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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 1h

This is an incredibly obvious instance of projection and mirroring, revealing how Casey Babb thinks of both Bari Weiss and Van Jones not as individuals but as fungible and replaceable assets (tokens?) within a general category.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2h

A useful illustration of the limits of liberal identity politics.

It's astounding to see self-described progressives lose their minds over the successes of a Jewish female entrepreneur and intellect in @bariweiss, and a wildly successful Black man in @VanJones68. I guess equity, diversity, and inclusion don't mean as much as they've told us.

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 1h

As the product of Christian schools I cannot emphasize enough how bad an idea it is to send children to one.

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: As Linda McMahon guts the Dept. of Education, she’s operated in what she calls “a parallel universe” to radically shift how future kids will learn -- seeking to dismantle the public school system in favor of private and Christian schools or homeschooling.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 1h

Missing panel 2 of this cartoon where the rocket explodes and leaves debris and entrails all over south Texas.

The Economist @economist.com · 6h

The difficulty of firing staff—a reality of corporate life—steers Europe’s biggest firms away from making risky bets in innovative fields. This is catastrophic for the continent’s economy

How Europe crushes innovation

Labour rules devised in the 20th century are hobbling Europe in the 21st

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 1h

What a load of horseshit.

🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 1h

I don't think I really knew who he was when I started the video but I was sick of him by the time he said that.

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 1h

This is a deranged take.

🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 8h

How much Adam O'Neill sucks is a topic that everyone can agree on.

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 10h

I've gone from being pretty sure she crashed into the Pacific to now wondering if she defected to the USSR based solely on how weird they're being.

CNN @cnn.com · 12h

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

www.cnn.com

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 12h

Suggestive bread content

Skinny breads. They are oiled up and in suggestive shapes by virtue of the fact that my dough-shaping skills are not great

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 14h

Bill Dauterive could outrun, out-fight, and outsmart 99% of the Texas National Guard.

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 15h

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 14h

Any time Gavin Newsom does anything besides tweet, it fucking sucks.

West Coast Cheese 🏴‍☠️ @cheeseofthewest.bsky.social · Aug 24

Gavin Newsom, a thread:

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 1d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 15h

Wait he actually wrote a book on how to fool people into believing all your dogs are barking?

Does he believe his experience is instructive?

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15h

Sen. Kennedy is speaking to reporters while his aide is holding a copy of his book entitled “How to test negative for stupid.”

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 15h

I want the soundproofing technology they have in sitcoms where you can stand in an open kitchen and discuss people in the next room and they can't hear you

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 1d

CNN: "President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE grumbling at the Lawrence Farmer's Market."

Etching of the Sack of Lawrence (1856) in which the pro-slavery "Bogus Sheriff" Samuel J. Jones destroyed abolitionist printing presses and the Free State Hotel

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 16h

In conclusion: This dude is a piece of shit.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 17h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 19h

"Let's do the fucking news" sounds like something one of the scrappy producers on that show would have said.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 21h

i'm disappointed in all of you

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 20h

Bari Weiss's expertise in broadcast journalism is that she watched The Newsroom and 30 Rock

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 20h

NEW from me:

CBS News staffers literally rolled their eyes after new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss delivered a "cringey" rallying cry during today's editorial call, exclaiming: "Let's do the fucking news!"

"She's cosplaying as a broadcast journalist," one said.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

‘Let’s do the f***ing news’: Bari Weiss causes ‘eye rolls’ with CBS News rallying cry

EXCLUSIVE: Multiple CBS News staffers told The Independent that Bari Weiss’ ‘cringey’ comments on the editorial call literally caused eyes to roll.

www.independent.co.uk

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Link Must Be Reinstated @kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social · 21h

Man, I really miss the “habitually inaccessible” mutelist Link had.

Moreover, Link must be reinstated

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Link Must Be Reinstated @kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social · 21h

Oh I’m sure not paying government employees, including the military they’re sending off to other states as invading armies, won’t have any unforeseen consequences at all.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Two people whose original claims to fame were that the other staffers at the New York Times thought they were whiny weirdos.

One felt "ostracized" because he liked Chik fil A, the other quit because she was "bullied" there.

They're the poster children for self-imposed cancel culture martyrdom.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor

Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

nypost.com

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 1d

CNN: "President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE grumbling at the Lawrence Farmer's Market."

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 1d

How did temujin9.t9productions.com break my block to put me on a second harassment list?

Prose and Khans (@temujin9.t9productions.com)

Nathaniel Eliot, first of his name, Jarl of Trollheim, the greater of two evils, the father of punks, the lamenter of code, the schlock and the hard case.

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 1d

The "joke" is "actually our ambitions are much darker than that."