Pete Bachman (he/him)

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Good list. Saw PJ Harvey recently. She was great!

Best thing a Blackhawks fan has ever done!

Oh no, what did Tennessee do to deserve this?!

An outdoor tent that says “Rhode Island Football,” with a picture of the ram mascot.

Rhode Island Football: something I’ve never once thought about in all of my years on this earth (before today).

Ack … ok, movin to Tennessee

Just thinking: I am a double-boarded physician-scientist at @uclahealth.org, but I grew up in poverty. Gov't provided the welfare & foodstamps that aided my refugee family. Gov't grants subsidized my education.

I am only where I am today bc of the #America that was. And it makes me want to cry.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Venezuela's Maduro says US 'fabricating war' after it deployed huge warship The deployment of the USS Gerald R Ford marks a major escalation in what the US says is a campaign to target drug traffickers.

Making war on a Latin American country. We truly are living in the logical outcome of Reaganism.

The mantis shrimp would make a terrible assistance animal.

Here’s what happened in health care this week:

- If the government remains closed, millions could lose food stamps starting November first.

- ICE is hiring more health care providers to work in its detention centers to fight a surge in deaths.

- Bird flu has infected dozens of poultry flocks

I could just stop doing interviews and send this

White House releases list of donors for Trump’s multi-million-dollar ballroom | CNN Politics Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta are just some of the major companies who have made donations to build President Donald Trump’s proposed 90,000-square-foot...

People keep saying it's privately funded. That's misleading. "Privately funded" is when foundations and wealthy individuals pay for it.

At least half a dozen of these donors are major federal contractors dependent on U.S. taxpayers. This is money laundering.

Seriously. Certainly sounds much more like and Andrew Cuomo move than a Mario Cuomo move.

Still amusing to me that MAGA’s alpha male hero is obsessed with a gilded ballroom. They voted for Rambo and got Liberace.

I remember George HW Bush’s dog whistle digs at Mario Cuomo’s ethnicity in the late 80’s/early 90’s. I remember his “difficulty” pronouncing Mario. I remember his reluctance to refer to Cuomo as Governor. What has Andrew Cuomo learned, other than dirty tricks? Shameful.

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Good luck!

Good morning.

The City of Boston became the second-largest city in the world to outlaw facial surveillance — banning both the technology itself and any information it produces.

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*stares directly into the soul of academia, particularly psychology*

I swear to god, in 10-20 years, if everyone starts doing bystander effect and “omg how did this happen *clutches pearls*” research, I will flip tables and throw chairs at conferences WWE style.

American higher education has produced a nation with the greatest educational, economic, technological and geopolitical prowess that the world has ever seen. Here's why we must radically change how it works in order to make conservatives happy.

The West Wing is now just the Wing.

North Atlantic Right Whales FTW!

Scientists say North Atlantic right whale population slowly increasing Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the most venerable of the leviathans now numbers 384, up eight from past year

North Atlantic right whale numbers estimated at 384. An increase in eight whales from last year - report today by the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium. Slow population growth trend over the past four years gaining more than 7% of their 2020 population. 🦑🐋🧪🌍
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As a veteran with multiple combat tours, this “No Kings” poster touched my heart more than any of the other hundreds of great signs I saw this weekend

Love this lady so much for honoring her veteran and the cause he died for

Someone should do a video of him dropping cash on Milei.

So there are people who think the only possible motivation for anything is money? I wonder what their lives are like? Hold on, I think I know. Sad. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

He tried to team up with Trump to move the Bills to Toronto. Sorry, JBJ. Not buying it.