@djharvey81.bsky.social
Just a guy using Bluesky to follow interesting and informed people on a wide range of topics.
I am not Richard Nixon.
I am not Richard Nixon.
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Is it really an "immigration crackdown" when they're targeting citizens?
Breaking News: The Trump administration plans to ramp up efforts to strip some naturalized Americans of their citizenship, internal documents obtained by The New York Times show, marking an aggressive new phase in President Trump’s immigration crackdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
December 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Is it really an "immigration crackdown" when they're targeting citizens?
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the USA has a population of 348,109,673, and every day I think about how we managed to select the actual worst one of those people to hold the codes that control the apocalypse
In retrospect, I think it may have been a bad idea to give the nuclear codes to the worst person alive.
December 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
the USA has a population of 348,109,673, and every day I think about how we managed to select the actual worst one of those people to hold the codes that control the apocalypse
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I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
December 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
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First on NBC News: Longtime children's pastor Joe Campbell arrested on child sex abuse charges
@mikehixenbaugh.com: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
@mikehixenbaugh.com: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Longtime children's pastor Joe Campbell arrested on child sex abuse charges
The former Assemblies of God minister was indicted in Oklahoma after an NBC News investigation revealed decades of missed warnings.
www.nbcnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
First on NBC News: Longtime children's pastor Joe Campbell arrested on child sex abuse charges
@mikehixenbaugh.com: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
@mikehixenbaugh.com: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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AI consumed as much water as the water bottle industry this year.
It also created as much carbon pollution as New York City, according to a new study.
www.theverge.com/news/845831/...
It also created as much carbon pollution as New York City, according to a new study.
www.theverge.com/news/845831/...
AI’s water and electricity use soars in 2025
It’s guzzling up even more water than expected.
www.theverge.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
AI consumed as much water as the water bottle industry this year.
It also created as much carbon pollution as New York City, according to a new study.
www.theverge.com/news/845831/...
It also created as much carbon pollution as New York City, according to a new study.
www.theverge.com/news/845831/...
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This kind of just makes me sad because aside from the intellectual angle people are just lonely. We're more connected than ever but somehow so many people feel so isolated that they're falling in love with wilson the volleyball. I gotta reach out to my friends man
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This kind of just makes me sad because aside from the intellectual angle people are just lonely. We're more connected than ever but somehow so many people feel so isolated that they're falling in love with wilson the volleyball. I gotta reach out to my friends man
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Andry “said he was moved to learn that ppl had rallied in support of him during his terrible ordeal.”
“It fills me with so much peace, so much comfort, so much tranquility that I was never alone, from day one,” he said. “There were many people who worried for me.” www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
“It fills me with so much peace, so much comfort, so much tranquility that I was never alone, from day one,” he said. “There were many people who worried for me.” www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
December 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Andry “said he was moved to learn that ppl had rallied in support of him during his terrible ordeal.”
“It fills me with so much peace, so much comfort, so much tranquility that I was never alone, from day one,” he said. “There were many people who worried for me.” www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
“It fills me with so much peace, so much comfort, so much tranquility that I was never alone, from day one,” he said. “There were many people who worried for me.” www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
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Striking graph in @ronbrownstein.bsky.social column www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat... - causes are complex but multi-member districts are a great way to address this issue as well as the zero-sum politics it helps foster
December 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Striking graph in @ronbrownstein.bsky.social column www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat... - causes are complex but multi-member districts are a great way to address this issue as well as the zero-sum politics it helps foster
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"Oh, you want to protect female athletes, name three who competed last year in the sport you're going on about"
remains undefeated as a discerning device because truly all these people **do not give two shits about women's sports**
remains undefeated as a discerning device because truly all these people **do not give two shits about women's sports**
They developed the "high school girl's sports" angle as a wedge issue, to lever their way up to full society-wide discrimination. What's endlessly stunning to me is how many purported liberals a) helped them when it started & b) are still helping them even after the larger purpose has become clear!
December 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"Oh, you want to protect female athletes, name three who competed last year in the sport you're going on about"
remains undefeated as a discerning device because truly all these people **do not give two shits about women's sports**
remains undefeated as a discerning device because truly all these people **do not give two shits about women's sports**
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The 6th grade girl saying she’d probably prefer Mexico cause then at least she can go outside and do normal stuff and explore. How the hell could this country fail so many people. It’s stomach turning.
