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Tom Klitus@tklitus.bsky.social |
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Tade Thompson
@tadethompson.bsky.social
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Writers: Challenge the agreement/contract that your publishers present you with. They'll start off saying this is our contract, take it or leave it, but it's negotiable. Every contract is. 'Boilerplate' means this is where you start, not where you finish. And learn what 'subsidiary rights' means.
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bare minimum king
@anachronistique.bsky.social
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really glad that at some point I fully internalized that it was fine to stop reading a book for any reason whatsoever, no matter how critically well-regarded or "good" it is. vibes are off! life's too short! too many books out there!
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Karl Bode
@karlbode.bsky.social
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when outlets write about this stuff they could easily talk to any of a million experts on consolidation and merger history who'd tell them these deals NEVER deliver the promised synergies, cause endless layoffs, and largely exist to boost stock and nab tax breaks but they're not interested
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Shepherd
@neolithicsheep.bsky.social
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Incidentally one of the things people aren't mentioning about Project 2025 is that ending no fault divorce is in there which means if you have been thinking of getting divorced you should get a move on. Before, yknow, you can't anymore.
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Avishay Ben-Sasson-Gordis
@avishaybsg.bsky.social
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This is fine: AMTRAK: Please be advised that due to excessive heat, track speeds have been reduced and delays between 30 - 60 minutes are expected. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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Laura Helmuth
@laurahelmuth.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court's conservative majority rejects science, history and reality itself. Editorial from Scientific American: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... š§Ŗ
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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I sure did not have "Harlan Crow paid for a yacht and private helicopter trip for Clarence Thomas to visit a palace in Vladimir Putin's hometown" on my bingo card, but in hindsight, why the hell not. www.thedailybeast.com/clarence-tho...
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United Farm Workers
@ufw.bsky.social
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Aureliano is working the fields of Lamont CA. The temp reached 100Ā° this day and is predicted to reach 111Ā° today. He and his co workers were covered in long sleeved clothing, hats and even safety vests to ensure they are seen by passing cars or tractors in the field. #WeFeedYou
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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I am grateful Cybertruck exists.
"Can't Make This Up: Tesla Cybertruck Owner Wants To Test Wade Mode, Gets Stuck in Lake"
www.autoevolution.com/news/can-t-m...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Lenacapavir did so well at preventing HIV infection that it hit the threshold where the only ethical thing to do was stop the randomized trial and immediately offer it to literally every participant. That's huge news. www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Claire Willett
@clairewillett.bsky.social
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itās gonna be a slow rollout as everyone works through this huge document to find all its buried horrors but oh boy oh boy oh boy when the labor union organizers get to this one things are gonna get lit on actual fire
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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Lifetime caps: some insurers would say that once a person had run up a (lifetime) bill of $2M or so, they were no longer insurable, kicked forever to Medicaid and Medicare. NICU nurses told me abt pre-ACA kids who would hit their lifetime cap before their first breath of fresh air.
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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Pre-existing conditions bans: insurers reserved right to limit a personās insurability if they had certain illnesses prior to getting insured. You know what completely innocent NICU babies are? Giant clusters of pre-existing conditions. The most vulnerable, the most innocent, the most uninsurable.
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Josh Chafetz
@joshchafetz.bsky.social
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Am rereading the Alexander decision and almost choked on the Alito line, "[W]e must be wary of plaintiffs who seek to transform federal courts into 'weapons of political warfare' that will deliver victories that eluded them 'in the political arena.'"
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Steve Benen
@stevebenen.bsky.social
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It's not every day that senators ask the attorney general to appoint a special counsel to criminally investigate a sitting Supreme Court justice.
What's more, the case against Clarence Thomas is quite credible. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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Ah, FB memories serving up some winners. This is what an itemized $1,330,000 NICU hospital bill looks like (only 96 days to get there). The apple is there for scale. Hereās why I share it. Too many ppl donāt know abt lifetime caps and pre-existing bans. Bc the STILL-VULNERABLE ACA banned them.
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Paris Marx
@parismarx.bsky.social
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oh no someone let egg head near a keyboard again. i guess iām going to have to tear this bullshit apart in a newsletter soon. theyāre so desperate to pretend theyāre still david, not goliath.
a16z.com/the-little-t...
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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
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If you see the big news that GOP is trying to block the abortion rights measure in Arkansas: This is in the context of a restrictive new law that makes ballot measures much harder.
Voters rejected the change in 2022, but GOP passed it as a law anyway: boltsmag.org/arkansas-rep...
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Paul Waldman
@paulwaldman.bsky.social
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Intelligence officials say the Russian government is still working to interfere in our election to help Trump win
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
@doctorvive.bsky.social
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Today is pub day for *THE LANGUAGE OF CLIMATE POLITICS*!
MIT philosopher Kieran Setiya says: "If you want to understand the climate crisis and you only have time to read one book, this should be it."
Buy it herešor wherever books are sold š
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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@mjk4mj.bsky.social
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voz.us/en/media/230...
"New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act and he wonāt do it" leisureguy.ca/2024/05/08/n...
"New York Times in 1922: "Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine"" www.cbsnews.com/news/new-yor...
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geoffrey
@parsnip.bsky.social
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wow that kicks ass
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Tom Klitus
@tklitus.bsky.social
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Putin is a murderer and a war criminal.
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Kate Messner
@katemessner.bsky.social
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Hot take: I'm truly not interested in hand wringing over how much people will miss enjoying the books of men who have turned out to be abusers. I'm far more concerned about the missing art that women haven't been able to create/publish because they crossed paths with such men.
