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StephenSType1
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Fan of baseball (Reds,Orioles) and classic films. Diabetes advocate. T1D since January 1991. Rather than argue about "making America great", I'll just let the coming decades of misery speak for themselves.

Baltimore, MD USA
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stephenstype1.bsky.social
🍜 First time making cranberry sauce. To make something to play nicer with my #T1D I replaced 1 cup granulated sugar with 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup stevia-based sweetener. Fantastic result. Will make again #foodsky
November 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
In today's newsletter, I take aim at that New York Times article which waxed nostalgic about the toxic and criminal world of Jeffrey Epstein's New York.

This is the inevitable endgame of access journalism. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
Sure, that's the takeaway here Last week's release of some of Jeffrey Epstein's emails remains in the headlines. With each day that passes, people digging through them uncover more awful and appalling examples of the palling around and favor-asking of rich and powerful men who have preyed on young women and girls. It's positively stomach-turning. It has caused those paying attention to ask big questions about how the monsters who walk among us could operate with such impunity for so long. Well, most of those paying attention. Some who have studied the Epstein emails have a different takeaway: nostalgia. Yesterday morning The New York Times published a story about how Epstein's sexual abuse ring was just another part of some long, lost good ol' days of New York's business, entertainment, and media elite. The headline and sub-hed reads, "Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York: The disgraced financier’s recently released documents are steeped in a clubby world that is all but gone." The nut graf reads like this is the stuff of misty water-colored memories: The emails are like a portal back to a lost Manhattan power scene. Mr. Epstein’s inbox was larded with boldface names — many of them now faded or forgotten — that once meant everything to status-obsessed New Yorkers. It was the world that Donald Trump came out of, and the one that Mr. Epstein had so effectively beguiled after having grown up in a middle-class household in Coney Island. As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement. The story talks lovingly about the high-end restaurants the pedophiles in the emails frequented, the big parties these pedophiles attended, and the media interests and financial investments which occupied these pedophiles' days. At one point the story says, "[f]rom the vantage point of Mr. Epstein’s inbox, the revelations concerning the abusive behavior of men in power played out like a psychological thriller." It's all treated like entertainment or some celebrity drama, not a disgusting, life-destroying crime spree. This is how Margaret Mitchell wrote of the antebellum south in "Gone With the Wind." This is how Henry Hill talked about the pre-Lufthansa Heist days in the New York mob in "Goodfellas." It's a nostalgic glorification of a past that almost entirely refuses to acknowledge, let alone examine, that the past which is being glorified revolved around a horrible, dark, criminal degeneracy. In this case sex-trafficking, pedophilia and sexual abuse. I don't know how anyone with a conscience writes a story like this. I don't know how anyone in the very well-staffed editorial department allows it to hit the presses in this form. I don't know how they decide that this awful business should be covered like it's fodder for the society page rather than something picked up off the crime blotter. But it's probably worth noting that just last year the story's writer, Shawn McCreesh, spoke to journalism students at his alma mater, St. John's, and told them that journalism is great field because, “It gives you this all-access pass to interact with these people we would otherwise never come across.” He's clearly starstruck. So badly starstruck that he seems to forget why all these rich and famous people happen to be in the news this past week. Major media outlets have little to no interest in holding the wealthy and powerful accountable. Probably because major media outlets these days are dominated by the wealthy and the powerful and the people who want nothing more than to be near them.
November 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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aaronparnas.bsky.social
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
What a photograph.

“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”

Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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thriveabetes.bsky.social
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November 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
stephenstype1.bsky.social
@shaheen.senate.gov - This goes for you too. You've been up front on health care for so long. DO NOT cave now when the country needs you.
bradleywhitford.bsky.social Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 19d
Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov: compromising with fascists is compliance. Read the room. Do your jobs. Protect your constituents.
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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bradleywhitford.bsky.social
Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov: compromising with fascists is compliance. Read the room. Do your jobs. Protect your constituents.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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muellershewrote.com
Literally stealing food out of peoples’ mouths.
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19d
FLAG: The Trump admin has told states to "immediately undo" any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families for the month of November — threatening financial penalties if they do not comply.

SNAP helps roughly one in eight Americans buy groceries.
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
Trump:

- Doesn’t want to talk about prices or employment.

- Is asking SCOTUS *right now* to let him stop funding SNAP so he can use hunger as a weapon.

- Is still lying about trillions of dollars in tariffs.

All while he builds a ballroom and remodels the White House.
November 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Not pro-life.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
The corporate propaganda machine colluding with the Trump propaganda machine to lie to the American people about Thanksgiving.
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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warren.senate.gov
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
stephenstype1.bsky.social
Shame never works. Whenever I'm treated like a partner in my treatment I'm more engaged, understand better, do better, heal better
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Oct 29
Shaming is common in medical school and unfortunately, sometimes in the doctor's office. Some doctors are trying to teach medical students awareness of the problem so they don't perpetuate the cycle. n.pr/4hDCmpE
These doctors want to break the cycle of shame and blame in medicine
Shaming is common in medical school and unfortunately, sometimes in the doctor's office. Some doctors are trying to teach medical students awareness of the problem so they don't perpetuate the cycle.
n.pr
October 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
stephenstype1.bsky.social
12 of 25 now, but this tells you everything you need to know about B. Treinen #mlb #2025worldseries
October 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
stephenstype1.bsky.social
Add insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors to this list. CDRH has been a remarkably dedicated and often overlooked part of the FDA for years.
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Oct 28
A woman from the FDA’s Center for Devices & Radiological Health explains how her entire department was gutted

That means there’s no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled

If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken

This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives
October 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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atrupar.com
Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."
October 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
This is untenable.

If you’re attacking people who think this is wrong, you’re doing the bidding of the ultra rich while they laugh at you behind your back.
October 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 26, 2025
October 26, 2025
Economist Paul Krugman probably didn’t have the Erie Canal in mind today when he wrote about the rise of renewable energy, but he could have.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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jojofromjerz.bsky.social
Holy Shit, Mike Johnson
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
Holy Shit, Mike Johnson
A man who defends a video of Trump defecating on Americans probably shouldn’t call himself a Christian. Or a leader. Or a man.
open.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
stephenstype1.bsky.social
By "feedback", do you mean sending a note via this link?
acecoworld.com/contact/
October 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
stephenstype1.bsky.social
If all he's got is a stupid cartoon, he's clearly not up to the job.
davidpakman.bsky.social David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · Oct 19
Trump posted an AI video of the BOMBING of my friend @harryjsisson.bsky.social with FECES and I can't find any instance of corporate media mentioning it
October 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
stephenstype1.bsky.social
If all he's got is a stupid cartoon, he's clearly not up to the job.
October 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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handmaid.bsky.social
The Irish know it in their genes, the tyranny of colonizer Kings. Thanks friends for the support for #NoKingsinAmerica
#NoKingsInIreland
#DublinKnows
October 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
stephenstype1.bsky.social
It's pretty damn hard already. The average American citizen would fail today's test.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Oct 17
The Trump administration says more difficult questions, and other changes to the naturalization process, will ensure only immigrants who are "fully assimilated" will gain citizenship.
The test for U.S. citizenship is about to get harder
The Trump administration says more difficult questions, and other changes to the naturalization process, will ensure only immigrants who are "fully assimilated" will gain citizenship.
n.pr
October 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM