Spudmonkey
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Spudmonkey
@spudmonkey.bsky.social
Ally, old school computer geek, gamer, I bleed blue.
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We just finished her application package and it is now submitted. In our process, we found a handful of other programs that might also suit her! So, now we wait. Crossing my fingers for my mentee!!
My mentee in undergrad has a 3.9 GPA in biology and wants to do her PhD at Stanford in the microbiology department. She found her dream lab. Can my community help us? She's so talented and I really want this for her! She has accomplished so much against all odds. Please share.
December 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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On Election Day today, TN-7 Republican nominee Matt Van Epps joined Jeffrey Epstein confidant Steve Bannon to plead with the MAGA base for support
December 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Our Founders Would Abhor What The USPTO Is Doing With The Patent System

Last week I wrote about how the US Patent and Trademark Office is pushing a rule change that would effectively neuter the inter partes review (IPR) system that reviews already granted patents to make sure they weren't granted…
Our Founders Would Abhor What The USPTO Is Doing With The Patent System
Last week I wrote about how the US Patent and Trademark Office is pushing a rule change that would effectively neuter the inter partes review (IPR) system that reviews already granted patents to make sure they weren't granted by mistake. Patent tolls and other abusers of the patent system have been screaming about this system ever since it started actually helping stop the flood of patent trolling over the last decade and a half.
www.techdirt.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Ex-Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández orchestrated a drug trafficking conspiracy that brought more than 500 tons of cocaine into the U.S. over the span of 20 years.

President Trump has pardoned him.

It makes a mockery of Trump’s claim to be stopping drug trafficking.
December 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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A reminder that a lot of people in the South are working their butts off as they fight back against the shitty political landscape in their states, and the country.
In Tarrant County, a Grassroots Coalition Pushes Back on Christian Nationalists
The recent redistricting of the county commissioners court has galvanized progressive organizers heading into 2026.
www.texasobserver.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Kushner said he wouldn't have a foreign policy role in this administration just like the Trump Organization said it wouldn't make new foreign deals, just like Karoline Leavitt said Trump has never engaged in a conflict of interest.
As Jared Kushner prepares to meet with Putin today on behalf of Trump, REMEMBER: After taking billions from the Saudis and other foreign governments, Kushner explicitly said he would not have a foreign policy role in this administration.

popular.info/p/jared-kush...
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Guess who suggested that illegal orders should be ignored when Obama was president?
2016 video shows Hegseth saying the military cannot carry out unlawful orders | CNN
Hegseth described the refusal of illegal commands as part of the military’s ethos — a message he now condemns Democrats for spreading.
www.cnn.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Larry Summers has been banned for life from the American Economic Association, the latest public repercussion he has faced following new revelations about his connections to Jeffrey Epstein.
Larry Summers banned for life from American Economic Association in wake of Jeffrey Epstein emails - The Boston Globe
The ban is the latest public repercussion the economist is facing.
trib.al
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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I've got a piece up today at @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome to Hell World. Check it out: www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...
A coordinated campaign to drive trans people out of public life
Parker Molloy on the latest Oklahoma anti-trans work
www.welcometohellworld.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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feel like I'm going to snap one of these days, tear off my shirt, and run down the street screaming TRUMP PARDONED A 400 TON COKE TRAFFICKER
December 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Very promising.

The U.S. suspends part of its weapons deliveries to Ukraine without warning its closest European ally, cuts a direct military coordination channel, and now German generals have to rely on embassy staff “who try to find someone in the Pentagon.”

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The New German War Machine
After World War II, Germany embraced pacifism as a form of atonement. Now the country is arming itself again.
www.theatlantic.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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On Monday, the New York Times reported, eight judges serving on the bench at New York City’s 26 Federal Plaza—ground zero for courthouse arrests—were terminated.

This sweeping purge is part of Trump's broader effort to reshape immigration courts to fit his mass deportation agenda.
Trump keeps firing immigration judges
Eight New York City judges have been terminated as the White House continues its purge of the courts.
www.motherjones.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Someone needs to remind Pete Kegsbreath that there is no alcohol in prison.
December 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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If Hegseth was watching the whole thing LIVE, why not stop the second strike on survivors—a move that he knew was illegal under U.S. and international law?
December 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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this has been said before a million times of course, but the fact that immigrants are all somehow BOTH destitute criminals draining government benefits AND snapping up all the best houses is a contradiction I wish these people were forced to explain every time they try to get away with it
JD Vance: "Why did homes get so unaffordable? Because we had 20 million illegal aliens in this country taking homes that ought by right go to American citizens."
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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MAGA isn't distinguished by differences of opinion, it is marked by its cruelty.
December 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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"They... they... they..."

That's the sound of the bus being driven over Admiral Bradley.
December 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Over and over, Jesus made it clear: food is not something people need to prove themselves worthy of.

This is not about humanity deserving to be fed but about the inhumanity of those withholding the meal.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/jesus-fed-...
SNAP is What Jesus Would Be Doing. That's Why MAGA Christians Are Trying to Kill It.
The sin of cruelty toward the hungry
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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At a Pentagon press briefing, former, disgraced Congressperson Matt Gaetz LARPs as a journalist. (And also LARPs as a Congressional Representative in good standing, thanks to his jacket.)
December 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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1. New Zealand doctors are officially suing to reverse the country's ban on puberty blockers for gender affirming care.

“These regulations are being enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence."

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www.erininthemorning.com/p/were-takin...
“We’re taking this to court”: Doctors Are Fighting New Zealand’s Puberty Blocker Ban
“Only a small number of young people in Aotearoa are prescribed reversible pubertal suppression, but for those who need it, the negative impacts of this regulation will be huge.”
www.erininthemorning.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Dozy Don
December 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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🇺🇦🇮🇪 After Zelensky's speech in the Irish Parliament, all members gave him a standing ovation
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Remember how there were survivors that were rescued from a boat attack in October?

Maybe they survived because someone in the military refused an illegal order.
December 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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auburn hired a fb coach born in Soviet Moscow

samuel goldwyn, defined American film, born in warsaw

ahmet ertegun, brought soul r&b rock to U.S. radio, born in istanbul

levi strauss, invented the essence of american fashion, born in the Kingdom of Bavaria

mcdonald's founded by irish immigrants
Rep. Kat Cammarck: "Today, one in six people in the US is foreign born. That quite frankly is not sustainable to maintain a culture that we are known for here in the United States."
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM