Tim Wood

Tim Wood

@livecut.bsky.social

That livecut, over there. LoC politics/tech/cars/music/low humor. Hip-hop name: Pumpa Nickel. Pronouns: I/me/mine. For 🇺🇲, not 47. For 🇺🇦. For 🇮🇱, not Netanyahu.

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I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.

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Trump knows he’s at risk of losing political power. That's why he instructed the DOJ (unprecedented) to begin suing states — “red” and “blue” — to baselessly plant seeds of doubt about this next election. California will not stop defending democracy.

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To all you seniors on fixed incomes who disproportionately voted for Trump thinking he’d protect your healthcare interests. I will not lie to you about your chances of surviving his negligent abandonment but, you have my sympathies.

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The doctor said next week’s midterm elections will be, “the most dangerous period in American history because a man with this fragile mental state is going to find himself on the losing end.” I’m willing to take that risk. Vote out every Republican! #VoteAmerica www.rawstory.com/trump-needs-...

rawstory.comTrump needs ‘hospital-level care’ as midterms test ‘fragile mental state’: psychiatristForensic psychiatrist Bandy Lee said Sunday that the judge in Donald Trump’s New York criminal case should have ordered a “hospital-level evaluation” of him before sentencing. She also said Trump stil...

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One week before midterm elections that will serve as a referendum on his second term, President Trump is struggling to deliver on his campaign promise to bring down costs, even as he insists the country has entered an economic "golden age." https://to.pbs.org/4sn56Iq

pbs.orgTrump promised to stop inflation. Now Republicans may pay the price in the midterm electionsVoters blame Trump, pointing to the Republican president's tariff policies and the war he started with Iran.

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The Trump administration has signed an oil deal with a Venezuelan energy baron who has faced money-laundering investigations in three countries. ProPublica reviewed a copy of the 18-page agreement.

propublica.orgThe Secret Terms of Trump’s Venezuelan Oil DealThe Trump administration committed the U.S. to taking a large stake in a Venezuelan company, some of whose owners and investors are shielded from public view. The exact details of the agreement over o...

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As well as being a famous Hollywood actress JULIE NEWMAR — still with us aged 93 — was also a patented inventor, real estate magnet & classically trained concert Pianist. Here she is playing a bit of Chopin on the TV show ‘My Living Doll’ in 1964.

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(The Atlantic) Filings released this week show that $1 billion was spent on the campaign in the first two weeks of October alone. This year’s elections are expected to be the most expensive midterms in U.S. history, beating 2022, the previous largest.

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🚨BREAKING: In a win for Utah voters, a Trump-appointed federal judge dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit seeking to obtain the state's unredacted voter registration list. The ruling puts the department at 0-27 in its sweeping legal effort for access to states' voter data.

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Remember this doesn’t end in November! We have to keep pushing our government to take care of the people constantly We can’t ever be complacent again!

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Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

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One of the big findings in my research is that people invested in disbelieving victims are not swayed by evidence. Just like other issues of misinformation, they cherry pick irrelevant details to allow them to continue to believe whatever they want.

ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social

You know what pissed me off about the Ramaswamy ad beyond the obvious grotesqueries? There’s no EVIDENCE disputing Acton’s life story. There are court proceedings backing up her story. And all Ramaswamy’s got is the (accused) mother saying “nu uh” and somehow that’s enough? FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

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Dr. Amy Acton testified before a Grand Jury at 12 years old about the horrific conditions and abuse her mother and stepfather inflicted on her and her brother. She had more courage at 12 years of age than ALL the Republicans combined had during both of Trump's Impeachments. #VetsAgainstGOP

The Lincoln Project@lincolnproject.us

"Win or lose, Vivek Ramaswamy will be the candidate who took a woman’s childhood abuse and made it his closing argument." Read more from Rick Wilson here: https://bit.ly/4dN6ka0

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Glad to see CNN reporting on this. @jimacosta.bsky.social and I raised concerns about DHS potentially using a military-grade “heat ray.” After 20+ years in national security, I find this deeply troubling. A weapon designed to inflict intense pain. Against civilians? Why does DHS need this?

cnn.comPentagon grants DHS permission to test heat ray weapon for potential use at border | CNN PoliticsThe Pentagon has given the Department of Homeland Security permission to test a military-grade heat ray and develop tactics to potentially use it in operations at the southern US border, according to ...

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Replying to @kint.bsky.social

We've seen this movie. @propublica.org once documented Facebook repeatedly saying its tracking data wasn't used commercially. Until it was. Now Meta says these terms won't change its behavior. We're supposed to trust that over the words it wrote into terms? No. 5/5 www.propublica.org/article/its-...

propublica.orgIt’s Complicated: Facebook’s History of Tracking YouFacebook is launching an aggressive technique to track people across the Web.

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you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5

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Elon Musk boosted the lie that James Talarico stayed at a mental hospital. Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account during nationwide actions. Staff at the Ellison-owned CBS News were reportedly told to tie Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.