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Fiziker @fiziker.bsky.social · 6h

ACA subsidies will burn. Very brightly.

Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 6h

Fiziker @fiziker.bsky.social · 7h

a phillies mascot is wearing a white shirt

ALT: a phillies mascot is wearing a white shirt

media.tenor.com

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 14h

Actually I can be serious

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 17h

PRESS: "What do you think about Emperor Caligula naming his horse as a Senator?"

SPEAKER JOHNSON: "I didn't see that. i don't have time to follow every news story or social media post."

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 18h

a fortunate quirk is that doing food and medical support for impoverished children, foreign and domestic, *also* is about the biggest bang it is possible to get for our buck.

so you can analyze aid on a moral basis or a realpolitik basis and you get the same answer: we should do it

Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 18h

Here's the thing. I am a lucky person and pay a fair bit in taxes. I can think of no better use for my tax dollars than feeding children, because I think all people are equally deserving of basic humanity.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

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Fiziker @fiziker.bsky.social · 17h

DC’s fireworks display on July 4th 2029 should involve blowing up the Trump ballroom.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

Fiziker @fiziker.bsky.social · 17h

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 17h

A good example of why direct inflation adjustment of this sort is more deceptive than clarifying when applied over very long stretches of time where consumption patterns are very different.

Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 19h

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Fiziker @fiziker.bsky.social · 17h

Immigration is the best way to deal with this for now. But we need to figure this out before other countries stop being poor.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18h

I think the thing with the debate about ‘Pro-Natalism’ is that everyone kind of dances around saying explicitly is that revealed preferences show lots of people think having kids of sort of sucks for the parent but is clearly necessary for society.

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Fiziker @fiziker.bsky.social · 17h

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Walmart needs as good a marketing team

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 19h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 19h

Free speech is when the government forces you to rename specific roads after someone

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 19h

Florida Republican unveils bill threatening state funding if colleges don't rename roads after Charlie Kirk

thehill.com

Florida Republican unveils bill threatening state funding if colleges don’t rename roads after Charlie Kirk

twp.ai

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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 19h

It isn't just that you can't express verbal support for Palestine Action. You may also not even be free to simply question the government's decision to ban it. This is the most basic political expression — challenging how leaders govern. And yet.

Rick @rick-sco.bsky.social · 19h

Yeh, you can't even disagree with the action of declaring Palestine Action a terrorist group. Pretty sure they will just try to arrest anyone with the words Action & Palestine in what they deem to be the wrong order at this point. Some politicians are really in need of swift replacement.

Woman 'arrested' over 'I oppose proscription of Palestine Action' sign

A PROTESTER has claimed she was arrested for holding a sign saying “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”.

www.thenational.scot

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Fiziker @fiziker.bsky.social · 18h

*Me doomscrolling politics Bluesky/Twitter while watching sportsballs*

Lakshya Jain @lakshya.splitticket.org · 19h

I think the Democrats have actually done fine on the shutdown despite all the journalistic hand-wringing.

More to the point: a lot of people would be happier if they stopped looking for drama in politics and started watching the NBA.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 18h

This is fundamentally the root of Jewish commitment to liberalism, and why the people who want to throw that out to protect an ethnostate are selling our birthright for a bowl of shitty porridge.

Fourth Crown War FPV Drone Operator 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 21h

It is not possible to guarantee safety for a minority group except through a multicultural society. This is a basic fact of hard reality. Wise up, Steve.

Stephen Daisley @stephendaisley.bsky.social · 2d

The Manchester synagogue attack is a story of mass immigration and multiculturalism. We must bring an end to both.

My latest for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/immi...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

If god’s dick is always infinite to begin with how can he get a boner.

Can god’s dick be smaller than god without being smaller than infinity.

Does god scratch his balls. How.

We need to understand these things. Gender critical Christians alone can answer. Ask them constantly.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN LOGIC
1. A male is defined by having a penis and testicles
2. God is a male.

