Sophia Florence
@sophiaflorence.bsky.social
ChemEng/data/applied math (pharma formulations + disinformation), writer/comedian (stand-up and horror films), health/science/tech policy consultant, copywriter, host of the Crumbling Podcast (about disinformation), Connecticut enthusiast.
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1. New tiers on Patreon with shirts and stickers www.patreon.com/thecrumblingpodcast
2. We'll be revealing our new co-host soon
3. We've got two episodes on the NCAA coming out, two more interviews, then a long series on libertarianism, and then one on Ed and Lorraine Warren
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If I was this woman's lawyer i would advise her not to stop suing until she owned Glenn Beck's house
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
How an innocent woman's name was tied to the Jan. 6 pipe bombs
The FBI has ruled the woman out as a suspect in the 2021 plot, sources said, but only after her name circulated on social platforms and a conservative news site.
www.cbsnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
If I was this woman's lawyer i would advise her not to stop suing until she owned Glenn Beck's house
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
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Never, ever quit.
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Never, ever quit.
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No pundit is doing more work today to launder attacks on public health than Rachael Bedard, who has constructed a parallel world where vaccine hesitancy is best understood as a rational response to elitism; money and social media algorithms don’t exist to her www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
Opinion | I Went to an Anti-Vaccine Conference. Medicine Is in Trouble.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
No pundit is doing more work today to launder attacks on public health than Rachael Bedard, who has constructed a parallel world where vaccine hesitancy is best understood as a rational response to elitism; money and social media algorithms don’t exist to her www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
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Deposition of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino went off the rails at hello, transcript shows
Deposition of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino went off the rails at hello, transcript shows
A full transcript of Cmdr. Gregory Bovino’s deposition has been made public in an ongoing lawsuit accusing federal immigration agents of routinely violating a restraining order on tactics in …
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November 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Deposition of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino went off the rails at hello, transcript shows
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A Louisiana resident described seeing masked men shove people into unmarked cars during an ICE raid in Metairie, raising deep fears about due process and accountability. The letter calls on the community to speak out before these tactics become normalized.
Read: www.nola.com/opinions/let...
Read: www.nola.com/opinions/let...
Letters: Witnessing immigration raid firsthand raises tremendous concern
My family immigrated to this country from Eastern Europe to escape persecution and enjoy a better life in a land they had never seen. Their journey was not easy, but
www.nola.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A Louisiana resident described seeing masked men shove people into unmarked cars during an ICE raid in Metairie, raising deep fears about due process and accountability. The letter calls on the community to speak out before these tactics become normalized.
Read: www.nola.com/opinions/let...
Read: www.nola.com/opinions/let...
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If you're ever wondered why journalists seem so out of touch most of the time it's because in order to establish yourself you need to either come from money, marry into money, or be OK with abject poverty and daily financial panic
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
If you're ever wondered why journalists seem so out of touch most of the time it's because in order to establish yourself you need to either come from money, marry into money, or be OK with abject poverty and daily financial panic
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
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BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
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If you genuinely wanted to figure out whether Obama’s second term energized nazis, race science cranks, and neoconfederates; and whether it gave the respectable right cover when they decided to embrace those factions, I bet you could do it
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
If you genuinely wanted to figure out whether Obama’s second term energized nazis, race science cranks, and neoconfederates; and whether it gave the respectable right cover when they decided to embrace those factions, I bet you could do it
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I do wonder if this is it. WTF is Donald Trump doing w Venezuela? Like we've had US presidents do crazy things. I mean we invaded Iraq and toppled its government more or less for no reason. But as someone who covered that story very closely they DID have reasons. They were bad ...
November 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I do wonder if this is it. WTF is Donald Trump doing w Venezuela? Like we've had US presidents do crazy things. I mean we invaded Iraq and toppled its government more or less for no reason. But as someone who covered that story very closely they DID have reasons. They were bad ...
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noam chomsky found dead in a ditch www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
noam chomsky found dead in a ditch www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think it’s fine for officials to urge folks not to get vaccinated as long as they first sign a document agreeing to be eaten by wolves, and have their entire extended family eaten by wolves, if it’s found that even a single member of their family is vaccinated
Louisiana's surgeon general Dr. Ralph Abraham, who has praised Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s tenure as health secretary and called COVID vaccines "dangerous," will become the second-highest ranking official at the CDC. n.pr/49Af0z8
Louisiana's top health official, a critic of the COVID vaccine, will be CDC deputy
Louisiana's surgeon general Dr. Ralph Abraham, who has praised Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s tenure as health secretary and called COVID vaccines "dangerous," will become the second-highest ranking official at the CDC.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think it’s fine for officials to urge folks not to get vaccinated as long as they first sign a document agreeing to be eaten by wolves, and have their entire extended family eaten by wolves, if it’s found that even a single member of their family is vaccinated
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food takes are what got jean valjean into trouble
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
food takes are what got jean valjean into trouble
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🚨 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The FBI turned over dozens of emails to me in response to my #FOIA request that provides a behind-the-scenes look at discussions involving the review and redaction of the Epstein files
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🚨 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The FBI turned over dozens of emails to me in response to my #FOIA request that provides a behind-the-scenes look at discussions involving the review and redaction of the Epstein files
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Mother FUCK that is on the nose…
November 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Mother FUCK that is on the nose…
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RFK has the sex appeal of an old moth-eaten sock and anyone who thinks otherwise needs to have their brain scanned and to be evaluated for a stroke
The women drawn to RFK Jr. see an intoxicating cocktail of romance and danger—whether it's getting attacked by a yak or texting about taking metaphorical bullets for each other.
