The Facts in the Case of Dr Dedman
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Writer, resting actor, recovering bookseller, extinguished professor. www.stephendedman.com
Interests: Sf, horror, urban fantasy, GURPS, Shadowrun, palaeontology, astronomy, forensics, mythology, movies, theatre, cats, travel, weirdness.
Interests: Sf, horror, urban fantasy, GURPS, Shadowrun, palaeontology, astronomy, forensics, mythology, movies, theatre, cats, travel, weirdness.
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It’s actually really easy to not be in the Epstein files, some of us do it every day
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
It’s actually really easy to not be in the Epstein files, some of us do it every day
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Having literally written the book on the National Prayer Breakfast -- borne of the idea that God cares more for the rich and powerful than everyone else -- I can say this is the rare instance where Trump's grotesqueness is deeply appropriate.
Trump at National Prayer Breakfast: "They rigged the second election. I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would've had a bad ego for the rest of my life. Now I really have a big ego. Beating these lunatics was incredible ... The first time they said I didn't win the popular vote. I did"
February 5, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Having literally written the book on the National Prayer Breakfast -- borne of the idea that God cares more for the rich and powerful than everyone else -- I can say this is the rare instance where Trump's grotesqueness is deeply appropriate.
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Name them
shame them
shame them
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Name them
shame them
shame them
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It's really appalling that in the midst of a preventable surge of measles sweeping across several US states, leading national health authorities are not loudly and publicly recommending vaccination.
How many more children need to die for this madness to stop?
How many more children need to die for this madness to stop?
February 5, 2026 at 2:43 PM
It's really appalling that in the midst of a preventable surge of measles sweeping across several US states, leading national health authorities are not loudly and publicly recommending vaccination.
How many more children need to die for this madness to stop?
How many more children need to die for this madness to stop?
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Trump's new fire agency is off to a shaky start.
@umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4777...
@umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4777...
Trump’s new Wildland Fire Service is failing to ignite
Wildfires are a growing threat. Do we need a new federal agency to help?
www.vox.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Trump's new fire agency is off to a shaky start.
@umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4777...
@umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4777...
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Trump: “We are going to rededicate America as one Nation under God.”
February 5, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Trump: “We are going to rededicate America as one Nation under God.”
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Trump: Anytime you mention the word coal, C-O-A-L. Anytime you mention it, it has to be preeceded by two words: clean and beautiful.”
February 5, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Trump: Anytime you mention the word coal, C-O-A-L. Anytime you mention it, it has to be preeceded by two words: clean and beautiful.”
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Wow.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Wow.
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Trump at the Natl Prayer Breakfast on National Guard troops in DC: "They took Tren de Aragua, & honestly I don't want to say this, but they beat the crap out of them. They beat the crap out of them. They found they were doing bad things and Tren de Aragua didn't want anything to do with these guys."
February 5, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Trump at the Natl Prayer Breakfast on National Guard troops in DC: "They took Tren de Aragua, & honestly I don't want to say this, but they beat the crap out of them. They beat the crap out of them. They found they were doing bad things and Tren de Aragua didn't want anything to do with these guys."
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According to Wikipedia "National Prayer Breakfast is designed to be a forum for the political, social, and business elite to assemble and pray together."
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "We hit 'em. And we want to hit 'em right, sir, and we want to hit them from the top! East, west, north, south. Sir, they won't know what the hell! And we'll knock them out. We did it politically correct. Five years."
February 5, 2026 at 2:41 PM
According to Wikipedia "National Prayer Breakfast is designed to be a forum for the political, social, and business elite to assemble and pray together."
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“Everything we know about skin has been learned from so-called scientific studies funded by large corporations who have a financial stake in keeping our musculature covered in an unnecessary layer of man-made flesh,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
RFK Jr. Questions Efficacy Of Skin
WASHINGTON—In a firm dismissal of decades of scientific research and real-world data on the organ’s benefits and safety, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. publicly questioned t...
theonion.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:15 AM
“Everything we know about skin has been learned from so-called scientific studies funded by large corporations who have a financial stake in keeping our musculature covered in an unnecessary layer of man-made flesh,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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"I understand that it’s not a great look to have exchanged tens of thousands of text messages with The Cannibal King over many years. Still, cut me some slack. We've all had a questionable acquaintance or two in our lives."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/jus...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/jus...
Just Because I Hung Out in the Cannibal King’s Murder Basement, It Does Not Make Me a Murderous Cannibal
“If I actually wanted to spend my time partying with young women, it would be trivial for me to do so without the help of a creepy loser like Epste...
www.mcsweeneys.net
February 4, 2026 at 7:27 PM
"I understand that it’s not a great look to have exchanged tens of thousands of text messages with The Cannibal King over many years. Still, cut me some slack. We've all had a questionable acquaintance or two in our lives."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/jus...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/jus...
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Bastards.
Shameless bastards.
Shameless bastards.
These 2 kids detained last week were brought back to MN today. But school officials say many others from the Columbia Heights district are missing. They're not sure if they're in ICE detention or have moved away with their families. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Conejo Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody
The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...
www.mprnews.org
February 5, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Bastards.
Shameless bastards.
Shameless bastards.
So, not all the news is bad.
"ICE guys are pretty miserable. I don’t think morale is particularly high for them. They’re freezing, they’re getting shouted at. They can’t go anywhere without being tailed by 5 cars. They get out and immediately there's a crowd of 100 people shouting at them, blowing whistles as loud as they can."