Therefore
3. God has balls and a wang.

Ask a fundamentalist how big god’s hog is. No matter how big he says it is, it will be a limit to the infinite size of god and therefore a blasphemy.

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Fiziker @fiziker.bsky.social · 1d

The only good use case I can think of for labels is to label people who opt to see labels on 300 character posts.

Fiziker @fiziker.bsky.social · 1d

Quaker school erasure.

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 1d

four types of private schools in america:

1) catholic schools for racists
2) nondenom schools that dont teach you science
3) hippie schools that dont teach you to read, inexplicably 87% matriculation @ top 20 colleges
4) hogwarts, costs 55k/yr, explicably 99% matriculation @ top 20 colleges

Stone Cold Jane Austen @grayathena.bsky.social · 1d

Having gone to a really shitty private school is so funny. People hear “private school” and rightly think my parents were well off but instead of playing lacrosse or whatever I was learning young earth creationism from a Russian antisemite in portables outside a church

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1d

It's fascinating to me that there's a whole "AI skeptic" misinformation ecosystem out there that somehow continues to deny that Waymo exists. Like, this is easy to fact check! Waymo runs publicly-available service in 5 cities, you can just go look up how it works and see it's not planned routes!

A bluesky post with the user's handle cropped out: "In 2015, I was told, confidently, that AI would end human drivers in the trucking industry w/in 5 years.

[Begin my highlight]10 years later, and there’s what-some experimental cabs rolling around a few cities in heavily-engineered preset routes?[end my highlight]

Not to mention the fact that the AI industry itself is Enron on heroin."

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 2d

jumpscare on instagram @dandekadt.bsky.social

some instagram account has posted a screenshot of dan's post that says "My wife and I never talk baby talk to our kid. We enforce academic seminar norms and jargon. My child isnt even 2 yet and can interrupt presenters on the first slide. Adults at family gatherings are shocked when my child asks a questino that turns out to be more of a comment." it has THIRTY SIX THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIVE LIKES

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

another thing Weiss does is give other very dull people a vehicle to spout bog-standard right-wing ideas and pretend they're being iconoclasts or innovative.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 1d

Weiss very intentionally does not describe herself as a conservative or Republican and wraps her politics in terms like "free press." That makes more useful at advancing Trumpism than explicitly right-wing figures. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

MAGA Lite: What “Bari Weiss Conservatism” Is, and Why It’s Dangerous

The new CBS executive isn’t exactly MAGA. But her polite Trumpism will still help destroy America as we know it.

newrepublic.com

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Fiziker @fiziker.bsky.social · 1d

We need them to fear reprisals.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

So, imagine a 2028 that ends with a normal election and a Democratic president.

Does that president punish CBS? Does he kick it out of the Brady room's front row? Does his FCC go after its licenses? Does his FTC probe the Skydance deal?

No, probably not. No fear of reprisal if power shifts back.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Do CBS News executives understand that MAGA will not be in power forever? I genuinely think this is lost on a lot of people. They've gotten scammed by bad actors into believing Trump's 2024 win represented something seismic and even permanent. I predict they'll look back on this as a serious error.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Fiziker @fiziker.bsky.social · 1d

Basically how I view Florida.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly I find the idea of going to the Gulf states on holiday so instinctively repulsive that I forget how many people do. There are so much nicer and cheaper and less morally appalling places in the world!

Indy @indy.bsky.social · 1d

Unless you move in those circles, or study the tourist patterns, it's quite surprising how many people go there for holidays - and how much the demographics match some particular slices of the Thatcher coalition.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

“Bullying” is not a word that needs to be reclaimed and self-applied. The thing it means is repellent and it’s important that we have a word that means that repellent thing, and not “me being slightly intemperate (bravely) on social media.”

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, a lot of prominent posters on here love to say that bullying works so

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 2d

wtf is wrong with these people

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