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Comey: Well, they're back. This time about a picture of seashells on a North Carolina beach a year ago. And this won't be the end of it.But nothing has changed with me. I'm still innocent. I'm still not afraid. And I still believe in the independent federal judiciary. So let's go.

— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2026-04-28T21:50:20.278Z

Unambiguously a violation of grand jury secrecy in a way that would normally be a massive problem, and in this instance is about a dozen items down the list.

— Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) 2026-04-28T22:29:10.414Z

Sure, let Joe decide

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Fda Launches Real-Time Access Plan For Clinical Trial Data With AstraZeneca And Amgen — The FDA announced a new initiative that would let its reviewers access clinical trial information in real time, aiming to speed and strengthen oversight. AstraZeneca and Amgen are already…

— BizToc (@biztoc.com) 2026-04-28T23:01:03.419Z

"This is setting off alarm bells because it suggests the president is doing an end-run around the FDA’s normal scientific processes, quite possibly because he wants to quiet a politically influential podcaster who has been giving him grief over Iran."

— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2026-04-28T23:00:59.278Z

Social skills

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Pure, unadulterated cringe.

— Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) 2026-04-28T19:36:47.987Z

"The US Supreme Court..has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160…cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances."A British King just rightly checked the entire Republican Party on the Floor of the House.

— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) 2026-04-28T23:04:54.809Z

Lashing out

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I once wrote about the fact that women are more likely to get beaten by their S.O.s during pregnancy than any other time, and was swarmed by men who insisted it was a lie that only proved that I hated men:

Answer: the men who got them pregnant kill them.Not top five. Not top three. Top.

— David Roberts (@volts.wtf) 2026-04-28T19:55:10.623Z

This is factoid that @lyz.bsky.social regularly shares with her readers and honest to god it makes me want to burn the world down.But no, let's have another article about the male loneliness epidemic, or the need to raise the birth rate. 😡

— David Roberts (@volts.wtf) 2026-04-28T19:57:24.077Z