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Claire Brown founder at Aristides Capital shorts, governance, human rights, science, fruit, native plants, baking M.D. fmr @USUhealthsci (she/her) my opinions; not the firm's. not investment advice.
twitter is like, a bunch of good journalists who post stuff and then you get annoying ultra-right wing Nazi bots in the replies. bluesky is a bunch of good journalists who post stuff and then you get annoying nihilist leftists in the replies. both are suboptimal.
Coverage of Andy Barr, a sitting Congressman and candidate for U.S. Senate, running an ad declaring, "It's not a sin to be white" -- a variation of a notorious white nationalist slogan
AP: Zero
NYT: Zero
WashPost: Zero
Reuters: Zero
Politico: Zero
Axios: Zero
the problem with giving in on things that don't poll well is that as soon as the right wins on the the things that don't poll well, they move on and start lying about more popular things to manipulate public opinion, starting the cycle again.
This serial killing spree has been completely normalized.
I consider this in many ways the single worst thing going on because it’s getting zero resistance from the media, Congress, everywhere.
Everyone has seemingly accepted he can commit mass murder on boats for… fun, basically.
“In other words, there hasn’t been an organic shift in public opinion on trans people but rather a massive astroturfing campaign against us.” — @juliaserano.bsky.social
Goldman Highly Shorted Index when 11-day rate of change is as scorching hot as it is today:
oh and twitter is kind of broken today, so trans people and investment people and journalists please say hello over here. maybe if there's a decent audience i'll just stay here mostly
just listened to a quantum computing CFO say that his is the only company selling a solution today for post-quantum encryption, and holy shit, what a whopper of a lie that is.
i'm so tired of living in an era where the more an exec lies the better the share price performs.
Your reminder that the Purcell "principle" is "it is always too close to the next election for a ruling that would benefit Democrats, and it is never too close to the next election for a ruling that would benefit Republicans"
Congrats again to everyone for pretending the far right authoritarian party’s assault on higher education was really about fighting antisemitism
It simply takes an incredible act of mental genius to pretend the Twitter files were a major news story but the Epstein files are overblown
this is why estrangement works!
your parents don't deserve access to you if they are this deplorable, and it proves some people are truly in a cult and unreachable, so you can stop trying
PS I feel for these siblings but they'll be just fine w/o them in their lives
List of headlines from media covering FDA, most emphasizing the claim that covid killed children
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories:
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
This is essentially Vinay Prasad, who has an MD, declaring his intent to use the government to torture children to dead via preventable disease by knowingly withholding the cure.
To call this despicable is an understatement.
New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
A must read account of Trump’s historic betrayal of Ukraine, Europe and America from the WSJ….
Surprise! The “peace plan” is really just a plan for Trump, Witkoff, Don Junior and their friends to get rich.
Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent)
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
Okay this is a good headline
Secret police www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
"Four, because I am in the National Guard"
if 6-7 were slang for a giant hole, this would be the perfect tweet
just hopped over to BlueSky for the first time in a while and my Discover feed is not what i was expecting
I’ve never seen anything remotely this petty charged as bank fraud.
Many sea stars begin life as young fairy-like creature (called a brachiolaria) that float through the open ocean. Eventually, a small star forms within them (here in yellow). The fairy-like brachiolaria sinks under the star’s weight, and the star pops out!
🎥@the_story_of_a_biologist (on Insta)
ok this really is awful, and she's going to do catastrophically bad things (srsly tell people now to stop trusting CBS as a news source), but i did laugh very hard at someone comping her to Michael Scott
Trump referenced a weekend conversation with Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, and he alluded to being told by Kotek that the reality in Portland is different from what’s being portrayed to him. “I spoke to the governor, she was very nice,” Trump said. “But I said, ‘Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening? My people tell me different.’ They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place…it looks like terrible.”
Trump told NBC on Sunday that he saw some Portland riot footage on Fox and thought it reflected current events.
It didn't. It was 5 years old, from the George Floyd aftermath.
And we learned that due to the diligence of a local TV reporter, who got the transcript.
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits
When this ruling came down it was clear, if Trump won, they were handing a deeply vindictive, corrupt criminal the most powerful prosecutorial weapon in the world.
