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Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 2h

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 7h

I’m sure no one told the MacArthur people but I recently put one of those microwaveable Mac and cheese cups on a dish to catch the water bubbling over, after about a year of lamenting and having to sop up the bubbling pasta water all over the place

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

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.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 15h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

The only arguably non-right example here is Michael Cohen, who it misidentifies as the one who was Trump’s lawyer

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 1d

‘Disgraceful’: Right And Left Unite to Blast Zohran Mamdani’s 10/7 Statement

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani sparked a wave of anger on Tuesday with his statement marking the October 7th attack on southern Israel The post ‘Disgraceful’: Right And Left Unite to Blast Zohran Mamdani’s 10/7 Statement first appeared on Mediaite.

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mother dysnomia 🌚 @mamatried.bsky.social · 1d

lol it’s this guy

Tweet from 11/2/24 showing Harry Sisson and his 4 friends in a car that reads “we’re Gen Z voters and we all PROUDLY voted for Kamala Harris! Real men support Harris”

Robert J O’Neill quotes it with

“You're not men. You're boys. If there was no social media, you would be my concubines.”

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know what Democrats think of this either, but I do know what Democrats SHOULD think about something suggested by a conniving viper who has fucked them over on every single occasion she's had the opportunity

Burgess Everett tweet: "One of Sen. Collins idea to break logjam: Dems give votes to reopen government with a “commitment” to negotiate on ACA premium tax credits. She says it’s not entirely clear what Democrats think of this"

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

Isn’t this also what happened with that building in Colorado they said was occupied by Tren de Aragua, a guy was gonna miss his deadline to get it up to code and he was like oh I can’t because of uhhh the fuckin scary gang

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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.

southsideweekly.com

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.

If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.

Read this in @bloomberg.com👇

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 1d

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 1d

huge thanks to everyone who helped rehab david frum because he's sorta anti-trump because your tent has to be big enough to include him even as he starts deciding who gets to stay in the tent

David Frum on Twitter, QTing Zohran Mamdani's 10/7 statement: This is a genuinely useful statement. The chilly formulaic language about the 10/7 atrocity ... the intense angry passion of the denunciation of Israel's self-defense ... together they arrestingly reveal what the author cares about and what/who he does not care about.

Zohran's 10/7 statement (in part): Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: a death toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all..."

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court isn’t an arbitrator of the constitutionality of legislation, it is a reactionary political body that is attempting to achieve reactionary political outcomes. Nothing more, nothing less. We should stop pretending otherwise.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 1d

Day 143: Sully is now coneless AND shorn. Laissez les bon temps rouler.

Sully the 8-month-old bichon showing off his new do and Halloween handkerchief.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 1d

Super weapon. Based in Scarif. Fuel from Ghorman. Khyber from Jedha. ISB Krennic. Galen Erso.

The new Lego Death Star (in its box) has arrived.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

Lawless Russell Vought thinks he can nullify a law by deleting it from an FAQ

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

www.govexec.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

i could write a tome about how fucking embarrassing it is for journalism that someone as morally bankrupt as bari weiss has ascended to the highest levels of money and power by tickling trump's balls but instead i'm going to keep covering the people hurt most by his terror and giving them a voice.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2d

The people that you are trying to persuade by moving right won’t believe you (the opposition doesn’t change their messaging against you! Your underlying values look unclear!), and your base gets demoralized.

Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 3d

Accepting every MAGA premise on “immigration” has moral costs, but assuming they’re all Savvy Trolly Problem Knowers, they should at least acknowledge it has **political downsides as well**. That it alienates many and makes counter messaging impossible because you look like total phony hypocrites.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 3d

Just finished s2 last night. What a picture dot gif

Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 3d

Ok, all caught up now and very excited about this. Also ridiculous that this show didn't garner any Emmy acting nods. Jacob Anderson was robbed.

Meet the Vampire Lestat ft. Sam Reid | Interview with the Vampire | New Season | AMC+

YouTube video by amc+

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 3d

Both seasons of Interview with the Vampire are on Netflix. One of the best literary adaptations in the history of television, it takes all the source material's strengths and transmogrifies all its weaknesses, like The Terror. Cruel, disgusting, sexy as fuck. Plus: Eric Bogosian! Do not walk, RUN.

Sam Reid as Lestat and Jacob Anderson as Louis in Interview with the Vampire

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 7d

After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects

Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 3d

Also, I threw on the Neil Jordan movie late last night and, while I only got about 40 minutes into the rewatch, all the plantation stuff has aged like milk.

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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 3d

That said, I saw after finishing season 2 that they've got Justin Kirk and Eric Bogosian showing up to burnish their extended universe Torchwood spinoff. (Talamasca: The Secret Order or somesuch.)

Don't push your luck, AMC, that's not happening.

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