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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6h

Peak white mediocrity (Bari Weiss) is publishing the same basic article that was published in 1990 about David Dinkins, or in 1983 about Harold Washington, and applauding oneself for being a brave truth teller.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 6h

Architect is playing engineer.

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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 6h

Woo hoo!

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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 11h

To prove she's Grandpa.

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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 11h

I think that's Grandma in disguise.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 12h

District courts are ruling with 100-page opinions explaining their reasoning. The Supreme Court majority is tossing aside those rulings with unreasoned orders.

Ain’t nobody being persuaded by this horseshit that justices having to explain their reasoning would be too darn confusing.

Nobody.

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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 15h

We need a version of the Emperor’s New Clothes where the boy says “That man sounds like a moron.”

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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 16h

If they've already decided to do so, they're not "planning" to do so. That's logic for ya.

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Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social · 3d

Your timely reminder that Donald Trump tried to claim NYC residence to take a $49,000 tax break on his Manhattan condo while he and Melania lived in the White House, only to get it yanked after my colleague and I caught the misrepresentation.

EXCLUSIVE: City nixes property tax break for Trump’s NYC apartment

New York City has nixed a $48,000 tax break President Trump was set to receive on his Trump Tower condo following inquiries from the Daily News about whether he is still eligible for the savings. O…

www.nydailynews.com

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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 17h

There’s a supposedly daylit corner near me, marked with paint, and cabbies use it as a rest area. So, yeah bring on the curb changes and planters.

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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 1d

Gritty is the general that the inflatables in Portland are waiting for to begin their triumphant sweep into Washington DC.

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

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 1d

All the newly unemployed scientists and doctors can work in the fields!

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 2d

The Third Avenue elevated train in the New York rain, 1951, by Esther Bubley.

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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 2d

Commissioner Tisch looks a wee bit uneasy there.

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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 2d

Say what you want about Jackson, but he understood the importance of a good hook.

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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 2d

So far today, Joe Jackson and Guns&Roses.

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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 2d

The Qataris have a lot of money. Maybe DJT sold them Idaho.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 2d

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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 2d

"We only give the award to people of courage and integrity."

That seems unfair. What about cowardly scumbags?

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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N__B @nedbeaumontjr.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t want your revolution if I can’t dance in an inflatable animal costume.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3d

the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 3d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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Nekrởtzar @nekrotzar.bsky.social · 3d

ICE wasn’t prepared to face amphibious units.

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Edwin Mix @edwinmix.bsky.social · 3d

Rick was a leftist American who volunteered to fight alongside antifa and the Spanish Republicans against Franco's army in the Spanish Civil War. He was subsequently blacklisted in NYC for being "prematurely antifascist" and so fled to Morocco with his pal Sam and opened a gin joint. Watch the movie

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