Michael Clark
@smintheus.bsky.social
Ancient historian, temple attendant for three dainty-pawed gods who sometimes make their epiphanies. Looking for more honesty and less malice in politics, but getting this thing instead.
I'm reminded of how my childhood sheepdog Sunshine acted once after a large, irascible rescue German Shepherd in the village was killed by a car. Sunshine ran into the road & stood over her body, warning off cars that tried to pass & pedestrians who tried to draw him away. He kept a 4 hour vigil!
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I'm reminded of how my childhood sheepdog Sunshine acted once after a large, irascible rescue German Shepherd in the village was killed by a car. Sunshine ran into the road & stood over her body, warning off cars that tried to pass & pedestrians who tried to draw him away. He kept a 4 hour vigil!
You can know him by his works. I suspect we'll learn that the Leavitts were behind this kidnapping of the mother.
Karoline Leavitt's brother says his only concern is for his son. The mother of his child can rot in hell.
I bet he wears a big shiny cross around his neck too.
I bet he wears a big shiny cross around his neck too.
"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...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
You can know him by his works. I suspect we'll learn that the Leavitts were behind this kidnapping of the mother.
This from the rancid, lying spokesperson for an administration that is so OK with Russians stealing Ukrainian children for themselves that it outsources its own "peace" plan to those same Russians.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This from the rancid, lying spokesperson for an administration that is so OK with Russians stealing Ukrainian children for themselves that it outsources its own "peace" plan to those same Russians.
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The 2020 Georgia election case is going to be dismissed in its entirety, with the prosecutor offering less-than-persuasive reasoning. A miscarriage of justice that weakens our democracy.
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The 2020 Georgia election case is going to be dismissed in its entirety, with the prosecutor offering less-than-persuasive reasoning. A miscarriage of justice that weakens our democracy.
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Glad to see this getting more media attention.
Must read, especially for journalists: A recent federal court opinion about how DHS is "simply not credible". Extended excerpts here:
presswatchers.org/2025/11/dhss...
presswatchers.org/2025/11/dhss...
DHS's pack of liars | Press Watch
Journalists should not believe anything the Department of Homeland Security says
presswatchers.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Glad to see this getting more media attention.
Rumor is that Waddle spent over $500,000 on lobbyists and Gobble offered Trump a 25% stake in a new crypto venture before they were granted pardons.
November 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Rumor is that Waddle spent over $500,000 on lobbyists and Gobble offered Trump a 25% stake in a new crypto venture before they were granted pardons.
"I predict that the next 6 months will be critical for the outcome of the TrumpCare effort."
-Th. Friedman, prob
-Th. Friedman, prob
R.I.P. TrumpCare (2:12 pm, November 24, 2025 - 2:14 pm, November 24, 2025)
You will not be mourned.
You will not be mourned.
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
"I predict that the next 6 months will be critical for the outcome of the TrumpCare effort."
-Th. Friedman, prob
-Th. Friedman, prob
May come as a surprise to President Spontaneous J. Bonespurs that troops don't fight v well when they can't put into words what they're supposed to be fighting for.
Usually when you send your troops into a war you at least pretend to give them a moral justification. You know, so they don’t immediately fall into depression and hopelessness.
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
May come as a surprise to President Spontaneous J. Bonespurs that troops don't fight v well when they can't put into words what they're supposed to be fighting for.
Calling it your job don't make it right, Charlie Brown.
These men are nihilists; there's nothing to be afraid of, Charlie Brown.
we have such sights to show you, charlie brown
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Calling it your job don't make it right, Charlie Brown.
Highlights the fundamental flaw with "AI". It is a marketing gimmick disguised as "science", whose "free" products are the users it manipulates.
The gimmick is to *appear* to provide to every question a plausible seeming answer that *appears* to resemble what an actual human expert might say.
The gimmick is to *appear* to provide to every question a plausible seeming answer that *appears* to resemble what an actual human expert might say.
