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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 5h

1) truthnuke

2) I think it's funny to consider seven months a long time to prep for a complete-and-total overhaul (really abolishment) of the de minimis program

3) UPS did not have seven months to prepare because the Trump admin has changed the de minimis rules like 5 times at this point

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 5h

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
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i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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Jashvina Shah @icehockeystick.bsky.social · 13h

Bad journalists support other bad journalists because it makes them think they’re actually good at their job. Neither of these people are a good standard for journalism. They’re bad and should not have the positions they have.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 14h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 1h

"The so-called 'independent research' gives vested interests a veil of credibility, which they exploit to lobby parliamentarians and the broader public, distorting the framing of policy debates"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

ACCC urged to probe 'distorted research' behind government gas policy

Advocacy group Climate Integrity has accused the gas industry of using "distorted research", produced by the accounting firm EY, to influence the Australian government's Future Gas Strategy.

www.abc.net.au

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 3h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 9h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 2h

I just want to say, it's not a planning problem. The shipper has to pay the tariff, and they have very little ability to recover the debt, or even to contact, the customer. It's an inversion of how shipping usually works, no amount of planning will help bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 30m

If any child in your life has an IEP or 504 plan:

Trump fired (we think) all of the employees in the office at the US Department of Education that disburses special education funds from the federal government that school districts use to pay for those plans.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7h

The faux feminism at work here is exactly the kind of shit that @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social was writing about when he wrote Elite Capture, the essay and book!

www.bostonreview.net/articles/olu...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 11h

You may have to wait a while for an answer as Sally Jenkins is still trying to unravel the mystery of “what were Charlie Kirk’s views?”

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 29d

One of the reasons I'm not familiar with his views is that I find they've been inaccurately or incompletely reported. When I do listen to him in full, he speaks with civility, and his full context has usually been lost. This disappoints me in my profession. That is what I'm saying.

Zee's Soup Szn Cauldron 🍲🎃 @ziajd.bsky.social · 29d

You admitted you're not familiar with his views but are saying he argued with civility. Which one is it, Sally?

Cuz it sounds to me like you're defending him, and that's pretty disgusting and embarrassing.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 7h

This guy gives the game away with the misogyny but man—this attitude (if you have a lot of followers you should just let people be assholes to you) drives me nuts.

You walk into my dojo looking for a fight you’re gonna get it lol

@[email protected] on Mastodon @electricheadpt2.cryptoanarchy.network · 15h

This guy rocks (derogatory). You’re apparently a “thirst trap white woman” and were just all simps for thinking he’s a dumbass.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.... • 18m
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As much disdain as I have for Large Accounts that do a bunch of venting on main like they're smol beans, I have a ton more for the army of followers who swarm people like "they're a human being, don't police their expression of emotions!" This is the same as simping for favor from the rich.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.... • 14m
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Crushed (Piano)
Just because you're simping for a leftist conventionally attractive thirst trap white woman doesn't make you any different from the people who spend all day doing the same on X for Elon Musk.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 8h

Average NYPD salary with OT is well over 100K, you live like a king on that in Long Island ain't none of them going nowhere. Anyone who believes that is a stone cold idiot. How many other jobs are they qualified for where they could earn that? Zero. The answer is zero.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

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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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h

The New York Times knows crime is not “out of control” in major U.S. cities — in fact, crime is way down from past years and decades — but NYT amplifies JD Vance’s lie without a fact check.
It’s journalism malpractice that helps the fascists.

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Rob Shum @robshum.bsky.social · 8h

“…men have discovered no technique for long preserving free gov’t except that the Executive be under the law, & that the law be made by parliamentary deliberations. Such institutions may be destined to pass away. But it is the duty of the Court to be last, not first, to give them up.” -Jackson J.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

Re-upping:

Excellent assessment of John "Roger Taney" Roberts.

In @harvardmagazine.bsky.social , by Lincoln Caplan.

As careful, legally informed, judicious-minded writer as you're going to find. With an unsparing judgment.

www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

What Trump Means for John Roberts's Legacy | Harvard Magazine

Executive power is on the docket at the Supreme Court.

www.harvardmagazine.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

If someone ever makes a documentary about Benny Johnson, I hope they call it "Dumb and Duma." www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Well-known right-wing influencers duped to work for covert Russian operation, U.S. prosecutors say

The accusations mark the third straight presidential election in which U.S. authorities have unveiled politically charged details about the Kremlin's attempted interference in U.S. politics.

www.pbs.org

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burner herzog @oujii.bsky.social · 8h

afaict once you start digging into them almost all his books suffer from some degree of the same bullshit

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 14h

i wouldn’t bet against Bari Weiss, but i absolutely would oppose her. that so many in our society are so market addled they confuse the difference is much of our problem.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 9h

The people willing to go out over their skis on this despite the fact that Weiss has zero experience running a broadcast newsroom and the reporting she has done herself has been littered with holes are just telling you they agree with her ideologically

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 12h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 9h

Ha. I was *just* talking about how the essential characteristic of the reactionary right is not being able to handle rejection, and then along comes this perfect example.

Really, bravo. Badge of honor. 10 out of 10. Amazing.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 12h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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burner herzog @oujii.bsky.social · 9h

The sports journalist Jeff Perelman has an illuminating rant on that on TikTok

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burner herzog @oujii.bsky.social · 9h

Not just the steroids, basically ever depiction of every character & event was wrong. The As had multiple genuinely great players who don't feature at all, art howe was a great manager who was absolutely on board w/ the As' strategy, and on and on. Making for a better narrative ofc, but just false

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burner herzog @oujii.bsky.social · 9h

Which book was good? Moneyball and the blind side are basically works of fiction

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