Beeks
@lurkermclurkface.bsky.social
#WNBA #Unrivaled #Owls #Lynx
(Dad, husband, vet, anti-fascism, anti-capitalism, swears a lot)
He/him
(Dad, husband, vet, anti-fascism, anti-capitalism, swears a lot)
He/him
Without question.
December 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Without question.
Fun reminder that the TSA routinely misses 90%+ of contraband when tested.
No that isn't a typo.
No that isn't a typo.
Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Fun reminder that the TSA routinely misses 90%+ of contraband when tested.
No that isn't a typo.
No that isn't a typo.
Happy snow day to all who celebrate!
December 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Happy snow day to all who celebrate!
Nazi Youth is now Texas official.
Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.
December 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Nazi Youth is now Texas official.
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Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir and other members of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party wore golden noose-shaped pins to a Knesset National Security Committee meeting to discuss a bill to execute Palestinian detainees.
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir and other members of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party wore golden noose-shaped pins to a Knesset National Security Committee meeting to discuss a bill to execute Palestinian detainees.
Nazi shit
I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
December 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Nazi shit
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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NEW: Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.
They finally got their wish.
They finally got their wish.
Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Threshold for Safe Formaldehyde Exposure
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NEW: Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.
They finally got their wish.
They finally got their wish.
Nazi shit
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs hints at military combat deployment "in our own neighborhood."
GEN. DAN CAINE: " We haven't had a lot of American combat power in our own neighborhood; I suspect that's probably gonna change. We'll see what we're ordered to do."
GEN. DAN CAINE: " We haven't had a lot of American combat power in our own neighborhood; I suspect that's probably gonna change. We'll see what we're ordered to do."
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Nazi shit
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This really is a must read for anyone in academia.
December 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This really is a must read for anyone in academia.
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This is a really good piece!
(though I am once again begging people to move off Substack)
(though I am once again begging people to move off Substack)
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
This is a really good piece!
(though I am once again begging people to move off Substack)
(though I am once again begging people to move off Substack)
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imagine investing in public media and ensuring that media literacy (and spotting unreliable narrators) was integral in primary school education
Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it
Teaching when to trust
As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge
newhumanist.org.uk
December 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
imagine investing in public media and ensuring that media literacy (and spotting unreliable narrators) was integral in primary school education
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Great thread in which the congressman uses the plot Beverly Hills Cop to expose the lawlessness behind the “stablecoin” scam
When the House and Senate marked up stablecoin legislation, we raised all of these concerns - their anonymity, their nearly perfect design for money laundering. All the barn doors were left wide open. It’s used for crime because that is its purpose. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Great thread in which the congressman uses the plot Beverly Hills Cop to expose the lawlessness behind the “stablecoin” scam
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I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
Is America great again yet?
Brian Allen
🚨 BREAKING: The AP now confirms a U.S. raid in Syria, meant to capture an ISIS official, instead killed a man who was actually working undercover for us, gathering intelligence on ISIS.
His own family says he wasn’t a terrorist.
He was helping fight them.
🚨 BREAKING: The AP now confirms a U.S. raid in Syria, meant to capture an ISIS official, instead killed a man who was actually working undercover for us, gathering intelligence on ISIS.
His own family says he wasn’t a terrorist.
He was helping fight them.
December 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Is America great again yet?
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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Yeah. All of the strikes have been just as illegal as if Iran sunk a Disney cruise because it suspected passengers carried weed.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
I get this but plenty of people had been calling all the strikes murder and it hadn't broken through. This revelation did and put even Republicans on the defensive and willing to do some oversignt. My sense is that any crack the regime's implacability is a foothold.
Once the debate centers on whether the 2nd strike was legal, the first 21 strikes have been accepted as baseline. But the murder of the two survivors doesn’t make the other 21 any more legal. Selective outrage, not silence, is how authoritarianism becomes normalized @tadstoermer.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Yeah. All of the strikes have been just as illegal as if Iran sunk a Disney cruise because it suspected passengers carried weed.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
But this one is so blatant—helpless survivors on an already-damaged ship—that it's impossible to fabricate any rationale. It's a crack worth widening.
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see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.
December 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.
She says it and gets a glowing NYT story. I said it and the FBI literally showed up at my door. 😡
December 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
She says it and gets a glowing NYT story. I said it and the FBI literally showed up at my door. 😡
When you're high on your own supply and think the real problem is just a few bad apples. 🤦🏽♂️
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
December 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
When you're high on your own supply and think the real problem is just a few bad apples. 🤦🏽♂️
Do not attend. Do not watch. Do not discuss. Fuck #FIFA
“This is truly one of the great honours of my life.”
FIFA President Gianni Infantino gifted U.S. President Donald Trump a gold trophy, a medal and a certificate.
Trump is the winner of the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino gifted U.S. President Donald Trump a gold trophy, a medal and a certificate.
Trump is the winner of the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize.
December 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Do not attend. Do not watch. Do not discuss. Fuck #FIFA
Stop giving trillion dollar corporations your money for the same bullshit. I'm begging y'all. 🙏🏼
The original, unaltered Star Wars (aka A New Hope) is coming back to cinemas with a brand new restoration in 2027 as part of the franchise's 50th anniversary celebrations.
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies...
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies...
December 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Stop giving trillion dollar corporations your money for the same bullshit. I'm begging y'all. 🙏🏼
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Important @motherjones.com piece here:
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Important @motherjones.com piece here:
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RFK Jr’s handpicked CDC panel rolls back keeping your children alive
RFK Jr.’s handpicked CDC panel rolls back recommending all newborns get vaccinated for hepatitis B
CDC Panel Of Vaccine Skeptics Votes To Delay Hepatitis B Shot For Most Babies
Public health officials warned that the decision by advisers picked by RFK Jr. will result in more infants being infected and experiencing lifelong liver diseases.
www.huffpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
RFK Jr’s handpicked CDC panel rolls back keeping your children alive
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DOD: launching Hellfires at boats allegedly bringing cocaine to the US
DOD: also paying a shitload of money to this guy
The self-licking ice cream cone always finds new ways to lick itself
DOD: also paying a shitload of money to this guy
The self-licking ice cream cone always finds new ways to lick itself
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
DOD: launching Hellfires at boats allegedly bringing cocaine to the US
DOD: also paying a shitload of money to this guy
The self-licking ice cream cone always finds new ways to lick itself
DOD: also paying a shitload of money to this guy
The self-licking ice cream cone always finds new ways to lick itself