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Jeff Littlejohn
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Health IT and data guy who watches too much television.
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donmoyn.bsky.social
They are treating America like it is Iraq circa 2007. Surge of armed forces in what they think are hostile cities, while the administration lives in the protected Green Zone. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
October 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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maggieastor.bsky.social
When ProPublica emailed questions to Newby’s daughter, the North Carolina Republican Party’s communications director, Matt Mercer, responded, writing that ProPublica was waging a “jihad” against “NC Republicans,” which would “not be met with dignifying any comments whatsoever.” “I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration and I’m sure they would be interested in this matter,” Mercer said in his email. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”
October 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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theonion.com
National Guardsman Awakes Screaming From Nightmare About Americans Going About Daily Lives
National Guardsman Awakes Screaming From Nightmare About Americans Going About Daily Lives
FORT WORTH, TX—Catching his breath and wiping the sweat from his brow after he realized it was all just a bad dream, Texas National Guard member Jason Ringgold reportedly woke up screaming at 3 a.m. T...
theonion.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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mcbridetd.bsky.social
What Americans Die from?

And what the media reports on...

Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
October 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

Version of original on left, updated on right:
Thank you for your email. There is a temporary shutdown of the U.S. government due to a lapse in appropriations. I will respond to your message as soon as possible after the temporary shutdown ends. Please visit ED.gov for the latest information on the Department's operational status. Thank you. Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.
October 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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samadams.bsky.social
Holy shit, they solved the Yogurt Shop Murders
Yogurt shop murders solved 34 years later with DNA testing, APD says
Authorities say DNA testing solved the 1991 “I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt” murders of four teens, closing one of Austin’s darkest chapters.
www.statesman.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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rodger.bsky.social
trapped inside my burning CyberTruck, I frantically slam the Grok button. “WHERE IS THE EMERGENCY DOOR RELEASE, GROK?”
“I hear ya, friendo,” says a robot voice. “We could all use an “emergency release”—especially white farmers in South Africa and the nation formerly known as Rhodesia.”
July 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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maiamindel.bsky.social
"mommy why is Teheran a green crater" "well, this one video game about depression got a good review from an ex boyfriend..."
utopia-defer.red utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · Jun 22
They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
June 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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jadande.bsky.social
JJ Spaun went to San Dimas High School
June 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Kerry Howley is such a badass.
June 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
The 59-year-old North Carolina lawyer and former colonel was sleeping on a porch in Anson County while wearing a red cap. Spencer's bobbling head drew the attention of a turkey, which viewed Spencer as another turkey and fatally wounded him with its talons.[33][34][note 1]
April 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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owasow.bsky.social
Keep thinking about this passage. All these people believed in an imaginary Trump but now there’s no way to re-cut the episode.
owasow.bsky.social Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · Mar 15
“Trump was frequently unprepared, with little grasp of who had performed well. Sometimes a candidate distinguished herself during the contest only to get fired, on a whim. When this happened, Braun said, the editors were often obliged to ‘reverse engineer’ episode” www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
“The Apprentice” was built around a weekly series of business challenges. At the end of each episode, Trump determined which competitor should be “fired.” But, as Braun explained, Trump was frequently unprepared for these sessions, with little grasp of who had performed well. Sometimes a candidate distinguished herself during the contest only to get fired, on a whim, by Trump. When this happened, Braun said, the editors were often obliged to “reverse engineer” the episode, scouring hundreds of hours of footage to emphasize the few moments when the exemplary candidate might have slipped up, in an attempt to assemble an artificial version of history in which Trump’s shoot-from-the-hip decision made sense. During the making of “The Apprentice,” Burnett conceded that the stories were constructed in this way, saying, “We know each week who has been fired, and, therefore, you’re editing in reverse.” Braun noted that President Trump’s staff seems to have been similarly forced to learn the art of retroactive narrative construction, adding, “I find it strangely validating to hear that they’re doing the same thing in the White House.”
April 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
Let's be clear that this thing Trump just said about having no trade deficits with any country would be far more radical, more disruptive, and more expensive, than every single leftist dream you have ever heard put together, including Medicare for All, Guaranteed Housing, and Universal Basic Income.
Trump said he’d spoken with several unidentified world leaders. He repeated that the goal of the tariffs is to fully eliminate bilateral deficits — a tall order for the world’s biggest economy where consumer spending, and cheap goods, is a core driver of growth. “They’re dying to make a deal and I said, ‘We’re not going to have deficits with your country.’ We’re not going to do that, because to me a deficit is a loss. We’re going to have surpluses or, at worst, we’re going to be breaking even,” he said.
April 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos.

Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
A picture of Neri Alvarado, a young man, standing next to his brother, who is a young teenager. Both are smiling for the camera and wearing matching shirts. Neri has his arm around his brother. A picture of Neri's tattoo, which is an autism ribbon in rainbow colors with his brother's name "Neryelson" written on it.
March 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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sky.skymarchini.net
this pic from the turkish protests goes insanely hard
man in a black jumpsuit, fez, and gas mask gestures in front of police
March 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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roby-b.bsky.social
Opportunity cost aside, what would such a study look like?

If observational, what would it add to Denmark's study of *every child born in the entire country from 1999-2010*, which found slightly more autism in non-MMR recipients?

If randomized, how long would kids be randomized to no vaccine(s)?
March 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Randomly watched The Quick and the Dead this week, which I hadn’t seen since the theater, when my middle school friends hated it. Very underrated. Now I realize Sam Raimi directed. Hackman, DiCaprio, Stone, and early Russel Crowe all fantastic.
February 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
man this is legit no different than a 4chan /pol/ post. like truly no difference, down to the ASMR gag. from the white house account.
February 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
February 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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daveweigel.bsky.social
Kinda perfect that people wrung their hands about not politicizing the DCA tragedy and Trump rolled out with "the gay dude who did DEI killed those people"
January 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is worse than the college Republicans charged with rebuilding Iraq in 2003-4.
erickfernandez.bsky.social Erick Fernandez @erickfernandez.bsky.social · Jan 29
So apparently, two people making important decisions at the Office of Personnel Management are a 21 year-old and another that just graduated high school last fkn year.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
According to the same sources, other people at the top of the new OPM food chain include two people with apparent software engineering backgrounds, whom WIRED is not naming because of their ages. One, a senior adviser to the director, is a 21-year-old whose online résumé touts his work for Palantir, the government contractor and analytics firm cofounded by billionaire Peter Thiel, who is its chair. (The former CEO of PayPal and a longtime Musk associate, Thiel is a Trump supporter who helped bankroll the 2022 Senate campaign of his protégé, Vice President JD Vance.) The other, who reports directly to Scales, graduated from high school in 2024, according to a mirrored copy of an online résumé and his high school’s student magazine; he lists jobs as a camp counselor and a bicycle mechanic among his professional experiences, as well as a summer role at Neuralink, Musk’s brain-computer interface company.
January 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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nickvanexit.bsky.social
The OKC Thunder have lost to the Dallas Mavericks 3 times and the rest of the NBA 4 times.
January 24, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
It is not that this stuff is not covered - obviously I am sharing a media story about it - but it will never the basis of an Atlantic thought piece, or NY Times op-ed, in a way that wokeness was an opinion-driven effort to generate outrage. www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...
CBS 58 weather reporter Sam Kuffel is out after criticizing Elon Musk arm gesture
Meteorologist Sam Kuffel criticized Elon Musk on social media for his straight-arm gesture some likened to a Nazi salute at the Trump inauguration.
www.jsonline.com
January 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Ted Williams fire is a few miles from my house. Should be OK, but who knows?
January 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM