@ccarter84.bsky.social
Here until it becomes weaponized against us
(See: https://x.com/davetroy/status/1856621399000899595?t=_h0Md1iV__hLptmMdfr6pw&s=19 )
(See: https://x.com/davetroy/status/1856621399000899595?t=_h0Md1iV__hLptmMdfr6pw&s=19 )
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I've logged over a hundred dives in California and I've never seen a sunflower star. I was certified in 2015.
Absolutely beyond pumped to see this macroinvertebrate predator take the reefs back.
Absolutely beyond pumped to see this macroinvertebrate predator take the reefs back.
Captive bred sunflower stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides) successfully released into Monterey Bay for the first time! This species has been more or less extirpated south of Washington since the 2014 outbreak of sea star wasting disease.🧪🦑
Sunflower star recovery project in California hits major milestone
Their return could help reverse a decade of kelp forest die-offs along the coast.
www.sfgate.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I've logged over a hundred dives in California and I've never seen a sunflower star. I was certified in 2015.
Absolutely beyond pumped to see this macroinvertebrate predator take the reefs back.
Absolutely beyond pumped to see this macroinvertebrate predator take the reefs back.
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Computer guy here. You have to secure the computerized voting machines first, and that is nye impossible. 22 years of computerized voting has led to a congress and SCOTUS fundamentally at odds with the American people.
#HandMarkedPaperBallots
#HandMarkedPaperBallots
December 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Computer guy here. You have to secure the computerized voting machines first, and that is nye impossible. 22 years of computerized voting has led to a congress and SCOTUS fundamentally at odds with the American people.
#HandMarkedPaperBallots
#HandMarkedPaperBallots
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The thing Sacks is mad about is a potential wealth tax which only impacts those with assets over $1 billion. That will impact very few actual people in Silicon Valley.
FWIW I have some issues with the actual proposal, but the idea that it means Silicon Valley "is for dinner" is nonsense.
FWIW I have some issues with the actual proposal, but the idea that it means Silicon Valley "is for dinner" is nonsense.
Thinking about the time Sacks and his buddies started a run on their own bank and had to be bailed out.
David Sacks, presumably, on the push by some in the tech and VC world to fund a primary challenge to Congressman Khanna.
December 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM
The thing Sacks is mad about is a potential wealth tax which only impacts those with assets over $1 billion. That will impact very few actual people in Silicon Valley.
FWIW I have some issues with the actual proposal, but the idea that it means Silicon Valley "is for dinner" is nonsense.
FWIW I have some issues with the actual proposal, but the idea that it means Silicon Valley "is for dinner" is nonsense.
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This is false. Deportations reduce housing demand, but they shrink housing supply even more as the construction sector loses workers. Trump's deportations will make housing less affordable.
December 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is false. Deportations reduce housing demand, but they shrink housing supply even more as the construction sector loses workers. Trump's deportations will make housing less affordable.
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Holy fck, this rag just can't help itself.
December 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy fck, this rag just can't help itself.
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This book is egregiously dishonest. It sticks the outcome of Murthy in a footnote while lying about our work as well.
December 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This book is egregiously dishonest. It sticks the outcome of Murthy in a footnote while lying about our work as well.
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There’s a lesson here about writing in the age of weaponized lies: Always precede false claims with giant red text, ideally wrapped in a <blink> tag, that says “THIS IS A LIE I AM REFUTING!!”
But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?
But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
There’s a lesson here about writing in the age of weaponized lies: Always precede false claims with giant red text, ideally wrapped in a <blink> tag, that says “THIS IS A LIE I AM REFUTING!!”
But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?
But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?
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🧐 Is this the proposed location for the Stafford VA human warehouse that ICE wants to establish?
www.loopnet.com/Listing/Brad...
www.loopnet.com/Listing/Brad...
December 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🧐 Is this the proposed location for the Stafford VA human warehouse that ICE wants to establish?
www.loopnet.com/Listing/Brad...
www.loopnet.com/Listing/Brad...
