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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 46m

We’re going to see someone pen an essay about the radical act of smelling their own gas in the next three years.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 57m

Watched it in a weekend it’s a banger!

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Miss MeMe, Baby @phenomenalme.blacksky.app · 1h

Nuff said.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

You decided to sacrifice joy for a sad bit. Everyone else isn’t obligated to join you.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

The raw egg guy having a visceral reaction to seeing people enjoy seasoned food is way too on the nose.

onion person @junlper.beer · 7h

setting aside the fact that they just don’t know what jokes are, this gives a big insight into the mind of white nationalists. they are deeply paranoid about the idea of being percieved as anything other than Epic Stoics

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 6h

American Meritocracy

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9h

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · 11h

Yea fuck this keep it closed down come hell or high water

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h

Muddie Mae Suggins >

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, we argue vociferously, backed by empirical research, that patients’ wellbeing and health outcomes will suffer from the Trump administration’s push to end DEI policies at US medical schools

The BMJ @bmj.com · 11h

The Trump administration and its allies have taken several steps to ensure that medical schools in the US dismantle all diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.

It is patients who will be the victims of this, write @gavinyamey.bsky.social and @michaeldgreen.com
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11h

Texas should follow suit bit.ly/nodealtexas

A flyer reading keep Texas Free with a statue of Bevo and a sentence demanding the university protects its autonomy and academic freedom

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 12h

The horrific South Carolina abortion ban that lawmakers held a hearing on last week would also consider it “aiding and abetting” an abortion to host or maintain a website that informs women and pregnant people how to obtain an abortion. First Amendment attacks on abortion are coming

Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 12h

Plan C will keep publishing information in the face of free speech threats, cofounder Amy Merrill said. “I don't believe that people in those states want to be uniquely blocked from accessing all dimensions of the internet...We still get to talk about abortion, and we're going to keep doing that.”

Exclusive: Plan C Doubles Down on Abortion Pill Info Amid Political Attacks

The online abortion pill guide has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost.

www.autonomynews.co

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Reuters @reuters.com · 12h

VIEW Trump threatens 'massive increase' in China tariffs reut.rs/4haI02i

VIEW Trump threatens 'massive increase' in China tariffs

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he is calculating a massive increase in tariffs on Chinese imports, adding there was no reason to meet with President Xi JinPing in two weeks as planned, triggering a sell-off in the dollar.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14h

This week’s Truth and Action Roundup

act.sojo.net

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The 51st @51st.news · 15h

"Something interesting happened in the D.C. Council on Tuesday. But there’s only so much I can tell you about it — because much of it happened behind closed doors."

Don't miss @maustermuhle.bsky.social's Wilson Building Bulletin from this week:

Wilson Building Bulletin: Curfews and closed doors

The D.C. Council rejected a bill extending the youth curfew. Until it didn't.

51st.news

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 17h

Sandra Bland was murdered for being calmly defiant.

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15h

Wherever your school currently has the Bad Bunny of their field, they’d like to swap them out with the Lee Greenwood of that field.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 16h

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

The man was 77 years old and his wife previously organized one of the local ‘No Kings’ protests. All he did was write ‘You Lack Values’ and got an intimidation visit from Desantis’s Gestapo.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 16h

If I got paid to help someone with public relations and they decided to take some Saudi money and they got criticized I’d say “yeah, that’s going to happen you’re just going to have to eat that,” and not “let’s draw some more attention with an op ed,” but I’m not a professional.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 16h

a purple and yellow frog is dancing in a video game

Alt: a purple and yellow frog is dancing in a video game

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 16h

Final Fantasy VII simulating what to do as a frog in battle with particularly corporate fascism while serving in a loose coalition of resistance organized around culturally distinct cities uhh was on the nose.