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Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com · 56m

"Business leaders – panicked to the point of paranoia about a candidate whose most radical position seems to be 'free bus fares' and not, you know, 'seize the means of production' or 'wheel out the guillotines' – will surely salt the earth out of spite, but they'll just be hurting themselves."

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

Finally realized what the freakout over Mamdani becoming mayor reminded me of, and it's the freakout over the first black mayors in southern cities.

New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS:

"Too Young to Die"

As the seemingly endless NYC mayoral campaign enters its final weeks, the howls of the Democratic establishment in the city are only getting louder. They've really convinced themselves that the elect...

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1h

“I’m a cop. I am not supposed to feel dread. He’s a brown person. HE’S supposed to feel dread!”

Bari nods sympathetically.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 21h

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

more of this. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

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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stardust melody @karenparish.bsky.social · 3h

“I told a story punctuated with beauty and burdock and poetry”

youtu.be/ueDrV2mlK20

Bianca Stone for "Seriously Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: Poetry"

YouTube video by House of SpeakEasy

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 4h

My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 6h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 4h

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜

feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)

here’s one by Emma Winsor Wood, from Preferred Internal Landscape (@ornithopterpress.bsky.social)

Judgment Call

In the book I'm reading, a woman wakes up every morning and asks herself:

What will I do to make myself happy today?

I decide to stop reading the book.

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M. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 4h

“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”

— James Baldwin

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stardust melody @karenparish.bsky.social · 5h

“We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.”

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 18h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 23h

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 5h

Ben Shapiro is SO CLOSE to getting it.

“It has the subtlety of a brick … The basic suggestion is a conspiracy theory in which the United States is run by white supremacist Christian nationalists and all people of color and a few nice incompetent fellow travelers like [DiCaprio’s character] are going to take on that entire system. And that system must be taken on at the cost of family, at the cost of friendship, at the cost of decency, at the cost of basic human capacity for success. It is better, in other words, to be a complete loser who wastes your life bombing things randomly in order to free illegal immigrants to run willy-nilly across the border than to be a productive citizen.”

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 6h

truth is truth
To th’ end of reck’ning.

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

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 20h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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stardust melody @karenparish.bsky.social · 1d

A full house!

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stardust melody @karenparish.bsky.social · 1d

Wonderful!

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stardust melody @karenparish.bsky.social · 1d

from Squarings: Lightenings
- Seamus Heaney

stardust melody @karenparish.bsky.social · 1d

“…we had been more defeated by narrative, than we had been defeated in the courts. We had been defeated by the story of who we are in this country. We have been defeated by the story of nobility that has been assigned to those who would oppress us.”

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

A note and a caution about “planting season.”

@visionandjustice

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A. Rascal @rascality.bsky.social · 1d

one piece of pharmacological evidence pointing to at least a continuity between compulsive eating and substance abuse

is the ability of GLP-1 agonists (eg Wegovy, Ozempic) and GLP-1 / GIP agonists (eg Mounjaro)

to reduce cravings for alcohol as well as appetite

The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 1d

People often joke that their favorite snack is “like crack.” But can someone really be addicted to food?

There is a consensus emerging that food addiction is a real phenomenon, explains an addiction psychiatrist with experience in treating eating disorders and obesity.

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stardust melody @karenparish.bsky.social · 1d

hoo boy

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stardust melody @karenparish.bsky.social · 1d

Sublime

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 2d

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · Aug 3

Jazz haters suck

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The Mel Jar @the-mel-jar.bsky.social · 1d

This is how they get you. The books. And the clubs.

Jac Reynolds @saboteur.bsky.social · 1d

I am in two book clubs and reading a 3rd of my own volition. I dont have time for this.

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