tinwhisker
@tinwhisker.bsky.social
Am I a better person than I was yesterday? More kind? Healthier? Did I learn something new? ... I hope so.
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tinwhisker
@tinwhisker.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Just a late Gen X guy who likes art, electronics, amateur radio, TTRPGs, the occasional video game, and a little quiet.
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The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.
You'll remember that when Biden delivered an address in 2022, networks refused to air it because they said it was "political" www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...
As Biden warned about democracy’s collapse, TV networks aired reruns
Broadcasters NBC, CBS and ABC usually air presidential prime-time addresses live. But they found Biden's Philadelphia speech more "political" than newsworthy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.
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You'll remember that when Biden delivered an address in 2022, networks refused to air it because they said it was "political" www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...
As Biden warned about democracy’s collapse, TV networks aired reruns
Broadcasters NBC, CBS and ABC usually air presidential prime-time addresses live. But they found Biden's Philadelphia speech more "political" than newsworthy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
You'll remember that when Biden delivered an address in 2022, networks refused to air it because they said it was "political" www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...
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i was especially struck by these paragraphs, which rang very true to me. libs who grew up around conservatives aren't embarrassed to be liberals--or confused about what conservatives want. there's a certain kind of elite media man, on the other hand--
December 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
i was especially struck by these paragraphs, which rang very true to me. libs who grew up around conservatives aren't embarrassed to be liberals--or confused about what conservatives want. there's a certain kind of elite media man, on the other hand--
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83% of Americans have a favorable view of Medicaid: www.kff.org/medicaid/7-c...
Republicans simply can't believe that's true. It's government insurance, surely everyone hates it! But guess what: People don't want to be "health consumers," they just want secure coverage.
Republicans simply can't believe that's true. It's government insurance, surely everyone hates it! But guess what: People don't want to be "health consumers," they just want secure coverage.
Scalise: "Does everybody in America want to be on Medicaid? That's what Democrats are doing."
December 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
83% of Americans have a favorable view of Medicaid: www.kff.org/medicaid/7-c...
Republicans simply can't believe that's true. It's government insurance, surely everyone hates it! But guess what: People don't want to be "health consumers," they just want secure coverage.
Republicans simply can't believe that's true. It's government insurance, surely everyone hates it! But guess what: People don't want to be "health consumers," they just want secure coverage.
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Our comments section reacts to @stevescalise.bsky.social threatening us with a good time. #MedicareForAllNOW
December 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Our comments section reacts to @stevescalise.bsky.social threatening us with a good time. #MedicareForAllNOW
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Denying infants a safe and effective Hepatitis B vaccine at birth in Guinea-Bissau, where ~19% of adults are currently infected with Hepatitis B, is akin to the Tuskegee Syphilis Study where black men with syphilis were deliberately left untreated to study the natural progression of disease.
December 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Denying infants a safe and effective Hepatitis B vaccine at birth in Guinea-Bissau, where ~19% of adults are currently infected with Hepatitis B, is akin to the Tuskegee Syphilis Study where black men with syphilis were deliberately left untreated to study the natural progression of disease.
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We blockade countries to defend against drugs they are not sending to us while pardoning drug lords. We declare drugs and their precursors WMD while slashing funds to fight international drug smuggling. See a pattern?
Earlier in the year, Trump unilaterally instituted a 9% cut to international narcotics control and law enforcement.
DJT just signed an EO designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals as Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).
December 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
We blockade countries to defend against drugs they are not sending to us while pardoning drug lords. We declare drugs and their precursors WMD while slashing funds to fight international drug smuggling. See a pattern?
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.@pabloreports.bsky.social : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela?
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
.@pabloreports.bsky.social : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela?
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
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Sure, struggling American. The cost of your health insurance will skyrocket by thousands of dollars and you’ll have to choose between dying or going bankrupt, but may Speaker Johnson interest you in a fake history lesson and tell you why the “Beautiful Bill” that cuts Medicaid is actually amazing?
