Kim MacVaugh (she/her)
@bookishkim.bsky.social
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This has nothing to do with faith or observance btw. It’s just about establishing an official hierarchy of citizenship where they are on top. bsky.app/profile/mark...
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This has nothing to do with faith or observance btw. It’s just about establishing an official hierarchy of citizenship where they are on top. bsky.app/profile/mark...
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Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
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"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
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Ok how much did the military lose. The USPS is not a business
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Ok how much did the military lose. The USPS is not a business
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Relatives Gather From Across The Country To Stare Into Screens Together https://theonion.com/relatives-gather-from-across-the-country-to-stare-into-1819575960/
December 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Relatives Gather From Across The Country To Stare Into Screens Together https://theonion.com/relatives-gather-from-across-the-country-to-stare-into-1819575960/
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Why would you need to put a pause on a story that has been meticulously fact-checked and lawyered?
Sounds like the kind of story you’d want to run right away!
Sounds like the kind of story you’d want to run right away!
December 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Why would you need to put a pause on a story that has been meticulously fact-checked and lawyered?
Sounds like the kind of story you’d want to run right away!
Sounds like the kind of story you’d want to run right away!
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All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
December 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
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INBOX: World Relief, an evangelical Christian organization, comes out against the pausing of the Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery Program, which the Trump admin froze after it was learned that the Brown University/MIT shooting suspect (a Portuguese national) reportedly entered the country that way.
December 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
INBOX: World Relief, an evangelical Christian organization, comes out against the pausing of the Diversity Immigrant Visa Lottery Program, which the Trump admin froze after it was learned that the Brown University/MIT shooting suspect (a Portuguese national) reportedly entered the country that way.
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This is indistinguishable from a post by The Onion.
December 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is indistinguishable from a post by The Onion.
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Americans in our heads: Fuck you i won't do what you tell me
Americans IRL: yes boss
Americans IRL: yes boss
December 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Americans in our heads: Fuck you i won't do what you tell me
Americans IRL: yes boss
Americans IRL: yes boss
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Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building
The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...
Trump: “We are respected again, like we have never been respected before”
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Trump: “We are respected again, like we have never been respected before”
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From my 2022 book THEY KNEW:
"It is very bad in America to be right too early."
www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09...
"It is very bad in America to be right too early."
www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09...
December 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
From my 2022 book THEY KNEW:
"It is very bad in America to be right too early."
www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09...
"It is very bad in America to be right too early."
www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09...
Not a good Metro morning 😩@metrorailinfo.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Not a good Metro morning 😩@metrorailinfo.bsky.social
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“Affordability is a hoax made up by Democrats but I will interrupt your favorite shows to yell at you about everything I have (not actually) done to address this issue (that doesn’t exist) during primetime!”
trump is panicking because democrats have a huge lead on affordability right now www.gelliottmorris.com/p/affordabil...
December 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
“Affordability is a hoax made up by Democrats but I will interrupt your favorite shows to yell at you about everything I have (not actually) done to address this issue (that doesn’t exist) during primetime!”
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Like, simply insisting to Americans “the economy is good, actually” when they feel otherwise usually…doesn’t work.
Just ask Joe Biden.
Just ask Joe Biden.
December 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Like, simply insisting to Americans “the economy is good, actually” when they feel otherwise usually…doesn’t work.
Just ask Joe Biden.
Just ask Joe Biden.
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A blockade is literally an act of war. Just mounting one is declaring war. Without Congressional approval or public support.
December 17, 2025 at 3:25 AM
A blockade is literally an act of war. Just mounting one is declaring war. Without Congressional approval or public support.
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An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
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If we should remain a democracy three or seven year hence, our success will be used to discredit us: If democracy survives, then that is proof that it was never under threat in the first place.
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4akjwlM
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4akjwlM
Susie Wiles and the Quantum Suicide of Democracy
No one will ever pay for this.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
If we should remain a democracy three or seven year hence, our success will be used to discredit us: If democracy survives, then that is proof that it was never under threat in the first place.
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4akjwlM
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4akjwlM
It is me, I am people. I did not realize the US was bombing so far and wide.
I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering.
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
December 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
It is me, I am people. I did not realize the US was bombing so far and wide.
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Trade is popular
International cooperation is popular
Immigration in popular
Democrats should do Actual Popularism & embrace full-throated defense of these things. Yes, also do compensation & social welfare policies,, but stop doing mercantilism/xenophobia lite. It's bad policy AND bad politics.
International cooperation is popular
Immigration in popular
Democrats should do Actual Popularism & embrace full-throated defense of these things. Yes, also do compensation & social welfare policies,, but stop doing mercantilism/xenophobia lite. It's bad policy AND bad politics.
December 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Trade is popular
International cooperation is popular
Immigration in popular
Democrats should do Actual Popularism & embrace full-throated defense of these things. Yes, also do compensation & social welfare policies,, but stop doing mercantilism/xenophobia lite. It's bad policy AND bad politics.
International cooperation is popular
Immigration in popular
Democrats should do Actual Popularism & embrace full-throated defense of these things. Yes, also do compensation & social welfare policies,, but stop doing mercantilism/xenophobia lite. It's bad policy AND bad politics.
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At some prisons, staff said the Bureau of Prisons had stopped providing basic hygiene items for officers.
“You have to literally go around carrying your own roll of toilet paper,” one officer told ProPublica. “No paper towels, ... no soap.”
By @keribla.bsky.social
“You have to literally go around carrying your own roll of toilet paper,” one officer told ProPublica. “No paper towels, ... no soap.”
By @keribla.bsky.social
As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
At some prisons, staff said the Bureau of Prisons had stopped providing basic hygiene items for officers.
“You have to literally go around carrying your own roll of toilet paper,” one officer told ProPublica. “No paper towels, ... no soap.”
By @keribla.bsky.social
“You have to literally go around carrying your own roll of toilet paper,” one officer told ProPublica. “No paper towels, ... no soap.”
By @keribla.bsky.social
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Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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that "prep me to discuss this document" is so your boss or professor don't know you didn't write that shit when they question you about it
Is there a way to get this mind-numbing Co-Pilot shit off Microsoft Word?
December 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
that "prep me to discuss this document" is so your boss or professor don't know you didn't write that shit when they question you about it
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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