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pbump.com
So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.

Cool.
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FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine
The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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rudepundit.bsky.social
This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.
February 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Lawyer people: A bunch of the people DOJ is prosecuting for alleged assault in MN are being prosecuted by brand spanking new Jags, John Arboleda and Michael Hakes-Rodriguez. What precedent is there for that?

@stevevladeck.bsky.social @moedavis.bsky.social

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Blood Spatters and Newbie JAG Officers - emptywheel
Pam Bondi appears more interested in rolling out one after another flimsy criminal charge as trophies than actually proving any of the cases she has charged in Minnesota, all while covering up Renee G...
emptywheel.net
February 7, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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lalahaenzy.com
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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pbump.com
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
February 5, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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samthielman.com
Yet more pointless, despicable cultural vandalism of public property by Republicans in their all-out war on the very idea of general knowledge
adamkeiper.com Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 10d
The CIA World Factbook, a reliable source of information about the countries of the world, has been publicly available since 1997. It is now going away.

Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data.

www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
Screenshot of a statement posted on CIA.gov reading as follows: *** One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. The World Factbook served the Intelligence Community and the general public as a longstanding, one-stop basic reference about countries and communities around the globe. Let’s take a quick look into the history of The World Factbook. Over many decades, The World Factbook evolved from a classified to unclassified, hardcopy to electronic product that added new categories, and even new global entities. The original classified publication, titled The National Basic Intelligence Factbook, launched in 1962. The first unclassified companion version was issued in 1971. A decade later it was renamed The World Factbook. In 1997, The World Factbook went digital and debuted to a worldwide audience on CIA.gov, where it garnered millions of views each year. The World Factbook appealed to researchers, news organizations, teachers, students, and international travelers. Some readers even inquired whether their preferred geographic designation or world entity could be included on the high-profile site. Finally, only CIA insiders would know that officers donated some of their personal travel photos to The World Factbook, which hosted more than 5,000 photographs that were copyright-free for anyone to access and use. Though the World Factbook is gone, in the spirit of its global reach and legacy, we hope you will stay curious about the world and find ways to explore it… in person or virtually.
February 4, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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rebeccafachner.bsky.social
In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires.

I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.
February 4, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
the Bring Back Shame Popular Front is expanding
stephenkb.bsky.social Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11d
"Since prison for Epstein’s fellow abusers gets unlikelier over time, America’s deeper question is whether it can restore a culture of shame." - marvellous, marvellous column by @edwardluce.bsky.social:
The Epstein rot goes deep
America must now ask itself if it can restore a culture of shame
www.ft.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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scottjshapiro.bsky.social
IF YOU ARE A LAWYER AND ARE INTERESTED IN BEING AN AUSA DM ME!
Trump yelling at kid mowing lawn meme
January 31, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
markagee.bsky.social Mark Agee @markagee.bsky.social · 15d
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
January 31, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
Great crowd today at the @progressivemass.bsky.social annual meeting! #mapoli
January 31, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Absolute amateur hour at DOJ; they didn’t even respond to a “hey you forgot to attach the thing” request.
This complaint warrants dismissal. The Subject Judge's March 11 Comment. The primary theory of the complaint is that the judge made an improper statement at the Judicial Conference on March 11 about the risk that the Administration would not comply with federal judicial rulings. This claim fails to establish a cognizable basis of misconduct. First, it lacks "sufficient evidence" to support the allegations. Judicial-Conduct Rule 11(c)(1)(D). Here is the key allegation in the complaint: "On March 11, 2025, at one of the Conference's semiannual meetings, Judge Boasberg disregarded its history, tradition, and purpose to push a wholly unsolicited discussion about 'concerns that the Administration would disregard rulings of federal courts, leading to a constitutional crisis. By singling out a sitting President who was (and remains) a party to dozens of active cases, Judge Boasberg attempted to transform a routine housekeeping agenda into a forum to persuade the Chief Justice and other federal judges of his preconceived belief that the Trump Administration would violate court orders."Compl. Compl. at The The Department identified one source of evide, Attachment A, for the judge's statement and for the setting in which it occurred. The complaint, however, did not include the attachment The D.C. Circuit contacted the Department about the missing attachment and exp ed that, if it failed to submit the attachment, the circuit would consider the complaint as submitted. The Department did not supply the attachment.
January 31, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
New survey from Pew 🧵

Trump's approval is down to 37. He's 24 points underwater.

Only 27% of Americans support most/all of Trump's policies.

By two-to-one margins, Americans say the Trump administration has made their life worse, not better.
January 30, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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newrepublic.com
It’s the latest in a growing number of protest incidents that have turned violent. trib.al/NgqCJgV
Car With Trump Flag Rams High School Student Protesting Against ICE
The student was taken to a hospital for her injuries.
trib.al
January 30, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Deportations themselves are big business. It requires a fleet of planes, and they’re virtually all owned by private air charter services who look the other way when people are treated like cattle on their planes.

Read @gbrockell.bsky.social on the prolonged shackling of people being deported.
gbrockell.bsky.social Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 15d
These Omni ICE trips include the removal of dozens migrants to Ghana, a country they have never been to, and the transfer deportation of legal asylum seekers back to Russia and Iran, via Omni flights to Egypt, Qatar and Kuwait.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler
A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
www.motherjones.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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washingtonpost.com
“When in doubt,” Catherine O’Hara learned, the secret was to “play insane.”

O’Hara, the actress and comedian who delivered deliciously silly performances, died Friday after a brief illness. She was 71. https://wapo.st/3NUTQCT
January 30, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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mikebaker.bsky.social
Elon Musk last year: "Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED"

Musk to Epstein emails:
• “What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?”
• "I really want to hit the party scene"
• "Is there a good time to visit?

Story: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
January 30, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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independent56.bsky.social
“We haphazardly scaled up a poorly trained police force to storm into neighborhoods that voted against the president, where we antagonize the local population until someone resists arrest, and then we kill them” is how writer Derek Thompson summarized the White House’s M.O.”
Tread on Me
Alex Pretti and the end of conservatism.
thedispatch.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:32 AM
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vajra.me
the poetry one is pure gold. “Special Note: If your publication record is primarily free verse, please do not apply, as the position requires a deep understanding of classical forms and poetic techniques.” job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/501...
Writing Specialist
Remote
job-boards.greenhouse.io
January 30, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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milesklee.bsky.social
Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible
January 30, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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sarahposner.bsky.social
Sorry I cannot alt-text this one. Here's the link. Pretty remarkable.

www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
January 29, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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bmeiselas.bsky.social
MELANIA has been nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography in the FIFA Oscars
January 28, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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jmdc88.bsky.social
There was a real chance I could have had Liviu Librescu as a professor. I nearly went to Virginia Tech for aeronautical engineering. Years later, I learned how a 76-year-old Holocaust survivor used his body to save his students.
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A medium shot portrait of an older Caucasian man with thinning gray hair and a serious expression. He wears a gray tweed blazer over a light blue collared shirt and a dark purple tie. The background is a soft gradient of gray and brown tones.
January 29, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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atrupar.com
RFK Jr: "Mr President, we're in the process of implementing your great American healthcare bill." (There is no healthcare bill.)
January 29, 2026 at 5:24 PM