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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 1

if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 18

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 19

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

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Teddy Tutson @teddytutson.bsky.social · Jun 17

Turned 40 this year and I’m fully ready to double down on my Bruce Springsteen fandom.

Sobbing during the underrated records like “Secret Garden”. Fully embracing later years jams like “We Take Care of Our Own.”

This gun’s for hire, even if we’re just dancing in the dark!

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · Apr 8

The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to *certain items cease to be available at any price*

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Emily Ward @omgitsemilyward.bsky.social · Apr 6

an historic moment in SNL history and SNL socials are already out there posting the bleeped version and we can’t have that so here is the unbleeped one god bless king Ego

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 6

i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Mar 18

Every day it becomes clearer and clearer that one of the Trump administration's objectives is a great resegregation of American life. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Great Resegregation

The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.

www.theatlantic.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Mar 14

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Mar 12

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · Mar 10

Can’t believe Twitter keeps crashing despite Elon hiring the best 19-year-old interns that racism has to offer

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Feb 8

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

Monster C. Camacho 🧌💀🎃👻 @mc2x.bsky.social · Feb 8

This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake

web.archive.org/web/20231206...

NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon - NASA

Lee esta historia en español aquí

web.archive.org

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · Feb 3

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jan 24

This is probably what’s going to drive me insane in the weeks and months ahead.

Trump’s fascism is going to be presented alongside sports news and wordplay about new animals at the zoo, like all of this is normal.

News alert: Good Morning America
Troops arrive at the Southern border, battle for the Super Bowl and panda-monium at the National Zoo. Watch
GMA on ABC.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Dec 19

People voted for a fictional Trump they made up in their heads and the question is whether the massive propaganda apparatus behind him can maintain that fiction while he does all the things many of his voters told themselves he wouldn’t do bsky.app/profile/carl...

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Dec 18

WAPO POLL: “.. Would you support or oppose the Trump administration doing each of the following?”

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Dec 9

a lot of you seem to basically believe that politics is over, history has ended and the absence of legal or electoral consequences for trump means that he is the only person with agency. you all are recapitulating the basic conceit of trump’s alleged invincibility, but from the center left

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Dec 9

i think a lot of you people need to decide whether you think trump is going to be an authoritarian monster or a chaos failson because the two are actually in tension with each other.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Dec 4

You can get sent to jail for stealing toilet paper but if you hire a dozen children to work overnight shifts at your slaughter house your company pays a fine

Children Worked Dangerous Shifts at Iowa Slaughterhouse, Inquiry Finds

Qvest Sanitation was ordered to pay nearly $172,000 after the Labor Department found it had employed 11 children to clean equipment on overnight shifts at a pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa.

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Dec 3

A thing everyone has forgotten is that Donald Trump basically sprang Roger Stone from prison so he could help with the coup and it was maybe a one day story.

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Teddy Tutson @teddytutson.bsky.social · Nov 22

The new Kendrick album revealed to me that I need a collab instrumentals album from DJ Mustard and Jack Antonoff immediately

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Teddy Tutson @teddytutson.bsky.social · Nov 22

Certified banger off the first spin
open.spotify.com/track/0aB0v4...

tv off

Kendrick Lamar · GNX · Song · 2024

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Teddy Tutson @teddytutson.bsky.social · Nov 22

Listening to the new Kendrick and when that "MUSTAAAAAAAARD" drops on tv off, all I can think about is the classic "LEEEEEEEEROOOOOOY JENKINS!" meme from World of Warcraft
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyO...

Leeroy Jenkins HD 1080p

YouTube video by J Jonah Jameson

www.youtube.com

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Teddy Tutson @teddytutson.bsky.social · Nov 20

The gems that Nelly left on the shelf: Batter Up, Girlfriend (Remix), Midwest Swing. #1?!?!?!?! This thing was a slaughter and it didn't have to be.

Teddy Tutson @teddytutson.bsky.social · Nov 20

Many, MANY hours later...the bags are secured

Teddy Tutson @teddytutson.bsky.social · Nov 20

An update on the drive thru

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