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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 1h

He really loves being the new Kyrsten Sinema, can't wait for him to get kicked to the curb in the 2028 primary

Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 1h

Should bosses be nice to workers? Yes. But anyone who's worked in politics knows that most candidates will just as soon cuss you out as look at you

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 3h

That depends on your definition of a "vanity candidate," as I think there are going to be tons of people running the Democratic nomination in 2028 who have no chance of winning but who the establishment gushes over like Andy Beshear and Pete Buttigieg

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 6h

Let’s check in on the warzone in Portland.

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 6h

Keep going NYT I bet if you just publish one more bad faith right wing take then the worst people in America will finally stop calling you communist pedophiles

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 6h

I gotta say it is Very Cool And Good that badly informed right wingers with horrific values who are incapable of not arguing in bad faith will always have a home on the op-ed page of the leading national newspaper of record

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 6h

if your starting position is that integrating schools went Too Far, then yes, it's unsurprising that you think that what Hegseth said was "pretty good"

But the military of the 2020s has been as overburdened by the imperatives of progressivism as schools were by the duties of racial integration in the 1970s. And if, as Mr. Hegseth argues, the hallmark of the military is not order and hierarchy but the taking and saving of lives, then it is the wrong place for such experiments in the first place.

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 7h

It takes an act of Congress to formally change the name of a federal agency. This is just a bitch-ass move from CNN's editors to voluntarily accept Trump's preferred name

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 9h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 8h

"But if we shut down the puppy burning machine then there won't be a giant machine to burn puppies"

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 1d

As a flood insurance adjuster I can tell you that coastal residents have NO IDEA how lucky they are we haven't had a major landfall storm yet this hurricane season. Because during a shutdown there won't be anybody at NFIP/FEMA to help insureds get paid from their claims

Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! @mollyjongfast.bsky.social please support local journalists

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 1d

Department chair / tenured professor / grad student lecturer

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Associate Professor / Full Professor / Assistant Professor

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

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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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 1d

I've read about that in Jack Reacher books, seems like a legit way to seriously maim if not kiII someone

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 1d

Marines are also scary af, last weekend I met a member of the USMC honor guard at a friend's funeral and while he was all smiles and professionalism, I knew from the moment I shook his hand and looked in his eyes that he had superhuman levels of strength and speed and could kill me in 67 diff ways

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 1d

Given that she literally thought a twitter account called "official Antifa" was real, I'm not optimistic. Her mediocrity is beyond comprehension x.com/bariweiss/st...

Bari Weiss on X: "I had missed @CraigSilverman's reporting on fake Antifa Twitter accounts and mistakenly linked to one in my piece. Mea culpa. The story has been corrected. https://t.co/hshV5HeP4m" / X

I had missed @CraigSilverman's reporting on fake Antifa Twitter accounts and mistakenly linked to one in my piece. Mea culpa. The story has been corrected. https://t.co/hshV5HeP4m

x.com

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 1d

"Jesse could have saved so many lives if he just agreed to let Gus take out Walt and be his sole cook"

Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 1d

Can the left take back the Gadsden Flag? I don't think the right wingers can lay claim to it anymore

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 1d

If I spent my entire career writing op-eds constantly flattering the richest and most powerful people in society I could probably also land a comfortable sinecure as an NYT columnist that I could then leverage into more wealth and influence. Unfortunately I am afflicted with morals and conscience

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 1d

Tongue-in-cheek tone aside this is basically just straight up admitting his whole thing is aligning his views with the rich and powerful. This is exactly how Bari Weiss became so wealthy despite her overwhelming mediocrity

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how long it'll take folks to just realize AG Sulzberger is a right winger and the NYT is a right wing outlet

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

Stephen Miller in a gray suit, white shirt, and gray tie.

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 2d

A building teetering on collapse labeled "the entire US economy" held up by a handful of small posts labeled "ai investments"

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of Amy McGrath announcing she's running for Senate yet again despite raising $100 million and still getting blown out by the worst senator in America, I made her a campaign sign. McGrath campaign: This design can be yours for the low low price of $10M, I take cashapp and paypal

McGrath for Senate: Did You Know She Used To Be A Fighter Pilot

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

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