HyphenPhD
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HyphenPhD
@hyphenphd.bsky.social
ex-academic (by way of state universities), runner, reader, researcher, soup aficionado, fan of flannel, covid aware/cautious
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🚨 NEW: ADP report: U.S. LOST an average of 11,000 jobs per week in October 2025.

Let’s compare, shall we:

In 2024, the economy ADDED about 2.2 million jobs in 2024 — an average monthly GAIN of 186,000.

From steady climb to sudden slide.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Years ago, my Christian friend was struggling through a divorce, losing her home, and feeding 4 kids. I called her pastor — the one she gave tithes to every week. He said there was nothing he could do. I was polite, but I shamed the fuck out of him. He didn't budge.
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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ME AS A CHILD: i cant wait till im an adult, then i can finally Do Things
ME AS AN ADULT: the spectre of Things To Do haunts me from sunup to sundown, and beyond
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Never forget who sold us out:

Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Before anyone gets mad at Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, listen to Kate. Justice Jackson didn’t side with Trump: she issued a temporary stay to prevent a rushed ruling that could let presidents exploit shutdowns to bypass Congress. Her move protects SNAP recipients & constitutional checks & balances
November 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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It's Probably Our Money He Stole
From Us At The DOGE Shakedown!
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I’m fine with my tax dollars being used to feed hungry people.
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
November 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets

www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.
www.404media.co
October 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Many of us have just complained about authoritarian acts. It is time to show who runs this country--you & I.

Gifted article
wapo.st/433N9Dk

This article explains acts you can take to #PushBack
protectdemocracy.org/work/how-to-...

#DoNotObey
#WeAreDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
#USDemocracy
October 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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@amiberger.bsky.social Honestly, I’d watch these.
October 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Burying two stories in one headline! Impressive work.
President Trump said he had an MRI earlier this month, telling reporters Monday that the results had been “perfect” but declining to say why his doctors had ordered the scan. He also reiterated that he was interested in serving a third term.
Trump Says a Recent M.R.I. Scan Was ‘Perfect,’ and He’d ‘Love’ a Third Term
President Trump made the comments on the second day of his trip to Asia. The Constitution limits presidents to two terms, but Mr. Trump has suggested he might try to circumvent it.
nyti.ms
October 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Dry run for stealing 2026 midterms.
Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
Justice Department to Monitor Polling Sites in California, New Jersey
WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice announced that it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot ...
www.justice.gov
October 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Donald Trump really really doesn’t like this photo, so whatever you do… don’t share it. He would HATE that. 😈
October 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.
October 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago
October 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Can we call them the Gestapo now?
October 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Pretty much this exactly, yep.
Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
September 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller
September 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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September 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM