Rob Grant
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Rugby, music, law, something something
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This was such a fun photo to set up, taken by Thomas Reiter through a sleep station window on Mir. The sun was so bright we were all squinting like crazy. But I love how it shows the texture of the Shuttle's rough, protective hide, and the glimpse of humanity (and my moustache) against the universe.
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This was such a fun photo to set up, taken by Thomas Reiter through a sleep station window on Mir. The sun was so bright we were all squinting like crazy. But I love how it shows the texture of the Shuttle's rough, protective hide, and the glimpse of humanity (and my moustache) against the universe.
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10 minutes with Mamdani and he’s changing the name to Truth Socialist
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
10 minutes with Mamdani and he’s changing the name to Truth Socialist
Again, does everything have to be SO on the nose?
Jim Jordan: "We're all for protecting innocent victims, we're all for exposing the bad guys who did bad guys who did bad things, but ... "
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Again, does everything have to be SO on the nose?
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New Aggie Code of Honor: An Aggie does not lie, cheat, steal, discuss certain race and gender issues, or tolerate those who do.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
New Aggie Code of Honor: An Aggie does not lie, cheat, steal, discuss certain race and gender issues, or tolerate those who do.
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Etta James released her debut album ‘At Last!’ 65 years ago on November 15, 1960 | Listen to the album here: album.ink/EttaJamesAL
November 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Etta James released her debut album ‘At Last!’ 65 years ago on November 15, 1960 | Listen to the album here: album.ink/EttaJamesAL
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A point of this reporting is to underscore how not just wildly scandalous Trump’s wide ranging coverup of the Epstein files is right now, but that his coverup has hit a new level of blatant political corruption and abuse of power.
Genuinely, historically atrocious in ways too many get numb to
Genuinely, historically atrocious in ways too many get numb to
November 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A point of this reporting is to underscore how not just wildly scandalous Trump’s wide ranging coverup of the Epstein files is right now, but that his coverup has hit a new level of blatant political corruption and abuse of power.
Genuinely, historically atrocious in ways too many get numb to
Genuinely, historically atrocious in ways too many get numb to
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“Some Love for Rodman’s” www.popville.com/2025/11/some...
“Some Love for Rodman’s” - PoPville
5100 Wisconsin Ave, NW "Dear PoPville, As a Friendship Heights resident, I'm very excited for Trader Joe's (and bummed it looks like we'll have to wait till after Thanksgiving!), and am also hoping th...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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E.G., if your position is something other than "people have a right to migrate" "asylum is a human right" "our society has an obligation to welcome the stranger" "every human deserves the full protection of the law" then you are not in accord with Catholic teaching and you better fix your soul!
November 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
E.G., if your position is something other than "people have a right to migrate" "asylum is a human right" "our society has an obligation to welcome the stranger" "every human deserves the full protection of the law" then you are not in accord with Catholic teaching and you better fix your soul!
Thank you. Seeing WaPo among others saying that Epstein likened Trump to the dog that didn’t bark. No. The fact that Trump hadn’t been caught up in the investigation was the dog that didn’t bark.
"Essentially what you have here is the two main conspirators in this Jeffrey Epstein case basically saying to one another, sure is weird that Donald Trump hasn't been pulled into this whole thing yet."
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social talk the new Epstein smoking-gun emails:
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social talk the new Epstein smoking-gun emails:
November 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Thank you. Seeing WaPo among others saying that Epstein likened Trump to the dog that didn’t bark. No. The fact that Trump hadn’t been caught up in the investigation was the dog that didn’t bark.
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Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!
OK, fine: my take on the Bond Continuity Discourse is that he didn’t get blown up, it was an elaborate ruse and he’s alive but got sent to Slough House.
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
OK, fine: my take on the Bond Continuity Discourse is that he didn’t get blown up, it was an elaborate ruse and he’s alive but got sent to Slough House.
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If you’re asking (tho who is?) my opinion *as a voter with no actual power* what my shutdown position was, it would probably be: Dem electeds will say that Trump and his party unleashed a lawless, authoritarian orgy of historic cruelty, militarism & destruction against millions, so even when the …
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
If you’re asking (tho who is?) my opinion *as a voter with no actual power* what my shutdown position was, it would probably be: Dem electeds will say that Trump and his party unleashed a lawless, authoritarian orgy of historic cruelty, militarism & destruction against millions, so even when the …
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Sandwich verdict wasn’t jury nullification. It was failure to prove the required “reasonable fear of physical injury” in a case where the agent was wearing A BULLETPROOF VEST. The only crime was the waste of resources on this case. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily.
