@keith-pochick.bsky.social
Current middle-school science teacher and author; recovering Emergency Physician.
Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer who lives in hiding, was blocked in 2024 by Venezuela's courts from running for president and thus challenging President Nicolas Maduro, who has been in power since 2013. Here's what we know about her: reut.rs/4nHaDpX
10.10.2025 10:31 β π 564 π 114 π¬ 5 π 5Trump will just have to keep murdering fishermen until you stupid jerks give him the peace prize
10.10.2025 10:39 β π 2615 π 403 π¬ 59 π 8Reporting live from Chicago, thereβs no βhellscapeβ Iβd rather be in.
10.10.2025 04:19 β π 22902 π 5948 π¬ 561 π 447Thoughts and prayers for Donald J Trump
10.10.2025 10:47 β π 2009 π 264 π¬ 115 π 8Did Schumer hire a new social media team?
09.10.2025 23:43 β π 546 π 56 π¬ 26 π 2Keep your corrupt, grubby, abusive hands off Tish James, Donald Trump.
Your cowardice is showing β weak men seek revenge on powerful women who hold them to account.
But NYβrs donβt play. Our AG has been a fierce warrior for our rights, time & again. You better believe weβll be there for hers.
09.10.2025 08:25 β π 285 π 86 π¬ 14 π 7
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
04.10.2025 09:40 β π 3927 π 1833 π¬ 20 π 100
A Russia-like crackdown in Georgia is targeting protesters, rights activists and the media
apnews.com/article/geor...
The Washington Jost Democracy Dies in Darkness& Supreme Court will let Trump end protected status for Venezuelans for now A federal judge had ruled on Sept. 5 that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem broke the law by revoking the temporary protected status of Venezuelan and Haitian immigrants. Today at 5:16 p.m. EDT 67 Π min| %. Summary ε£217
βSupreme Court will let Trump _______ _____ _____ _____ for nowβ
(Mad Libs, 2025 Edition)
Who is to blame for the government shutdown? We asked three unvaccinated Kid Rock fans at a cage fighting match in Fort Walton Beach.
03.10.2025 23:55 β π 1260 π 128 π¬ 21 π 7Breaking on MSNBC:
An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey.
This news was first reported by Reuters.
"WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters)βAn FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a 'perp walk' of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said."
www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...
Hope everyone was sitting down when they read this.
04.10.2025 00:01 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0LOOK. AT. THIS.
78 % of U.S. adults say Congress should extend the ACA subsidies.
Only 22 % favor letting them expire. οΏΌ
- Support spans party lines:
β’ 92 % of Democrats
β’ 82 % of independents
β’ 59 % of Republicans (including MAGA-aligned Republicans!!!) - Kaiser
Canβt argue. It would be nice to occasionally see a Republican who at least wanted to channel Teddy Roosevelt and conserve public lands.
But in a single generation, and despite the fact that they share the same root word, the GOP managed to make βconservativeβ and βconservationistβ into antonyms.
Mentally ill? What makes you think that?
03.10.2025 10:21 β π 1027 π 218 π¬ 124 π 172
SCOOP: PA prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parent's address in Pennsylvania for years. Me with @marisakabas.bsky.social
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Iβll never again use the word βconservativeβ as a descriptor for Republicans. What is it they aim to conserve?
The separation of powers?
The rule of law?
Due process?
Free elections?
Public lands?
The only things theyβre interested in conserving are their fortunes and political power.
It was probably a mistake for us to pass that constitutional amendment that voided the emoluments clause
03.10.2025 12:06 β π 927 π 239 π¬ 35 π 5
New in PN: Lessons from a Red Scare
"As Emma Goldman hoped, and Louis Post later demonstrated, the American people are capable of turning the tide against repression β even if that effort feels hopeless in the moment."
I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
02.10.2025 23:59 β π 13572 π 5803 π¬ 372 π 285As I understand it, ICE employees are federal workers. Hard to think the Trump Administration will stop paying them during the shutdown.
The Admin should publicly have to eat this when it keeps paying ICE and stiffs the other employees.
Priorities.
01.10.2025 16:38 β π 17477 π 8526 π¬ 1307 π 846
Here's a link to the entire document. Like all primary sources, it is a product of its moment and does not voice timeless or universal truths. It is, however, interesting how insightful this particular analysis of American fascism, ca. 1945, looks in hindsight. archive.org/details/Army...
01.08.2024 21:48 β π 794 π 192 π¬ 9 π 14Trump sent 20 billion to Argentina for a bailout.
China brokered a deal to quit buying American soybeans and buy beans from Argentina.
Trump bailed out the country that swept the knees of American farmers.
The Art of the Dealβ¦
The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.
Let that sink in
