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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 13h

LOL, he released fraudster George Santos before he released the Epstein files.

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 22h

Book news!

Today I got the copy-edited MS for A Pox on Fools back from my UK publisher. It's fun seeing the text conform to British spelling, but this is a milestone. The book (a polemic history of anti-vaccine arguments) is getting real.

And there's now a UK cover:

A book cover: Blue background, my name at top in a blocky san-serif type. The title and subtitle come directly below in white and black respectively: A Pox on Fools...The Grifters and Cynics Who Want Us to Reject Vaccines. The illustrations shows a RFK Jr. caricature figure (complete with worm emerging from his forehead, leading a family to destruction as they step off a cliff marked "Rumor Misinformation Fake News" into a wave-tossed sea labeled with "Smallpox, Covid, Mumps, Measles"--all in a style reminiscent of 19th century political cartooning.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

He first threatened sanctions on Jan 19 if Russia didn’t cease fire. He has threatened to impose them many times since then. It is now Oct 17. He has done nothing.

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calamity jim @calamityjim.bsky.social · 14h

Mariner fan here. You guys have always been my second choice, and if my team has to lose to somebody, I'd rather it be your team than anybody else.

But trust me when I say, it would break a lot of hearts.

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calamity jim @calamityjim.bsky.social · 16h

She got a degree in home economics from Mississippi State in 1974.

Tough course!

calamity jim @calamityjim.bsky.social · 17h

That guy stole money from a veteran that had been raised to pay for emergency medical care for his DOG.

He's a grade A pig, and nothing will ever change that.

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calamity jim @calamityjim.bsky.social · 17h

This is starting to remind me of that time Mitch McConnell refused to hold so much as a hearing to consider Obama's SCOTUS nominee.

We know how that worked out.

calamity jim @calamityjim.bsky.social · 18h

You don't understand the Mariners at all if you thought for one second that they believed they "had it in the bag."

The opposite. Same with the fans, who simply cannot believe this might actually be real.

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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 18h

And now he doesn't have to pay them back as ordered, either

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 18h

Among George Santos’ many scams was a “pet charity” where he swindled people out of money who needed it for medical care for their pets. This is who Trump just pardoned www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/n...

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 18h

Among George Santos’ many scams was a “pet charity” where he swindled people out of money who needed it for medical care for their pets. This is who Trump just pardoned www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/n...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23h

Not a peep from Musk about this government spending. Was the chainsaw from him worth it, Elon?

A tweet from Armand Domalewski reads: “The total USAID budget was $35 billion by the way.” Below it, a retweeted post from More Perfect Union says: “BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.”

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calamity jim @calamityjim.bsky.social · 23h

motherfuck.

CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 I do not know when or where, but it doesn’t matter. This is depravity. This is a child. Those are state employed monsters. There is nothing normal about being “okay” with doing this job. 1/2

calamity jim @calamityjim.bsky.social · 1d

That cop was endlessly patient and compassionate -- exactly what you'd want a person charged to protect and serve the public to be.

The drunk -- if he really is dhs -- is exactly the sort of person who would sneer and mock people as he took them into custody.

"Are you Haitian?"

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calamity jim @calamityjim.bsky.social · 1d

Correct.

Charles I was publicly executed at the end the English Civil War, which began over taxes illegally levied by the king to pay for his Bishop's War, which sprang from efforts to force the Scots to change their church practices to his.

He was bad at politics and not great at war, either.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d

There's a reason why we don't want a king to dictate the provision of funds in the country, and it dates back to the English Civil War. @ryanlcooper.com with the expert explanation here (I just added some frippery, this is his piece):
prospect.org/politics/202...

Mad King Trump Seizes Your Money

The president is doing almost exactly what Charles I did to touch off the English Civil War.

prospect.org

calamity jim @calamityjim.bsky.social · 1d

trump looks like he's aged 10 yrs.

good.

calamity jim @calamityjim.bsky.social · 1d

that was my first thought.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New: hackers just doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. I went through the data. In many cases does look legitimate, sometimes includes residential addresses.

“Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].”

www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...

Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials...

www.404media.co

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calamity jim @calamityjim.bsky.social · 1d

She said HALF of them were in the basket of deplorables -- the racists, the xenophobes, the sexists, the homophobes.

Half.

Boy, did she undersell that one.

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calamity jim @calamityjim.bsky.social · 1d

fantastic!

thank you ... I kinda want some late night host to read this out for us.

or maybe it could be quoted in south park.

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calamity jim @calamityjim.bsky.social · 1d

That's what scares them the most.

calamity jim @calamityjim.bsky.social · 1d

I mean ... the 180 is funny, but are we really in a world where this guy's attitude about sexbots is a matter of importance?

His favorite movie -- not a joke -- is "Her."

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

ALTMAN, 10 months ago: "I'm proud that we don't do sexbots to juice profits."

www.reddit.com/r/artificial...

From the artificial community on Reddit: Sam Altman, 10 months ago: I'm proud that we don't do sexbots to juice profits

Explore this post and more from the artificial community

www.reddit.com

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 2d

“I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke telling a very offensive stupid joke is cause to ruin their lives,” VP J. D. Vance 🔗 www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...
Do these look like kids to you? The Republican party is a hate organization.

Young Republicans and their text messages:

PO
PO
Peter Giunta
Great. I love Hitler
Peter Giunta
Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber
Joe Maligno
Gas chambers don't fit the
Joe Maligno
Boom - they're dead
YR
YOUNG
REPUBLICAN
NATIONAL PEOTLATTON
fant
n--ga
the watermelon people
Willam Hendrix
"n--ga" and in--guh"
Willam Hendrix
and kool aid with that?
carving watermelons
Missouri doesn't like f--s
YSYA
NYS
Luke Mosimen
"beaner" and "sp-c
Luke Mosiman
Id go to the 200 if I wanted to
Bobby Walker
It they vote for us why would they be gassed?
1488 (shorthand for Hei Hitler)
Alex Dwyer
Trumps too busy burning the Epstein ties
Samuel Douglass
She just didn't bathe often
Samuel Douglass
youre expecond the sew
Anne KayKaty
When do we bring that side out?
Anne KayKaty

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calamity jim @calamityjim.bsky.social · 1d

Quoted for truth.

I watched this happen.

Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 2d

“Whenever you hear criticism of ‘Obamacare,’ remember this: it was intentionally kneecapped by the radical-Reich. They gutted the public option, demanded cuts, then voted no — all so they could point and sneer, ‘See? Government doesn’t work.’ It was sabotage by design.”

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calamity jim @calamityjim.bsky.social · 2d

He upped it to $40 billion, because why not!

Every billion is a thousand million ... just a tiny fraction of just one of those Argentina billions could reverse this Alaska thing.

But trump doesn't have any buddies in Alaska, I guess.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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