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Mark Shore
@markshore.bsky.social
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interests are politics, how states collapse, the media, and science, especially climate change, astronomy and geosciences "A Republic, if you can keep it." Benjamin Franklin, Sept 17, 1787 photo: red sunset over the Pacific from the coast of Hawai'i
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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 16h
I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 13h
so Republican-governed states will immediately move to allow broadcasters and streaming services to play ads 10 dB louder than non-sports programming, or 6 dB louder for sports
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 14h
they will *thrive*, Faine
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · May 19
what about introducing these guys to North America? I don't see that being controversial in any way, people LOVE tigers
a Siberian tiger walking through a snowy forest. The tiger is looking ahead down the trail it is on, thinking tigerish thoughts http://cisstudent.uma.edu/~student374/mindblowingprints/product/siberian-tiger-in-snowy-forest/
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 14h
huh 🫤
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 13d
then you're going to love the next steps, a massive Trump addition to the Trump-Lincoln Memorial and a sprayed gold finish on the Trump-Washington Monument
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 14h
"I work," she coldly tells the judge, "for the *President*, and so do you. Maybe try to remember that."

"Is that so?" replies the judge. "Let's see if he'll bail you out of jail then."
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 15h
Walter Reed neurologist looks at the zero score on the (untaken) cognitive test, carefully watches Trump describing his perfect score, deducts 20%
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 15h
the only time the doctors had even seen another perfect score was the last one he took, it's a medical miracle
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 16h
many Nobel laureates die within five years of receiving their "prize"
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 16h
I kind of enjoy watching Marco Rubio sitting through the slow unrelenting hell of these meetings and wondering where his ambitions have brought him
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 16h
who would fear these small supersonic blessings from Jesus?
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18h
Trump's dictatorship is time for making moral choices

I talked to the top climate scientist, Penn's Michael Mann, about his great new book - and why he sacrificed a key university post in order to keep speaking the truth against anti-science lies

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/scie...
Science is under siege. How Penn’s top climate scientist is fighting back | Will Bunch
Michael E. Mann's new book, and the sacrifice this Penn scientist made to fight the war against climate disinformation.
www.inquirer.com
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Ken Rice @kenrice.bsky.social · 19h
www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming
Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.
www.eenews.net
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 17h
and what does Roger Pielke Jr. know about "rigorous science" apart possibly from experience trying to undermine it?
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 20h
everyone knows the main problem is that there are too many air traffic controllers and too much focus on safety

collisions in the air and on the ground will quickly weed out the less-skilled pilots and airlines through healthy free-market competition, no heavy-handed government intervention needed
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 20h
I'm a "one strike and you're out" extremist when it comes to perjury from police officers or lying to the public by police officials
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21h
Scientists suspect fracking contaminated this Pennsylvania town’s wells [via @insideclimatenews.org]
Scientists suspect fracking contaminated this Pennsylvania town’s wells
New Freeport's water looked and smelled strange—even pets wouldn't touch it.
www.motherjones.com
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 1d
afaik, the Democrats are now totally outnumbered, with the support of only
Black Evangelicals
mainstream Protestants (any race)
mainstream Anglo and Latino Catholics
Reform/nonobservant Jews
Muslims
agnostics
atheists
Buddhists(?)
Hindus(?)
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 1d
because it was all destroyed in the carnage, obviously

did you expect live footage of the last minutes of Pompeii too??
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 1d
hence the "increasingly broken" part

but mathematically, if an R1 professor supervises X number of PhDs over their career (with X >> 1) there's no way they can all end up as clones, so other career outcomes have to be both viable and valued
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 1d
a gradational progression from student to employee (high school/undergraduate -> master's/PhD -> postdoc -> junior faculty) that's not widely understood and that's increasingly broken anyway
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 1d
they aren't the most important ones, but Patel's crimes against fashion should go on his record with the ones against statistics
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 1d
I thought that was a 1920s Chicago accent
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 1d
here you can see the cooled crispy crust over the delicious warm jam filling
color photo of a generic active lava flow, probably from Hawaii, with a relatively smooth ropy textured surface, black and glassy where cooled, and incandescent bright yellow to dark orange red where still molten
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 1d
not to mention "who was president in 2020?" a question so difficult that it baffles tens of millions of voters and apparently* even some Republican senators

*alternatively they could be lying
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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 1d
not my generally preferred way to operate (since it hinges on bad faith) and I don't know if this is what the Democrats did, but publicly offering a seemingly reasonable deal that you're sure your adversary will refuse can be an effective tactic
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