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Thomas Zimmer
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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Allies Against Democracy: Trump and Project 2025 Ā Trump is not the mastermind behind Project 2025. Itās worse: The rightwing establishment has radicalized to the point where their plans are entirely in line with his vengeful desires. A thread, based on my new piece: š§µ1/
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Melanie DāArrigo
@darrigomelanie.bsky.social
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Sociopathic capitalism: Private Equity firms are buying up asbestos liability claims and gambling that poisoning victims will die, or go broke trying to get compensated for the damages theyāre owed. Wall St calls this an āinvestment.ā
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The Creatively Maladjusted
@tyrotcm.bsky.social
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Lacking energy due to the heat? š„µ Repeat after me: many things worth doing are worth doing badly. Half-assed toothbrushing is better than none. Eating ice cream is better than not eating. Do what you can, and try not to feel guilty about it. You don't deserve that.
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Paris Marx
@parismarx.bsky.social
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Since 2007, Google has been buying cheap carbon offsets to say itās carbon neutral. Now, as generative AI has cause its emissions to soar, itās stopped buying those offsets and no longer claims carbon neutrality.
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Anna Meier
@annameier.bsky.social
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My favorite tried-and-true resistance tactic: Being Extremely Fucking Annoying.
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Melissa Gira Grant
@melissagiragrant.com
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āJane McAleveyās biggest impact on newsroom unions was through her advocacy for open bargainingā¦ Most unions arenāt this transparent in negotiations. But itās mostly a no-brainer for skeptical journalists who expect accountability in all things, including from their own coworkers.ā
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Carolina A. Miranda
@cmonstah.bsky.social
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āProject 2025's 922-page policy agenda has 30 chapters and 34 authors. Twenty-five of Project 2025's authors served as members of the Trump administration.ā
popular.info/p/what-trump...
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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social
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i summed up project 2025 in one sentence. feel free to use.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-wind...
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Chris Levesque
@levesque-chris.bsky.social
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What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't.
www.zdnet.com/article/digi...
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Dawn Xiana Moon
@dawnxianamoon.bsky.social
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There was lead in EVERY tampon they tested.
There was less lead in organic tampons, but those had higher concentrations of arsenic.
Also fun: It's 2024. This is the first ever study testing metals in tampons. Great. š
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tox...
Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Manisha Sinha
@profmsinha.bsky.social
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For all those on the path of Hurricane Beryl, Project 2025 would eliminate the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Ella Dawson
@brosandprose.bsky.social
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happy anniversary to me! it's been a good three years of freedom, a painful three years of healing.
if you'd like to celebrate with me, I've written a whole collection of essays about getting out, trauma recovery, and healing over on patreon: www.patreon.com/collection/1...
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Any Democrat in these states who doesnāt lean on this hard shouldnāt be in office. Itās a gift.
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Robert Stribley
@stribs.bsky.social
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My wife, sister-in-law and niece are in Paris right now and they say the atmosphere is quite incredible. They can hear cheering from everywhere. There are staying near the statue in this image, and said this is what it looked like as they passed by.
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Philipp Markolin, PhD
@philippmarkolin.bsky.social
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"If we are calling for Biden to step aside because someone must stop Trump from bringing down the republic, then surely it would have made more sense to first call for Trump to step aside?"
h/t @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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Melanie DāArrigo
@darrigomelanie.bsky.social
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France just proved that the way you fight against fascism is by fighting for the working class ā not by appeasing the billionaires and corporations propping up fascists. Pay attention.
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NPR
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BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.
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Julia Serano
@juliaserano.bsky.social
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whenever vague & flimsy assertions about trans women supposedly being "privileged" and/or posing some kind of "threat" crop up, it's time for me to tap the sign...š
juliaserano.medium.com/on-male-soci...
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Hypervisible
@hypervisible.bsky.social
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Makes sense š„“
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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The first episode of my new video series, Cosmology 101, is out now! This one is about cosmic expansion. Check it out and subscribe to the Perimeter Instituteās YouTube channel to get the whole series! youtu.be/7GC8XOKwRpM?... #Cosmology101
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Claire Willett
@clairewillett.bsky.social
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genuinely hopeful sign that every big name GOP garbage monster is frantically trying to distance themselves from Project Say The Quiet Part Loud In an Easily-Digestible Bullet Point Format About Which There Can Be No Confusion. this means we should all absolutely continue never shutting up about it
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wade of mutilation
@waderockett.bsky.social
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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
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Jeffrey Vagle
@jvagle.me
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Reading these contradictory statements from IDF reservists who'd done tours in Gaza, I'm reminded of similar statements by Vietnam/Iraq/Afghanistan vets.
Combat is difficult for most folks to process, as it contradicts much about what we think about ourselves.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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United Farm Workers
@ufw.bsky.social
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The grape harvest is ready to begin this week in most parts of Kern County CA. The area will be under an excessive heat watch for at least 10 days. Picking and packing grapes for minimum wage is already difficult work but the heat becomes unbearable. #WeFeedYou
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Tobias Harris
@tobiasharris.bsky.social
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Seems like "what parts of Project 2025 do you disagree with?" or "what parts of it are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal?" would be good questions for a reporter to ask the other elderly presidential candidate, but what do I know.
on.ft.com/4ePQH0e
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Sarah E. Bond
@sarahebond.bsky.social
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Please stop š using ancient āAI generatedā reconstructions of emperors as āreal.ā Prof. @nyashajunior.bsky.social and I wrote about the BS and uninformed human choices behind these types of reconstructions here. hyperallergic.com/593074/how-r... via @hyperallergic.com
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