Amy Obvi
@netfliximab.bsky.social
local urbanism advocate | ebike enthusiast | lapsed academic | correct opinions about sherlock holmes | portland, me | she/her
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
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i can’t quite explain it but “standing up as opposition doesn’t work” doesn’t seem like good optics for an opposition party to have
SENATOR ANGUS KING: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work. It actually gave him more power."
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
i can’t quite explain it but “standing up as opposition doesn’t work” doesn’t seem like good optics for an opposition party to have
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This is literally where I am.
I can understand the ACA decision, but the core goal of this shutdown was to try and assert some manner of "the executive branch will follow the goddamn law"
We didn't get that, at all.
I can understand the ACA decision, but the core goal of this shutdown was to try and assert some manner of "the executive branch will follow the goddamn law"
We didn't get that, at all.
Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This is literally where I am.
I can understand the ACA decision, but the core goal of this shutdown was to try and assert some manner of "the executive branch will follow the goddamn law"
We didn't get that, at all.
I can understand the ACA decision, but the core goal of this shutdown was to try and assert some manner of "the executive branch will follow the goddamn law"
We didn't get that, at all.
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Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
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Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
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This graph shows a U.S. public health triumph: near-elimination of pediatric hepatitis B through universal birth vaccination. After 30 years of extraordinary progress, ACIP tomorrow considers dismantling it.
Medical justification: none.
Consequences: catastrophic.
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
Medical justification: none.
Consequences: catastrophic.
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
September 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This graph shows a U.S. public health triumph: near-elimination of pediatric hepatitis B through universal birth vaccination. After 30 years of extraordinary progress, ACIP tomorrow considers dismantling it.
Medical justification: none.
Consequences: catastrophic.
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
Medical justification: none.
Consequences: catastrophic.
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
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This isn't even a slight exaggeration. He is actively working on destroying the US's entire vaccine infrastructure. The HepB vote will be tomorrow, where they will get rid of the birth dose and recommend it at 30 days, dooming a bunch of infants to chronic infection ft. cirrhosis, cancer, and death.
RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.
RFK Jr.-Backed Vaccine Panel Advises Against MMRV Vaccine for Young Children
New members of a key committee tweak routine childhood vaccine guidance as some states and insurers go their own way.
www.wsj.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This isn't even a slight exaggeration. He is actively working on destroying the US's entire vaccine infrastructure. The HepB vote will be tomorrow, where they will get rid of the birth dose and recommend it at 30 days, dooming a bunch of infants to chronic infection ft. cirrhosis, cancer, and death.
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Two dozen Dem Senators just laid out 10 tough questions for Trump and Pete Hegseth to answer about the decision to bomb that Venezuelan "drug boat" without any clear authorization or rationale. These questions are a good roadmap for getting to the bottom of this.
Zero Republicans signed it.
Zero Republicans signed it.
September 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Two dozen Dem Senators just laid out 10 tough questions for Trump and Pete Hegseth to answer about the decision to bomb that Venezuelan "drug boat" without any clear authorization or rationale. These questions are a good roadmap for getting to the bottom of this.
Zero Republicans signed it.
Zero Republicans signed it.
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Best thing California could do to fight fascism is build more housing.
September 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Best thing California could do to fight fascism is build more housing.
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I'm kind of shocked that anyone is still proposing technocratic solutions to the "debate" over immigration. Even if this were a good idea (and it is not), Republican elites and media will never tell their base about it. You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem!
September 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I'm kind of shocked that anyone is still proposing technocratic solutions to the "debate" over immigration. Even if this were a good idea (and it is not), Republican elites and media will never tell their base about it. You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem!
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What are they pumping into Donald Trump right now to give him energy to do this press conference that was scheduled for 2 pm but still hasn't started at 2:36 pm?
Any guesses?
This is what corporate media and MAGA did 24-7 with Biden. Perfectly fair to ask.
Any guesses?
This is what corporate media and MAGA did 24-7 with Biden. Perfectly fair to ask.
September 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
What are they pumping into Donald Trump right now to give him energy to do this press conference that was scheduled for 2 pm but still hasn't started at 2:36 pm?
