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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 3d

The Trump Regime is killing SOAR

www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...

Access to the SOAR Works website ended August 18, 2025.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 8d

It's passingly clever in some respects because the 80's nostalgia also allows them to tie a younger Trump to a rose-tinted view of the Reagan years.

But imo that really isn't the goal here, the entire point of this video is to have the government doing literal Nazi memes on main

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 9d

We believe healthcare is a right for every American.

But starting today, millions of people will be notified that they are being priced out of their insurance thanks to Republican policies.

Enough is enough. The GOP may shut down the government, but we will stand tall for YOU.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 9d

🫧 Firms fueling AI mania know they're contributing to a bubble — it's part of their business strategy.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 9d

I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 9d

Here’s a thing I’ll add, as someone who’s been there: if you’re the CEO of a platform with millions of users, you don’t get to have as much fun on that platform, period. And your job is to eat shit every time a legitimate critique of policy comes up. That’s the gig. Don’t sign up if you aren’t game.

jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 9d

i am catching up on the moderation discourse and it’s really annoying that this episode basically goes back to leadership trying to have a goof and a gag. there’s not a lot of room-reading happening which comes across as immature and unprofessional

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11d

It is important to see this sort of straight talking, precisely because of the executive order last week that conflated criticism of the government with terrorism.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11d

On the one hand Trump is cruel, predatory and a dictator in the making. He believes he owns the country. On the other (no real contradiction), this is entirely plausible. This presidency is an erratic/predatory ID being run and directed by a small handful of toadies and degenerate policy hands.

April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 11d

bro we are so cooked

Alex Bolton
@alexanderbolton

Chuck Schumer tells reporters at White House that Trump seemed completely oblivious to impending increase in health insurance rates and closing of rural hospitals: "By his face and by the way he looked, I think he heard about them for the first time."
4:46 PM • 9/29/25 • 1K Views

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Robert Joseph V. @robertjoscribe.bsky.social · 11d

Oh we are SO getting Celeborn returning from imprisonment, haunted by the horrors of war

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16d

this is why we need to bring back shame

there need to be consequences for being a huge asshole, there need to be standards for how you behave in a decent society

the rules cannot be set by the worst of us

pretty bug @inyourculture.bsky.social · 16d

the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 16d

Imagine if NPR had actually talked to safe streets advocates for this story and learned how the solutions to drivers killing people is not, in fact, victim blaming

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Jillianne Hamilton 🦇 @jilly.ca · 17d

“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement.

YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.

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God Speed You! Molly Maguire @abrightgreencity.bsky.social · 17d

Referring to Autism as a problem is fucking eugenics.

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 18d

I always made fun of pre-2020 German politicians that were afraid of inflation like the Plague, turns out they were right!! Prices rising are the one thing that cuts through every messaging, chart and metric that you can throw at people, it is not even irrational per se!

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 18d

A challenge to politics-understanders: why was Biden so unpopular given the very good policy he delivered on wages, climate, & antitrust, among others? This is not an invitation to relitigate 2024, but rather explore what his political failure reveals about the underlying mechanisms of politics.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 18d

Ah, I see. I suppose I want deliverism to work, but fear Biden proves it doesn't, so I want someone to explain convincingly why some future attempt would be different. Perhaps that's not clear

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18d

They gave up on pseudo-science, now it's anti-science. They no longer try to make it look like authentic science, instead the hook is, "this is not what the scientists and doctors tell you, and that's how you know you can trust it."

Depressingly, this view controls the whole federal government.

David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 18d

I’ve been combating medical misinformation for over two decades, and this feels not just quantitatively different, but qualitatively different.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18d

I get the rapture jokes and I’m enjoying them as much as the next guy and also I hope everyone is keeping in the back of their minds the fact that these folks are literally praying that all the Jews in the entire world drop dead tonight so they can climb over our dead bodies to reach heaven

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18d

Pope Leo is said to have accepted Cardinal Dolan's resignation and to have picked his successor as New York archbishop. Will Dolan serve in retirement as spiritual advisor to Turning Point USA? In any event, his adherence to the GOP is far stronger than his adherence to the Catholic Church.

