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Matt Bickey @abidetowin.bsky.social · 8h

Great stuff in here.

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 8h

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Matt Bickey @abidetowin.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you, The Working Hour, Tears For Fears...August 1985.

strawbaby jam @strawbbfields4ever.bsky.social · 12h

always remember who was there for you at your lowest. thank you cigarettes

Matt Bickey @abidetowin.bsky.social · 8h

Perhaps the two hook up to make us super smart in our 80s.

Matt Bickey @abidetowin.bsky.social · 8h

a man with a beard wearing a camouflage hat is looking at the camera .

ALT: a man with a beard wearing a camouflage hat is looking at the camera .

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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 8h

“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the unprecedented threat that RFK Jr’s policies pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.”

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Matt Bickey @abidetowin.bsky.social · 8h

I know the quote is misattrubited, but I read this and heard Godard's voice: "Everything is political."

Hi, it's Abby. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 10h

Not to get political but someone left a dildo in my building's driveway today. And when I got back from my errands it was gone

Matt Bickey @abidetowin.bsky.social · 8h

That study you shared shook me, too. Yikes. But then...these times. Something will get you. Maybe dementia would be relief.

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Matt Bickey @abidetowin.bsky.social · 8h

Damn...I am taking gabapentin for debilitating back pain, and yours sounds way better than mine lol.

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Matt Bickey @abidetowin.bsky.social · 8h

This is something I think about. Are you really entitled to views that are ridiculous? If you went out there and said shit tastes great, does anyone really care that you think that, when normal humans know it to be demonstrably false, because of, you know, the smell? Your body is hardwired: no.

Paige Perriello @paigeperriello.bsky.social · 11h

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans.”

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17h

“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.”

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Matt Bickey @abidetowin.bsky.social · 8h

Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 8h

The fuck

Matt Bickey @abidetowin.bsky.social · 8h

Seriously...what in the actual fuck?

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Matt Bickey @abidetowin.bsky.social · 8h

Man...the world seems so terrible. But I like to think about the yeoman. Yeah, the romance of the yeoman. What...in the Canterbury times of Chaucer? And yeah, those lives sucked, but they didn't have news cycles, and they didn't know shit about the black plague, or ruinous royal economic policy...😐

Matt Bickey @abidetowin.bsky.social · 9h

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 9h

As a person with an econ degree 🤓, I can say accurately that not all markets can and should be free. And a blind allegiance to that idea is in fact bad.

Even if you subscribe to neoliberal economics market failures are real.

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Matt Bickey @abidetowin.bsky.social · 9h

Fuck this guy. God...one of the great papers. Cut that logline, fuckos. It is now just: Democracy Dies.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10h

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 10h

This little twerp, who’s been there a few months, axed two of the lions of WaPo??

Fisher is an investigative champion and had been at The Post for 39 years. Hoffman had been there for 42, and he won a Pulitzer LAST YEAR.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 11h

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Post Traumatic Disorder

Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

www.status.news

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 9h

They had to buy the Post, gut the newsroom, and restaff with reactionary grifters that don't deserve to carry their predecessors' dirty socks; that was the only way to remake the paper, because they were never gonna get through the front door on merit.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 10h

This little twerp, who’s been there a few months, axed two of the lions of WaPo??

Fisher is an investigative champion and had been at The Post for 39 years. Hoffman had been there for 42, and he won a Pulitzer LAST YEAR.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 11h

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

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M.T. Cannon @sonofrockhound.bsky.social · 11h

In 1957, Eisenhower sent in the National Guard to protect integration.

In 2025, Trump sent in the National Guard to roll it back.

When your country is literally twisting itself into a reactionary death spasm over McCarthy-era policies...🤮

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

Update from the war zone in Portland.

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Matt Bickey @abidetowin.bsky.social · 1d

Aries, Hunter, Supermoon.

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D. @mdgarfinkel.bsky.social · 3d

There is a straight line connecting the Know-Nothings to the anti-immigration American Eugenics Movement of the 1920s, to HUAC & McCarthy, Nixon, Reagan, and all three iterations of “America First” — Lindbergh & Coughlin, Pat Buchanan, and DJT/MAGA/MAHA.

At root is anti-semitism & white supremacy.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4d

1. This is one of the most insane statements ever delivered by a presidential spokesperson in U.S. history. Totally disconnected from reality.

2. There is either going to be a civil war or abject Democratic surrender to autocracy. They are telling this you, to your face, in explicit terms.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."

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Matt Bickey @abidetowin.bsky.social · 5d

Normally...that comment would strain credulity, but these days...we have reached that level of 90s Mike Tyson crazy where anything one heard about could be possibly true, lol. I am so sick of that all the stupidity, all the hypocrisy, all the corruption.

Matt Bickey @abidetowin.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Fonda, and these 550+ people in the industry are badasses.

www.committeeforthefirstamendment.com

Committee for the First Amendment

www.committeeforthefirstamendment.com

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Matt Bickey @abidetowin.bsky.social · 7d

Such a coward. I have to stick to Firth's Fever Pitch now, lol

Matt Bickey @abidetowin.bsky.social · 7d

Hey... @apnews.com....lol

Linda Marie @lindam174.bsky.social · 7d

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Matt Bickey @abidetowin.bsky.social · 7d

What the fuck with this headline, @apnews? Here & I was about to subscribe because I thought you were making an effort at facts & truth. This is totally irresponsible. The House adjourned. Who led that motion? The Rs have the House, Senate, presidency. They own this. The fact is they can't govern.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7d

BREAKING: Democrats vote down a GOP bill to keep the government open, putting it on track for shutdown after midnight.

Democrats vote down GOP funding bill, putting government on path to shutdown

Senate Democrats have voted down a Republican bill to keep funding the government, putting it on a path to a shutdown after midnight Wednesday.

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