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Captain Cliff ⛵🇺🇸 🇺🇦

@properlookout.bsky.social

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A skilled mariner who never relies on any one aid to navigation. "Amateurs advertise." - Tyler M. Reeb, USMC Proud to be one and proud of my fellow #Resisters. #TheResistance #Resist #FBR #AllFollowersVetted #StandUpInOpposition #DoNotObeyInAdvance 🚫 DMs!

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Captain Cliff ⛵🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @properlookout.bsky.social · Nov 13

Enough said.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 4h

Marjorie Taylor Greene says she puts the blame for the shutdown squarely on GOP leaders Mike Johnson and John Thune. That’s all you need to know about that.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 4h

The sleeper issue?

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 4h

Tim Parlatore is advising Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon and reportedly causing infighting among staff. He’s the one who crafted the new press-restriction policy. The Pentagon calls him a “1A expert.” He’s the lawyer who handled Hegseth’s SA settlements….so, experience indeed.

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Ken Bazinet @kenbazinet.bsky.social · 5h

"There will not actually be any games held in the city. The games hosted in name by “Boston” will actually take place at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, a stadium owned by Trump ally Robert Kraft, who served as Honorary Chairman of the 2026 World Cup United Bid Group," the Boston Herald reports.

Trump says he could revoke Boston’s World Cup matches

President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that he could “take away” the slate of World Cup matches slated to take place in Massachusetts if the city of Boston does not get tough on crime…

www.bostonherald.com

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Captain Cliff ⛵🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @properlookout.bsky.social · 5h

It's October 15, 2025. Happy "My Windows 10 PC Is Finally My Own" Day to all who celebrate. 🙂

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 6h

Slowing electric vehicle sales will cost General Motors $1.6 billion, according to reports. Do you know what the real cost of that is going to be? Jobs.

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Cindy Michels 🇺🇲🇪🇺🇨🇦 @cindymichels.bsky.social · 6h

Sweaty Bollock Peter Thiel is the Anti-Christ, but he thinks that everyone that doesn't like him or his shitty company is the same! 🚨

Evil Billionaire Peter Thiel Has Completely Lost His Mind | The Kyle Kulinski Show

YouTube video by Secular Talk

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Cindy Michels 🇺🇲🇪🇺🇨🇦 @cindymichels.bsky.social · 6h

#Trump hates trans people but then has a Vaginoplasty performed on his neck 🤔

Make it make sense 🧐

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Dr Susan Oliver (PhD) @drsusanoliver.bsky.social · 7h

Cindy and I were joined by Dr Jonathan Howard to discuss his new book, Everyone Else is Lying to You, which explains how the pandemic’s biggest disinformation superspreaders weaponised doubt to normalise quackery and undermine public health.
youtu.be/4xgP5Fa_6_8

How misinformation superspreaders manipulate you

YouTube video by Back to the Science

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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 8h

TIME MAGAZINE COVER
Will Trump try out new pronouns?

Time Magazine cover.
Photo of Trump looking upward, showing redundant neck skin folds above his tie.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 22h

Eric Trump is legally prohibited from operating a charity in the state of New York because he stole money from children with cancer

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 8h

Why are people who look like me called "prisoners" when they get kidnapped, but the people who resemble Europeans are called "hostages" ... and then in the same breath, I'll get accused of being "woke" or "radical" or even "antisemitic" just for bringing this up because the answer is uncomfortable.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 19h

He didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize and now this??

God might die laughing! 🤣

SMITE! Trump Melts Down Over Time Magazine Showing His Neck Vag

Bahaha!

www.thegodpodcast.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16h

So First Amendment rights can now be snatched away if you [checks notes] celebrate?

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Richard Corsi @corsiaq.bsky.social · 9h

Two friends and ex-colleagues at UT Austin found an old student newspaper article and sent it to me. Everything pre-COVID seems like a lifetime ago. This image in the article was from 2005, before having to worry about my beard giving a poor seal on a respirator. Oh, to be 20 years younger again.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 9h

Here is the Vice President defending adults who said they love Hitler, want to rape their enemies, put their political opponents in gas chambers, and that Black people are monkeys. Just to name a few.

Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

Trump didn’t light the fire overnight. He’s been turning up the heat slowly, hoping we won’t notice until we’re already cooked.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 10h

October 14, 2025

The government shutdown, which started on October 1, is entering its third week.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Rosanna @rosannaarquette.bsky.social · 11h

substack.com/@poemz/note/...

Amy King (@poemz)

Dr. Jane Goodall recorded this interview in March 2025, with the understanding that it would be released only after her death. #drjanegoodall

substack.com

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 11h

2) The CDC division within the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) that directs the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) — a bellwether of the country’s health — lost all its planners in last weekend’s firings.

www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 11h

Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

These are the faces of men who think racism, rape, and gas chambers are punchlines.

The fact that these are actual GOP officials, not trolls in a reply section, says everything about the rot inside their movement.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

Heard about this earlier, and my jaw didn’t drop. You know who else isn’t surprised? Pretty much every Republican.

As someone who’s been a frequent target, none of this shocks me. I don’t expect real consequences from the right because I doubt today is the first day they heard about it.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

Oh! My! God! ☠️ 😭

Sound up 🔈

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 12h

"These highly engineered foods can create powerful pulls on us, similar to those of alcohol, nicotine or opioids."
www.sciencenews.org/article/ultr...

Are ultraprocessed foods truly addictive?

Ultraprocessed foods can create powerful pulls similar to those of alcohol, nicotine or opioids, with worrisome consequences for our health.

www.sciencenews.org

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