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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 49m

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 37m

A key metric for a progressive organization should be how it treats its staff. Can't destroy the master's house with the master's union busting. 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Kevin Kostka @mpbx3003.bsky.social · 40m

That's certainly part of it, and I'd say Southern Italians have a fraught relationship too because Italian-Americans don't feel cultural solidarity with them any more.

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Kevin Kostka @mpbx3003.bsky.social · 42m

Because there's really not more to it?

You're simply not understanding the point being made, adding nothing but hostility, and making yourself look like an asshole.

Your arguments aren't even wrong! You responding with them to his posts like they're relevant is the entire issue.

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Kevin Kostka @mpbx3003.bsky.social · 47m

More and more, I'm coming around to the idea that we need more legal wiggle room before hard lines and a lot, lot less after them.

Freedom is great, but crossing a Rubicon should absolutely have life-altering consequences.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 1h

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/why-8
#smbc

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Kevin Kostka @mpbx3003.bsky.social · 53m

You can be very pro-immigration and admit that racism, xenophobia, and the economic delta driving immigration shrinking going forward are real constraining factors!

Describing the world as it exists and its various intertias is not an admission of defeat in striving for a better world.

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Kevin Kostka @mpbx3003.bsky.social · 53m

Getting mad at someone and assuming they hold a worldview from objective facts despite them making it clear they don't hold that view is crazy.

Pro-natalists can be right about more kids having material benefits for society without being right with their methods and motivations!

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Kevin Kostka @mpbx3003.bsky.social · 53m

It's pointless because you repeatedly refuse to comprehend the points being made.

You seemingly just saw "pro-natalist" and invented a caricature to argue your canned Thoughts(tm) against.

If we lived in a world where people could emigrate and have kids or not without friction, what's to discuss?

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Kim McCauley @kimischilling.bsky.social · 2h

This is a level of unsuccessful at the conservative grift I find it difficult to understand. I could make a YouTube video on a zero follower account right now about literally anything and get more views than this, even with a really shitty title and thumbnail. It's actually hard to be this bad.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 2h

Ruthless stuff from @alexkirshner.com
slate.com/business/202...

That is now part of Finebaum’s challenge in making the move from sports media star to conservative politician—or, it’s possible, from sports media star to sports media star who has free rein to talk about politics and make money doing it. Former ESPN host Will Cain has had a successful-looking run at Fox News, but Cain was already built for that life before he left ESPN. His last act at the network was being publicly dressed down for a ridiculous comment about NASCAR’s investigation of an apparent noose in Black driver Bubba Wallace’s garage. Travis seems as if he’s had a good time and made good money shoveling coal into the outrage furnace. But it’s easy to make a misstep too. Michele Tafoya was the sideline reporter for Sunday Night Football, one of the most lucrative and prestigious assignments in sports television. She left to co-chair a losing gubernatorial campaign in Minnesota, and now she’s one of thousands of middling conservative influencers trying to stand out. A recent episode of her podcast, titled “What Is Free Speech Exactly? Can I Say That?,” has 245 views on YouTube as of this writing. If you don’t have a natural skill for getting conservative voters or podcast listeners excited, this is a dangerous transition to make.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 3h

I think there are still shared norms we can appeal to when we talk to the marginal MAGA voter. But there really are no shared norms left with the core of the movement.

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 2h

when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying

She has no real way of explaining the danger of their situation to her son, who is 17 years old but cognitively closer to a toddler. And as a single mother too weak to forage, she has no real way of ensuring their survival. She also is too old to benefit from a recent policy change the Thai government made in a bid to prevent mass starvation, granting work rights to some of the 107,000 Myanmar refugees who, like her, live in Thailand’s border camps.

Her son never learned to speak, and needs her help with everything from getting dressed to using the toilet. Since the funding cuts, their survival has hinged on the charity of her Christian church, whose members occasionally give her handfuls of their rice.

She suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and begins to sweat and grow dizzy when her hunger is at its fiercest. Some days, she eats nothing.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 2h

I have another video today! It's about old-school video projectors and how amazing they were.

Seriously, not only is it almost unbelievable that this even works, but it's doing full HD video with incredibly good image quality. It's also a royal PITA.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms8u...

Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool

YouTube video by Technology Connections

www.youtube.com

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Kevin Kostka @mpbx3003.bsky.social · 1h

Italians, broadly, hate Italian-American versions of their foods, mostly for being different. [That are often actually older than the "real" thing.]

Pineapple goes best and almost exclusively with the American fast food style pizza, which is both good and hated by "authentic pizza" people.

Grave Robber-tson @gemofamara.com · 2h

i think this is why italians have an instinctive hate of pineapple on pizza. most styles in italy use a sauce from raw tomatoes that already bring a fresh fruity flavour. but it works on a cooked tomato sauce.

Grave Robber-tson @gemofamara.com · 2h

i will say it's legit awful on a neapolitan style pizza. you need to cook the tomatoes for it to work.

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Grave Robber-tson @gemofamara.com · 2h

i think this is why italians have an instinctive hate of pineapple on pizza. most styles in italy use a sauce from raw tomatoes that already bring a fresh fruity flavour. but it works on a cooked tomato sauce.

Grave Robber-tson @gemofamara.com · 2h

i will say it's legit awful on a neapolitan style pizza. you need to cook the tomatoes for it to work.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3h

Literally all they've got any more is KKK-style nativism, directed specifically at Latinos. Every single GOP message collapses back to this. They've become the Klan

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

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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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 3h

in 2007, steve jobs promised an all-in-one device that would serve as a cell phone, an ipod, and an internet device. what he introduced next was the Mac Pack: a 135-pound backpack with a pull-over steel dome housing a computer monitor, a 14-foot aerial antenna, and a 900-foot retractable power cable

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Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 3h

Twice now they've let Russ Vought throw out "punish the feds" trial balloons (threatening RIFs then back pay) and both times they've immediately hung him out to dry in the media. He's looking like Charlie Brown with the football at this point.

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Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 3h

Mike Johnson furiously backpedaling on the back pay thing is a pretty good indication that nobody in the GOP has the slightest clue how to deal with the shutdown.

Jennifer Shutt @jennifershutt.bsky.social · 3h

Speaker Johnson appears to say furloughed federal workers should get back pay under 2019 law

"It has always been the case. It is tradition and I think it is statutory law that federal employees be paid. And that’s my position."

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 3h

a fortunate quirk is that doing food and medical support for impoverished children, foreign and domestic, *also* is about the biggest bang it is possible to get for our buck.

so you can analyze aid on a moral basis or a realpolitik basis and you get the same answer: we should do it

Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 3h

Here's the thing. I am a lucky person and pay a fair bit in taxes. I can think of no better use for my tax dollars than feeding children, because I think all people are equally deserving of basic humanity.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

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.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

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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Kevin Kostka @mpbx3003.bsky.social · 1h

Every year, I scroll through the deals and I've yet to find anything that I would ever use or need. It's all targeted at a very specific subset of people and only like 5% off when you look up the price at a real store.

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Kim McCauley @kimischilling.bsky.social · 3h

bro used to grind tape 24/7 and now he watches love is blind with his gf, I am convinced of it

Chris Towers is in Offseason Mode @cptowers.bsky.social · 3h

Bill Belichick won 10 games with Matt Cassell and then made the playoffs with Mac Jones, so I don't think the UNC thing necessarily proves that he was always a fraud, like some folks are saying.

I think it proves he is *currently* a fraud, though.

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16h

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 18h

Here’s video of the incident

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