Mark Tyson
@markatyson.bsky.social
Doing tech since early IBM PC days, former Elections Board member, interested in urbanism, health policy, green energy, travel, hiking…
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Maria Shriver on the Kennedy Center Board of Directors’ vote to name the Kennedy Center — named in her uncle’s honor after he was assassinated — the Trump Kennedy Center.
(Reminder: it would take an act of Congress to do this officially.)
(Reminder: it would take an act of Congress to do this officially.)
December 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Maria Shriver on the Kennedy Center Board of Directors’ vote to name the Kennedy Center — named in her uncle’s honor after he was assassinated — the Trump Kennedy Center.
(Reminder: it would take an act of Congress to do this officially.)
(Reminder: it would take an act of Congress to do this officially.)
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“These projects did not align with President Trump’s ambitious America First agenda or were redundant,” a U.S. Department of Transportation spokesperson said in a statement.
Trump administration cancels $109M in environmentally focused transportation grants for Colorado
“These projects did not align with President Trump’s ambitious America First agenda or were redundant,” a U.S. Department of Transportation spokesperson said in a statement
coloradosun.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“These projects did not align with President Trump’s ambitious America First agenda or were redundant,” a U.S. Department of Transportation spokesperson said in a statement.
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Once again: All people had to do was fill in a little oval next to the smart Black lady’s name.
REPORTER: More than 20 million Americans are now bracing for their premiums to skyrocket
TRUMP: They will skyrocket because it was never any good
TRUMP: They will skyrocket because it was never any good
December 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Once again: All people had to do was fill in a little oval next to the smart Black lady’s name.
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The science behind gender-affirming care has been endorsed by every major medical organization. This isn't about science or medicine. It's about the discomfort many non-trans people feel over the *existence* of trans people.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday. n.pr/44xQKdD
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz to announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday.
n.pr
December 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The science behind gender-affirming care has been endorsed by every major medical organization. This isn't about science or medicine. It's about the discomfort many non-trans people feel over the *existence* of trans people.
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Eleventybazillion.
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Eleventybazillion.
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To be more clear about a key thing here:
this is a DeSantis law
and a state supreme court that he's pretty much hand-picked allowed it
this is a DeSantis law
and a state supreme court that he's pretty much hand-picked allowed it
Just in: Florida's supreme court today has UPHELD a recent state law that enables juries to sentence someone to death nonunanimously.
Bolts reported on FL's law a few years ago, amid huge concern that nonunanimous convictions have a high error rate, & are likelier to sideline Black jurors.
Bolts reported on FL's law a few years ago, amid huge concern that nonunanimous convictions have a high error rate, & are likelier to sideline Black jurors.
Exonerees Sound the Alarm on New Florida Law Allowing Death Sentences by Split Juries - Bolts
Herman Lindsey braced himself for news that he would be sentenced to death as he sat inside a courtroom in Broward County, Florida in 2006. A jury had convicted Lindsey... Read More
boltsmag.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
To be more clear about a key thing here:
this is a DeSantis law
and a state supreme court that he's pretty much hand-picked allowed it
this is a DeSantis law
and a state supreme court that he's pretty much hand-picked allowed it
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December 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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The White House says the Kennedy Center board vote was “unanimous”…
BULLSHIT.
@repbeatty.bsky.social, a Congressional member of the board, was on the call. They muted her and didn't let her voice opposition.
This is beyond absurd, totally illegal, and a disgrace to the memory and legacy of JFK.
BULLSHIT.
@repbeatty.bsky.social, a Congressional member of the board, was on the call. They muted her and didn't let her voice opposition.
This is beyond absurd, totally illegal, and a disgrace to the memory and legacy of JFK.
December 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The White House says the Kennedy Center board vote was “unanimous”…
BULLSHIT.
@repbeatty.bsky.social, a Congressional member of the board, was on the call. They muted her and didn't let her voice opposition.
This is beyond absurd, totally illegal, and a disgrace to the memory and legacy of JFK.
BULLSHIT.
@repbeatty.bsky.social, a Congressional member of the board, was on the call. They muted her and didn't let her voice opposition.
This is beyond absurd, totally illegal, and a disgrace to the memory and legacy of JFK.
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What's most clear from this speech/order is that Hegseth knows very little about the chaplain corps -- its history, its purpose, and its operations are not what he imagines them to be.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week ordered sweeping changes to the U.S. military's chaplain corps, with a plan to simplify a system that he said has become too focused on "new age" concepts.
Hegseth to overhaul chaplain corps, toss ‘unacceptable and unserious’ Army spiritual fitness guide
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered sweeping changes to the U.S. military’s chaplain corps.
www.stripes.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
What's most clear from this speech/order is that Hegseth knows very little about the chaplain corps -- its history, its purpose, and its operations are not what he imagines them to be.
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I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.
December 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.
