Mr. Shifty

Mr. Shifty

@mrshifty.bsky.social

He/him

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As I've said before, it's only once I became a professor that I realized the entmoot, a meeting that goes on for three days and three nights, was a professor's joke about faculty meetings.

Kieran Healy@kjhealy.co

The Lord of the Rings is essentially a series of faculty meetings broken up by several long walks in the countryside.

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When Dems talk about the Ilhan Omar situation, they need to stop using language that implies that Omar might have done anything wrong. Trump is not "investigating" Omar. They are trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting Congressmember by scrutinizing decades old paperwork from when she was a kid

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Tim Snyder: The term that I came up with… is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump. We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us.

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Replying to @nothoodlum.bsky.social

“Dirt bag—Schmitt head”, playing to an audience of one~ the renowned felon, treason weasel, pedophile. Sadly, Schmitt-head went on a right-wing podcast following that sham hearing and double downed on his lies… sick. Thank You, Mr Smith!

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My dream scenario is that the orange pig ends up on hospice care and the last words he hears as a hospice nurse leans in close and whispers in his ear " you will be remembered as nothing but a failure" . And no. I don't feel guilty thinking this.

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Huston, we have a problem... Welp, time for everyone to switch to @waterfox.net (at least I am for sure)

Firefox@firefox.com

We believe an open web starts with choice. That includes AI models. We’re excited to be partnering with Mistral to bring open-source AI to Firefox Smart Window beta and expand access to France, with French-language support.

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Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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States have the power to work together for public health data and information sharing. It requires a lot of coordination, investment, and effort but it’s a direct way to get around the steady stream of disinformation and avoidance from 🧠🪱 and co. We’re here for it!

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

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There is an ethnic cleansing going on is this country, and the government is nazi posting about it, meanwhile the democratic party politicians are more concerned with condemning a person 98% of people have never heard of. What is going on?

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

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any dem candidate in 2028 who talks about that it is "time to move on" and they need to "heal the country" by not going after the Trumps and his Administration will never be elected President. The winner will talk about prosecutions and seizing assets.

It is a disgrace for our government to treat our honorable members of the US military in this way.

Noah Shachtman@noahshachtman.bsky.social

i've been covering national security for decades, on and off. i've never heard of anything like this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I've said it before, but I'll consider voting for someone who includes restoring the historic East Wing of the White House as a part of their platform.

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I think what we're seeing around the internet right now, vis a vis AOC & her ex-boyfriend & her eggs, is just a tiny, tiny, tiny sliver of the absolute madness that will break out if she runs for president. No matter how f'ing weird you think people will be about it, they will be much, much weirder.

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Let's hope History repeats itself. Works for me!

Dan DeFreest@dandefreest.bsky.social

Blanche was confirmed as AG. Just a reminder: The last time a president appointed an attorney he had personal ties to, was when Nixon appointed his law partner and campaign manager John Mitchell. Mitchell ended up disbarred and spent 2 yrs in prison for his role as AG protecting Nixon.

It's hilarious to watch a President who is already polling worse than any in history (primarily because of the economy) make a very loud, public decision to make everything more expensive in the US.

ICE is a criminal organization and membership in it should be probable cause for any individual agent or employee to be fully investigated. They've been caught lying -- not just to the public, but to the courts -- literally hundreds of times.

It should be assumed that any statement made by any of them, from the ground up, is a falsehood, and is intended to deceive and mislead and is covering up criminal activity.

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In latest YouGov poll of registered voters, Schumer's fav/unfav is 24/63. In same poll, Trumps approval is 38/60. Schumer is more unpopular than Trump.

Matthew Dowd@matthewjdowd.bsky.social

So far, of all the Dem candidates running in key Senate races around the country Troy Jackson has made the smartest move. He announced he would not back Schumer for Leader. I said a year ago that is what all Dems running should say. Schumer is more unpopular than Trump today.

There is no salvaging organizations like CBP and ICE, that are filled with violent, racist liars who execute civilians in broad daylight and then do everything in their power to cover up their crimes. #AbolishICE #AbolishCBP

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Replying to @maxkennerly.bsky.social

Don’t even ask it. Just report it. Headline: Homan Suggests January 6th Participants Who Breached Capitol Should Have Been Met with Deadly Force

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$100 to any reporter who asks him, "so you're saying Capitol Police should've shot dead everyone who breached the Capitol on January 6?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Homan on people getting killed by ICE: "It comes down to one simple fact -- these people failed to comply with law enforcement ... all they had to do is comply. If they did, they'd be alive today."

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Red and blue states alike have “stopped talking about harmful content that’s sexual or harmful to minors and are moving towards complete bans on internet access for young people, on social media access for young people,” EFF’s Rin Alajaji told @bloomberglaw.com.

news.bloomberglaw.comState Age Verification Law Rulings Leave Trail of UncertaintyAs state legislatures across the country enact laws regulating minors’ access to and use of social media, persistent legal attacks on those measures have left their constitutionality an open and unset...