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We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
“I’m 84 years old. Threats against my life expectancy are kind of hollow. I don’t have much time anyway. I’m more concerned that our democracy is at risk because of the trends against the rule of law.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives
More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges and their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live.
www.nbcnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
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We could walk things back to the early 1980s "Iran Contra" scandal that vanishingly few Reagan Administration figures were prosecuted for -> they cut a deal with Iran (at the time designated by the U.S. as a terrorist state) to pull a dirty trick to throw the 1980 presidential election to Reagan...
December 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
We could walk things back to the early 1980s "Iran Contra" scandal that vanishingly few Reagan Administration figures were prosecuted for -> they cut a deal with Iran (at the time designated by the U.S. as a terrorist state) to pull a dirty trick to throw the 1980 presidential election to Reagan...
It's always been a plausible theory, and he consistently projects accusations when the truth is about him. Corrupt family? ✅. This stuff, ✅. Hacking elections? Likely ✅
If any of this is accurate
Qanon will come to be seen as one of the most prolific propaganda campaigns in history not for the reasons we already know but because it would correctly be contextualized as using conspiracy theory to inoculate their base to the grotesque brutality they had engaged in.
Qanon will come to be seen as one of the most prolific propaganda campaigns in history not for the reasons we already know but because it would correctly be contextualized as using conspiracy theory to inoculate their base to the grotesque brutality they had engaged in.
December 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It's always been a plausible theory, and he consistently projects accusations when the truth is about him. Corrupt family? ✅. This stuff, ✅. Hacking elections? Likely ✅
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Having encountered little resistance here in the U.S., the Trump regime is now weaponizing the “censorship” narrative globally, for example by rescinding travel visas for people at organizations combating hate speech in Europe.
December 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Having encountered little resistance here in the U.S., the Trump regime is now weaponizing the “censorship” narrative globally, for example by rescinding travel visas for people at organizations combating hate speech in Europe.
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From 2022-2024, the right trolled, threatened, ran hit pieces on partisan media, filed lawsuits, & launched congressional investigations against researchers as they spun a conspiracy theory about a “censorship industrial complex”. Now they are weaponizing that narrative w/ the power of the U.S. gov.
December 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
From 2022-2024, the right trolled, threatened, ran hit pieces on partisan media, filed lawsuits, & launched congressional investigations against researchers as they spun a conspiracy theory about a “censorship industrial complex”. Now they are weaponizing that narrative w/ the power of the U.S. gov.
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Question: If Trump ordered an "investigation" into Bill Clinton, but DOJ is claiming they're holding back some of the documents because of open investigations, then why did they release Bill Clinton stuff?
December 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Question: If Trump ordered an "investigation" into Bill Clinton, but DOJ is claiming they're holding back some of the documents because of open investigations, then why did they release Bill Clinton stuff?
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It's important to note for the consultant people: Kat is tied for first place, she's raised more money in this race than anyone else, and she hasn't used Twitter in months.
It's a website filled with racist AI snuff films and it's rigged against you specifically. There's no good reason to use it.
It's a website filled with racist AI snuff films and it's rigged against you specifically. There's no good reason to use it.
This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
December 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It's important to note for the consultant people: Kat is tied for first place, she's raised more money in this race than anyone else, and she hasn't used Twitter in months.
It's a website filled with racist AI snuff films and it's rigged against you specifically. There's no good reason to use it.
It's a website filled with racist AI snuff films and it's rigged against you specifically. There's no good reason to use it.
Christ
See that’s the kind of talk that gets you buried in an unmarked grave on a second-rate golf course
December 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Christ
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Earlier this year Republicans passed a bill that stripped health care from millions of Americans.
That was a monstrous bill; today they are trying to pass a cowardly bill.
I spoke against their flimsy "health care" bill that fails to prevent skyrocketing health costs.
youtube.com/shorts/_qhzl...
