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Javachik @javachik.bsky.social · 1h

noooooooooooo already a horrible morning and now D’Angelo?????

Javachik @javachik.bsky.social · 15h

Can’t believe they’re FINALLY doing the thing the corps should have been doing all along - uniting against the propaganda requirements!

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 16h

Every news outlet is refusing to sign Pete Hegseth's reporting restrictions at the Pentagon, and @status.news has learned that includes his former employer, Fox News. Details and more in tonight's newsletter: www.status.news/p/pentagon-p...

The Safe Space Secretary

Pete Hegseth built his career on Fox News mocking "snowflakes." Now, Status has learned, his former employer and others are rejecting his efforts to build a safe space around the Pentagon.

www.status.news

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Javachik @javachik.bsky.social · 1d

Right?

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

oh. right.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Javachik @javachik.bsky.social · 1d

TIL Jerry Seinfeld’s daughter writes for The Free Press.

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Stephen Fishbach @stephenfishbach.bsky.social · 1d

100%. these ideas are so boring and trite, everyone thinks they’re a visionary liberated by ai but it’s mostly hackneyed tedium with a glossy tech sheen.

Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 1d

Assuming its validity: This is not funny because it’s awful, but I am amazed by the idea that it would be great to interact with a 10-foot AI Martin Luther King and *ask him what he had for breakfast*. And ask him how his day is going! WHAT IN THE BORING-ASS DYSTOPIA ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 1d

This seems fake but it's completely real: Audio of Seattle's current Mayor dreaming of a giant computer-simulated Martin Luther King, something the King family has explicitly asked people not to do.
Big thanks to Erica Barnett for being the only reporter in town covering these events so closely!

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Javachik @javachik.bsky.social · 1d

My heart is so broken that I can’t even appreciate the sunset.

But it’s an objectively divine sunset.

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Javachik @javachik.bsky.social · 1d

pssssst I have work at the house while I’m gone including installing a dog washing station downstairs!

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Javachik @javachik.bsky.social · 1d

I mean the same can be said for our clothing and our shoes and our dogs!! Are we steaming our dogs?

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

Sen. Mark Kelly: "The president has indicated that he wants to do something about [ACA subsidies], and he wants the government open. Well, we want this fixed and we want the government open. So why is there a problem here?"

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Nonnie Ida @nonnieida.bsky.social · 3d

We have no defenses against diseases, cyberattacks or terrorism, but thankfully we have the ability to tackle Hispanic grandmas and shoot pepperballs at pastors. I feel safe, don’t you?

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d

They are building a Propaganda State.

They are cooking the books on job creation.

Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

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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Javachik @javachik.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yeah I haven’t seen it since it was in theaters! I’ll go on a DK binge when I’m home from vacation.

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Javachik @javachik.bsky.social · 2d

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 2d

I think I haven’t yet asked this week:

You eligible voters who sat out the election entirely or who voted third party instead of for Harris, are you still feeling great about that decision?

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Javachik @javachik.bsky.social · 2d

I was not prepared whatsoever for Diane Keaton to die.

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Javachik @javachik.bsky.social · 3d

It never fails that whenever I check into a hotel, if I’m going to watch TV, I spend more than an hour trying to adjust the ridiculous settings. A pox on whomever made all these TVs render all programs in a Vaseline-covered soap opera palette.

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Javachik @javachik.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know any what any of you are talking about.

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Javachik @javachik.bsky.social · 3d

Gotcha!

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 3d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Javachik @javachik.bsky.social · 3d

I’m at that part in vacation where I can’t wait to be home with my dogs which means each beautiful day stretches out in anticipation.

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Javachik @javachik.bsky.social · 3d

Weird because Time Magazine’s insta is one of the few media outlets in America that I see post unbiased news and stories on the daily.

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Javachik @javachik.bsky.social · 3d

I beg of everyone please still post the silly jokey jokes.

The work that is needed takes energy, and jokes are a fuel.

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 3d

I miss when we could just post the silly jokey jokes and it didn’t feel like we were doing load-bearing democracy.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

The Gilded Age may have revealed the excesses of an unchecked oligarchy, but at least it left behind centers of learning, culture, and philanthropy. Today’s roster of plutocrats seems uninterested in that. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-our-te...

Why Our Tech Overlords Took a Hard Right Turn

A new book tells the story of how Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs became angry admirers of authoritarianism.

www.thebulwark.com

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