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Siena @heysiena.bsky.social · 8h

Have you confidently walked down a dead-end hallway and then had to double back past open offices? That’s so fun.

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ThatFuckingFlower @thateffinflower.bsky.social · 6d

Like what you want, but if youre stanning Taylor fucking Swift as a leftist in 2025, respectfully, grow up and be serious.

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Siena @heysiena.bsky.social · 6d

She’s the definition of tone-deaf and this new album is not helping that perception…

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Siena @heysiena.bsky.social · 6d

😍 care to share the link?

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Siena @heysiena.bsky.social · 6d

This pretty shocking and alarming to read…. I like attending Knicks games at MSG and had no idea about the intense surveillance.

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 6d

At @nygroove.nyc, James Dolan's tenure has been shot through with a "culture of paranoia." Once MSG installed facial recognition tech, he scaled up. Now a lawsuit reveals just how far he'll go to target his perceived enemies. In Dolan's mind, he has so, so many enemies nygroove.nyc/james-dolan-...

How MSG became Maximum Spy Garden under Knicks owner James Dolan

For 25 years, MSG has been shot through with a 'culture of paranoia' that stems straight from the owner's box

nygroove.nyc

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Siena @heysiena.bsky.social · 8d

Insightful 🧵

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 8d

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 10d

Take 2 minutes to watch this. In the documentary "A King Like Me", about a Zulu Club in New Orleans, one of the members very emotionally expresses this same sentiment from a working-class perspective. You can feel his anger and exhaustion. I recommend it.

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 10d

So exhausting..

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Siena @heysiena.bsky.social · 12d

This week was three months long.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 19d

A lot of people ask me how I stay level headed with everything that’s happening like I didn’t grow up when Bush stole an election, failed to stop 9/11, launched two bullshit wars and Homeland Security, got caught doing straight up torture, and Katrina where Black people were abandoned & then hunted.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Siena @heysiena.bsky.social · 20d

Can I please have non-plastic clothes and a headphone jack on my phone?

These two things would improve my quality of life immensely…

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 24d

This is the bill to call your reps about and the relevant text in it

David Manning @photodave219.fightins.online · 24d

Its H.R. 5300, "To guide the foreign policy of the United States, and for other purposes."

This is a five-alarm fire.

‘‘(1) ISSUANCE.—Subject to subsection (b), the
2 Secretary of State shall refuse to issue a passport to
3 any individual who—
4 ‘‘(A) has been charged with or convicted of
5 a violation of section 2339A or 2339B of title
6 18, United States Code; or
7 ‘‘(B) the Secretary determines has know
8 ingly aided, assisted, abetted, or otherwise pro
9 vided material support to an organization the
10 Secretary has designated as a foreign terrorist
11 organization pursuant to section 219 of the Im12 migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189).
13 ‘‘(2) REVOCATION.—The Secretary of State
14 shall, except as provided in paragraph (3)(A), revoke
15 a passport previously issued to any individual de16 scribed in paragraph (1).

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 24d

This text is buried in a larger bill. Don’t want Marco Rubio to be personally responsible for revoking people’s passports based on thought crimes? Call your reps about it!

New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has already sought to punish immigrants for speech. New legislation might let him revoke passports from U.S. citizens.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 28d

Maggie Astor is the New York Times reporter I trust:

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 28d

I know I'm more than a day late on this, but for some reason it came across my feed now — I confirmed with Sanofi today that they haven't yet shipped the Novavax shot, so it isn't available anywhere. They plan to start shipping next week.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · Sep 7

Things seem quite bad.

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Siena @heysiena.bsky.social · Sep 7

Is it known if the new Novavax COVId vaccine has shipped to pharmacies yet?

Called Costco about it last week and they told me to call back in a few weeks…

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · Sep 6

Absolutely glorious, DC!