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Student of people and the sciences, scholar of fortune


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Emily Lind's avatar Emily Lind @eflind.bsky.social
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It’s so close now! Get it all the way

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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This guy lost his seat? This guy? Hard to believe

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Sinn Féin now Northern Ireland's largest party in the UK Parliament.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Where does it end? They have been pretty clear where they want it to end.

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Can we start a list of these stenographers and PR flacks like Jason?

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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There are others Trump appointees, including Ben Carson and Peter Navarro, involved in Project 2025, plus a bunch more. This is why headlines like this, while accurate, are misleading and serve as stenography for the Trump campaign.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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All of these guys leading Project 2025 were Trump White House officials. Paul Dans was closely involved in implementing Schedule F. The head of Heritage, Kevin Roberts, was selected as a pro-MAGA leader. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-public...

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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There was no GOP party platform in 2020, and Trump wants to shrink the proposed 2024 one. He opposes providing detail on how radical his second term will be because he knows its unpopular. Make no mistake: Project 2025 was written by Trump appointees & loyalists. Its their shared agenda.

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Who was the libertarian professor at Chicago or George Mason or Claremont who said voting was irrational or pointless? Have we checked into whether they've voted as well recently?

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Uncertainty Vice Principal's avatar Uncertainty Vice Principal @jeof.bsky.social
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Funny follow up on this, I msgd a link to the article to someone who asked and noticed that linked that way, it still shows the old BS headline, both in text and written into the artwork. The paper is devoted to giving a platform to hard right-wingers and keeps getting embarrassed by them.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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I mean, maybe there is another Matthew Walther in Three Rivers, Michigan (pop, 7,905) *also born in 1990* (via @kendrawrites.bsky.social).
(Seriously tho, the NYT should amend the article to note that this guy does, in fact, vote).

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Joshua Erlich's avatar Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social
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need a name for a political system where a white guy who votes tells other people not to vote. novel idea though. we'll probably need to brainstorm.

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Joshua Erlich's avatar Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social
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thought i'd check my camera roll for "nuzzi"

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southpaw's avatar southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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What’s the German word for reading people who know less about a subject than you do and are more confident in asserting the right answer than you are?

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis's avatar Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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"The fact that we're going to hold Joe Biden to one standard and Donald Trump to another, which is really no standard at all." - @JoeNBC on The New York Times et al.

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anti coldtag aktion's avatar anti coldtag aktion @ind3fatigable.xyz
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Shingles sucks so bad. Please help Richelle out if you can spare anything

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Daniel Feldman's avatar Daniel Feldman @dfeldman.bsky.social
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.

Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.

The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.

Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.

www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

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How often have we complained about Facebook and our families? Surprise, surprise, the kids were paying attention.

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Deva Woodly 's avatar Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social
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Moral of the story: your teens are also concerned about what misinformation YOU have encountered on the World Wide Web.

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Tyler King's avatar Tyler King @tylerking.bsky.social
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There is no model in which these products become profitable. The overhead is astronomically high and will require defying the laws of physics to overcome. Meanwhile, they’re fleecing gullible businesses and governments blind on false promises of an everything tech that in fact does very little.

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Deva Woodly 's avatar 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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ʝꪖꪀꪊᦓ ᥅ꪮᦓꫀ 🍉's avatar ʝꪖꪀꪊᦓ ᥅ꪮᦓꫀ 🍉 @janus.bsky.social
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how it feels to live in america

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Tempting to track them down and ask them now about their "crisis porn fix".

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Gavin B's avatar Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social
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The pushback I got to any suggestion that the "shoplifting epidemic" was made up was something to behold. People really internalised that. People love their crisis porn, especially if it lets them spurt outrage at someone vulnerable.

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Pavel's avatar Pavel @spavel.bsky.social
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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders.

AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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Trump can make the thugs willing to do his bidding immune to federal prosecution. Not to bullets, though.

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I find this interesting as my family is from Indiana, including ancestors who came over from Saxony and Hanover after 1848, I believe. I don't believe German was as present as a second language the way Dutch was in NY and Pennsylvania from 1750-1850. I'll have to check on this, thanks.

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John Bull's avatar John Bull @garius.bsky.social
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"How long have you been here?" She asked the lightship pilot. "Longer than I can remember." "How long will you stay?" "Until they return." She glanced at the blackhole. "The chances of anyone escaping that are tiny." "But not nil." He said. "And if they do, then my light will guide them home"

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David D. Levine's avatar David D. Levine @daviddlevine.com
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I just noticed that the UK election was on Independence Day and the US election is on Guy Fawkes Day.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg 's avatar Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social
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OK besides this below and DEVO coming out of the Kent State massacre, what are other facts you have about the evolution of art / music /etc that wouldn't be obvious if you didn't know but, retroactively, explain and/or illuminate a LOT ?

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Or nominate 2 who hate each other. I mean really hate each other, for the chaos factor.

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Dr. Amy, PsyD's avatar Dr. Amy, PsyD @dramypsyd.bsky.social
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Reskeet with a tweet you still think about

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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Election coverage in India: screen split into 192 windows with everyone shouting insults & analysis together Election coverage in USA: 16 cutaways per minute along with montage of Steve Carnacki & flashing chyrons & blinking graphics that make everyone dizzy Election coverage in UK: Here is a cat

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Tamara Keel's avatar Tamara Keel @tamslick.bsky.social
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Y’know who doesn’t get a flag at official D-Day ceremonies? The fucking Nazis.

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David M. Perry's avatar David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social
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Since 2019 I've liked to remind you that we should work to break up not just ICE, but abolish the entire DHS. It's a post-9/11 reactionary agency that needs to be destroyed.

www.cnn.com/2019/07/04/o...

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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very much the words of a man who has never once worried, not for a moment, that he would be outside the law

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David M. Perry's avatar David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social
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Among other things … this isn’t true in terms of the history of power. The idea of an absolute sovereign totally unrestrained by law is rare rather than common.

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter 's avatar The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter @swolecialism.bsky.social
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I actually don't mind being challenged by honest disagreement, even from conservatives. so if the times ever finds an honest conservative opinion writer who can write worth a damn, that'd be fine. what i cannot abide is people who lie in the newspaper.

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Gabriel S. Jacobs's avatar Gabriel S. Jacobs @gsjphd.bsky.social
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Still angry about this one.

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Sam's avatar Sam @very-simple.com
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The times pretty famously refuses to fact check “opinion” pieces even when those opinions are premised on easily checkable facts that are complete bullshit.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow's avatar Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social
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that "don't vote" piece may be the worst guest editorial in the NYT since they let Tom Cotton use the space to call for calling in the military against protesters.

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Angus Johnston's avatar Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social
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Just to be really explicit about what’s happening here, the cover conflates age, physical disability, and cognitive disability, and goes on to conflate disability with unfitness for office. It’s utter bullshit.

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