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Marisa Kabas

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NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!

My guide:

Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide

The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.

www.thehandbasket.co

December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM

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Monteiro

@monteiro.bsky.social

The Democrats will accept Marjorie Taylor Greene into the tent before they accept Zohran Mamdani.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23d

Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.

November 17, 2025 at 4:52 AM

Keri 📨

@athousanddreams.bsky.social

being a Falcons fan really has one pondering if they do in fact have a humiliation kink

Saivion Mixson @saivion.bsky.social · 23d

The Falcons are the only team in NFL history to have 18 or more sacks in a three game span and lose all three games.

(h/t @stathead.com)

November 17, 2025 at 4:12 AM

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JA Westenberg

@joanwestenberg.com

There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped. Can't be earnest without a layer of self-deprecation. Can't be enthusiastic without signaling awareness of how cringe enthusiasm is.

The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.

November 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM

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#birdsky

November 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM

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#birdsky

November 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM

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Bree

@mostlybree.kitrocha.com

man I'm so excited to be on the internet with 100k-500k of my favorite emotionally dysregulated neurodivergents as we wait for election results in places we have never visited and freak the fuck out!!!!!!!

November 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL

@edsbs.bsky.social

a diagram demonstrating the lethal range of a projectile sandwich

November 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM

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Alexander Chee

@alexanderchee.bsky.social

I often think about how Cheney wanted revenge for what happened to Nixon, and how we live in the ruins made by that dream.

November 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM

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A.R. Moxon

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

Dick Cheney Was Doing War Crimes in Exactly the Right Way, by Ezra Klein.

November 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM

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Kameron Hurley

@kameronhurley.com

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.

I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

Many of the propagandists of Autocracy, Inc., have learned from the mistakes of the twentieth century. They don’t offer their fellow citizens a vision of utopia, and they don’t inspire them to build a better world. Instead, they teach people to be cynical and passive, because there is no better world to build. Their goal is to persuade people to mind their own business, stay out of politics, and never hope for a democratic alternative: Our state may be corrupt, but everyone else is corrupt too. You may not like our leader, but the others are worse. You may not like our society, but at least we are strong and the democratic world is weak, degenerate, divided, dying.

November 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM

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Joe Hanson

@drjoehanson.bsky.social

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning

Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when

academic.oup.com

October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM

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✨ happy holijays! ✨

@jaythenerdkid.bsky.social

saw someone say right-wingers on SNAP are soon going to have to decide if being racist is worth being hungry, as though the entire mechanism by which fascist populism propagates isn't convincing people to vote for being hungry by enticing them with the chance to be racist

October 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM

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Snow Burrow

@bostonjerry.bsky.social

If you make the tent big enough for nazis, then a lot of people who were in the tent are gonna leave. It's not a one way tent.

October 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM

Keri 📨

@athousanddreams.bsky.social

Give Nicole Beharie and Karen Pittman all the Emmys
#TheMorningShow

October 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM

Keri 📨

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I am verklumpt.
🥺🥺🥺

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · Oct 15

The sequel to ‘RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE’ has officially been titled ‘RED, WHITE & ROYAL WEDDING’

Starring Taylor Zakhar Perez & Nicholas Galitzine.

October 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM

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Prisonculture

@prisonculture.bsky.social

I thought this was lovely.

"A few years ago I received a DM from Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Only recently did I discover its existence. It was a very unusual DM—especially coming from a local assemblyman who would soon be running for higher office. He had very little name recognition at the time, and could have benefited from publicity. But unlike the thousands of messages I’ve received from people with something to promote, Zohran did not ask to be featured on Humans of New York. Instead he asked if he could introduce me to taxi drivers that were struggling beneath the burden of debt. Coming from a man with political ambitions, this self-denying request was so strange as to be almost singular. I don’t endorse politicians on Humans of New York. But I’ll endorse a good man. And it was a good man who cleared 30 minutes from his schedule yesterday to swing by Grand Central and visit Dear New York’s Vanderbilt Hall Exhibition. Nearly fifty-student artists were visiting that day with their families, and I thought a surprise visit from this widely-loved future mayor would be a special memory for all of them. Before Zohran’s arrival I was convinced I’d made a terrible mistake. The exhibit was filled to capacity with adult visitors. Dear New York is self-funded so there was very little staff and security for crowd control. In the crush of people I was almost certain this special day for the kids would devolve into thirty minutes of selfie requests. But everyone rose to the occasion."

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"Hundreds of adults quickly cleared the room and stood outside the exhibit. Eleven very notable adult photographers are also featured in the show, but even they took a step back, so that these students could briefly have the stage to themselves. Each child stood by their work and Zohran was able to meet all of them, one at a time, and honor their contributions to the most-visited art show in New York City. Thanks to everyone who ceded the stage yesterday to make this moment possible. Thank you Zohran for literally sitting down on the floor so that these young artists could feel so tall. Thanks for continually centering other people in your life and work. And thank you, for being such an important part of Dear New York."

A large group of children and adults pose together indoors in front of a sign reading "DEAR." A man in a suit sits cross-legged in front, surrounded by smiling kids. The background features an ornate architectural detail.

October 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM

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Anil Dash

@anildash.com

they should probably let people know this exists. And put it on Twitch. And have someone who knows how to stream comment over it.

Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · Oct 1

Who has watched the 24 hour live stream so far that the house Dems are doing on the shutdown?????

This should be the biggest story right now and literally 45 people are watching
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrBY...