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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 12h

If being against a guy with a Nazi tattoo makes me a purist I guess I'm an anti-Nazi purist. If you think that makes me an anti-Nazi single issue voter, you're wrong, but also it's a pretty good single issue.

There is more than a year. Go get another real progressive who doesn't have a Nazi tattoo.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

the level of contempt and disdain i feel for these chuds is really unhealthy

Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 23h

Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 15h

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA"

* article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement operation in LA, reports say

A U.S. Marshal was shot while assisting an immigration enforcement operation, according to several reports.

www.kktv.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12h

Arizona announces they are suing Mike Johnson for refusing to swear in Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva.

She is the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

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Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 13h

It's seven hours and 13 days…until Election Day. Nothing Compares 2 U — the voter. #Prince #Minneapolis

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpGA...

Graphic that says "7 Hours and 13 Days until Election Day," referencing the Prince song Nothing Compares 2 U.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 18h

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

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Pumpkin Spice Jake @jakeduhjake.bsky.social · 18h

Legality, aesthetics, and overall tone aside, who starts a major renovation in mid-October??? In addition to being corrupt, it’s also fucking stupid

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 21h

I have never been evangelized as rudely and as condescendingly by Christians as I have by militant atheists. (I was agnostic until 2013 or so.)

I did Real Time at some point after I wrote about my new faith and Bill Maher spent the entire afterparty *preaching* at me and making fun of me.

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Pumpkin Spice Jake @jakeduhjake.bsky.social · 19h

It really doesn’t help the “I don’t need a higher power to provide a moral framework” argument if you say you’re an atheist and then proceed to bully everyone. I think there are plenty of atheists who are fantastic people, but the loudest ones often make bad arguments with their actions

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21h

“I hope politicians I like live forever” is in fact not a realistic governance plan

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 22h

I’m willing to bet that the ballroom never gets built and the White House stays partially demolished for the duration of this regime.

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Pumpkin Spice Jake @jakeduhjake.bsky.social · 21h

Isn’t there a history of a lot of contract issues/folks not getting paid in a timely manner when it comes to construction/architecture for That Fuckin’ Guy? I would not be building a ballroom without a lien right now

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 1d

A picture of comedian Frankie Boyle, with the quote:

Imagine what it's like being an immigrant in Britain at the moment - being told that you need to 'integrate more', by people who spend their holidays pointing at a picture of egg and chips on a menu."

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 1d

Lindsay Halligan: “What is your story? You never told me about a story.”

Ma’am you texting a reporter is an immediate story

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my GOD.

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Pumpkin Spice Jake @jakeduhjake.bsky.social · 1d

New Tame Impala freakin rules

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Mr. Debu @drlazerrage.bsky.social · 1d

Me "ah man, I wish I didn't have work today"

*monkey paw curls*

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 1d

all my bad posts are retroactively off the record

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Andy @andy.wrestlejoy.com · 1d

ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own.

Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.

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Pumpkin Spice Jake @jakeduhjake.bsky.social · 1d

It already dark

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 1d

Remember when “basket of deplorables” was a campaign ending faux pas? Anyways the brown liquid could be anything, could be coffee

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Pumpkin Spice Jake @jakeduhjake.bsky.social · 1d

Do you get to choose a specific card before a bingo game? If not I don’t understand the “not on my bingo card” meme

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

All of this stuff makes more sense I think if you realize that we have a bunch of losers who are slowly talking themselves into believing in the theology/ideology of slavery www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...

Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies

The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

have long suspected that trump thinks the insurrection act is an instant "i win" cheat code that make his opposition go away

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

Has this guy considered that making end of life decisions SHOULD be stressful and emotionally taxing?
Earlier on, he notes that he doesn't even know if hospitals would want to use this, so why are we doing this?
Why are "playing" with introducing AI into end of life decisions?

Ahmad hopes that AI could help alleviate stress in uncertain moments. For doctors and surrogates, these decisions can be “very emotionally taxing,” Ahmad told Ars, leading many people to second-guess what the patient would choose. Some studies have shown that surrogates often get it wrong, he said, and he believes AI could help improve the odds of success.

Seeking to nip this problem in the bud, health systems have historically pushed patients to complete “advanced directives” to log their preferences. Over time, though, it has become clear that patients’ preferences tend to be unstable, sometimes changing within days.

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