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Kyle R Freund @kylefreund.com · 13h

October is rosary month, I guess.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1d

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 14h

Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 15h

If you want to know how much politics have moved in the last 10 years, this guy voted in the republican primaries in 2012, 2014, and 2016.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 17h

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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ceeks @ceeks.bsky.social · 16h

no need to worry about future elections when this is our present. there should be zero negotiations until she is sworn in

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 15h

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Kyle R Freund @kylefreund.com · 1d

ooh, good call for @yonahfreemark.com, let's get two locations for Madison on the map! Sequoya Library & Pinney Library!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Kyle R Freund @kylefreund.com · 1d

We just moved back to our neighborhood in Madison, Wis., with one of these – walkable, bustling hub & just the best dang thing.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Kyle R Freund @kylefreund.com · 2d

Pray for Dolly Parton and in the meantime listen to this Radiolab series about her. Just tremendous. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Dolly Parton's America

Music History Podcast · Series · In this intensely divided moment, one of the few things everyone still seems to agree on is Dolly Parton—but why? That simple question leads to a deeply personal, hist...

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Kyle R Freund @kylefreund.com · 2d

Offrange was basically created for me.

As a proud former child laborer, this kind of work that gets at the nuances of the topic & how things have changed since I was a kid. Good insights into some traditions that few would understand. CC @jessehirsch.bsky.social
ambrook.com/offrange/lab...

Teens in the Tassels: How Youth Farm Labor Still Powers the Midwest - Offrange

Corn detasseling continues to be a beloved Midwestern tradition, as youth labor regulations progress and migrant workers compete with the young workforce.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

It is unbelievably funny how load bearing American democratic norms turned out to be

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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Kyle R Freund @kylefreund.com · 2d

First off, we need to shave Russ' beard to determine if there is a chin there. Second off, we need to send him to the moon.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 2d

This is rampant lawlessness

The law says what it says, and Russ Vought doesn't get to unilaterally change that

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

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Kyle R Freund @kylefreund.com · 2d

Why the hell would you heels take an image from something that happened over 30 years ago?!

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 3d

Americans voting

🦇Zombatman🦇 @budbuddyguy.bsky.social · 23d

The reverb 🤌

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Kyle R Freund @kylefreund.com · 3d

Happy #FairtradeMonth everybody.

Kyle R Freund @kylefreund.com · 3d

a group of people are dancing on a sidewalk in front of a building that has a sign that says ' cart ' on it

ALT: a group of people are dancing on a sidewalk in front of a building that has a sign that says ' cart ' on it

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account

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Kyle R Freund @kylefreund.com · 3d

Cat Scratch Fever on 93.3QFM back in the day.
No one explained it to me, but boy, what a lick.

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Kyle R Freund @kylefreund.com · 3d

Definitely. But maybe there will be a resurgence when all is unreal.

Hand painted sign in a cracker box hand stitched frame that says 'Every man love a Jesus' with a disembodied mouth sporting gold teeth.

Kyle R Freund @kylefreund.com · 3d

same uneasy feeling

Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 3d

My general sense of this entire week is: Bluesky is under immense pressure from the USG to come to heel or be shutdown. Everything from recent moderation decisions to Jay’s public statements could be seen as an attempt to stave off this outcome while encouraging rapid decentralization.

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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 4d

Pope Leo XIV today: "Brothers and sisters, those boats which hope to catch sight of a safe port, and those eyes filled with anguish and hope seeking to reach the shore, cannot and must not find the coldness of indifference or the stigma of discrimination!"

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