Bob Pauly
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Bob Pauly
@navdruid.bsky.social
Father of cats, giver of noms.
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Happy Pride Month #cat #pride #pridemonth 🏳‍🌈
June 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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June 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Remember when ethics, morals, and integrity counted for something?
June 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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May Day Strong: We are the Many · May Day Strong
Across the country—from fruit fields in California to classrooms in Chicago, from kitchens in Queens to loading docks in Atlanta—working people are rising up. **We are demanding a country that puts ou...
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May 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Forgive the earnest post here, but one year ago this week, Global Tetrahedron took over The Onion. We've since brought back the paper and ONN, dramatically increased revenue, and hired more writers and artists.

But most importantly, as other places debased themselves, we refused to bend the knee.
April 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47
April 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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I have waited my whole life, for this moment....
April 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Today, in the halls of Congress, Republican Congressman Keith Self of Texas quoted JOSIF FUCKING GOEBBLES, Propaganda Minister of the Nazi Party and fanatical Hitler stooge. JOSEF GOEBBLES! In the governmental halls of that the country that led the world effort to crush fascism 80 years ago.
April 4, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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The Supreme Court adjunct office
NEW: ProPublica has identified three lawyers with elite establishment credentials who’ve joined the DOGE effort. Two of their names haven’t been previously reported as working for the Elon Musk-led initiative.

Here’s what we know about them:
The Elite Lawyers Working for Elon Musk’s DOGE Include Former Supreme Court Clerks
Much attention has been paid to the young Silicon Valley engineers working for Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, but the group has also hired high-powered legal talent.
propub.li
February 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.

You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?

Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.

You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
February 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
These fucks…
Sen Cassidy: “Black lives matter only if you count them”
They are who we think they are
February 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Today, for the first time, @wired.com got my money. The work the Wired journos are doing is incredibly solid and technically adept while being clear. Thank you to @telliotter.bsky.social @lhn.bsky.social @agreenberg.bsky.social & more.

www.wired.com/story/treasu...
A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
www.wired.com
February 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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I mean, who do voters think they are?
Conservative state legislators aim to put a new amendment on the ballot that would ban abortion except for in emergencies, when a fetus has abnormalities, or in cases of rape or incest, but only if a police report is filed and within a 12-week limit.

By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
Three Months After Missouri Voted to Make Abortion Legal, Access Is Still Being Blocked
Reproductive rights are now enshrined in the state constitution, but Missouri’s main abortion provider is fighting legal hurdles to resume offering the procedure. Meanwhile, anti-abortion lawmakers…
propub.li
February 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Uh, excuse me, Apartheid Andy. One of your young software engineers is an avowed racist who advocates for crimes against humanity, another was fired from his previous job for spilling secrets. Maybe you would be better served putting them back to work at the social network you killed.
Daily reminder with these chodes: Every accusation is a confession (and a concession).
February 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Any DOJ lawyers arguing this should be ashamed of themselves.
DOJ tells Judge AliKhan—in a DC hearing happening now on Trump funding freeze—that plaintiffs can't prove that missing money in any given place is caused by the funding freeze as opposed to individual agency discretion
February 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Susan Collins, who can be counted on for saying she's "very disappointed," says she will vote for Tulsi Gabbard.
February 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Finance Committee Republicans just cleared RFK Jr.'s nomination to serve as HHS Secretary out of committee. Americans deserve better than seeing my colleagues replace their educated judgement with blind allegiance to their masters.
February 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
What a great time to have a CDC communications blackout…
Last week, the World Organization for Animal Health reported that it had been notified by the USDA that a November outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza on a California duck farm was caused by a strain not before seen in the United States: H5N9.
Another Strain Of Bird Flu Discovered In California
The outbreak of H5N9 avian influenza occurred at a California duck farm in November 2024.
buff.ly
February 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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A VA psychologist friend reached out today. Her job is at a VA in the heartland. Her job, in my view, is helping veterans with post traumatic stress stay alive. She is one of the hundreds of thousands of federal employees who has been encouraged to resign…

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Taking an axe to the federal government
I heard from a VA psychologist friend today...
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February 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly
February 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
December 18, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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This article highlights why more “crazy motherfuckers”are likely going to kill more extremely wealthy, “heartless, motherfuckers.”

Society has reached the tipping point on inequities. Especially those leaving the masses to suffer and die.

www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.
www.cnbc.com
December 18, 2024 at 7:41 AM