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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 3h

At this point, if you contribute a cent or second of your labor to this newspaper, you are complicit in what this administration is doing

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5h

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 2h

Reminder that when you cancel a WaPo subscription you cancel renewal. Often plenty of time to change your mind. But you won't.

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 2h

"Spray paint a pumpkin an unnatural color. Chuckle at its oddity, then silently stare at it for several seconds. Leave it to decay on the front porch with all the other misshapen gourd castoffs and freaks."

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 2h

Just going to repost one of my favorite threads of all time.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 20

It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows.

(1/n)

Beautiful crow against a black background

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 3h

MUDS and MOOS were even stranger academic flirtations - from late 80s to early 90s.

www.siue.edu/~dsawyer/CMC...

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 5h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 3h

ai hint: "50 billion individual birds are alive today across roughly 9,700 species. This represents the median estimate from comprehensive global surveys integrating citizen science data and expert population assessments. Domestic chickens alone account for about 26.56 billion individuals."

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 3h

During what period of time did the greatest number of individual dinosaurs exist on earth?

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 4h

related: archive.ph/202510092220...

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 4h

That is brutal. Hope you get some relief soon.

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 4h

Did the NYT hate HRC or Joe Biden more? It’s a tough question.

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 4h

Trump I did implement your (implied) preferred approach to NK’s nuclear weapons. I recall an article you wrote on war gaming that made war with NK seem almost unavoidable.

Trump basically shrugged and walked away. That seems a great strategy now. Nobels have been given for less.

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 4h

Many forget that the majority of Americans supported the torture of al Qaeda suspects. Television shows extolled the virtues of torture. Torture porn built careers.

American prisons are globally famous for their brutality.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4h

Despite Alligator Alcatraz’s shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country—everything from the “Cornhusker Clink” to the “Speedway Slammer”

Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz

Despite shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country.

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 4h

Bizarre even by the standards of the MAGA. Just about RFK class bizarre.

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 4h

Economists would call this revealed preference.

When we on Bluesky say “media” we generally mean the NYT. The editorial choices of the NYT were consistent with an abiding hatred of Joe Biden and significant affection for DJT.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5h

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 5h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 5h

It is a vast hardship for all. At least one telomere study claimed significant accelerated aging in caregivers. In addition to complete loss of one parent’s income and reduction of the other parent’s income (if 2)

In addition to the suffering of those afflicted — losing out on many life options.

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 6h

I have to gently dissent from Dr Marino’s conclusion.

It is aimed primarily at the measles vaccine; allowing an option of Mumps and Rubella vaccination (popular even among the MAGA) while omitting measles (unpopular with RFK’s dupes).

It is more devious than it looks.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 17h

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 17h

The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 8h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 6h

“The tension between the acceptance of this treatment and its supporting data is remarkable.”

My sense is ED docs have always been unenthused. Ken notes that mechanical thrombectomy is replacing tPA

Ken Milne MD @thesgem.bsky.social · 7h

More to the back story on tPa for strokes
www.sensible-med.com/p/part-2-the... #MedSky

Part 2: The Other Trials of Thrombolysis in Acute Stroke were Also Less Than Persuasive

Last week I went over NINDS. This week, let's look at the other trials of thrombolysis in acute stroke. It's an eye-opener.

www.sensible-med.com

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 6h

A lot of online folk seem to think that online persons with autism represent the condition.

This is not correct. That is a slice of all persons classified as autistic.

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 7h

It can be very bad.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 14h

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 7h

He is a lawyer.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

John Gordon 🇨🇦🇩🇰 @johngordon.bsky.social · 7h

Trump’s sunset interviews must be fun.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 7h

Trump is either supersizing Obamacare or cutting it, depending on which time of day you ask him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "We'll be making cuts that will be permanent. And we're only going to cut Democrat programs. I hate to tell you."

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