Mr. Blue

an anniversary is overdue, five years ago, "suddenly" covid please behold this: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... published in february meaning submitted by january meaning everybody with a little connection had the information waaaay beforehand this is the only scandal

i don't understand why the word "suicide" never shows up when reporting on this piece of news. as if the media were reluctant to admit their abhorrent behavior. ofc, this does not concern only WaPo or NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/w...

Happy 77 birthday to Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler! 📸Joby Sessions

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now let's compare www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

hey everybody, look at this guy impersonating the problem and the solution at the same time. i can't repress a vague nauseous feeling when reading this. producing CO2 and making enough money out of it to dig trenches around the place i live. www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/art...

This isn’t the first time the Trump administration has challenged reports and still managed to threaten the leakers with jail time … But if the story is false, then why would it be treasonous to tell it? trib.al/9kfhb7e

Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.

...and all of it enabled by the American people, for the American People and eventually against the People. Women and children, too of course. Preferably, young child-like women.

The UAE has been buying influence across N. Africa, going for ports, arming Libya's Haftar, backing of Kabylia separatists. A N. African president just vented, unnamed: a "little state" leaves only "blood and strife" wherever it treads. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Where is the least liveable city in the world? One region’s score has taken a bigger fall than any other, according to the EIU’s annual index. Find out here

In this here page, you can read 'The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim' In 2026, this is what is written on the CDC website. I'd like to believe this is a wake up call. But I'd be foolish to do so. It is far too late for wake up calls. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...

"Before filmmaker Chris Nolan raised eyebrows with the casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy in his blockbuster The Odyssey, Orson Welles had cast Eartha Kitt in the same role in his 1950 stage production of Time Runs..." #FilmSky wellesnet.com/eartha-kitt-...

Bernie's Correct, Again......

Today I made an unannounced visit to ICE’s facility in Scarborough, Maine. What I heard was unacceptable: no body cameras, no training, and no accountability. Johan Guerrero should be alive. Congress must act. Abolish ICE. End qualified immunity.

Where is the least liveable city in the world? One region’s score has taken a bigger fall than any other, according to the EIU’s annual index. Find out here

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there's no high quality study that probes whether using a parachute is of any use and there's solid evidence that screen time and blue light won't do much good to any brain or eyes, let alone wee ones

A trial will finally reveal whether limiting the time teens spend on social media really does affect their mental health

Never.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwi...

a series of proxy companies built around populist themes manipulating stock markets is part of the deal, ofc can't understand how a billionaire can stoop to new lows to make money neither he or his immediate descendants will never be able to spend in their lifetimes newrepublic.com/post/194107/...

The dollar is meant to be a source of safety. Lately it has been a cause of fear. Donald Trump has replaced ironclad assumptions about America’s currency with stomach-churning doubts econ.st/3Y3GG90

what about the dollar? the dollar is JUST FINE... it's the other currencies that are worrying...

basic/pure research is government funded. without basic research, no X-ray devices, no TV sets challenge: go explain this to a libertarian www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

orange is the new black swan: waiting for the orange man to induce a black swan bc when you mix orange & black you get something that looks like chocolate except it doesn't taste like chocolate

swap them lines or how the world is addicted to the mighty $$$ god www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/04/09/f...

this is an excellent example of poor understanding of markets everywhere left leaning pundits where sounding exaggerated alarms on the fact that the DJ lost 5 or 10% it made all the losses up in a wink. this is the same poor analysis that conclude that polls are crumbling because of a 5 or 10 % loss

#NationalLibraryWeek #LiteracyMatters

Many car companies, but protests are only against Tesla. Many billionaires, but protests are only against Elon Musk. Many departments, but protests are only against DOGE. Many social networks, but the media is only against 𝕏 Why is that?

"the world owes the US for providing military and the dollar-god" even in contractual terms you can't do something for free and then expect payment for it this is not stupidity it's just bad faith... www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

Turnover is routine in Washington. But under Trump, there has been a flood of departures

now you see me, now you don't www.propublica.org/article/meas...

don't like the weasel but he still he has a point it's the place where the US voters are right now uneducated, bible totting & impoverished excellent mix for populism hard to reach out to when you're championing universal healthcare, church/state separation and science. www.ft.com/content/6b58...

🚨 Over 70 graduate programs in the biological and biomedical sciences have frozen or slashed admissions. The consequences are profound—how many brilliant minds are being shut out of research entirely? How much future discovery is being lost before it even begins? docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

it all came down to this... www.tiktok.com/@mrs.frazzle...

when you're so desperate that you won't be remembered the way you'd wish proof that all politicians are sociopaths www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe...

Elon Musk is attempting to artificially shift public opinion by circulating a petition against “activist” judges—offering $100 in return for signatures—and collecting troves of voter data in the final days before the crucial Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

GERMANY OUTSPENDING EUROPE! lol consistent record of failed military procurement: helmets, air def, fighters, ships... BAAINBw NEEDS REFORMS ex: helmets have been waiting to be purchased for 10 effing years for "testing if they fit on heads"!!! www.dw.com/en/germanys-...

From attending Trump’s inauguration to airing old episodes of ‘The Apprentice’ on Amazon Prime Video, Jeff Bezos has executed a sharp public reversal in his relationship with Trump that has surprised even longtime associates. Here’s why he has changed his tune: www.ft.com/content/00e8...

Talking Ukraine, Russia, and Putin with Dr. Fiona Hill on today’s Prof G Conversations. Full episode: open.spotify.com/episode/7hKA...

Nobody is coming to save us. We have to do it ourselves. We need to get more serious. generalstrikeus.com

This is a mission everyone should be able to get behind. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been torn from their families. No effort must be spared to bring them home:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/

It is, and they are. This account @scooptown.bsky.social breaks down the constitutionality of all of this in a way that this neuro-feisty can understand. Not that you don’t already know all of this, but perhaps you’d like to share:0) Scoops had videos and more infographics on their page too 🤗

Celebrating the entrepreneur is not a solution for societywide problems like discrimination and unemployment: “Putting our faith in the promise of individual business ownership is both overly simplistic and a political smokescreen that blocks alternative visions to addressing social problems."

you know that shit hit the fan when billionaires can't make up for absent states www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs and rush to downsize the federal government will slow US economic growth and accelerate inflation, leading academic economists have warned in the newest FT-Chicago Booth poll. www.ft.com/content/30e4...

Journalists try to understand Trump’s behavior, but aren't considering the simple possibility it's not some grand strategy—just a madman with increasingly diminished mental faculties. “I’m going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane. It is absolutely insane…"