Aeon Flux Capacitor
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Science - human health - anti-fascism - tomfoolery
Badass babe and lover of badass babes everywhere.
Science - human health - anti-fascism - tomfoolery
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In my years working in public interest communications, I learned reporters often have the story they plan to tell already formed in their minds before they contact “sources” and will use—and even shape—what is told to them in the service of that narrative.
Peter Coviello testifies to that process:
Peter Coviello testifies to that process:
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
In my years working in public interest communications, I learned reporters often have the story they plan to tell already formed in their minds before they contact “sources” and will use—and even shape—what is told to them in the service of that narrative.
Peter Coviello testifies to that process:
Peter Coviello testifies to that process:
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Yup. Someone knows him.
November 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Yup. Someone knows him.
If I told my ex-fiance when we were breaking up 10 years ago that I would let him know when the cat of mine he favored died, do I still need to hold true to that? It’s been emotionally ravaging and I don’t know if I want to breach 10 years of no contact to share the pain
October 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
If I told my ex-fiance when we were breaking up 10 years ago that I would let him know when the cat of mine he favored died, do I still need to hold true to that? It’s been emotionally ravaging and I don’t know if I want to breach 10 years of no contact to share the pain
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from "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy" by Ray D. Madoff
October 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
from "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy" by Ray D. Madoff
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Negroponte on Epstein, after his arrest and suicide in 2019:
"in the fund-raising world, these types of occurrences were not out of the ordinary, they shouldn’t be reason enough to cut off business relationships..."
www.technologyreview.com/2019/09/05/1...
"in the fund-raising world, these types of occurrences were not out of the ordinary, they shouldn’t be reason enough to cut off business relationships..."
www.technologyreview.com/2019/09/05/1...
MIT Media Lab founder: Taking Jeffrey Epstein’s money was justified
At an internal meeting, Nicholas Negroponte shocked some people with his comments on funding from the alleged sex trafficker.
www.technologyreview.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Negroponte on Epstein, after his arrest and suicide in 2019:
"in the fund-raising world, these types of occurrences were not out of the ordinary, they shouldn’t be reason enough to cut off business relationships..."
www.technologyreview.com/2019/09/05/1...
"in the fund-raising world, these types of occurrences were not out of the ordinary, they shouldn’t be reason enough to cut off business relationships..."
www.technologyreview.com/2019/09/05/1...
This is ridiculous. You can find the original video with the original captions. Really lazy and racist and unconscionable by DHS. Hope the creator kid stays safe
The so-called Homeland Security Secretary is a corrupt and malignant fraud.
This video she sanctioned is fake.
Manipulated by cowards who hide behind masks while violating the law.
This video she sanctioned is fake.
Manipulated by cowards who hide behind masks while violating the law.
October 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This is ridiculous. You can find the original video with the original captions. Really lazy and racist and unconscionable by DHS. Hope the creator kid stays safe
Rahaeli always does good work
I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Rahaeli always does good work
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> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
This is a beautiful story. I hope we see more like it. I think the average citizen is sick of insurance companies sucking up all the money in the healthcare system and leaving providers and patients to pick up the pieces. Bravo to the jurors in this precedent-setting case!
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.
(Published April)
(Published April)
“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
www.propublica.org
October 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
This is a beautiful story. I hope we see more like it. I think the average citizen is sick of insurance companies sucking up all the money in the healthcare system and leaving providers and patients to pick up the pieces. Bravo to the jurors in this precedent-setting case!
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A song for the frog and for Resistance to right-wing craziness. Please pass it on.
youtu.be/yEeB6eEojjw
youtu.be/yEeB6eEojjw
No Bottom 2.0
YouTube video by Mosshenry
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October 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
A song for the frog and for Resistance to right-wing craziness. Please pass it on.
youtu.be/yEeB6eEojjw
youtu.be/yEeB6eEojjw
Do yourself a favor and read this
October 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Do yourself a favor and read this
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ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
The ICE Shooter’s Motive
Joshua Jahn's friends speak
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
Can we all agree that the text message exchange is like the most made up piece of terrible dialogue? There is not a chance that is real. 22 year olds don’t talk like that
September 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Can we all agree that the text message exchange is like the most made up piece of terrible dialogue? There is not a chance that is real. 22 year olds don’t talk like that
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I will never forgive the people who hired a bunch of 20 year old losers whose only previous experience was hanging out in Telegram channels that made money blackmailing kids to produce CSAM and giving them the keys to do whatever they wanted with federal data.
August 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I will never forgive the people who hired a bunch of 20 year old losers whose only previous experience was hanging out in Telegram channels that made money blackmailing kids to produce CSAM and giving them the keys to do whatever they wanted with federal data.
