Tom Flamson
@tflamson.bsky.social
Public Health Research Scientist. Erstwhile Anthropologist, Brazilianist, and World Humor Expert™
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Andrew Paul Johnson was arraigned in a Florida court in October on multiple charges, including molesting a child as young as 11 years old.
Johnson dangled the prospect that one of the children could receive money bc...he was entitled to $10 million as part of reparations for his January 6 arrest.
Johnson dangled the prospect that one of the children could receive money bc...he was entitled to $10 million as part of reparations for his January 6 arrest.
Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say
Pardoned Capitol rioter Andrew Johnson tried to keep a child sex abuse victim quiet with claimed $10 million Jan. 6 reparations, police say.
theintercept.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Andrew Paul Johnson was arraigned in a Florida court in October on multiple charges, including molesting a child as young as 11 years old.
Johnson dangled the prospect that one of the children could receive money bc...he was entitled to $10 million as part of reparations for his January 6 arrest.
Johnson dangled the prospect that one of the children could receive money bc...he was entitled to $10 million as part of reparations for his January 6 arrest.
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It’s so wild that the literal president literally raped children and the times is covering it like a horse race about optics
I fail to see how he’s bowing to reality as opposed to just changing tactics.
All he has to do if it passes the senate is to tell Bondi to say it’s all either classified or has to do with an ongoing investigation.
Maybe he’s losing his grip on the MAGA zeitgeist, but he’s firmly in control of DOJ
All he has to do if it passes the senate is to tell Bondi to say it’s all either classified or has to do with an ongoing investigation.
Maybe he’s losing his grip on the MAGA zeitgeist, but he’s firmly in control of DOJ
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 AM
It’s so wild that the literal president literally raped children and the times is covering it like a horse race about optics
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"All public commitements" -
BUT NOT TEACHING!!
Get this man out of the classroom ASAP! He should not have power over any young people given his record of harassing mentees and looking to Epstein for advice on wooing junior scholars.
BUT NOT TEACHING!!
Get this man out of the classroom ASAP! He should not have power over any young people given his record of harassing mentees and looking to Epstein for advice on wooing junior scholars.
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"All public commitements" -
BUT NOT TEACHING!!
Get this man out of the classroom ASAP! He should not have power over any young people given his record of harassing mentees and looking to Epstein for advice on wooing junior scholars.
BUT NOT TEACHING!!
Get this man out of the classroom ASAP! He should not have power over any young people given his record of harassing mentees and looking to Epstein for advice on wooing junior scholars.
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Things like this will become increasingly common as billionaires increasingly treat low earth orbit like their personal playground and garbage dump
The only craft docked at Tiangong space station has been damaged and “does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return.”
A Collision with Space Debris Leaves 3 Chinese Astronauts Stranded in Orbit
The only craft docked at Tiangong space station has been damaged and “does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return.”
wrd.cm
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Things like this will become increasingly common as billionaires increasingly treat low earth orbit like their personal playground and garbage dump
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If "respectable centrists" could stop pretending to believe that there was such a thing as humanitarian military intervention, or at least that it's a thing the trump regime specifically is capable of, that'd be really fuckin super.
Bret Stephens and the NYT played major roles in manufacturing consent for the Iraq War.
Now they appear to be running the same playbook on Venezuela.
Now they appear to be running the same playbook on Venezuela.
November 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
If "respectable centrists" could stop pretending to believe that there was such a thing as humanitarian military intervention, or at least that it's a thing the trump regime specifically is capable of, that'd be really fuckin super.
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Wisconsin's sewer socialists provide a great template for Zohran & democratic socialism today—here are the top 10 things they achieved by running Milwaukee for almost 50 years🧵
Milwaukee built America's 1st public housing coop & pioneered city planning via comprehensive zoning
Milwaukee built America's 1st public housing coop & pioneered city planning via comprehensive zoning
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Wisconsin's sewer socialists provide a great template for Zohran & democratic socialism today—here are the top 10 things they achieved by running Milwaukee for almost 50 years🧵
Milwaukee built America's 1st public housing coop & pioneered city planning via comprehensive zoning
Milwaukee built America's 1st public housing coop & pioneered city planning via comprehensive zoning
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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Interesting and infuriating bit of collateral damage in this current "administrations" anti-LBGQT focus. Disrespecting BUDDY Fucking HOLLY, in his own hometown.
"A love for real won't fade away"
#LoveIsLove #NFA
"A love for real won't fade away"
#LoveIsLove #NFA
The day the music died…again.
Lubbock Will Remove Buddy Holly-Themed Crosswalk After Federal Crackdown
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Interesting and infuriating bit of collateral damage in this current "administrations" anti-LBGQT focus. Disrespecting BUDDY Fucking HOLLY, in his own hometown.
"A love for real won't fade away"
#LoveIsLove #NFA
"A love for real won't fade away"
#LoveIsLove #NFA
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I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.
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I got federal charged for dancing across the street from ICE in my neighborhood on Indigenous People's Day. Here is the feds evidence photo they are using against me in court.
I really really need a good lawyer but I cant afford one.
Cash app $cozca
Venmo @cozca503
Working on a go fund me.
I really really need a good lawyer but I cant afford one.
Cash app $cozca
Venmo @cozca503
Working on a go fund me.
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I got federal charged for dancing across the street from ICE in my neighborhood on Indigenous People's Day. Here is the feds evidence photo they are using against me in court.
