CrazyITGuy42

CrazyITGuy42

@crazyitguy42.bsky.social

Programmer, animal lover. Loves history, photography, birding, trains, planes.

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For several days I have been hearing rumors of an ICE detainee death that ICE was not reporting. I've just learned a local journalist has confirmed it and will publish soon. Now I read this and see there are actually TWO deaths ICE is not reporting. www.daylightsandiego.org/ice-detainee...

daylightsandiego.orgICE detainee dies at Otay Mesa Detention Center in San DiegoPrivate prison company CoreCivic confirmed that someone in its custody died on Oct. 24 in one of the housing units.

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Replying to @gregdoucette.bsky.social

If you're a D or D-adjacent voter in NC and haven't voted yet, you have the chance to help deliver truly historic curb-stomping to the R supermajorities in the NCGA Please go vote 😄

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I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

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Jeremy Lewin killed hundreds of thousands without a signed employment agreement.

WIRED@wired.com

Despite the agency's human resources department saying he hadn’t even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID. It’s not clear he had the legal authority to do so.

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NEW: As expected, on a 2-1 vote, the Ninth Circuit dismisses DOJ's appeal in the US v. California case over DOJ's claims relating to "likely noncitizen" voting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

NEW: In rare Sunday arguments, appeals court judges skeptical of DOJ’s California election lawsuit. The lawsuits in California and Alaska are expected to fail — but they also show how far A.G. Todd Blanche will go to advance Trump’s aims. Tonight, at Law Dork:

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It's similar with abortion - they say they want better evidence but they break the systems for building strong evidence and elevate weak systems because they know those systems will empower their allies to inject bias into the "evidence."

Jake Scott, MD@jakescottmd.bsky.social

HHS wants a new Medicare code that pays doctors extra only when they attribute a patient’s symptoms to a vaccine. Vaccine critics say doctors are paid to push vaccines. We aren’t. Under this code, we’d be paid to blame them. My new piece in @cidrap.bsky.social: www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

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The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

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Everyone should read these threads I did about industry lobbyists and the EPA and understand them. Take the time to see the unambiguous evidence of what's happening now at this moment inside the EPA. Please retweet them. Please read them. Each one of the threads. It's happening in slow motion.

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In about 24 hours, poles will open here in Israel. In what is a strong contender for Israel’s most critical elections. The election pits Netanyahu’s extremely unpopular coalition against a non-coherent, but moderately more liberal, opposition. Here are some thoughts as we head into it.

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I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

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Timothy the Hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) at the San Antonio Zoo demonstrates why he's not in the petting area using a Fall pumpkin. 🦛🎃 The bite force of a hippo is ~2000 psi, producing a force of 8100 Newtons. So why does a GRASS-EATER have jaws stronger than a polar bear, jaguar or lion's?

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At the Ninth Circuit in a rare Sunday argument over the request for an injunction pending appeal, Bennett says this US v. CA TRO situation is "far, far, far different than A.A.R.P. ... I don't see how we have jurisdiction." Oral argument here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIrq...

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

DOJ has now quoted SCOTUS's statement in a case over a court's inaction in a lawsuit challenging the Trump admin's efforts to rush-deport people under the Alien Enemies Act — when people could have been sent to CECOT without process — as a justification for its appeal here.

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Any politician who’s willing to throw away one group’s rights is willing to throw away everyone’s rights. It’s that simple. Every single consultant, pundit and candidate who’s shown a willingness to abandon trans rights needs to be shunned from the party forever

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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It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

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For today's alt #BirdOfTheDay theme, #FightingFeathers, bird-on-bird scuffles, here are a pair of mud-wrestling mud hens (Common Gallinules, with a Tri-Colored Heron referee). No one was injured, but they did smack each other in the face with their extra-long toes for a while.

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the number of “yes on 42, no on 40” ads I’m seeing here in LA is depressing remember: yes on the billionaire tax (40), no on the ones canceling the billionaire tax (41 and 42)

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Try to keep up: Dude conspires to kill his enemy, tries a coup, is judged and arrested for that. His SON, bragging that his father's blood runs in his veins, might be elected president today because his powerful buddies restricted public transportation around the country. I'm not stressed, you are.

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Discworld QOTD, from The Truth

Micah@rincewind.run

Discworld QOTD, from Wintersmith “That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?”

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Replying to @katestarbird.bsky.social

We saw reports of "machines switching votes" in TN & TX. These are typically real issues — a calibration problem w/ older touchscreen machines — but not intentional efforts to rig the vote. Always good for voters to check that their vote is being recorded correctly. www.cip.uw.edu/2026/10/22/e...

cip.uw.eduElection Rumor Rundown for October 22: Machines switch votes on Dolly Parton’s sister, ballots returned to sendersMachines switching votes on Dolly Parton’s sister in Tennessee, ballots returned to senders, and other sources of rumoring

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Three days after the August primary, election workers in one Washington county went to check for late mail-in ballots. They expected no more than a few dozen. Instead, there were more than 500 — each a vote that wouldn’t count.

propublica.orgBallot Rejections Soared in Rural Counties After USPS Reduced Mail ServiceA ProPublica data analysis shows that delays resulting from the agency’s cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots mailed in rural areas. Counties that voted for Trump in 2024…

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Replying to @aricohn.com

And Lindsey Graham should be remembered as someone who, on his very best day, was a sniveling coward with a moral compass that pointed only to power.

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The hand-wringing over the Lindsey Graham thing "because he's not here to defend himself" strikes me as absolute bullshit. People who seek positions of enormous power and influence are not entitled to the sanitized legacy they'd give you. They should be remembered for who they really were.

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Apparently, some Houston voters are putting their I Voted stickers on the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. Stephen Miller is ALREADY trying to scapegoat others for losing whatever races they lose in Texas and elsewhere. This is a vivid testament that for some voters, his murder squad is the reason.

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Replying to @ericlipton.nytimes.com

What we learned is that former petrochemical lobbyists now inside the EPA are meeting with former clients and then moving to force career staff at the EPA to rollback public health protections. We found the actual documents detailing these moves. Smoking guns. (Redlines striking protections)

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If you paid any federal income tax last year, then you paid more than these profitable corporations. When I say the system is broken, this is what I mean.

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Replying to @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com

UPDATE: Pro-voters filed an updated request to block Trump from pressuring California into comparing its voter rolls against federal databases to identify alleged noncitizens. The new request seeks to block the larger policy to "browbeat, cajole, and intimidate California voters."

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once again: they are flailing, they are desperate, they have no plan, and they are panic-throwing shit against the wall to see if anything sticks that this stuff is scary doesn’t mean we need to grant them the presumption that it will work

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

The Justice Department's last-second letters about noncitizen voting contain people with no history of voting whatsoever, and they're moving so fast they sloppily sent one county the wrong list of names.

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JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

nytimes.comHow Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass (Gift Article)The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.