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Dr. SkySkull
@drskyskull.bsky.social
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Incidentally, I remember when Al Gore was an exceptionally well qualified candidate but the media hammered him into the ground and literally made up stuff about him because they didn’t like him
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Julia S.
@booktweeting.bsky.social
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look, the answer to “crops will rot in the fields” after mass deportation is “chain gangs from for-profit prisons” they’re just not showing that card right now
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@greenowl.bsky.social
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Trump wouldn't do the debate unless they let him lie w/out fact checking. They can't get access to Trump unless they let him lie w/out challenge. So they barely cover his lies, then get mad & say Biden is "too old" to counter his lies in debate, but won't cover Biden countering his lies anyway.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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And this is how I learned he died.
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Kameron Hurley
@kameronhurley.bsky.social
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I want to start an ad campaign: "Instead of high speed rail we got... Theranos." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of universal healthcare we got... Juicero." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of clean tap water we got... NFTs." TAX BILLIONNAIRES
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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It’s amazing the extent to which our billionaire tech bro overlords are just telling us out loud that they are rooting for fascism. Makes me slightly nostalgic for the days when American plutocrats plotted against democracy in secret.
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Kingfisher & Wombat
@tkingfisher.com
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We are having dinner at what I am assured is an absolutely accurate completely fake Viking restaurant!
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Kingfisher & Wombat
@tkingfisher.com
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The Helsinki library is like the apotheosis of Library As Useful Public Space. I am in awe.
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Deva Woodly
@devawo.bsky.social
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I came to my 14 year old with a concern about social media. He literally took his glasses off, rubbed his temples, and asked: “what have the moms on the internet said now?” 😯🫤😆
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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the world in which the president is throwing his opponents in jail is not a world where you can just ask a judge to let you out
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
@bbbozzz.bsky.social
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Many people think equality is racist against white people. That has been true since well before equal rights was enshrined in the constitution. They think disparities are natural, just, inevitable, and irresolvable. Attempts to reduce disparities are cast as racist against whites and maybe Asians.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.
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Ariel Ruff
@arielruff.bsky.social
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I would argue it's also why they really don't care about bad things that trump or other Republican leaders do. Because so long as they are pushing white supremacy, nothing else matters... And I mean nothing else.
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Ariel Ruff
@arielruff.bsky.social
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Close, the bigger picture is that the whole Republican project has turned into a crusade against the eventual loss of a majority by white people. It's all that drives them currently, and it's the reason behind almost all of their stances, including the hate of DEI.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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"Politics would be interesting again" Oh, jeez, I'm sorry that SCOTUS Team 6 waterboarding democracy to pave the way for a felon-messiah-king who's vowing to use the presidency to deport millions and imprison his foes for treason hasn't been INTERESTING enough for you. Let me jangle some car keys.
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Daniel Gilmore
@gilmored85.bsky.social
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If only our news media institutions found "ex-president promises to jail and try opponents for treason if he takes back power" as newsworthy as "unnamed aide said current president gets tired after having a full day of work."
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
@ugarles.bsky.social
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the conservative theory of law in one headline
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@greenowl.bsky.social
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Sometimes you can get your publisher to set you up.with a vendor's account since you're re-selling them & the discount is bigger than just the author discount. Nonfiction authors do this to sell at workshops all the time.
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Dave Hutchinson
@hutchinsondave.bsky.social
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I’m not sure there’s anything you can say about a society that wants to protect kids from Anne Frank’s Diary but won’t protect them from guns.
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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social
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Martin Mull, comic actor of ‘Clue,’ ‘Roseanne’ and ‘Arrested Development,’ has died
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John Dellaporta
@johndellaporta.bsky.social
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.
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Ian Carrillo
@iansociologo.bsky.social
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Race is still factored in. White applicants get to keep the advantages they've accrued through systemic racism without any countervailing forces.
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Nate (he/him; o/ele/–o)
@scrapnik.bsky.social
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reminder that 70s Gay Panic and our current 20s Trans Panic are literally the same thing
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Marie Brennan
@swantower.bsky.social
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A conversation on our Discord has prompted me to say again: remember, y'all, what really sells books is not the author talking about their work, but *readers* talking about it. Word of mouth drives far more sales than advertising or any other engine. So if you loved a book, tell your friends!
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Corey Brickley Illustration
@coreybrickley.bsky.social
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Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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Recently, I was peer reviewing a paper, and it cited one of my papers. Except... it wasn't anything I had written. The title sounds like something I'd write. It included coauthors I work with, and was in a journal I've published in. But it wasn't real. AI is not good for science.
