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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 4h

Did I have Ms. Rachel taking on Obama on my bingo card in 2026?

No, I did not.

Dear @barackobama,

I saw in your statement you said “Israeli families” & “the people of Gaza.”

Palestinians have families, too.

This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.

I’ve sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.

Love,
Ms Rachel

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4h

I'm suggesting all this because you seem to be pointed in the right direction in many ways, and yet this is the way you choose to engage, and you do it to play devil's advocate for positions probably not worth considering. Might be worth thinking about.

Going to re-mute you now. Hope you improve!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4h

When I point out that the real issue (comics taking massive $$$ from a murderous authoritarian government as part of a reputational sanitizing project) isn't hard to understand, you pivot to (falsely) saying that you have been insulted.

Maybe you aren't aware that you use bad faith tactics? 🤷‍♂️

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4h

Your 1st remark suggested (wrongly) the nature of controversy was over performing to the people of Saudi Arabia. "I hope people don't refuse to engage with me because I live in a country ..." & when called out you shift to this cost/benefit.

Maybe you aren't aware that you use bad faith tactics? 🤷‍♂️

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 4h

“We’re now a pack of lies”

Annette Yancey Allgood @ayallgood.bsky.social · 4h

www.mediaite.com/media/news/w...

‘We’re Now a Conservative Opinion Page,’ Declares Washington Post Columnist

Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen boasted on social media, Thursday that the newspaper was "now a conservative opinion page."

www.mediaite.com

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🪱𝔼𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙🪱 @oddoblivion.bsky.social · 1d

Some thangs I’ve painted in VR

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 4h

It’s still sheep fucking, even if it’s done ironically and by lions.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 4h

I wonder if the adult in the breakfast room wearing a sweatshirt that says "Free Man: Lions Not Sheep" is aware that the top of the 'o' in 'the 'not' on the back of the sweatshirt has suffered a tragic workmanship defect, giving his outfit choice a very different impression when viewed from behind.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 4h

On the actual 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live (today), here’s an article I wrote about it last year, with remembrances from Chevy Chase, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman and many more. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/a...

When ‘Saturday Night Live’ Debuted, They Were There. Here’s What They Remember. (Published 2024)

www.nytimes.com

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 4h

SHE STANDS ON A PEDESTAL OF LIES!!

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 4h

Hertfordshire County Council rules for library use, 1930

RULES FOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
BAN ON LIARS AND DIRTY FACES
Strict rules, which have been approved by the Hertfordshire County Council, are to be imposed by the Hyde Institute Library, Barnet Vale.

LIBRARY USERS iN FUTURE MUST NOT:
Enter the library if their faces are offensively dirty.
Fall asleep on the tables.
Eat their lunches whilst reading papers, books, &c
Smoke in the building.
Leave their business cards behind.
Make themselves a nuisance.
Kick or damage the furniture.
Bring dogs within the portals.
Tell lies to the librarian.
Enter when they are in an inebriated con- dition.
If they have small-pox.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 18h

I had to go back and make sure I wasn't missing something with the Cuomo tweet.

A man who is very definitely in touch with the lives of everyday new yorkers.

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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Henry Higgins III @hhtheiii.bsky.social · 4h

Too rich for the subway, not rich enough for a car. The forgotten generation.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 4h

I THINK that my dad got one at some point, which means it might be down in our basement now, in one of a series of boxes labeled "OPEN FIRST," "REALLY OPEN FIRST," OPEN FIRST REALLY," etc

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 1d

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 4h

Quite a turnaround from the last admin where University of Phoenix owners were reduced to trying (and failing) to hoodwink public universities into acquiring them, with promises of easy predatory cash flow. They couldn’t even sell themselves for parts, and now a $1.36 b valuation and splashy IPO!

"Apollo Global Management and another firm, the Vistria Group, acquired Phoenix’s then-publicly traded parent company, Apollo Education Group, for $1.1 billion dollars in 2017.

During the Biden administration, when the government was working to make it harder to make money off of predatory college abuses, Apollo tried to unload Phoenix to some gullible state university presidents, in Arkansas and Idaho, only to have those deals derailed by opposition in each state.

This week, Apollo and Vistria raised $136 million selling shares of Phoenix’s parent in a new initial public offering for the company, now valued at $1.36 billion."

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 4h

an article with more context
www.republicreport.org/2025/billion...

Billionaire Behind Trump Pressure Campaign on Colleges Owns Predatory University of Phoenix - Republic Report

Private equity billionaire Marc Rowan was revealed last week to be the driving force behind a Trump administration campaign pressuring nine major U.S. universities, including Brown, MIT, and the Unive...

www.republicreport.org

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 4h

**always follow the money**
PE firm behind for-profit universities using its WH influence to handwrite terms that will eviscerate, hamstring and control its own competitors in higher ed…and NY Times giving space to the CEO to come out and admit this influence in a pro-Compact piece

As someone who played a part in the compact’s initial formulation, working alongside an administration working group, I would like to offer what insight I can into the motivation and need for the compact and to address its detractors.

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Iago Grimaldo @archvillain.bsky.social · 2d

Still recall the puff piece written about Epstein back in the day in VANITY FAIR (granted, not the ideal source for factual accounts). But the smarmy, white-washy tone stayed with me because it essentially boiled down to "this guy is connected and filthy rich but it's unclear exactly why or how."

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 2d

Yup, the NYT literally hired a reporter to plant puff pieces on Epstein! The NYC/DC media abetted Epstein because they were from the same social circles, circles that apparently do not have a problem with child rape. A page from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (it gets worse from there...)

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Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem.bsky.social · 4h

I think I mostly agree with thread. I'd also add in To Sail Beyond the Sunset. I thought the book sexist shit when I read it in my twenties. In my 50s I read it and realised he was downloading stories of lousy treatment that his female friends (and he had lots) had told him.

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Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem.bsky.social · 4h

Waves. I spend quite a long section of my book disentangling the shit show that is Farnham's Freehold and working out how a manifest and active anti racist (see also the opposition to segregation and miscegenation laws in TMIAHM) managed to produce such an awful book.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 4h

The game of the ancient Mariners

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Koolaid-Girl @koolaid-girl.bsky.social · 18h

The Cat's outta the bag, I designed the Lackadaisy Mixer book! It was such a fun and challenging task to make this real, so go grab your copy! Tracy and the LD team and Glitch's team were so awesome to work with <3 I really appreciate them

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