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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 55m

I've been doing this for the last four days. I can't stay asleep.

April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 56m

desperately needed to catch up on sleep

woke up at 4am inexplicably

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 1h

I have been having a nearly two-week continuous conversation with my dad about trying to find places where we agree.

I can't stress to you enough that the most consistent point of agreement is that money in politics is not just bad but that it is the most consistent evil destroying the country.

Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1h

Literally not even once did @jonfavs.bsky.social or @ezraklein.bsky.social talk here about how politics is entirely driven by money and maybe this is why people hate it.

Opinion | Jon Favreau on Where the Democrats Went Right

www.nytimes.com

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Lars S. Sørensen @handansken.bsky.social · 1h

By now it is an old man yelling at the clouds, but without guys around him telling him shut the fuck up or men in white lab coats coming to take him.

Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 2h

Trump may have forgotten that he was the president at the time, not Biden

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 8h

Tbf that’s insane behavior in January

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 10h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 9h

@govpritzker.illinois.gov what are you doing to protect the protestors you told to be out there?

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 11h

I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker

But I am losing faith, rapidly.

Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h

Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 14h

Arvell Reese is going to look great for Brian Flores in Minnesota.

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The Amazing Prizzini @amazingprizzini.bsky.social · 17h

Clowns are the natural enemy of the fascist. They understand force, they do not understand absurd resistance.

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 16h

Ohio State’s defense is un-fucking-real. They’re so good.

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Charter School Abolitionist 🇮🇷 @maniccage.bsky.social · 17h

There are only two paths forward: trying and sentencing Stephen Miller for crimes against humanity (in this world, it's a capital punishment) or no humanity. That's it!

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 18h

Brian Hegseth is as much a clown as his son, and priorities like these are why his son is an alcoholic and our football team sucked while he was the AD.

Pete Hegseth’s dad Brian tweets absurd policy ideas and I respond insulting him professionally.

Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 18h

I’m so tired of seeing this fucking clown Dave Portnoy on my TV

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 1d

We talk a lot about Twitter being a Nazi cesspool but Threads is just as bad.

Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 1d

This is rich coming from Skip Bayless. I’m not saying Brady is great, but pot and kettle.

Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 1d

Skip Bayless is ready to mute Tom Brady: ‘The more I listen…the worse he gets’

Skip Bayless is trying to figure out why he can’t tolerate listening to Tom Brady call NFL games, and he thinks he has the answer. Brady is fine as a broadcaster. It’s year two of his deal with Fox, and we can say with confidence that he’s not Jason Witten and he’ll never grow into Read more... The post Skip Bayless is ready to mute Tom Brady: ‘The more I listen…the worse he gets’ appeared first on Awful Announcing.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 1d

Now Trump is hoping to at least get a Daytime Nobel Peace Prize.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

this nobel prize freakout on the right is legitimately the most pathetic and embarrassing behavior ive ever seen from one of the political parties in this country, have some fucking pride for god sake

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t drink because I get kicked out of bars when I’m drunk. You don’t drink because you’re afraid you might do something “cringe,” which appears to be another word you all use to describe other people enjoying themselves in a non-conforming way.

Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about Gen Alpha, and younger Gen Z, is how terminally allergic to fun they appear to be. What do you mean you high school dances are just everyone putting their camera on and jumping for an hour? Why are you so against sex in media? You’re turning to Christianity as prudes. Lighten up.

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Finding corruption in the Trump administration is like finding a burger in a McDonald’s.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 2d

As a third-generation Norwegian Minnesotan, this is true.

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 2d

AI is the capitalistic desire for the end of expression for the purpose of profit. It’s controllable, it’s exactly what they want, and it has very little variation from the desire of the studio.

It’s not a method of creation, it’s a method of control.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 2d

We’re definitely going to hear about this today

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2d

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

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