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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 1h

The 2024 media failures, from “fact checks” to active disinterest in Trump lies, to … everything is infuriating. When people say “I didn’t vote for this” sometimes I believe them, because the media whitewashed a TON of Trump’s more distasteful positions and statements.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7h

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, "want to ... repeal the Affordable Care Act and elim nate protections for preexisting conditions." It's unclear what Trump would do, since he hasn't released a plan to replace the ACA. He said he would do so, if "we can come up With something that's better."

Schumer, meanwhile, was wrong to
say, as he did on the Senate floor April 28, that the bill goes "back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."

perorats and Republicans have made
competing claims on whether the latest version of the GOP health care bill maintains protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. President Trump has said, "Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it." Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that
"insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."
Neither of those comments quite gets it right. The latest version offers lesser protections than the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn't allow insurers to deny coverage to someone with a health

Who's right? Like everything else in health care, it's complicated.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 53m

Making jokes on social media is awesome, because you'll get whiplash between hilarious replies from some of the cleverest people in the world, and also bewildered replies from people who have never before heard of the concept of humor

James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 1h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Ewepinko @scdemandred.bsky.social · 30m

I think these people have simply convinced themselves that they’re the good guys and they’re on the side of truth and justice, which is how most people get to be capable of such evil. Even Trump probably truly believes this.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1h

One thing that I’ve come around on in comics is it used to seem corny and childish that a bunch of guys would call themselves the Legion of Doom and meet in an old castle where they’d be like ”hiss let us defeat the ideas of hope and love hiss” but that’s what they’re actually doing in real life lol

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 1h

Trump blowing up the global economy by dumb, blinkered choice should get a lot more attention than it does. bsky.app/profile/nyti...

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1h

Breaking News: The global economy is projected to slow this year and next as persistent uncertainty over tariffs continues, according to the International Monetary Fund.

Global Growth Remains Sluggish as Tariff Threats Loom

The International Monetary Fund said the impact of trade tensions had been limited so far, but it expects growth to slow.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17h

Ohio Begins Executing Random People In Hopes They’re Criminals https://theonion.com/ohio-begins-executing-random-people-in-hopes-they-re-cr-1851218315/

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 14h

Too many people view reading as “something you do” rather than “a skill that can be developed.”

If you want to get better at kicking a football, you have to kick a lot of footballs. If you want to get better at reading, you have to read a lot of books.

Also, it’s fun to be good at things!

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 20h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 13h

Damn, I gotta step my game up, I only got a short hitpiece a couple weeks ago, didn’t even make it to the final roster. Hopefully I’ll get picked up on the waiver wire.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15h

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News!
www.foxnews.com/politics/squ...

Squad 2.0: Meet America's next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party's future

Progressive Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani and Omar Fateh, have emerged as the new generation of candidates responding to President Donald Trump's second term.

www.foxnews.com

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Ewepinko @scdemandred.bsky.social · 8h

Super curious now though!

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 12h

Need one of those big accounts to put this speech side by side with the rambling brain leaks of the coward in the White House.

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NPR @npr.org · 11h

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina called for dialogue "to find a way out of this situation" and said the constitution should be respected. n.pr/3W7bvbs

Madagascar's president flees country in fear for his life after military rebellion

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina called for dialogue "to find a way out of this situation" and said the constitution should be respected.

n.pr

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Andy Merrill “Brak” & I maybe love🫘 @amerrill2.bsky.social · 15h

Sorry, @crobertcargill.bsky.social

I meant that I’m psyched for the sequel!!!

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10h

Look, I get that we all want to like that frog pretending to be Obama “Hop” poster, but you all understand it’s obviously AI, right?

It has that pissbrown sheen suffusing the entire thing that’s even more obvious when you compare it to the original.

I’m not alone in seeing this, right?

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

A famous Dril tweet that reads “issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it to them”

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Ewepinko @scdemandred.bsky.social · 20h

Damiano David

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 1d

I know it's a rhetorical question but the reason anger against immigrants is encouraged is that the ruling class needs the working class to be infighting along lines of race, ethnicity and gender because if we are united we'll be too powerful

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 1d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Ewepinko @scdemandred.bsky.social · 23h

Well, good thing I didn’t overreact

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Ewepinko @scdemandred.bsky.social · 23h

I was trying to view the post and your account kept disappearing from the screen…. Really weird behavior, but maybe just a glitch in the matrix

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

It's amazing how public officials who willingly go on TV to talk about these issues can claim ignorance about the very things they've come on to talk about, and it's treated like a legitimate answer.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Jim Jordan after he's played clips from videos of ICE brutalizing people, including American citizens: "I don't know the specifics of those examples you gave. What I do know is these ICE agents are under tremendous pressure ... I think they're doing a good job."

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Jacob Graveison @jacobdavison.bsky.social · 1d

Not to be that guy, but Luffy's straw hat isn't red and it does not look like Jesus' crown of thorns. Thiel is just projecting his christ/anti-christ analysis on literally everything he watches because he's a wacko.

Luffy with his straw hat that doe not look like a crown of thorns and has a red sash around it but is not red.

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Chris “Chance!” Brown @chancesecond.bsky.social · 1d

“Did you actually listen to the things Charlie Kirk said, or are you just parrot-“
Nope, listened to them all, he was a piece of shit
“Are you sure that you’re not just falling to propa-“
What part of I did unnecessary homework about a trash human do you not understand

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