That was a monstrous bill; today they are trying to pass a cowardly bill.
I spoke against their flimsy "health care" bill that fails to prevent skyrocketing health costs.
youtube.com/shorts/_qhzl...
Don Beyer Speaks Against Republican Health Care Bill on the House Floor
YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer
youtube.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Earlier this year Republicans passed a bill that stripped health care from millions of Americans.
That was a monstrous bill; today they are trying to pass a cowardly bill.
I spoke against their flimsy "health care" bill that fails to prevent skyrocketing health costs.
youtube.com/shorts/_qhzl...
That was a monstrous bill; today they are trying to pass a cowardly bill.
I spoke against their flimsy "health care" bill that fails to prevent skyrocketing health costs.
youtube.com/shorts/_qhzl...
@kqedforum.bsky.social The guy raises good points, but should let other people talk
December 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
@kqedforum.bsky.social The guy raises good points, but should let other people talk
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The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
New, @propublica.org
New, @propublica.org
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
New, @propublica.org
New, @propublica.org
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also another reminder that all the people who defended Biden/Garland for slow-walking the Trump prosecutions "the right way" because otherwise they'd claim the prosecutions were illegitimate were wrong because they claim the prosecutions were illegitimate anyway
this feels like that peanuts gag where lucy sets a football for a punt and you can't believe charlie brown fell for it
December 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
also another reminder that all the people who defended Biden/Garland for slow-walking the Trump prosecutions "the right way" because otherwise they'd claim the prosecutions were illegitimate were wrong because they claim the prosecutions were illegitimate anyway
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It's really time to hold Murdoch accountable for this. Not that any of the Murdochs are squeamish about this. But they like being accepted in polite company and this stench should stick on them.
Fox’s Jesse Watters says people who are against bombing shipwrecked people in international waters without due process or any evidence whatsoever that they have drugs or are even heading to 🇺🇸 “sound like lawyerly, whiny, effeminate weasels”
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
It's really time to hold Murdoch accountable for this. Not that any of the Murdochs are squeamish about this. But they like being accepted in polite company and this stench should stick on them.
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If any "centrist" or "moderate Democrat" says Trump isn't a racist or simply appeals to "economic anxiety," I think we can safely ignore them forever and tell them to move aside as the rest of us move forward.
Is this politics done "the right way," @ezraklein.bsky.social?
Is this politics done "the right way," @ezraklein.bsky.social?
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
If any "centrist" or "moderate Democrat" says Trump isn't a racist or simply appeals to "economic anxiety," I think we can safely ignore them forever and tell them to move aside as the rest of us move forward.
Is this politics done "the right way," @ezraklein.bsky.social?
Is this politics done "the right way," @ezraklein.bsky.social?
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the Dubai guys just have regular slaves this is for a mostly American strain of tech fascists who fantasize about exterminating the working class entirely. the upper class version of owning like 20 AR15s so you're always ready for the apocalyptic racial holy war
December 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
the Dubai guys just have regular slaves this is for a mostly American strain of tech fascists who fantasize about exterminating the working class entirely. the upper class version of owning like 20 AR15s so you're always ready for the apocalyptic racial holy war
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Multiple Countries Boycott Eurovision Over Israel’s Participation
https://theonion.com/multiple-countries-boycott-eurovision-over-israels-participation/
https://theonion.com/multiple-countries-boycott-eurovision-over-israels-participation/
December 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Multiple Countries Boycott Eurovision Over Israel’s Participation
https://theonion.com/multiple-countries-boycott-eurovision-over-israels-participation/
https://theonion.com/multiple-countries-boycott-eurovision-over-israels-participation/
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We need to undo deregulation and give all these people the shock of real air travel
Absolutely!!! The airlines are nothing but money rubbing thieves.
The fees are high.
The fees are high.
December 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
We need to undo deregulation and give all these people the shock of real air travel