Dad Influence
@dadinfluence.bsky.social
A loose cannon, but he gets results.
Portland Frogs 🐸 Strong.
DC Sandwich Guy 🥪 Supporter.
He/Him
Portland Frogs 🐸 Strong.
DC Sandwich Guy 🥪 Supporter.
He/Him
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The NYT definitely made a choice not to add “without evidence” to this headline.
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM
The NYT definitely made a choice not to add “without evidence” to this headline.
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The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
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Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
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I like how they specifically said the 75 million is *not* an admission of guilt so I guess it’s just a bribe for no reason and they decided to put that in writing
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I like how they specifically said the 75 million is *not* an admission of guilt so I guess it’s just a bribe for no reason and they decided to put that in writing
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It's insane how the tech that we should be embracing 100% (solar) is being hamstrung, while the tech we neither need nor want (AI) is being shoved down our throats while the environment is ravaged to build data centers to enrich like 12 people. smh
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
It's insane how the tech that we should be embracing 100% (solar) is being hamstrung, while the tech we neither need nor want (AI) is being shoved down our throats while the environment is ravaged to build data centers to enrich like 12 people. smh
And China figured it out before us, while we elected a Racist idiot who wants to make coal great again.
The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:
Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
And China figured it out before us, while we elected a Racist idiot who wants to make coal great again.
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lol yeah. Just imagine being a black American. Shit not always as sweet as people think.
November 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
lol yeah. Just imagine being a black American. Shit not always as sweet as people think.
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"Elon Musk is personally responsible for the deaths of at least 400,000 children" is a stat that should be cited every time he and his pervert fanboys start yapping about birth rates
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
"Elon Musk is personally responsible for the deaths of at least 400,000 children" is a stat that should be cited every time he and his pervert fanboys start yapping about birth rates
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And the longer it takes for the music to stop the more the rest of us get hurt in the crossfire. So dystopian
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
And the longer it takes for the music to stop the more the rest of us get hurt in the crossfire. So dystopian
There's no low, they won't sink to
“.. It just seems petty and hostile, frankly,” said Peter Staley, a longtime activist ..”
@nytimes.com
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@nytimes.com
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November 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
There's no low, they won't sink to
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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Since you won mayor whoever is managing your social media has stopped using alt text. Can you please start again?
The climate crisis won’t wait and neither will we. With this team, we’ll meet it head-on.
November 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Since you won mayor whoever is managing your social media has stopped using alt text. Can you please start again?
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Me, drinking a Modelo and looking at my Sedona, AZ beer coozy: Boy, you know what would be fun? A beer coozy that says “A Few Small Beers.”
Chelsea, dying inside: Well, I guess I’m down a Christmas present…
lol — Great gift! 🎄 💕
Chelsea, dying inside: Well, I guess I’m down a Christmas present…
lol — Great gift! 🎄 💕
November 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Me, drinking a Modelo and looking at my Sedona, AZ beer coozy: Boy, you know what would be fun? A beer coozy that says “A Few Small Beers.”
Chelsea, dying inside: Well, I guess I’m down a Christmas present…
lol — Great gift! 🎄 💕
Chelsea, dying inside: Well, I guess I’m down a Christmas present…
lol — Great gift! 🎄 💕
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Oh nothing. Just a major conservative activist, former staffer for Chuck Grassley and a former clerk for Justice Neil Gorsuch calling me a "retarded pussy." Fun stuff on X, the everything site.
November 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Oh nothing. Just a major conservative activist, former staffer for Chuck Grassley and a former clerk for Justice Neil Gorsuch calling me a "retarded pussy." Fun stuff on X, the everything site.
Polling has this race within the margin of error. Let your Tennessee peeps know!
In four days, we can flip a Tennessee district that Trump won by double-digits — if we turn enough voters out! Make some calls to help us elect @aftynbehn.bsky.social (a state representative, social worker, and former Indivisible organizer) to Congress: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Polling has this race within the margin of error. Let your Tennessee peeps know!
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To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
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In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:
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The absolute truth
November 29, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The absolute truth
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If they ever get around to building this thing, it should be bulldozed on Day 1 of a new administration. No messing around, no hemming and hawing about procedure or costs. Order heavy equipment in and start knocking it down immediately, as surely as an overthrown tyrant's statues would be torn down.
Even the architect Trump hired to build his massive addition to the White House objects to the president's vision. The two have argued about the size of the 90,000-sq-foot project that would dwarf the mansion. @jonathanreports.bsky.social @ddiamond.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.
The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project’s size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
If they ever get around to building this thing, it should be bulldozed on Day 1 of a new administration. No messing around, no hemming and hawing about procedure or costs. Order heavy equipment in and start knocking it down immediately, as surely as an overthrown tyrant's statues would be torn down.
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Also, if the BBC is right about the timeline of Lakanwal's life, then the CIA used him as a child soldier.
November 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Also, if the BBC is right about the timeline of Lakanwal's life, then the CIA used him as a child soldier.
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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Trump: I will kill the drug cartels
Also Trump: Pardoning a powerful drug trafficker
Also Trump: Pardoning a powerful drug trafficker
“Additionally, I Will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that | greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Trump: I will kill the drug cartels
Also Trump: Pardoning a powerful drug trafficker
Also Trump: Pardoning a powerful drug trafficker
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I'm not one for consumerism and I don't participate in Black Friday deals, but I will say that the fact that a colleague of mine chose to run with a design I customized and make it available on shirts for others does bring a smile to my face today. 😁👍🏳️⚧️
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November 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I'm not one for consumerism and I don't participate in Black Friday deals, but I will say that the fact that a colleague of mine chose to run with a design I customized and make it available on shirts for others does bring a smile to my face today. 😁👍🏳️⚧️
yzyprints.com/product/you-...
yzyprints.com/product/you-...