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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 2h

Reposting because I’m still laughing

Loïc Tregoures @tregs.bsky.social · 1d

Non seulement on ne peut plus se moquer de la Belgique, mais on ne peut même plus de moquer de Liz Truss! La France est humiliée

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 2h

“The US is far too rich and central to global finance to be considered an emerging market, but it certainly acts like one, and the full Maga takeover of the Federal Reserve is not even complete.”

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 2h

Decarceration in a bunch of states

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 6h

Here’s video of the incident

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3h

You can’t talk seriously about gun violence in Chicago without talking about where the guns come from. www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 4h

I thought I knew a thing or two about American abortion history but this convinced me I knew nothing (the author says it was full of surprises, so I guess I’m not alone). Prioritizing reading the book as a window into not just abortion rights but also eugenics, politics, and class.

Katherine J. Parkin,

Podcast Episode · New Books In Public Health · 10/06/2025 · 42m

podcasts.apple.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 6h

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“The person close to the White House said the administration has informally deputized Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma to serve as a conduit to Democrats.”

Trump's off-script comments cause shutdown headaches for GOP

President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are straining to project a united front against Democrats.

www.politico.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 15h

It’s never a good sign for health policy when I’m in the media … and here I am, once again in distinguished company on Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes!

The Hostile Takeover Of America's Health w/ Dr. Scott Greer

Podcast Episode · Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes · 10/03/2025 · 31m

podcasts.apple.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 7h

A picture is worth a thousand words but here are some more words bsky.app/profile/just...

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 7h

Important article for anyone following AI and AI policy.

"In the process, [NVIDIA and OpenAI are] now seen as playing a key role in ratcheting up the risks of a possible AI bubble by inflating the market and binding the fates of numerous companies together. "

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 8h

Frog got a ladder. He put the box up on a high shelf. “There,” said Frog. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”

“But we can climb the ladder and take the box down from the shelf and cut the string and open the box,” said Toad.

“That is true,” said Frog.

Frog climbs a ladder and hides the cookies high on a shelf.

From "Cookies"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11h

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

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Saskia Popescu @saskiapopescu.bsky.social · 8h

Very important article and worth the read - Opinion | 6 U.S. surgeons general: RFK Jr. threatens the health of Americans - The Washington Post

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 9h

October: It’s never a good sign for health policy when I’m in the media … and here I am, once again in distinguished company on Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes!

The Hostile Takeover Of America's Health w/ Dr. Scott Greer

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 9h

Combing through the FY26 budget request and effects on health, and I haven't read many of these over my career, but it's really shocking how much they read like Trump's social media posts. The word "woke" is used 12 times, "DEI" is used 31 times, and random words are put in quotation marks. Oy vey.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 10h

Very predictable: the U of M traffic lights/ camera arrays outside Ruthven, justified as improving bus flow, induced a lot of private cars onto N University and now they are creating a traffic snarl at the stop signs that… slows the buses. But at least we inconvenience innumerable pedestrians now!

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 11h

"Now, almost 80 projects have been saved by a matchmaking service run by Rosenbaum & other former USAID staff, that has found them $110m (£82m) of new funding. The team behind the Project Resource Optimization(Pro) initiative estimates it will benefit 40 million people, including many children <5."

‘We called ourselves the lifeboat crew’: how fired USAID workers launched a rescue project ‘to save as many babies as we can’

After the Trump administration closed the organisation down, a group of former staff secured new funding for almost 80 programmes, benefiting an estimated 40 million people

www.theguardian.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 13h

“Klein's approach would make the stakes higher specifically for already threatened people, precisely at the moment that the stakes have become personally alarming to him, and he says that he believes this will be persuasive of a group that has already declared itself immune to persuasion.”

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 15h

lol too big to fail

Sam Altman in extremely goofy sunglasses facing some media and saying that profitability is not a “top-ten concern” for him, atop an article about how he has managed to make some extremely rich companies invest scary amounts in him

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 15h

It’s never a good sign for health policy when I’m in the media … and here I am, once again in distinguished company on Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes!

The Hostile Takeover Of America's Health w/ Dr. Scott Greer

Podcast Episode · Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes · 10/03/2025 · 31m

podcasts.apple.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 15h

Kind of fun watching two actual experts try to educate him and him responding with undergraduate debating points

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 16h

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 16h

Do we call this “defunding the police?”

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 16h

It got almost no attention but six months ago Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ditched the beneficial ownership rules that facilitate tax evasion and oligarchy by simply choosing to not enforce them. Bob Kuttner has that story.
prospect.org/economy/2025...

How Scott Bessent Enables Oligarchy

The Treasury secretary has gutted the most important anti-corruption reform legislation in a generation—the 2020 Corporate Transparency Act.

prospect.org

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 16h

A lot of capacity can be rebuilt easily but I suspect it will be hard to fix the intentional destruction of public capacity to police very rich people

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 16h

It got almost no attention but six months ago Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ditched the beneficial ownership rules that facilitate tax evasion and oligarchy by simply choosing to not enforce them. Bob Kuttner has that story.
prospect.org/economy/2025...

How Scott Bessent Enables Oligarchy

The Treasury secretary has gutted the most important anti-corruption reform legislation in a generation—the 2020 Corporate Transparency Act.

prospect.org

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

#IA01 Miller-Meeks says she will hold a town hall "when hell freezes over."
www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

A swing-district Iowa Republican says she’ll hold town halls ‘when hell freezes over’ | CNN Politics

Iowa Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks told Johnson County Republicans in an August meeting that she’ll hold town hall meetings “when hell freezes over.”

www.cnn.com

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