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Still annoyed you people didn't move to Mastodon (@docbrianS@mastodon.online). Retired Cali public policy guy, recovering academic. Cat dad, bread baker, beer drinker. #CarletonCollege grad. #UCSD #PoliticalScience #PhD No bio, no follow back.

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If you are trying to drum up engagement by posting how Person X "destroyed" Person Y rhetorically, but Person Y keeps showing up anyway after being "destroyed," please just stop. It's embarrassing. And stupid.

15.10.2025 05:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A "peace summit" without the belligerents is all but meaningless.

14.10.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Document signed at yesterday's peace summit in Egypt outlines only broad principles for Gaza's future, highlighting ongoing challenges to achieving lasting resolution to the conflict.
Trump, leaders of Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey signed the agreement. The warring partiesβ€”Israel and Hamas, did not.

14.10.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 483    πŸ” 208    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 29
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Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

14.10.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 12416    πŸ” 4814    πŸ’¬ 3537    πŸ“Œ 1420

One of the ways we know the perinatal dose of Hepatitis B vaccine makes a difference? NHANES & the people who powered it

ACIP recommended the birth dose in 1991. The prevalence of Hepatitis B among children 6–19 years old declined 68% from 1988–1994 to 1999-2006.

academic.oup.com/jid/article-...

14.10.2025 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 113    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Growing list of airport authorities who are refusing to play the Kristi Noem video for travelers that blames Democrats for the shutdown:

Portland International Airport
Seattle–Tacoma International Airport
Buffalo Niagara International Airport
Niagara Falls International Airport

(cont'd)

14.10.2025 03:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3941    πŸ” 752    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 54
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Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams β€œI’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

11.10.2025 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1813    πŸ” 1194    πŸ’¬ 269    πŸ“Œ 288
13.10.2025 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ope

14.10.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Solidarity is the only way

14.10.2025 02:46 β€” πŸ‘ 22595    πŸ” 5540    πŸ’¬ 796    πŸ“Œ 372
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How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed β€” and potentially overturned β€” by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

13.10.2025 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1808    πŸ” 999    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 51
Tweet from Jordan Weissmann: β€œAsked for an example of a group that had funded a violent protest, Trump named ActBlue and Indivisible, which I think pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the goals here.”
Below is a screenshot of an article excerpt detailing that neither George Soros nor Open Society Foundations fund protests, and noting that the White House named liberal groups like ActBlue and Indivisible in relation to violent incidents.

Tweet from Jordan Weissmann: β€œAsked for an example of a group that had funded a violent protest, Trump named ActBlue and Indivisible, which I think pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the goals here.” Below is a screenshot of an article excerpt detailing that neither George Soros nor Open Society Foundations fund protests, and noting that the White House named liberal groups like ActBlue and Indivisible in relation to violent incidents.

Do you see where this is headed?

12.10.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2004    πŸ” 498    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 17

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress over two weeks ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in.

Why the delay?

Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

10.10.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 14880    πŸ” 4260    πŸ’¬ 589    πŸ“Œ 229
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Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

10.10.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2399    πŸ” 474    πŸ’¬ 220    πŸ“Œ 93

Last I checked: Ingrassia was a 29-year-old former law firm staffer who had never passed the bar.

10.10.2025 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

10.10.2025 01:40 β€” πŸ‘ 16961    πŸ” 7491    πŸ’¬ 1299    πŸ“Œ 765
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New York Attorney General Letitia James indicted on fraud charge, AP source says A grand jury indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on a fraud charge, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Grand Jury proves you really can indict a ham sandwich
www.stltoday.com/news/nation-...

10.10.2025 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I've made baguette at home. It is indeed challenging. Croissants? Only masochists make their own.

10.10.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Which always ends up really good for Jews.... πŸ™

08.10.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Tweet from Alex Tabarrok reads:
β€œSergio Garcia, celebrated Chef who came to the US before ICE even existed. Deported after 36 years.
The picture tells you a lot about the decline of the Republican party.”
Attached photo shows Sergio Garcia standing with Laura and George W. Bush outdoors. The photo is signed: β€œTo Sergio Garcia, With best wishes – George & Laura Bush.”

Tweet from Alex Tabarrok reads: β€œSergio Garcia, celebrated Chef who came to the US before ICE even existed. Deported after 36 years. The picture tells you a lot about the decline of the Republican party.” Attached photo shows Sergio Garcia standing with Laura and George W. Bush outdoors. The photo is signed: β€œTo Sergio Garcia, With best wishes – George & Laura Bush.”

This was never about deporting criminals. It’s about Stephen Miller’s campaign of ethnic cleansing.

08.10.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2667    πŸ” 722    πŸ’¬ 81    πŸ“Œ 22
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David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

08.10.2025 03:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1316    πŸ” 406    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 91
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It is all intentional. They intend on starting a civil war.

07.10.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 296    πŸ” 147    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 11
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What are in the Epstein files that is worth keeping the government shutdown?

07.10.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4667    πŸ” 1490    πŸ’¬ 230    πŸ“Œ 75
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β€œ.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

07.10.2025 11:47 β€” πŸ‘ 14009    πŸ” 7556    πŸ’¬ 715    πŸ“Œ 676

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. β€” This should shake everyone to their core.

07.10.2025 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 28365    πŸ” 7733    πŸ’¬ 2151    πŸ“Œ 609

Pam Bondi won't say what happened to the $50,000 in taxpayer money that border czar Tom Homan pocketed in an FBI undercover investigation that the Trump regime dropped.
We don't even know if Homan paid taxes on the ill-gotten $50,000.
Crime is no longer against the law with these crooks in charge.

07.10.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 245    πŸ” 89    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 2

"leftist terrorist cells."

He's also pretty much announcing he's ordering shoot-to-kill policies.

07.10.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thugs with badges.

07.10.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It already is. MAGA goons don't care about the law and apparently have zero training.

07.10.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A new civil war is a small price to pay if it gives me the distraction I need to not release the Epstein Files.

by Mike Johnson

06.10.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1010    πŸ” 141    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 2

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