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Phew, fortunately that's only 2/3 of my diet.

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Radical Graffiti 's avatar Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social
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Corrected 4th of July graffiti in Venice Beach, California

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Mx. D.E. Anderson's avatar Mx. D.E. Anderson @diannaeanderson.bsky.social
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i'm stuck on the "bloodless if the left allows it to be" phrasing like "we won't kill you if you just let us do what we want" is what terrorists say

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Writing for the majority, Justice Alito said: "Thank you for your service, we've got it from here boys"

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Fifty Shades of Whey's avatar Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social
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a cop shot himself and this is the headline they went with

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The Onion's avatar The Onion @theonion.com
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"While there’s a strong historical precedent for a lavish excursion to Bali, the plaintiff has instead taken a more unorthodox approach and presented an all-expenses-paid diving trip off the shores of Aruba."

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Jonathan Cohn 's avatar Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social
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Our corrupt, illegitimately appointed Supreme Court majority thinks that the problem with white-collar crime is that there isn't enough of it.
apnews.com/article/supr...

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Dave Levitan's avatar Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social
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There isn't an enviro regulation out there that SCOTUS won't find a way to gut

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social
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I wrote a thing: "a debate without fact-checking is worse than no debate at all" — but don’t despair, there’s good news out there. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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In yet another decision that weakens anti-corruption law, the Supreme Court overturned the bribery conviction of a disgraced former Indiana mayor

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OnlyCans's avatar OnlyCans @onlycans.bsky.social
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I worked at virgin media for a year. my job was to be given a printed sheet each morning listing people whose TV, broadband and phone I needed to cut off because they hadn't paid their bill. I did this till they got round to automating the process. "dignity of wages"

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social
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I wrote a thing: "Louisiana is the latest Ground Zero for christofacist fuckery" — the zealots are just getting started. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

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Tony Corsentino's avatar Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net
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remembering when we called the products of writers and artists and musicians “works” (count noun, individual things made) instead of “content” (mass noun, reproducible interchangeable filler)

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Is this called Saturday Arcs? If not what is this game? It looks cool

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Gaza’s hospitals are empty, and patients die in silence

This genocidal war brings with it the systematic destruction of all of Gaza's health system. This has created a new category of people who die from preventable illnesses due to a systematic lack of access to medical care.

#Palestine #Israel

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David Sirota's avatar David Sirota @davidsirota.com
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🚨This is the real democracy crisis: More than half of counties now have limited or no local reporting Two studies show corruption skyrockets after layoffs of reporters What will emerge amid the collapse of media? See here — and please share 👇

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Melanie D’Arrigo's avatar Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social
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Both. Neither one should exist. Healthcare and education should never be for profit, and we shouldn’t let corporations force people into crippling, generational debt for wanting either. This isn’t a “radical” take, it’s a moral one.

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John Voelcker's avatar John Voelcker @johnvoelcker.bsky.social
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The United Arab Emirates may soon have more liberal abortion laws than Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas. The UAE. Reflect on that.

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So real. I feel like ive gone through 15 sites trying to find one thats decent

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Joshua J. Friedman's avatar Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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Four NYPL branches had broken air conditioning this week amid 90-degree temperatures, despite being city-designated "cooling centers." Library officials blame $750,000 in deferred maintenance exacerbated by Mayor Eric Adams’s recent budget reductions.

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Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
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I can't express strongly enough what a CRISIS NYPL is in right now and that means that vulnerable people are also in even more crisis. PLEASE find a way to voice your support of our public libraries in concrete ways. Please.

gothamist.com/news/after-b...

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King-free💙 America's avatar King-free💙 America @belladonna406.bsky.social
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I guess people don't really like being homeless after all, right MAGAts who think all homeless ppl just want handouts?

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bsdtectr's avatar bsdtectr @bsdtectr.bsky.social
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Imagine being such a shitty mayor, the Public Library is calling you out.

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s. e. smith 's avatar s. e. smith @sesmith.bsky.social
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"All of us have a job assignment in Texas prisons—if we don’t work, we face disciplinary action. We work between 8 and 14 hours a day, depending on job and facility operation hours."

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Lisa Schmeiser's avatar Lisa Schmeiser @lschmeiser.bsky.social
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I read the sentence "child care has become a market-based system captured, to an increasing degree, by private-equity firms, which now own eight of the 11 largest chains" and -- knowing how private equity firms operate -- the hair on the back of my neck stood up.

www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

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Charles C. Mann's avatar Charles C. Mann @charlescmann.bsky.social
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The removal of four huge dams on northern CA's Klamath River has freed up thousands of acres of land that were forcibly taken from Indigenous people a century ago to create the dam reservoirs. Today, the Shasta got 2800 acres of their homeland back.

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!*'s avatar Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgateny.bsky.social
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Keeping libraries open is cool but have you ever flown a taxpayer-funded chopper to the Hamptons on a summer Friday?

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Matt Novak's avatar Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social
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I can’t tell if the person who wrote this headline knows it’s funny. The way the rest of the story is written suggests they don’t.

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‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 255: Netanyahu dissolves Israel’s war cabinet

Gaza authorities accuse Israel and the U.S. of inducing starvation in Gaza as a weapon of war to force their "political goals."

#Palestine #Israel

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Mike Drucker's avatar Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social
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I wrote about how I’m personally going to force game companies to put in all the stuff you hate. Calling the CEO of video games as we speak

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Katiesaurus 's avatar Katiesaurus @katiesaurus.bsky.social
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"One of the judges had ordered, without legal justification, that a witness be jailed. The other had escalated a courtroom argument with a defendant, which led to a police officer shooting the defendant to death."

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✪ Shin Megami Jonathan H. Gray: VENGEANCE! ✪'s avatar ✪ Shin Megami Jonathan H. Gray: VENGEANCE! ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social
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Fuck around and find out.

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Internet Archive's avatar Internet Archive @archive.org
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More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers’ lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚🕳️

Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead

👉 blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/l...

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When the board of the Columbia Law Review clumsily censored a pro-Palestinian article it revealed the degree to which pro-Israel ideology is enmeshed in the U.S. power structure. Luckily, a generational shift is changing this before our eyes.

#Palestine #Israel

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