December 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Sure, struggling American. The cost of your health insurance will skyrocket by thousands of dollars and you’ll have to choose between dying or going bankrupt, but may Speaker Johnson interest you in a fake history lesson and tell you why the “Beautiful Bill” that cuts Medicaid is actually amazing?
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These are the "good and decent people" who didn't survive the Reagan presidency.
December 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
These are the "good and decent people" who didn't survive the Reagan presidency.
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Trump: "The only time anybody could see those planes was when those bomb chutes open up, because it becomes totally un-stealth. You're going in, you go like this. As soon as it goes like this, for some reason the plane is totally visible. Not good. I watched it happening. I watched it go bing bing"
December 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Trump: "The only time anybody could see those planes was when those bomb chutes open up, because it becomes totally un-stealth. You're going in, you go like this. As soon as it goes like this, for some reason the plane is totally visible. Not good. I watched it happening. I watched it go bing bing"
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Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
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December 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Again, anti-wokeness is a backlash to integration of white collar work. Only white men are allowed to have prestigious jobs otherwise it's unfair bsky.app/profile/mike...
Wow, the horror. Completely shut out of an industry that … promoted him to senior reporter by 40
December 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Again, anti-wokeness is a backlash to integration of white collar work. Only white men are allowed to have prestigious jobs otherwise it's unfair bsky.app/profile/mike...
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Hilarious. The WH had all the Cabinet members simultaneously put out statements supporting Susie Wiles after the Vanity Fair article came out.
December 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Hilarious. The WH had all the Cabinet members simultaneously put out statements supporting Susie Wiles after the Vanity Fair article came out.
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Trump has served a default on the folks running the public project so he can take the course and turn the national park courses into, it seems obvious, a high end private course administered by his own golf company
golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports...
golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports...
National Links Trust served notice of default by Trump administration
The National Links Trust, which operates 3 municipal golf courses in Washington, D.C., was served a notice of default, according to the Washington Post.
golfweek.usatoday.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Trump has served a default on the folks running the public project so he can take the course and turn the national park courses into, it seems obvious, a high end private course administered by his own golf company
golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports...
golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports...
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Rep. Randy Fine: "We have to stop calling it 'radical Islam,' because the radicals are the ones who don't want to kill us. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but many many are."
December 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Rep. Randy Fine: "We have to stop calling it 'radical Islam,' because the radicals are the ones who don't want to kill us. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but many many are."
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In case it’s still unclear how mainstreamed Islamophobia has become, here’s a sitting Republican congressman from Florida calling for all Muslims to be “kicked out of America” and saying “diversity is suicidal”
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
In case it’s still unclear how mainstreamed Islamophobia has become, here’s a sitting Republican congressman from Florida calling for all Muslims to be “kicked out of America” and saying “diversity is suicidal”
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We are failing our kids
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We are failing our kids
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There is, obviously, no “Presidential Immunity Clause” in the Constitution. The conservative justices’ un-originalist efforts to imagine one into it cannot be supported by text or history. trib.al/s7gCvNt
John Roberts and the Cynical Cult of Federalist No. 70
Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and misquote.
trib.al
December 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
There is, obviously, no “Presidential Immunity Clause” in the Constitution. The conservative justices’ un-originalist efforts to imagine one into it cannot be supported by text or history. trib.al/s7gCvNt
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Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.
(Published July 2024)
(Published July 2024)
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.
(Published July 2024)
(Published July 2024)
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Donald Trump has instructed the entire FBI to prioritize finding ways to bring charges against anti-fascists and other activists. Any FBI agent who wants to advance his career now has an incentive to set up naïve kids for an entrapment case.
Please read about entrapment and how to protect yourself.
Please read about entrapment and how to protect yourself.
December 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Donald Trump has instructed the entire FBI to prioritize finding ways to bring charges against anti-fascists and other activists. Any FBI agent who wants to advance his career now has an incentive to set up naïve kids for an entrapment case.
Please read about entrapment and how to protect yourself.
Please read about entrapment and how to protect yourself.
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