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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

edit of old onion headline shows de Blasio picture edited headline says de Blasio; well well not so easy to find a de Blasio that is me, huh?

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 21h

California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50.

California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.

Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.

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sarahhojomojo.bsky.social @sarahhojomojo.bsky.social · 16h

The best show, Keith crying at the weight of a teapot will give you the strength to keep going

Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1d

If you need comfort viewing/a break from everything, will note Great Canadian Baking Show free on Roku & Great Pottery Throw Down on HBOMax (2 seasons there, the rest are... shall we say, findable elsewhere). Spoke my truth on greatness of the GPTD a while back www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...

The Great Pottery Throw Down Is a Balm for a Weary Age

The TV cousin of The Great British Baking Show returns to HBO Max for a fifth season of delightful catharsis

www.vanityfair.com

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The RAD Seed @theradseed.blacksky.app · 1d

Pottery Throwdown is the best competition show. Because even though there's just 1 winner, everyone is so awesome they aren't losers

Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1d

If you need comfort viewing/a break from everything, will note Great Canadian Baking Show free on Roku & Great Pottery Throw Down on HBOMax (2 seasons there, the rest are... shall we say, findable elsewhere). Spoke my truth on greatness of the GPTD a while back www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...

The Great Pottery Throw Down Is a Balm for a Weary Age

The TV cousin of The Great British Baking Show returns to HBO Max for a fifth season of delightful catharsis

www.vanityfair.com

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 16h

I know I’m being pedantic but this actually tells us something important about what “crime” means to people in this country

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Emily @emilyonhere.gay · 1d

“what radicalized you” idk paying attention

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2d

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship

Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

www.404media.co

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

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👻 Pope BoniSkeetz of Avignon 🎃 @tjay56.bsky.social · 2d

“Calling Sean Hannity Mobile”

Mike Mclintock on VEEP whispering into his phone

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 3d

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

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sarahhojomojo.bsky.social @sarahhojomojo.bsky.social · 3d

Focus less on democracy... right after 7 million people took to the streets for the second time this year specifically in support of democracy. The kind of thinking below is why Dems lose and will continue to lose. Genuinely incredible how these consultant types absolutely refuse to learn anything.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

i'm fine with a deeper focus on economic issues over social issues but man does plank 2 give the game away

To give ourselves the best chance to win, we recommend the following changes to our approach. Democrats need to:

Focus our policy agenda and our messaging on an economic program centered on lowering costs, growing the economy, creating jobs, and expanding the social safety net.

Advocate for popular economic policies (e.g., expanding prescription drug price negotiation, making the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour) rather than unpopular economic policies (e.g., student loan forgiveness, electric vehicle subsidies, Medicare for All).

Convince voters that we share their priorities by focusing more on issues voters do not think our party prioritizes highly enough (the economy, the cost of living, health care, border security, public safety), and focusing less on issues voters think we place too much emphasis on (climate change, democracy, abortion, identity and cultural issues).

Moderate our positions where our agenda is unpopular, including on issues like immigration, public safety, energy production, and some identity and cultural issues.

Embrace a substantive and rhetorical critique of the outsized political and economic influence of lobbyists, corporations, and the ultra-wealthy, while keeping two considerations in mind: First, voters' frustrations with the status quo are not the same as a desire for socialism. And second, criticizing the status quo is a complement to advocating for popular policies on the issues that matter most to the American people, not a substitute.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 4d

It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

NYT puts farmer pain on Page One:

@nytimes.com

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Bohdan &%@#ing Pavuk @bpavuk.neocities.org · Dec 26

if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · Dec 25

I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.

Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia

Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.

www.newsweek.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

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Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · 4d

The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.

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sarahhojomojo.bsky.social @sarahhojomojo.bsky.social · 5d

I found this very moving and he's absolutely right about the double standard for Muslim Americans.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.

And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.

No more.

My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 6d

A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment.

The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.

It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.

Until then, they're all to blame.

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 6d

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 6d

If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

"Simply put, the Geometry Problem is that cars are much bigger than humans. ... these physical differences mean that when we optimize places for cars, they end up not working well (or working at all) for any other mode. They become *car-only* places."

Great post, lays it out very clearly.

The Geometry Problem

Suburbia doesn't scale

postsuburban.substack.com

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sarahhojomojo.bsky.social @sarahhojomojo.bsky.social · 6d

Cities are so much better than the burbs

Mayor of Halloween Town @joshuajfriedman.com · Sep 30

This is exactly what the NYC subway is like, and it's beautiful (trimmed video by Ian O'Connor via instagram.com/p/DAbHW7txiiv)

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9d

All the things folks pretended were happening in 2022-23 under Joe Biden are actually happening now under Donald Trump

Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 9d

Highest credit card delinquency since the financial crisis 14 years ago.

Add that to home sellers outnumbering homebuyers, consumer confiance plummeting, consumer spending plummeting, inflation increasing, growth decreasing unemployment increasing… a brewing storm.

Good economic news all around👍👍

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