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Call me Trixie

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Writer and editor interested in history, health care, politics, MST3k and Rifftrax, old movies, books, more books, and all the books. This is a Terry Pratchett fan account, praise Anoia. I block Andrew Cuomo and Al Franken apologists.

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OuterBoroPrincess @outerbororoyal.bsky.social · 3h

They got Claudine Gay out of the Harvard presidency over a footnote.

Chaos Cherub @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 5h

Ngl, seeing “you’re holding the nazi tatted racist white man to impossible standards” as a Black woman, aka the demographic ACTUALLY held to impossible standards, pisses me off deeply. The bar is so low for them and they still can’t clear it, but we’re “ideological purists” for pointing that out.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1h

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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 1h

The anti-trans people never shut up, and in fact solicited $10 million to start a magazine nobody reads. That's gotta be some sort of white collar scam.

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 14h

No real leftist would so despise the working class that they'd imagine you can't find working class people by the dozens who never flirted with Naziism.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

Feel strongly there are some GRU guys taping up the White House demolition photos on their cubicles

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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 1h

If they are willing to die on the hill of "we need Nazis in the party," they are telling us who they are, and I plan to believe them.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14h

The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will be publishing regular public health alerts to replace the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which has been paused due to the federal government shutdown.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2h

just this perpetual cycle where the tech press helps zuck pretend he's innovative and interesting, he falls flat on his ass after setting billions in boomer ad money on fire, then all his employees pay the price for him being a pointless, unremarkable dipshit

Reuters @reuters.com · 3h

Meta is cutting around 600 roles in AI unit, Axios reports reut.rs/4opgmAI

Meta is cutting around 600 roles in AI unit, Axios reports

Meta is cutting roughly 600 positions out of the several thousand roles within its Superintelligence Labs artificial intelligence unit, Axios reported on Wednesday.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 6h

An unabashed reminder that I was on SNAP for several years during college and if you think you don’t have anybody in your life who is struggling with food insecurity, you’re almost certainly wrong

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 15h

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 1h

Everyone. Vet everyone. That's our responsibility as American citizens.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2h

if Elon's proved anything it's that a critical mass of journalists, podcasters, and Republican officials and staffers will not ever, ever quit that fucking app no matter what he does to it. it could electrocute you and send your banking info directly to the dark web and they'd still be scrolling

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 19h

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 2h

Absolutely not, and I'm tired of libertarians using us like this. Deadheads are not your constituency.

Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 2h

I think everyone who equates "working class" with "Nazi tattoos" has never left their upper class bubble. Did they all go to private school? It's the elites tearing down the White House, not us, lady.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 18h

what’s next — will he create a $1 trillion lottery and declare himself the winner

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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 2h

Hi reporters, your readers would like to know how the merger affects them. Why is that not allowed? Do you now realize how constrained your writing has become?

Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 2h

OK new rule. No more electing people who wear costumes. Dress like you take the role seriously. If that makes me an old stick in the mud, so be it. It's not like we let minority reps dress in costumes; it's always White reps.

Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 2h

Making Putin's wildest dreams come true. You know this picture is all over Moscow, where they laugh and laugh and laugh about finally winning the Cold War.

Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 2h

I almost hate to say this ... but how young is the horse?

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 17h

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 2h

How does the newspaper know the ballroom will rise? It hasn't happened yet!

Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 18h

They gave the concentration camps catchy names for marketing purposes.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t really know how to say this more clearly.

If your party is ok with murdering unidentified civilians, known links to child sex trafficking, and taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the treasury, they are down for ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING anyone in history has ever done plus some other shit

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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 20h

Tyrod! Always have respect for that guy.

Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 20h

Can we just make him minority leader now please?

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