"An audit of the top 10 generative AI models revealed that the non-response rates of chatbots went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025. At the same time, the chatbots’ likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Highlights the fundamental flaw with "AI". It is a marketing gimmick disguised as "science", whose "free" products are the users it manipulates.
The gimmick is to *appear* to provide to every question a plausible seeming answer that *appears* to resemble what an actual human expert might say.
The gimmick is to *appear* to provide to every question a plausible seeming answer that *appears* to resemble what an actual human expert might say.
Points 16-20 could usefully be replaced w/ a single point:
"Russia and Ukraine will return all territories they have seized in war back to each other; or if either state retains control of any seized land, the other state shall take possession of any equal sized territory that they may choose.
"Russia and Ukraine will return all territories they have seized in war back to each other; or if either state retains control of any seized land, the other state shall take possession of any equal sized territory that they may choose.
November 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Points 16-20 could usefully be replaced w/ a single point:
"Russia and Ukraine will return all territories they have seized in war back to each other; or if either state retains control of any seized land, the other state shall take possession of any equal sized territory that they may choose.
"Russia and Ukraine will return all territories they have seized in war back to each other; or if either state retains control of any seized land, the other state shall take possession of any equal sized territory that they may choose.
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So yesterday Trump was holding hands with MBS, and today he's demanding the execution of two Senators and four Representatives.
Seems like something rubbed off
Seems like something rubbed off
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
So yesterday Trump was holding hands with MBS, and today he's demanding the execution of two Senators and four Representatives.
Seems like something rubbed off
Seems like something rubbed off
Shorter Mike Johnson: 'The military should obey illegal orders. Duh.'
Mike Johnson responds to my question about saying Democrats committed treasonable by death
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Shorter Mike Johnson: 'The military should obey illegal orders. Duh.'
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What would those records help reveal? Where Epstein got his money. How he acquired and controlled his victims. Who he trafficked them to. What individuals and banks enabled the trafficking. Who else had control of Epstein’s accounts, and what crimes they committed.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
What would those records help reveal? Where Epstein got his money. How he acquired and controlled his victims. Who he trafficked them to. What individuals and banks enabled the trafficking. Who else had control of Epstein’s accounts, and what crimes they committed.
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EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
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This is how you destroy science and research in the country
The administration is building a legal pathway for ad hoc grant terminations:
"if the agency determines that the award no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities"
Converting multiyear grants to 'at whim' coin flips will undermine the stability & leadership of American science.
"if the agency determines that the award no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities"
Converting multiyear grants to 'at whim' coin flips will undermine the stability & leadership of American science.
Update on a significant development NIH grant terms.
On 10/1, a change to grant making regs went into effect that gives NIH more power to terminate grants for policy reasons.
But to use this power, new grant terms must include specific language. See @aniloza.bsky.social w/ the story from July.
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On 10/1, a change to grant making regs went into effect that gives NIH more power to terminate grants for policy reasons.
But to use this power, new grant terms must include specific language. See @aniloza.bsky.social w/ the story from July.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This is how you destroy science and research in the country
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40 minors gave sworn testimonies that they’d been raped & trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein.
Kash Patel Under Oath: “There’s no credible information that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked minors”
FBI Kash Patel needs to be charged with perjury.
Kash Patel Under Oath: “There’s no credible information that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked minors”
FBI Kash Patel needs to be charged with perjury.
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
40 minors gave sworn testimonies that they’d been raped & trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein.
Kash Patel Under Oath: “There’s no credible information that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked minors”
FBI Kash Patel needs to be charged with perjury.
Kash Patel Under Oath: “There’s no credible information that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked minors”
FBI Kash Patel needs to be charged with perjury.
CBP is creating a domestic surveillance state to rival China's. This great AP report shows that CBP has abused the alarmingly broad but supposedly temporary powers granted to it to establish a national surveillance system. It hides behind local police, who get to harass & jail drivers arbitrarily.
