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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 3d

baby-box babies are cheaper than open market babies

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 4d

🥚 Boxes for anyone to dump babies into were legalized by so-called safe-haven laws pushed by anti-abortionists and passed right after traditional welfare was ended in 1996 and women had to work to get benefits.

Now they’re proliferating.

This is an adoption supply chain.

time.com/7299476/baby...

Why Baby Boxes Are Suddenly Everywhere

Devices to help parents anonymously surrender an infant are spreading across the U.S., stirring emotions and debate.

time.com

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 4d

"Houston Street"

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 4d

They never do or don’t want to.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 4d

Bumble Jack Posobiec called Luigi Mangione and would be-Trump assassin Thomas Crooks "antifa" to Trump at this roundtable.

These people have literally no idea what is going on.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 4d

They only go up to October 25!

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 4d

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 4d

There is a wild adoption sub subplot in the latest season of the Gilded Age. I too felt triggered. But this is pre Georgia Tann so it wasn’t a hero worshipping moment instead it was part of her shameful past. Which, to be honest, I really appreciated.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 5d

Trump would not be treating half the country (well, more than half, but half of all voters) this way were it not for the Electoral College.

It's an artifact of slavery and it has got to go.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 5d

I understand that they gave somebody 150 million to be the new boss of CBS. I just want to say, if these people are ever looking to do more novel things with their money, for 150 million dollars I will write an album every day for a year. I'll do it, too. try me

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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 5d

I think I follow too many media reporters. All my time line is is Bari Weiss. I mean I love the new @lopatto.bsky.social ‘s new article, but maybe I over indexed.

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 5d

@lopatto.bsky.social banger alert on the glass cliff to end all glass cliffs www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 5d

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 6d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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viv @hiviv.bsky.social · 5d

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMkwnauo/

Tbh the only thing that makes them bearable #taylorswift #lifeofashowgirl #MFDOOM #impression #fyp

TikTok video by voiceturtle

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Kailee Pedersen @kaileepedersen.bsky.social · 6d

🥚 for the adoptee feed - this is my second novel, and my first with an adoptee protagonist! 🥰 🙂

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Farnad Darnell, PhD @docdarnell.bsky.social · 7d

Fantastic piece on open adoption and its challenges for birth parents. 🥚👇🏽
#adopteesky

Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 10d

If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.

When Adoption Promises Are Broken

Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.

www.theatlantic.com

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 10d

Open adoption, a social worker told me, is “an agreement based on promises.” But what happens if some of those promises—to regularly communicate, send updates and photos, allow visits, etc.—aren’t honored? What, if anything, can birth mothers do to protect themselves?

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