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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 3h

Why do they always put a ging with this topic we’re out here doing our best ok

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 3h

What does it mean to be a fallen woman?

In my new poetry collection I reclaim tragic heroines, or at least imagine a different ending to their stories

www.irishtimes.com

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Helluva Bottom Carter @nicju.blacksky.app · 5h

Diane Keaton ain’t got no business being dead.

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 5h

Someone made a supercut on TikTok of Diane Keaton crashing out at some point in all of her movies and we really need a lot more female rage in the culture

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 6h

don't think there is another country that hates children/young adults as profoundly as this one does

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 7h

I understand Daniels has been our QB for roughly a decade but the announcers talking like he's going to retire from playing and become a defensive coordinator at the end of the season is so weird

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 7h

At some point I feel like we're going to find out his math doesn't math in some kind of load bearing way

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 7h

It’s cool we’re gonna make eggs a seasonal treat and make everyone get the bird flu because we ended the CDC. So much winning

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

“We will see a similar pricing pattern from last year, where we will have higher prices in late fall and winter due to large bird flu outbreaks. Egg prices could double during that time period, and then, as we get closer to summer, when the bird flu is ramping down, we will see a decrease...”

Egg prices could skyrocket as bird flu cases are spiking earlier than expected

Culls of millions of birds are sending egg prices soaring, with experts warning there’s no end in sight

www.independent.co.uk

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 7h

Didn’t they do this for Pelosi and she still hasn’t retired

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 10h

Modern governments pretending like the mail is a brand new money sucking pox no one has ever had to deal with before and should never actually need is one of the more tedious themes of our current hellscape

Why Royal Mail could axe stamps and addresses on letters

Handwritten envelopes may become a thing of the past as the new boss moves to modernise the business

www.thetimes.com

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10h

A new poll of France has Macron’s approval rating at 19% and Prime Minister Lecornu’s approval rating at 27%, and that’s considered an improvement for both.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 14h

Point is it's not some once in a lifetime unicorn thing, although he's very talented, it just makes you realize how few democrats ever do this. They don't tell us what they believe they wait to hear what the polls tell them 50.1% of us believe and go from there.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 15h

I think Zohran is great and inspiring and much needed right now, but all he's doing is like the job as it's supposed to be. Starts with a set of principles and advocates for them. It's like how everyone goes crazy for Chotiner for just doing the job. Not an indictment on either of them but the rest.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 16h

It’s this multiple times a day

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore.
I suppose that's the final humiliation.

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 13h

True but I do think it was basically a matter of time before we got here once you go down the path of giving ever more power to the executive you’re gonna hit a point where there are only a handful of things left to give

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 14h

Have felt since the fight over RBG retiring and later Soyomayor if the thing keeping you tipping from protofascism to outright fascism is the retirement dates of two women all you’ve got is fascism with extra steps

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 14h

Think regular order in its entirety has been on life support for years

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 14h

I understand the optics here but this is also literally why Charles met his end in Whitehall, either Article I means what it says or it doesn't and the Constitution is dissolved

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 14h

What a little worm

“We’re living in a world where you got friends that are computers — that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” Cervino said. “They’re destroying the world for the dumbest invention I’ve ever seen in my life.”

During this interaction, Schiffmann went around the corner with his head in his phone, avoiding contact and asking not to be identified to Cervino.

“I’m curious what he said. Doesn’t mean I want to go talk to him,” Schiffmann said afterward.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1d

as someone who worked at the CDC, the way they’ve targeted these illegal firings are pretty much what i would do to inflict maximum damage to what remains of our nation’s federal public health infrastructure. a hostile takeover of the agency

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1d

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not sure we need to show the AI generated ICE arrest video infinity times - repetition makes lies real

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 1d

Is it going to fight ice

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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 1d

We have breaking news in Inside Medicine.

We had heard rumors of RIFs to CDC.

But this is the first visual confirmation that it has occurred tonight, and at high levels in the agency.

Here is what we know...and then some well-sourced rumors (but rumors, nonetheless, not confirmed) 🧵...

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno if I have the strength to watch this site to discover who Doug Wilson is and the role he plays in this whole thing

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 1d

Fall PSA they put the rowboats in Central Park away soon which means you’re running out of chances to go watch tourists try to do it and most of the time end up rowing the boat facing backwards or with everyone sitting on one side and it’s hard to find free slapstick comedy these days

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 1d

I appreciate that France simultaneously has a gigantic bureaucracy and is also basically ungovernable at some fundamental levels

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

French President Macron's own deadline for naming a new PM passes without an announcement being made.

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