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
CBP is creating a domestic surveillance state to rival China's. This great AP report shows that CBP has abused the alarmingly broad but supposedly temporary powers granted to it to establish a national surveillance system. It hides behind local police, who get to harass & jail drivers arbitrarily.
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As expected, hedge fund millionaires benefited from US taxpayers' bailout of Argentina. For Republicans, it's all about the #Grift. www.ft.com/content/b282...
Hedge funds’ bets on Argentina pay off after US bailout
Emerging market and distressed debt specialists post big returns after US support and electoral win boost Buenos Aires
www.ft.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
As expected, hedge fund millionaires benefited from US taxpayers' bailout of Argentina. For Republicans, it's all about the #Grift. www.ft.com/content/b282...
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Anyone interested in govt transparency and public access should check out GovScape from @bcgl.bsky.social and his team👇
It's an incredibly powerful tool that allows visual, semantic text, and keywords search of 10 million U.S. government PDFs (70 million pages!) and counting: www.govscape.net
It's an incredibly powerful tool that allows visual, semantic text, and keywords search of 10 million U.S. government PDFs (70 million pages!) and counting: www.govscape.net
November 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Anyone interested in govt transparency and public access should check out GovScape from @bcgl.bsky.social and his team👇
It's an incredibly powerful tool that allows visual, semantic text, and keywords search of 10 million U.S. government PDFs (70 million pages!) and counting: www.govscape.net
It's an incredibly powerful tool that allows visual, semantic text, and keywords search of 10 million U.S. government PDFs (70 million pages!) and counting: www.govscape.net
Little known fact: those Air Force jets were aloft to ensure that Saudi pilots could not slam another plane into the Pentagon.
"President Donald Trump and Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud of Saudi Arabia watch the news of his visit in the Outer Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, November 18, 2025.(Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)"
November 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Little known fact: those Air Force jets were aloft to ensure that Saudi pilots could not slam another plane into the Pentagon.
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Someone should write a Moynihan report on our elite class, explaining that their problems are not socioeconomic but the product of a pathological ghetto culture.
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Someone should write a Moynihan report on our elite class, explaining that their problems are not socioeconomic but the product of a pathological ghetto culture.
It's the kind of weirdly confrontational / vicious thing a person with dementia may say when they feel their power to control their own fate slipping away.
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM
It's the kind of weirdly confrontational / vicious thing a person with dementia may say when they feel their power to control their own fate slipping away.
The reason why Farage refuses to take responsibility is plain from the first sentence quoted. He's a sociopath. Normal ppl don't throw a switch from virulent abuse to charming bonhomie. Farage is extremely dangerous.
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
!["“[Farage] did teach the younger members of the CCF the infamous ‘Gas ’em all’ song, or at least led the singing of it on CCF coaches to training areas,” he claimed.
The song, variants of which were heard on English football terraces in the 1980s, is sung to the tune of George Formby’s Bless Em All. One version runs: “‘Gas em all; Gas em all; Gas em all; And into the showers they crawl; We’ll gas all the niggers; We’ll gas all the Jews; Come on you lads gas em all’."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h636z3gpo75slnczmfzrqoga/bafkreiacdln46zpc2di2wyrantegmtj7cssoktej4juuzvggg7xe7sfgni@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The reason why Farage refuses to take responsibility is plain from the first sentence quoted. He's a sociopath. Normal ppl don't throw a switch from virulent abuse to charming bonhomie. Farage is extremely dangerous.
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
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European political scientists are blue in the face from constantly pointing out that accommodating the far right does not help centre-left parties win, and contributes to the rise of far-right parties. There's a mountain of data to support that.
But no, the galaxy-brained strategists must be right.
But no, the galaxy-brained strategists must be right.
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
European political scientists are blue in the face from constantly pointing out that accommodating the far right does not help centre-left parties win, and contributes to the rise of far-right parties. There's a mountain of data to support that.
But no, the galaxy-brained strategists must be right.
But no, the galaxy-brained strategists must be right.