Any guesses?
This is what corporate media and MAGA did 24-7 with Biden. Perfectly fair to ask.
Any guesses?
This is what corporate media and MAGA did 24-7 with Biden. Perfectly fair to ask.
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I love looking at this graph, showing it to my students, and sharing it on social media, even though it unerringly brings out the trolls.
This is the efficacy curve of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine.
This, people, is what ended the emergency phase of the COVID pandemic. Despite what RFK Jr says.
This is the efficacy curve of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine.
This, people, is what ended the emergency phase of the COVID pandemic. Despite what RFK Jr says.
September 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I love looking at this graph, showing it to my students, and sharing it on social media, even though it unerringly brings out the trolls.
This is the efficacy curve of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine.
This, people, is what ended the emergency phase of the COVID pandemic. Despite what RFK Jr says.
This is the efficacy curve of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine.
This, people, is what ended the emergency phase of the COVID pandemic. Despite what RFK Jr says.
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why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
August 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
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The people who are too well off for your 'hood are moving there because they were priced out of the neighborhood that they are "supposed" to live in.
Which is why "luxury" (i.e. market rate) apartments are good and necessary. Since class segregation is apparently what everyone prefers.
Which is why "luxury" (i.e. market rate) apartments are good and necessary. Since class segregation is apparently what everyone prefers.
August 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The people who are too well off for your 'hood are moving there because they were priced out of the neighborhood that they are "supposed" to live in.
Which is why "luxury" (i.e. market rate) apartments are good and necessary. Since class segregation is apparently what everyone prefers.
Which is why "luxury" (i.e. market rate) apartments are good and necessary. Since class segregation is apparently what everyone prefers.
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Gentrification is what we call it when demand exceeds supply. It is not caused by bike lanes.
The answer is not to suppress demand by enshittifying cities, or to justify endangering & killing people outside of cars as a rent control mechanism, but to increase supply.
The answer is not to suppress demand by enshittifying cities, or to justify endangering & killing people outside of cars as a rent control mechanism, but to increase supply.
August 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Gentrification is what we call it when demand exceeds supply. It is not caused by bike lanes.
The answer is not to suppress demand by enshittifying cities, or to justify endangering & killing people outside of cars as a rent control mechanism, but to increase supply.
The answer is not to suppress demand by enshittifying cities, or to justify endangering & killing people outside of cars as a rent control mechanism, but to increase supply.
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Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
August 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
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Not a huge Derek Thompson fan but he's straightforwardly correct here. Financial institutions own a tiny percentage of US homes and generally rent them out rather than keeping them vacant. Preventing BlackRock from buying housing wouldn't do much to help affordability.
www.gao.gov/assets/gao-2...
www.gao.gov/assets/gao-2...
August 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Not a huge Derek Thompson fan but he's straightforwardly correct here. Financial institutions own a tiny percentage of US homes and generally rent them out rather than keeping them vacant. Preventing BlackRock from buying housing wouldn't do much to help affordability.
www.gao.gov/assets/gao-2...
www.gao.gov/assets/gao-2...
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Didn’t we just spend a decade being told by the people who voted these goons into office that there was a cabal of elites at the highest levels of government conspiring to cover up a massive sex trafficking and pedophilia operation?
NBC News confirms: JD Vance will meet tonight at his residence with Susie Wiles, Pam Bondi, Deputy AG Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and other top Trump officials to discuss the Epstein scandal. @msnbc.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Didn’t we just spend a decade being told by the people who voted these goons into office that there was a cabal of elites at the highest levels of government conspiring to cover up a massive sex trafficking and pedophilia operation?
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I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.
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New in PN: Trump's effort to distance from Epstein complicated by his deep ties to Epstein
Trump's effort to distance from Epstein complicated by his deep ties to Epstein
Wriggling out of this jam is failing so far.
www.publicnotice.co
July 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
New in PN: Trump's effort to distance from Epstein complicated by his deep ties to Epstein
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MAY EVERY DAY BE ANOTHER WONDERFUL SECRET
July 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
MAY EVERY DAY BE ANOTHER WONDERFUL SECRET
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