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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 5m

GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan shared that groceries are becoming a hotter topic for fundraising. "In some cases, very sadly, that is happening," he told Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi. "We're seeing it more and more."

GoFundMe CEO says economy is so challenged people are raising money to buy food

GoFundThis: Some surprising items have begun to make the list for crowdfunding lately, according to this CEO.

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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 4m

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Developmental Costs of Youth Social Media Require Policy Action

Recently, few questions in adolescent health have sparked more controversy than “is social media good or bad for youth?” This simple yet unresolved question is entrenched in a polarizing debate.1 For ...

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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 4m

Social Media Use Trajectories and Cognitive Performance in Adolescents url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Social Media Use Trajectories and Cognitive Performance in Adolescents

This study uses prospectively collected data from the ABCD study to assess the relationship between longitudinal patterns of social media use (hours per day) and cognitive performance after 2 years in...

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Danny Satterfield @wildweatherdan.bsky.social · 19h

Yup, and our failing health system makes people desperate for a low cost cure jump at the quackery. Many cancer patients try them while neglecting starting science based options, and by the time they give up on the quack, their disease has greatly progressed. skepticalinquirer.org/2025/08/from...

From ‘Tractors’ to Cell Therapy Clinics: Unproven Medical Procedures | Skeptical Inquirer

Figure 1. Original Elisha Perkins patented metallic tractors and carrying case. Wellcome Collection. Mainstream news media reported in March 2017 that three ...

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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 19h

They don’t wana piss off a potential future source …or wind up in a gulag

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22h

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 19h

Oldie but goodie:

www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 21h

I think the counter argument to “Ellison and Weiss will turn CBS News into an unstoppable propaganda machine” is Bezos’s WaPo which lost basically all the talent and also is in a subscription death spiral

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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 19h

Ew. Just, ew.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 1d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 23h

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 19h

We’re doubling down on failed paradigms of the past that allow the worst actors in our society to treat our commons as an open sewer & export all of their externalities & risk onto us, while they privatize their rents & profits.

The rest of the world is leapfrogging over us to an electric future.

Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 20h

Americans have no idea how many of our innovations that actually made America great were based on early research funded by the government. It’s now all been gutted, and our children are about to experience being 2nd or 3rd or 4th to China.

Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 20h

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Gotta love Bloomberg.

The White House’s Fossil Fuel ‘White-Glove Service’ Will Backfire

Fungus enthusiasts and fans of the video game/TV show The Last of Us will be familiar with cordyceps, a parasitic fungus that invades insects and forces them to do its bidding until they die. It’s a g...

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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 1d

Look, let’s be real, Biden did experience real cognitive decline while in office and his “Politburo” of aides DID cover it up.

The stable of possible candidates that MIGHT have run had he stepped down didn’t for fear of political retaliation (“I didn’t wana get my head chopped off…”)
Same same

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump No Longer Remembers That He Was President and Controlled the FBI on January 6, 2021, Confirming Americans' Worst Fears About His Advanced Dementia

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 2d

“My programming needs are somewhat unusual” is very funny and also totally false. For better or worse, he’s not the only data scientist in the world.

Anthony Ryan @anthonyryan.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING | Magic beans sales industry loses best customer.

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 2d

A new order from the MAGA Dept of Education will require that, in order to have an ideologically balanced curriculum, the University of Houston also needs to offer a course on “Celebrating Oppression and Injustice.”

Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 2d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 2d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 1d

X is now just a parallel universe for insufferable hustle culture con artists of every stripe and flavor.

That place really crashed and burned soooo hard.

The only people who seriously use it to inform “policy” are people who want to live in that alternate universe in the real world.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

Tl;dr: no!

I think most of us left for our mental health because who wants to argue with trolls and bots?

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 3d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 2d

MMWR published a report in 1981 about five men with unusual cases of pneumonia in Los Angeles. In retrospect, it was the first publication to detect and inform the wider scientific community of the presence of HIV.

Last night, everyone working on MMWR was fired.

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 2d

Capitalists of the world unite. You have everything to lose, especially your supply chains.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

we need to abolish this shit

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 2d

🧵 I'm excited to share that my article "Democratic Backsliding and the Limits of Civilian Control of the Military" has been accepted @thejop.bsky.social.

It answers the question "how ought militaries act when civilian leaders turn on democratic institutions?"

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#CivMilSky #PolTheory

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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 2d

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 2d

Here lies my productivity

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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Theodor Von Bönghitz Adorno @tzraick.bsky.social · 2d

Could you imagine the hilariously dark fate that befell the countless people who tried to do just that?

This is the problem from having enough wealth that it insulates them from being a part of normal society.

Nobody is around to call them out.

Everyone’s just angling for a piece & placating him

opal @defnotadino.bsky.social · 3d

Peter Thiel is not a well person and I’m confused about how NO ONE in his life has tried to intervene???

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Kirti Patel, MD @kirti.bsky.social · 3d

Too much money isolates. Zero real friends. All yes men and frenemies. Always watching his back and paranoid now. Probably thinks people are actively trying to kill him, including people who work for him.

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