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TheGins

@thegins.bsky.social

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Opinionated + passionate about life: people, politics, music, culture. Dog dad. Public radio guy. Occasional writer. https://davidginsburg.medium.com/

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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · Jul 2

It’s been six weeks since I lost my dog, Pearl. I still say goodnight to her out loud.

I wrote about the grief, the joy, and the goofy dog who stole my heart.

🐾 Six Weeks Gone → davidginsburg.medium.com/goodnight-pe...

#DogPeopleKnow #GoodnightPearl #PetLoss

“Goodnight, Pearl”

I miss her most in the small moments.

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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 21h

In other words, Pope Leo reaffirmed what Jesus actually preached vs American evangelical horseshit

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 1d

Christ now he’s definitely gonna invade Canada

TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 1d

You need to read "Purity Tests" by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social for @flaminghydra.com. Brilliant writing and analysis, and quite entertaining on a sensitive (trans kids) subject:
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Base meddling / Machine learning

S.I. Rosenbaum on a wretched amicus brief; Paul Ford and Maria Bustillos sort out the AI thing

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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 2d

This is my foster pup, Gracie. She's a ball of love that will be an absolute dream dog for a family, especially with kids she can run around with (as much as her 19-hour daily sleep schedule allows).

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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 3d

My old man died 10 years ago Tuesday and it's still so weird that he's gone

10 Years Gone

“We could eat there and get scrod,” I heard my dad say, his cackling laughter backing up a bad pun he’d used dozens of times.

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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 3d

Bingo. Acting Presidents Miller, Vought, and Vance let Trump sign shit and ramble incoherently for the cameras.

Behind the scenes, these three are systematically dismantling Constitutional governance.

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 3d

My guess is that Stephen Miller has been lying to Trump about what's happening in Portland and Chicago in order to satisfy his long time desire to rid the country of melanin. Fox helps, but I'd bet a big part of why Trump is so clueless is that Miller is "handling" Trump to fulfill his own agenda.

TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 7d

Holy fuck is the lede buried here...

MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ARE BEING HARMED BY THESE MALICIOUS PSYCHOPATHS GLEEFULLY KILLING JOBS AND SOCIAL SAFETY NETS.

Arguing over Russ Vought's emotional state is irrelevant. What is relevant is that a Christian Nationalist is enacting *his* extremist agenda.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

MIKE LEE: Russ Vought has been dreaming about this moment since puberty

MIKE JOHNSON: Russ Vought does not enjoy this responsibility

TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 7d

The same government that's cutting children's cancer research, canceling lifesaving USAID, and cutting Medicaid is bailing out an American hedge fund investor via $20 billion for Argentina.

If you support this, you are complicit in this gross corruption.
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UPDATE: Hedge fund billionaire pressed Treasury Secretary for Argentina bailout, Argentine media reports

Rob Citrone, whose hedge fund bet big on Argentina, reportedly asked his friend for a rescue package. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent delivered.

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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 9d

Worcester’s new public toilets are a bit uh lacking

TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 9d

Truth:

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 10d

ANTIFA is more American than MAGA.

TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 10d

I’ve been fostering this adorable pup for two weeks and she hasn’t had a single inquiry yet!

Precious (her shelter name) is 4 years old, very sweet and friendly, great in the house, loves every dog and person she’s met…she is a GEM.

Check out thehotelforhomelessdogs.com for more!

TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 10d

Got @lukeoneil47.bsky.social new book in the mail today and stoked to read it this fall.

If you haven’t read ‘A Creature Wanting Form’ or the Hell World books or Hell World newsletter, you’re missing out on an essential voice of our time.

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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 10d

They're in full grievance mode every day. It's the target that shifts.

Bad Bunny is one of the biggest music stars in the world. YOU may not be familiar w/his music...just as huge swaths of viewers had never heard of Tom Petty or The Who or any other classic rocker that performed over the years.

Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 10d

They are implementing fascism in the United States, bloody brick by brick and it's still not enough. Today they're in full grievance mode because the NFL has booked Bad Bunny for their Super Bowl halftime show. For all their pretensions of "manhood", MAGA are the softest motherfuckers on earth.

a man is holding a box of kleenex in his hand and asking , kleenex ?

ALT: a man is holding a box of kleenex in his hand and asking , kleenex ?

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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 10d

Emphasis on little

Etel Haxhiaj (ha-jee-eye) @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social · 10d

Grown men don’t lurk around women’s social media and then attack them behind computer screens inciting dangerous conditions. Grown men, that is. Little men with no courage or backbone using their positional power do that. I see you.

TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 13d

This Canine.AI. The prototype is a 4-year-old foster that barely knows her name but it has “AI” in the caption so VCs, please give me $2 million for “development” thank you.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15d

OMG, this afternoon's ANTIFA Board of Directors meeting went on and on. I thought Jesus would *never* stop talking!

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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 14d

The central essence, right here:

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 14d

Donald Trump has done every horrible, illegal, traitorous thing MAGAs pretended Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris did or would do.

TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 14d

Foster pup Gracie has formally endorsed @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social for D5 city councilor. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 15d

This is a brilliant (and very funny) piece of satire from @benehrenreich.bsky.social in the must-read @flaminghydra.com:

Ben Ehrenreich @benehrenreich.bsky.social · 17d

For now it counts as satire… My latest in @flaminghydra.com: “Transcript of Official Testimony Before the House Anti-Anti-Fascist Committee”
flaminghydra.com/anti-anti-fa...

Transcript of Official Testimony Before the House Anti-Anti-Fascist Committee

Yes, Mr. Congressman, I do recall the first time I met Mr. Soros. It was some years ago, on the first of May. I had reached out to a colleague whom I knew to be a high-ranking officer in the Antifa or...

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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 16d

Tylenol is to autism as Flintstones vitamins are to paleontology.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18d

Inflation is so bad these days that taking a $50,000 cash bribe can't even get you indicted. SAD!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 21d

If it walks like a fascist and talks like a fascist and stops other people from calling them fascists...
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 22d

2/ At its core, it was another move in an authoritarian administration's push to divide American society into "Us" vs. "Them" because the regime fundamentally doesn't believe in equal rights for all Americans.

It's a version of Animal Farm, except the pigs run the country now.

TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 22d

1/ "Taking away this tool that allows us to see one another as fellow citizens, fellow Americans, it's a really powerful advantage."

Katherine Maher on Colbert's show, dropping truth about Public Media. The rescission package + defunding of the CPB wasn't about ideological differences.

Public Media Enables Americans To Trust One Another And Make Decisions Together - Katherine Maher

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 24d

I'm sure it's pure irony that the hardcore 2nd Amendment folks are so anti-1st Amendment. Wonder why that could be...