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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d

Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 8h

Ironically, about 75% of The Art of War is just stuff like “I cannot overemphasize that your army needs to eat”

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 22h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 15h

Stella Sacco
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It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 9h

You should be paid a million dollars in damages. <srs>

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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 9h

We should execute journos who knowingly post AI videos.

Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 9h

This video is AI.

Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 9h

Bluesky's CEO is a massive baby.

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Manoj Mate @manojmate.bsky.social · 11h

The President just received the Covid-19 Vaccine shot.

Radio silence from RFK Jr.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 10h

The problem with “virtue signaling” as a rhetorical framework was always that it pressed you not toward deeper and more sincere acts of virtue, but away from goodness as a goal at all.

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 14h

insulin doubled in price from 2012 to 2016

Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 15h

Air Traffic Control! Vaccine development! Securing financial transactions! Not having a secret police force that would kidnap and kill you! An education department!

It might not have worked great but it did something!

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 1d

I still think the Wall Street Journal should pay every trans person in America roughly $10k each for that "trans bullet casings" story they concocted

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 22h

It really feels like one of the purposes of AI video is to get us to a point where no video we see on social media and no photograph can be trusted or assumed to be true, and we fully enter a post-truth world.

Truth is used to fight oligarchs, so they seek to destroy truth itself.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 22h

Their goal is revenge against every scientist who told them something they didn't want to hear or made them feel inferior by knowing more than they do.

Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 1d

WTF is their goal? Small government means every man for themselves when the next catastrophe hits? What is the point? Government isn’t a business, it’s a service for the people. You’re saving minimal money with these cuts and only hurting literally everyone

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Child Liberation Theology @childliberation.bsky.social · 1d

"The big picture myth is, this is God’s way to parent, and from that come little myths about what will happen to children who aren’t raised this way, versus what will happen to these chosen ones who follow the correct path."

~ @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social

New book debunks spanking and the 'myths' of Christian parenting

(RNS) — In ‘The Myth of Good Christian Parenting,’ authors Marissa Franks Burt and Kelsey Kramer McGinnis argue that these methods aren’t as biblical or effective as their purveyors would have Christi...

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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 1d

He uses generative AI to make the Gorilla Channel.

Condor Puma Serpiente @toad.city · 1d

How would Donald Trump's brain react to psilocybin?

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1d

MAGA and its agenda are *wildly* unpopular, and media are hugely out of touch for not saying so. Politicians who tap into this reality will thrive, and media outlets that reflect this truth will earn enormous audiences.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 1d

No.

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FACT CHECK: Medicare for All Would Save the U.S. Trillions; Public Option Would Leave Millions Uninsured, Not Garner Savings - Public Citizen

Medicare for All opponents repeatedly claim that Medicare for All is “too expensive” by presenting misleading numbers without the proper…

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 1d

AMERICA: let’s give $20 billion to Argentina, what is money anyway

ALSO AMERICA: HeaLtHcaRe FoR aLL? wHo iS gOinG to PaY FoR It

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I think that's part of it but the other part is it's men -and in this case especially rich men - and they already don't do those tasks, so they don't see them. This is why we're getting Samsung TV's with ads and not fridges that remind us to eat the lettuce before it spoils

James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 1d

This is the tell that they don't want people with creative capacity. They want menials and drones that they can use extract wealth from their lives and labors, then discard before the next quarterly report.

The actual cruel burden is the point.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 1d

Dilaudid is a religious experience. I did H for ... a while, and I don't really think about it all that much anymore, but I've not had Dilaudid in almost 30 years and it's still fresher in my mind than 9/11.

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Zelnut 🍉𓅨 @dahliaiterations.com · 1d

I don't understand why, if a nuclear ICBM were inbound, one could not just intercept it by detonating another nuclear warhead in the general vicinity. Wouldn't the EMP disable the warhead's systems even if the actual explosion didn't destroy it?

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AFSCME @afscme.bsky.social · 1d

"These mass firings are illegal, and will have devastating effects on the services millions of Americans rely on every day."

Full statement from President Saunders on the administration's announcement to use the shutdown to carry out illegal RIFs:

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