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Steve Mirsky

@stevemirsky.bsky.social

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Retired layabout. ❤️🇨🇦 Former staffer, current contributor at Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/acknowledging-reality-is-an-excellent-way-to-function-within-it/

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 7h

Hey, normal people, tracking disease and keeping people from unnecessarily getting sick and dying is a "Democrat-thing." Vote accordingly.

Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 8h

RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.

Figure showing the largest measles outbreak in the US in decades. There are over 1500 cases as of October 7 2025

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Steve Mirsky @stevemirsky.bsky.social · 7h

Shut up and eat your gagootz.

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Steve Mirsky @stevemirsky.bsky.social · 1d

Wait til they find out about Trump!

Steve Mirsky @stevemirsky.bsky.social · 1d

A cat who had a home a few houses away figured out our cat door. We sometimes left the house knowing he wasn’t here only to came back and find him sleeping on our bed.

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Steve Mirsky @stevemirsky.bsky.social · 2d

He’s been in the Hall of Fame for 53 fricking years. (Ford Fricking?)

Steve Mirsky @stevemirsky.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely. After the Yankees pulled out the Boston series i said to my wife, “That wasn’t fun at all.”

Steve Mirsky @stevemirsky.bsky.social · 5d

So the title is a participation trophy.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 5d

I see this and I think of all of my friends who have lost media jobs and in many cases their whole media careers despite actually doing good work and being intellectually honest while this cynical charlatan has bullied and bullshitted her way to the top. bsky.app/profile/npr....

NPR @npr.org · 5d

JUST IN: CBS' parent company is buying The Free Press and installing Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

Bari Weiss joins CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news

CBS' parent company is buying The Free Press and installing Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

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Steve Mirsky @stevemirsky.bsky.social · 6d

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 8d

My silver lining on this Bari Weiss thing is that she’s guaranteed to fail, and because she’s a woman they will let her.

Steve Mirsky @stevemirsky.bsky.social · 8d

After adorning it with gold leaf.

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 9d

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today.

h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

Scan of a typed letter from 1970, from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, addressed to "Joel Lipton, 622 N. Foothill Road, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210"

It reads:

"Dear Joel:

I think it is more difficult these days to define what makes a good citizen than it has ever been before. Certainly all any of us can do is follow our own conscience and retain faith in our democracy. Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call "American Virtues" who lack this faith in our country.

I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities.

Sincerely yours,

Charles M. Schulz"

At bottom is an illustration of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, a kite wrapped around the dog house.

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Steve Mirsky @stevemirsky.bsky.social · 9d

Money is a helluva drug.

Steve Mirsky @stevemirsky.bsky.social · 9d

What they actually said was, “We’d wait for you to come to your senses but biden we’d all be dead.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Bessent on China: "At the meeting in Geneva when I asked them, 'Why didn't you continue buying soybeans and the other products' then had one word, and guess what it was? Biden."

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Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 9d

Stand Up for Science: Statement on Compact Corrupting Higher Education

"(W)hen the White House takes over what is defined as 'truth' regardless of scientific evidence, we are no longer in a free nation" - @standupforscience.bsky.social

Stand Up For Science Statement on Compact Corrupting Higher Education

Washington, D.C. — Today, the administration has unveiled their proposed "compact" for higher education. This document is antithetical to the free academic inquiry that forms the foundation of American excellence in higher education. Further, while the compact is framed as a way to promote fairness in higher education, this compact runs counter to the scientific method by prioritizing federal grant funding to go to universities who have signed, rather than proposals that have been selected by experts.

We call on university leaders to unite and reject this overreach of executive power by the White House. The compact lies in the context of an ongoing and multi-pronged attack on the integrity of the American scientific ecosystem, but this also tangibly represents the President seizing control of public spaces and higher education. Each university represents a beacon of free thought, vibrant educational empowerment, and public enrichment, and we must demand President Trump stay out of dictating universities.

"Trump's compact is yet another form of attack on the American institutions that provide evidence that counter's the core belief of MAGA — racism, misogyny, and regression of the human race to name a few. If universities agree to these terms, academic freedom in America will be over," says Colette Delawalla Founder and Director of Stand Up For Science. She continues "when the White House takes over what is defined as 'truth' regardless of scientific evidence, we are no longer in a free nation. Universities must understanding the seriousness of this moment and respond accordingly."

Stand Up For Science will reliably sound the alarm when science and scientists are under attack, and our platform empowers scientists to speak out and organize against corruption of American science. The proposing of this document represents an extreme authoritarian escalation for American higher education. It is …

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Steve Mirsky @stevemirsky.bsky.social · 9d

Trump believes that all of the United States and everything in it, including you and me, is now his personal property.

Alt National Archives @altnatarchives.altgov.info · 9d

The Trump Admin fired the Director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library over his refusal to provide an artifact from the Library’s collection as a gift for King Charles. What the everloving fuck.

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