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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 1h

It’s outrageous to read about how schools are denying accommodations because they think post viral illnesses are psychosomatic. Even if it were “all in their head,“ schools are still required to accommodate psychological disabilities and provide an appropriate education!

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 6h

It would be hilarious if they accidentally rediscovered the contribution of jet aircraft to climate change from first principles while trying to find a chemtrails weather control conspiracy.

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 7h

My office lost 2 years of files when someone left their position because they saved everything “to the One Drive” but didn’t realize it was in their personal account’s OneDrive and not the office OneDrive. IT couldn’t recover most of the files that got nuked with their account.

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 7h

All I want as a non-techy who uses computers all day is to know where my files are! It’s becoming impossible to organize or find things. Ok, I also want to be able to store them locally with backup on external drives and not need an internet connection all the time.

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 9h

Michigan is conspicuously absent from this list of states joining efforts in the Public Health Alliance to protect people. What gives, Gov. Whitmer?

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

"a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority"

The phrasing you're looking for is that he's suspending parts of the Constitution by decree.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

nyti.ms

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 1d

Everything you never previously needed to know about the Anti-Deficiency Act:

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Taken together with impoundments, this would break everything. The president is claiming the power to not spend money he doesn't want to and now also to spend money where it's not allowed. And SCOTUS might say no one has standing to stop him. That would make him an appropriations king.

Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 1d

They say that hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue. I wish they still had to pay tribute, because that would mean vice hadn’t overthrown virtue and installed itself on the throne. These guys don’t think they’ll ever have to pay.

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 2d

Can’t fit very many boxes of classified documents in there!

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 2d

They say unicorns are for virgins, but this is just for a bunch of gooning incels.

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 2d

Well I guess it was too much to expect to see the anti-augmentation principle stand when even habeas is getting the “I don’t know her” treatment.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile in TX the AG is telling Drs how to practice medicine:
Ignorance is believing in the science that makes organ transplantation possible while rejecting the science of vaccines which ensure that transplant recipients can enjoy the increase in lifespan made possible by the transplanted organ.

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting! I’ll have to look— gotta love a fight with the creditors’ bar.

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 3d

Oh? Is that about the guardianship stuff ProPublica was reporting on?

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 3d

youtu.be/dvD73A9eXXk?...

Midsomer Murders Theme

YouTube video by introsongs

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 3d

But what if it’s a really good stick? I might need it on the plane.

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Odd Thomas [redacted] DO 🪓 @tom.medsky.social · 3d

Our VFC COVID vaccines arrived on Friday a full 23 days after our private insurance ones.

A meaningless delay that is 100% the result of RFK Jr and Jim O'Neill's incompetence.

Two boxes of Spikevax one adult and one pediatric. They are white with red and blue bars and lettering. Inside a freezer.

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 3d

Ok, but can you bring a backpack crammed full of rocks and sticks through security? Asking for an eight-year-old.

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 3d

Lots of countertop workers have been getting silicosis too, mostly young Hispanic men. www.npr.org/sections/hea...

Young men making quartz countertops are facing lung damage. One state is taking action

Countertops made of the engineered stone "quartz" are incredibly popular, but public health experts say cutting this material unsafely can expose workers to deadly dust.

www.google.com

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 4d

I keep thinking about the smoke-filled room experiment. “Seeing other people remain passive led [participants] to decide the smoke was not dangerous.” This effect is amplified when leaders in hierarchical institutions fail to react. psycnet.apa.org/record/1969-...

APA PsycNet

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 5d

And the Lord spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him,Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me. And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs.And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.

Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 6d

www.ktvu.com/news/ice-mis...

ICE mistakenly detains disabled 15-year-old California teen outside school

Another California school district is expanding 'safe zones' after a disabled student was mistakenly detained, at gunpoint, by immigration agents near a high school.

www.ktvu.com

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 6d

Happening all over www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

Ann Arbor father detained after school drop-off released by ICE, feds say

Authorities confirmed the man was arrested in the Lakewood neighborhood early Thursday but later determined to be 'not amenable to removal from the United States.'

www.mlive.com

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 6d

“What would you say you do here?” youtu.be/U0tpjs8zflQ?...

Office Space Interview scene

YouTube video by Akshay Gowda

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 7d

"In North Carolina and other states, low-income families who normally get no-cost Covid-19 vaccines for their kids have been told those shots aren’t available because states have been unable to order Covid-19 vaccines through the VFC program."

www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/h...

Low-income families are still waiting on Covid-19 vaccines for kids, but states say they’re coming | CNN

Many low-income families who normally get no-cost Covid-19 vaccines for their kids through the Vaccines for Children program have been told those shots aren’t available because states have been unable...

www.cnn.com

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