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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 3d

I agree. I only get upset at *screenshots* of headlines from the Op-Ed page, not the actual stories. 😜

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

if you ask the average American to describe what they think a tougher immigration system should look like, they will describe something a degree of magnitude softer and more generous than the current reality.

The lesson here is that people are both better and dumber than they appear.

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 4d

You know you are getting old when research that was pretty new when you first started working in science starts winning Nobels. This is well-earned and incredibly important.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

BREAKING: Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi win the Nobel Prize in medicine for work on peripheral immune tolerance.

The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for work on peripheral immune tolerance

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries about peripheral immune tolerance.

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 8d

I found an obit for Moe Asch in Smithsonian that mentioned the origin story in 1987. Of course it may still be an urban legend!

Citation:

Scherman T. This man captured the true sounds of a whole world. (Moses Asch of Folkways Records). Smithsonian. 1987;18(5):110.

One day early in the 1940s, a little wild-haired man breezed into the tiny 46th Street studio and plopped right
down on the floor. "I'm Woody Guthrie,' he said in a dry twang. "I'm a Communist.' He carried a Gibson guitar; Asch peered at a printed inscriptions stuck to it: "This Machine Kills Fascists.' The stickers, produced for war
workers, were normally seen on lathes and drill presses. Shrugging at the fools he suffered, Asch set up his recording gear and listened. And listened. Not only were the little man's songs riveting, but he wouldn't stop! Guthrie was incredibly, unendurably prolific. "He had more songs than you'd ever want to listen to,' says Bess Hawes. Some, like the workers' hymn "Pastures of Plenty were quiet and terse. Some, as when Woody whooped his paean to "that wild and wasted stream,' the
Columbia River, in "The Grand Coulee Dam,' burst with a Whitmanesque prolixity:

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 8d

So gross. Instant block.

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 8d

I found a slightly earlier reference in a review of Woody's autobiography published in the NYT on Mar 22, 1943 mentions the sign on his guitar but nothing about it in wartime factories. (Second screenshot is the full review for anyone interested)

Screenshot of a NYT review written by Orville Prescott of Woody Guthrie's autobiography "Bound for Glory."

Text reads: "Recently his songs have been anti-Nazi and anti-Jap. To make the point even clearer, Woody has fixed a sign on his guitar that reads: "This machine kills Fascists."

Source: Books of the Times
By ORVILLE PRESCOTT
New York Times (1923-); Mar 22, 1943; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index
pg. 17

Books of the Times
By ORVILLE PRESCOTT
New York Times (1923-); Mar 22, 1943; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index
pg. 17

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🎃nisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 9d

"...declines took place in the use of “intellectual disability” and “learning disability,” suggesting that a process of diagnostic substitution was taking place rather than a real increase in autism prevalence."

www.statnews.com/2025/09/30/r...

The Trump administration’s Soviet approach to autism policy

A strange and largely forgotten U.S. delegation to the USSR in 1963 offers lessons about autism, diagnosis, and politics, writes Ari Ne’eman.

www.statnews.com

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 9d

Let’s go Red Sox! youtu.be/zk-2_Z9bRds?...

THE YANKEES........ LOSE!!!! #DoDamage #RedSox #RedSoxNation

YouTube video by iiKizmit

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 9d

Jerry Remy voice: “YOSHIDER”

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 10d

This is a really small matter in the grand scheme of things, but the fact that preprints are open access but the peer-reviewed versions of the same articles often under paywall is pretty bad too.

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 10d

Aren't the people on the border technically CBP and not ICE?

In any event, I think ICE needs to go, whatever comes next needs to have a new name and a vastly curtailed mission that doesn't appeal to the worst people.

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 11d

"The Emerging Democratic Majority" theory but instead of a multiracial coalition it's just people who don't die of measles.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12d

If your elderly relatives started telling you about AI videos they had watched saying that "medbeds" would fix everyone's health problems, you'd start to look into assisted living and power of attorney. Trump has the nuclear codes.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12d

The President of the United States has posted a fake AI video of himself announcing a non-existent policy to give people access to a fake miracle cure that also doesn't exist truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... We are fully through the looking glass, folks.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 14d

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Alyssa @alyssad.bsky.social · 14d

Hmmm....

US Border Patrol docks along Chicago Harbor Lock as part of immigration blitz

U.S. Border Patrol is making its presence known on Lake Michigan, the only Great Lake without a foreign border.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 16d

Sorry, didn't notice you were still going, good thread so far!

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 16d

Pete Buttigieg got dragged here on Bluesky for his comments and while they weren't perfect I think they were a pretty good example of how to approach the issue in a way that can bring people along, rather than simply dismissing their concerns as bigoted. (Quote via: www.msn.com/en-us/lifest... )

“I think the approach starts with compassion. Compassion for transgender people. Compassion for families, especially young people who are going through this. And also empathy for people who aren’t sure what this means for them, who say ‘wait a minute, I got a daughter in a sports league Is she going to be competing against boys right now?’ Just taking everybody seriously.

“I think when you do that, that calls into question some of the past orthodoxies in my party, for example around sports, where I think most reasonable people would recognize there are serious fairness issues if you just treat this as not mattering when a trans athlete wants to compete in women’s sports.

“I think these decision should be in the hands of sports leagues and school boards and not politicians—least of all politicians in Washington who are trying to use this as a political pawn.

“I think that chess is different from weightlifting, and weightlifting is different from volleyball. And, you know, middle school is different from the Olympics.”

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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 16d

Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 16d

If you are wondering why history's biggest narcissist seemingly cares (in his gross way) about autistic people, I had a theory here.

Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · Feb 4

Without getting into specifics, I wonder if Trump finds the (EXTREMELY DISCREDITED) vaccine explanation for autism persuasive because he doesn't like the idea of autism being partially genetic or due to advanced paternal age.

Trump post saying "20 years ago, Autism in children was 1 in 10,000. NOW IT'S 1 in 34. WOW! Something's really wrong. We need BOBBY!!! Thank You! DJT"

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 17d

And I am not one to throw this term around lightly but there is more than a little misogyny involved in this proposed Tylenol explanation. Early in the history of the diagnosis, mothers were blamed for autism because they were "cold and distant." Sadly it seems like mothers are being blamed again.

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 17d

A large study in Sweden including 2.4 million children used sibling-matched controls for Tylenol/acetaminophen/paracetemol use during pregnancy and the result was NO increased levels of autism, NO increased levels of ADHD, and NO increased levels of intellectual disabilities.

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · Nov 15

Are we vaccinating under 2s more than a generation (30 years) ago? We used fewer vaccines, protecting against 8 infectious diseases. These complex vaccines, containing over 3000 antigens, were good, but there was room for improvement.
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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 17d

Great recap, @saewitz.com !

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 18d

Douthat is indeed a joke worth laughing at but Obama did do this in 2019 (and perhaps earlier).

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 20d

Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band “Live Bullet”

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