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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 15m

This is the result of health media having long ago ceded its duty to understand good and bad research practices and norms. The public was then trained to spit back “where’s your M.D.?” any time a reporter looked closely at a study and highlighted its context. We act as if a M.D. confers omniscience.

Blobert v3.0 @theblobert.bsky.social · 1h

It doesn’t have to be based on one’s political persuasion, but the media keep portraying health through a political lens and amplifying voices who want to enforce their medical point of view, despite what scientific evidence might say.

NPR @npr.org · 5h

A new poll shows trust in federal health policies is plummeting, and what -- or who -- people believe increasingly depends on their politics. n.pr/3KF1CiO

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NoBoneSpurs @usg1863.bsky.social · 3h

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 12h

“Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., because one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.”
Kafka, The Trial

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 14h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 23h

I’d rather see my senator trolling for her minority leader’s resignation at this point.

Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 23h

I started writing a dystopian novel a couple years ago and reality has already outpaced it.

Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 1d

These are hardly the problems afflicting the system. The public chases treatments being marketed to them. Healthcare does that.

Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 1d

That absurd bill is from the health system. Vultures, non- medical.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 1d

I believe socialized healthcare would be better but we haven’t even tried market healthcare

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 1d

At the Dakota, Brad Mehldau plays a pretty fuckin sad snippet of America the Beautiful. “I still love our troubled republic.” Then it’s on to Neil Young.

Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 1d

This. Nazi Germany based what it did on the Jim Crow South.

Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 1d

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 2d

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SCOTUS doesn’t deserve to be covered as a credible functioning institution.

What Next | When You’re A Justice They Let You Do It

Podcast Episode · Slate News · 10/06/2025 · 31m

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 3d

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

Portland never stops being Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 4d

Uggh. Looks like the airport. And they probably had a total do-over budget. People would slam that place if they had even tried.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 4d

But how would they get their precious access?

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d

If a federal judge, appointed by Trump, can call him “simply untethered to facts,” our White House press corps can as well.

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In sum, the President is certainly entitled "a great level of deference," Newsom II, 141
F.4th at 1048, in his determination that he "is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws
of the United States." 10 U.S.C. § 12406(3). But "a great level of deference" is not equivalent to
ignoring the facts on the ground. As the Ninth Circuit articulated, courts must "review the
President's determination to ensure that it reflects a colorable assessment of the facts and law
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Case 3:25-cv-01756-IM Document 56
Filed 10/04/25
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within a 'range of honest judgment.'" Id. at 1051 (quoting Sterling, 278 U.S. at 399). Here, this
Court concludes that the President did not have a "colorable basis" to invoke § 12406(3) to
federalize the National Guard because the situation on the ground belied an inability of federal
law enforcement officers to execute federal law. Id. at 1051-52. The President's determination
was simply untethered to the facts.
c. Whether there is a Rebellion or Danger of Rebellion
Defendants also aroue that the Sentember 28 2025 federalization order is authorized

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 4d

Nazi shit.

Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 5d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 5d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

None of it was in pursuit of justice, but all of it was in pursuit of social media videos.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

Yesterday, Kristi Noem’s and Greg Bovino’s masked agents threw chemical agents near an elementary school, arrested elected officials exercising their First Amendment rights, and raided a Wal-Mart.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 4d

Is it juvenile, or are they preparing to push their opponents into pits.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 5d

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Plants are trying to kill you. Sorry. They are so determined to protect themselves they contain anti-nutrients, properties that prevent the absorption of nutrients. They are for famines between kills. But go ahead.

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds

Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

www.theguardian.com

Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 5d

The Italians believe we’re in a worse place than fascism. They see a revolt against civilization.

Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 5d

So, kind of like the others then.

TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 5d

My 15 year old daughter, a Swift fan but not, she insists, a Swiftie, said the new album sounds like it was made to be played in Target while people are shopping.

Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 6d

“Uncertainty.” The perfect substitute word for “outrage” and “terror” when you are huge losers. Fuck off, NPR.

Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 6d

“Uncertainty.” The perfect substitute word for “outrage” and “terror” when you are huge puppets. Fuck off, NPR.

NPR @npr.org · 6d

As President Trump ramps up efforts to send federal officers and troops into cities, criminologists are watching closely. Are the feds doing this in a smart way?

National Guard presence may deter crime, but experts warn of the long-term costs

As President Trump ramps up efforts to send federal officers and troops into cities, criminologists are watching closely. Are the feds doing this in a smart way?

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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 8d

In La Repubblica, really extraordinary text (look at alt text), essentially saying calling this fascism is too subtle, that it’s worse and Hegseth is a lunatic.
Who am I to argue?

www.repubblica.it/rubriche/l-a...

Pentagon chief Hegseth's "speech to the troops" is further proof that the word fascism is completely inadequate to describe the new advance. Fascism had less than a century of socialist uprisings, workers' and farmers' strikes to settle. Against the "reds," in short, on behalf of the bosses.

These people want to settle accounts with two and a half centuries of democracy (starting with their own): with human rights, civil rights, women's liberation, the end of true patriarchy, the hegemony of the state in the use of force and weapons, the law as the equal rule for all. In short, they want to settle accounts with civilization, which disturbs their primitive male exuberance—the same as the colonists who built America by exterminating the natives.

These people aren't a political phenomenon, they're an animalistic phenomenon: the extreme regurgitation of the atavistic law—that of the strongest—rebelling against the very principles of mutual respect. This lunatic who rails against "the fat," against the bearded, against the cowardly and the gentle, and calls for war as the only measure of valor, isn't just a fascist, he's much worse.

He's the uncivilized person who repudiates civilization, who considers the very principles of respect and tolerance a symptom of decadence. But he is decadent, a parody of an archaic culture aped by embittered males who are a hundred times more decadent, improbable, ridiculous, and weak than the worst woke activist. But they don't know it, they're in no position to understand it. And on top of being stupid and evil, they're armed. Do the math on what awaits us, the unarmed ones.

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Paul John Scott @pauljohnscott.bsky.social · 6d

I once sat in with a “praise rock” megachurch set on piano. It’s a lucrative sideline and a lot of secular players do it for the collection plate. But I couldn’t follow the chord changes because it was like they were written by the random button pushing of kittens. It had no emotional logic. vacant.

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 8d

That's part of why I wrote this. It's important to understand that MAGA is not "real" America.

On the contrary, the reason they're all so fucking bitter is they know most people aren't like them. And they resent that.

www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...

MAGA can't expand its base — and Christian music tells us why

The songs from Charlie Kirk's memorial exposed a serious problem

www.salon.com

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