Bob Blaskiewicz

Bob Blaskiewicz

@rjblaskiewicz.bsky.social

Associate Prof. of Critical Thinking and First-Year Studies at Stockton University. I hunt quacks and quackery across time and space. He/him. Huzzah: science, pseudoscience, conspiracy theory studies. Harrumph: fakes, frauds, fascists. #U2, #MST3K, #WWII

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me: mom, what was I like as a little girl? my mom (completely fucking braindead): hey alexa describe a human kid or something

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

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So if you’re furious as you fill up your tank, just remember Exxon is making a lot of money off you.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "While oil prices are temporarily high ... the United States oil and gas business is making hundreds of billions of dollars"

Then, I think they'd have to testify before Congress because they won't be at risk of self-incrimination.

The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.com

New: White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers. https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/white-house-weighing-mass-pardons-for-junior-staff

Just saw Capturing Bigfoot. What a hell of a thing. The last 30 minutes Eve and I just were gobsmacked at what the documentarians pulled off. Meldrum did not exactly slather himself in the glory of reality. Best line: "Oh, don't tell me Bob Hieronimus is the good guy!"

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The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history. Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.

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Folks! If you're using a mail-in ballot, TRACK ITS RECEIPT. Someone just told me her ballot was never received. She's being sent a new ballot. DOUBLE CHECK YOUR ON-SITE BALLOT WHEN YOU VOTE CHECK THAT MAIL-IN BALLOTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED Sad to say--but double-check EVERYTHING in this election.

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In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

jan6memoryproject.orgThe January 6 Memory ProjectA public archive of Department of Justice news releases and related court filings concerning prosecutions from the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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I’m meeting w/students in my undergrad seminar on the nation’s founding—1-to-1–on paper topics of their choice Almost ALL relate to now—tho we don’t discuss that in class: Dictatorship The state & the military Nat’l identity in the world Nasty journalism Propaganda, religion, & gov’t My oh my.

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Helen's death is a huge loss for health journalism and anyone who cares about infectious diseases, which she covered better than anyone else in the profession. Helen Branswell, whose reporting on public health drew acclaim, dies at 69 www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/h... via @statnews.com

statnews.comHelen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.

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I left x despite having a large following bc I don’t want to make free content for the world’s wealthiest racist. It’s not worth it to me.

A sliver of happiness today in a world of suck. The faculty and staff band I play in is going to perform at a community event on campus today. It is my goal to seduce all of the students' moms with my magic fingers, fetching chapeau, and ducky shirt.

Surprise twist today. The layoffs did not happen. They are delayed. The formula used was revealed to union reps today. There are real problems with the criteria used to select programs for reduction. They don't account for the total work faculty do, just Student Contact Hours in the program.

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Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

Dhruv Mehrotra@dmehro.bsky.social

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

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MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

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Pete Hegseth is reducing the total number of positions for general and flag officers by as much as 20 percent, aka hundreds of leaders. Because who needs leadership when you’re in the middle of a losing war, right?

This week, I decided my book was two books. I wrote 60,000 words this summer on one quack alone and am not yet done with him. That's a book. So, one will be about medicine show men, one will be about this particular fellow.

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New whistleblower account: Former employees of the Kennedy Center say that center officials canceled a plan to start overhauling its leaking infrastructure months ago, despite those officials now asserting the leaks posed an urgent safety risk requiring the building to close.

nytimes.comKennedy Center Shelved Repairs Now Cited for Closure, Whistle-Blowers SayIn a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.

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Fucking Trump commercials, clearly campaign ads, playing during tonight's football game on Fox. "Paid for by the U.S. Government" at the end. How the fuck does he get away with EVERYTHING? Our courts are a sad joke.