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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 51m

Oh, no.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 49m

I honestly cannot believe the whole center console on cars thing isn’t illegal and stigmatized. The messages, the alerts, the notifications — it’s all absolutely, positively dangerous and unnecessary.

joesferatu🦇🔱 @24fps.bsky.social · 2h

i love that my car flashes a message to keep my eyes on the road on a screen in the center console that i have to dismiss

"sorry officer, i didn't see that pedestrian there. my car was yelling at me to keep my eyes on the road"

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Farran Smith Nehme @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 2h

It was such a pleasure to write the essay for Criterion's 4K+Blu Ray of CAPTAIN BLOOD, a movie I dearly love. And for friends who love commentaries, note that this has one from Curtiz biographer (and fount of knowledge) Alan K. Rode @thetallcinephile.bsky.social www.criterion.com/films/29013-...

The famed swordfight on the beach between Errol Flyn and Basil Rathbone in CAPTAIN BLOOD (1935)

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 4h

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 4h

"Please know, unless you hear something directly from me via one of my platforms, it is not real.”

Right-wing influencers pushed a phony quote from the former Philadelphia Eagles star claiming that those upset with the Halftime Show performer were a "bad fit for America’s future."

Jason Kelce Debunks Obviously Fake Viral Quote About Bad Bunny Super Bowl Critics

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

Public health should never be politicized.

In the wake of the federal government abandoning science for conspiracy theories, it's up to governors to step up.

Proud to join my colleagues in the Governors Public Health Alliance to keep communities safe and put our people first.

Graphic of the Governors Public Health Alliance that reads Disease doesn’t stop at state borders - and neither should state preparedness.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 4h

The funniest part of all the billionaires are building bunker stories is the part where they’re sure the class hierarchy will survive the apocalypse.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 5h

One of the growing tensions in modern societies is between people who find unfamiliar stuff weird and scary, and people who find *people who find unfamiliar stuff weird and scary* weird and scary 1/x

jimmy alto @jimmyalto.bsky.social · 22h

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

U.S. House Speaker calls Portland naked bike ride ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’

"The most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there," said U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Tuesday.

www.oregonlive.com

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 5h

ICE took someone at 25th and Hamlin this morning. Masked law enforcement who won’t identify themselves throwing people into trucks and minivans every day all over Chicagoland

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 4h

A greater white-fronted goose was hanging out this morning near Montrose Beach, amid a gaggle of Canada geese.

A greater white-fronted goose stands in grass.

A greater white-fronted goose takes a step and leans down to munch on grass.

A close-up of a greater white-fronted goose's head. It has some muck and vegetation on its beak.

A close-up of a greater white-fronted goose's head as it eats grass.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

Carpentersville this morning. Border Patrol grabs some laborers at a worksite. The agent accuses a woman filming them of interfering and also tells her if she has an issue she should "contact her senators and congressmen."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

In Elk Grove Village, another empty car. Witnesses say two people were taken from it, and are trying to locate family.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

Marquette Park this morning, ~45 min ago at 70th and Washtenaw per anon FB post. Through a screen, someone films Border Patrol agents taking a man into a red minivan and driving away. Another angle of this shared to social media shows it happened in front of a daycare.

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 5h

I wonder how many of those racist "young" Republicans spent their time radicalizing conservative teenagers on Discord and other private chat servers during the COVID lockdowns

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Rd bacon @doublechinner.bsky.social · 5h

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Alex Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 6h

Overturning every bullshit Calvinball decision made by this illegitimate court will be one of the highest priorities whenever we're on the other side of this.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 7h

Locking in for oral arguments on the big voting rights case at the Supreme Court.

The next two hours or so will be... incredibly bad.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 22h

I just want you all to know that when we told you that they wanted to destroy everything and you thought Black women were exaggerating? This was the "ironic" racism you said we were overreacting to 10 years ago. Racism has never had generational limits

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 21h

At this point I assume they are all a danger to women

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 22h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 16h

Protein powder tastes like sweet chalk to me. I am just going to assume it's the sweet taste of lead. www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Rd bacon @doublechinner.bsky.social · 6h

A++. 10 out of 10. No notes.

Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 6h

I'm not slut shaming Olivia Nuzzi, I'm just saying that if you find a Nazi Cryptkeeper hot we don't need to understand each other

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 6h

I'm not slut shaming Olivia Nuzzi, I'm just saying that if you find a Nazi Cryptkeeper hot we don't need to understand each other

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h

read: Vance is also saying Nazi shit in group chats bsky.app/profile/radl...

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 7h

He knows who his actual base is

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 7h

2/ #Jan6

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 7h

An important consideration: Boyd will be executed using nitrogen gas — an experimental method Alabama is pioneering that's known to produce agony.

See this story from last year for more context on that, though it's also explained in the article above: boltsmag.org/alabama-nitr...

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