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Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 5h

Old men need to sit the hell down. Not needed, not helping.

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Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 10h

His triumph was over journalism. This seems fitting. Sadly, he likely understand this better than Time.

Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 13h

Not sure I have the patience to listen to a fire safety talk while the roof is engulfed in flames.

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Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 1d

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Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 1d

Good on her if she actually does it. Will be watching. But let's just agree that no one has ever described Spanberger as a courageous politician. She has held her silence when principle demanded she take a stand. She only rushes now to get in front of a parade of people when risk seems low.

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Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 1d

See, the problem is the fans don't understand the game. Hell, they don't even understand it's a game.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

audio on for community whistling repelling ICE/BP from the scene

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Javeed Sukhera MD PhD @javeedsukhera.bsky.social · 1d

We should never fear saying that every child deserves to live. That every family deserves safety. That every human being deserves dignity and the chance to hope. These basic truths should not be controversial. Compassion should never require a disclaimer.

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Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 3d

Everything, toasted, hummus, sprouts, thick slice of tomato, dried onion

Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 4d

To our collective innumeracy, more focus on statistics (less on algebra), more on media literacy (less on geology), more on civics (less on biology).

Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 4d

In the chart here, we’ve done this for coverage in the New York Times (the results are similar for the other two outlets).

Homicides and terrorism are extremely overrepresented. Homicides received 43 times more coverage than their share of deaths; terrorism received over 18,000 times more.

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Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 5d

Sometimes think they have already departed Earth on some Musk rocket and are just sharing what they have heard because they have no opportunity to....report.

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Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 5d

you can close tabs?

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Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 5d

Glances outside the walled garden so happily enjoyed for decades.

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Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 5d

The Gulf of American is between its founding principles and its current institutions

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Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 5d

Give me a 30-minute head start on shutting down freedom of speech for people who irritate me and I may well take you up on it.

Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 5d

Untethered from ethics

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Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe the genius could elaborate on the business model for everything’s free.

Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 5d

Sykes is a national treasure

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Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 5d

The betrayal is not from the monsters, but from the people who let them in the nursery.

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Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 5d

Better idea, government tofu. Great big federal nutrition program. Strategic reserves of shelf-stable textured vegetable protein. Chick’n in every pot.

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 5d

Here's an idea, what if you hadn't done the tariffs at all

America’s Soybean Farmers Are Panicking Over the Loss of Chinese Buyers
China hasn’t booked any U.S. soybean purchases in months; farmers warn of ‘bloodbath’

www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

President Trump said at the White House on Monday that he was “going to do some farm stuff this week” to help growers cope with the loss of exports to China.

Trump is expected to meet later this week with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to make a final determination of where the money for a farmer bailout should come from, according to a White House official. The president and his team are considering the use of tariff revenue to fund much of the aid.

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Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 5d

Better idea, government tofu. Great big federal nutrition program. Strategic reserves of shelf-stable textured vegetable protein. Chick’n in every pot.

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Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 6d

Suspect this is now just reflexive, not the inability to discern or the intention to mislead. A characteristic of corporate media that distinguishes it from journalism, or any memory of what that was.

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Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 6d

No military should ever be led by someone who has been promoted for reasons other than military effectiveness. Geez he was SO close....

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Mike Moran @greygrendel.bsky.social · 7d

They're also making empathy a personal/cultural weakness. If they can convince Christians that empathy is a sin, they can convince them of anything.

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