I really really need a good lawyer but I cant afford one.
Cash app $cozca
Venmo @cozca503
Working on a go fund me.
I really really need a good lawyer but I cant afford one.
Cash app $cozca
Venmo @cozca503
Working on a go fund me.
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Just a reminder that Claudine Gay was mercilessly hounded from the Harvard presidency while this mediocre, misogynistic lech has never once faced an actual consequence for his despicable views or conduct.
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender…
www.thecrimson.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Just a reminder that Claudine Gay was mercilessly hounded from the Harvard presidency while this mediocre, misogynistic lech has never once faced an actual consequence for his despicable views or conduct.
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The message from Trump is crystal clear - if you beat the hell of out police, if you threaten to kill FBI officers - I will make sure you get away with it if you are breaking the law to keep me in power.
If you don't see it, this is a message about 2028.
If you don't see it, this is a message about 2028.
November 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The message from Trump is crystal clear - if you beat the hell of out police, if you threaten to kill FBI officers - I will make sure you get away with it if you are breaking the law to keep me in power.
If you don't see it, this is a message about 2028.
If you don't see it, this is a message about 2028.
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Dems: Mamdani is too radical for our taste. Plus someone said he's antisemitic. And that name is scary to us! We need to keep him out.
Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that
Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent
Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that
Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent
November 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Dems: Mamdani is too radical for our taste. Plus someone said he's antisemitic. And that name is scary to us! We need to keep him out.
Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that
Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent
Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that
Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent
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since larry summers is in the news for being in the eugenicist pedophile sex criminal club i'd like to point out that for decades basically every ivy league school kept archives of nude photographs of incoming freshman at the behest of a eugenicist to determine the moral worth of students
Ivy League nude posture photos - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
since larry summers is in the news for being in the eugenicist pedophile sex criminal club i'd like to point out that for decades basically every ivy league school kept archives of nude photographs of incoming freshman at the behest of a eugenicist to determine the moral worth of students
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Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
November 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
This man will never be president. If the Democrats nominate him the Republicans will win. The sooner this fucking party gets this through its head the sooner we can start working on the future
there are a couple more years, how about we don’t preemptively compromise? maybe a candidate who isn’t already gleefully shoving trans people under the bus?
someone who’s has far right guests on his podcast and agrees with them ain’t it.
someone who’s has far right guests on his podcast and agrees with them ain’t it.
J-MART, on Newsom:
“.. Ask yourself: How many other potential candidates .. can transcend the political-pop culture divide ..?
“.. there may not be a modern political figure who was simultaneously so well-positioned to be his party’s nominee ..”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
“.. Ask yourself: How many other potential candidates .. can transcend the political-pop culture divide ..?
“.. there may not be a modern political figure who was simultaneously so well-positioned to be his party’s nominee ..”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
November 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This man will never be president. If the Democrats nominate him the Republicans will win. The sooner this fucking party gets this through its head the sooner we can start working on the future
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there are a couple more years, how about we don’t preemptively compromise? maybe a candidate who isn’t already gleefully shoving trans people under the bus?
someone who’s has far right guests on his podcast and agrees with them ain’t it.
someone who’s has far right guests on his podcast and agrees with them ain’t it.
J-MART, on Newsom:
“.. Ask yourself: How many other potential candidates .. can transcend the political-pop culture divide ..?
“.. there may not be a modern political figure who was simultaneously so well-positioned to be his party’s nominee ..”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
“.. Ask yourself: How many other potential candidates .. can transcend the political-pop culture divide ..?
“.. there may not be a modern political figure who was simultaneously so well-positioned to be his party’s nominee ..”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
November 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
there are a couple more years, how about we don’t preemptively compromise? maybe a candidate who isn’t already gleefully shoving trans people under the bus?
someone who’s has far right guests on his podcast and agrees with them ain’t it.
someone who’s has far right guests on his podcast and agrees with them ain’t it.
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MAGA hat, that’s now the pedophile hat. Trump flag, that’s the pedophile flag, Fox News, that’s the pedophile channel, the secret service, oh you mean the pedophile praetorian guard? Diet Coke… people are starting to call it pedophile fuel
November 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
MAGA hat, that’s now the pedophile hat. Trump flag, that’s the pedophile flag, Fox News, that’s the pedophile channel, the secret service, oh you mean the pedophile praetorian guard? Diet Coke… people are starting to call it pedophile fuel
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If these people are ever thrown out of power, I hope we all understand there is no reformist pathway for institutions like this as much as Dems might desperately wish and claim there is.
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
If these people are ever thrown out of power, I hope we all understand there is no reformist pathway for institutions like this as much as Dems might desperately wish and claim there is.
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Is this those dangerous males infiltrating women's restrooms I keep hearing about
So… A BP agent filmed in LA in June kidnapping someone from a Walmart got arrested by Long Beach cops after drunkenly flashing his service pistol in a women’s restroom. He demanded they call BP Commander Bovino. After making bail he died of a drug OD at his parents house. lbpost.com/news/isaiah-...
A viral arrest, a drunken brawl and an overdose: the last days of a notorious Border Patrol agent
We obtained hours of body-camera video that give the fullest — and perhaps last — glimpse of Agent Isaiah Hodgson’s mindset when he became a flashpoint in the fight over immigration raids.
lbpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Is this those dangerous males infiltrating women's restrooms I keep hearing about
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“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated
it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened
November 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back