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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 8h

Serious question: does there come a point where everyone admits that Constitutional originalism is just a made-up vibe-based philosophy that gives Republican judges a pretext for ruling however it is that Republicans want them to rule?

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Boback Ziaeian @boback.bsky.social · 15h

#Copilot

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2d

Hard to compete with this.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 6d

The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done!

COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions.

Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine.

How did that happen?🧵

sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...

Everyone Else is Lying to You: My Book is Done!

The pandemic’s biggest disinformation superspreaders are now in charge. How did this happen?

sciencebasedmedicine.org

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Boback Ziaeian @boback.bsky.social · 6d

The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,” according to a person familiar with the discussions. - www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 7d

No mandate for Mamdani

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Boback Ziaeian @boback.bsky.social · 7d

Newsom threatens to cut state funding to universities that sign Trump’s political compact www.latimes.com/california/s... @latimes.com

Newsom threatens to cut state funding to universities that sign Trump’s political compact

The White House is asking nine major universities, including USC, to commit to President Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money.

www.latimes.com

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 8d

Yes President Trump was slurring and exhibiting disordered thinking in his appearance before the generals. But at least he didn’t have a hoarse voice like Biden in the first debate.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8d

Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” nyti.ms/42kpGxt

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 8d

So good.

Fred in BFE @traplife.bsky.social · 9d

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10d

The Michigan church shooter reportedly has a flag on his truck that said "F**k Biden". That means he was probably Pod Save America fan who was frustrated with Biden's decision to run for reelection.

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 10d

Whoa - researchers at the @utaustin.bsky.social copied several panels of cells and blots from older papers authored in different labs.

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Screenshot of two figures from two different papers. They both show fluorescent cells (green or red, or merged photos) against a black background. I marked two panels on the left and two on the right with pink and cyan boxes to show the duplicates.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 10d

When Trump refused to send the National Guard on Jan 6, 2021 to stop rioters who stormed the Capitol, wounded 140 officers, and tried to block the transfer of power, he set his standard.

Anything LESS than those bloody insurrectionary riots won’t trigger Guard deployment. Right?

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10d

The reason we're rounding up grandmothers and shoving them onto concrete floors for months at a time with no habeas corpus is in part because soft human trafficking is an incredibly lucrative business for some people in this administration.

How Tom Homan wound up ensnared in an FBI contracts-for-cash sting

A former associate of Trump’s border czar allegedly proposed a $1 million scheme last year that put FBI agents on Homan's trail.

www.msnbc.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10d

Stephen Miller Builds Windowless, Soundproof Shed On White House Lawn

WASHINGTON—Carrying tools and a handful of two-by-fours as he silently emerged from the North Portico, deputy chief of staff and homeland security advisor Stephen Miller reportedly constructed a windo...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10d

Trump: ‘Another Thing Epstein And I Never Did Is Play Nude Charades’

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 13d

Makary claims, with no credible basis, that leucovorin "may help 50-60% of kids with autism." Working as a Trump health official should be a permanent discrediting stain. These people are sycophantic frauds complicit in enormous harm to US public health and global public health.

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Boback Ziaeian @boback.bsky.social · 11d

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o... @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social @nytimes.com

Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Kimmel's show put together a montage of Trump insisting dozens of times yesterday to "DON'T TAKE TYLENOL." Complete insanity.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14d

Dems in Disarray

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15d

Donald Trump is about to have me indicted on bogus charges. Here’s why I’m still glad I got him elected in 2016.

by James Comey

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Boback Ziaeian @boback.bsky.social · 14d

2025 ACC/AHA Clinical Practice Guidelines Core Principles and Development Process: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... @ahascience.bsky.social

2025 ACC/AHA Clinical Practice Guidelines Core Principles and Development Process: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidel...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15d

Kristi Noem are Corey Lewandowski are doing adulterous ethnic cleansing the right way.

by Ezra Klein

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15d

In the spirit of Christianity, we forgive our spouses for driving us to adultery even as we forgive Mexicans for forcing us to become fascists.

by Corey Lewandowski and Kristi Noem

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