmmm what the fuck
June 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
For four long years I was told not to call what’s coming our way fascism but here we are:
chadloder.bsky.social Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · May 31
Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.
May 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
I can’t think of a presidency that has done more open and undeniable damage to this country, and the wider world, in such a short space of time, than this one.

Shocking, despicable:
Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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steventdennis.bsky.social
The US government is marshaling thought police to screen anyone seeking entry to America's most prestigious university from abroad. But *lack of public thoughts* could also lead to a denial of a visa to study there.
bloomberg.com Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · May 31
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday ordered more scrutiny of the social-media profiles of any foreigners seeking to visit Harvard University, telling US consular officers that applicants’ lack of an online presence might be enough evidence to deny a visa.
Rubio Ramps Up Pressure on Harvard With Expanded Visa Scrutiny
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday ordered more scrutiny of the social-media profiles of any foreigners seeking to visit Harvard University, telling US consular officers that applicants’ lack of an online presence might be enough evidence to deny a visa.
bloom.bg
May 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
What could possibly go wrong
hansilowang.bsky.social Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · May 31
NEW: The Trump administration's fiscal year 2026 budget request's appendix says with no details: "The President's Budget proposes to reorganize the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Census Bureau at the Department of Commerce"
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2026 The President's Budget proposes to reorganize the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Census Bureau at the Department of Commerce.
May 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
How did this work out for the law firms?
robertkelchen.com Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · May 31
The Trump administration is trying to negotiate with elite universities to strike a "deal." They're feeling the need for a political win after public opinion is in Harvard's corner (much to their surprise).

www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/p...
The White House is looking to strike a deal with a high-profile school, said the first source, who is involved in the higher education response. “They want a name-brand university to make a deal like the law firms made a deal that covers not just antisemitism and protests, but DEI and intellectual diversity,” this person said. “They want Trump to be able to stand up and say he made a deal with so-and-so – an Ivy League school, some sort of name-brand school that gives them cover so they can say, ‘We don’t want to destroy higher education.’”
May 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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“When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the government because they could credibly face government retribution, they no longer live in a full democracy.”
Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
So.

Steel production is relatively small slice of the American economy.

Steel itself? *Very widely used throughout the American economy.

See the problem?

(I mean, see the problem beyond the entire global economy being held hostage to the whims of one guy who doesn’t understand the economy?)
May 31, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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minakimes.bsky.social
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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The government wants to do its "enhanced social media vetting" surveillance on all foreign college kids (starting with Harvard, of course), and also to treat anyone with a private profile as suspicious and "reflective of evasiveness" www.politico.com/news/2025/05... @nahaltoosi.bsky.social
The cable specifically identifies antisemitism and antisemitic viewpoints as the focus for consular officers but does not spell out what specifically would rise to the level of inadmissible antisemitism in the eyes of State Department leadership. It says that the Harvard review process “will also serve as a pilot for expanded screening and vetting of visa applicants” and that “this pilot will be expanded over time,” indicating it will likely reach other universities in the Trump administration’s crosshairs. Notably, State Department leadership wants consular officers to consider “whether the lack of any online presence, or having social media accounts restricted to ‘private’ or with limited visibility, may be reflective of evasiveness and call into question the applicant’s credibility.” The cable also instructs consular officers to inform applicants that private social media accounts could be viewed as evading vetting and request they make their accounts public while the Fraud Prevention Unit reviews their case.
May 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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normcharlatan.bsky.social
So we’ve just accepted that the first amendment doesn’t apply to non-citizens?
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · May 30
The State Department has initiated a pilot program reviewing the social media accounts of all Harvard students seeking international visas for evidence of 'antisemitism.'

www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
The State Department has told U.S. consulates and embassies to immediately begin reviewing the social media accounts of Harvard’s student visa applicants for antisemitism in what it called a pilot program that could be rolled out for colleges nationwide. The cable signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, obtained by POLITICO, was sent late Thursday. It says consular officers should “conduct a complete screening of the online presence of any nonimmigrant visa applicant seeking to travel to Harvard University for any purpose.”
May 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Politico scoops the Rubio memo outlining the criteria that could nix a student’s visa application.

It’s ridiculously vague — a lack of social media could be held against students! — which, of course, is the point.

www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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The cable specifically identifies antisemitism and antisemitic vier points as the focus for consular officers but does not spell out what specifically would rise to the level of inadmissible antisemitism in the eyes of State Department leadership. It says that the Harvard review process "will also serve as a pilot for expanded screening and vetting of visa applicants" and that "this pilot will be expanded over time," indicating it will likely reach other universities in the Trump administration's crosshairs. Notably, State Departmer leadership wants consular officers to consider "whether the lack of any online presence, or having social media accounts restricted to 'private' or with limited visibility, may be reflective of evasiveness and call into question the applicant's credibility." The cable also instructs consular officers to inform applicants that private social media accounts could be viewed as evading vetting and request they make their accounts public while the Fraud Prevention Unit reviews their case.
May 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
May 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
If you want to understand why this country is in the state it’s in, and why we have no real functioning opposition party, consider this:

Rubio has been the most dangerous and dictatorial member of the Trump cabinet.

And yet every single Senate Democrat voted Yes to confirm him.
May 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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patriottakes.bsky.social
Charlie Kirk called Martin Luther King Jr. “a bad guy” and called anti-segregation legislation a mistake.

Trump hosted him at the White House yesterday.
May 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
This is what happens when you put internet conspiracy theorists in charge of major government departments.
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org
May 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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prchovanec.bsky.social
It’s funny how Trump insisted that crypto was a scam, right up the moment he got in on the scam.
May 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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anthonymkreis.bsky.social
Treating a new Covid strain like a crime and not a public health issue is deranged.
May 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
If you want a sneak peak into our future imagine the politicization of everything. Whether the government performs a function entirely dependent on whether the government likes you. You want your social security check? Small business loan? Let's have a look at your facebook posts first
May 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.
May 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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brooklynspoke.bsky.social
A scandal worse than Watergate that the reporter waited to tell until he had a book to sell. Okay.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 28
Jake Tapper on Biden: "It is a scandal. It is without question -- and maybe even worse than Watergate in some ways, because Richard Nixon was in control of his faculties when he wasn't drinking."
May 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
"Our product creates such little value that it is simply not viable in the marketplace, not even as a niche product. Therefore, we must be allowed to unilaterally extract value from the work of others and convert that value into our profits."
May 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM