Tom Shafer
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Cat-dad, former IT professional, actor, photographer. Enjoying retirement.
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As I have been doing on all my new social accounts, my first post is dedicated to our fur-family. Say hello to littermates: Charlie, Claire and Toby.
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Mueller, She Wrote
about 8 hours ago
āOur leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he canāt take a joke.ā
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Steve Wisniewski
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Tom Joscelyn
1 day ago
Christian nationalism is a direct repudiation of this nationās founding. In reality, Christian nationalists want to form a new nation - one in which they can impose their will, masked as the will of God, on everyone else.
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Hey
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friends, time to make some noise with WLOS.
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about 12 hours ago
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
about 14 hours ago
Is Palentir or someone else using the footage to train facial recognition or something else?
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Raine
about 19 hours ago
The medication is sold by Dr. Mehmet Ozās supplement company iHerb; Dr. Oz holds a government position, overseeing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
people.com/what-is-leuc...
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RFK Jr. Announces FDA Will Approve Leucovorin, a New Treatment for Autism. What Is It?
The folinic acid supplement will be prescribed for a subset of children with autism who have ācerebral folate deficiency,ā but experts caution, āitās not a cure."
https://people.com/what-is-leucovorin-the-supplement-rfk-jr-claims-treats-autism-11814634
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Charles Gaba
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Annnnd there it is. Snake oil indeed.
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Charles Gaba
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Blaming Tylenol for autism isnāt the part that scares the hell out of me. THIS does. What type of snake oil quackery are they gonna start pushing on naive parents of young children?
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ryan cooper
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I'd say it's clear now that Roberts is the worst CJ in American history. Taney is the only competition but Roberts has done more damage
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
2 days ago
hey it's another stupid cartoon
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Cartoon: Ugh, here we are...
As always, if ļæ½ you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, ļæ½ Sparkyās List! ļæ½ You can get it in your inbox or read it on ...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/22/2344611/-Cartoon-Ugh-here-we-are?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_4&pm_medium=web
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Early voted today for Virginia state offices.
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Hi, Steph. Your mention of Lawrence Welk Show dancer Arthur Duncan reminded me of this related Betty White story.
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
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'He stays': Betty White refused to remove Black dancer from her show in 1954
Betty White received pressure to remove Black dancer Arthur Duncan from "The Betty White Show" in 1954, but refused.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2022/01/01/betty-white-black-dancer-arthur-duncan/9067252002/
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David Slack
2 days ago
A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.
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EV Curve Futurist
3 days ago
Solarās land use is a myth.š To power the world takes <0.5% of landāless than cities, a fraction of livestock grazing, and smaller than golf courses. Agriculture & fossil fuels are the real land hogs. Solar is a rounding error in the global land pie. Feel free to fact dive. šā”
#Renewables
#Solar
#EV
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The Truth About Solar and Land: A Rounding Error - EV Curve Futurist
Solar doesnāt need vast landājust 0.5% powers the world. Agriculture, livestock & fossil fuels dwarf it. The myth collapses when you see the numbers.
https://evcurvefuturist.com/2025/09/the-truth-about-solar-and-land-a-rounding-error/
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Aptera
3 days ago
Happy Sun Day āļø Every day, the sun sends enough energy to power our world many times over. At Aptera, weāre harnessing that gift to drive a future where every journey is powered by the sun. This is only the beginning.
#SunDayOfAction
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
3 days ago
Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works.
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The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The Washington Roundtable is joined by the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo, the dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, to discuss...
https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_6165_bde8bfb2-f4b6-4d28-bcbe-b42db11cfea9&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fpublicfeeds.net%2Ff%2F6165%2Fnewyorker-the-political-scene
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Bob Cesca
3 days ago
"Donald Trump is the ocular migraine." Mary and I talking about the malevolent multicolored entity in the original series episode "Day of the Dove."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XoI...
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Captain Kirk's Wisdom Destroys Trumpās Divisive Politics
YouTube video by Mary Trump Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XoINrXaw_E
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Michael E. Mann
3 days ago
"Some say we can āsolar-engineerā ourselves out of the climate crisis. Donāt buy it" [even if it's being sold by the
#NewYorkTimes
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@theguardian.com
commentary with Ray Pierrehumbert:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Some say we can āsolar-engineerā ourselves out of the climate crisis. Donāt buy it | Ray Pierrehumbert and Michael E Mann
What could go wrong with this idea? Well, quite a lot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/22/climate-crisis-emergency-earth-day
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Jake Lahut
4 days ago
A tacit threat to re-invade Afghanistan, this time in writing. Just another casual Saturday in Trump 2.0
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NY Times Pitchbot
4 days ago
TikTok will be co-owned by China and Trump allies, Paramount was sold to a pro-Trump billionaire who's also set to buy Warner Bros, X is owned by an apartheid-bred fascist, WaPo and Meta are owned by Trump-cowering billionaires, and Murdoch owns the Fox empire. Here's why media has a liberal bias.
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Sen. Adam Schiff
4 days ago
Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.
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Ryan J. Reilly āpaints a vivid and urgent portrait of⦠disarrayā
4 days ago
Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
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Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a ādeep stateā probe in early 2025.
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568
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Brennan Center
4 days ago
Congress must repeal the Alien Enemies Act, close the loopholes in the Posse Comitatus Act, and reform the Insurrection Act. Learn more:
bit.ly/4oxXJLN
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Outdated and Dangerous
Antiquated laws from the 1700s and 1800s give the president tremendous power to use the military at home to quash protests and order mass arrests in times of war and domestic upheaval.
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Benjamin Wittes
4 days ago
Chalk crime outside of Stephen Millerās house! And no, I didnāt do it!
