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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 5d

My son only caught parts of this episode, which I listened to while making dinner. Nevertheless, he made a detailed and persuasive case that Dale Carnegie was autistic. NB: My son is autistic.

If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · 7d

Episode 45: How To Win Friends And Influence People

89 years ago, Dale Carnegie taught Americans how to live like Leo Tolstoy, give speeches like John Rockefeller and neg like Calvin Coolidge.

How To Win Friends And Influence People

Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 10/02/2025 · 1h 10m

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 11d

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13d

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.

He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

PARTIES3. Plaintiff José Escobar Molina is a 47-year-old man who has lived in D.C. for 25 years. He has maintained valid Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for El Salvador since 2001. On August 21, 2025, Mr. Escobar Molina was walking from his apartment building in Northwest D.C.to his work truck, about to start his workday, when two cars pulled up next to him. As he was about to get into his truck, plain-clothed and unidentified federal agents exited the cars and—without conducting any inquiry—seized Mr. Escobar Molina, grabbing him by the arms and legs and immediately handcuffing him. The agents arrested him without a warrant and without asking for his name, his identification, or anything about his immigration status. The agents also did not ask him where he lives, whom he lives with, how long he has lived here, or anything else about his ties to the community prior to arresting him. After ICE detained Mr. Escobar Molina overnight at its processing center in Chantilly, Virginia, the next day an ICE supervisor finally realized that he had valid TPS, which statutorily prohibits ICE from detaining him, and released him. Due tohis Latino ethnicity, Mr. Escobar Molina fears being arrested and detained again while going about his daily life in D.C.

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 8d

www.georgetownpoverty.org/issues/snap-...

SNAP Changes Will Upend State Budgets - Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality

SNAP is a lifeline for more than 42 million people, providing food that stabilizes families and strengthens communities, but the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) of 2025 made seismic changes to the ...

www.georgetownpoverty.org

Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 8d

Source: Center on Budget and Inequality at Georgetown Law

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 10d

Is this a cursed headline? Obviously. Is this the most cursed headline of even just today? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10d

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Fighting for Our Stolen Neighbors: ICE, Tear Gas and a Guitar Blown Open

"Being out here to demand what is right is the only way to stay human," says Jessica Darrow.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 10d

"Practice being brave now, don’t wait for some special moment at the end to be a hero."

This is excellent. open.substack.com/pub/peaceful...

Defeating Fascism The Easy Way

Fighting fascism when peaceful means may still be a possibility

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11d

Hegseth fires general officers and JAGs, cracks down on dissenting views in military, orders killing civilians at sea without legal rationale, calls generals to Quantico to demand loyalty.

Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities.

"What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 10d

Men, if you’re wondering why you’re lonely: This is men.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11d

Excuse me, what? Why are men so fucking weird sfstandard.com/2025/09/27/s...

Investors have splurged $10M on sperm racing

The instantly viral F-1 races for semen are given a big boost by backers who see a fertile future in the health-meets-entertainment company.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12d

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

www.nytimes.com

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 14d

"The envy of all women."

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15d

Watters: What is it like being married to Stephen Miller?

Miller: He's an incredibly inspiring man who gets me going in the morning with his speeches being like let's start the day, I'm going to defeat the left and we are going to win.

Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 16d

It’s not possible to make good policy without good data. I know that the Trump administration wants to punish poor people, but this makes it more difficult for anyone to help poor people.

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 16d

My mom worked for the CENSUS Bureau. One of her long-term projects was a study about what people eat for the Department of Agriculture. I learned a lot from hearing my mom talk about that work.

Sharon Parrott @sharonparrott.bsky.social · 18d

The Administration acknowledged that it will stop the survey that measures food insecurity, just as tariffs push up food prices and the deep cuts to food assistance enacted in July start to take effect. Congress must intervene to save these vital data. www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Exclusive | Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey

The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s but now says the report has become “overly politicized.”

www.wsj.com

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 16d

Is Melania OK? JK. I don't give a shit.

Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · 21d

Trying to figure out where the fuck to begin I settled on HARRY REID.

A New Democratic Think Tank Wants to Curb the Influence of Liberal Groups

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Kim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @easybakedoven.bsky.social · 26d

A man in a coat is standing behind another man in a jacket pointing a gun a gun at his head. The man in the jacket is also pointing a gun at his own head. The man in the coat and the man in the jacket are both labeled "America", while both guns are labeled "Americans"

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 28d

Utah was the first state to allow open carry on campus. A would-be assailant could walk right onto campus armed as they please and nobody could’ve done a thing about it.

Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28d

In 2014, Anita Sarkeesian canceled an event at Utah State after a credible assassination threat because the school’s response was that Utah allows guns on college campuses.

People have warned about this kind of violence for years. But they weren’t the people the powers at be wanted to protect.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 28d

Do not be bullied, cowed, or shamed by bad-faith right-wing actors and MAGA that are blaming "liberals" and everyone who isn't MAGA for Charlie Kirk.

Call them out for their hypocrisy. Go on offense. They are fine with political violence and mass shootings when it's against the rest of us.

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · Aug 19

These are the folks building that white hetero housing development in the Ozarks. They seem like cool guys.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · Aug 19

love to anthropomorphize my electromechanical slave, surely nothing bad will result from blurring the lines between how I treat humans and how I treat machines, I am a very serious philosopher

John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · Aug 19

just checking in with one of the most influential philosophers alive today

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · Aug 19

Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s austere, well-cut, all-black drip really brings out the Hobby Lobby in the Oval Office.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Aug 19

Like you I've seen all the pics people post here abt the steady increase of tacky gold crap he keeps adding to the oval office. But somehow it wasn't until I saw this picture that it just hit me. What the actual fuck. Like a Vegas whorehouse.

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · Aug 19

This is, like, I don’t know… The Super Bowl of Y R M3N?

How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World

A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 19

well that explains why trump showed the european world leaders his hat collection lol

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 19

Bessent: "Alaska was a show of force by President Trump ... it was kinda like inviting your uncontrollable neighbor to your house and showing them your gun case."

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Thoticus Prime @jessicajernigan.com · Aug 19

newrepublic.com/article/1983...

How a Group of Michigan Parents Defeated Anti-Trans MAGA Activists

The right has swept into school boards and made bigoted policy the norm. Fighting back may be easier than it looks.

newrepublic.com

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