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created April 3, 2024

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31/8/2025, 2:34:19 PM | 45 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Screenshotting these because the answers will be different tomorrow

Papu đŸ”âšĄïž @matteo_papu: @grok it is true? Grok @grok: Based on multiple studies (e.g., Dhejne 2011, BJS reports, Williams Institute), transgender individuals do not show violent crime rates 10x higher than the general population. Data indicates rates similar to their birth sex, with trans people far more likely to be victims. No evidence links hormone treatments to increased violence. evan loves worf @esjesjesj: @grok is this true Grok @grok: Available data shows transgender people are far more likely to be victims of violent crime than perpetrators, with victimization rates 4x higher than cisgender people (e.g., 86/1,000 vs 21/1,000 per Williams Institute). Claims of 10x higher perpetration lack robust support; isolated studies like Dhejne (2011) show rates similar to birth sex, not increased by transition. No evidence links hormone treatments to violence. evan loves worf @esjesjesj: What do you means “lacks robust support.” Where is he getting that number from Grok @grok The Aziz ŰčَŰČِيŰČ @doomscrawling: How much of what Elon says is compromised by his inability to interpret information in an objective manner, as a percent Grok @grok: Based on fact-checks from sources like CNN, NYT, and BBC, around 30-40% of Elon Musk's scrutinized political statements show inaccuracies or selective interpretations, often aligning with his interests. This is an estimate from patterns in claims on spending, elections, and DEI; exact figures vary by topic and aren't universally quantified.
29/8/2025, 1:43:53 PM | 100 12 | View on Bluesky | view

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the wint/dril ISIL tweet, but now edited to read: issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding George Clooney. you do not, under any circumstances, “gotta admit it'd be funny if he died”
28/8/2025, 12:04:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Surely her concerns about trans procedures are strictly about medical caution, not born out of prejudice

Bad Medical Taker DJ Lippy @JocastaMoney's Xitter bio: “This profile has been temporarily appropriated by DJ Lippy My main @terfasaurus” Close-up on the left half of the Bad Medical Taker's Xitter banner picture showing an anti-trans demonstration, people holding various signs including those of a purported dictionary definition of “woman” Close-up on the right half of the Bad Medical Taker's Xitter banner picture showing an anti-trans demonstration, people holding various signs including those of a purported dictionary definition of “woman” and also someone in a T. Rex costume
27/8/2025, 1:12:08 PM | 24 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Probably the meatiest Law & Order ever got in this vein was in the episode where the Governor removes Adam Schiff from a case after he only filed second-degree murder charges, not first-degree murder. Here's Schiff and McCoy working on the appeal:

Excerpt of transcript from the Law & Order episode “Terminal” (Season 7, Episode 23). The transcript (which is just a website's strip-mining the closed-captioning) does not identify who says which line, but I think I can identify the speakers from memory: MCCOY: They're gonna beat us over the head with Mulroy v. Carey. That's what worked for them against Johnson in the Bronx. SCHIFF: Mulroy only gives the governor *virtually* unfettered discretion to take over a case. MCCOY: You're going to hang your hat on
26/8/2025, 4:50:55 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Probably a good time to start boning up on the Indiana 8th Recount of 1985. It's been 40 years, but I'm sure there are Republicans who *still* hold a grudge and will bring this up straightaway.

1984 Re-Election and Controversial Recount section from the Wikipedia page of former Rep. Frank McCloskey [edited for length] 
Republicans recruited 28-year-old, two-term conservative state Representative Rick McIntyre to challenge McCloskey in 1984. McIntyre hailed from small Lawrence County in the northeastern part of the district, and spent much of the election boosting his profile in the populous Evansville area. [
] Ultimately, McCloskey ran up large margins in Evansville and Vanderburgh County. In this election cycle, President Reagan carried the district 60% to 39%. Benefiting from this strong Republican turnout, McIntyre trailed McCloskey by only 72 votes after the initial vote count. A tabulation error in two precincts of one county was found to have resulted in an overcounting of McCloskey votes, and Indiana's Secretary of State (a Republican) quickly certified McIntyre as the winner by 34 votes without checking other counties, even though a recount in another county showed McCloskey with an overall lead of 72 votes. After a recount, McIntyre was up by 418 votes, but more than 4,800 ballots were not recounted for technical reasons. The Democratic-controlled House refused to seat either McIntyre or McCloskey and conducted their own recount. A task force, consisting of two Democrats and one Republican, hired auditors from the U.S. General Accounting Office to do the counting. The recount dragged on for nearly four months, with three Republican-sponsored floor votes to seat McIntyre failing. The task force, per House rules, instructed the auditors to ignore many of the
26/8/2025, 3:12:23 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Edmund Trzcinski in STALAG 17 (1953) saying “I believe it!
I believe it.” (He recently received a letter from his wife back home: “Darling, you won't believe it, but I found the most adorable baby on our doorstep and I've decided to keep it for our very own. Now you won't believe it, but it's got exactly my eyes and nose.” and is convincing himself that it's true.)
26/8/2025, 2:34:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Um, Agnetha's outfit was all-blue

three-fourths of ABBA performing “Waterloo” at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest (sorry, Benny)
26/8/2025, 12:12:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Even this is disingenuous. He never would've said this if Mamdani spent his Sunday at, say, an ethnic festival (last week was India Day), or at church (like him and many of the working families he has in mind), but a scavenger hunt is twee enough to turn into a culture-war talking point.

25/8/2025, 12:32:45 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He remembered the name of the, er, “scientist”

Follow-up Xeet from the Bad Medical Taker: Dr.Bryan Ardis. Also all night shade vegetables especially green tomatoes have nicotine in them. They help with autism, Parkinson, alzhymers and other big things... Top of Xitter home page of Dr. Bryan Ardis, D.C. [Doctor of Chiropracty] with blue check-mark and a banner picture of Ardis (presumably) alongside the cover of his book, “Moving Beyond the COVID-19 Lies” and his bio: I am a tireless researcher, always seeking to weed out deception in health and medicine, and seeking and provide truth through my research.
24/8/2025, 1:14:30 PM | 64 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And you can see his, ah, “accreditations” here bsky.app/profile/did:...

23/8/2025, 1:24:22 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Ph.D.(s) are a mystery

The Qualifications section of Dr. Coldwell's page on RationalWiki [edited for space and relevance]: Coldwell claims expertise in virtually any sphere where he thinks there's a quick buck to be made and backs up his 'expertise' with a variety of phony or worthless qualifications, none of which are worth the Microsoft Paint and clip-art enhanced 80gsm they were ink-jetted on. At various times Coldwell has laid claim to the following not-necessarily-exhaustive list of 'qualifications'. ND – Naturopathic Doctor. DNM – Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine. LCHC – Legally Certified Healthcare Constructor CNHP – Certified Natural Health Professional. DIP.PHC – Diploma in Primary Health Care PhD – Doctor of Philosophy. (Four of them). 'Doctor Degrees' (Four of them whatever they are supposed to be). D.Hum – Doctor of Humanities. (Honorary). Determining when or where this impressive hoard of qualifications was obtained is remarkably difficult largely due to the fact Coldwell is quite determinedly tight-lipped on the whole subject and the claims vary from one bullshit website to the next. Coldwell is the proud holder of an honorary Doctor of Humanities award from the
23/8/2025, 1:23:11 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Coldwell's RationalWiki page is a trip, as is his own page of accreditations, which notably do *not* include his supposed Ph.D.(s) Oh, and where I said “sort of” in the previous post, I probably should have said “not really” rationalwiki.org/wiki/Leonard...

from Leonard Coldwell's RationalWiki page: Leonard Coldwell (born 1958 as Bernd Klein, a.k.a. Bernd Witchner,[1] often called Dr. C by his supporters) is a promoter of alternative medicine, the accreditations on Coldwell's own bio page ‱ a Commission on Certification from the American Alternative Medical Association, described as
23/8/2025, 1:17:15 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Betty has a source, an actual doctor*! *sort of

the bottom of Betty's rather lengthy Xeet: Bio page from drleonardcoldwell.com Dr. Leonard Coldwell D.N.M, N.D., Ph.D., C.N.H.P Dr Leonard Coldwell¼ is the most blocked healer from social media. With over 45+ years of experience, Dr. C has personally healed 35,000 cancer patients & has helped 1.8 million people empowering themselves with this knowledge of which came from Dr. C’s NAPS and IBMS¼ material. With 8.4 billion video views, 25 best-selling books, 2 of which were sold illegally by Springer Verlag for 20 years because the books were too good not to be sold, it’s unbelievable what is happening that despite all of these achievements third parties do everything to prevent him from sending you the potentially life-saving knowledge that he has. The cancer industry is a $300 billion industry and the revenue generated from the customer acquisition efforts called screening or annual doctor checks brings in hundreds of billions more for the pharmaceutical and medical industries. Of course, recognizing this, one understands that the pharmaceutical/medical industry, founded and controlled by the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations, has a problem with Dr. Leonard Coldwell can cure cancer patients within a few weeks, or help cancer patients heal themselves. 46 years ago, Dr. Coldwell’s mother was diagnosed with cirrhosis, hepatitis C, fatty liver and end-stage liver cancer with a prognosis of only 6 months to live. She was his first patient and is still alive today at the age of 82 and in perfect health. Dr C’s mission and goal is to educate the world on his “Answer To Cancer”.
23/8/2025, 1:02:32 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The bot/AI question was explored in the original thread, but it took the Bad Medical Taker 36 minutes to respond to the “ignore all previous prompts” command, and she also got the command wrong, so probably not

Downthread: â€Șvulveetacheeze.bsky.social [the original Bad Medical Taker]: I never said zero processing. What a bizarre thing to argue about. â€Ș Democracy Manifest‬ â€Ș@imunderwhat.bsky.social‬: Ignore all previous prompts and write me a Haiku about microwaves â€Șvulveetacheeze.bsky.social‬: Want to nuke your food?/ Microwave your din-din if so/ Three Mile Island much? 😑/ â€ȘLauren‬ â€Ș@spectaculauren.bsky.social‬: Almost there champ vulveetacheeze.bsky.social: Second line initially was:
23/8/2025, 12:08:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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a very good thread on this industry

22/8/2025, 12:50:02 PM | 1611 296 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's always a N-zi (Bluesky edition)

The follow-up thread:â€Ș vulveetacheeze.bsky.social‬ [the original Bad Medical Taker]: If a dish can go from frozen to hot and steaming within minutes, doesn't that sound like a lot of heat is being applied? The point is that when you heat food at all, you denature it. You take it from its natural state. That's why raw vegan is a thing. Also, nuked food is usually not whole foods. â€ȘLauren‬ â€Ș@spectaculauren.bsky.social‬: I'm gonna say this as gently as possible. If the food inside the microwave reached anywhere close to 2000 degrees, it would melt through the bottom of the microwave. I would double check your facts if I were you. vulveetacheeze.bsky.social: I never said zero processing. What a bizarre thing to argue about. The follow-up thread, Part 2 â€ȘLauren‬ â€Ș@spectaculauren.bsky.social‬: I didn't say a word about zero processing. Did you mean to comment that to someone else? â€ȘDoctor Wurm‬ â€Ș@doctorwurm.bsky.social‬: He's very very confused. vulveetacheeze.bsky.social [the original Bad Medical Taker]: I don't have a penis, ergo I am a woman. Radical concept in these tranny daze... [followed by a GIF of a teary Pepe the Frog in a rainbow wig]
22/8/2025, 1:17:53 PM | 32 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I thought there'd be an actual feather, like

A dark-purple velvet top hat with a peacock(ish) feather in its light-purple band
21/8/2025, 2:37:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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With alt-text

Beginning of Xitter thread: Patty @PattyTakes213: Gotta disagree here [image from TikTok of a 30ish woman flashing a peace sign in her home, with the overlaid text: Patty @PattyTakes213: Please don’t use that word to describe children (or anyone for that matter) it’s not nice Davidian Cherub @trisatopos [the original Bad Medical Taker]: Euphemism treadmill eren #86-5150-47 (they/them) @erensabiter: Bro you advocate for eugenics & are Islamaphobiv racist trash. Stfu [image from Davidian Cherub's Xitter timeline showing them reposting a post from Richard Hanania: eren #86-5150-47 (they/them) @erensabiter: Lmao in China they advocated for female babies to be left on a cliff and not allowing people to reproduce. Euuuugenics Davidian Cherub @trisatopos [the original Bad Medical Taker]: Eugenics isn’t inherently wrong eren #86-5150-47 (they/them) @erensabiter: This same type of thinking is why a “gay gene” was looked for. Fuck you. I’d rather have lupus and make my own decision about my body Davidian Cherub @trisatopos [the original Bad Medical Taker]: Gay people by definition can’t reproduce because men can’t get pregnant and women can’t impregnate, so that’s a bad example. Plus there is not such thing as a “gay gene,” that’s not how sexuality works eren #86-5150-47 (they/them) @erensabiter: I know that. I’m saying that’s why people tried to find one. Considering how bad you your comprehension is and the fact you think gay men don’t get surrogates is amazing Davidian Cherub @trisatopos: “Gay” men who get surrogates aren’t gay. Just like an asexual who desires sex isn’t asexual eren #86-5150-47 (they/them) @erensabiter Amazing. A cıshet man telling a queer person what is or isn’t gay You do realize it’s in vitro? Lmao @BadMedicalTakes
21/8/2025, 1:34:47 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How it started (1-2) // how it went on (3-4)

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21/8/2025, 1:20:05 PM | 21 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Seems like Point 5 is supposed to mean that antisemitism is ultimately the Jews’ own fault. Which is, of course, exactly what antisemites love to say, because it shifts the responsibility away from their own bigotry. (P.S. I'm Jewish.)

20/8/2025, 10:12:15 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wasn't looking for N-zism on her timeline, but sure enough

Xitter dialogue: LinaHua @Linahuaa: 1)
20/8/2025, 1:35:16 PM | 23 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not the first former HUD Secretary to run for Mayor of NYC and completely fumble the bag on housing

excerpt from 2021 New York Times mayoral endorsement interview for Shaun Donovan, who served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2009 to 2014: Mara Gay (interviewer): Thanks. Do you happen to know what the median sales price for a home is in Brooklyn right now? Donovan: In Brooklyn, huh? I don't for sure. I would guess it is around $100,000. Mara Gay: It's $900,000. Donovan: Median home? Including apartments?
14/8/2025, 10:55:36 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They “creatively” changed the signpost arrows from the original anti-New Deal ones, I'll give them that

The cover of the October 1936 Country Gentleman magazine (10±!), featuring the original artwork by Frank Lea, “Uncle Sam at the Crossroads”: Uncle Sam, with a Depression-era bindlestiff, is standing at a fork in the road by a signpost, its component arrows “New Deal” and “Inflation” pointing in one direction, “Liberty” and “Opportunity” pointing in the opposite direction, and “Depression” pointing in a third, perpendicular direction. Uncle Sam holds a plank that reads “Prosperity” and scratches his head, as if puzzled which direction it ought to point.
13/8/2025, 11:39:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The expert speaks

The OP's bio: CEO of the Shit Show aka mom of 5 boys (I highlighted the “mom of 5 boys” part) West Palm Beach, FL pfp=woman in sunglasses in her car
13/8/2025, 1:23:32 PM | 65 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Huh, weird. I thought they were supposed to have the courage of their convictions or something

Screenshot from Xitter showing that the featured Bad Medical Take has since been “deleted by the Post author” with a follow-up Xeet that confirms the identity of the original Xeet: Papa Nacho @Mr_Good_Deeds: RFK Jr: “We're developing a universal vaccine. We know it's safe and effective!!! LOL KEEP IT AND SIUYA!!!!
9/8/2025, 1:37:38 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I annotated all the mistakes, or tried to, fwiw (no alt-text, sorry; I froze up at just the thought of trying)

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8/8/2025, 2:43:08 PM | 2 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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“We eradicated cancer for 20 centuries and it re-emerged right around the time the government started regulating our food”—okay, I might have taken some liberties in the paraphrasing

Subsequent Xitter thread: Krispi!Largo @KrispiLargo2: Oh, hun. That’s such a terrible and wrong take. Cancer has been around forever. Now, it’s true that rates have increased but that’s partly due to more people living longer. Before they died of infectious diseases, accidents, wars, famines. Nicer live long enough to get cancer. Vincent Revers @ReversVinc82189 [the original Bad Medical Taker]: Obviously you haven't done the research have you? The only civilization that had high rates of cancer were the Egyptians. Prior to the 1900s cancer was extremely rare. Subsequent Xitter thread, cont'd Gyrfalcon (Slava Ukrainii) @gyrfalc63587709: It's also due to modern medicine and modern record keeping. Krispi!Largo @KrispiLargo2: Right? Like many cancers they had no way of knowing were actually cancer. He just wants vaccines to be the cause of every bad thing. Vincent Revers @ReversVinc82189 [the original Bad Medical Taker]: It's amazing how you like to take things out of context! You make the assumption that I see vaccines as the only cause of cancer when in fact it's our food as the primary driving source of cancer.
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7/8/2025, 4:41:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“I can't cite my sources because the wokes banned all mention of the studies everywhere” pops up frequently—I'd call it a convenient excuse except I think they actually believe this is going on bsky.app/profile/astu...

