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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 6h

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Sabina Vohra-Miller @sabivm.bsky.social · 2d

I am half way through reading @joho.bsky.social ‘s new book and it should be included as historical evidence in national science libraries & archives. I really hope down the road we read this and find ways to ensure none of what we saw during the pandemic is ever repeated. Riveting read.

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 5d

The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done!

COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions.

Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine.

How did that happen?🧵

sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 8h

OK, she really said that they arrested “the girlfriend of the founder of ANTIFA”

The girlfriend

of the FOUNDER

of - anti fascism?

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 9h

lest anyone think the girlfriend line was a hilarious joke I concocted...

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Michael Bazaconomicon 💀 🎃 👻 @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 7h

Capitals legend, Henrik Lundqvist on the pregame. Nice!

Did y’all know that he also played for the #Rangers early in his career.

Michael Bazaconomicon 💀 🎃 👻 @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 8h

The world is on fire but we also need distractions and for me it’s the #AllCaps and tonight they play a game for real for the first time in months and I’m here for it.

Cup or bust, baby!

Let’s Go Caps!

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 9h

andy ngo is at the white house right now briefing the president on the antifa menace. that is a real sentence that is true. what the fuck

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 4d

A recent victim of political assassination in the United States who is continually overlooked, deliberately ignored even, by some.

Let's not forget her name anywhere in the world:

Melissa Hortman

This story always reminds me of our own Jo Cox over here in the UK.

Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 5d

Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14.

Say her name.

www.cnn.com/2025/06/14/u...

Melissa Hortman: Who was the Minnesota state representative assassinated in her home? | CNN

A dedicated volunteer who taught Sunday school and loved dogs. A lawyer who served as a Girl Scout Leader and worked at her dad’s auto parts store. A mother and wife whose husband was killed alongside...

www.cnn.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 2d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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marikosegawa.bsky.social @marikosegawa.bsky.social · 1d

#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue
#DV1
Colleges are not the only path to success. So many people thrive without them.

Still, this rapid decline in people's regard for colleges may reflect political discourse's coarsening and the rise of anti-intellectualism.

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Michael Bazaconomicon 💀 🎃 👻 @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 2d

Proud to pay a ridiculous cost of living to live here. 🦀 🦀

Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 2d

Oh look at that. Who is surprised that all of the outrage is manufactured?

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d

When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account

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Michael Bazaconomicon 💀 🎃 👻 @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 2d

Love tajin, love cukes, I’m in!

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Michael Bazaconomicon 💀 🎃 👻 @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve started mandolining (is that a word) cukes and just massaging them with a little salt, sumac, and rice vinegar as a garnish on just about anything and it’s 🤤

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Michael Bazaconomicon 💀 🎃 👻 @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 2d

Unsweetened grapefruit. I just slam those things like a menace with no decorum.

Black jelly beans.

Cottage cheese mixed with pickle brine. Try it before you judge. Been inhaling that since I was 5. Brrakstones and Vlasic for the best combo.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Michael Bazaconomicon 💀 🎃 👻 @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 2d

The Minnesota Wild alternate jerseys are pretty terrible this year.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 2d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

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Michael Bazaconomicon 💀 🎃 👻 @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 2d

“In the Klein world, moral clarity about abuse is polarizing, and polarization, not abuse, is the problem to solve.”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

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Michael Bazaconomicon 💀 🎃 👻 @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 2d

This is very, very good.

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

I hope Democrats understand that if and when they get back to power, defaulting to “unity” politics and empty reconciliation without any real accountability would not only be morally abhorrent, but also politically suicidal: The desire for at least some semblance of justice will be overwhelming.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

If any other president said something like this in a speech to a military academy, it would be a massive scandal. Instead, it isn’t among the ten most dangerous things he’s done this week.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

So much Democrat and pundit handwringing about the shutdown as if they're in charge of the government.

They're not. The only possibilities are Trump makes things worse with Democratic approval or Trump makes things worse despite Democratic resistance. Don't bail him out.

My latest (on @msnbc.com):

Opinion | Democrats shouldn’t bail out Trump as the shutdown drags on

The best time for the opposition to take a stand, rather than settle for untrustworthy promises, is right now.

www.msnbc.com

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 3d

Fascism doesn’t just start with dictators or camps. It begins when people stop caring about the law, excuse rules and protocols, and do whatever pleases the leader. It thrives not on power alone, but on obedience, silence, and the slow erosion of principle and the law.

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 5d

ICE agents arrest Alderperson Jessie L. Fuentes (26th Ward of Chicago city council) after she questions them on whether they have a signed judicial warrant to arrest a person at Humboldt Park Hospital.

“He has Constitutional rights.”

“No.”

ICE’s exact mindset: no one is allowed any rights now.

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 3d

absolutely brutal

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 4d

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

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