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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 4h

...or burning at all

Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 5h

I mean......

and, sorry, that was not in the form of a question

Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 5h

Never in doubt.

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 5h

What a game, sad for Detroit....but congrats to the Mariners...and probably the happiest person on Bluesky right now @minakimes.bsky.social

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 5h

What an absolute dime to second...this game has had everything

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 6h

This game is wild....good lord

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 6h

It has been a total pitching war

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

This Mariners-Tigers battle is one of the best baseball games I’ve ever seen

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Sean's News Network @seanchai313.bsky.social · 7h

Farmers are getting hot hard by tariffs locking them out of the Chinese market. There's talk of a bailout.

So obviously Republicans are cutting a billion dollars to buy fresh produce for schools...

Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 15h

* Cuts to the programs that allowed schools and food banks to buy fresh produce

stophunger.org/usda-cuts-1-...

USDA cuts $1 billion for schools and food banks to buy fresh food from local farms

The Trump administration announced it will cut $1 billion in federal programs that allowed schools and food banks to buy fresh food from local farmers and ranchers — as part...

stophunger.org

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 7h

I suspect that there has not been one of the kind fires in Portland this year

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 7h

It's actually useful that he keeps providing evidence of his wrongdoing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7h

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 9h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 11h

More winning.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

"The University of Zurich said the married couple, who currently work at MIT, would join its economics faculty …. [They] will be moving … at a time when experts are warning that Trump's cuts to research funding and attacks on … freedoms could lead to a brain drain …."

www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 7h

If I were actively trying to destroy the United States from within, going after and dismantling its public health would be like the first thing I’d do.

Just pointing that out.

This is beyond dangerous. It’s leaving us vulnerable in a way we can’t really fathom until it’s too late.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

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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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 7h

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

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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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 2d

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 8h

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"

The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

www.cato.org

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 8h

Ecuador's manager looks like he could have been one of Jeff Spiccoli's van buddies in Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 8h

Looking forward to seeing Pulisic, McKennie, and Balogun on the pitch at the same time

Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 8h

Congrats to the Las Vegas Aces on what is looking like another championship in about 10 seconds #WNBA

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 8h

We looked good against Japan too...might be starting to cook

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 8h

Agreed, but Balogun was driving Ecuador crazy the entire first half

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 8h

Balogun deserved that one, he has been dominant all game #USMNT

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 8h

GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL #USMNT

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 8h

Define irony

...we just bailed this guy out

A picture with Milei and Musk and the chainsaw

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