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Scott Watts @iceybloop.bsky.social · 20d

Saw “One Battle After Another” with Isaac last night and the politics are not subtle. And that’s a good thing.

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · Jul 27

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · Apr 1

Unfathomable incompetence and evil all the way down. This is why due process is necessary! Also a soul.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Apr 1

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has acknowledged that it grabbed a Maryland father with protected status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador—but claims that courts are powerless to order his return, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/Bot5mE4O

An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison

The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · Mar 15

A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death, says Nicholas Kristof.

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.

A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

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Scott Watts @iceybloop.bsky.social · Jan 13

I’m an Eagles fan, but I’d still like the Lions’ chances even if the Eagles got cooking on offense. I think they win next week against the Commanders:

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Scott Watts @iceybloop.bsky.social · Jan 12

www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Here's how annexing Canada would change American politics

We took Trump literally, not seriously, about the push to make Canada the 51st state.

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Scott Watts @iceybloop.bsky.social · Jan 11

Idk, guys. I would love Republicans to become permanently unelectable.

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Scott Watts @iceybloop.bsky.social · Jan 9

If the white plastic yellows in time, that is some attention to detail!

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Scott Watts @iceybloop.bsky.social · Jan 9

Pretty telling that when you rightly bring up that making Canada the 51st state is a good way to no longer have Republicans win Presidential elections (a good, IMO), the retort from MAGA involves pogroms.

These just aren’t remotely good people.

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Scott Watts @iceybloop.bsky.social · Jan 8

I finally deactivated my X accounts. This is where I am now. Feels good.

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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · Jan 6

Trump wants to memory-hole the Jan. 6 siege. Rewriting history to sanitize it, and compelling that its truths be forgotten, is the handiwork of authoritarians. And it shouldn’t come at the expense of the truth — or our memories. My column today:
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Don’t Let Trump Whitewash the Truth About Jan. 6

The nation needs to remember the facts of the violent insurrection four years ago despite the president-elect’s attempts to rewrite history.

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Scott Watts @iceybloop.bsky.social · Jan 3

With this Congress, we could only be so lucky.

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Howie Hua @howiehua.bsky.social · Dec 25

Be on Santa's nice list by simply conveying what you mean mathematically clearly so we can stop having these PEMDAS arguments.

#math #ITeachMath #EduSky

Santa's naughty and nice list. Naughty is 6÷2(1+2). Nice is "6/((2(1+2)) or (6/2)(1+2)"

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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · Dec 21

Went up this a.m.: Senate Dems' final report from their 20 month Supreme Court ethics inquiry, which followed @propublica.org reporting on Harlan Crow & Justice Thomas. Mostly a compilation of already known stuff but via subpoena they found 2 more undisclosed things Crow gave Thomas.
nyti.ms/4iPBwGw

Justice Clarence Thomas Did Not Disclose Additional Trips From Billionaire Patron, Democrats Say (Gift Article)

The revelation was included in a report by Democratic staff members on the Senate Judiciary Committee who had conducted a 20-month investigation into ethics practices at the Supreme Court.

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · Dec 16

Media organizations are bending the knee to Trump. That shit is going to backfire, and it's going to backfire spectacularly.

A prediction from me in @niemanlab.org:

www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/medi...

Media’s acquiescence to Trump will fail

"There’s no evidence that moving to a both-sidesy middle will bring in new readers, and plenty of evidence it won’t."

www.niemanlab.org

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Bazecraze @bazecraze.bsky.social · Dec 13

What I thought would kill me, by age:

0-20: Russian nuke
20-30: AIDS
30-50: Terrorists
50-present: the people who copied off me in high school.

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Scott Watts @iceybloop.bsky.social · Nov 27

“You know, he’s probably a rapist, and he’s definitely a white collar criminal who stole state secrets, but eggs are too high!”

I hope your egg prices triple.

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Scott Watts @iceybloop.bsky.social · Nov 25

Can they? What is the statute of limitations?

Scott Watts @iceybloop.bsky.social · Nov 22

Is “Wicked” merely the latest attempt in American culture to rehabilitate villainous characters, following in the footsteps of “Maleficent” and the 2024 Presidential election?

Scott Watts @iceybloop.bsky.social · Nov 21

Great, now I have Missy Elliott’s “Work It” stuck in my head because I told Melissa how I used to teach perpendicular lines on a coordinate plane.

🎼“I put my thing down flip it and reverse it. And then I work it.”🎵

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Ziva Branstetter @zivabranstetter.bsky.social · Nov 21

After @propublica.org reported on the cases of two women — Amber Thurman and Candi Miller — who died after they couldn’t obtain timely reproductive care in Georgia, the state has dismissed the entire maternal mortality board. www.propublica.org/article/geor...

Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths

In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...

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Scott Watts @iceybloop.bsky.social · Nov 21

So, do the bathroom stalls in the US Capitol building just not have stall doors? Why is Nancy Mace so fixated here?

Scott Watts @iceybloop.bsky.social · Nov 21

Say what you will about wearing my very 90s looking wired headphones around, but I realize that with them, I don’t have senior moments where I think Iris just ran off with my phone when it’s still in my pocket. The phone is tethered to my body at the head - easy!

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E @nwanu.bsky.social · Nov 18

X: Blocked people can read your tweets

Bluesky: We will send an agent back in time to stop the blocked person's parents from ever meeting

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