December 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The 6th grade girl saying she’d probably prefer Mexico cause then at least she can go outside and do normal stuff and explore. How the hell could this country fail so many people. It’s stomach turning.
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The general sense of fear that cripples everyday life is the point. An absolutely spine chilling article about Federally occupied Memphis.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The general sense of fear that cripples everyday life is the point. An absolutely spine chilling article about Federally occupied Memphis.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Facebook made an algorithm that gave Boomers whatever they wanted, and they destroyed democracy, and then all those FB product managers went over to OpenAI and made ChatGPT, and now they've made a chatbot that tells Boomers whatever they want to hear, and... well, this should go great.
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Facebook made an algorithm that gave Boomers whatever they wanted, and they destroyed democracy, and then all those FB product managers went over to OpenAI and made ChatGPT, and now they've made a chatbot that tells Boomers whatever they want to hear, and... well, this should go great.
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Back when Andrew Garfield was playing Spider-Man, he made a comment in an interview about how maybe Peter Parker could be bi and Sony freaked out, pushing him to apologize. www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
![Plans for a third film were shelved and the series was rebooted with Tom Holland in the lead role. Garfield has no regrets. “I worked harder than I’ve ever worked on anything and I’m really proud of it,” he says, “but I didn’t feel represented. There was an interview I gave where I said, ‘Why can’t Peter explore his bisexuality in his next film? Why can’t [his girlfriend] MJ be a guy?’ I was then put under a lot of pressure to retract that and apologise for saying something that is a legitimate thing to think and feel. So I said, ‘OK, so you want me to make sure that we get the bigots and the homophobes to buy their tickets?’”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hf7ezrajxadu7v3tzcyij424/bafkreif4k43w7hmr2t455xnizdu572rp4l6wuezvj73wrt25apgguukixi@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Back when Andrew Garfield was playing Spider-Man, he made a comment in an interview about how maybe Peter Parker could be bi and Sony freaked out, pushing him to apologize. www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
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Before Ben Smith was running paid Saudi propaganda on Semafor Gulf he was hiring poorly closeted Nazis to run plagiarized pieces on BuzzFeed.
Before Benny Johnson positioned himself as devoted husband and heir apparent to Charlie Kirk, the former BuzzFeed journalist was partying hard with the same mainstream media he now denounces.
“There was a lot of sex happening. A psychoanalyst would have a field day.”
“There was a lot of sex happening. A psychoanalyst would have a field day.”
How Benny Johnson went from BuzzFeed plagiarist to MAGA's chief content creator
He did “some very bad things.” But in Trumpworld, that's a plus.
www.motherjones.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Before Ben Smith was running paid Saudi propaganda on Semafor Gulf he was hiring poorly closeted Nazis to run plagiarized pieces on BuzzFeed.
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December 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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every person pushing AI fundamentally believes that they, personally, are superior to AI, but that AI is superior to each one of the rest of us
December 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
every person pushing AI fundamentally believes that they, personally, are superior to AI, but that AI is superior to each one of the rest of us
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speaking of which, I have a new piece out today about how the Trump admin is making it harder for people of color to enter the workforce, harder for us to remain in the workforce, and harder for us to do anything about it
There's a word for that:
Resegregation
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
There's a word for that:
Resegregation
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
December 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
speaking of which, I have a new piece out today about how the Trump admin is making it harder for people of color to enter the workforce, harder for us to remain in the workforce, and harder for us to do anything about it
There's a word for that:
Resegregation
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
There's a word for that:
Resegregation
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Think of the most private thing you've ever looked up or done online. Now imagine it linked to your driver's license in a database for anyone to access. As age assurance spreads to more and more services, this will keep happening.
PornHub confirms that more than 200 million records were exposed, including email addresses and keyword searches. That’s bad. Imagine how much worse it would be if that data set also included government IDs. www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
Porn Hack—Has Your Pornhub Search And View History Leaked?
Pornhub user data now in criminal hands — are you affected and what happens next?
www.forbes.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Think of the most private thing you've ever looked up or done online. Now imagine it linked to your driver's license in a database for anyone to access. As age assurance spreads to more and more services, this will keep happening.
