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Caroline @csharp7.bsky.social · 1h

This sounds like they think only a king can give you a paycheck.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 20h

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Caroline @csharp7.bsky.social · 2d

My Brooks Brothers button down is one of my favorite pieces of clothing. It was not cheap. But it’s over 10 years old and it still feels brand new.

Caroline @csharp7.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder how many “anti-ICE” signs there were.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 2d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Caroline @csharp7.bsky.social · 2d

Useful /= good. Not for Pritzker. Not for Newsom.

Caroline @csharp7.bsky.social · 2d

Can we stop putting any governors up on pedestals?

Elected officials are tools. Either they’re useful or they aren’t.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation

shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 3d

I have fucking had it with the edgelord leftists who quote post my shit with incitements to violence, like I'm sorry either you're the fucking feds or you're somehow even dumber than they are.

the frogs & the wine moms are doing 100x the work y'all are by dooming and posting nonsense.

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 3d

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 3d

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

#MedicareForAll

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Flying Pace @flyingpace.bsky.social · 3d

CI's proposed Article of Impeachment for treason is great. Skeptics are badly underestimating how powerful it would be for Dems to keep introducing such articles. They could be angry, funny, provocative! Even in "failure," it would be a way of seizing the narrative through quality political theater.

Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 4d

Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social joined Jessica Denson @jessicadenson07.bsky.social on Lights On last night.

"What we need to do is get message discipline. That the remedy for tyranny and treason is impeachment. Period. Full Stop. That’s all you need. And we can take it from there."

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Caroline @csharp7.bsky.social · 3d

Also the decision to give Leto a full beard is distractingly baffling.

Caroline @csharp7.bsky.social · 3d

She’s slicing the knife right into her own fingers!

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Caroline @csharp7.bsky.social · 3d

But Greta Lee made a mimosa! And Jared Leto likes Depeche Mode!

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 3d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

Caroline @csharp7.bsky.social · 3d

But the thing I’m angriest about is why go to the trouble of invoking the Greek god of war and the goddess of war AND WISDOM if you’re going to swap their entire personalities.

Save Athena from white male screenwriters.

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Caroline @csharp7.bsky.social · 3d

The script for Tron Ares is about 500 cliches in a trench coat and is so out of touch about the potential for tech to do good it’s absurd.

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Caroline @csharp7.bsky.social · 3d

And I’m not trying to give Brad Pitt any credit here for being a better person. But did he learn nothing from making The Devil’s Own?

Caroline @csharp7.bsky.social · 3d

It’s especially tone deaf in the shadow of the Palestinian genocide.

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Caroline @csharp7.bsky.social · 3d

Woof. Anemone.

It bothers me a lot that they chose classic Irish film language to tell the tragic story of a British soldier.

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Caroline @csharp7.bsky.social · 4d

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

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Caroline @csharp7.bsky.social · 4d

Someone made the call it seems.

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