What a cowardly move to lock his replies when he’s getting manhandled over this asinine and shamefully ignorant statement 🙄🙄🙄
Intent is central to accusations of genocide. The Nazis, Rwandans, Serbians, went as fast as their capability allowed. If a state that could eradicate a population in a matter of weeks instead slogs through two years of war - and is not shy about war crimes - then you have to rethink the accusation
The Nazis infamously completed their genocide of the Jewish people in under two years
August 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
What a cowardly move to lock his replies when he’s getting manhandled over this asinine and shamefully ignorant statement 🙄🙄🙄
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"We've spent a lot of money on the military and now they have nothing to do so we might as well let the president use it domestically to satisfy his own petty grudges" is precisely why the Founders feared a standing army.
I mean, it's pretty much fucking verbatim.
I mean, it's pretty much fucking verbatim.
Comer: "We're gonna support doing this in other cities if it works out in Washington DC. We spend a lot on our military. Our military has been in many countries around the world for the past two decades walking the streets trying to reduce crime. We need to focus on the big cities in America now."
August 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"We've spent a lot of money on the military and now they have nothing to do so we might as well let the president use it domestically to satisfy his own petty grudges" is precisely why the Founders feared a standing army.
I mean, it's pretty much fucking verbatim.
I mean, it's pretty much fucking verbatim.
Just want to bitch bc I’ve been on hold with my health insurance company for over an hour waiting for a representative so I can find out what surgeons in my area are in-network for much-needed surgery. If Florida Blue was a person I would with them non-stop gallbladder attacks 🤬😡🤯
August 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Just want to bitch bc I’ve been on hold with my health insurance company for over an hour waiting for a representative so I can find out what surgeons in my area are in-network for much-needed surgery. If Florida Blue was a person I would with them non-stop gallbladder attacks 🤬😡🤯
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imagine fleeing the Vietnam War and in your arms you're carrying a baby who will one day grow up to correct the US Secretary of Defense on his jeans. like bringing a football into the end zone
August 6, 2025 at 3:47 AM
imagine fleeing the Vietnam War and in your arms you're carrying a baby who will one day grow up to correct the US Secretary of Defense on his jeans. like bringing a football into the end zone
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When you look at the pattern - Roy Moore, Matt Gaetz, Josh Duggar, Mark Foley, Dennis Hastert, countless GOP-linked pastors & officials - it's not coincidence. It's a structural problem baked into authoritarian movements that weaponize morality for power while tolerating abuse within their ranks 🧵
July 27, 2025 at 5:00 AM
When you look at the pattern - Roy Moore, Matt Gaetz, Josh Duggar, Mark Foley, Dennis Hastert, countless GOP-linked pastors & officials - it's not coincidence. It's a structural problem baked into authoritarian movements that weaponize morality for power while tolerating abuse within their ranks 🧵
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Many people in power are not offering an honest assessment of where we are politically in this country because that assessment would call on them to do things they simply refuse to do. That's where we are right now.
July 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Many people in power are not offering an honest assessment of where we are politically in this country because that assessment would call on them to do things they simply refuse to do. That's where we are right now.
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You know how literally everyone who's taken a look at the US electricity grid agrees that we need lots more high-voltage transmission? Like literally everyone.
Trump just canceled a federal loan enabling one of the few lines moving forward. Pure nihilism.
Trump just canceled a federal loan enabling one of the few lines moving forward. Pure nihilism.
Trump administration canceled a $4.9B loan guarantee for a line to deliver green power
The Trump administration has canceled a $4.9 billion federal loan guarantee for a new, 800-mile high-voltage transmission line for delivering solar and wind-generated electricity from the Midwest to t...
apnews.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
You know how literally everyone who's taken a look at the US electricity grid agrees that we need lots more high-voltage transmission? Like literally everyone.
Trump just canceled a federal loan enabling one of the few lines moving forward. Pure nihilism.
Trump just canceled a federal loan enabling one of the few lines moving forward. Pure nihilism.
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spreading democracy at the barrel of the gun was a catastrophe the last time we tried it. but *defending* existing democracies under existential attack is a different ballgame. and, more than anything, proving that democracy *works* is fundamental.
www.liberalcurrents.com/lessons-for-...
www.liberalcurrents.com/lessons-for-...
Lessons for a New Cold War
I am a child of the 90s. America had emerged from the long twilight struggle of the Cold War victorious, materially and ideologically: liberal capitalism was, it was said, the end of history. As such ...
www.liberalcurrents.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
spreading democracy at the barrel of the gun was a catastrophe the last time we tried it. but *defending* existing democracies under existential attack is a different ballgame. and, more than anything, proving that democracy *works* is fundamental.
www.liberalcurrents.com/lessons-for-...
www.liberalcurrents.com/lessons-for-...
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🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.
July 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.
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The final Black Sabbath show just two weeks ago raised $190M that will be distributed between Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, and Acorn Children’s Hospice….incredible gifts to leave behind 🙏
July 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The final Black Sabbath show just two weeks ago raised $190M that will be distributed between Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, and Acorn Children’s Hospice….incredible gifts to leave behind 🙏