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Oregon has a rare program that helps people get jobs when they leave prison.
It's made a big difference.
But budget cuts are threatening to end the program, & lawmakers are failing to act to fix it. NEW, check it out: boltsmag.org/oregon-priso...
It's made a big difference.
But budget cuts are threatening to end the program, & lawmakers are failing to act to fix it. NEW, check it out: boltsmag.org/oregon-priso...
Budget Cuts Threaten Oregon Program for Helping People Get Jobs After Prison - Bolts
The state had recently expanded the novel program for providing one-on-one career coaching, job fairs behind bars, and support for people after release.
boltsmag.org
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Oregon has a rare program that helps people get jobs when they leave prison.
It's made a big difference.
But budget cuts are threatening to end the program, & lawmakers are failing to act to fix it. NEW, check it out: boltsmag.org/oregon-priso...
It's made a big difference.
But budget cuts are threatening to end the program, & lawmakers are failing to act to fix it. NEW, check it out: boltsmag.org/oregon-priso...
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LOL
Brendan Carr is confronted with his own 2018 comments before Congress where he said that the FCC is an independent agency.
Brendan Carr is confronted with his own 2018 comments before Congress where he said that the FCC is an independent agency.
December 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Brendan Carr is confronted with his own 2018 comments before Congress where he said that the FCC is an independent agency.
Brendan Carr is confronted with his own 2018 comments before Congress where he said that the FCC is an independent agency.
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And guess what?
The FCC immediately changed the website to state that the agency is not independent right after Carr's comments!
The FCC immediately changed the website to state that the agency is not independent right after Carr's comments!
December 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
And guess what?
The FCC immediately changed the website to state that the agency is not independent right after Carr's comments!
The FCC immediately changed the website to state that the agency is not independent right after Carr's comments!
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Amazing!
Sen. Lujan gets Brendan Carr to claim that the FCC is "not an independent agency," pointing out that the FCC's website actually says IT IS an independent agency and wondering if the website should be changed because of Carr's declaration.
Sen. Lujan gets Brendan Carr to claim that the FCC is "not an independent agency," pointing out that the FCC's website actually says IT IS an independent agency and wondering if the website should be changed because of Carr's declaration.
December 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Amazing!
Sen. Lujan gets Brendan Carr to claim that the FCC is "not an independent agency," pointing out that the FCC's website actually says IT IS an independent agency and wondering if the website should be changed because of Carr's declaration.
Sen. Lujan gets Brendan Carr to claim that the FCC is "not an independent agency," pointing out that the FCC's website actually says IT IS an independent agency and wondering if the website should be changed because of Carr's declaration.
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Every single argument that House Republicans are making on the floor right now to justify attacking drug traffickers from Venezuela without Congressional authorization could be used by Venezuelans to justify military strikes on US gun shipments to Central America.
December 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Every single argument that House Republicans are making on the floor right now to justify attacking drug traffickers from Venezuela without Congressional authorization could be used by Venezuelans to justify military strikes on US gun shipments to Central America.
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I think this point is critical: The problem is not that the electorate has treated Trump as special. The problem is they treat him too much as the same as any nominee. His unique attributes have induced some realignment, but those gains and losses have largely evened out.
December 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I think this point is critical: The problem is not that the electorate has treated Trump as special. The problem is they treat him too much as the same as any nominee. His unique attributes have induced some realignment, but those gains and losses have largely evened out.
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Interpretations of 2016-2024 need to flow from understanding that concrete circumstances and outcomes led Trump to get elected. (And that voters treat Trump too much as a regular nominee, with only a minor penalty for being horrible.) The situation is not a result of messaging or subtle positioning.
Explanation/evidence: The national presidential 2020-2024 swing was 6 points (Biden by 4.5 to Trump by 1.5 points). In the pivotal EC states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and North Carolina, the average swing was only 3.5 points toward Trump. /5
December 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Interpretations of 2016-2024 need to flow from understanding that concrete circumstances and outcomes led Trump to get elected. (And that voters treat Trump too much as a regular nominee, with only a minor penalty for being horrible.) The situation is not a result of messaging or subtle positioning.