tobeatthedevil.bsky.social
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There is always a blindspot.
Leave the fuoride.
Remove the worms.
You know who I mean.
April 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Leave the fluoride.
Remove the lead.
April 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Hegseth is literally denying a story that the NSC has already confirmed and in which receipts were printed verbatim.

Remember this the next time he impugns another journalist.
Reporter: Can you share how your information about war plans was shared with a journalist?

Hegseth: So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes
March 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Millions of 23andMe users now face seeing their genetic information sold to the highest bidder as part of the company’s bankruptcy, setting up a test of existing legal safeguards around privacy and safety.
23andMe’s Bankruptcy Puts 15 Million Users’ DNA Info on Auction Block
Millions of Americans who sent their saliva to 23andMe in the hopes of finding lost relatives or identifying health risks buried in their DNA now face seeing their genetic information sold to the high...
www.bloomberg.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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I’m sure glad the U.S. Secretary of Defense doesn’t have an unacknowledged and unaddressed severe drinking problem right now.
March 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Me and all former intel & DoD people:

This is a dangerous security breach, our few allies left will share less intel with us, people broke laws & should be fired

As *trans* former intel analyst:

OMG, these incompetent people are the “threat to our military’s lethality”, not trans servicemembers.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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A gut-wrenching read on the US withdrawal from global health funding: "By dismantling this architecture of vigilance, the US will create blind spots where emerging diseases can incubate before they arrive fully fledged on the country’s doorstep." www.foreignaffairs.com/china/coming...
The Coming Global Health Crisis
America is retreating, and China won’t fill the void.
www.foreignaffairs.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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"The Social Security Administration is rushing cuts to phone services at the White House's request, the agency's acting commissioner told Social Security advocates in a meeting on Monday, two sources who attended tell Axios."

www.axios.com/2025/03/24/s...
Social Security rushing service cuts at White House request, sources say
Current and former employees, and advocates for retirees, have said the changes being made would strain an already struggling system.
www.axios.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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If Democrats are on the ball, they will make sure every single person in America knows why Social Security is now unreachable.
March 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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"The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester"
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.

As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propub.li
March 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Car advocates are right to worry that once you build cities for people instead of cars, those people will stop voting for the interests of the car industry.
BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!
Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian
Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.
www.reuters.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Gutting the Department of Education would deliver a terrible blow to public schools, and have an immediate and tangible impact on students with disabilities.
What the Assault on Public Education Means for Kids with Disabilities
The future of the Department of Education may hinge on the world views of two billionaires who abhor what they perceive as weakness and waste.
www.newyorker.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Louise Bourgeois, French-American (1911-2010), Sleep II, 1967, marble, 59.4 x 76.8 x 60.3 cm, two wooden timbers, c. 27.9 x 83.8 x 35.5 cm each, The Easton Foundation, New York City, New York, USA
March 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
If it feels desperate, it is.
March 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Jack Roosevelt Robinson. Forever an American hero.
March 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.

~Primo Levi
March 20, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Finland is named the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, according to the World Happiness Report 2025. U.S. falls to its lowest-ever position, #24. (Canada ranks #18 of 147 countries.) www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl... via @theglobeandmail.com @worldhappiness.report
Finland again ranked happiest country in the world, U.S. falls to its lowest-ever position
Besides Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden remain the top four and in the same order, this year’s World Happiness Report says
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Edward Hopper, American (1882-1967), Hotel Lobby, 1943, oil on canvas, 81.9 cm x 103.5 cm, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
March 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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František Kupka, Czech (1871-1957), La Forme du vermillon, 1923, oil on canvas, 72 x 59 cm, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
March 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Today I find myself without words. All I can think about is how important it is that we are kind and gentle to one another in the days ahead
March 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Wonder if it will move the needle that normie sites like ESPN are now covering the attempted erasure of Black folks.
Defense Department pulls Jackie Robinson story
The Department of Defense deleted a story on its website that highlighted Jackie Robinson's military service, with the original URL redirecting to one that added the letters "dei" in front of "sports-...
www.espn.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I'm no expert but I do like eating foods and this seems pretty bad
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/h...
Food Safety Jeopardized by Onslaught of Funding and Staff Cuts
www.nytimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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The Good Old Days...
March 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM