Mike Doughney 🇺🇸

Mike Doughney 🇺🇸

@mike.doughney.net

Professional doomscroller. Maître de la maison à Château d'éphémères Formerly with Digex, UPI Radio, Mutual Broadcasting. COVID avoiding, wearing a Flo Mask. I may have sold your parents their first dialup Internet account. https://linktr.ee/mikedoughney

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Well the first person to describe measles was Abu Bakr al-Razi, and he knew more about the disease than RFK Jr despite living >1000 years ago 🤷🏻‍♂️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bak...

en.wikipedia.orgAbu Bakr al-Razi - Wikipedia
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Replying to @wolven.blacksky.app

Like… this baseline assumption that things from sources that are treated as authoritative obviously must thus be trustworthy is circular reasoning that is doing and will continue to do a lot of harm unless and until we tackle this shit at a BUNCH of levels of society.

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He probably thinks Al-gebra is a terrorist organization.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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The real AI apocalypse is not about robots messing with the power grid it is AI destroying the minds of kids, who, with educators pushing these tools, are at real risk of loosing the ability to write independently.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

"AI can draft an essay for you, especially if you give it a high quality prompt." Really? This is what MIT thinks high schoolers should learn? MIT's "Day of AI" dayofai.org provides materials for K-12 teachers and claims to have reached over 5,000,000 students to date. 1/2

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David Ellison and his co-CEO Ynon Kreiz sent out an email to Skydance employees today offering up voluntary buyouts and also implementing a five-day-a-week in-office work policy. And so it begins...

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As a former teacher, I never scrubbed in for a gender reassignment surgery, but I did instruct the kids on how to get the window screens off in case of an active shooter…

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This will go down as one of the most incredible screwups in recent campaign history, and it happened because brain-fried Republicans like Ramaswamy can't imagine that voters don't actually want politicians to be gigantic assholes. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/vivek-rama...

publicnotice.coVivek Ramaswamy discovers that voters have their limitsAsking “What would Trump do?” is a bad way to make campaign strategy.

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None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

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Times have been tough in this Ohio town ever since the woke mob closed the old Cheesecake Factory. So when Vivek Ramaswamy promised to legalize child rape, they finally had something to cheer about again. But then Obama said something elitist.

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me: mom, what was I like as a little girl? my mom (completely fucking braindead): hey alexa describe a human kid or something

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

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Very rich people have always loved boarding school and other ways of spending the least time with their kids — AI companies now convinced them, and anybody able to be conned this way, that even the process of getting to know their childrens' personalities is a waste of time.

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

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Oh, honey . . . your own mother shipped you off to a reform school (with cute little military costumes) after you were caught throwing rocks into a baby carriage and she realized you were too twisted to deal with.

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NEW on @zeteo.com — Venues are *pulling out* of hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for his bus tour across Ohio in the closing days of the election. “We’re getting calls that people don’t want him there,” a top Ohio Republican says. “It’s that damn ad.” From @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social:

zeteo.comVenues Start Canceling on Vivek Ramaswamy Over His Disgusting Ad: ‘People Don’t Want Him There’Businesses have begun pulling out of Vivek Ramaswamy’s bus tour with other GOP candidates. ‘It’s that damn ad,’ a top Ohio Republican tells Zeteo.

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JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

nytimes.comHow Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass (Gift Article)The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.

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Replying to @masnick.com

How to make sure 75% of the people who clicked leave after the first sentence.

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This ad is pathetic, and it’s a more extreme position than even some Republicans have. To what end? You win no one. You lose a bunch of voters. And you look like a desperate, hateful douchebag.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

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Reagan talked about welfare queens in Cadillacs, Trump talks about Somalian thieves in Mercedes Benzes, because being *real* racist has been a core strategy Republican politicians for a very long time, even if prior to Trump a lot of folks who should have known better enjoyed pretending otherwise.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."

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my feminine energy would like to meet this guy on the stage

“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”

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I dug into Netanyahu’s decades-old writings & exclusive meetings with DC elites, and found how far he went to make himself the West's foremost "terror" expert — and thus steer America's endless War on Terror. It's a saga that touches everything from Mario Cuomo & H.W. Bush, to Reagan & Iran-Contra.

zeteo.com40 Years Ago, Netanyahu Laid the Groundwork for America’s Disastrous ‘Global War on Terror’The Israeli prime minister’s old writings from the 1980s and 1990s also reveal his long game for war against Iran – and how he influenced everyone from Reagan to Bush to Trump.

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Facts: Bicycle vs. motorcycle commuting mode share for Iowa cities: —Iowa City: 2.8% vs 0.4% —Ames: 1.7% vs 0.0% —Des Moines: 0.4% vs 0.0% —Cedar Rapids: 0.2% vs 0.2% Turns out Iowans actually do ride bikes, more than they ride motorcycles.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Joe Mitchell: "Thank God you're building the ballroom. Thank God you're getting rid of those awful bike lanes. We don't ride bicycles in Iowa."

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This is beyond criminal. 🤬🖕🤬

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social

Per a database of discrimination complaints obtained by @propublica.org , Trump's Department of Education is actively ignoring reports of rape and assault on campuses so they can instead focus on transgender athletes. Their obsession with trans people is actively putting women and girls in danger.

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AOC: "They call people communists, they call them this or that. But really what it is is they're afraid of a waitress in the House and a logger in the Senate"

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"I suppose every generation thinks the next has lost its way, but there’s so little artistry to it anymore. We used to spend months figuring out how to make racism look like a perfectly legitimate concern about municipal governance." buff.ly/bEdtrJN

buff.lyWhatever Happened to the Good Old-Fashioned Racist Attack Ad?“We used to spend months figuring out how to make racism look like a perfectly legitimate concern about municipal governance. But watching the modern Republi...

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these guys are evil and dangerous but also just utter fuckin buffoons lol just such incompetent embarrassing boneheads

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Pete Hegseth wanted Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it because they refused to wait for a team of specialist historians to move it.