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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 34m

Are they so obsessed with health care because they recently discovered they’re genetically incapable of winning and are hoping to fund studies or

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 39m

Does it count as a health care issue if you’re getting tear gassed or shot at by secret police who are also tear gassing your local police

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 40m

I mean goddamn

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 42m

Can someone tell him that being dragged into a concentration camp and deported to a random country without legal representation is pretty detrimental to the health of Americans

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 44m

They’ve decided we’re too risky to care about and that was how they announced it.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 45m

And this is why you simply can’t decide to ignore all the talk about ditching “the groups”.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 44m

LA which was June

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 2h

The bros are at it again! and make no mistake, they are LITERALLY calling it "Vibe Lawyering"

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 1h

Think one under appreciated dynamic propelling Mamdani is if you’re not a billionaire or in real estate the experience of the city now is not good even for people in traditional city industries like finance - rents & overhead are killing everything nice about the city

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Will Bunnett @willbunnett.bsky.social · 1h

Perfect execution on the idea of turning away from "defund" — while turning toward funding non-police intervention in mental health calls and *framing it as something to help out the police.*

This guy has political skill lightyears beyond the Chesa Boudins and Pamela Prices of the world.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2h

Interesting dynamic in NYC where Zohran Mamdani is blunting opposition from patrol officers by taking their poor job conditions seriously. Bob Kuttner has this one:
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

Mamdani Courts the Cops

He is doing a lot better than you might think.

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 2h

Inbox: US Bank says it will be providing custody for Anchorage Digital Bank’s payment stablecoins. Anchorage Digital Bank is the only crypto-native bank in the US - the bank started issuing stablecoins immediately after the Genius Act passed in July

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 2h

Heard someone describe this recently as the goal of AI is to colonize all human interaction and extract rent from it and I think that about covers it

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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vegavandal.bsky.social @vegavandal.bsky.social · 4h

Jeffries 🤝 Jefferies

Failing to manage large bureaucratic institutions

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4h

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience

A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

www.nature.com

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 6h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 5h

but you're robbing so many cis straight white guys of the ability to pretend they're only interested in the economic outcomes despite being conspiciously silent on healthcare, childcare, education, or pay equity,

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 5h

You should probably also plan for increased censorship, disinformation, and more friction within the information environment in response because they view this as noncompliance

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7h

FBI agents assigned to Musk concluded he was systematically avoiding conduct standards imposed on those holding high-level clearances. FBI management concluded it could do nothing about this because of Musk's ties to Trump and the GOP.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 6h

It would be fun for me if there were fewer global elites happy to go skipping straight into fascism

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 6h

Still can't believe this cursed idea made it this far

Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social · 8h

Germany will not support Chat Control - a law which proposes to scan all messages people send even on end-to-end encrypted platforms - Justice Minister said today. German stance likely dooms the measure. Signal had threatened to leave the EU if Chat Control became law
therecord.media/chat-control...

Germany will not support 'Chat Control' message scanning in the EU

“Random chat monitoring must be taboo in a constitutional state,” Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said as German officials signaled they will not vote for a controversial EU proposal known as ...

therecord.media

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 7h

Someone is gonna write a series about this girl and this company the story is just too beyond

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 7h

I have had a protein cookie and I didn’t hate it, but if I learn later it was 85% microplastics and/or led to a very specific tumor I won’t be surprised

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 7h

That awkward moment when even the weather finds you abhorrent

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David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 12h

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 8h

It's like the financial version of streamers realizing there is more money in package deals

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