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Shot: The U.S. Energy Department's internal watchdog will investigate the Trump administration's cancellation of $8 billion in clean energy grants in blue states: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @hayleysmith.bsky.social
Federal watchdog will investigate Energy Department over selective blue state grant cancellations
The inspector general for the Energy Department will audit the agency after a delegation of California lawmakers raised concerns about the termination of awards in Democratic states.
www.latimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Shot: The U.S. Energy Department's internal watchdog will investigate the Trump administration's cancellation of $8 billion in clean energy grants in blue states: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @hayleysmith.bsky.social
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Pediatric phalloplasty is something that takes place when there is severe genital injury or a congenital condition. I have not been able to find a single report of phalloplasty performed on a transgender minor.
This is grotesque fear-mongering.
This is grotesque fear-mongering.
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 9:24 PM
Pediatric phalloplasty is something that takes place when there is severe genital injury or a congenital condition. I have not been able to find a single report of phalloplasty performed on a transgender minor.
This is grotesque fear-mongering.
This is grotesque fear-mongering.
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Congress is on vacation
December 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Congress is on vacation
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Epstein was indicted in 2006. He was investigated for child sex trafficking in 2005. Brooks attended the event in 2011.
We're supposed to believe this?
We're supposed to believe this?
December 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Epstein was indicted in 2006. He was investigated for child sex trafficking in 2005. Brooks attended the event in 2011.
We're supposed to believe this?
We're supposed to believe this?
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President Trump has tried to minimize his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Documents and interviews that The New York Times conducted with more than 30 former Epstein employees, victims of his abuse and others who crossed paths with the two men reveal an intense and complicated relationship.
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
President Trump has tried to minimize his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Documents and interviews that The New York Times conducted with more than 30 former Epstein employees, victims of his abuse and others who crossed paths with the two men reveal an intense and complicated relationship.
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He never disclosed that he’d visited Epstein in that column and did a lot of hand waving to insist that he and his fellow elites had nothing, nothing at all to do with him.
December 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
He never disclosed that he’d visited Epstein in that column and did a lot of hand waving to insist that he and his fellow elites had nothing, nothing at all to do with him.
As I was boating in the Gulf of America, while trying to avoid being blown out of the water by the Department of War,
I heard my that now concerts occurred at the Trump-Kennedy Center.
I heard my that now concerts occurred at the Trump-Kennedy Center.
December 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
As I was boating in the Gulf of America, while trying to avoid being blown out of the water by the Department of War,
I heard my that now concerts occurred at the Trump-Kennedy Center.
I heard my that now concerts occurred at the Trump-Kennedy Center.
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Elon Musk’s net worth has now surpassed $600 billion, just weeks after Tesla approved his 10-year, $1 trillion pay package.
That could amount to $100 billion per year — more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks combined.
Still wondering if inequality is out of control?
That could amount to $100 billion per year — more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks combined.
Still wondering if inequality is out of control?
December 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Elon Musk’s net worth has now surpassed $600 billion, just weeks after Tesla approved his 10-year, $1 trillion pay package.
That could amount to $100 billion per year — more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks combined.
Still wondering if inequality is out of control?
That could amount to $100 billion per year — more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks combined.
Still wondering if inequality is out of control?
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It almost goes without saying, but this is illegal. The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is established by law and the board doesn't have the power to change it. 20 USC 3 §§ 76h - 76s.
Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center —Karoline Leavitt x.com/PressSec/sta...
December 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It almost goes without saying, but this is illegal. The name "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" is established by law and the board doesn't have the power to change it. 20 USC 3 §§ 76h - 76s.
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It is within Donald Trump's rights to fire everyone on the Federal Reserve Board and replace them with his friends. But if a future Democratic president tries to remove Trump's friends from the Board, that will be strictly unconstitutional.
by John Roberts
by John Roberts
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It is within Donald Trump's rights to fire everyone on the Federal Reserve Board and replace them with his friends. But if a future Democratic president tries to remove Trump's friends from the Board, that will be strictly unconstitutional.
by John Roberts
by John Roberts
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She's an idiot.
Lisa McClain: "Subsidies do nothing -- zip, zilch, zero -- to lower costs for the American people"
December 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
She's an idiot.
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Rand Paul: "We've never in our past decided just to shoot smugglers who are unarmed without even proof they're smuggling anything. So I think this is a horrendous thing that should stop. I think it's illegal & immoral... the kids in the military - I'm not for sending them down there to die for oil"
December 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Rand Paul: "We've never in our past decided just to shoot smugglers who are unarmed without even proof they're smuggling anything. So I think this is a horrendous thing that should stop. I think it's illegal & immoral... the kids in the military - I'm not for sending them down there to die for oil"
Seems a better use of money than whatever we are paying to have Oz stand there.
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 4:43 PM
Seems a better use of money than whatever we are paying to have Oz stand there.
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This is extraordinary, heartbreaking, and a red alert warning sign for our democracy.
These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6.
They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".
These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6.
They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".
Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Was the U.S. Capitol attacked on January 6, 2021?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
December 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is extraordinary, heartbreaking, and a red alert warning sign for our democracy.
These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6.
They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".
These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6.
They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".