Drew

Drew

@badbeardwrites.bsky.social

Dad, Husband, human to many animals, Writer. Determined to help leave the world a better place than it is. 🇨🇦

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Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Check out how easy this is.

BeshearStan@beshearstan.bsky.social

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

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Not a single parent has filed a book challenge in Palm Beach in two years. The district just removed 1800 books anyway, because AI told them to. There are many reasons that is unthinkable but let's not forget AI DOES NOT HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOKS. IT CANNOT READ THEM. It just makes crap up!

Florida Freedom to Read Project@flfreedomread.bsky.social

Palm Beach pulled 1800+ titles from its school library collections because AI flagged them for review. Media specialists and principals must sign attestation forms verifying their libraries are compliant with vague law. None of this is normal. freedomtoreadproject.substack.com/p/when-ai-de...

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Ossoff: "It's the most corrupt administration of all time & everybody knows it. While the crook president & his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything... they lied us into war & spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile"

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Replying to @amytheamazonian.bsky.social

The number of cards added into the subsection of Magic I cover (Arena/Brawl) went from ~1000/year to ~2000/year This many new cards were added to Arena/Brawl: 2019: 1060 2020: 979 2021: 1597 Cards 2022: 1351 2023: 1517 2024: 1655 2025: 1791 2026: 1826 Cards SO FAR (Star Trek isn't out yet)

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this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"

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We're maybe a week away from a Trump official shouting "White Power!" at one of these conferences.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

FCC Chair Andrew Ferguson touts the administration's work to "protect white American men from discrimination"

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We didn’t learn anything from Covid. People are already confidently calling the plague a nothingburger. Sure, we have cipro and doxycycline. The obvious concern here is that this strain was modified to be antibiotic resistant or spread more easily. We simply don’t know yet.

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Jay Edidin@edidin.bsky.social

I would like to see more men talking about how to and peer pressuring each other into calling out misogyny and rape culture. Going against social norms is hard, and it helps to share tips and support.

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I can't wait for the British press to explain how this is all the fault of trans immigrants

OSINTRadar@osintradar.bsky.social

🇬🇧 According to The Telegraph, the leaders of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland will discuss the possibility of leaving the United Kingdom tomorrow.

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I'm deadly serious about this: every Republican should be shown this photo on TV and asked if they repudiate/reject/renounce Musk. And if not, why not.

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social

Democrats who have had absolutely nothing to do with Hasan Piker will be hounded about him, while Republicans who are directly benefitting from Musk funding will be asked about him in the most generic "money in politics" way, if at all.

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When they do this, it's not enough to reject the demand. You've got to shove it back in their face, and ask why they never ask Republicans to denounce the racist mass murderer who is their party's top donor and who was given the keys to the federal government to cause mass chaos.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Raskin after Kristen Welker plays him clips of controversial Hasan Piker comments and asks him to react to them: "I think all of that is an irrelevant distraction"

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You can expect the same trifecta is targeting Canada.

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social

Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez confirms our initial assertion that it was Russia, Israel, and US (far right networks) targeting Spain. Russia and Israel are targeting Spain due to its position on the genocide in Gaza or Putin's invasion of Ukraine. US is a proxy acting for both.

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That’s why it’s my first choice for ice cream. 🇨🇦 Now if only our grocery stores would stop stocking US products and get them from our allies and reliable trading partners

Craig 🌎 🛩️ 💙🇨🇦@bigdaddykreativ.bsky.social

Canada's largest ice cream company used to source its fruits and nuts from U.S. suppliers — some for over 30 YEARS. Then, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on Canadian products. So, what did Chapman's do? They called Italy. They called Spain. They signed multi-year contracts with European suppliers.

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Friendly Reminder: 3DS, Vita and Switch all use a type of flash memory that needs an electrical charge every decade or so to keep the game data from corrupting. TLDR: Boot up all your games and make a save on them to help preserve them into the future!

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I love how this contradicts with the argument for the deportations - that migrants were stealing jobs from everyone else. Now the claim is that the jobs were created by migrants just as they are now gone with them.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Bessent on the latest bad jobs report: "After the deportations that we've seen and the closing of the border, we don't need to produce as many jobs"

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And the U.S. whines about us Canadians not buying their dairy… 🇨🇦 Duh.

RFK Jr. Now Faces Salmonella Outbreak (on Top of Explosive Diarrhea) More than 1.5 million eggs have been recalled across six states. ...

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What if hostile foreign governments were able to control social network algorithms in the United States, suppressing information vital to our survival as a democracy? That would be weird.

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A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.