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Craig Harrington

@craigipedia.bsky.social

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Political and media researcher. Just trying to make the world safe for democracy. All views are my own. Research Director @mmfa.bsky.social Book learnin' –– OSU, GU, KCL

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · Feb 5

This is Winston Smith’s job in “1984.”

Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · Feb 4

NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...

Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites

"This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 5h

10/10 no notes

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 9h

It’s a shame that everything Donald Trump touches turns to shit because from my vantage point on the roof of MLK Library, Washington DC is a beautiful city.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 10h

Donald Trump did not bring peace to the Middle East.

Michael B @dunsmuir1952.bsky.social · 10h

So if Trump brings peace to the Middle East, all you’re thinking is that he did it to win the Nobel Peace Prize? You don’t know that. Maybe it means more to him that he accomplished peace and that it’s part of his legacy, and the Nobel is secondary. But it’s amazing how you nullify the historic

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 11h

has anyone lost a rap battle as thoroughly as drake www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

Drake lost the rap battle with Kendrick Lamar, judge rules

Judge Jeannette A. Vargas dismissed Drake’s defamation claim against Kendrick Lamar for “Not Like Us,” a song that “contains lyrics explicitly accusing Drake of being a pedophile, set to a catchy beat...

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 10h

No true American would care about [checks notes] … Latin America

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 12h

This is nuts. They sent our real dollars to buy another country’s junk currency to prop up their wannabe libertarian dictator. Just idiocracy.

David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 13h

Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. has “directly purchased Argentine pesos,” and the Treasury Department has “finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank.”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13h

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A collage of four tweets from Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) discussing concerns about artificial intelligence.

Top left tweet: Walsh warns that within a year or two, people will be able to create indistinguishable fake videos for defamation, and that nothing is being done to prevent this.
Bottom left tweet: He says AI will destroy jobs, art, reality, and civilization, yet no action is being taken to stop it.
Top right tweet: He criticizes AI-generated films as soulless and meaningless, saying art requires human expression and that AI will be the “death of art.”
Bottom right tweet: Walsh argues that if a robot paints a picture, the robot is the artist, not the person prompting it, because the robot lacks consciousness and meaning.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13h

It’s not racial profiling, it’s reasonable suspicion, we simply think anyone with darker skin tones is suspicious and that this belief is reasonable, so it’s not racial profiling, how dare you.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13h

Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under my command.

The way the President has chosen to deploy the Guard in other states—and, in at least one case, deploy the Guard from one state into another—is extremely dangerous.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 13h

The king is dead. Long live the king!

FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news · 17h

new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news

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brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 14h

Legit don’t think there’s anything Trump could do to drop below like 39-40% approval.

He could crash the economy AND have the military shooting people in the streets and he’d still poll at like 39.9% lol

FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news · 17h

new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 13h

a man in captain america 's uniform says i understood that reference

ALT: a man in captain america 's uniform says i understood that reference

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17h

we have been working on this new polling aggregation website for a few months now, and are excited to share it with the world! plenty more features and polls to come.

FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news · 17h

new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 14h

You can always tell the fathers who weren’t in the room for it from the ones who were there.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 14h

Her baby…was in her…placenta??

Sir. If you have no knowledge of health or the human body it is fine to go back to falconry or whatever you were previously doing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 14h

This is all just so insane I don’t know what to say

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 14h

Trump becoming an intactivist was not on my bingo card.

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 18h

Well at least one of the president's donors got to illegally steal every digital record held by Social Security and the Treasury and feed it into his private servers to feed into his proprietary AI model!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18h

But did we avoid dismantling core functions of the federal government? No.

But did we avoid killing millions of people by destroying USAID? Also no.

But did we at least avoid violating all kinds of federal laws & the constitution by letting random guys off the streets do this? Alas, also no.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

Did DOGE save us $2 trillion?

“Not even close. .. Total spending excluding interest rose $220 billion, or 4%, for the entire fiscal year.” 🤡

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/tari...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 20h

The ideal life goal.

Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 2d

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 20h

Dare to dream

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 20h

It caused me to buy @charlesgaba.com lunch once.

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 1d

The Phoenix Mercury getting swept is some funny shit.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Other prosecutors are investigating former CIA director John Brennan, another prominent Trump critic, and former FBI director Christopher Wray, who was originally appointed by Trump but enraged conservatives who came to believe he had wielded the bureau’s powers against them. Former officials have received subpoenas in recent days in the Wray inquiry, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

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