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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 15h

My interpretation of this saying was always “perform your reproductive duty for your country” tbh

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 20h

*quietly* yeah me too

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 20h

Oh so you’re afraid you’ll stumble upon a faerie ring in the moonless darkened wood and the fey folk will imprison you for all eternity and wed you to a prancing faun???

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 22h

LOL the Boston Globe gets its hands on Pete Hegseth’s 2013 Master’s thesis at Harvard KSG, in which he was a bit of a woke DEI lover.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/m...

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

That gambling story is still hilarious, yeah man you had no idea because you’re such a warm trusting soul

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

As a Mets fan I’m telling you it’s completely fine to boo players from other teams especially if they change teams for a huge paycheck

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

Posting at a mod always carries a risk of banning, it’s been the iron law of posting since the dialup BBS era

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S(cary)W(rath) 👻 @toasterposey.art · 1d

Shohei Ohtani smiles and shakes Donald Trump’s hand at the Oval Office in front of a World Series trophy.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

This is probably how gonorrhea became resistant to cipro

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 1d

Zach Bryan wrote an anti ICE song. officially declaring Woke 2 in full effect.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

Man this is a bummer because despite his football ineptitude he generally seemed like a good guy and surely he’s got some bad stuff going on now

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

He even ran for KY Senate once! Lmao

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

Optimistically, time is against him too, right now it’s hard for a lot of people/orgs to imagine a 3.5 year fight against Trump but boldness is gonna grow as that gets closer to the end

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

Wehraboo detected, these guys simply love to imagine that the Nazis had the better military and lost for other reasons that we’re not gonna mention

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe best to think of it as embedded within their eugenic belief system? If you get a medical illness, it implies you had inferior physiology or made bad choices, if you’re getting spiritually attacked, well that’s not your fault

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

Since this site has no revenue source and is fully dependent on outside funding, it makes me think they’re doing a lot of this specifically and performatively to please their tech overlords

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

She’s doing like a Munchausen by proxy, but with raw meat

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao I didn’t realize that - honestly even better for them in terms of development costs

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

Best of luck to em, I can’t help but think the better business decision would have been to crank out years of DLC and sequels on the engine they spent years building

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

Every crappy franchise IP is getting strip-mined for content, meanwhile we finally got both an excellent D&D movie and video game within the last two years and they’re following it up with exactly nothing

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

Yankees team is making history

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NEW YORK YANKEES
MOST RUNS ALLOWED OVER 2-GAME SPAN IN POSTSEASON FRANCHISE HISTORY 21 runs Aaron Boone pictured

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

Mets are done, Red Sox are done, but at least it’s fun to hate-watch the Yanks

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

She would be swimming in victims, so many idiots would be like “RIP to those guys who got drained but I’m built different”

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah apparently it’s a disgruntled ex employee planting these, simply wild stuff

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