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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 3h

my ❤️ is for the rare precise usage of terrific — tip of the cap

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 18h

And monopoly utilities free to pass on price hikes for more electric infrastructure!

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 19h

Millennials were too young to see the subprime mortgage crisis coming.

Is this what it felt like?

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 20h

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 1d

Can someone conduct focus groups with travelers in terminals after watching this?

They‘re a captive audience!

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d

Black families tend to have strong preferences against nursing homes, usually driven by concerns of inadequate care. Seeing that Black nursing home patients have significantly worse outcomes, and that they are driven by *within-nursing home* differences in care, confirms this suspicion.

NBER @nber.org · 2d

Nursing home value-added for black patients is 30 percent lower than for white patients, with most of the gap reflecting differences within, rather than across, nursing homes, from Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, @nealemahoney.bsky.social, and James C. Okun www.nber.org/papers/w34324

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 11d

What a beautiful passage from Lincoln in the Bardo, necessary to take in given today’s news

Page from
Saunders novel Lincoln in bardo wherein Lincoln channeled

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 11d

legit the most feel-good reporting I’ve read all week — go get ‘em, goats

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 11d

There’s still a line, and for that, for today, I am grateful.

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 11d

You know a platform has the juice when you post about your problems and get an actual answer from a total stranger. www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-aler...

www.fsis.usda.gov

Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 11d

I do miss Twitter’s location tagging:

@ Cookout, Cville, VA

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 11d

We used to be a proper country.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 12d

When the supply of available homes goes down relative to demand, prices increase. This is one of the best established findings in housing policy, and policymakers who don't center this aren't going to fix the housing crisis.

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 13d

you know a platform has the juice when you can cop a random lesson on the fly from an expert in another hemisphere

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 14d

For the cheap seats —

Does either coupling or uncoupling make this less terrifying? Asking for a teacher.

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 16d

My most juvenile trait is taking my recycling to my father’s house for Sunday dinner because I can remember that but not to put it out myself.

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 18d

It’s never not election season in Virginia. Hats off to the Fairfax Dems for using ranked choice in their 4-way race for County Board next week!

Fairfax Democrats Using Ranked Choice Voting in Braddock District Primary

Four candidates are vying for the supervisor nomination in Democrats' October 4 firehouse primary.

www.rankedchoiceva.org

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 18d

Jimmy Kimmel returns, defiantly:

“Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke…We have to speak out against this because he’s not stopping…He’s coming for our journalists, too…A govt threat to silence a comedian the president doesn’t like is anti-American.”

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 21d

In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich."

A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 18

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 25d

I’m just here to applaud the reference. I was not familiar with your game.

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 26d

92% of Americans say it's very or somewhat important that the media in the US can report the news without government censorship. www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

Bar chart showing the percentage of adults in 35 surveyed countries who say it's not at all important, not too important, somewhat important or very important that the media in their country can report the news without state or government censorship. The chart is based on Pew Research Center surveys of adults in each country, conducted in spring 2024.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26d

The GOP nominee in a Virginia state House race this fall has dropped out. He says he lost his government contracting job and has no income, so he's had to take a job out of state & move away.

That's... literally what Dems are campaigning on to win VA. www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/gop-nom...

Stone, 45, said he lost his government contracting job abruptly in July and had been hoping to find another position in the Washington, D.C. area. But so far, he has not been able to do so.

"I pressed ahead with the campaign, expecting it to be a short-term issue," Stone said in an email to the Prince William Times. "But now that our family budget is tight due to no income, I have to do what's best for my family and take the job I'm offered."

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 28d

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 29d

If you’re wondering how a culture steps from camps and cages to killing chambers, here it is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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