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Scholar Officials for Zohran Mamdani @ritesofzhou.bsky.social · 1m

@theophite.bsky.social this is where you come in!

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FREE LEONID BAEZHNEV 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔰 @khartsun.bsky.social · 5m

Han Fei vs. Hammurabi

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23m

I think one of the biggest cleavages in our society that no one talks about is the division between those that think powerful people must be held to a higher standard than non-powerful people and those who think powerful people should be flattered and sucked up to.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 49m

The solution is to not have schools suck.

Public education in this country is how every child and parent gets exposed to the idea that the government runs a Kafkaesque and labyrinthine bureaucracy that resists oversight and intervention.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2h

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 20m

One significant means of fixing this would be a redistribution (but please don't call it that lol) of school funding so that a district's funding is not based on local tax revenue, which creates wild swings in quality from district to district that aren't addressable through programs like Title I.

River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 49m

The solution is to not have schools suck.

Public education in this country is how every child and parent gets exposed to the idea that the government runs a Kafkaesque and labyrinthine bureaucracy that resists oversight and intervention.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2h

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Scholar Officials for Zohran Mamdani @ritesofzhou.bsky.social · 20m

the Claude what Attractor??

Scholar Officials for Zohran Mamdani @ritesofzhou.bsky.social · 34m

also, he will almost certainly have a higher (though more abstract) body count than Mengele by the end of this

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

she cheated on her fiance with a person she was reporting on without telling her editor while suffering zero consequences. and the other man is temu mengele

as @piss.beauty said, lets not impugn sluts with this comparison

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 13h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

from my WIFL interview with @jdandeneau.bsky.social

I don’t know how many people have actually internalized this, but the vast majority of local Democratic operations are staffed and run by blue-haired little old ladies who have been doing this for 40 years and are funding it with bake sales, and are keeping the flame alive in a time when parties are as weak as they’ve ever been. If you are under the age of 50 and you show up and act normal for, like, 3 months, they will do whatever you want because they’re so excited to have a young person there. Parties are weak right now because of some factors that are outside of our control, but a lot of factors are within our control and the big one is that we just haven’t paid enough attention to the atomic-level units, and party infrastructure. If you strengthen those, then party identity as a whole will follow. Party strength as a whole will follow.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 21h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Scholar Officials for Zohran Mamdani @ritesofzhou.bsky.social · 14h

somehow, this isn't even the worst quote-dunk to that specific post that I have seen

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 15h

NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 15h

honestly impressive how committed they are to losing a shutdown fight

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 15h

prediction: this will not work

www.axios.com/2025/10/14/t...

Trump teases new list of "Democratic programs" being shut down will come Friday

Other cuts would follow the thousands of employees laid off last week.

www.axios.com

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sasha @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 17h

Arizona AG Kris Mayes - a former Republican - vowing litigation if Adelita Grijalva is not sworn in soon

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Scholar Officials for Zohran Mamdani @ritesofzhou.bsky.social · 18h

fred

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 21h

At 105th chaos erupted when ICE agents allegedly crashed into an SUV. A crowd formed and objects were thrown. Pepper balls were shot into the crowd. Police arrived to try to have dialogue with the crowd when witnesses stated they began throwing rocks at ICE. ICE then deployed tear gas.

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 18h

it’s insane how closely musktwitter usage correlates with crashing out and becoming a differently-flavored bari weiss, ben dreyfuss, or badempanada. it’s been happening over and over again for a year now and every single time it’s because of prolonged exposure to musktwitter.

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Scholar Officials for Zohran Mamdani @ritesofzhou.bsky.social · 18h

I assumed it was a nudist bike ride joke until I saw the timestamp

Scholar Officials for Zohran Mamdani @ritesofzhou.bsky.social · 19h

clearly not Mondaire Jones!

More seriously, Latimer is, while a conservadem and probably below replacement for his district, actually a Democrat, not a fraud like Gottheimer, Gillen, or Suozzi.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19h

legal academia is a weird mix of some of the best and most immediately actionable policy research about the impact of specific laws and procedures, and also bizarre poorly executed historiography/political theory by way of literary criticism, by people trained in none of those things

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19h

"we drilled down on the actual impact of Colorado state senate bill 486 on judicial clerk staffing levels in civil cases, using a discontinuity in the rollout to show that this increased judicial caseloads, leading to" vs. "what does the bill or rights even mean? here's a blog post of my takes"

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 19h

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday.

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

C-GZPT Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Flight status, tracking, and historical data for C-GZPT including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

www.flightaware.com

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 1d

feel like we've let it recede a little that Biden got unceremoniously knifed by all his closest friends and ideological allies because they were confronted with reams of polls showing Trump competitive or leading in New Mexico and New Jersey and Virginia

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1d

The defenses of him are obscene. we wickermanned the guy. literally never happened before in the history of the us

Like its not ratfucking pointing out failed policies of the guy the *entire* party threw out as the nominee

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Scholar Officials for Zohran Mamdani @ritesofzhou.bsky.social · 19h

What does "Khamas" indicate from leftists? I've only seen it being used as a K[amala]H[arris] + Hamas "pun" from pro-Likud Republicans in 2024.

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GuyWhoNeverWenttoEpsteinsIsland @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 20h

If all the effects of "increased testosterone" wind up being "mild lead poisoning" I am going to lose it lmao

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 22h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Windows Update @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 21h

everything she's did politically is based and she seems in good health as far as i know, not really seeing a downside here beyond "old bad"

both candidates seem okay to me

Micah @rincewind.run · 23h

I’m not thrilled about Mills running for Senate at 77 either but getting Collins out is no joke and if Platner can’t win the primary he didn’t have the juice for the general anyway

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