But to most others, Kennedy is a reckless conspiracy theorist whose appetite for danger will result in a sicker America.
But to most others, Kennedy is a reckless conspiracy theorist whose appetite for danger will result in a sicker America.
The inexplicable sex appeal of RFK Jr.
How can such ferocious desire be attached to this man? Two memoirs by the women who love him offer some clues.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
RFK has the sex appeal of an old moth-eaten sock and anyone who thinks otherwise needs to have their brain scanned and to be evaluated for a stroke
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"• Paramount is teaming up with Warner Bros. to distribute"
...oh, for gods' sake.
...oh, for gods' sake.
‘RUSH HOUR 4’ has been greenlit at Paramount, after push from Donald Trump.
• Paramount is teaming up with Warner Bros. to distribute
• Brett Ratner, who coincidentally just made a documentary about Melania Trump, will return to direct.
(Source: Deadline)
• Paramount is teaming up with Warner Bros. to distribute
• Brett Ratner, who coincidentally just made a documentary about Melania Trump, will return to direct.
(Source: Deadline)
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"• Paramount is teaming up with Warner Bros. to distribute"
...oh, for gods' sake.
...oh, for gods' sake.
I don't know that they "won" so much as people are just profoundly aware of how insanely stupid and corrupt this administration is.
Enten: "Trump's net approval rating is at -15 -- the lowest it has been during his entire second term... the Democratic lead on the generic ballot has widened. Trump's political position has worsened. I don't think how you can look at both and conclude anything other than that Dems won the shutdown"
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I don't know that they "won" so much as people are just profoundly aware of how insanely stupid and corrupt this administration is.
One of these guys used to regularly dig out graves in New Haven and it freaked people out really badly, but coincidentally the most metal thing a rodent has probably ever done.
Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
One of these guys used to regularly dig out graves in New Haven and it freaked people out really badly, but coincidentally the most metal thing a rodent has probably ever done.
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I need people who are profiling RFK Jr to not recite, uncritically, the number of studies the man says he has read.
One he lies
Two even if he has read them doesn't mean he understands them
Three it's more useful to take one and explain its problems.
One he lies
Two even if he has read them doesn't mean he understands them
Three it's more useful to take one and explain its problems.
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I need people who are profiling RFK Jr to not recite, uncritically, the number of studies the man says he has read.
One he lies
Two even if he has read them doesn't mean he understands them
Three it's more useful to take one and explain its problems.
One he lies
Two even if he has read them doesn't mean he understands them
Three it's more useful to take one and explain its problems.
@realgdt.bsky.social adaptation of the Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, no contest.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
@realgdt.bsky.social adaptation of the Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, no contest.
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So, how is bailing out Argentina, funding Israel's genocide, and now attempting a war with Venezuela "America First" and "non-interventionism" that was allegedly promoted by MAGA, Trump and all their right-wing reeks?
November 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
So, how is bailing out Argentina, funding Israel's genocide, and now attempting a war with Venezuela "America First" and "non-interventionism" that was allegedly promoted by MAGA, Trump and all their right-wing reeks?
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I am not watching the video; plz tell me this is a misquote or mischaracterization of what she said
I am aware of her to put it diplomatically dearth of intellectual horsepower but this is just a next level thing to strategize
I am aware of her to put it diplomatically dearth of intellectual horsepower but this is just a next level thing to strategize
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I am not watching the video; plz tell me this is a misquote or mischaracterization of what she said
I am aware of her to put it diplomatically dearth of intellectual horsepower but this is just a next level thing to strategize
I am aware of her to put it diplomatically dearth of intellectual horsepower but this is just a next level thing to strategize
If I did a series of youtube explainers on weird topics, knowing my background, what would folks want to hear me explain? Bonus points if it involves math, chemistry, and something social simultaneously.
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If I did a series of youtube explainers on weird topics, knowing my background, what would folks want to hear me explain? Bonus points if it involves math, chemistry, and something social simultaneously.
Primarying Richie Torres would probably be even more useful than primarying Jeffries. I think Jeffries will sway with the wind, which is...not exactly a credit to his character, but Torres has douchebag vibes on top of his bad policy preferences, so he might be easier to take on.
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Primarying Richie Torres would probably be even more useful than primarying Jeffries. I think Jeffries will sway with the wind, which is...not exactly a credit to his character, but Torres has douchebag vibes on top of his bad policy preferences, so he might be easier to take on.