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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Hoosier Homer is reading In The Ruins of Empire by Spector @hoosierhomer.bsky.social · 13h

not to mention there were lots investments that never made it into service or not in numbers to justify development costs!

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 13h

It’s probably mean to keep dragging this piece but

a) the P-51 was a design 4 years in the making

b) The notion that the US avoided extraordinarily costly defense projects with massive cost overruns is disproven by the B-29, which cost more to develop and produce than the Manhattan Project

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bassbonesteve.bsky.social @bassbonesteve.bsky.social · 13h

@nhloutofcontext.bsky.social took me a few days to get this one right

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Hockey Out of Context Loves Canada @nhloutofcontext.bsky.social · 19h

Tyson Barrie is an Ally confirmed. From his stories yesterday

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bassbonesteve.bsky.social @bassbonesteve.bsky.social · 1d

Tush push

bassbonesteve.bsky.social @bassbonesteve.bsky.social · 1d

I MIGHT work too much

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Bryan Mac @bryanmac.bsky.social · 2d

The baseball will continue until morale improves

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bassbonesteve.bsky.social @bassbonesteve.bsky.social · 2d

100 pct, i have a friend that leans that way that way eased up when he started showing his kids star wars and realized, oh this is for HIM

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bassbonesteve.bsky.social @bassbonesteve.bsky.social · 2d

Goddamn

ESPN @espn.com · 2d

Legends aren’t born. They’re built 😤

A’ja Wilson is the first player in WNBA & NBA history to win MVP, DPOY, Finals MVP & a scoring title in a season 👏

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 2d

salma kayak: thread

Salma Hayek in an orangish red and yellow dress..

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 2d

That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Slayerfest 98: A Queer Podcast @slayerfestx98.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly

A pic of Willow and Tara from Buffy s4 with a tweet pasted on top that says “we don’t need billionaires, we need a self-sustaining lesbian village with herbal tea and bonfires”

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bassbonesteve.bsky.social @bassbonesteve.bsky.social · 3d

We lost to fucking New Hampshire?!

a man with a beard is standing in front of a building with the words come on man below him

ALT: a man with a beard is standing in front of a building with the words come on man below him

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bassbonesteve.bsky.social @bassbonesteve.bsky.social · 4d

I had a friend once that has made it impossible to not refer to relatively leftist places as the peoples republic of

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 5d

Only the military remains outside Trump’s grip. Despite the firing of several top officers—and his threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the president. But for how long?

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 5d

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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bassbonesteve.bsky.social @bassbonesteve.bsky.social · 5d

Finally get to wear my new sweatshirt.

bassbonesteve.bsky.social @bassbonesteve.bsky.social · 6d

a man says " was i a person " in front of a plant

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bassbonesteve.bsky.social @bassbonesteve.bsky.social · 6d

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 7d

Ukraine has shown there's a role for SOF but it's much much closer to how they worked in WW2 than GWOT. Asymmetrically, creatively, supporting the main conventional effort. 'Confound Jerry at every turn etc'

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 7d

And the cult of SOF is a real problem given that, if we've seen one thing in Ukraine, it is that in a near-peer conflict, highly-trained, ultra-elite infantry cost a lot to form and field but get shredded by firepower at exactly the same rate, if not faster than, regular infantry.

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 7d

And this all starts right out of the academies or ROTC, are the top of the class going into arty or armor or logistics, no they’re all going to the 173rd airborne or ranger school, so you can see how the army has become so light infantry/SOF centric

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bassbonesteve.bsky.social @bassbonesteve.bsky.social · 7d

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Hockey Out of Context Loves Canada @nhloutofcontext.bsky.social · 7d

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 8d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 8d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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