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All my homies hate John Roberts.

Staff/MS at MichMed CompBio. UMS Chorister. MDP District 6 SCC rep, somehow. Opinions do not reflect those of my employer.

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Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · Jul 3
A republic, if you can keep it.
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is that....comfy
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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I am ready to go beyond implication and say after reading the facts here that one of the most recognizable people working in the White House almost certainly had ICE arrest her nephew's mother as a favor to her brother
economymedicine.bsky.social economymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social · 2h
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."

www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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NINE VOTES MY GOD

oh also hi nick i didn't know you were on here
nickcastele.bsky.social Nick Castele @nickcastele.bsky.social · 13h
Tanmay Shah wins in Cleveland City Council Ward 12, besting incumbent Danny Kelly by 9 votes. There will be a recount Dec. 1, but it would be unlikely that it changes the results. signalcleveland.org/cleveland-ci...
Tanmay Shah wins Cleveland Ward 12 race, pending a recount
A self-described democratic socialist, Shah unseated a retired union laborer backed by the mayor and council president.
signalcleveland.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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luckytran.com
The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool.

The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.

They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
Vaccines.gov CDC The functionality of this website may be impacted while it is being updated. Find a pharmacy near you. Enter 5-digit ZIP code 10001 Search Please enter a valid 5-digit ZIP Code
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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responding to legal threats over a skyrim mod by backporting it to morrowwind? amazing
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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sickos_yes.gif

(that's the dead center of the theater, for the non-indy-imax-knowers)
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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new developments in custody horrors just dropped
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."

www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
REVERE, Mass. — A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts. The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother. Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana. Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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cat being cuddly :)

cat sitting on bladder :(
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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to be clear saying that the people in rural east oregon getting fucked by their local governments is comparable to the republican state government of michigan parachuting in over the locals and committing mass murder by water system failure is absolutely insane.
robbinsa.me Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 4h
okay so thats less stupid and more incredibly offensive, got it. Thanks.
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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tbh its even funnier because trump revealing it isnt what killed the plan, jair bolsonaro being a colossal dumbass is
radleybalko.bsky.social Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h
Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan.

And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
Trump appears to blurt out secret plan, not knowing it's already a bust
YouTube video by MS NOW
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November 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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love to assist Tucker in his pivot to outright nazism
dropsitenews.com Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 7h
Tucker Carlson describes Israeli PM Netanyahu as Western civilization’s “main enemy.”

He says Zionism and other forms of tribalism are “an attack on Western civilization.”

(via Shawn Ryan show)
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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eean.dev
Meanwhile Grok is powered by data centers using diesel. I don't think the water angle of data centers is a story cooked up by Texas oilmen, but if they did create a counter narrative, it'd be this story to a tee.
segyges.bsky.social SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 1d
this is a story about farming that they have decided to make about datacenters. the amazon rep called them liars directly and they just print it and then return to insinuating all sorts of shit
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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the article is worse than you think
jackwaltimore.bsky.social Jack Walsh @jackwaltimore.bsky.social · 23h
"According to Karen Crowder, lead counsel for agricultural chemical producer UNorth (formerly United Northfield), the data centers have been linked to the deaths of 463 small family farmers reliant on well water"
rollingstone.com Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis

Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.

Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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neat

(group b)
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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would someone like to tell me why Microsoft decided to jump from toolchain v143 to v145

why am I guessing at versions instead of just incrementing
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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environmentalists and repeatedly stabbing themselves in the dicks in service of chasing headlines, name a more iconic duo

(I say this as an anti-self-dick-stabbing environmentalist)
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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johnsmillie42.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

In a microcosm for the overall discourse on water problems , the key problem here (nitrate pollution) is agriculture (and poor wastewater mgmt), but the headline is data centers.

Amazon absorbing more heat than Tillamook and Lamb Weston.
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
www.rollingstone.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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no, we aren't about to let ag polluters off the hook for this, what the fuck are we doing here?
emorwee.bsky.social Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 10h
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.

What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.

