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Brendan Karet
@badtakes.bsky.social
ex-@MMFA researcher (https://www.mediamatters.org/author/brendan-karet), current gamer
well at least she got to help rfk jr obliterate american health standards. everyone wins
December 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc...

ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:

"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
RFK Jr.’s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns
The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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nbc news once gave this woman like $40million for a daytime talk show targeted to stay at home moms
Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
December 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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I love the gap between the official online groyper run info organs posting genAI pics of him as “warhammer fascist battle pope” while the actual guy looks like “ET sick in a creek”
November 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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If you still haven't cancelled Spotify, this is where you start. Plex Pass lifetime is also on sale right now. Just saying.
Western Digital 14TB Elements Desktop External Hard Drive is $169.99 on Western Digital Store buff.ly/GqqBsey #ad
B&H buff.ly/HcZQXkb
November 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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They're saying this about Afghan refugees. The victims of our actual military invasion
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Patrick Mahomes is like if Bugs Bunny played quarterback
November 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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House votes on dumbass resolution condemning socialism, meanwhile the DSA's Lisan al-Gaib rolls the truculent child brain president like a pair of socks
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.
Instead of hiring more immigration judges, the Department of Justice just posted an ad for "deportation judges." join.justice.gov
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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NEW: We've been looking at suspicious activity on Rumble. Our latest looks at networks of accounts impersonating the platform's top content creators and trying to lure their audiences into suspicious Telegram chatrooms.

The most-impersonated figure? Dan Bongino.

openmeasures.io/dan-bongino-...
Impersonation Scams Target Audiences of Rumble Creators - Open Measures
Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.
openmeasures.io
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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"The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika … as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month. Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi-era insignia as 'potentially divisive' under its new guidelines." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Someday political commentators will all realize that Trump's "lack of basic decency" isn't a liability, but a major reason why so many Americans love him
“.. The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls ..

“.. Trump’s sexist comments are an attack on women’s dignity — and by making them, he strips the presidency of its dignity too.”

@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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So if Olivia is 32 now, broke up with Lizza last year, was together with him for a decade, and then was living with you for 4+ years before that, how old was she when you moved her out of her (presumably parents’) house in the suburbs to live with you?
Btw about this from Lizza's reply: Olivia and I lived together for 4+ years (4 b'days, 4 Xmases, 4 anniversaries). That's like $1250 of jewelry per celebration. And her apartment was a writing studio. And I made an f-ton then. What was I supposed to do? Get her a lot of Gift Certificates from Kmart?
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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A big indicator of this fascist moment, for me, was exposing Hanania’s past as pseudonymous white supremacist blogger, him issuing a non-apology apology then writing gutter racist shit under real name, & nevertheless enjoying mainstream success

reminder of who he is www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.”

Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Everyday I wake up and the most evil, vain, and banal losers in the world history of mankind are dabbing on us while their slavish and puerile collaborators print their confessions about dabbing on us in the newspaper in stories that are titled “I Am Dabbing On You, You Stupid Fuck Poor Peons”
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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What's weird is that there isn't, say, 15 years of evidence online of that lady being completely and utterly insane, either.
November 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Lest there be any insinuation that Dems spared their own. It would be tough for Kathy Ruemmler—Obama’s WH Counsel from 2011 to mid-2014—to come off looking worse in these docs the committee Dems released. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Thiel, Summers, and Leon Black walk into a bar and the bartender says, "why are you here. the middle school is down the street"
November 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM