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Wonder Mutt
@wondermutt.bsky.social
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I pass on a lot of good information I dig up elsewhere and occasionally offer my own two cents. US/UK economics, politics, pandemics, humor as a defense mechanism. #CleanAir #EndBrexit #PunchNazis #Humanist
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Remember everyone: the holidays are coming up, and it’s the perfect time to ostracize your ICE, Nazi-MAGAt, and other fascist supporting friends and family!

Trump voter? No turkey for you. Give Incels zero fucks—literally.

Tell everyone who they are so those people can out them too. Start now! 🧵
Same.
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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Hurricane Melissa will make landfall in Jamaica in a few hours as one of the two strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall anywhere in the Atlantic Basin -- on par with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane in south Florida.

Just horrific. The stuff of nightmares.
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Apparently too many didn't believe him because they thought Congress would have some authority to rein him in. Or didn't realize sooner or later they would be coming for them (see the Md residents who voted overwhelmingly for Trump that had their disaster relief cut earlier this week).
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You don’t say!
3 times in the past 2 weeks, a WashPost editorial "has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake. In each case, the Post's editorial line landed in sync with its owner's interests"

Via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
www.npr.org
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Murphy needs to get up off that party line.
This is about creating unrest by literally starving people to justify use of excessive force against populace to violently suppress the vote and get through the midterm elections while remaining in power. Also, protecting pedophiles and hiding kompromat MAGAts are using to control powerful people.
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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What I find striking is that although the Biden administration was timid and didn't push hard enough, they were still the most pro-worker administration since LBJ! Think about that. And at least they are realizing they need to stand for something instead of being Trump-lite.
SCOOP --> Major new Bidenworld autopsy just dropped: 45 former Biden officials candidly assess their mistakes and failings in new Roosevelt Institute report. They lay out the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda to reverse authoritarian tide.

Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer.
A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future.
newrepublic.com
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Anyone interested in learning about why journals make a proactive effort to increase women's participation in the peer review process should take the time look at some actual evidence about why this is needed. Ditto journalists covering such a story. Do some reporting! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Women are credited less in science than men - Nature
The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.
www.nature.com
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Trump’s “mental faculties are crumbling like blue cheese, and major media need to write prominent stories about this alarming problem – not just stick a sentence into the 14th paragraph of a news story.”
My free Stop the Presses newsletter.
Media must cover — not cover up — Trump’s unfitness
The president benefits from the failure to focus on his broken brain
www.stopthepresses.news
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Herd immunity by infection wasn’t protection. It drove immune dysfunction and chronic illness. It’s a tragedy that this was allowed to happen — and still is.

Source: x.com/mysteriousro...
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Interestingly, some realism of the OBR:

UK did Brexit and thus choose to be poorer, and that is what it is getting.

I note that with a debt of ca 100% of GDP, the opportunities for investment by the state are limited.
OBR to downgrade UK productivity.

UK at or near bottom of the OECD investment league for 30 yrs.

Problem: City has short term horizons, direct state investment neutered.

China invests 40.4% of GDP in productive assets, India 30.5%, UK 18.2%, OECD average 23%.

Must abandon neoliberal constraints.
OBR productivity forecast may add £20bn to Budget hole
The OBR is understood to have downgraded the UK's productivity level in early Budget forecasts
www.bbc.co.uk
This is exactly why they're bringing Guard members from other states like West Virginia, Ohio and South Carolina to these places.
Because these people won't turn on their own communities.
Two Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors."
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Give to your local food bank. Build mutual aid wherever and however you can. If we’re going to make something better it’s going to depend on reinvigorating a sense of interconnectedness.

We’re all in this together and the fight depends on recognizing that.
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Andy Ngo and other far-right extremists have reportedly been targeting the Portland City Council member for months and trying to paint her as violent and a ‘member of Antifa.’ The fire is being investigated as possible arson.

Thread 👇🏼
Portland City Councilor @counciloravalos.bsky.social woke up to her car and home engulfed in flames late last night. She had to grab her cat and escape to safety.
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⚠️ Food banks are undergoing loss of federal funding in advance of SNAP payment stoppages which will dramatically increase demand for food from the pantries the banks supply.
Out today: Feeding Texas estimates that its 20 member banks have lost a total of $57.6 million in federal funding cuts, and that’s only in immediate canceled funding. But this could actually be on the low end of the potential impact range.
Trump’s Federal Cuts Are Hitting Texas Food Banks Hard
Food pantries in the Lone Star State have lost over $50 million in funding this year, with more projected cuts to come.
www.texasobserver.org
Free, government-sponsored terrorism. They do it; taxpayers foot the bill. Perfect scam.

(These “officers” won’t give a shit until we start sending them to prison. For a long time.)
The 8 officers have been named in 13 lawsuits filed by drivers who said they were improperly stopped and searched Downtown because they are Black, according to an analysis of court records by @wttw.bsky.social

Taxpayers have paid a combined $378K to resolve 6 of those lawsuits, records show.
The agency tasked with investigating misconduct by Chicago police officers identified a troubling pattern of undocumented and unprofessional stops of Black people in a downtown police district, according to a document obtained by WTTW News.

https://to.wttw.com/3Lahbzd
Now imagine the guy who is paying that other guy the $750mn because he’s worth it.
Spencer Perceval was assassinated for less.