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Feral classicist

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I'm gratified to learn I'm not the only one who has watched "Michael Clayton" 23 times.

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Every ascendant political movement attracts its share of grifters. That said, when you install the likes of David Sirota and Nina Turner at the top, you're feeding the fire.

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My goodness. Cabals everywhere!

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There's some good information to be had out there about when the DLC was dissolved... More than a decade ago.

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She helped to kill Roe v. Wade and shredded the Constitution to protect Donald Trump. But this justice really dances to her own drummer!

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Amy A's avatar Amy A @lolennui.bsky.social
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Amazon Prime Day is actually just a harvest festival reworked to make Christianity more palatable to the pagans

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McConnell deserves the credit and blame for today. It was McConnell who shaped the court, by holding open one seat, by hastily filling another, by reviving the Civil Rights Era use of the filibuster. The direction of the court has been set by the last president, but McConnell made that possible.

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And now I'm mad about space junk I'm all burned out about space junk Ooh, walk and talk about space junk It smashed my baby's head, space junk And now my Sally's dead, space junk

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Noel Murray's avatar Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social
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Would not have expected this well-reasoned rant from the smug, front-running sports shouter Colin Cowherd but right is right.

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Why else do we live in houses? This is the goal.

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The sublime thinkers at the Times center criticism rather than the violent suppression of speech. Responsible journalists dare not editorialize on such a matter: Free speech, after all, has its own critics.

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Which is to say: The reason it can't tell you who won the US presidential election in 2020 cannot be ascribed to not having the data.

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Its training data appears to end sometime between March 2023 and March 2024. Note also how it hallucinates the 95th Academy Awards one year forward so that it can still describe them as the "last".

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Jane Ruffino's avatar Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social
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The treatment of seafarers is such an under-discussed crisis in labor rights, and I hadn’t realized these guys were still trapped, 3km from shore. This is beyond cruel.

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I've been listening to the audiobook, so you won't get my highlights, but thank you for writing this book. A startling reminder of how culturally pervasive wrestling was when I was a kid, and a revelation of the ongoing political impact.

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Michael Mirer's avatar Michael Mirer @michaelmirer.bsky.social
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There's no correct way to protest that is going to stop purposeful misinterpretation by people who do not share the movement's goals.

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Who, then, can interview Sulzberger and his editorial staff to verify that they are competent to play the guardians of the Republic? Last I checked, they thought they did a bang-up job 8 years ago protecting us from the lady with imperfect IT practices.

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Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask whether there is a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. #fouryearsago

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Four Years Ago Today's avatar Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social
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April 23, 2020 Just before his daily coronavirus press conference, Trump is told by William Bryan, DHS official for science and technology, that bleach, alcohol and sunlight quickly kill the coronavirus on surfaces. Trump then, unprompted, muses publicly about injecting disinfectant into people.

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Abandoning Twitter was a relatively easy decision for me, as someone who doesn't rely on social media presence and following. I worry, however, that the rational self-interest that has prompted many to remain there may lead to unforeseen consequences.

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I was shocked when I learned that Harry Potter books were "translated" for American readers, having grown up in the US with the Narnia books. Perhaps we're seeing the consequences of protecting a generation of young readers from language variety.

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There were "isolationists" like that in the 1930s, too.

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This NYT article exists to launder right-wing propagandist Chris Rufo’s bad faith attacks on Katherine Maher into news—without sufficient context for readers who don’t already know how Rufo operates to understand what’s happening. It’s an insane way to run a paper. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/b... 🎁

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Yes! This is how science advances. Lavoisier was like, "You alchemists just made up that word, phlogiston." And the alchemists were like, "Touché, dude". And boom, modern combustion theory.

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Sean's avatar Sean @publichealth.bsky.social
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hopefully this will answer any remaining questions

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I think we're plumb out of plausible alternatives to aexia's formula: NYT management likes Republicans and wants them to succeed.

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Jamison Foser's avatar Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social
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If the New York Times can produce a single example of any presidential campaign in history defining their universe of persuasion targets as "the people running the opposing campaign," I will STFU about the Times forever.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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I can remember when it was a shocking that Joe Wilson yelled "you lie" during Obama's SOTU in 2009. It became so normalized so quickly.

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Jay Rosen's avatar Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social
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I agree... No one has figured out how to cover a normal pol vs an abnormal threat to the nation, but it's not like we see them trying through experiment and iteration. No one has figured out how to cover a normal pol vs an abnormal threat, but they had years to plan for this very thing.

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Matt's avatar Matt @swirlyball.bsky.social
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This would have been enough on its own not too long ago to kill someone’s campaign. Fuck all of this.

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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When they’re right, they’re right, I completely agree that conservatives should make “ending recreational sex” their central issue

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Had the New York Times not dissolved the office of Public Editor, they might have someone inside the building who could tell them, "Hey, remember 2016 when you got fixated on emails? You're doing that again." Not that they would necessarily listen.

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It's good to know that newsrooms aren't broken the world over. In the U.S. however, they're actively misinforming the public, and the consequences could be calamitous.

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Why won't NYT step aside and let a younger publication be paper of record for a while

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clärk's avatar clärk @oksettledown.bsky.social
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hopping and spitting mad. JPL is being forced to lay off 8% of the workforce *today* bc they have not secured funding for FY24 to support Mars Sample Return. FY24 started in October of 2023. Congress is too busy failing to impeach cabinet members instead. Clown show

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Originalism is like Fundamentalism: You start and end with thoroughly modern prejudices, and you tie it all together with historical fiction.

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Kelsey Atherton's avatar Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social
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There is no amount of increasing border enforcement or deporting people that will ever make the American right wing believe the border is being properly handled by a democratic president. Any compromise on this is just a signal that they can demand more & keep the issue live. Immoral, bad politics.

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Anymouse's avatar Anymouse @anymouse.bsky.social
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That will not go well for him.

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"You do realize, Governor, that were the shoe on the other foot, not only would Trump refuse to endorse you, he would insist that the process was rigged and that he actually won. Just to be clear, you're good with that?"

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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one thing i'll add is that there is a "volkish" quality to the notion that trump's voters deserve consideration above and beyond what we extended to every other citizen

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Wikipedia was smaller, so obviously passing off text you copied from there was not so much plagiarism. Somehow.

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Hemry, Local Bartender's avatar Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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Intrusive thought today is what if the NYT covered the Thomas & Alito bribery scandal the way they're covering the college presidents. Not just an endless stream of articles but framing it as though it's a shock and an obvious affront that they haven't resigned yet

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