Inside the resistance with Will Stancil
"It's something I could do to keep them from stealing my neighbors."
www.publicnotice.co
February 5, 2026 at 1:29 PM
So, not all the news is bad.
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The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …
simonwillison.net
February 5, 2026 at 12:25 AM
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
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The Pentagon is mad that a Senator correctly explained military law, so they're suing him to violate his First Amendment rights, and the judge is apparently wondering if they've lost their damn minds.
Pentagon Not Doing Very Well In Mark Kelly Case With The Judge
crooksandliars.com
Pentagon Not Doing Very Well In Mark Kelly Case With The Judge | Crooks and Liars
twp.ai
February 5, 2026 at 2:24 AM
The Pentagon is mad that a Senator correctly explained military law, so they're suing him to violate his First Amendment rights, and the judge is apparently wondering if they've lost their damn minds.
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Good News! 28 states have publicly rejected Kennedy’s vaccine schedule.
They choose to follow evidence-based guidance from experts like the American Academy of Pediatrics or the American Academy of Family Physicians.
🧪 www.kff.org/state-health...
Via @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social
They choose to follow evidence-based guidance from experts like the American Academy of Pediatrics or the American Academy of Family Physicians.
🧪 www.kff.org/state-health...
Via @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Good News! 28 states have publicly rejected Kennedy’s vaccine schedule.
They choose to follow evidence-based guidance from experts like the American Academy of Pediatrics or the American Academy of Family Physicians.
🧪 www.kff.org/state-health...
Via @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social
They choose to follow evidence-based guidance from experts like the American Academy of Pediatrics or the American Academy of Family Physicians.
🧪 www.kff.org/state-health...
Via @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social
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The impending closure of the Kennedy Center imperils a belief that has been central to its existence: that democracy and the arts are deeply intertwined, Lily Meyer argues:
A Theory of Cultural Life That Is Under Attack
The closure of the Kennedy Center imperils a core American belief: that democracy and the arts are deeply intertwined.
bit.ly
February 5, 2026 at 2:45 AM
The impending closure of the Kennedy Center imperils a belief that has been central to its existence: that democracy and the arts are deeply intertwined, Lily Meyer argues:
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We have to set the lot of them on a raft.
"except in extraordinary and unusual circumstances" is a big enough loophole for a family of elephants to walk through. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
Democrats Ease Up On 1 Of Their Biggest ICE Demands
Masks might still be OK in "extraordinary and unusual circumstances," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.
www.huffpost.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:35 AM
We have to set the lot of them on a raft.
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You might've overlooked Zuckerberg (albeit temporarily), but Epstein sure didn't.
All part of the sleazy network, replete with corrupted individuals of power, influence and vested interests, operating behind closed doors.
#EpsteinFiles #Trump #GOP #Russia #Saudis
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
All part of the sleazy network, replete with corrupted individuals of power, influence and vested interests, operating behind closed doors.
#EpsteinFiles #Trump #GOP #Russia #Saudis
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Wild’ Dinner With Epstein Revealed in Files
Jeffrey Epstein described a dinner with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg as “wild” in an email included in the latest dump of files connected to the convicted sex offender. In response to an Aug. 20, 2015, em...
www.yahoo.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:40 AM
You might've overlooked Zuckerberg (albeit temporarily), but Epstein sure didn't.
All part of the sleazy network, replete with corrupted individuals of power, influence and vested interests, operating behind closed doors.
#EpsteinFiles #Trump #GOP #Russia #Saudis
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
All part of the sleazy network, replete with corrupted individuals of power, influence and vested interests, operating behind closed doors.
#EpsteinFiles #Trump #GOP #Russia #Saudis
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited. n.pr/49WF6w1
How a Black fossil digger became a superstar in the very white world of paleontology
In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.
n.pr
February 5, 2026 at 2:25 AM
In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited. n.pr/49WF6w1
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“”The papers of Kaz Takahashi are an extraordinary collection that reveal personal, social, and institutional realities of a terrible period in American history… Dr. Takahashi was brave and upright and his voice resonates with us today.””
February 5, 2026 at 2:46 AM
“”The papers of Kaz Takahashi are an extraordinary collection that reveal personal, social, and institutional realities of a terrible period in American history… Dr. Takahashi was brave and upright and his voice resonates with us today.””
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Whether it’s right wing billionaires turning America’s most important media institutions into outlets for right wing propaganda or the Oberlin student council condemning the use of racial slurs, both sides seem to have lost interest in free speech.
February 5, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Whether it’s right wing billionaires turning America’s most important media institutions into outlets for right wing propaganda or the Oberlin student council condemning the use of racial slurs, both sides seem to have lost interest in free speech.
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When the Bush administration was allowed to ban stem cell research using religious fanaticism as justification even at the time it was frustratingly clear that they sentenced so many people to unnecessary suffering & premature death smh
Glad China & other countries pressed on
Glad China & other countries pressed on
I saw that post about china curing diabetes. Looked at the link. It was T2.
But Im happy to find theyre also having success with t1???
But Im happy to find theyre also having success with t1???
Stem-Cell Therapy Success in China Marks Milestone in Type 1 Diabetes Treatment
25-year-old woman with Type 1 diabetes in China has successfully undergone a stem-cell therapy that enabled her to produce her own insulin, reducing her reliance on injections.
www.emjreviews.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:58 AM
When the Bush administration was allowed to ban stem cell research using religious fanaticism as justification even at the time it was frustratingly clear that they sentenced so many people to unnecessary suffering & premature death smh
Glad China & other countries pressed on
Glad China & other countries pressed on