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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 12m

Wait, where is this from? This sounds awesome.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 6h

You know that thing about a frog being slowly boiled and not realising it?

Can we change 'boiled' to 'radicalised'?

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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · 1h

Any form of media that involves an angry man telling an audience what to be angry about for several hours a day is probably not good for the human brain

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 3h

How to ymprove higher ed
And win all the pryzes:
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1h

me: the democrats would be much better communicators if they took some notes from professional wrestling

jb pritzker: does the thing

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 47m

At this point we can only aspire to idiocracy.

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 21m

I don't think I could come up with a worse answer if I tried.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 24m

Cuomo on how he’d handle Trump sending troops into NYC:

Oh they’ll violate the constitution and break the law and violate civil rights and terrorize people but let’s not get all dramatic about it.

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"[I want to] be ready here in New York, and let's be smart. They're going to send in ICE in New York.
They are going to do things that are illegal and unconstitutional, but let's not overreact."
- Andrew Cuomo said in June after Trump deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 1h

My students casually brought up Mamdani's campaign art today as an example of something. You know what was the last time that any of my students mentioned anyone running for anything other than maybe the top 2 candidates for POTUS within weeks of an election? Never.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1h

Trying to speedrun martial law before the economy collapses

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Yooty @yooty.bsky.social · 1h

Dolly Parton feeling the need to put out a proof of life video shows how collectively on the edge we all are.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1h

Dolly Parton has been a good person all her life. She does so many kind things for people. Compare that to someone like JK Rowling who wakes up every day and decides to be an absolute asshole.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3h

Everyone loves data until the data is

“The people you cater to are only as entitled as you let them be and you are not being a peacemaker by conceding other people’s rights to appease them. You’re being an enabler”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 4h

This is not my job. I do not owe people attention because they see me as a "big account" (and thus do not see me as a person- as they are especially wont to do when one is Black)

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Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 5h

If Taken was a musical.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 7h

I love how Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House and #2 in line for the presidency, is always like, “What? News?! I never read or hear anything that happens in the world, anywhere. I’m totally offline. What even is ‘social media’? They play news all day on TV!? Wow! That’s a surprise!”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 5h

I was mass-deleting the promotions tab on my gmail and almost did my inbox instead and wouldn't that have been beautiful.

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 6h

Hey, I personally get excited about used books and artisanal ice cream sandwiches.

little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 6h

Portland is a bore zone

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 10h

If fascism makes you want to choose the lesser of two evils again then you’re a fkn goofball and you should delete your account. You don’t give a fck about fascism. You’re just a corporate DNC cheerleader looking for another pay day and you are part of the problem.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h

Charlie Sykes: Her stuttering evasions, insults, and faux bursts of performative outrage are like a fake orgasm—“loud, theatrical, sweaty, and meant to trick just one man into keeping her around by flattering his ego.” This is unfair to orgasms.

Reason For Hope Amid the Wreckage

If you woke up this morning with the vague sense that you were missing a goodly portion of your brain cells, it’s likely that you watched Pam Bondi’s performance yesterday before a Senate committee.

open.substack.com

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 1d

Exercise *can* help with *some* aspects of *some* chronic illnesses and disabilities. The problem is that people see it work for one symptom of one person and declare it works for everyone and everything.
#stoptellingmetotryyoga

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 1d

This is what happens when the dumbest and meanest kids you ever knew in high school suddenly get the unchecked power to take every awful, idiotic idea that pops up in their heads and turn it into reality.

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Aubrey is a WHITE man. @lsslo.bsky.social · 1d

those govt employees are more than “paper pushers”.

they’re teachers, postal service employees, doctors, attorneys, scientists, environmental and food agent regulators, law enforcement (🙄), military etc

so much more than what you THINK they are.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h

For people getting ready to fill out their NYC ballots, we have a bunch of ballot initiatives again. Hard to know how to vote on these. I received this from the City Council: www.whatsonmyballot.nyc - I'll be looking to local groups to figure out how to vote on these.

Your Neighborhood Is On The Ballot

www.whatsonmyballot.nyc

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