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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 5h

Boston looks forward to welcoming the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 9h

Gonna delete one word from this story, I guess

Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t think people are remotely prepared for the societal effects of them letting people have sex with the chatbots.

Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 11h

I think a lot of bars probably do have a customer or two like this.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 13h

They didn't test the protein powder I use so I'm just going to assume mine is fine.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 14h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 14h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 16h

Gonna be an awkward LinkedIn post about his career updates.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17h

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. Included AI-generated robot porn.

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Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of ...

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 16h

Whoever thought of this excuse must have felt so good when they came up with it. That feeling when you just nail the brainstorming meeting.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 16h

Mike Johnson on Adelita Grijalva: "She deserves to have all the pomp & circumstance that everybody else does. She deserves to have a full House of members & go down and do the speech and have her family and friends in the balcony. That hasn't been scheduled because we haven't had that session yet."

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 16h

Wish my brain was doing other more important things but here you go with news you can use: Daniel Lurie and Zohran Mamdani both happened to have run a 5k in the last few days.

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stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social · 1d

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CNN: www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/w...

Fox Weather: www.foxweather.com/weather-news...

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The Weather Channel: weather.com/news/weather...

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 1d

We call this "synergy"

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 1d

As a proud pedant, I've determined there's a boundary of pedantry that you don't want to cross in polite society and the way you know you've gone too far is if you care about people misusing "beg the question."

Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not much interested in defending Sean Duffy, but language evolves. If you want to get mad at people for "misusing" the phrase "beg the question" perhaps start with the person who translated the phrase into English so poorly that the common understanding of the phrase was essentially inevitable 🤷‍♂️

Screenshot from Miriam Webster Dot com that reads

Origin of Beg the Question
Beg the question is a phrase from formal logic. We have Aristotle to thank for it—or, actually, an anonymous 16th century translator who took Aristotle's phrase petitio principii and rendered it in English as "beg the question." A better translation would have been "assume the conclusion," as linguist Mark Liberman at Language Log explains; petitio principii is used to name the logical fallacy in which an argument assumes the very thing it's trying to prove. Here's an example:

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 2d

If I click on an Instagram ad for an article of clothing, and I am taken just to your main website and not the actual page of the specific item, someone on your web development team should have to buy me an ice cream or something (and also you just failed to make some money).

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 2d

Especially given all the streamers attempts to push auto-play at every opportunity. You’d imagine they would just have something going in a corner the second you opened it up.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

A rare “who was President in 2021?” instead of the usual “who was President in 2020?”

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

I think it’s quite possible more living people have seen the Godfather than have seen all of Woody Allen’s oeuvre put together, so let me assure you she is definitely not best known for Annie Hall.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d

Breaking news: Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton has died at age 79.

Keaton may be best known for her 1977 starring role in the rom-com classic “Annie Hall,” directed by and costarring Woody Allen. She won her first Academy Award for the performance. https://wapo.st/4nIx6D7

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

This is not doomerism, it’s that if you want to avoid this outcome something other than the status quo must interrupt it.

Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 3d

This will happen. They’ll gleefully cite the Fauci, Cheney, and Miley pardons. It will be written in a sloppy way that legal scholars will say means it isn’t enforceable and then it will be upheld on the shadow docket two minutes after it’s first ruled on. We all know this, right?

Joel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 3d

I think we need to be prepared for Trump doing a blanket pardon of all acts undertaken by all members of the administration. Sometimes I think we should be quiet about who we intend to prosecute or think about civil actions we intend to take in this scenario.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 3d

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 4d

I know, mostly because it implies at least one (but probably several) other people exist who don’t know that everyone thinks Johnny Cash is cool.

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 4d

What’s his VO2max?

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 4d

President Donald Trump's newly released physical results from the White House sing the praises of his health and physical fitness, and claim that he, in fact, has the heart of a man in his mid-60s, rather than late 70s.

White House says Trump's heart tested 14 years younger than his 'chronological age'

President Donald Trump's newly released physical results from the White House sing the praises of his health and physical fitness, and claim that he, in fact, has the heart of a man in his mid-60s, rather than late 70s."President Donald J. Trump successfully completed a scheduled follow-up evaluatio...

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 4d

Oh I saw

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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 4d

Not quite an overlap but a thing that will twist your sense of historical time is that Anne Frank, MLK Jr., and Barbara Walters were all born the same year.