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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 1d

Finding God and Slavery in the Wake of Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg and Vicksburg 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Finding God and Slavery in the Wake of Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg and Vicksburg

By the summer of 1863 the Confederate army was in the throes of a religious revival.

open.substack.com

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 2d

Pudding mit Gabel has been my FYP for like a month. They’re gathering in groups of thousands. People are showing up with meter long telescoping forks and tuning forks. Oh so you don’t think Germans are funny? Ok well you are correct. Don’t even act like they’re not eating pudding with forks though

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

I refuse to read any further
www.the-berliner.com/english-news...

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 2d

I thought this was a parody post making fun of Ro khanna.

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 4d

What do people think about giving working class Americans a $2000 tariff relief check for the unfair tax that has driven their grocery and housing prices up?

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, is proposing $2,000 payments to Americans making under $100,000

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 2d

My sense is that they’re all in a group chat together

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Persephone Meadowfeather @lurkermcgoo.bsky.social · 3d

*Between bouts of being waterboarded*

Schumer: (Gasp) How is this bringing down the price of beef (glurgle glurgle)

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 3d

These are all planes being misidentified because people can’t judge distance at night

Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 5d

Did I miss Ben attacking trans people

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Derek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social · 5d

That’s some good student reporting:

www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 5d

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 7d

Decided to start getting quant about Slay the Spire

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 7d

Significantly less fun misunderstanding of the source material than The Omen

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 7d

so did Thiel say the antichrist was Nero or what was the deal with that

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 8d

I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein. Andrea Pitzer says “lost” folks like Klein “don’t have a clear idea how this moment fits into history and what it is exactly that they’re doing”. [degenerateart.beehiiv.com]

You don’t have to swallow frogs

Klein and Coates show that if you don’t know what your core beliefs are, you’re going to get played.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 8d

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8d

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 8d

Delightfully deranged 2389.ai/posts/agents...

We Built Social Media for Agents and They Won't Stop Posting

Exploring how AI agents use social media to collaborate, learn, and perform better - with surprising results on problem-solving efficiency and emergent behaviors.

2389.ai

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roland @roooooland.bsky.social · 8d

how *would* you explain this. "imagine if the only company making serious investments in JavaScript was, like, Mailchimp, and the language's only killer app/framework was written by JK Rowling, whose own business was utterly insignificant"

Eric @edavis.dev · 8d

is there a good explainer out there for the Ruby Central stuff for somebody not very familiar with the ecosystem?

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 9d

This is actually the best case scenario for Brimley epitaphs www.deseret.com/1998/11/2/19...

Brimley fights for rights of cockfighters

Actor Wilford Brimley, a resident of Park City, says there's a simple reason voters should reject an initiative Tuesday to ban cockfighting: It's the right thing to do. The grandfatherly actor, la...

www.deseret.com

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 9d

If you watch the video the ICE agent also says:
- Immigrants are "street rats" in their home countries "committing crimes at a very young age"
- "I don't know if you have kids, but they'll eat our kids for breakfast"

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11d

“They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,” said the ICE agent, according to body cam footage. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

Man detained in Cato ICE raid wrongfully deported, separated from his family

Body camera footage released from the raid shows agents referring to immigrants as 'animals.'

spectrumlocalnews.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 9d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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ceej @ceej.online · Feb 21

Maybe if I’m a sniveling coward when it matters most people will trust me to lead

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

I think the case for “this was a decisive affirmation of the MAG ideology” is extremely weak & I think the view that we ought to take the election as an expression of where The People stand owes more to the insecurity and lack of confidence that is pervasive among our liberal elites than the facts.

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Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 12d

Bacetti is my overall Italian pick by the way

Do not go to Republique, they’re Nazis

Dan McKinley @mcfunley.com · 12d

More like somebody take Phil to a new restaurant Jesus Christ www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SvHjwA/

#foodie #philrosenthal gives thr his recommendations for some of the best food spots in #losangeles

TikTok video by The Hollywood Reporter

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elvoira @m01r4.bsky.social · 12d

this rocks!

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 13d

Cuomo could never.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 12d

No protester has taken any violent action and yet ICE has deployed at least a dozen canisters of tear gas, detonated a flash bang in a man’s face, and now a sniper is shooting us with pepper balls.

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