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John J @trianglman.johnnytproductions.com · 2h

Tron was great. It answered the question of what the people in my Sim Cities and Civilization towns were thinking when I did stupid things

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 5h

MIT becomes first of 9 top schools to reject Trump admin " “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” bribe promising increased funding & less trouble if it agrees to agrees to ban DEI and make trans students use wrong bathrooms, sports teams, and locker rooms. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

MIT rejects Trump's compact, saying it 'would restrict freedom of expression'

MIT has rejected President Donald Trump's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” saying it "includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of e...

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John J @trianglman.johnnytproductions.com · 5h

Once again I am made to wish Democrats were half as awesome as Republicans make them out to be

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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John J @trianglman.johnnytproductions.com · 5h

They stand no chance against Ms. Piggy

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 6h

The Trump administration put out a propaganda video in an attempt to show Chicago in chaos.

A couple of problems:
They used footage from Florida. There are no palm trees in Chicago.

The sign in the video is from the “Weed & Seed” program. You can clearly see the DC Police logo on the sign.

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 6h

Hi. For a lil reporting project, if you are in the sandwich generation, what are the questions you need answered, resources you can’t find, info that would be helpful, rants you want to share? Drop them here or email [email protected] or @lizzieohreally.31 on signal.

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John J @trianglman.johnnytproductions.com · 6h

I've been getting told this by Republicans for decades now and haven't seen a penny. Not even as an organizer.

Is there like a Matthew Lesko or something I can get a hold of to get me the money I'm owed?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Tech Oversight Project @techoversight.bsky.social · 8h

As Sacha told Democracy News:

“Believe what they do, not what they say. They’re not going to run ads saying AI chatbots are good for kids. They’re going to run negative ads attacking opponents about something else — whatever lies they come up with.”

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John J @trianglman.johnnytproductions.com · 7h

wait what?!

Why are we allowing a foreign military base to be built in Idaho?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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John J @trianglman.johnnytproductions.com · 7h

it's giving Caligula

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21h

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John J @trianglman.johnnytproductions.com · 19h

when the Republican president has lost Oklahoma...

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John J @trianglman.johnnytproductions.com · 19h

TRON 1 did have a big cult following, especially in special effects and tech circles, which have a lot stronger Hollywood influence these days.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 21h

In the lead up to No Kings, we’re working with our partners on a number of Safety, Security, and De-escalation trainings. Sign up for an upcoming training, or catch up with the ones you’ve missed.

TRAININGS — No Kings

www.nokings.org

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Natalie Portman with a shaved head in the film V for Vendetta, which is a movie not real life, gazes at the masked anarchist revolutionary V, who again, is not real life but based on a comic book character.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 1d

lol if you are a young pregnant American citizen in an ER you may not get the treatment you need and instead get sepsis because of forced birth Republican laws

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Art by Veya @artbyveya.bsky.social · 2d

Read Banned Books, says the little kitty. 📚 ❤️ 🐈

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 1d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
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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🇨🇦 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 1d

She lives in Canada, you wouldn’t know her

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats Must Abandon the Moderate Messaging of The White Dude Data Complex

Democrats have their lowest favorability rating since 1994, & still believe they can be "Republican-lite" & win elections by ignoring a progressive, anti-oligarchy message. They're wrong.

open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2d

encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

Although Jews were the main target of Nazi hatred, they were not the only group persecuted. Other individuals and groups were considered "undesirable" and "enemies of the state." Communists, Social Democrats, and trade unionists were among the first groups persecuted by the Nazis. Once the voices of political opponents were silenced, the Nazis stepped up their terror against other
"outsiders.'

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Congressional Equality Caucus @equality.house.gov · 2d

Every major U.S. medical association disavows conversion "therapy."

24 states have laws banning licensed professionals from engaging in these practices—8 of which were signed by GOP governors.

This isn't about politics—it's about protecting kids.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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