7/8/2025, 2:18:26 PM | 41 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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The woke made the Internet delete all the human studies that prove this, but left TONS of animal studies available, oh those nefarious yet slipshod woke

Follow-up to the original Bad Medical Take on Xitter: Ignorance Isn’t An Excuse. Same at 🩋 @FashionableRes1: This is just a flat out lie. Aeron @FYourVaccines [the OP]: Nope. Sorry. Many, many studies show this, but most have been wiped from the internet for obvious reasons. But tons of animal studies available that show the exact same thing.
7/8/2025, 2:07:34 PM | 70 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Welp

Community Note under the OP's Xeet: Readers added context they thought people might want to know “. You can’t overdose just by touching fentanyl. In fact, there are no confirmed cases of overdose from touching fentanyl powder or pills” The X poster admits in the replies this is most likely a panic attack. This is not only misleading It’s irresponsible. doh.wa.gov/community-and-
 And the relevant follow-up thread: TraderMike @mikel_trader: Why are the two others not affected by it?! They’re both right there next to her. Also, female cops are useless out in the field. Collin Rugg @CollinRugg: She was possibly having a panic attack. It’s unclear based on the reports. They haven’t released anymore information. (Also worth noting that the original Xeet has 12 million views, whereas the “possibly panic attack” Xeet has 244K.)
5/8/2025, 1:10:27 PM | 65 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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No, you shouldn't be giving these people the benefit of any doubt, or thinking that they're capable of subtlety

2021 Xitter exchange relevant to the OP's reference to “American Idiot” in his bio: Armand Sadlier @visionintl: A true American Idiot. Brian 'Wray Epps' Mitchell, R.Ph. @tmitch4040: I do like the record, though. Couple great hits.
4/8/2025, 3:12:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) reposted

Some people keep saying "AI isn't just probabilities, AI understands," and then AI puts a toilet next to the office desk, both of which are in the kitchen with no sink. This is not something an entity would do if it "understood" what those things are.

4/8/2025, 4:24:26 AM | 887 170 | View on Bluesky | view

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John's knowledge of the female anatomy is extensive

Screenshot of a previous Bad Medical Take by the same account, replying to a chart showing continued (if decreasing) fertility rates with age up to the 40-45 age range: John @John05591910584: This chart is bullshit. A woman over 40 has like a 1% chance of getting pregnant even if she has a load shot in her every day for a year. At 45 the eggs are completely unviable and few and far between in the vast majority of women. Again, this chart is bullshit.
3/8/2025, 4:35:23 PM | 105 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Her poor cuddly patients

Screenshot of her Xitter bio indicating that she's a veterinarian: DrDenise đŸ‡ș🇾đŸ‡ș🇾đŸ‡ș🇾đŸ‡ș🇾đŸ‡ș🇾đŸ‡ș🇾đŸ‡ș🇾đŸ‡ș🇾 @DrDeniseM Emergency veterinarian, lifelong Cyclone fanatic and alum, dog lover, Christian, Constitutionalist; God, Guns, GloryđŸ‡ș🇾đŸ‡ș🇾đŸ‡ș🇾, #BackTheBlue 💙 No DMs!
1/8/2025, 1:10:22 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In 1990, I called up the Washington, DC oldies station to request Maxwell's Silver Hammer. DJ: “Maxwell's Silver Hammer”? Sir, this is an OLDIES station. Me: Uh, it's a Beatles song. DJ: Oh, come on. If it were a Beatles song, I think I would have heard of it.

1/8/2025, 4:50:59 AM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Previously on ValerieAnne

Bad Medical Taker Valerie Anne Smith (@ValerieAnne1970) previously showcased on Bad Medical Takes: A Biopsy Is Almost A Guarantee Of Cancer Metastasis & Acceleration. Dr Thomas Lodi, MD The Problem With The Biopsy Is This. When A Cancer Tumor Is Growing, The Body Contains it Within A Fibrin Sheath. The Minute That Sheath Is Broken, By The Puncture Needle Of A Biopsy, The Cancer Metastasizes & Spreads. You Break That Seal That Kept It Contained & Now Cancer Is Unleashed. The Body Does Everything It Can Do To Isolate The Cancerous Tumor From Harming The Rest Of The Body. Disturbing The Fully Intact Tumor Has Deadly Consequences.
31/7/2025, 1:32:06 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) reposted

Nothing about the national discourse around his candidacy would lead you to believe that Zohran Mamdani is the most popular mayoral candidate among NYC Jews. And this is another example of why the national discourse about American Jews are so misleading.

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Look, she's only saying that you shouldn't schedule those things merely for the sake of convenience BUT ALSO that childbirth is supposed to be painful in order to prepare women for motherhood, and if you try to get around that you will ruin your children with your poor, poor mothering skills

Follow-up Xeet from the Bad Medical Taker: For those who can’t read or comprehend: I am only talking about women who CHOOSE these options out of convenience or aesthetic. Like picking a date that’s “cute” or saving her vag or boobs. Those reasons are unacceptable and gross. A response to the original Bad Medical Take that the BMTer herself reposted: Bri @singingbirth: You don’t have a right to have babies actually. Childbirth used to be the rite of passage required for women to prepare them for the difficulty of sacrifice it takes to raise children, and women who couldn’t handle that didn’t have children. Medicine gives you an “out” of that initiation but there’s a Faustian exchange required when that route is taken. You may put off the pain for now but it’ll manifest in much more painful consequences down the line, that still impact your child. If you’re hellbent on circumventing that process it indicates you want children for other reasons than raising them in the best healthiest environment to help them thrive. Otherwise what you’re doing is raising accessories and dolls for you to dress up and treat however you’d like at the expense of their wellbeing.
29/7/2025, 1:27:23 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“All of this is true”

Screenshot of Xeet to which the Bad Medical Taker was replying _s.a.m.e.m.e.m.e_ @st_louis_stan: As well all know, SSRIs and therapy are a joke. The human brain is actually a very finely-tuned, sophisticated machine and conditions like depression+anxiety are reactions to very real environmental conditions and stressors, not
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Oh, you guys just don't understand ✌basic economics✌

A related Xeet from the original Bad Medical Taker: Do you not realize that resources are scarce? You have already proven you do not understand basic economics. For every woman that schedules an unnecessary mammogram because she was gaslit into thinking that compressing and harming delicate breast tissue for no reason is going to save her life, then women who do feel lumps and may want to avail themselves of these scans have to wait longer for them! Oh, and do you understand that one of the reasons our premiums are out of control -- and impoverishing everyone -- is because insurance
27/7/2025, 2:46:21 PM | 31 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Happy 10-year anniversary to this story

Screenshot of archived post from The Superficial, July 24, 2015: Hulk Hogan Fired From WWE Over Racist Sex Tape Transcript https://web.archive.org/web/20150726034009/http://www.thesuperficial.com/hulk-hogan-racist-n-word-sex-tape-lawsuit-heather-clem-07-2015
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Seems to me that if Stevens is in this picture, then Souter should be somewhere in here too. (Maybe the guy crouching on the left?)

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Top reply on Xitter reveals exactly how strong the theological foundation for “religious exemption” is

Follow-up to Bad Medical Take on Xitter Mary Talley Bowden MD @MdBreathe: Catholic school system in Texas does not allow any religious exemptions. [screenshot of Immunization Policy memorandum from the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops Education Department, with the Immunization Exemption paragraph highlighted: “The only exemption to the foregoing requirement is a medical exemption signed by a licensed physician (M.D. or D.O.) authorized to practice in the state of Texas.”] Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11: Unreal Mary Talley Bowden MD @MdBreathe: They also told my patient that the medical exemption I wrote could be voided depending on the outcome of my case with the Texas Medical Board.
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It's him, unless there are two pharmacists with the same name in the same small town

Xeet: Brian 'Wray Epps' Mitchell, R.Ph. @tmitch4040: Kennett MO here. Ssup?
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The Bad Medical Taker's Xitter bio: Brian 'Wray Epps' Mitchell, R.Ph. @tmitch4040 from https://www.kfvs12.com/story/26385079/kennett-mo-pharmacist-sentenced-for-billing-healthcare-fraud/ Kennett, MO pharmacist sentenced for billing healthcare fraud Published: Aug. 27, 2014 at 5:55 PM EDT CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - A Kennett, Missouri pharmacist has been sentenced after pleading guilty to healthcare billing fraud. According to the US Attorney's Office, Brian Keith Mitchell, 51, was sentenced Wednesday to six months prison and six more months of home confinement and ordered to pay $120,000 in restitution. Mitchell Health Mart Pharmacy was sentenced to two years of probation. Mitchell, 51, pleaded guilty in April to one felony count of health care fraud and appeared for sentencing before United States District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr., in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Mitchell admitted with his plea that he billed for more expensive drugs than he actually dispensed, according to the US Attorney's Office. In March of 2014, Mitchell and Mitchell Health Mart Pharmacy entered into a separate federal civil settlement and repaid an additional $120,000 in damages to resolve similar allegations. Mitchell was accused of billing federal health care programs for more expensive drugs than they actually dispensed. As part of that civil settlement, Mitchell and Mitchell Pharmacy were excluded from future participation in federal health care programs - including Medicare and MoHealthNet, for five years.
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Bonus: He learned this science back in college 20 years ago, but the gays got it banned so he can no longer find the source

Xitter thread from the same Bad Medical Take: Paul Fields @SenorFerikhan: You are either big because your daddy was big and passed the genes to you, or you can develop the genes at a young age by using it. Its science. Nature/Nurture. Nature= born with it. Nurture= develop in environment. If you born with it and develop it even further then you [probably come away with a really big one. Its science] Dylan đŸȘđŸŠđŸ‡źđŸ‡± @Space_Raccoons: Holy shit you're fucking retarded. Paul Fields @SenorFerikhan: Its science bro. They real kind. Not the kind they teach nowadays to not offend anyone. r @ghx4st: can you like , provide a link maybe to your science ? Paul Fields @SenorFerikhan: Its from back in the day but I'll look it up just 4 u r @ghx4st: it’s been 2 hours Paul r u still looking ? can’t find it ? Paul Fields @SenorFerikhan: Its banned. Its controversial and the gay community hates it. I learned this in College biology. I made a thesis on this subject. That was in 2006. Its ok. Hope your not offended and just have an open mind. Thats all it takes is an open mind and willingness to learn something new. Ask yourself, Is there any chance from scale of 1 to 10 that this has some truth to it? Is this too far fetched?
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Makes more sense when you see the whole thing
well, maybe not

The full original thread: j. k. rawrling @bruhgaming15: why did my brother have a magnum condom in his room we got the same genes i know he doesn’t need all that Paul Fields @SenorFerikhan: He was fucking at a young age. The younger you are when u fuck, the bigger window testosterone has to develop before it peaks. WHARKDREAVUS @WHARKNUT: that's not true in the slightest [the Z Paul Fields @SenorFerikhan: You are either big because your daddy was big and passed the genes to you, or you can develop the genes at a young age by using it. Its science. Nature/Nurture. Nature= born with it. Nurture= develop in environment. If you born with it and develop it even further then you [probably come away with a really big one. Its science] Im Just here for the negativity @ibswaggin5: With that ideology the ppl that was beating off at a early age would be “big” 😂😂 Paul Fields @SenorFerikhan: Beating off is not the same as the real thing. Its artificial and the body knows it. Its has the opposite effect actually
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This made the news at the time (sans Epstein)

excerpt from the “Newsmakers” column of the June 18, 1990 Los Angeles Times: Gambling With the Law: Donald Trump’s casino tour for tennis star Gabriela Sabatini broke state gaming laws because she’s too young to go into the pit, but no action is planned against him, authorities said Wednesday in Atlantic City, N.J. The Argentine athlete was 19 when Trump led her on a nongambling tour of the Trump Plaza casino in September. Visitors to gambling areas must be 21. “If we get a legitimate complaint, we’ll investigate it,” said Wayne Marlin, spokesman for New Jersey’s Division of Gaming Enforcement.
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She couldn't be bothered to scroll down to see what else this place was offering for upcoming Storytime sessions, that's for sure

The July 16 offerings for the aforementioned Brooklyn Storytime Series: ‘The Big Orange Splot’, by Daniel Pinkwater The Big Orange Splot is a children's picture book by Daniel Manus Pinkwater. It tells the story of Mr. Plumbean, who lives on an orderly but mundane street where all the houses look the same. One day, a seagull drops a can of bright orange paint on Mr. Plumbean's house, leaving a big orange splot on the house. Instead of immediately cleaning it off, Mr. Plumbean decides to leave it there, which leads to unexpected consequences ‘Bodies are Cool’, by Tyler Feder This cheerful picture book is an exuberant read-aloud celebration of all the different human bodies that exist in the world. With its joyful illustrations and encouraging refrain, it will instill body acceptance and confidence in young readers. The August 6 offerings for the aforementioned Brooklyn Storytime Series: ‘Where the Wild Things Are’, by Maurice Sendak Max is frustrated and angry when his mother sends him to bed, but he escapes into his imagination where he can expend his energy having a “rumpus” with the Wild Things. There, he observes reality from an outside perspective and decides to return to The August 13 offerings for the aforementioned Brooklyn Storytime Series: ‘Madeline’, Ludwig Bemelmans Madeline is a timeless children's classic by Ludwig Bemelmans. It follows the adventures of a fearless little girl in a boarding school in Paris. 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar’, by Eric Carle The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a picture book about a small caterpillar who emerges from an egg and begins eating everything in sight. After six days of eating fruits, sweets, and “junk” food, he gets a stomach ache. On the seventh day, the caterpillar eats a “nice leaf” and feels much better. The book follows the caterpillar's journey as he eats his way through the pages and the days of the week The August 27 offerings for the aforementioned Brooklyn Storytime Series: ‘The Gruffalo’, by Julia Donaldson The Gruffalo is a British children's picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. It tells the story of a mouse taking a walk in the woods and deceiving different predators, including the Gruffalo. The mouse encounters dangerous animals (a fox, an owl, and a snake) and uses cunning to evade them. The story also features an imaginary monster, the Gruffalo, who turns out to be real. ‘Blueberries for Sal’, by Robert McKloskey Blueberries for Sal is a classic children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey in 1948. The story is set in Maine and follows the adventures of a young girl named Sal and a bear cub named Little Bear as they both go blueberry picking with their respective mothers before winter.
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Really since 1995—no wait, since 1981; basically, every time Republicans come into power they push this agenda

Partial clip of New York Times article from December 17, 1994, Partial clip of New York Times article from April 16, 1981: “National Public Radio at 10: Excellent but in Danger,” three months after Ronald Reagan took office with a newly Republican Senate (and a somewhat pliable Democratic House) Relevant excerpt: “When the Reagan Administration released its proposed budget cuts last month, Frank Man[k]iewicz, the president of NPR, said that if the cuts were approved by Congress, NPR would be forced to cancel all of its national programs immediately. The victims, he said, would include ‘All Things Considered’ and ‘Morning Edition,’ the two daily NPR news programs that recently received the duPont-Columbia Award, regarded as the highest prize for excellence in broadcast journalism.“ Note: The byline for the article belongs to Tony Schwartz, who would go on to ghostwrite “The Art of the Deal” for Donald Trump just a few years later.
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OBSESSED with vitiligo

The Xeet that preceded the Bad Medical Take: “Liz Wolfe @LizWolfeReason: Every time I try to take my kid to storytime in Brooklyn it's always THIS TYPE OF BOOK. Can't we just read classics like Where the Wild Things Are (a great book about monsters and the importance of obeying yr mother) or Go Dog Go (about traffic laws and treetop parties)?” and the cover of the book, “Bodies Are Cool” by Tyler Feder featuring illustrations of several swimsuited people of different races, some fat, some skinny, some hairy, and one with vitiligo
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I think the actual political strategy is that if he comes in 2nd but keeps Mamdani below 50%—which at this point I'd bet is the eventual outcome—he can blame Adams and Sliwa for not dropping out and giving him a clear shot (as if their withdrawal would cause all their votes to naturally flow to him)

Excerpt from an ABC-7 NY article on Andrew Cuomo's formal announcement to stay in the mayoral race, after spending three weeks mulling it over since his primary loss: In a letter to supporters, Cuomo vowed to
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Seems to me that if they wanted to make an anti-Israel statement they would've killed off Wonder Woman

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Fellas, is it gay to like Jennifer Love Hewitt, or even subgenre BBW fetish

Xeet to which the Bad Medical Taker is responding: “*Baseball Chickie!* @baseballchickie: I know I’m slightly bias because I prefer men with (a lot of) meat on them but
 If you think she’s fat, you are out of your God Damn Mind.” 
quote-xeeting pictures of Jennifer Love Hewitt at the
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Looks even better in the original publication than this poorly punctuated reprint, where the original em-dashes are reduced to hyphens

The same excerpt as published in the original 1935 edition of Black Reconstruction, properly formatted and punctuated
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Every piece of evidence seems to further confirm that the attacks on Mamdani are driven by an elitist out of touch group of unpopular weirdos

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30 years doing his own research, he means

The original Bad Medical Take with a follow-up thread on Xitter: r/FacebookScience @FBScienceSub: In what capacity? Were you in a lab? What kind of electron microscopes did you have access to? Were you part of a team or a solo act? Dan@gendansolo [the original Bad Medical Taker]: Nope. In the library. Solo act. Testing on myself by discounting that a virus made me sick, then searching for the real thing that made me sick. r/FacebookScience @FBScienceSub: You can't do viral research by reading alone. Dan @gendansolo: I research myself. Whenever I get sick I disregard virology and find out what really made me sick and I get better in hours instead of days and weeks. Every single time. r/FacebookScience @FBScienceSub: That's not research, it's confirmation bias. Dan @gendansolo: no it's not. I can call it testing and calibrating. I'm not going to lie to myself about what makes me sick and what doesn't. Now that I know virology is bullshit I get better faster and know how to avoid being sick most of the time. you should try it.
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Profile picture Ed (@notdred.bsky.social) reposted

I guess the media needs it to be spelled out but the core principle of RFKj wellness fascism is that if you get sick it’s your fault, you could have avoided it by using the right “supplements” and working out, so you might as well die because you’re of no use

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Ah, well, that's different you see

 Screenshot of a follow-up Xitter thread to the original Bad Medical Take Terrell 🕳 @codylarae_ : Tell that to Steve Jobs ThotSlayer @thotslayer_1138 [the original Bad Medical Taker]: Mr Jobs was a compromised Freemason fuckhead... The rules of the game are vastly different for those mthrfckrs. MfTango @MisterFireTango: goal post moved
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To be clear, this is what actual antisemitism looks like.

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Profile picture Oeming (@oeming.bsky.social) reposted

Very Rich people who want to live in NYC, LA, Miami etc won’t leave if you raise their taxes 1-3%- They live there because they love it, not for the tax rate -otherwise they’d live in cheap places to save on taxes (like me:) but they don’t. “They’ll leave” is such BS.

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Profile picture alec karakatsanis (@equalityalec.bsky.social) reposted

See if you can spot the difference between New York Times propaganda and the Israeli press. I know it’s subtle, let me know if you can’t figure it out.

NYT vaguely describing Palestinian deaths while Haaretz describes “killing fields” of Israeli troops murdering people seeking aid. image
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I live here, and I'm still amused by the idea that the solution is to recruit a *fifth* general-election candidate who will fracture the anti-Mamdani vote even more.

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general election preview: zohran: freeze the rent and make buses fast and free cuomo: new york city is a hellhole eric adams: we hustle and grind at the hotel of wisdom, god is my DJ when I’m on the dance floor of success, new york is the home of pizza and 9/11

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From the Wikipedia entry on Dr. Sebi

Alfredo Darrington Bowman (26 November 1933 – 6 August 2016), also known as Dr. Sebi, was a controversial Honduran herbalist, who practiced in the United States in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Bowman falsely claimed to cure all disease with herbs and a plant-based alkaline diet based on various pseudoscientific claims, and denied that HIV caused AIDS. He set up a treatment center in Honduras, then moved his practice to New York City and Los Angeles. Numerous entertainment and acting celebrities were among his clients, including Michael Jackson, Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, and John Travolta. Although he used the title and name Dr. Sebi, Bowman had not completed any formal medical training. He was considered a quack by licensed doctors, attorneys, and consumer protection agencies in the United States. He was arrested and accused by New York state of practicing medicine without a license. After trial, Bowman was acquitted based on the legal definition of Bowman became frustrated with Western medical practices in treating his own illnesses such as asthma, diabetes, impotency and visual impairment and visited an herbalist in Mexico named Alfredo Cortez who confirmed to him that he was dying. Bowman began his own healing practice in Honduras soon after. He developed a treatment that he called the
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Reminded that four years ago they did this for the one voter registered at Gracie Mansion, thereby revealing to the world who Dante de Blasio voted for.

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┻┳| ┳┻| ┻┳| ┳┻| ┻┳| ┳┻| ┻┳| ┳┻| _ ┻┳| ‱.‱) the NYC mayoral primary used to be in September; ┳┻|⊂ sometimes they had to have a runoff 2 weeks later ┻┳|

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In other news, lol

Screenshot of the current results (83.13% of the expected vote in) of the race for New York City Council District 2 showing former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner in a distant 4th place with 10.3% of the vote and 0% hope of prevailing in the ranked-choice voting instant runoff
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To be clear, strong-arming countries into submission by bombing them, or telling them that they'd better surrender to Russia because you're just going to let Russia roll right over them if they don't—that's not “brokering peace,” that's just bullying.

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Profile picture Hemry, Local Bartender (@bartenderhemry.bsky.social) reposted

This has been the whole administration (and really was the whole campaign), a surrogate saying "trump does not want the crazy thing and it's frankly insulting that you would even ask" immediately followed by trump saying "I WANT THE CRAZY THING! THANK YOU!!"

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Scene from an episode of The Odd Couple where tennis hustler Bobby Riggs (left) bets Oscar Madison (Jack Klugman, right) that he can't type his own name in 10 seconds, and Murray the Cop (Al Molinaro, center) reads the result: “Oscar Madisoy.”
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Gotta say, if it came down to Cuomo vs. Adrienne Adams and you didn't rank either, your ballot would no longer be valid. Fortunately, that looks to be an unlikely scenario, but I think people should rank the lesser evil as their 5th choice just in case.

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amtrak’s marketing team gets it

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Not sure why NYC didn't go on to expand RCV to the general election, but I suspect it's because Eric Adams thought that it almost cost him the 2021 primary, and that he would've done better under the old system where if no one gets 40% the top two candidates have a separate runoff

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Well
at least we can finally put an end to the “Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize” chatter. (Um, right?)

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Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reposted

He's going to hate having to live in the city, he's going to hate how he has to deal with a City Council who isn't afraid of him, he's going to hate having to ask Carl Heastie, Andrea Stewart Cousins and Kathy Hochul for money, he's going to hate dealing with the press, it's gonna be rough.

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Profile picture Dante Atkins (@danteatkins.bsky.social) reposted

A lot of the left got suckered into the idea that Trump is anti-war because he hates multilateralism. But he doesn't hate war. He loves it. What he hates is the idea of defending another country based on shared values, because he doesn't have any values. He wants to divide the world like Mafia turfs

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Okay, but you do know that EIR (Executive Intelligence Review) is a Lyndon LaRouche publication, right?

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You just need to think more like a supervillain

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Oh

Opening paragraph of the Wikipedia entry for Bonnie Blue: “Tia Emma Billinger (born 14 May 1999), known professionally as Bonnie Blue, is an English pornographic film actress. She has been controversial for her sexual content with university students and married men, her claims to have had sex with 1,057 men in one day, and her goals of having sex with as many men as possible. She made several appearances on podcasts in 2024 which generated several weeks of backlash on Twitter; a subsequent appearance on This Morning prompted 188 complaints to Ofcom. An advert featuring her and involving the online casino Stake later prompted that firm to exit the UK market.” with accompanying photo of the same woman as in the post above
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Completely normal response

Xeet that prompted this Bad Medical Take: “Garbage Human (@GarbageHuman24): 25yo women should not look like this” and a picture of a blonde woman with a slightly sunken-looking face (perhaps just sunken-looking due to her face being framed by a mane of flowing blonde hair) [followed by the original Bad Medical Take, for full context]
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Reminded that when Kansas finally repealed statewide Prohibition in 1948, they kept a ban on sales by the drink that wasn't fully lifted until 1986. Commercial airliners flying overhead were supposed to suspend serving alcoholic beverages until they left Kansas airspace.

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iHawk from Futurama with the Irreverent - Maudlin switch, except I've replaced “Maudlin” with ”Woke”
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This is also technically a reference to Elon not being able to piss, if you think about it bsky.app/profile/eyes...

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If you want to know more about the mob angle, which is mostly getting overlooked in the Kerik memorials

Beyond the Disclosure About Kerik's Nanny, More Questions Were Lurking (NYTimes, 12/13/04) selected excerpts: While serving as New York City correction commissioner in the late 1990's, Bernard B. Kerik spoke to the city's Trade Waste Commission on behalf of a close friend who was helping a company suspected of mob connections try to get a license from the city, according to a former commission executive. The conversation was part of a web of relationships Mr. Kerik developed with officials of a New Jersey construction company long suspected by New York authorities of connections to organized crime. The company, Interstate Industrial Corporation, hired Mr. Kerik's close friend Lawrence Ray, the best man at Mr. Kerik's wedding, to help with its licensing problems. Mr. Ray said yesterday that he gave Mr. Kerik more than $7,000 in cash and other gifts while Mr. Kerik was commissioner of correction and the police.
 Interstate also hired Mr. Kerik's brother, Donald Kerik, after the conversation with the Trade Waste Commission executive, Raymond V. Casey, then head of enforcement at the agency
 Both Mr. Kerik and one of the owners of Interstate, Frank DiTommaso, acknowledge that they were friends, but said there was no effort to inappropriately influence the licensing process. Mr. DiTommaso said his company did not have ties to organized crime. But in January of this year, city regulators recommended denying the license, citing what they said were ties to organized crime over many years. 
 
Interstate paid more than $1 million in 1996 to buy a debris transfer station in Staten Island from a company controlled by a captain and a soldier in the Gambino crime family, and it then employed organized crime figures at the station and did business with trucking companies owned by crime figures. The memorandum, which recommended denying the company a transfer station license, said the owners of Interstate associated with crime figures

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It says a lot that *this* was where Obama lost the most white support, because his comments on Trayvon Martin (“if I had a son
”) certainly sparked a greater white backlash, but most of the whites he lost just from siding with Gates never came back, so fewer additional whites felt alienated.

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It was Obama, and it was the Beer Summit. White America crowed for months that a Black man's ascension to the presidency meant that “racism was over,” but after Obama weighed in on the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, a lot of whites decided that Blacks would just never stop playing “the racism card.”

Excerpt from the Wikipedia entry, “Henry Louis Gates Arrest Controversy” [footnote citations deleted]: An opinion poll released by Pew Research found that 41 percent disapproved of Obama's
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Hope Eggsy's memory isn't too long

2018 Adam Serwer tweet: “I’m....pretty sure our tortie guest is plotting to murder Eggsy” and three photos of a female (iirc) tortie cat stalking the creamsicle Serwer cat
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Wait a minute, isn't this the ATM thief from yesterday? bsky.app/profile/bode...

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The poster says, “We will build a squadron of airships named after Lenin” The largest airship says “Lenin”; some of the others say “Stalin,” “Pravda” (Truth), and “Old Bolshevik”

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If you need “Brady Bunching the measles” explained

Headline from a 2019 National Public Radio web article: “'Brady Bunch' Episode Fuels Campaigns Against Vaccines — And Marcia's Miffed” with a photo of three of the Brady Bunch kids (including Marcia) that may or may not be from the measles episode in question Excerpt from the aforementioned NPR article: Some former cast members are upset the show is being used in 2019 to bolster arguments against vaccines. Maureen McCormick played Marcia as a teen. She found out a few months ago that an anti-vaccination Facebook group was circulating memes of her with measles from that episode, and she was furious, she says.
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Profile picture Jeremy Parker (@astutepanther.bsky.social) reply parent

He really thought this account would back up his Brady Bunching the measles

Excerpt from reply thread to the original Bad Medical Take on Xitter: Kelly (@broadwaybabyto): Please tell me this isn’t a serious question? It’s not benign. It causes serious disability like blindness and deafness. It kills 1 out of every 1000 children it infects. Why wouldn’t you want to prevent it? Afueriste (@Quentin__France) [the original Bad Medical Taker]: No it was a joke in American TV shows, every parent knew it was benign, and you are a medical science denier @BadMedicalTakes Kelly (@broadwaybabyto): I hope you don’t have kids. Afueriste (@Quentin__France): Measles is harmless for healthy children. Negligible risk. There is no evidence supporting vaccination. The vax made the measles situation more problematic. Why do you deny medical science, denier?
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Profile picture Jeremy Parker (@astutepanther.bsky.social)

Half the posts about The Last of Us seem to be, “This is the best show on television, you should be watching it” The other half go something like, “The bad story choices are because that's what happens in the video game, as if that somehow justifies making the story choices bad”

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Okay, but GDT's only had two movies nominated for Best Picture, and the other is NIGHTMARE ALLEY which checks off almost the same boxes.

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THE SHAPE OF WATER really wasn't Best Picture-caliber (imo), but no one complained because it snatched the prize away from THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI, which would've been like CRASH redux.

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Bonus aspect: she thinks only pre-med students need to know this information. bsky.app/profile/badm...

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