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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 48m

Trump did on 60 Minutes what he does every time. He spews a blizzard of lies, exaggerations and assorted other falsehoods, and if (as usual) the reporter isn’t equipped or doesn’t bother to push back, he keeps going.

Here is a detailed list, via @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

zeteo.com/p/factchecki...

• "We have no inflation." Inflation is at 3%.
• "It's at 2%. It's-- it's the perfect inflation." Inflation is at 3%.
• "Right now [grocery prices are] going down." Grocery prices are up 1.4% since
Trump came to office.
• "A year ago, we were a dead country." Not only did the US have the fastest-growing economy in the G7 in both 2023 and 2024, but the Economist magazine called it "the envy of the world."
• "11,888 murderers were let into our country." Not only is this number inaccurate, but many of the non-citizens convicted of homicide either here or abroad came in during Trump's first term.
• "Washington, DC, was... almost like a crime capital of the world." In 2023, per PolitiFact, "at least 49 other cities in the world had higher homicide rates.
• "[Biden] hardly went anywhere. Guy couldn't leave his bedroom." Not only did Joe Biden visit roughly as many countries in his term of office as Trump did in his first term, but Biden was the first US president to visit an active warzone - Ukraine - not under the control of US forces.
• "I made Middle East peace. For 3,000 years, they couldn't do it." There is no peace in Palestine, no peace deal in place, and it isn't a 3,000-year-old conflict.
• "Communist, not socialist. Communist. He's far worse than a socialist."
Zohran Mamdani is not a communist.
• "I can't give them $1.5 trillion so that they can give welfare to people that came into our country illegally." The Trump/GOP claim that Democrats want to give free healthcare to undocumented immigrants has been repeatedly debunked.
• "They emptied their mental institutions and their insane asylums-- into the United States of America." Asylum seekers don't come from "insane asylums."
Obviously.
• "One thing I can tell you, the 2020 election was rigged." It wasn't. The courts agreed.
• "And a lotta people say when it's rigged you're allowed to do it again." A lot of people don't say this. The US Constitution doesn't, for sure.

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Gleb Bahmutov @bahmutov.bsky.social · 40m

This is one of the rare cases when they experience the result of the life views and actions.

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Gleb Bahmutov @bahmutov.bsky.social · 46m

Wow you got it. Nowhere else there are greedy landlords who would do it. I wonder why they don’t. You did say “available supply”, does that something a city can control, I wonder, tom?

Gleb Bahmutov @bahmutov.bsky.social · 15h

I’m sorry, but law of supply and demand still applies. What do you think: other places with lower rents have no greedy landlords?!!

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Gleb Bahmutov @bahmutov.bsky.social · 19h

The greedy landlords are caused by lack of supply, but go on, tom

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 5d

The "Deciding To Win" centrists dismiss base mobilization, but the actual 2024 data shows: the more blue a place was in 2020, the lower its turnout was in 2024.

Swing voters weren't nearly as important as Dem-leaning irregular voters not voting at all. The base wasn't mobilized, so we lost.

Change in 2024 Turnout by 2020 Biden Support, from https://catalist.us/whathappened2024/

Democratic Support by Voter Turnout Regularity from https://catalist.us/whathappened2024/

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Gleb Bahmutov @bahmutov.bsky.social · 1d

I have no words to describe my loathing of the anti bike lane psycho john pitkin. Every week he posts a nonsense anti bike letter. @cambridgeday.com you do know that you can not publish his screeds and ravings?

Cambridge Day @cambridgeday.com · 1d

Bike safety is not the only issue facing Cambridge

Everyone wants safe streets for pedestrians and bicyclists. And there are other things that also matter.

dlvr.it

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Gleb Bahmutov @bahmutov.bsky.social · 1d

Nope. lack of supply while increased demand.

