Steve Mirsky
@stevemirsky.bsky.social
Retired layabout. ❤️🇨🇦 Former staffer, current contributor at Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/acknowledging-reality-is-an-excellent-way-to-function-within-it/
Revolutionary war history in the Bronx. Ironic that the war was to get rid of people who lived in castles.
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Revolutionary war history in the Bronx. Ironic that the war was to get rid of people who lived in castles.
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Apart from being a heartbreaking meditation on death, the fury Tatiana Schlossberg feels towards her shithead cousin RFK Jr. radiates off this piece www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Apart from being a heartbreaking meditation on death, the fury Tatiana Schlossberg feels towards her shithead cousin RFK Jr. radiates off this piece www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Reminder that DHS and ICE were created under the Cheney/Bush. So Cheney is directly responsible for the evils we see on our streets today.
November 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Reminder that DHS and ICE were created under the Cheney/Bush. So Cheney is directly responsible for the evils we see on our streets today.
As Gore Vidal said upon the death of William F. Buckley: "Hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in life, applauding their prejudices and fanning their hatred.”
November 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
As Gore Vidal said upon the death of William F. Buckley: "Hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in life, applauding their prejudices and fanning their hatred.”
The amount of additional energy ocean waters have available to fuel storms is impossible for the human mind to fully grasp. phys.org/news/2020-01...
November 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The amount of additional energy ocean waters have available to fuel storms is impossible for the human mind to fully grasp. phys.org/news/2020-01...
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A Freudian analysis…
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
The politics of the potty
Trump’s defecating fighter jet is an emblem of a man in revolt against civilisation
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A Freudian analysis…
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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Donald Trump pardoned the “Camp Auschwitz” guy, dined with Holocaust deniers, and said, “any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion.” The Young Republicans chat isn’t a coincidence. It’s a culture.
October 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Donald Trump pardoned the “Camp Auschwitz” guy, dined with Holocaust deniers, and said, “any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion.” The Young Republicans chat isn’t a coincidence. It’s a culture.
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"House slave."
Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.
Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.
October 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"House slave."
Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.
Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.
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Hey, normal people, tracking disease and keeping people from unnecessarily getting sick and dying is a "Democrat-thing." Vote accordingly.
RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.
October 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Hey, normal people, tracking disease and keeping people from unnecessarily getting sick and dying is a "Democrat-thing." Vote accordingly.
Shut up and eat your gagootz.
October 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Shut up and eat your gagootz.
Wait til they find out about Trump!
October 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Wait til they find out about Trump!
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I see this and I think of all of my friends who have lost media jobs and in many cases their whole media careers despite actually doing good work and being intellectually honest while this cynical charlatan has bullied and bullshitted her way to the top. bsky.app/profile/npr....
JUST IN: CBS' parent company is buying The Free Press and installing Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.
Bari Weiss joins CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news
CBS' parent company is buying The Free Press and installing Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.
n.pr
October 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I see this and I think of all of my friends who have lost media jobs and in many cases their whole media careers despite actually doing good work and being intellectually honest while this cynical charlatan has bullied and bullshitted her way to the top. bsky.app/profile/npr....
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Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today.
h/t @tisserand.bsky.social
h/t @tisserand.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today.
h/t @tisserand.bsky.social
h/t @tisserand.bsky.social
What they actually said was, “We’d wait for you to come to your senses but biden we’d all be dead.”
Bessent on China: "At the meeting in Geneva when I asked them, 'Why didn't you continue buying soybeans and the other products' then had one word, and guess what it was? Biden."
October 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
What they actually said was, “We’d wait for you to come to your senses but biden we’d all be dead.”
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Stand Up for Science: Statement on Compact Corrupting Higher Education
"(W)hen the White House takes over what is defined as 'truth' regardless of scientific evidence, we are no longer in a free nation" - @standupforscience.bsky.social
"(W)hen the White House takes over what is defined as 'truth' regardless of scientific evidence, we are no longer in a free nation" - @standupforscience.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Stand Up for Science: Statement on Compact Corrupting Higher Education
"(W)hen the White House takes over what is defined as 'truth' regardless of scientific evidence, we are no longer in a free nation" - @standupforscience.bsky.social
"(W)hen the White House takes over what is defined as 'truth' regardless of scientific evidence, we are no longer in a free nation" - @standupforscience.bsky.social
Trump believes that all of the United States and everything in it, including you and me, is now his personal property.
The Trump Admin fired the Director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library over his refusal to provide an artifact from the Library’s collection as a gift for King Charles. What the everloving fuck.
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EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles
The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection
open.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Trump believes that all of the United States and everything in it, including you and me, is now his personal property.
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In light of today’s absolutely fucking deranged “I’m in a war movie” speeches by Trump and Hegseth, I give you the plaque at West Point.
September 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In light of today’s absolutely fucking deranged “I’m in a war movie” speeches by Trump and Hegseth, I give you the plaque at West Point.
This is no time to take a phone call.
September 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This is no time to take a phone call.
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In personal news, the right's persecution of free speech has come to outdoor media too: wessiler.substack.com/p/outside-ju...
Outside Just Fired Me Because Of My Politics
I'm hardly Jimmy Kimmel, but that's also a reason this should worry you
wessiler.substack.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
In personal news, the right's persecution of free speech has come to outdoor media too: wessiler.substack.com/p/outside-ju...
I assume he’s still stuck on it.
Donald Trump and Melania get on an escalator at the UN and it immediately stops working 🤣
September 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I assume he’s still stuck on it.
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The destructive nature of the current feudalized version of capitalism needs to be talked about more on social media.
September 23, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The destructive nature of the current feudalized version of capitalism needs to be talked about more on social media.
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"In the name of 'fighting antisemitism', the Trump administration is publicly making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish public intellectual in the country today."
Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson
What is happening to Judith Butler – a Jewish intellectual – in the name of fighting ‘antisemitism’ is outrageous
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September 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"In the name of 'fighting antisemitism', the Trump administration is publicly making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish public intellectual in the country today."
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Chimps consume alcohol equivalent of nearly 2 drinks a day. It's the latest evidence in support of Robert Dudley's controversial "drunk monkey" hypothesis. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Chimps consume alcohol equivalent of nearly 2 drinks a day
It’s the latest evidence in support of Robert Dudley’s controversial “drunk monkey” hypothesis.
arstechnica.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Chimps consume alcohol equivalent of nearly 2 drinks a day. It's the latest evidence in support of Robert Dudley's controversial "drunk monkey" hypothesis. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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Review revealing 'shame' among troops deployed to cities accidentally sent to WaPo
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Review revealing 'shame' among troops deployed to cities accidentally sent to WaPo
An internal review from the National Guard on the occupation of cities was mistakenly sent to the Washington Post and it reveals dismay among both the public and the deployed soldiers who admitted fee...
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September 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Review revealing 'shame' among troops deployed to cities accidentally sent to WaPo
www.rawstory.com/trump-nation...
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