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Asha Rangappa
4 days ago
The H1-B fiasco that is about to unfold is almost certainly a Stephen Miller Special to continue āwhiteifyingā the country, packaged in a way that Trump will see as a ādealā that gives him further leverage over companies to do what he wants
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Shawn "Smith" Peirce
4 days ago
Fixed the headline for you,
@politico.com
- - - Trump SEC Chair Atkins working to pull back public information about companys' financial health to shift power from investors to corporate oligarchs
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
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āEverythingās up for examinationā: SECās Atkins plots a new era for corporate America
The plans have triggered concern among pension funds and investor advocacy groups, who fear that the changes could deprive them of key information about public companies, and have caused a split on th...
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/20/everythings-up-for-examination-secs-atkins-plots-a-new-era-for-corporate-america-00574194
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Justin Wolfers
4 days ago
Lemme spell it out. Trump's only leverage over Jimmy Kimmel and ABC came from FCC regulation. His direct power over H1-B visas gives him similar leverage over tech, higher ed, and others.
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National Catholic Reporter
5 days ago
Kirk is not a modern day St. Paul, despite what Cardinal Dolan says. The only thing that such myth-making achieves is fomenting resentment, curtailing dialogue, and stifling action to otherwise prevent this tragedy from happening again, says John Grosso.
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Cardinal Dolan calls the late Charlie Kirk 'a modern day St. Paul.' I'm not making this up.
Cardinal Dolan joins the Catholic right's ever growing quest to lionize the late Charlie Kirk as a Christian martyr.
https://bit.ly/48p8Vos
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George Takei
5 days ago
History rhymes a bit too well sometimes.
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Bob Cesca
5 days ago
"It is the policy of the United States to ensure that no Federal Government officer, employee, or agent engages in or facilitates any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen." Donald Trump January 20, 2025
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Bob Cesca
5 days ago
"Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors." U.S. Supreme Court Unanimous 9-0 decision NRA v Maria T. Vullo May 30, 2024
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Robert Reich
5 days ago
The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
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Carl Quintanilla
5 days ago
ā.. Musk has Tesla shareholders in a Stockholm Syndrome .. Suppose they vote against him, and he leaves .. with his delusions .. ā.. Tesla would have to revert to trading closer to its fundamentals, which means slashing the stock price roughly in half ..ā
@electrek.co
electrek.co/2025/09/19/e...
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Ashton Pittman
5 days ago
Colin Kaepernick is funding an independent second autopsy for Trey Reed, the Black student found hanging from a tree at Delta State University, after the Mississippi State Medical Examiner ruled the death a suicide.
www.mississippifreepress.org/autopsy-find...
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Trey Reed Hanging Death Was Suicide, Officials Say; Kapernick to Fund Private Autopsy
Delta State University student Trey Reedās death was a suicide, Cleveland Chief of Police Travis Tribble said, announcing the results of an autopsy.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/autopsy-finds-trey-reeds-hanging-death-at-delta-state-was-a-suicide/
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The Questionable Authority
5 days ago
OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8. Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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http://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.447437/gov.uscourts.flmd.447437.5.0.pdf
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David Corn
5 days ago
In 2023, Charlie Kirk on his podcast said that Joe Biden should be executed. Exactly what Jesus would do, right, Cardinal?
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Patrick Chovanec
5 days ago
I will simply say this: Charlie Kirk said a lot of things, easily looked up, that I donāt think the Catholic Church would or should feel comfortable endorsing with this kind of unfettered enthusiasm.
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Alt National Park Service
6 days ago
Federal officers took 11 Democratic officials into custody inside a federal building in Lower Manhattan after the group demanded entry to Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding cells where migrants were being detained.
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Sandieglo
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Dean Obeidallah
6 days ago
My new article on Kimmel gives context that others are missing:
deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/kimmel-was...
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@bobcesca.bsky.social
Hey, Bob. Looks like the striking of slavery from the public-facing history of the Civil War has begun. š„
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Barack Obama
6 days ago
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesnāt like.
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Letās be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trumpās most brazen attack on free speech yet.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/let-clear-happened-jimmy-kimmel-025000655.html
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Aaron Rupar
6 days ago
Ro Khanna: "They're making comedy illegal. Brendan Carr pressured ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney cancels Jimmy Kimmel. This canceling from an administration that lectured us about cancel culture. That's why today I'm introducing a motion to subpoena Brendan Carr."
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Mark Copelovitch
6 days ago
Every accusation was a confession
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Jay Rosen
6 days ago
We have reached a stage in the Orbanization of the American media that big companies with vital interests before the government will have to consider getting out of the news and current affairs business. To stay in you have to pretend that you're freeā when you're not.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/m...
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Trumpās anti-media blitz that led to Kimmelās suspension is straight from a European strongmanās playbook | CNN Business
Weaponize the levers of government for partisan political gain. Pressure privately owned media companies to toe the party line. Punish the owners that resist and reward the ones that acquiesce.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/media/trump-fcc-kimmel-free-speech-viktor-orban-hungary
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I wasn't joking. Stay strong!
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Stu Nicholson
6 days ago
What the Trump administration is doing got well beyond suspending late night comedians.....pay attention what's going on with TikTok.
open.substack.com/pub/messageb...
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Pro-Trump Billionaires Control American Media
Trump wants China to sell TikTok's U.S. operations to a group of pro-Trump billionaires
https://open.substack.com/pub/messagebox/p/does-maga-control-the-media-now?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Governor JB Pritzker
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Melanie DāArrigo
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Trumpās allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. āFreedom of speechā is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
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