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Opinion | The sandwich thrower was wrong. But Jeanine Pirro was, too.
To establish a forcible assault, jurors were required to find that Dunn caused “reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm.” That allegation was laughable.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Sandwich verdict wasn’t jury nullification. It was failure to prove the required “reasonable fear of physical injury” in a case where the agent was wearing A BULLETPROOF VEST. The only crime was the waste of resources on this case. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily.
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a super funny thing about this is that the only reason this looks like some too-clever-by-half gambit is that thune, johnson, and trump have played this so badly, in any normal universe, this would look like a normal, uncontroversial, unobjectionable offer from the minority party in both chambers
schumer's audience for this isn't bluesky, it's caucus moderates, state governors, and federal worker unions who might be getting shaky about holding the line, and it worked, at least with the caucus mods, who showed up for this in solidarity.
Senate Democrats propose 1-year Obamacare subsidies punt in new shutdown offer
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer made the offer in a Friday floor speech.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
a super funny thing about this is that the only reason this looks like some too-clever-by-half gambit is that thune, johnson, and trump have played this so badly, in any normal universe, this would look like a normal, uncontroversial, unobjectionable offer from the minority party in both chambers
One way you can tell that Dr. Oz is a serious man of science and not at all a quack is because he gives ranges like 125,000,000 to 135,000,000,000
If he is saying billion, with a B, that's about 400 pounds per person, which seems like an unhealthy amount of weight to lose. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
Oz: We thought it was 125 million pounds. Our estimate is Americans will lose 135 billion pounds by the midterms
November 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
One way you can tell that Dr. Oz is a serious man of science and not at all a quack is because he gives ranges like 125,000,000 to 135,000,000,000
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates
This is yet again a jurisprudence that refuses to accept any criticism.
I was just really amused by Alito's pearl-clutching about Scalia's intellectual integrity yesterday like pls be serious
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Sam Alito Forced to Briefly Contemplate the Crushing Weight of His Intellectual Bankruptcy
On Monday, the justice came agonizingly close to acknowledging how freely self-described textualists set aside the text when they find it inconvenient.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This is yet again a jurisprudence that refuses to accept any criticism.
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Remember that time Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face and then the guy had to go on TV and apologise for how being shot in the face made Dick Cheny look bad?
November 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Remember that time Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face and then the guy had to go on TV and apologise for how being shot in the face made Dick Cheny look bad?
Mike Johnson is less interested in current events than my 11 year old.
RAJU: Last week you were very critical of Biden's use of the autopen. But Trump admitted on 60 Minutes to not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire who pleaded guilty to money laundering. Does that also concern you?
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.
November 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Mike Johnson is less interested in current events than my 11 year old.
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The simplest reason why the Trump administration is cutting off SNAP, despite adequate reserves, is that they hate the program and don't care about the people who depend upon it.
They are breaking the law not to provide SNAP while also enforcing the "equal treatment rules" to hurt SNAP users.
They are breaking the law not to provide SNAP while also enforcing the "equal treatment rules" to hurt SNAP users.
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The simplest reason why the Trump administration is cutting off SNAP, despite adequate reserves, is that they hate the program and don't care about the people who depend upon it.
They are breaking the law not to provide SNAP while also enforcing the "equal treatment rules" to hurt SNAP users.
They are breaking the law not to provide SNAP while also enforcing the "equal treatment rules" to hurt SNAP users.
Yamamoto absolute baseball legend now
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Yamamoto absolute baseball legend now
Empty Pages is that anything
November 2, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Empty Pages is that anything
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Handin' out pocket-sized Constitutions to trick or treaters this year. Go get a Snickers bar next door, Waldo. Uncle George is hooking you up with the Separation of Powers and whatnot.
November 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Handin' out pocket-sized Constitutions to trick or treaters this year. Go get a Snickers bar next door, Waldo. Uncle George is hooking you up with the Separation of Powers and whatnot.