Ray Collins
@eraycollins.bsky.social
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The future has arrived - it's just not evenly distributed yet. - William Gibson Do you boogie-woogie? https://youtu.be/-y_YM1ikva0?feature=shared
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"If you follow the link to the Politico story and look at the pictures of the men involved, they, uh—how do I say this charitably? They are not Übermenschen. We’re talking about a group of doughy, incel weirdos." www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...
All the Pretty Little Nazis
The shape of things to come.
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eraycollins.bsky.social
When the federal government stopped enforcing the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, former Confederates took control of their states and instituted a one-party region that lasted until the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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The men who run Big Tech have always wanted to “enshittify” their services—to shift as much as they can from users, workers, suppliers, and business customers to themselves, EFF’s @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy writes in Communications of the ACM. Unions are an antidote. cacm.acm.org/opinion/tec...
eraycollins.bsky.social
No data suggesting schedule needs changing

Unfortunately, these conversations are largely untethered from scientific evidence. There are no data suggesting the current schedule is unsafe or ineffective.
cidrap.bsky.social
Latest from the Vaccine Integrity Project:

Viewpoint: We owe parents real data before we mess with kids' vaccination schedule

Combination vaccines exist for a reason: They reduce how many injections children receive and parents' stress

www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
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mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in the first trimester... isn't tied to an elevated risk of 75 major congenital malformations (MCMs) affecting 13 organ systems, supporting the safety of the vaccines in early pregnancy, French researchers write today in JAMA Network Open.
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Study finds no link between mRNA COVID vaccines early in pregnancy and birth defects
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The Albanese government has been trying to attract American interest for years.

During the Biden years there was a "compact" signed and a "Critical Minerals Taskforce" established. Trump's return to the White House meant starting again from scratch. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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nycjayjay.bsky.social
The “Young Republican” group chat leaked to Politico had these white supremacist master race types on it. Peter Giunta, Bobby Walker, William Hendrix and Samuel Douglass. These are not “college kids.” These are grown up fascists.
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andertoon.bsky.social
Justice in the Trump Era

Beat the algorithms. Follow my work on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com
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federalnewsnetwork.com
Court blocks Trump administration’s latest mass layoffs for federal employees
Court blocks Trump administration’s latest mass layoffs for federal employees
A judge is temporarily blocking the Trump administration from carrying out its latest round of federal employee layoffs. Judge Susan Illston with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Wednesday that widespread reduction-in-force notices sent to about 4,000 employees last Friday were “both illegal and in excess of authority,” and granted a temporary restraining order blocking agencies from proceeding with those layoffs. A temporary restraining order approved by Illston bars the Trump administration from “taking any action to issue any reduction-in-force notices to federal employees … during or because of the federal government shutdown.” The TRO specifically covers all federal programs, projects and activities that include any bargaining unit members represented by government employee unions who are leading the lawsuit. The order also prohibits agencies from “taking any further action to administer or implement RIF notices” issued on Oct. 10. That means agencies can no longer require federal employees to perform work to further administer or implement RIF notices during the shutdown. Illston is giving defendant agencies two business days to provide a list of all RIF plans, “actual or imminent.” A Supreme Court ruling this summer allowed the administration to proceed with an earlier round of layoffs. But in light of the latest round of layoffs under the government shutdown, Illston said evidence suggests that the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management “have taken advantage of the lapse in government spending and government functioning to assume that all bets are off — that the laws don’t apply to them anymore and that they can impose the structures that they like, on a government situation that they don’t like.” Illston said some impacted employees haven’t gotten their RIF notices yet, because the notices have gone to their work emails and “they’ve been forbidden to go to their work emails while on furlough.” “They are not even in a position to get RIF notices when they’re sent,” Illston said. Trump administration officials told the government on Friday that RIF notices went out to about 4,200 federal employees. But it later provided revised figures, after agencies rescinded hundreds of RIF notices. “There have been many errors made. I keep getting revised declarations under oath from people who say, ‘Well, I didn’t mean the last one. I was off by about 2,000, because it’s a fluid situation.’ And what it is, is a situation where things are being done before they’re being thought through,” Illston said. This is a developing story and will be updated The post Court blocks Trump administration’s latest mass layoffs for federal employees first appeared on Federal News Network.
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garyschw.bsky.social
Let’s stop referring to “the media.” It is inaccurate. There is no such monolith - no such homogeneous entity. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/lets-stop-...
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The most obvious example of Trump’s war on a critical sector, and the most consequential for the next decade, is his vendetta against renewable energy. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/china-has-...
China Has Overtaken America
And Trump’s policies guarantee that we will never catch up
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A recent Zillow analysis suggests it would take a drop of more than one percentage point—to 4.43%—for the median-income U.S. homebuyer to comfortably afford the median-priced U.S. home. And that assumes a 20% down payment, which many first-time buyers are unable to make.
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I’m running for governor.

For over a decade, Greg Abbott has made it easier for billionaires to profit while hardworking Texans struggle to afford groceries, housing, and healthcare.

But together, we can make Texas work for Texans again.

Join us: ginafortexas.com
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[Senator Bernie Sanders re No Kings 10/18 protest.] “It’s a rally of millions of people all over this country who believe in our Constitution, who believe in American freedom and are not going to let you and Donald Trump turn this country into an authoritarian society.”
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The CDC RIFs are terrible in more ways than just immediate impact to people’s health.

It’s bad enough that we will lose access to our own health data. It’s worse that these data can and will be weaponized against us.

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A Health Data Surveillance State that Dominates
It's a short trip from "data modernization" to national eugenics registries
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We are precious beings who deserve good governance, not misrule by thugs who trample on our rights and our bodies to demoralize us and get us to internalize the eternal strongman message: “I am everything and you are nothing.” lucid.substack.com/p/the-portla...
The Portland Chicken Has a Degree in Game Theory
Humor, Prep for No Kings, and Resistance Actions as “Coordination Games”
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eraycollins.bsky.social
The trope of the immense burden of wealth and philanthropy has deep roots among oligarchs. It is rooted in the belief that it can be dangerous for ordinary people to obtain wealth.
eraycollins.bsky.social
Why is Bezos giving away wealth at a far slower rate than he is amassing it? In his 2022 interview with CNN, Bezos claimed that giving money away is “really hard“ and “there are a bunch of ways, I think, that you can do ineffective things.” oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/jeff-bezos...
Jeff Bezos Can’t Give Away His Money
Maybe he should ask his ex-wife.
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eraycollins.bsky.social
These days crypto derives its value largely from the support of politicians and government officials — in particular, officials who can be bribed. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-crypto...
How Crypto Became a Trump Trade
It’s primarily a vehicle for crony capitalism now
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