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Isaac @isaaccp.bsky.social · 11h

I thought I was pretty familiar with Bari Weiss' awfulness but this segment has some clips that are just ...

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 15h

1. Last night, John Oliver destroyed Bari Weiss and specifically called out her inaccurate and targeted coverage of transgender people.

It's the latest of several shows Oliver has done in defense of trans people.

Weiss at CBS is a disaster for trans people.

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John Oliver Destroys Bari Weiss In Defense Of Transgender People

The right-wing commentator is now the head of CBS.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Isaac @isaaccp.bsky.social · 23h

I am sorry for them, because after seeing your posts about it I am thinking of making one too :P

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Isaac @isaaccp.bsky.social · 23h

Lol, unbelievable that Bari Weiss just went with "the Free Press reports". So lazy.

Is CBS just going to do the same with all the bullshit the free press writes?

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Isaac @isaaccp.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, I regret getting it now

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

If you're wondering whether or not to get a flu shot, I didn't get one in time, and I just had a fever dream where I was in the Drew Carey Show because several days ago I was on the Wikipedia page for the Drew Carey Show. You don't have to do this to yourself.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Isaac @isaaccp.bsky.social · 1d

Lina Khan talking now at the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social rally. @chiosse.bsky.social was great earlier too. And great to see @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social MCing

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

TONIGHT @ 7:00pm:

Our Time Has Come
Rally Livestream on IG + YouTube

Feat.
Attorney General Tish James
Rep. Nydia Velázquez
Rep. Adriano Espaillat
CM Chi Ossé
@kristengonzalez.bsky.social
Lina Khan
Natasha Cloud
The Kid Mero

MC'd by @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social

Big colorful graphic of Zohran smiling that says, "Our Time Has Come: Rally Tonight" and a list of speakers.

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Isaac @isaaccp.bsky.social · 1d

TIL it was not already called Apple TV

Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 1d

Apple says Apple TV+ streaming service is being renamed as Apple TV, with "a vibrant new identity" (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)

Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 1d

I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Isaac @isaaccp.bsky.social · 2d

It'd be a massive upgrade

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 8d

This isn’t actually a thread of different posts. It’s all just different cultivars of a single post

The “That's On Me, I Set the Bar Too Low” meme, but edited to reference Brassica oleracea. Text as follows:

Jake: I'm an expert on vegetables
Jess: Oh yeah? Name ten vegetables
Jake: Brassica oleracea
Jess: That's on me, I set the bar too low.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

I learned about the brassica situation from an xkcd cartoon and tbh I’m still not 100% sure it’s not all a big hoax

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Isaac @isaaccp.bsky.social · 2d

Always fun seeing someone learn this for the first time

Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 2d

i'm sorry WHAT

Wikipedia screenshot

Brassica oleracea, also known as wild cabbage in its uncultivated form, is a plant of the family Brassicaceae. The species originated from feral populations of related plants in the Eastern Mediterranean, where it was most likely first cultivated. It has many common cultivars used as vegetables, including cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, romanesco, kale, Brussels sprout, collard, Savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan.

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Isaac @isaaccp.bsky.social · 2d

I would also like to know if someone reads those :D

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

I’m horrified to hear that two people were kidnapped by ICE in Evanston this morning.

There’s a protest at Home Depot shortly. We’ll be delivering water and supplies to protesters — I hope you’ll join us in standing with our community.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Isaac @isaaccp.bsky.social · 2d

He's great! I went to see him live a few months ago and he was super entertaining (some YouTubers don't do super great live IME)!

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 3d

babe wake up new climate town video about it's about fuck lawns (basedbasedbasedbasedbasedbasedbasedbased)

America's Dumbest Crop

YouTube video by Climate Town

www.youtube.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

We are an independent, nonprofit newsroom with more than 150 dedicated journalists.

For those who want to read the facts of our reporting — and the documents on which it is based — here’s the full story:

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.

The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...

www.propublica.org

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Isaac @isaaccp.bsky.social · 2d

Not only it's fucking stupid and ridiculous, but it's also obviously going to be a disaster. Who the fuck is going to be like "wait, let's switch to the TPUSA halftime show"?

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Isaac @isaaccp.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed, done

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3d

Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.

Blinken:

(2/12) First, what changed to make this breakthrough possible? Hamas is finally and fully isolated. Arab states and Turkey have said “enough.” The misery Hamas provoked and would allow to persist has delegitimized it among most Gazans. And Hamas realized that the cavalry (Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis) are not coming to the rescue.

(3/12) Israel has long since achieved its war aims -- destroying Hamas as an organized military force so October 7 can never be repeated and eliminating those responsible for its horrors – but at terrible cost to Palestinian civilians caught in a crossfire they did not start and were powerless to stop. Only the hostages remained. Israelis want them home and the war to end, putting pressure on the Israeli government to take the deal, not move the goalposts.

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Isaac @isaaccp.bsky.social · 2d

And he did it!