John

John

@lexaproluthor.bsky.social

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The Democratic primary candidate that promises to use their leadership of the Party to go after these parasitic consultants and toxic practices with prejudice can get a lot of support from the disillusioned base. A real crown-in-the-gutter situation.

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

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Trump didn't like Ramaswamy until he saw him sticking up for child rapists and their enablers. He hated the Ivy League until Cornell had a prominent fraternity gang-rape story in the news. He's not just a rapist, not just a serial rapist—he's a rape *enthusiast,* and it's why Republicans love him.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "What's happened is the press has ganged up on a woman making a horrible statement about her daughter, and I don't why she should be shielded. She said she was a dirty liar ... I say she's fair game."

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one thing that would better position Democrats to win these tough races would be if co-founders of lavishly-funded "Democratic think tanks" cared more about winning than getting their name in the newspaper and so declined the opportunity to shit on Democratic candidates 3 weeks before election day

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

Ludicrous framing here from @nytimes.com. No serious Dems ever thought these would be slam dunks. And it's premature to let a centrist group get in a self-interested shot like this before we even know if these candidates will actually fare worse in the elections than other ones. Indefensible.

Practicioners have long derided the patient who thinks a Google search has the same authority as their medical degree, for good reasons. It's going to get a lot harder to make this case to patients as doctors fall into the same patterns with overreliance on LLMs.

Jed Brown@jedbrown.org

There are a lot of validity issues with these benchmarks, which should be interpreted as favorable conditions. Even so, it's clear that OpenEvidence is not a reliable source. Is it good that clinicians are relying on this product outside of their expertise?

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They started on illegal immigrants, expanded it to legal immigrants, now are going after naturalized citizens. If you are not one of those groups, you are just somewhere further down the chain, but they will get to eliminating your rights eventually too.

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I think Ossoff captures something that Newsom never did: the Dem base wants you to fight but they want real shit not goofy memes and too-online riffs

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

OSSOFF: You didn't answer earlier. Answer now. Did Donald Trump win the 2020 election? MIKE COLLINS: You know, the 2020 election. Everybody has seen my views on that OSSOFF: What are they? COLLINS: There was a lot of doubt in that election OSSOFF: I didn't hear an answer

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hakeem jeffries should be in front of a microphone blasting the regime for unleashing its security forces on a member of congress under his leadership.

Mr. Dependable@mrdependable.bsky.social

The leader of House Democrats really should be front and center on this

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I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

apnews.comFederal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources sayFederal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.

I can't stop thinking about this piece by Charlse Dickens after he witnessed a public execution. The presentation of retributive murder by the Government as public entertainment is corrosive to every aspiration of humanity we profess. fs.blog/charles-dick...

fs.blogCharles Dickens to The Times — I Stand Astounded and AppalledCharles Dickens letter to The Times of London in response to the the public execution of Marie and Frederick Manning, dubbed "The hanging of the century."
NPR@npr.org

The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be "public. n.pr/4hNSlSu

Pretty much everyone, and especially the people who share a movement with these people, should want these protesters to be treated with the same scrutiny as the people at the Unite the Right rally.

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

Pro-Palestinian protesters gather outside City Hall to call out Mayor Zohran Mamdani for what they see as his betrayal of the movement. "Mayor Mamdani, you can't hide we charge you with genocide" was a chant that just rang out.

mister president this is your lawyer, i am imploring you to Keep Posting This Shit

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "There's never been a job done like we've done, but we haven't gotten the word out. So I say we've done a bad public relations job, but a great management job, and that's more important, right?"

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You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

If AI can miss the existence of one of the most aggressively marketed prescriptions on the market, what mistakes will it make when you ask about more obscure subjects?

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Unpopular opinion: When someone is factually wrong about something important—eg vaccination—telling them that they’re wrong is treating them with respect. The condescending thing to do is indulge them, act like they have a point, as if the thing you know to be wrong might be at least somewhat right.

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Tired: Beyond Visual Range combat Wired: Fly Me Closer, I Want To Hit Them With My Sword combat

NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com

A Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 fighter pilot intercepts a Russian S-8000 Banderol mini cruise missile at extremely close range. #Ukraine

RFK's primary objective in gutting HHS and destroying vaccine infrastructure is eugenics shit, but we can't look past the scapegoat dynamic - you can't blame immigrants for disease outbreaks without first having outbreaks of disease. The Administration happily kills Americans to incite violence.

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Miller helped carry wounded sailors to safety aboard the West Virginia. He then hopped on a AA gun and despite no training at all shot down at least one plane despite being under constant attack. He was later killed action aboard the USS Liscome Bay during Operation Galvanic

CNN@cnn.com

The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and there have been internal conversations about renaming it to honor President Trump, sources say. https://cnn.it/4hFq6a6

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First the president openly sells insider trading access; and now there's direct evidence of him doing money laundering. And he is still the president.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to U.S. President Donald Trump's family business.” @reuters.com $COF www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

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literally impeach him just for this

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

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Replying to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate *the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing*. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated.

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Don’t forget that the focus on Springfield was a result of a racist conspiracy theory spread by Blood Tribe, a Neo-Nazi group, then amplified by the then-future President and VP. JD Vance famously said he didn’t care whether or not it was true.

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If there's one thing Trump has usefully revealed it's that the gatekeepers in the media who supposedly had so much reverence for Support The Troops and Dead Soldiers etc when those things were being deployed to hurt Democrats were just liars and never cared about this even a little.

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it's telling that the NYT and WaPo writing up the President's insane rant in real time had harsh initial headlines, then later headlines softened and cleaned it up to "Trump's address makes untested claims" or whatever

@cnn.com The word for what this article is describing is insider trading. It isn't a new market solution, it is a crime. Please do the bare minimum of describing reality to your readers.

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Now @apnews.com has a deeply reported story confirming the recently-hired ICE officer who shot a man in Maine had serious mental health issues and a long history of violence against women. This comes after ICE slashed hiring standards and rushed some into the field before background checks cleared.