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e.w. niedermeyer
@niedermeyer.io
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After five years and over 100 violations, Tesla's Fremont factory has been ordered to abate illegal pollution by the local regulator!
I've been reporting about this since 2019, a story nobody else wanted to touch, and was beginning to believe nothing would ever happen!
apnews.com/article/tesl...
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Home away from the dumpXer fire
@rechan.bsky.social
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-Next week's weather projected to make going outside lethal. -Business leaders push congress to give them claim over your internal organs. -New poll shows 49% think its okay to feast on your neighbor if they don't agree with you. 15% unsure.
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Django Wexler
@djangowexler.bsky.social
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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation
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ApocalypticaNow
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Thomas, Alito, et al. make their shitty rulings for the love of the game, not necessarily because they're being bribed for particular decisions That why they're calling bribery a 'gratuity'. The cash, jet rides, and other gifts are a bonus, not a payment or paycheck for services rendered
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Kingfisher & Wombat
@tkingfisher.com
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I’ve said it a million times, we are the WORST at publicizing our wins. www.audubon.org/news/legisla...
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@greenowl.bsky.social
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And there's a massive labor shortage in construction & the trades in the US bc of Biden's extensive infrastructure bill. They need more immigrants! Always have.
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⭐️ Fio Firefox ⭐️🔜 MFM
@fiofirefox.com
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Happy 9th Anniversary of Marriage Equality in the United States! We stand for the Flag! We continue to fight for Equality for All!
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Another Matt
@mattlav83.bsky.social
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Nothing makes sense until you can truly mentally accept that there's no objective standard, there's only "my team good, anything pro-them =good, anything anti-them or pro-anyone else =bad." Any claim that they're mad about X, think X should be punishable etc, is reasoning backwards from there.
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Osita Nwanevu
@ositanwanevu.bsky.social
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This is an exchange I had with a Trump voter at a rally several years ago. www.newyorker.com/news/our-col...
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Joseph Howley
@illdottore.bsky.social
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I’m hearing a lot of “college kids today don’t know how to disagree because they are always in their little phone bubble” but it is by and large not the students who are calling up university presidents and demanding that speech they don’t like be banned.
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@greenowl.bsky.social
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I Would Like To Put Lunchmeat On The Cybertruck - defector.com/i-would-like...
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ryan cooper
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I think one reason the American right is so insane is that the only actual historical conservative tradition in this country is slavery and Jim Crow, but this can't be admitted
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Michele Goo
@michelegoo.bsky.social
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This stage of capitalism feels like the end of a monopoly game that’s been going on for hours and you already know you lost but the dick winning won’t let you go to bed until they get all of your money or you die.
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Courtney Milan
@courtneymilan.com
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They’ll do it and Alito will write a concurrence saying that maybe this would not have happened if we hadn’t rushed to call people like him bigots.
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@greenowl.bsky.social
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We've heard nothing but the stories they tell themselves all my life. Media goes to a diner every day & just repeats their RW stories. Relatives, online trolls, politicians, etc. repeat the stories. Liberals are not ignorant; we're tired of the insistence we listen to their stories & MAKE THEM LAW.
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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social
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McDonald’s is ditching its drive-through AI ordering system after too many customers wound up with totally incorrect orders like a handful of butter, hundreds of chicken nuggets, and ice cream loaded with bacon
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Iron Spike
@ironspike.bsky.social
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The absolutely wild thing is: This goes for ALL social aid. Just *giving people some fucking money,* literally going "OK, how much did you need?", cutting checks, and waving them out the door? COSTS LESS and HAS BETTER OUTCOMES than the current system's bureaucracy and means testing, EVERY TIME.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Micah
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the fact that we can look at most major problems with our lives and guess "this is the fault of private equity" - and have that actually be correct a shockingly large percentage of the time - is an excellent reason to regulate the industry into the ground
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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i have largely stopped arguing about this on social media because it isn’t fruitful, but this finding gets to why you should be skeptical of theories that try to sideline or excise race from an explanation of the white rural turn toward reactionary politics news.cornell.edu/stories/2024...
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Assistant to the Professor
@darinself.bsky.social
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I'm just a simple country political scientist but I'm pretty sure if any other major presidential candidate said this it'd be covered none stop for weeks and everyone would agree that their campaign was over
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Lauren
@laurenkayes.bsky.social
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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
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Bo Thompson
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The greatest scam in social welfare programs is planning around the idea that individuals exist under hardships because they lack motivation or education as opposed to the truth: That most are suitably motivated and educated but lack the time and resources required to change their circumstances.
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