@sbatskins.bsky.social
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I’m glad to see this debate out in the open. You don’t arrive at the views held by Richerson and others by reading your Bible. You arrive at these views by mainlining the administration’s propaganda. These pastors are lost and you should avoid their churches.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Immigration Crackdown Creates Fault Lines Among Baptists
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I’m glad to see this debate out in the open. You don’t arrive at the views held by Richerson and others by reading your Bible. You arrive at these views by mainlining the administration’s propaganda. These pastors are lost and you should avoid their churches.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
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Again, we should enforce the law & the Constitution, even for this One Special Boy
December 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Again, we should enforce the law & the Constitution, even for this One Special Boy
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@peterbakernyt.bsky.social refuses to invoke any idea of competitive authoritarianism here though experts on democratic governance have done so. Why is he desperate to dance around what is happening with equivocation, euphemism and evasion?
NYT’s Baker writes: “Actions that once shocked the system can eventually become seen as normal.” Yet NYT is part of that normalization process.
Will the news media ever pull the fire alarm? Or will they keep betraying their duty because of the 3 C’s: cowardice, cluelessness and complicity? 4/4
Will the news media ever pull the fire alarm? Or will they keep betraying their duty because of the 3 C’s: cowardice, cluelessness and complicity? 4/4
December 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
@peterbakernyt.bsky.social refuses to invoke any idea of competitive authoritarianism here though experts on democratic governance have done so. Why is he desperate to dance around what is happening with equivocation, euphemism and evasion?
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I've always wanted to get a picture of the sun setting directly above a sanderling
I could never land it
It's a complex shot since the sun sets above the ocean and the birds are BELOW the crashing waves
Even if you get it, you need to get multiple shots for depth of field
I came close tonight🪶 🧵
I could never land it
It's a complex shot since the sun sets above the ocean and the birds are BELOW the crashing waves
Even if you get it, you need to get multiple shots for depth of field
I came close tonight🪶 🧵
December 21, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I've always wanted to get a picture of the sun setting directly above a sanderling
I could never land it
It's a complex shot since the sun sets above the ocean and the birds are BELOW the crashing waves
Even if you get it, you need to get multiple shots for depth of field
I came close tonight🪶 🧵
I could never land it
It's a complex shot since the sun sets above the ocean and the birds are BELOW the crashing waves
Even if you get it, you need to get multiple shots for depth of field
I came close tonight🪶 🧵
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Wildly illegal, unconstitutional, & criminal. In any functioning democracy, ministers would have been forced to resign, the PM would have been thrown out, & people would have gone to jail for a long time. No one involved had any legal authority to do any of this.
"Shelley Bain, a 66-year-old program specialist, checked her email and saw she’d been fired at 4:30 a.m. She made a cup of coffee and calculated. She was losing half the retirement income she’d counted on. She is legally blind, so it would be hard to find another job."
December 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Wildly illegal, unconstitutional, & criminal. In any functioning democracy, ministers would have been forced to resign, the PM would have been thrown out, & people would have gone to jail for a long time. No one involved had any legal authority to do any of this.
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Representatives of the British military mission in the USSR first got to examine a KV-1 tank #OTD in 1941. Puzzlingly, it was classified as a medium tank, even though it weighed nearly ten tons more than the heaviest tank produced in the UK at the time. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII
December 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Knowlton Anderson, who says he is Abraham Lincoln’s second cousin, six-times removed, is speaking at the funeral
December 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Knowlton Anderson, who says he is Abraham Lincoln’s second cousin, six-times removed, is speaking at the funeral
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The Lincolns have brought the coffin
December 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The Lincolns have brought the coffin
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Serious question/suggestion. The press (and normal people) refer to billionaire allies of Russia’s corrupt autocratic president as oligarchs. Shouldn’t the U.S. press call the politically influential billionaire media allies of the would-be autocratic U.S. president—Musk, Bezos, Ellison—oligarchs?
December 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Serious question/suggestion. The press (and normal people) refer to billionaire allies of Russia’s corrupt autocratic president as oligarchs. Shouldn’t the U.S. press call the politically influential billionaire media allies of the would-be autocratic U.S. president—Musk, Bezos, Ellison—oligarchs?
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Deck the halls and lock him up.
Written by Rikki Beadle-Blair
Performed at Soho Theatre, Walhamstow for charity fundraiser "Comedians Do Carols."
Written by Rikki Beadle-Blair
Performed at Soho Theatre, Walhamstow for charity fundraiser "Comedians Do Carols."
December 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Deck the halls and lock him up.
Written by Rikki Beadle-Blair
Performed at Soho Theatre, Walhamstow for charity fundraiser "Comedians Do Carols."
Written by Rikki Beadle-Blair
Performed at Soho Theatre, Walhamstow for charity fundraiser "Comedians Do Carols."
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I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
It’s crazy that people used to be able to just smoke cigarettes wherever they wanted
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
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The contrast between ordinary citizens courageously confronting Trumpist bullying, and billionaires and CEOs obsequiously bending the knee– this spectacle in its clear simplicity provides a lesson we should not forget.
December 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The contrast between ordinary citizens courageously confronting Trumpist bullying, and billionaires and CEOs obsequiously bending the knee– this spectacle in its clear simplicity provides a lesson we should not forget.
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U.S intelligence report.
So correct, so obvious, and still beyond the comprehension of the U.S. own government.
So correct, so obvious, and still beyond the comprehension of the U.S. own government.
December 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
U.S intelligence report.
So correct, so obvious, and still beyond the comprehension of the U.S. own government.
So correct, so obvious, and still beyond the comprehension of the U.S. own government.
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Anyone claiming that undoing the fascist regimes work at all levels no matter how small is not a worthy cause cannot be allowed to hold power for the foreseeable future.
There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
The president's name was added to the sign outside the performing arts center.
December 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Anyone claiming that undoing the fascist regimes work at all levels no matter how small is not a worthy cause cannot be allowed to hold power for the foreseeable future.
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Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles
theonion.com/trump-still-...
theonion.com/trump-still-...
December 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles
theonion.com/trump-still-...
theonion.com/trump-still-...
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There's actually a very unsettling array of these to choose from
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
There's actually a very unsettling array of these to choose from
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HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
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Just based on the number of photos of them together, Donald Trump hung out with Jeffrey Epstein more times than e.g. ive hung out with my own siblings as an adult.
December 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Just based on the number of photos of them together, Donald Trump hung out with Jeffrey Epstein more times than e.g. ive hung out with my own siblings as an adult.
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Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
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Good Morning Everyone 😊☕🌤️ TGIF 🫶
December 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Good Morning Everyone 😊☕🌤️ TGIF 🫶