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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Alex Mizrahi @alexmiz.bsky.social · 4d

i wish choc chips weren't so hard in that situation. I wonder if softening up some chips on the stove then mixing them into the dough would be good.

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Alex Mizrahi @alexmiz.bsky.social · 8d

If by "of the decade" you mean over the past ten years, then my vote goes to The Death of Stalin

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Alex Mizrahi @alexmiz.bsky.social · 9d

The "author" of that book also "wrote" this book that was published on Sept. 10...2025. Mac Jones last played for the Patriots in 2023.

MAC JONES: RISING STRONG: A Biography Of Resilience, Leadership, And The Future Of The Patriots

Buy MAC JONES: RISING STRONG: A Biography Of Resilience, Leadership, And The Future Of The Patriots: Read Kindle Store Reviews - Amazon.com

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 10d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

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China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 10d

If this - declaring war on US cities - isn't "High crimes and misdemeanors" I don’t know what is. I guess it could just be treason.

Either way, in any functioning democracy, or even just a representative republic, this would be more than enough cause for immediate impeachment.

Techdirt @techdirt.com · 10d

So Donald Trump Is Declaring War On US Cities Based On Fake Fox News Footage And Nonsense His ‘People’ Tell Him

Who's running the country? That question became terrifyingly urgent this weekend when the President of the United States admitted he was preparing to send US military forces into an…

So Donald Trump Is Declaring War On US Cities Based On Fake Fox News Footage And Nonsense His ‘People’ Tell Him

Who's running the country? That question became terrifyingly urgent this weekend when the President of the United States admitted he was preparing to send US military forces into an American city based entirely on old Fox News footage and lies from his advisors. Tim Cushing had a story yesterday about Trump's bizarre declaration of war on Portland, threatening to deploy the US military against a city experiencing nothing more than a few tame protests.

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Alex Mizrahi @alexmiz.bsky.social · 17d

Update from around 7 pm: wall art nearly complete

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 17d

Yeah you bet they are.

Alex Mizrahi @alexmiz.bsky.social · 18d

They’re painting this @wired.com art on a wall in Bushwick today

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Alex Mizrahi @alexmiz.bsky.social · 18d

They’re painting this @wired.com art on a wall in Bushwick today

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Alex Mizrahi @alexmiz.bsky.social · 19d

Thought that was RFK Jr. at first glance and was very confused for a split second

Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 19d

"'We're going to do this.' We're going to be doing the exact opposite." #NFL

Rex Ryan admits he fed broadcasters 'so much crap' in production meetings

Rex Ryan revealed on Sunday NFL Countdown that he deliberately misled broadcasters he didn't trust during production meetings.

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Alex Mizrahi @alexmiz.bsky.social · 19d

I genuinely love this idea.

Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 19d

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

A photo of Charlie Kirk with the caption "Trans rights are human rights" in loving memory Charlie Kiek 1993 - 2025

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21d

It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 22d

In November I wrote about Trump’s obsession with the golden age of late night TV for @flaminghydra.com through the lens of his friendship with Joan Rivers.
He hasn’t been invited back since 2016, but was once a regular; he appeared on Letterman more than 30 times.
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Unable to adapt to streaming, the traditional late night shows are bleeding viewers. At his height, Carson reached 17 million Americans every night. Now, operating on a four-day schedule, The Tonight Show reaches about 2.04. million. And Trump himself may have something to do with the twilight of late night.
Tonight with Jimmy Fallon's head writer, Rebecca Drysdale, quit the show in late 2020 because she could no longer bear to write about him. In a Facebook post discovered by the Chicago Sun-Times and CNBC, she wrote that
"doing material about Trump has led to divided creative teams, anxiety, tears and pain... I don't believe that making fun of this man, doing impressions of him, or making him silly, is a good use of that power. It only adds to his."

In interviews and campaign rallies, Trump has made it abundantly clear that he misses the golden age of late night, particularly the legendary Tonight Show host, Johnny Carson.
Carson helped make Joan Rivers's career, and she was a popular guest host on The Tonight Show for years. But when news leaked that she hadn't made the cut for consideration as Carson's successor, she took Fox's offer to host her own show in the same time slot as The Tonight Show. Carson took his revenge; he never spoke to Rivers again and blacklisted her, forbidding any celebrity who appeared on The Late Show with Joan Rivers from coming on The Tonight Show.

Even as the news of late night hosts
"distraught" over Trump's win spread, the administration's circus has provided a firehose of outraged engagement. In 2017, a communications professor at George Mason University counted 3,100 jokes about Trump, as compared with Clinton's 1,700 in 1998 during the height of his impeachment scandal.

Some percentage of Trump voters believe that he is likewise just doing it for the ratings, that his terrifying authoritarian rhetoric is schtick,
"just riling up the news." Despite all evidence to the contrary, these voters still believe that Trump is a "businessman," that he's "fiscally conservative," that he won't touch the socially liberal policies that many Americans support.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 25d

SNEAKERS is one of the most purely charming, diverting light thrillers you can give yourself as a gift on a bad day. Redford, River Phoenix, Sidney literally Poitier, David Strathairn? It’s got good bones, as they say.

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 25d

I first saw Sneakers in college. The year was 1992 and I was 17. They did a special screening on campus because Lawrence Lasker was an alum. Anyway, it was the first movie I saw Robert Redford in and it was CINEMA. Best movie ever. RIP to that handsome unproblematic man.

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