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mhcypher.bsky.social
Traveler, techie, photographer, political junkie & cat staffer
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Musk’s Starlink gets FAA contract, raising new conflict of interest concerns. Now we know what DOGE is really all about. www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b... #Corruption #Grift #comflictofinterest

Today at noon! #NoKings #AZ50501

@azld2democrats are working with @azsenatedems & @opportunityarizona to push forward bills which address housing affordability in Arizona while the #AZ GOP continues to throw up roadblocks. Stay tuned & join us down at the Capitol to add your voice. For the people; By the people! #democratsdeliver

Details on Monday’s protest in #Phoenix #AZ #50501 www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix...

US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Trump won 49.7% of the vote and the equivalent of 31.6% of eligible voters, neither of which is a “majority of the public” last I checked

Dems should propose a law that immediately requires every fed agency to post on @bsky.app account, every outlay with a detailed description, $, and a link to existing gov sites with in depth details Rather than trying to keep Elon out, pre-empt him so he cant miss characterize spending.

Jeffries: "Republicans want to end Medicaid as we know it, are considering eliminating the mortgage interest deduction, and want to take away veterans benefits and nutritional assistance from Children and families. Is that something that Democrats will support? No."

Join us on 2/19 & let’s get busy DOING SOMETHING!

Celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth2025

We will keep moving forward for Arizona. Our work is not done! #mlkday

This says a lot… oh boy… Respect ✊ @harrylitman.bsky.social

Though the Defense Minster, Kim Yong-hyun, has resigned, and taken blame for the Martial Law declaration, he along with President Yoon Suk Yeol and Defense Minister Cho Seung-rae are all facing impeachment for insurrection. This swift action is how it’s done. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/s...

Why did Jeff Bezos appoint Rupert Murdoch's right-hand man to the top job at Washington Post? To do his bidding. And when he did journalists & readers rebelled. This week, I write about a parallel revolt inside the Guardian & Observer & why press ownership matters open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Merrick Garland must be upset that Joe Biden just undid the only conviction he achieved in the past four years.

Throwback to the March for Science—an inspiring day standing up for facts, progress, and the importance of evidence-based policy. #MarchForScience #ScienceMatters

Morning at Dead Horse State Park near #Cottonwood, #AZ

This is a fascinating study, and speaks to the vast perception gap between what LLMs are capable of and what people think they are capable of. Doctors using ChatGPT for diagnosis performed *worse* than ChatGPT alone, because they kept second-guessing the model. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/h...

We must keep fighting: “Hungary’s key lesson is you don’t protect democracy by talking about democracy — you protect democracy by protecting people… Only a democracy that works for the people is sustainable." www.rawstory.com/trump-orban-...

The Helix Nebula captured by NASA'S Hubble space telescope

Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa. I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:

Here’s a thought-provoking book that traces 5 individuals who took a dark turn down the QAnon/Trump rabbit hole. It started with a YouTube video. Why your family member [fill in the name] is no longer invited to Thanksgiving dinner & how they got there. www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

How Kentucky saved its schools from privatization. Lessons learned from a determined & smart campaign that protected schools as heartbeat of local communities. www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

Truth.

Lee: When Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was up for confirmation or when VP Harris was added to the ticket, they called them DEI hires. They want you to believe that Harvard graduate with over 20 years of experience is not qualified but Fox personality is qualified to run the DOD

“Bluesky is an echo chamber!” Our Reply: Echo chamber? Nah, we prefer to call it surround sound for facts.

If you're a Veteran and you get your healthcare from the VA, please make appointments with your PCP and specialists before January 20th, and make sure to update all your vaccines and order your meds.

Substack has tens of thousands of free and paid newsletters on various topics that are published each day, with politics as its most prized category. The platform is increasingly selling itself as an alternative to the decay of social media discourse.

Remember 5 months ago when Finland quietly started vaccinating their population, even without having any #H5N1 cases? I have to quote @tryangregory.bsky.social here: "No one could have foreseen this".

I just talked about how great Bluesky is on MSNBC

A whiteboard from our Jan 2023 team retreat where I wrote down our goals, and the top one was “10k user signups.” We’re growing by 10k users every 10-15 minutes right now.

Happy thoughts for sanity: Just a month ago, we saw auroras as far south as Escalante, UT. Our world is beautiful & amazing!

TPUSA raising $108M to "clean house" of #AZ election officials, hiring hundreds of employees in AZ, GA & WI to supplant its "Chase the Vote" campaign infrastructure. #DemocracyUnderAttack www.rawstory.com/far-right-gr...

The U.S. economy grew by 3.1% in 2023 as the Biden admin’s funding of new infrastructure & clean energy projects have created new jobs, spurring $640B in U.S. private investment. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Cutting funding to provide housing for the homeless, criminalizing homelessness, and making it easier to kill homeless people is . . . a pretty stark articulation of your priorities.

May 2024 treat you as gently as an Apocalypse possibly can: www.dogshirtdaily.com/p/the-year-t...