Faye Getz 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇳🇱🇨🇦
@fayway.bsky.social
Ill-tempered Auntie now haunting EG, Rhode Island. Wrote books etc. on history of science/medicine, mostly medieval. Always in trouble for something. Old. Hangs with prof who writes lots on global capitalism and science. Multinational. F’ing bitch.
News: Erica Schwartz confirmed as CDC director, filling nearly yearlong vacancy www.statnews.com/2026/08/05/s...
Erica Schwartz confirmed as CDC director, filling nearly yearlong vacancy
Now confirmed, Erica Schwartz is the third CDC nominee since Trump took office for his second term.
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🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵
Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million (Gift Article)
The agreement was an extraordinary example of how the Trump administration has offered legal relief to those aligned with the president.
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Why are Bari Weiss and David Ellison manipulating the news to protect child rapist Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplices? Possibly connected to how Weiss pushed to hire Epstein friend Peter Attia?
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterdayOne more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.
Wonder how long they’ll wait? Can’t keep him on ice forever.
Steven Thrasher, an assistant professor and the Daniel H. Renberg Chair of social justice in reporting, accused the university of breaching his employment contract, including alleged violations of his academic freedom, denying his tenure appeal and terminating his chair position.
Denied tenure and alleging discrimination, Northwestern University professor sues school and government officials
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Call For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...
This is Bonggu. His human took this "embarrassing" pic of him napping. Even shared them with us to humiliate him. Jokes on them though because he's still very handsome. 13/10 (IG: hi_bbomabbong_2)
Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.
Abby was the one that broke open the Max Miller story (and shame on NYT for not acknowledging that). Here is her original story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 3d agoI first got 1000+ pages of court documents from Miller & Moreno's custody case. Anybody can request these from Cuyahoga County. I reviewed those by myself, one by one—no AI involved!—and the filings pointed to police reports. I then sought those out separately and spent days combing through them.
Brown’s President Will Resign After a Tenure That Included Trump Deal www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Brown’s President Will Resign after a Tenure that Included Trump Deal (Gift Article)
The president, Christina H. Paxson, led the campus for over a decade, but in recent years faced protests, political pressure and a shooting that killed two students.
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Republican lawmaker beats the shit out of his wife, remains on ballot for Benton County judgeship www.4029tv.com/article/bent...
Court documents accuse Arkansas state representative of punching wife in face
Authorities said Arkansas State Rep. Austin McCollum is facing battery and assault charges.
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These people are mad at Dr. Fauci because he told them to wear a mask during a deadly pandemic.
Just one more month to go! Catch our exhibition that unpacks the origins of Carl Linnaeus' classification of human beings. In 1735, Linnaeus published the 1st ed of "Systema naturae", which had fundamental consequences in the emergence of the concept of race.
The Republican War on Women normalized.
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 3d agoMax Miller released audio recordings of conversations he has with his ex wife. In one of them, she accuses him of clandestinely recording their conversations. “I have never recorded our conversations” he says, while recording their conversation. This is domestic violence. Ask me how I know.
YES!
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 3d agoREPUBLICANS POKED THE BEAR They used gerrymandering to weaken Black voting power. New data shows they helped drive higher Black voter turnout in parts of the South instead. 📌 Alabama saw one of the biggest increase in Black voter mobilization. That will matter in @dougjones.bsky.social gov race.
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
‘[He] grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought.’
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoSen. John Kennedy on Trump's blatant reflecting pool lies: "The president says it was caused by vandals. I don't know if he really believes that or it's part of his political messaging or he's just thinking out loud ... he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought."
I made dinner for my abuser a bunch of times. You have to play nice while you're planning your escape so you don't get dead. Max Miller is a textbook abuser.
I wish reporters would avoid terms like "inescapable" in discussing AI. Change is never inevitable and inescapable--it is always linked to specific decisions we make as a society. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Impending, Inescapable Deluge of A.I.
The number of A.I. chips that provide the computing power to advance the fast-evolving technology is doubling every nine months.
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