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Brian Liebenow
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Veteran, eat through a feeding tube, a giant rhinoceros beetle chewed my arm off
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paulisci.bsky.social
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees

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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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iamchrisscott.bsky.social
I need to share this with someone
One of the strangest experiences of my life was seeing Zootopia 2 with my son the morning after seeing Maniac Cop 2 at the same theater (as part of Alamo's December to Dismember thing). Both films open with male and female cops (partners) enjoying their celebrated status after their heroic events in the first film, but at odds with each other, and their supervising chief, who seems weirdly distrusting of them, despite the goodwill they've presumably earned. The chief makes them see a police psychiatrist to work out their issues. The protagonists end up discovering a deeper conspiracy involving their city's corrupt power structures, which both somehow involve a jailbreak that releases a horde of dangerous criminals. Again, all of this happens in both Zootopia 2 and Maniac Cop 2, which I somehow saw within 12 hours of each other. I felt like I was having an out of body experience. Zootopia 2 is the Maniac Cop 2 of animated Disney films, is I guess what I'm saying.
December 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
The 60 minutes segment Bari Weiss killed is here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
December 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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akivamcohen.bsky.social
This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.

It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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bruces.bsky.social
They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead
December 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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jaketapper.bsky.social
In 1931 in Kiel, Germany, Rachel Posner, the wife of a rabbi, took this picture.

On the back of the photograph she wrote:

“‘Death to Judah,’ so the flag says.

‘Judah lives forever,’ so the light answers.”

The light will continue to answer the darkness. Happy Hanukkah.
December 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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katharinehayhoe.com
For me, 2025 has felt like a particularly heavy year ... and you might feel the same. So as we head into the holiday season, I wanted to share a few recommendations — books, podcasts, and newsletters — that encourage me, make me think, and remind me how hope begins with action.
Climate content for purpose, courage, and hope | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe
Get more from Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe on Patreon
www.patreon.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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rydog.bsky.social
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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www.gravityisgone.com/in-mangling-...
[indent] The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. [/indent] Before getting into anything else: this is bullshit. It is an extremely evidence-based claim, backed by dozens of studies spread over decades. Vaccines do not, in fact, cause autism. Studies have also not "ruled out the possibility" that I will one day emerge, Venus-like, from a giant clam shell floating one hundred meters above the Gateway Arch in St. Louis to sing a glorious a capella rendition of "The Boys Are Back in Town." And yet.
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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johnpfaff.bsky.social
On this Veterans Day, more than any before, let us remember the valiant service of Black, Hispanic, Navajo, Japanese and other non-white Americans who fought bravely for the ideals of a country that failed to live up to them, and whose legacy a racist GOP is desperately trying to erase.
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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dananuccitelli.bsky.social
Joe Rogan has one of the world's most popular podcasts. Unfortunately, like nearly all of the most popular online shows, his tends to spread climate misinformation. For @climateconnections.bsky.social I scrutinize his recent episode with octogenarian climate contrarians Lindzen & Happer 🧵 (1/11)
Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change  » Yale Climate Connections
Rogan exposes millions to climate denial. Let’s break down his tactics.
yaleclimateconnections.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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johnrogers.bsky.social
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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jlalibs.com
What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.
October 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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motherjones.com
Before her death, Jane Goodall left us all with a compelling message from her last interviews: While we’re the most 'intellectual animals' to ever walk the planet, "we’re not intelligent."

“Because intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.”

From our friends at @vox.com:
Jane Goodall’s final, urgent, message
"Intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.”
www.motherjones.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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climatedesk.org
"Every single one of you has that indomitable spirit. But so many people don’t let it out. They don’t realize the power they have to influence and change the world. And so I’m saying to you, let your indomitable spirit make a difference." - Jane Goodall, 2024
Jane Goodall’s legacy of empathy, curiosity, and courage
As the iconic scientist and activist celebrates her 90th birthday, her message for younger generations is one of hope — and not fearing the next adventure.
grist.org
October 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
“I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation” | My new op-ed in the @sfchronicle.com:
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
#ScienceUnderSiege
I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation
OPINION: “What Trump is really doing is advancing a plan laid down years ago by plutocrats and polluters. And making a mockery of our country as he does so,” Michael E. Mann writes.
www.sfchronicle.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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motherjones.com
The abortion drug mifepristone is safer than, well, Tylenol. And on its 25th anniversary, it's under assault as never before. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
On its 25th birthday, mifepristone is more under attack than ever
The FDA's approval of the revolutionary drug in 2000 helped change abortion access nationwide.
www.motherjones.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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vaguebiscuit.bsky.social
Well don't I feel stupid
A headline about the James Webb Telescope potentially finding a new stellar object dubbed a black hole star
September 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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zanzjan.bsky.social
For anyone concerned there may be something to the Tylenol-autism BS, I present:
Graph showing that GMO use in corn in the US correlates to global pirate attacks, courtesy of Spurious Correlations, tylervigen.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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petergleick.bsky.social
This, by Musk, is the height of stupidity and ego.

The idea that X is a source of news so we don't need actual media and reporters is like saying we don't need weather satellites, climate scientists, and weather models because your phone has the weather on it.

The stupid, it burns.
September 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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countmystars.bsky.social
Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:
Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by Al Settings -> Apps -> Photos -> Enhanced Visual Search (all the way at the bottom)
September 1, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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rosieafisher.bsky.social
To be clear, we really do not need to and should not be having to use our time 'debating' this fantastical nonsense in 2025. There are enough real bits of actual climate science to do. The collective brainpower expended on this by so many scientists could have been -much- better spent.
andrewdessler.com Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Sep 2
Great article in the NYTimes about our comment to the DOE about their climate report.

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/c...
Scientists Denounce Trump Administration’s Climate Report
www.nytimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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npr.org
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
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September 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM