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John B @johncburnett.bsky.social · 19h

This was a new pattern for me:

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John B @johncburnett.bsky.social · 2d

“…then they start showing things like okapi, platypus, aardvark…I mean, only a stable-genius could get aardvark correct. Low-IQ people would get aardvark mixed up with armadillo, but not me. And okapi. That’s a really tough one. It’s like a zebra and a giraffe had a baby! You wouldn’t believe it.”

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Trump: AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard…

The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..

John B @johncburnett.bsky.social · 3d

As a card-carrying member of the Russ Fan Club, this only makes me like Russell Westbrook more. #WhyNot

www.theringer.com/2025/10/20/n...

How Will Smith Split LeBron and Russell Westbrook for Good

How one bad trade, one fake smile, and one celebrity cameo turned the 2022 Lakers’ season upside down

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John B @johncburnett.bsky.social · 7d

I’m no tattoo expert, but it would seem pretty easy to cover up the first tattoo with an oyster or a map of the state of Maine or something that might resonate with the voters in Maine. I’m also no Mainer expert either, so maybe this is exactly what they needed to see to give him their vote.

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John B @johncburnett.bsky.social · 11d

#NoKings

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 11d

he’s truly unbothered by the no kings stuff. he’s not thinking about it at all and he’s definitely not mad.

John B @johncburnett.bsky.social · 11d

#NoKings

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 11d

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

John B @johncburnett.bsky.social · 11d

#NoKings

But all love for Russell Westbrook in SacTown. 🏀 He’s the only King I recognize.

John B @johncburnett.bsky.social · 21d

The Lowdown is sooo good. 🤌💯

It started great and keeps getting better. Episode 4 was the best one so far, IMO.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“The Lowdown” Is a Noir for Our Era

Sterlin Harjo’s new series, starring Ethan Hawke as a citizen journalist determined to expose the crimes of the élite, is at once rollicking and timely.

www.newyorker.com

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John B @johncburnett.bsky.social · 28d

Projection

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 30

This is one of the most demented things Trump has posted

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John B @johncburnett.bsky.social · Sep 29

Is there any way that @statnews.com could take down the paywall for this article? I have friends and family on FB who would benefit from reading this.

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John B @johncburnett.bsky.social · Sep 26

This is not OK

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · Sep 25

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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John B @johncburnett.bsky.social · Sep 26

This is not OK

Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · Sep 26

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Sep 24

Vaccinations have been so successful that “there's been a collective forgetting that measles, and mumps, and rubella—these used to be diseases that would kill people in fairly large numbers,” the Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna tells Jeffrey Goldberg.

Watch more: bit.ly/46a5DUE #TAF25

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John B @johncburnett.bsky.social · Sep 20

Science vs. Superstition
Facts vs. Feelings
Nobel laureates vs. RFK Jr.

Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · Sep 20

www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d...

Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible”

In a Q&A with STAT, Nobel winner Drew Weissman addressed concerns raised about Covid shots at a recent meeting of federal vaccine advisers.

www.statnews.com

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Nature @nature.com · Sep 18

“I was fired for holding the line on scientific integrity. The stakes are not theoretical — we have already seen the largest [US] measles outbreak in more than 30 years, which claimed the lives of two children.”

go.nature.com/46rhA7s

Three ways ex-CDC chief says that Trump team is sidelining science

Susan Monarez testifies at tense Senate hearing that scientific integrity is being quashed at US health agency.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Sep 17

NEW: Per multiple sources, NIH staff have been told that "DOJ has advised" that they "should NOT" attend the American Public Health Association annual meeting, which is taking place in far-off, uh, Washington DC November 2-5.

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John B @johncburnett.bsky.social · Sep 15

45 years ago today the world lost the great Bill Evans. 🎹 🎼
The song “September Fifteenth” by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays is a sublime tribute to Evans. #septemberfifteenth

youtu.be/CA3lSTDPPuE?...

Pat Metheny-Lyle Mays- September fifteenth

YouTube video by klaurent13

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John B @johncburnett.bsky.social · Sep 5

The TV nudity scandal is what RW is getting nationally scolded for, but his authoritarian takeover and decimation of Oklahoma schools is what really deserves attention. His corruption has no bounds.

19thnews @19thnews.org · Sep 5

Ryan Walters' decision to miss a meeting this week, following the cancellation of an August session, has drawn attention to the multiple controversies he’s entangled in and reignited calls for his impeachment.

TV nudity scandal, impeachment calls, a meeting no-show: Troubles pile up for Oklahoma's schools chief

On top of a TV nudity scandal and impeachment calls, Ryan Walters' absence at a board meeting is the latest reason lawmakers from both parties are upset with him.

19thnews.org

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John B @johncburnett.bsky.social · Sep 4

Trump hopes to win the Nobel War Prize.

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Senator Angela Alsobrooks @alsobrooks.senate.gov · Sep 4

RFK lied to my face. He said he hadn’t fired any scientists.

RFK has fired over 3,000 scientists from HHS. It’s shameful. He must resign.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Sep 4

RFK JR: We're not going to recommend a product for which there's no clinical data for that indication—is that what I should be doing?

Warren: What you should be doing is honoring your promise that you made when you were looking to get confirmed in this job.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 4

WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid?

RFK Jr: I don't know how many died

W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid?

RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that

W: How can you be that ignorant?

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ASM @asm.org · Sep 3

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

Joint Statement Calling for Secretary Kennedy Resignation

The American Society for Microbiology released a joint statement calling for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Sep 3

The U.S. Secretary of Energy does not know that electricity is energy.

I'm glad we've gotten rid of DEI programs and are now giving America the leadership it deserves.

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John B @johncburnett.bsky.social · Sep 2

Wait until Trump officially renames the English language to AMERICAN.

Periodic reminder that English is just another foreign language on this continent.

Stupid stvhvtkē.

Amelia Benavides-Colón @ameliacolon.bsky.social · Aug 20

A source at HUD tells me “people aren’t happy” with the agency’s new directive ending translation services in languages other than English.

“We are one people, united, and we will speak with one voice,” HUD Secretary Scott Turner posted earlier today.

www.notus.org/housing/hud-...

‘People Aren’t Happy’: HUD Cancels Non-English Language Services

“We are one people, united, and we will speak with one voice and one language,” HUD Secretary Scott Turner said.

www.notus.org

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