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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 11h

Perhaps there needs to be some kind of mechanism for states to recall Senators who are clearly in distress.

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 11h

Unsolicited wick pic

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 13h

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 16h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 12h

Once again for those not paying attention: Crypto’s only valid use case is to make it hard to trace illegal activity

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine that

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Luce Leonard @luceleonard.bsky.social · 1d

Today, Semmelweis is honored as the "savior of mothers" and the "father of infection control". His story serves as a cautionary tale about the resistance to new ideas in science and a powerful reminder of the importance of hand hygiene in public health."
Via Samuel Long

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 1d

Salad. It’s always whitefish salad.

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 1d

Try a bialy / it’s like an English muffin and a bagel had a glorious baby that’s better than either of them.

kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 1d

Bialys ARE my bagel order! (open face with a *modest* smear of cream cheese, real belly lox, tomato, onion and cucumber)

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a purple shirt is standing in a field with two other men .

Alt: The men in Office Space just destroying a printer with a bat

media.tenor.com

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 1d

I’m also guessing she IS a bit of a harpy and that makes it hard for the writers not to write her that way 😬. I wish they hadn’t scuttled the Jack/Xander bromance - it was the only fun thing left for Jack!

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 1d

I could totally be remembering this wrong but I think Melissa Reeves is a conservative Christian and she originally left the show because her husband didn’t approve of the sex scenes. I wouldn’t be surprised if “no sexy stuff” was part of her agreement to return to the show.

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 1d

And I think his timing was right. He basically took over the Howard Stern/morning shock jock audience just as everyone was moving from radio to podcasts in their commutes due to improvements in cell networks.

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ve studied this a long time” 🙄

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d

When you see scary things in the news, look for the helpers.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 2d

I’m assuming this is not the Buena Vista next to Kissimee

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 2d

This reminds me of “ballet st” in Birmingham - pronounced to rhyme with mallet.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 2d

A lawyer in a very prominent govt role doesn’t intentionally do fraud to save $50/mo 🙄

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 2d

TIL Garrison Keillor is still alive 😂

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Corey Brettschneider @democracyprof.bsky.social · 2d

The indictment of Letitia James makes clear that calling it an attempted coup is no exaggeration.

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 2d

It’s 💯 wrong and despotic and anti democratic but I think we’ve lost any right we had to call it “unAmerican”.

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 2d

I always found this so weird. I’m Jewish (though not religious) but rudimentary religious education was enough for me to grasp that if you don’t accept the Pope as spiritual leader you are - by definition - a Protestant and not a Catholic. And I’m pretty sure they teach that in CCD?!?

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 2d

The banks literally created a class of people who were “too big to fail” and the bankers didn’t care because their entire incentive structure is based on making huge fees and there are zero penalties for them when those deals go bad.

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kbethany.bsky.social @kbethany.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me / when this goes to The Hague for war crimes, are the senators who didn’t vote to stop it vulnerable to being charged as accessories?