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Kosturdistan

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Had 2 billion followers on Twitter (mostly marsupials) Am writing: novel. Have written, way back: NYT, Gizmodo, Gawker, The Awl, Splitsider, Time Out NY. Ex Cambodia Daily. NAFO


Kosturdistan's avatar Kosturdistan @smurfburger.bsky.social
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There is no next time for the additional Palestinians who die under Trumps much worse genocide, genius. There is no next time if Trump wins and becomes a fascist dictator genius. Sorry about your IQ!

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This downplays the peril of Trump 2. One difference between 1930s Dixie and Trump 2024 is we did not have a fascist president in the 1930s, and presidents in the 1930s did not have SCOTUS permission to commit crimes like Trump. Trumps agenda is 1000X worse than (awful) Jim Crow south.

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It will boost the odds of a worse genocide but on the other hand that tool gets to feel like a cool person among his brain wormed friends

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Still a fascist

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It’s both!

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This is about the 40th tweet just today that makes me glad I cancelled my subscription

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They will pivot to hiring more fascists

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I see 50 tweets a day that make me glad I dropped my subs to the times and post

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kottke.org's avatar kottke.org @kottke.org
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Archaeologists have discovered that Denisovan humans survived for at least 100,000 years on the Tibetan plateau. And they may have survived there as late as 32,000 years ago, meaning they could have mixed with modern humans. [nature.com]

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Auschwitz Memorial's avatar Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
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5 July 1934 | A French Jewish girl, Jacqueline Rajter, was born in Villerupt. In September 1942 she was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

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parker higgins's avatar parker higgins @xor.blue
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you have to wonder whether this would've been one of the cars congestion pricing took off the road gothamist.com/news/nypd-3-...

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Stephen Schwartz's avatar Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social
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Today in 1957, the United States conducted Shot HOOD—a reduced-yield, 74-kiloton thermonuclear test—even as the Atomic Energy Commission insisted that no such tests were taking place at the Nevada Test Site due to concerns over radioactive fallout. Hood was largest-ever atmospheric test in Nevada.

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Nicholas Grossman's avatar Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
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Russia citizen with suspected links to Russian intelligence who has a sizable social media following in the US uses his platform to inject chaos into the US presidential election and encourage Americans who might be open to voting Biden to throw their vote away instead, you say? Huh. Whad'ya know.

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Another sensible anti-fascist human drops his subscription to the New Fox Times

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What happened to fascist snake Ann Coulter?

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Drew Magary's avatar Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social
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I 100% believe that Biden is out of it but I read the Nuzzi thing and it’s awfully breathless for a story that doesn’t have a whole lot of direct quotes in it.

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ryan cooper's avatar ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com
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the thing about Nuzzi is she's one of the worst sociopath careerists in journalism, and that's saying quite a lot

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3/ garbage like this is costing you subscribers, rightfully so.

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2/ I'm glad to see that your fascist coverage is costing you more subscribers.

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1/ One reason I'm glad I dropped my subscription is that you publish op-eds by enemies of representative democracy, without telling your readers that they are enemies of democracy

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Kevin M. Levin's avatar Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social
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"New archaeological work shows that despite more than a century of desecration by construction and road-building, one of the nation’s most endangered major burying grnds for free and enslaved Africans still contains a significant number of intact gravesites." 🗃️ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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That ... is utterly insane and beyond the pale.

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Every day I see 5 or 6 skeets that make me glad I dropped my subscription

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