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bernardoverda.bsky.social
Retired guy. Into science, environment, climate, literature, Proportional Representation, Esperanto, science fiction & fantasy... More interested in "policy" than "politics" -- but nonetheless prefers "woke" over "zombie". "Live & learn, or die an idiot."
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(1/3) 😡 Lyn Redwood—a former leader of RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine propaganda machine, Children’s Health Defense—is set to present at the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee this week. She has a blatant conflict of interest and a history of spreading debunked lies about vaccines.

if you don’t want your ads to run next to nazi social media posts, the government says “too bad,” you have to.

Ahh, I see we’re back to thinking we can bomb a Muslim/Arab country to smithereens and they’ll all come out of their houses, dancing and singing for regime change so they can be like the West?

RFK Jr. Responsible For More Loss Of Brain Mass At HHS Than A Worm Could Hope To Achieve https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/23/rfk-jr-responsible-for-more-loss-of-brain-mass-at-hhs-than-a-worm-could-hope-to-achieve/

I don't even know that "farce" adequately describes this. I can't believe what's become of ACIP.

The cross-platform availability has delighted longtime users who never expected to see Microsoft's text editor running on their preferred operating system.

Mahmoud Khalil Finally Released Months After Being Illegally Kidnapped By ICE For His Speech https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/23/mahmoud-khalil-finally-released-months-after-being-illegally-kidnapped-by-ice-for-his-speech/

We are currently in a war being run by reality TV personality Commander-in-Chief and his TV talk show chatterbox Secretary of Defense. Have a nice day.

For those too young to remember... yes the coverage and the politics are worse than they were in 2003. Don't let anyone tell you things were worse back then. These same people who were awful back then are still here being awful, except they have learned they don't even need to pretend to care.

I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along. Really scary stuff.

Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards. Me, via “One First”:

Jeffries: The reason the Constitution—and the wisdom of the framers—gives Congress the exclusive power to declare war and authorize military force is so there can be an informed public debate.

Not that it’s surprising, but the lack of any clear moral line from the most powerful people in the country is truly stunning. Migrants can now be rounded up and sent to torture camps in random countries for the crime of … coming to the US to build a better life.

Agami Heron, rear view. At Agami Island #CostaRica #birds #nature

Gotta love a library that promotes banned books! Thank you, Cleveland Heights library

It’s outrageous that a masked ICE thug can punch a man in the face and escape consequences anonymously. That’s not America. America is for the thug cop to be identified and THEN escape all significant consequences for lawless brutality after a brief period of paid leave bsky.app/profile/news...

one way to make sense of the position of the republicans on the supreme court is that they do not believe there is such a thing as a legitimate objection to the actions of a republican president, no matter how deranged, depraved, or anti-constitutional www.stevevladeck.com/p/161-the-co...

Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment. Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off. 📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.

OK, here is your one-minute primer on the whole concept of "trickle down economics," from the obituary of Fred Smith, the founder of Fedex. I mean, if you still can't see it, I have no hope for you.

EXCLUSIVE: A new analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research estimates that the 16 states with total or near-total abortion bans have sustained more than $64 billion in economic losses annually since the fall of Roe. Check out @juliannemcshane.bsky.social's latest:

I wonder sometimes if it’s less our susceptibility to be conned and more a straight up desire to be lied to

If you are kidnapping your citizens with no due process to take away their freedom and trying to silence media, law firms, and universities for exercising free speech, you don't get to call yourself "Leader of the Free World."

what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.

their enemy is anyone brown y’all, they won’t let paperwork stop their white nationalist agenda

TouchĂŠ.

McDonald’s $MCD pricing us out 🚨🚨 Prices have doubled over the last decade

ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her *mother* failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...

Thank goodness!

Jeffries: "Not a scintilla of evidence to date has been presented that I have seen to justify the notion that there was an imminent threat to the United States of America. If the administration has evidence to the contrary, come up to present it."

While District Court Judge Questions Trump’s Military Deployment; Appeals Court Shrugs https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/23/while-district-court-judge-questions-trumps-military-deployment-appeals-court-shrugs/

Arizona Sheriff Gets Shitty Because People Protested An ICE-Led Drug Raid https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/23/arizona-sheriff-gets-shitty-because-people-protested-an-ice-led-drug-raid/

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