Outgoing NYC Cardinal Dolan Faces Unprecedented Catholic Backlash After Comparing Kirk to St. Paul

Pope Leo stays measured, while Dolan’s likely successor — Bishop Daniel Flores — prepares to bring a very different voice to New York.

www.thelettersfromleo.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18d

ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl's family

ICE held 5-year-old autistic girl in Massachusetts to pressure father to surrender, family says

The girl's father, Edward Hip, has lived in the United States for the last 22 years, according to his wife.

www.nbcnews.com

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𝕊𝕒𝕘𝕖🍃 @sagegarnish.bsky.social · May 8

A comic about CNC kink I've been thinking about for a few years, and I finally decided to sit down and make it.

Consensual Non-Consent In Real Life

A 3 panel comic

Panel 1: Kink Negotiation

Blushing Person: I was thinking maybe we could try out some CNC play...

Person #2: Yeah, we can totally try that out, sweetie! We should plan out what we're willing to do!

Panel 2: "The Scene"

Person #2: The sex pollen.... it's... taking over. I... I can't...Hnngg....

Blushing Person: Noo! Please, you have to snap out of it!

Panel 3: Aftercare
Blushing Person: Thanks so much, that was fun. Let's do it again sometime.

[end of comic]

"The Scene" is the fantasy within a CNC framework.

Some fictional works tell a story depicting two (or more) characters following the process of doing CNC kink, just as they would in real life: Consent discussion, Kink negotiation, “The Scene", and Aftercare.

[image of a blushing person reading the above comic]

Some fictional works focus on “The Scene only. A framing device is not required, as the fantasy is contained fully within the story. This lets the reader engage in the kink the same way as if they were engaging in “The Scene" portion of the CNC play.

[image of a blushing person reading only “The Scene” panel from the above comic]

CNC play, and both sorts of fiction are normal and healthy!

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 18d

I'm a little ashamed to admit that TIL that the opposition to evolution in some sectors is because it means that white people and black people share a common ancestor and that narrative undermines white supremacy.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 18d

The recent BSG convention from was so fun, but I have to tell you something disturbing I learned. You know the tubs they used for cylon rebirth? They would save the goo each time & reuse it. So actors would feel other people‘s hair within the goo. Not sure I’ll ever get over knowing this.

a man wearing sunglasses says " absolutely not " no way

Alt: a man wearing sunglasses says " absolutely not " no way

media.tenor.com

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 18d

I often think how among all the other things it is against, fascism (and its attendant authoritarianisms and make-believes) is fundamentally a war against complexity—against the inherent complexity and multiplicity of the universe and social reality—and against any efforts to understand them as such

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18d

a really fucking exhausting thing about this current moment is that any good faith efforts to reform or acknowledge short comings of knowledge producing and sense making institutions is promptly weaponized by people who want to burn the entire thing down and drown us in avalanche of bullshit

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 18d

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

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Nancy Drew is Better Than Sherlock Holmes @lunarlarkspur.bsky.social · 18d

stop. carrying water. for the fascists.

They do not have the power they want people to think they do. it is almost all posturing.

Shit is BAD. there is a LOT of bad they are doing. But the game is far from lost, buck up, and stop falling for their psych outs.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18d

Don’t Give Donald Trump’s Half-Baked Elections Plans More Juice Than They Deserve talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/donald-...

Don’t Give Donald Trump’s Half-Baked Elections Plans More Juice Than They Deserve

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 18d

Patients are more likely to die in the ER when private equity buys a hospital.

That’s the price of corporate greed. This is why I will continue to fight for my Health Over Wealth Act—to protect patients, providers, and communities.

What happens when private equity buys a hospital? More people die in the ER, a new report says.
A new study by researchers at Harvard and elsewhere adds to a growing body of literature that shows the profit-seeking model can raise prices and hurt patient care

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