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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 1h

a fortunate quirk is that doing food and medical support for impoverished children, foreign and domestic, *also* is about the biggest bang it is possible to get for our buck.

so you can analyze aid on a moral basis or a realpolitik basis and you get the same answer: we should do it

Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 1h

Here's the thing. I am a lucky person and pay a fair bit in taxes. I can think of no better use for my tax dollars than feeding children, because I think all people are equally deserving of basic humanity.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1h

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 14h

You should click through, I wouldn’t lie to you

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 14h

This is good but the second post in this series makes it outstanding

Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 14h

A gentleman with a "Dump Here 61" shirt caught the Raleigh home run (on a bounce.)

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 16h

Using AI to keep watching videos of a dead person is frankly sinister. Just reveals a culture obsessed iwth never moving forward or looking ahead, just wallowing in increasingly degraded and unnatural rehashes of its own memories

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 16h

Zelda Williams urges fans to stop sending AI videos of her father, Robin Williams:

“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on.”

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 18h

CFB people were all over this, but there were a lot of NFL "knowers" convinced that he'd just run the ACC for some reason.

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 19h

……. Maybe I am showing my ignorance of large swaths of sports media, but were people hyping this up? The vast majority of college football people seemed to clue onto it being a disaster from the start

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah whenever I find someone who’s like “but I find these tools so helpful and broadly applicable to my daily tasks,” it’s always a coder who seems to assume that most other people’s work can probably be solved by this if theirs can

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Aaron W. Gordon @agordon.me · 1d

True New Yorker quizzes are fun and all but there is only one question in the actual True New Yorker test: Do You Take The Subway?

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

The local Fox affiliate has had some good stuff and no paywall that I’ve hit yet

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

From a purely journalistic perspective, there’s no reason to believe that local reporters would know anything about his mental health one way or another right now. The absence of that information doesn’t mean anything either way.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 1d

Look at this body position, Trevor Lawrence ate shit as hard as you could, he’s a hippo in wool socks on a waxed floor, he hit the turf going 300 miles per hour

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

Really satisfying stupid football game

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Jeff "Mac'n Steeze" Cryptsko @jeffkrisko.bsky.social · 1d

Trevor Lawrence Legacy Drive

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 1d

don’t want that hilarious game-winning drive to overshadow that harrison butker booting the ball out of bounds set the whole thing up

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

Sure. Why not.

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHMYGOD
Trevor Lawrence is something else

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve won 13 of the last 15

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

Trevor Lawrence was flopping around out there like a fish on the ground and then he had a touchdown. Okay.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe the weirdest touchdown I’ve ever seen

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously I’m biased but I think Georgia’s battle hymn soloist is really underrated because it’s hard to fully get the vibe unless you’re there. Also the eagle fly-around at Auburn is really cool, it brings me no joy to say this

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

Encouraged, even

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I think it’s purposefully bad—I think he’s supposed to be unsure and overeager and annoying about it

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so fun to bark, to be fair

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not very good barking

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

I just want to correct some misinformation I’ve seen going around: if your boss is a Georgia fan it’s fine to bark at her

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