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c0ast3r 🇺🇸 @c0ast3r.bsky.social · 8m

Yeah, he is just too deferential. I think he doesn’t want to challenge people at all. It is a big flaw and I am sure he knows this.

He is way smarter than virtually every guest.

I mean if he took the step of taking this money from Saudi himself then well. I’d reevaluate my opinion of him.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1h

I think if it took you to October 5th, 2025 to realize that maybe this 1/6/21 business was maybe a big deal I think you shouldn't be allowed to comment on politics

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @vrubinobs.bsky.social · 1h

Golden hour hits different above 2600 meters. ✨🌅

NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory basks in that sunset ✨glow✨ at its site on Cerro Pachón. And with over 300 clear nights on average per year here, that's a lot of sunset basking we get to do! 🔭🧪

Large boot-shaped observatory with a massive telescope dome reflecting orange and golden sunset light atop its rocky mountain site.

Large boot-shaped observatory with a massive telescope dome atop its rocky mountain site, with the golden glow of sunset over the rolling peaks in the distance.

Large boot-shaped observatory on a rocky mountain peak during a vibrant sunset with layered mountain ranges in the background.

Drone shot of a massive teal telescope within an observatory's dome with a vertical opening, surrounded by winding mountain roads and dry terrain.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 52m

Pritzker: "I think it's important to recognize that the Trump administration does not seem to respect any laws in the United States. They just do what they want to do and they'll keep doing it unless someone stops them. Here in Illinois we're stopping them."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 57m

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 56m

Relatedly, why is no one lamenting the unemployed whalers and milkmen and switchboard operators and lamp lighters? It is of course a net benefit. Among a huge number of other benefits, free trade is consistently the driving force behind global poverty reduction.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2h

Basically this was the entire logic fo neoliberalism and globalization - yes lots of job destruction, but prices falling on all kinds of goods and new jobs in new areas. It was taken as gospel that all of it was a net benefit, but that's a bit harder argument to make these days.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 1h

"What files did Trump have and why" is one of the questions that everyone across the spectrum just decided we were going to move on from because the firehose was too intense.

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c0ast3r 🇺🇸 @c0ast3r.bsky.social · 1h

Chris

Pls Throw??
No Take!!!!
ONLY THROW

Dog meme

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Davy Crockett @davidcrockett08.bsky.social · 1h

As always, the fact eight years of Clintonomics made a meaningful change in this graph and a decade plus of going with Bernie-Warren-Bidenomics has made Democratic performance worse makes zero difference in the eyes of the Chris Hayes of the world about their relative popularity with voters

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Davy Crockett @davidcrockett08.bsky.social · 1h

We literally just had a Presidency fail because of expensive consumer goods and the current President is also unpopular due to expensive consumer goods but trust the Ivy Leaguer turned cable TV news host that Globalization Is Bad For You Because Neoliberalism.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2h

Basically this was the entire logic fo neoliberalism and globalization - yes lots of job destruction, but prices falling on all kinds of goods and new jobs in new areas. It was taken as gospel that all of it was a net benefit, but that's a bit harder argument to make these days.

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c0ast3r 🇺🇸 @c0ast3r.bsky.social · 1h

Just yesterday the discourse on here was about W E B Dubois could have listened to Bowie.

c0ast3r 🇺🇸 @c0ast3r.bsky.social · 1h

My grandmothers friends house was electrifed in 1948. Only one room at first. She died in 1998. Her friends father never travelled outside of the town. Ever.

You have a super computer with access to nearly all human knowledge in your pocket.

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c0ast3r 🇺🇸 @c0ast3r.bsky.social · 1h

The media, is incapable of imagining, the widespread misery of human existence for people who in rare case only died within their own lifetimes who survived 1900s life in America.

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c0ast3r 🇺🇸 @c0ast3r.bsky.social · 1h

Person in 1900 teleported to 2025: The average life expentacy is 47, what is it in 2025?

Person in 2025: Nearly 80, but we “all” want to go back to 1900.

Person from 1900: What the fuck is wrong with you, why would you want that!!!!

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c0ast3r 🇺🇸 @c0ast3r.bsky.social · 1h

Clinton: A Bridge to the future?
Chris: No, Tear it all down
Clinton: Okay but we need bridges and a new future.
Chris: Change nothing.
Also Chris: Why did you tear down the bridge!

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1h

it is easier to make this argument now that we see what happens when free trade is undone, but you do you

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2h

Basically this was the entire logic fo neoliberalism and globalization - yes lots of job destruction, but prices falling on all kinds of goods and new jobs in new areas. It was taken as gospel that all of it was a net benefit, but that's a bit harder argument to make these days.

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c0ast3r 🇺🇸 @c0ast3r.bsky.social · 1h

Chris

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1h

These jobs are not coming back and Clinton got pilloried in 2016 from the left and right for admitting that, but this wider inability to admit it is a lot what drives to populist turn in the West.

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1h

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1h

This really is the central problem of the west currently that economically marginal voters want one type of economy, but culturally they absolutely do want it.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1h

These jobs are not coming back and Clinton got pilloried in 2016 from the left and right for admitting that, but this wider inability to admit it is a lot what drives to populist turn in the West.

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c0ast3r 🇺🇸 @c0ast3r.bsky.social · 1h

SSH key $0
Labeling $0
Hostnames $0
Documentation $0
Remembering what machine it’s for $40,000
someone who is good at ops please help me budget for this. my infra is dying

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

“.. Oh, we've entered the ‘shooting priests’ phase of the Glorious Trump Revolution. Good to know.”

- @therickwilson.bsky.social

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 2h

It's easy to get numb to all this, but there's just no justification for these agents of the government to attack any of the people in that completely non-violent crowd.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

“.. Oh, we've entered the ‘shooting priests’ phase of the Glorious Trump Revolution. Good to know.”

- @therickwilson.bsky.social

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c0ast3r 🇺🇸 @c0ast3r.bsky.social · 3h

I will never forget nor forgive the people who caused this tragedy.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

In a very real and practical sense, the elimination of USAID occurred because a) civil servants who followed the law were pushed out, b) unaccountable amoral people were given power, and c) SCOTUS let it all happen.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

In addition to mass firing of public servants, Musk's team executed a takeover of the Treasury payment system. David Lebryk, the civil servant who was acting Treasury Secretary, pushed back against the Musk official, Tom Krause, who demanded control over the payment system and specifically to pause USAID payments. Lebryk informed Krause that Treasury could not legally stop payments, and recommended to work through USAID instead. Krause then threatened Lebryk: “I would also recommend you consider an equal alternative liability.” By the next week Lebryk announced his retirement, and Musk announced he was shutting down the agency.

It was later revealed that the other DOGE official who had sought to take control of Treasury spending, Marko Elez, was a self-avowed racist with a record of making disparaging remarks about foreigners, including “I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.” After he resigned, Musk led a successful campaign to bring Elez back into government, even as he pushed out those doing actual life-saving work.

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