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Paul McMenamin
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Him/He. Human( mostly) ex-cancer haver( sort of , definitely not a survivor just lucky) Not ADHD ( well maybe if you believe those lying doctors, counsellors , family members) One of those lying doctors . Father , husband, adoptive doggie dad. Views owns
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davidjroth.bsky.social
Greg Bovino sadly filling one steamer trunk after another with elaborate fashy overcoats, the teargas canisters he always has bouncing around on him like labubus, and dozens of "chest-belts." They will be shipped ahead of him as he prepares to return to his home, which is a men's size 10 boot.
January 27, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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katjathieme.bsky.social
"Every time a scientist abdicates work to an AI tool, that is a tacit admission that the work is not worth being done by the scientist. Perhaps we skip a seminar & read the AI summary. Maybe we generate a 15min podcast of a new book. Perhaps an LLM does the literature search for our latest paper."
January 27, 2026 at 4:56 AM
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grantbrisbee.bsky.social
took a picture of my dog that looks like a New Yorker profile about her getting her life back on track after she was cancelled for calling basset hounds "lazy" and "unnecessary"
my dog, piper, looking guilty af, but also contrite, and perhaps worthy of a second chance
January 26, 2026 at 6:38 AM
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troubledminnesotan.bsky.social
There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry
January 25, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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zachota.bsky.social
Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.
Jeff Wheeler, The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 25, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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runoldman.bsky.social
Being surrounded by people who talk too much can be confusing to the many voices in my head.
January 23, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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jamesrball.com
This is one hell of a quote. European leaders really are running out of patience.
anneapplebaum.bsky.social Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 13d
The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
January 20, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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lexmcmenamin.com
new: during 2 competing rallies outside the Supreme Court as it heard a case on trans youth sports, police swarmed a trans woman and advocate after an anti-trans commentator yelled assault—releasing her and arresting him for assault after watching the tape

"This is about power" @us.theguardian.com
‘They’re here to antagonize us’: trans advocates say hostility at rallies is up as supreme court hears key case
As high court considers trans kids’ participation in school sports, tensions run high between opposing protest groups
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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rickwebb.net
Hello Tim Cook I worked at Tumblr when you gave us 48 hours to get rid of all the consenting, adult boobs. Up all night at your whim, out of the blue. But you're still cool with Twitter and its CSAM and revenge porn and whatever the fuck this is? Why do you even HAVE guidelines?
kattenbarge.bsky.social Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 25d
Previously, several of these companies, like Apple, IBM, and Disney, have paused advertising on X in response to antisemitic content. But antisemitism on X never slowed, sexual abuse imagery increased, and all of these companies quietly resumed advertising anyways.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...
Why isn't there a bigger Grok boycott?
Advertisers, politicians, and investors are still all-in on X, despite a sexual abuse crisis.
spitfirenews.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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amutepiggy.bsky.social
wow really helpful, thank you new york times
Infographic altered by me from the New York Times showing four different groups of federal troops dressed in their little tough guy cosplay gear. Text reads: Making Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets With President Trump sending ICE, Border Patrol, the National Guard and other forces to U.S. cities, here's how to tell them apart- and what their powers are. Big Dweebs Walking Nutsacks LOSERS Turd-eating Bitch Boys Credit for original, unaltered image: Bora Erden/The New York Times
October 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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airbagged.bsky.social
samuel @samtrayter ... you see jd vances tweets and fully understand why his mom traded him for some perc 30s 11:51 AM • 7/31/21
January 8, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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letsgomathias.bsky.social
Holy fuck they actually did it
January 8, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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jsweetli.bsky.social
Story updated with new brand new photos of Jonathan Ross, one in Iraq, and with more new info about the officer who killed Renee Good:

theintercept.com/2026/01/08/i...
January 8, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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djinnandtonic.bsky.social
OLD JOHN BROWN'S BODY LIES A MOLDERING IN THE GRAVE,
WHILE WEEP THE SONS OF BONDAGE WHOM HE VENTURED ALL TO SAVE;
BUT THOUGH HE SLEEPS HIS LIFE WAS LOST WHILE STRUGGLING FOR THE SLAVE,
HIS SOUL IS MARCHING ON.

GLORY, GLORY HALLELUJAH! (X3)
HIS SOUL GOES MARCHING ON.
helenkennedy.bsky.social Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 26d
Blood and stuffies. Trump’s America.
News photo of the inside of the car that Renée Good was driving. There is blood on the inflated airbag and several stuffed animals peeking out of the glove compartment.
January 8, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
@mhdksafa for the record: cops aren't supposed to kill guilty people either (from 2023)
January 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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emma-briant.co.uk
GROK IS GENERATING ABOUT ‘ONE NONCONSENSUAL SEXUALIZED IMAGE PER MINUTE www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Grok Is Generating About 'One Nonconsensual Sexualized Image Per Minute'
Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok keeps churning out nonconsenual images of women and minors in bikinis and lingerie, outraging users and regulators
www.rollingstone.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
words from lexi alexander, who had been suspended from this platform for being palestinian
You either live in a democracy, in which case you, as citizens, are responsible for the actions of your democratically elected leaders...or you have no choice in who gets elected, in which case you don't live in a democracy and you should definitely do something about that. The world is sick of hearing 350 million Americans say they're helpless and nothing is their fault
January 3, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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mcduff.bsky.social
Indeed, if you think Trump is bad but you're fine with Alistair Campbell having a nice podcast where he tells liberals they're very clever, you're a baby brained chowderhead of the first water.
mgearsolidarity.bsky.social Metal Gear Solidarity @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 29d
Alistair Campbell is a nice guy now 🙏
January 4, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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tvsadam.bsky.social
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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jimalwine.bsky.social
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
princetonupress.bsky.social Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Dec 22
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:

⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year

Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us by Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee. A New Yorker Best Book of the Year; An Economist Best Book of the Year; A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Some bigots talking to Jesus saying "we want to know when you're going to start calling people on their sin!" And Jesus responding "you mean like the sins of hate and discrimination?"
December 14, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
60,000 is the *low end* estimate.
matthewdownhour.bsky.social Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · Dec 13
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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pbump.com
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me! My hours are the longest, and my results are among the best. I’ve stopped Eight Wars, saving many millions of lives in the process, created the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, brought Business back into the United States at levels never seen before, rebuilt our Military, created the Largest Tax Cuts and Regulation Cuts, EVER, closed our open and very dangerous Southern Border, when previous Administrations were unable to do so, and created an “aura” around the United States of America that has led every Country in the World to respect us more than ever before. In addition to all of that, I go out of my way to do long, thorough, and very boring Medical Examinations at the Great Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, seen and supervised by top doctors, all of whom have given me PERFECT Marks — Some have even said they have never seen such Strong Results. I do these Tests because I owe it to our Country. In addition to the Medical, I have done something that no other President has done, on three separate occasions, the last one being recently, by taking what is known as a Cognitive Examination, something which few people would be able to do very well, including those working at The New York Times, and I ACED all three of them in front of large numbers of doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know. I have been told that few people have been able to “ace” this Examination and, in fact, most do very poorly, which is why many other Presidents have decided not to take it at all. Despite all of this, the time and work involved, The New York Times, and some others, like to pretend that I am “slowing up,” am maybe not as sharp as I once was, or am in poor physical health, knowing that it is not true, and knowing that I work very hard, probably harder than I have ever worked before. I will know when I am “slowing up,” but it’s not now! After all of the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean “THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.” They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it. They have inaccurately reported on all of my Election Results and, in fact, were forced to apologize on much of what they wrote. The best thing that could happen to this Country would be if The New York Times would cease publication because they are a horrible, biased, and untruthful “source” of information. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM