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apnews.comVance no longer a hurricane but as a tropical storm still threatens Mexico's Pacific coastTropical Storm Vance is churning off Mexico’s southwest Pacific coast after a day of gradual weakening but is threatening several western states in that country with heavy rain and possible flash floo...

apnews.com/article/trop... no longer a hurricane but as a tropical storm still threatens Mexico's Pacific coast To say nothing of the threat he poses as VP

wsj.comExclusive | Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided UkraineThe SpaceX founder authorized the move and has been discussing Ukraine with Trump, but the president has denied ordering the restrictions.

www.wsj.com/world/ukrain... These guys have got to be removed from any positions of power or control.

nytimes.comElon Musk Says He Will Give a SpaceX Share to ‘Every Kid in America’Anthropic, an A.I. rival to SpaceX, earlier said it would form a “public benefit fund” and other tech moguls have contributed to savings accounts for children.

Remember Milo Minderbinder? Musk Pledges SpaceX Stock for ‘Every Kid in America’ as Billionaires Push Direct Donations www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/b...

theatlantic.comMegyn Kelly’s Extreme MakeoverDoes the TV host turned YouTube polemicist really believe what she’s saying?

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026... You ask, does she really believe what she’s saying? I ask back, does it matter?

nytimes.comMLB approaches Trump administration about potential game at a national parkSuch an event would likely require at least temporary construction of a baseball field inside federally protected land.

Say it isn’t so, Joe! MLB approaches Trump administration about potential game at a national park www.nytimes.com/athletic/763...

@ericcolumbus.bsky.social

16 Sept

Whether overzealous anticommunism or bestiality, FBI Directors have left their mark on the Bureau. @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

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Eric Columbus

15 Sept

GEFILTE PHISHING

David Schraub@schraubd.bsky.social

Just got a phishing email from someone posing as my Rabbi, so that's a fun escalation.

nytimes.comOpinion | The U.S. Military Must Learn to Say No to TrumpHow senior leaders of the armed forces dodge accountability.

1 Sept

Military Officers Can’t Look Away From This Any Longer www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/o... Well written: sharp and to the point. A good read.

theguardian.comDr Fauci made mistakes. But his persecution is a travesty | Margaret SullivanIt’s easy to second-guess decisions made during the pandemic. That doesn’t justify the Republicans’ politicized response

11 Aug

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Is there >any< sense in which one can call "a mistake" an entirely defensible judgement call made by a professional in full knowledge of the available facts at the time? Only if your're a journalist who thinks both-siding is ok for me but not for thee.

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Elliott Lusztig

@elliottlusztig.bsky.social

7 Aug

Replying to @pbump.com

It's to the point that when some individual R legislator says No, that's the moment you realize they have the votes.

No.

Before retiring I was a university professor. With the rise of internet, and then internet click-bait, there came journal articles whose title was a provocative question that flew in the face of intuition. There was never any reason to read these because, invariably, the answer was "no."

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Nathan K. Hensley

@nathankhensley.bsky.social

19 July

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

Metin Seven, Moon Child's dad 🌝@seven.eurosky.social

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Hubie

@hubieb.bsky.social

6 July

Replying to @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

Graham Platner has learned his lesson By Susan Collins

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Sloan Ashton

@ashton7sloan.bsky.social

5 July

Gianni Infantino did what Mike Pence lacked the courage to do.

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❌👑 Linda G

@lindag1966.bsky.social

5 July

Voting is the right that unlocks all of the other rights. It’s also the right that keeps us a democracy. We need to celebrate our right to vote and encourage as many people as possible to exercise it this year. @joycewhitevance.bsky.social

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Anthony Michael Kreis

@anthonymkreis.bsky.social

3 July

Replying to @anthonymkreis.bsky.social

You can’t do rushed, sloppy, and inaccurate historical work to change legal rules we all live under and not be treated as a player in the president’s political game. If a historian did that, they’d be called a hack, and not taken seriously thereafter. Why should the bar for law profs be lower?

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NY Times Pitchbot

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

4 July

We asked 25 Trump supporters if they supported Donald Trump. Here’s what they said.

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1 Apr

This! (Both grafs!)

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Right, simply entertaining this challenge as if it's remotely legitimate is already discrediting. If there's a single vote to end birthright citizenship, we need to take this Supreme Court apart with sledgehammers and start over.

Good read. An aside, on a point in the preface that resonates with my own experience, follows.

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This is not to claim that a failure to understand or appreciate the limits of ones own training, and that there might be other disciplines whose sensible practice requires specialized knowledge and training, is limited to or especially prominent among lawyers.

All that I can really say is that, among those who wrote - not with questions about science, but with assertions and the demand that these be taken seriously - almost all of those who chose to claim a privilege based on an academic credential were of two professions, one of which were lawyers.

Good read. An aside, on a point in the preface that resonates with my own experience, follows.

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"It is now de rigueur for federal judges to “do history” via originialsm or textualism. But the craft of history involves years of reading and immersing oneself in the secondary and primary literature, which a law degree doesn’t train for and the haste of writing an opinion does not allow."

As a research scientist & faculty member in the sciences I received many letters & emails espousing nonsensical "theories." Most were written by members of two professions, who proudly asserted their professional training as proof of the seriousness their "research." Lawyers were one of these.

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social The New York Times does not permit a husband and wife to share a digital subscription. I have never felt more politically homeless.

wsj.comAn Annotated Analysis of a U.S. Draft of the Iran DealThe Wall Street Journal reviewed a copy of the draft document. Read the text in full, alongside the Journal’s analysis.

17 June

The draft obligates the US to provide $300b (for the reconstruction of Iran), not sourced from frozen Iranian assets. Yet, the agreement is to be approved by a "binding" resolution of the UN Security Council. Where does the US Senate's Treaty Power come in to play? www.wsj.com/world/middle...

17 June

And, how can the Congressional "power of the purse" be subverted in this way? Seems like a lot of BS here, which even the Congressional Rs won't be willing eat.

@publichealthguy1.bsky.social

17 June

“One thing I find intensely annoying is when pundits blithely assert things about the world that are obviously false.” Amen.

Philip Bump@pbump.com

One thing I find intensely annoying is when pundits blithely assert things about the world that are obviously false. Bush was below 50% way before Katrina! He barely won reelection! Where on the chart do you think Katrina happened?

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public health guy

13 June

today shall be a new federal holiday: Scaffolding Day

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This story is going to do numbers on 9-year-old Bluesky.

Reuters@reuters.com

Wind from Milky Way's supermassive black hole is finally discovered reut.rs/4xc1JpO

reut.rsWind from Milky Way's supermassive black hole is finally discoveredAfter five decades of trying, astronomers have finally discovered the wind emanating from the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, though it turns out it is more of a gentle breeze than a hurricane.

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The Onion

@theonion.com

27 May

Woman Worried She In Codependent Relationship With Rest Of Humanity https://theonion.com/woman-worried-she-in-codependent-relationship-with-rest-of-humanity/

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Roger Parloff

@rparloff.bsky.social

8 May

With top attys like @nealkatyal.bsky.social now using AI to prep for oral arguments, I had a question. Is Anthropic's Claude conflicted out of prepping DOJ attys for the upcoming DC Circuit argument in Anthropic v US Dept of War? And is DOJ conflicted out of asking it to?

theatlantic.comDefine Jewish StateThe phrase is even more complicated than it appears.

4 May

Senator Tillis has learned his lesson By Susan Collins @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

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Adam Serwer

@adamserwer.bsky.social

21 Apr

After seeing the aftermath of Abdul El-Sayed asking Olivia Reingold what she meant by a Jewish state, I became convinced it's a question that should be asked more often. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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The Onion

@theonion.com

22 Apr

“I picked up the guitar last year, and after endless hours of private lessons and online tutorials, I’ve now learned enough to realize that I have no idea what I’m doing with this instrument,” said the 45-year-old content strategist

theonion.comMan Finally Good Enough At New Hobby To Understand How Bad He Is At ItST. LOUIS—Voicing frustration as he discussed his lack of even the most rudimentary skills, local man Henry Right told reporters Monday that he had finally gotten good enough at his new hobby to under...

18 Apr

[Stay with me ...] "...when a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental-

We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." H. L. Mencken

18 Apr

Lest you think of Mencken as a hero, beware that he was virulently anti-semitic and racist, and strongly sympathized with the Nazis. Read him with caution.

-men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost. All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre-

18 Apr

-the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.

nytimes.comOpinion | Enough With the Nepo Candidates, Democrats

7 Apr

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o... Enough with the Fascist Candidates, Cottle