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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 13h

Perhaps I'm crazy, but I tend to think that it's a bad thing when the President lies about things we can all see. And it's *not great* that many in the media are so eager to let him play up those lies.

Techdirt @techdirt.com · 13h

President Denies Reality Of Massive Nationwide Protests While Posting Videos of Himself Dumping Shit On Citizens

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command…. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed–if all records…

President Denies Reality Of Massive Nationwide Protests While Posting Videos of Himself Dumping Shit On Citizens

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command…. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed–if all records told the same tale–then the lie passed into history and became truth." —George Orwell, 1984 This past weekend witnessed what may have been the largest single-day political protest in American history.

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Michelle LaLonde @petitecarcajou.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, king--get that T! :) 👑

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 12h

Always take sentences using “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

"You need an expansive political imagination, one that can anticipate the tyrant’s next move and understand its logic without obeying it."

My latest: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...

Inventing Antifa

In 2005, the Uzbek government invented a group called “Akromiya” to justify massacring protesters. Now I worry the US government will do the same.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Michelle LaLonde @petitecarcajou.bsky.social · 1d

Unintentional BlueSky algorithmic win:

Post describing Bari Weiss looking for NYT “leakers”, followed by skeet by organization looking for journalist “leakers”.

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Michelle LaLonde @petitecarcajou.bsky.social · 2d

I never really learned to cook with it or season with salt, b/c we didn’t cook with it very much. My dad was diagnosed w/high blood pressure in his early 30s & she was told to cut it almost entirely (this was the late 70s.)

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings.

These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.

Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

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Michelle LaLonde @petitecarcajou.bsky.social · 3d

I totally get what you’re saying, but you’re talking about folks who have no logical consistency, Luigi. Some of these folks would have just picked a priest or laypeople with a big pulpit & message they bought, like Father Coughlin in the ‘30s or a recent example, the “Church Militant” dude.

Michelle LaLonde @petitecarcajou.bsky.social · 3d

I would presume in their world, a bishop outranks a cardinal for the MAGA See.

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Michelle LaLonde @petitecarcajou.bsky.social · 3d

Well, that’s pointless here. If the Trump administration actually cared about worldwide reputation, they wouldn’t make this offer, and much less to a random collection of top 100 US institutions.

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Michelle LaLonde @petitecarcajou.bsky.social · 3d

Right, but I think more … Texas, maybe? Nebraska? They’ve got some really conservative bishops. Think more like the Pace picante ads with their revulsion over NYC.

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Michelle LaLonde @petitecarcajou.bsky.social · 3d

I have to disagree, as someone w/MAGA Catholic relatives. They don’t like big cities!

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Michelle LaLonde @petitecarcajou.bsky.social · 3d

We’re not judging on a worldwide scale; we’re looking just within the U.S. You’re moving goal posts. In this list, 10 of the world’s top 125 schools are in the Midwest & South. Move beyond that & you pick up even more of the “Big 10” schools, which are extremely reputable research institutions.

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Michelle LaLonde @petitecarcajou.bsky.social · 3d

They also covered it in an episode of the fantastic (but short-lived) “Alpha House” on Amazon about a house of Congressmen living together in DC.

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Michelle LaLonde @petitecarcajou.bsky.social · 3d

(I was originally going to say Branson but thought, “no, too Protestant.”)

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Michelle LaLonde @petitecarcajou.bsky.social · 3d

Can you imagine how awful it would be to visit? No spices, no fun, & the only booze is sacremental wine.

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Michelle LaLonde @petitecarcajou.bsky.social · 3d

Hmmm…For the ones with money, it’s got to be Tom Monaghan’s city near Naples. For the less affluent ones, Baton Rouge? Staten Island? Some part of rural but Catholic Wisconsin?

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Michelle LaLonde @petitecarcajou.bsky.social · 3d

Well, if that guy wants to splinter off (& take the “trads”, hard-core recent converts, & Opus Dei folks), the rest of us won’t miss them!

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Michelle LaLonde @petitecarcajou.bsky.social · 3d

Sounds like someone’s looking for an intercession from Our Lady of the Austrian School.

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Michelle LaLonde @petitecarcajou.bsky.social · 3d

What on earth are you talking about? There’s multiple reputable, high quality universities in the Midwest. And a few in the South, too. The only one I see taking the offer is Univ of Texas, b/c of Abbott.

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Michelle LaLonde @petitecarcajou.bsky.social · 3d

Wow, that's terrible! I've heard from a friend at one of the Big3 that his health insurance could go up as much as 50% for next year.

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Michelle LaLonde @petitecarcajou.bsky.social · 6d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Michelle LaLonde @petitecarcajou.bsky.social · 6d

These folks wouldn’t be “supreme” of any kind, even if they had a bucket of sour cream & tomatoes dumped on them.

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Michelle LaLonde @petitecarcajou.bsky.social · 7d

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UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

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