And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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all i have to say to this chief justice is die mad about it
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 9h
When liberals secured a majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2023, they changed internal procedures—over the objection of the conservative chief justice, who claimed they were taking away her power. Today the justices released MESSY details about the affair...
www.wicourts.gov/sc/rulhear/D...
BRIAN HAGEDORN, J. (concurring). The Wisconsin Supreme Court is composed of seven justices who are supposed to be members of the same team. Unlike trial courts, when we act, we do so collectively. To accomplish this, over the last 175 years, this court has established various practices and traditions, both formal and informal. These practices ensure all voices are heard, create clear lines of decision-making authority, and establish consistent and neutral processes to govern our case-deciding and administrative work. Some of these are reflected in formally adopted Supreme Court Rules, and some in our Internal Operating Procedures. But the true currency of a court like ours is trust. When trust is broken like it has been here, every aspect of our work suffers. ¶2 This all began in the summer of 2023 when four justices wished to make significant changes to how this court functions. Fair enough. These modifications could have been pursued through a process built on collegiality and mutual respect. Instead, my colleagues pursued a more destructive path. ¶3 The morning our then-newest justice was sworn into office——August 1, 2023——my four colleagues at that time set off to reshape our court and the operation of the court system. They had apparently engaged in significant discussions in the months prior and decided to force through these changes during our summer recess, and to do so via email with or without the input of their other colleagues. They issued a press release triumphantly announcing that these changes were all about transparency, accountability, and inclusivity. This was true in the same way Pearl Harbor was a strike for peace in the Pacific. I will not rehash every detail (Justice Ziegler's excellent writing recounts much of the history), but the reader deserves a taste. ¶4 The first shot sounded when my four colleagues fired the Director of State Courts, who functions as the CEO of administrative matters for the entire judicial branch. Without following any established process, one of my colleagues sent an email proposing that we fire our Director and install a new, preselected interim Director in his place. This happened through email, over the course of two business days, while the Director was out of town on state business, during our summer recess. He never received a performance review indicating concerns; he was simply told his employment was over. This came just months after some of these same colleagues emphasized the importance of having all justices participate in hiring key staff. ¶5 Later that same week, my colleagues proposed dramatic changes via email affecting both our case-deciding and administrative responsibilities. The email invited justices to attend a new, unscheduled meeting of the court later that week to discuss the proposals. One justice said she could not be there; another objected to the meeting as outside our court calendar. The meeting would go forward no matter what, we were told. I implored my colleagues to reconsider, to treat their fellow colleagues with the respect they would want if circumstances were reversed. They refused. The meeting went on as expected, and with only four members present, they voted to fundamentally remake our court. ¶7 Among their changes, my colleagues radically altered the role of the chief justice. They created a new, three-person administrative committee (on which the chief justice would ostensibly sit) to take over nearly all of the chief justice's most important administrative duties. And they did so in the face of serious objections that these changes violated the Wisconsin Constitution, which says the chief justice "shall be the administrative head of the judicial system." Wis. Const. art. VII, § 4. One justice who in the past championed the constitutional role of the chief justice suddenly changed course. Again, these actions stripping the chief justice of powers she had exercised for as long as anyone could remember were proposed via email, and were voted on a few days later during an unscheduled meeting of just four justices during our summer recess. Not exactly transparent, accountable, and inclusive. ¶8 Another significant series of amendments to our internal rules involved modifying the way we consider certain kinds of cases, essentially making it much easier for this court to expedite cases coming to us outside the normal appeals process. Why the change? As everyone understood, my colleagues had the not-sosecret goal of swiftly hearing particular politically charged cases. This was all by design. ¶9 And how did this experiment go? Not well. Administratively, it was not clear who was in charge. We experienced significant breakdowns in communication amidst a lack of clarity about who was doing what. Our staff was often caught in the middle of a court that did not have established lines of communication and authority. And when the Director of State Courts was unceremoniously fired for what many perceived as political reasons, it sent a shockwave through the system. Furthermore, my colleagues' changes were not one and done. Throughout the past two years, they continued to modify the court's procedures in a similar ad-hoc fashion, often after realizing problems with their earlier ill-considered changes. This only added to the confusion. ¶10 Finally, at one of the court's internal conferences this past June, my colleagues shifted course. One of the four announced she was "withdrawing" her prior votes from the past two years (which, by the way, is not a thing) with the idea that every disputed change was now, all of a sudden, reversed. What changed? Again, it was no mystery. My colleagues wanted to take power away from then-Chief Justice Annette Ziegler. Such a move ensured that my colleagues would run the court through the administrative committee. Following the April 2025 election, they concluded they would have the votes to elect a chief justice of their choosing and have a block of votes to support her, so they no longer needed to seize those powers. This is not a cynical take. It is exactly what happened. ¶11 What's past is past, however. I have no desire to hold this against my colleagues, and I am grateful they have changed course. In fact, I was happy to work collaboratively on many operational changes reflected in this order, most of which I
November 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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huh whats that doing there
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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oh sure just drop that you're going to release both lcc translations next year at the same time in a video titled ???

god I love these guys
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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new BONUS EPISODE about a HUGE FUCK-OFF ARCH with @whatahellofawaytodad.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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SARS-CoV-2 is not “airborne HIV” and I will not permit this narrative on my feed.

It’s an irresponsible and harmful claim made by people who understand nothing about viruses.
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM