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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 39m

I recently went to Eataly for dinner with a friend (the patio allows dogs). An appetizer, two mains (seafood linguine and a Bolognese), and two sodas cost $107 before tax and tip due to price increases. There wasn't even bread!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 45m

Waiting on those $1000 tariff rebate checks. 🤡

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1h

this is open and 10 are already claimed

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

I am doing a round of We Want You To Have This TOMORROW MORNING at 9AM mountain time. If you are trans in the US and want a gift from my shop but cannot afford it, or if you have a trans loved one you would like a gift for, I will have 20 available. Details in thread. nora.jewelry/pages/we-wan...

We Want You To Have This: Jewelry Gifts For Trans People

Requests for gifts are now closed! They will open again at 9AM Mountain Time (Denver) Wednesday, October 8th. The following round will be on Saturday, October 25th at 9AM. Just looking for the forms?...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

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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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 1h

It is an inexcusable omission, and editorial malpractice, for Reuters to omit mention that the President doing this kind of thing on a media platform he owns & has not divested is unprecedented, likely illegal and an ethical violation. The message itself is unprecedented and illegal. Why not say so?

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2h

when Reuters (reuters!) does the most straightforward, bloodless, nonpartisan headline possible and still comes up with: www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 2h

Order of operations is:
-Take care of self with breakfast, meds and coffee
-do the thing(s) you need to finish by noon
-send the email(s)
-eat lunch
-do the thing that has to be done by 5pm
-at 6pm, imagine flinging your work laptop out the window

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 2h

One thing at a time

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

“.. During a confirmation hearing in July, he told senators he would not handle such a situation the same way again.”

@nytimes.com
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

we charge our hyundai ioniq 5 around once every two to three weeks at a muncipal charger and i’d say it runs about $9 for 250 miles of range.

How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 3h

asking people for permission to take their wallets would 'kill' the mugging industry, too

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.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3h

I was making butter beans yesterday and at the final stage decided to throw in the little pat of leftover butter. It was the right choice. I had a similar realization:

Marielle Papin @mariellepm.bsky.social · 16h

I’ve been cooking like a grandma, adding more butter, cream and/or salt to everything and I must say, there’s a reason why grandmas’ cooking is so popular.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 9h

does anyone else have a new bout of insomnia

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 11h

This is art: youtu.be/jqmDN_NKER8?...

Les Fo’Plafonds - #1 The Simpsons (Cartoon Session)

YouTube video by Les Fo'Plafonds

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 12h

some days at the paragraph factory are more heartbreaking and demoralizing than others

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 13h

What will the new Adam O'Neal–hosted WaPo opinions podcast sound like for the next few decades? Maybe a little something like this x.com/WashPostComm...

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15h

Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 12h

You could doomscroll, or you could literally go take a shower and then go to bed earlier than usual. One of those options will make you feel better than the other. You still deserve time to rest and recover.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 12h

This continues to be the federal operation that seems most egregiously and frankly performatively unlawful in myriad ways. Completely flagrant in a way that seems a lot like tire-kicking to see just how much they can get away with. So far, seems like they’re getting away with it

I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 13h

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 12h

I don't know that this is the *most* unethical thing David Frum has ever done, but in terms of professional *journalistic* ethics? Whooo boy

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 12h

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12h

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 15h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 14h

Gianmarco Soresi!

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 14h

It absolutely is about Gianmarco! Also his new special on YouTube is so good, my goodness.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 14h

This is tomorrow the 8th at 9AM and last time they went fast.

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

In case this is too wordy: FREE JEWELRY and/or GLASS CABOCHONS and/or GAME TOKENS for TRANS PEOPLE in the UNITED STATES who can't afford it but would like some. Tomorrow, 9AM Mountain.

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

I am doing a round of We Want You To Have This TOMORROW MORNING at 9AM mountain time. If you are trans in the US and want a gift from my shop but cannot afford it, or if you have a trans loved one you would like a gift for, I will have 20 available. Details in thread. nora.jewelry/pages/we-wan...

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 14h

it is a little confusing when a nerdy theater kid comedian becomes incredibly hot and develops massive biceps and abs

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 14h

Go Blue Jays!!

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