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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · Jun 4

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 53m

Yankees starting first basemen since 2019:
Luke Voit
Greg Bird
Mike Ford
Kendrys Morales
Edwin Encarnación
DJ LeMahieu
Anthony Rizzo
J.D. Davis
Jake Bauers
Ben Rice
Paul Goldschmidt
Pablo Reyes

Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 55m

lol

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 58m

lol this is a damn steal in today’s market

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 58m

Until Brian Cashman is gone, every time the Yankees lose in the playoffs I’m going to post this image

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 1h

Just like every reactionary, anti-vax people decided vaccines were bad then found some justification for that belief on the backend

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3h

I don’t exactly how to phrase this, but like… is autism that bad???? Like, why is it such a source of fear??? Of course there are challenges but you can be autistic and have a rich, fulfilling life! Many people do! I don’t understand the preoccupation.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 9h

The #1 piece of advice that TransLink's CEO offers other North American transit agencies:

Provide frequent service

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 18h

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 4h

Of course you think TS is the best lyricist of all time, you’re twelve

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 5h

Its a weird mix of true crime docu-thriller and a look into Hitchcock’s making of ‘Psycho’ and I didn’t like it

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 7h

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

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Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 6h

“Dealmaker makes deal that nobody else could make” is literally his entire foreign policy shtick, it’s all he wants

Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 1d

Anchor / reporter / weather

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

Weird. It’s almost like making accusations generates friction which generates news which rallies your supporters.

2 Key Democrats Come Out And Say It: Trump Has 'Some Kind Of Dementia'

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

you'd think Democrats would realize that effective messaging can shift public opinion and electoral outcomes after watching Republicans wage relentless and super-effective propaganda warfare on the nation's dim electorate for going on five fucking decades

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

Weird. It’s almost like making accusations generates friction which generates news which rallies your supporters.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1d

when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying

She has no real way of explaining the danger of their situation to her son, who is 17 years old but cognitively closer to a toddler. And as a single mother too weak to forage, she has no real way of ensuring their survival. She also is too old to benefit from a recent policy change the Thai government made in a bid to prevent mass starvation, granting work rights to some of the 107,000 Myanmar refugees who, like her, live in Thailand’s border camps.

Her son never learned to speak, and needs her help with everything from getting dressed to using the toilet. Since the funding cuts, their survival has hinged on the charity of her Christian church, whose members occasionally give her handfuls of their rice.

She suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and begins to sweat and grow dizzy when her hunger is at its fiercest. Some days, she eats nothing.

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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 1d

People do not want to admit how dangerous driving is because it undermines their entire reality. So they pretend speed limits are about money.

Brigid Howe @bnhowe.bsky.social · 1d

And when we try to make changes, neighbors organize with rhetoric like this. Kemp Mill Civic Association is riling up fear of having to pay tickets (avoidable by not speeding) while people are killed on these roads. It’s disgusting.

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 1d

And they fly now

Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes, cars - the safe option for society. Nevermind the 45,000 Americans who are killed every year by them

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

When we're out of this, we'll need to institute draconian penalties against the core of MAGA while stigmatizing peripheral involvement to the point where everyone lies about being the one guy on their block who voted for Harris.

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 1d

I think there are still shared norms we can appeal to when we talk to the marginal MAGA voter. But there really are no shared norms left with the core of the movement.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 2d

Doing bits, and poasting bits, is the primary way to practice politics these days

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Dow @dow.bsky.social · 2d

The frog of war

Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 2d

Look at what they have to face

Person dressed in a silly looking frog costume at a protest.

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 2d

You could buy at least 3 of those