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Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 10h

People magazine tailoring a headline to their late-X/early millennial women readership.

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Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 11h

Any article about this that doesn’t mention Hunter Biden is committing journalistic malpractice.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 1d

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Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 11h

One of our Democratic electeds needs to seriously consider a run as Sherman, and burn it all down.

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Ally Boo-art 👻 @allystewart.bsky.social · 17h

I ask my students not to use AI because it means they are not fully engaging with their own learning. If they do, it’s a betrayal of my trust.

I don’t want to use AI to grade student work because it means that I am not fully engaging with their learning. If I do, it’s a betrayal of their trust

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Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 15h

Warning to the bond market here…

I wouldn’t want to make an enemy of the bond market.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 15h

“Cardiac health of a 65-year-old”

So we’re all going with congestive heart failure, right?

Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 16h

Wait til she hears that a former First Lady became Secretary of State.

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 16h

The people who work this work schedule want for you to never be able to retire.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

What a work schedule. The Republican speaker of the House grinds hard

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Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t see a problem.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 1d

Please?

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 1d

Can you imagine if Obama just did a press conference and called Trump a sad loser for an hour

Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s Obama inferiority complex is really something and it makes me smile

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 5d

The new Supreme Court term starts today, meaning that -- in a novel twist -- the justices will hear oral arguments in some cases before they issue rulings that actually explain what they are doing.

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Michael H. Weber @mhweber.bsky.social · 2d

If Castellanos hits a HR today…

CBS News @cbsnews.com · 2d

President Trump is going to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Friday morning for what the White House says is his "routine yearly checkup," just six months after undergoing what the White House at the time described as his "annual physical examination" at the same facility.

Trump to visit Walter Reed for "routine yearly checkup" 6 months after annual physical exam

President Trump's annual physical examination in April showed his vital statistics were all within normal limits.

cbsn.ws

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Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 2d

Trump has 5 kids. Doesn’t make him any less of a bastard.

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Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 2d

I would like to inform journalists and politicians that it is possible to care about your country and be childless.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Following MTG's lengthy CNN sitdown interview, Wolf Blitzer tells her:

"You‘re a courageous politician, but more important, a loving mother. Thanks very much for coming in. We hope you‘ll come back here in the Situation Room."

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 3d

The federal government as ordained and established by the Constitution has ceased to function, and what has replaced it isn't our government under our Constitution. That's not flippant rhetorical hyperbole, I don't say it insensitive to what the consequences are. But it's the grim reality we face.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

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...