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Gleb Bahmutov @bahmutov.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think so. I think bill gates really thinks he knows. But of course he is influenced by grifters and sociopaths like breakthrough institute

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Gleb Bahmutov @bahmutov.bsky.social · 1d

??? Block as a troll

Gleb Bahmutov @bahmutov.bsky.social · 1d

The anti climate action post we are discussing wasnt written by any experts. Please pay attention

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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 1d

According to Exxon, disclosing to the public the impact that their business is having on the environment violates the First Amendment. Make it make sense.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Exxon sues California over climate disclosure laws

Exxon Mobil sued California on Friday, challenging two state laws that require large companies to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related financial risks.

www.reuters.com

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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 1d

Great news 📰 👍🏼 👍🏼

E.P.A. Retreats From Plans to End the Energy Star Program www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/c...

E.P.A. Retreats From Plans to End the Energy Star Program

www.nytimes.com

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Gleb Bahmutov @bahmutov.bsky.social · 2d

Go away, fake account. Block

Gleb Bahmutov @bahmutov.bsky.social · 2d

Fake account pretends to not understand the problem with people constantly being killed by drivers. Block

Gleb Bahmutov @bahmutov.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sorry, but no. Hydrogen lost the technology race and makes zero sense compared to charging at home or everywhere

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Gleb Bahmutov @bahmutov.bsky.social · 2d

I must say I enjoy the weekly international edition of @theguardian.com much much more than the Economist. Much better clear reporting that is not constantly licking right wing and billionaires feet

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

You are here.

Ron Filipkowski writes:
“Remember during oral argument on the presidential immunity case when conservative justices scoffed at and mocked the hypothetical that a president with immunity could just start killing whoever he wanted and there was nothing that could be done if he has immunity?”

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 2d

It's possible we might not need billionaire opinions on absolutely everything all the time
billmckibben.substack.com/p/climate-ga...

Climate Gates

Maybe we don't need billionaire opinions on everything

billmckibben.substack.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 2d

An excerpt from my new piece for @thebulletin.org on Bill Gates' new climate missive:

For years when I would criticize Gates for what I consider to be his misguided take on climate, colleagues would say, “you just don’t understand what Gates is saying!” Now, with Donald Trump and the right-wing Murdoch media machine (the Wall Street Journal editorial board and now an op-ed by none other than Lomborg himself in the New York Post) celebrating Gates’ new missive, I can confidently turn around and say, “No, you didn’t understand what he was saying.”

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Gleb Bahmutov @bahmutov.bsky.social · 2d

NIMBY letter in @cambridgeday.com vs the same guy writing me in private. This is delusional, he says his sons cannot afford it to live in Cambridge, but that's ok, and he will leave his house to grandsons, so they are lucky to have green Cambridge without shade from taller buildings 🤪

anti housing letter published in Cambridge Day https://www.cambridgeday.com/2025/10/24/compromise-on-zoning-wasnt-leadership/

NIMBY justifications for not building more housing in Cambridge.

Gleb Bahmutov @bahmutov.bsky.social · 2d

Weird account. Block

Gleb Bahmutov @bahmutov.bsky.social · 2d

Sure, weird account. /s and block

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d

It's not that every individual driver is a murderous asshole (I'm not!). It's that car dependency as a whole is dangerous. It's that cars are deadly when they hit people. It's that our society prioritizes drivers above all else. It's about a system that is dangerous for anyone not in a car.

The anti-car brigade is really fucking weird.

The way they act like someone who drives regularly kills babies and kicks old ladies down the stairs is really fucking bizarre.

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 4d

I quite enjoyed a lot of the takedowns of Bill Gates' EA brain snap on climate. It is really deadassed in a number of ways.

But no-one mentioned the most important thing. He isn't *just* full of shit. He knows he is full of shit.

I can prove it: timinclimate.medium.com/even-bill-ga...

Even Bill Gates knows he is full of shit

Did you hear about that “one low-income country set out to cut emissions by banning synthetic fertilizers”?

timinclimate.medium.com

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