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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 7h

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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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 8h

Jamal Khashoggi was my friend and colleague who was killed and dismembered in 2018.

Do you know how many times I’ve written against Saudi Arabia’ coverup over the last seven years?

The sportswashing? The paying of influencers to visit Saudi Arabia?

Saudi’s censorship of Hasan Minaj?

Brian.. @nywiz.bsky.social · 8h

What Russia did
What China did

Do you know how many professional golfers are being paid by the Saudi?

Do you know how many F1 racist there are in Saudi Arabia?

Do you know how many world football Giants played in Saudi Arabia?

Why are we singling out comedians?

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 8h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Pedro Gonnet @pedrogonnet.bsky.social · 7h

« [...] he continued with awful jokes about some scientists who had developed a robot that could build furniture but “cannot promise that the robot won’t swear”, [...] »

Dude, WTF, did ChatGPT write these jokes?

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 9h

This is hilarious. Now I want to watch this show

A rightwing late-night show may have bombed – but the funding behind it is no laughing matter

Conservative donors spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a rightwing Stephen Colbert-style talkshow

www.theguardian.com

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Pedro Gonnet @pedrogonnet.bsky.social · 7h

White male strikes again.

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 10h

IT WAS A FUCKING FLORIDA MAN

Uber driver accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades

Authorities announced the arrest of 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht, who is suspected of setting a fire on New Year’s Eve that eventually became the Palisades fire.

www.latimes.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h

Our government is shut down but nobody is paying attention because our president is an idiotic cunt who is sending troops to invade our cities for fraudulent reasons because he’s a pedophile.

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Dominik Steiger @dominiksteiger.bsky.social · 9h

Schätzung für Zürich aufgrund Kalibrierung der Abwasserprävalenzen Werdhölzli, Daten bis 5. Oktober:

Inzidenz ~1'500.

Ca. jede 65. Person infiziert sich pro Woche.

Trend 5 gemessene Anlagen: 5↑

bsky.app/profile/domi...

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 14h

“Supercharging searing civil tensions over jarring high-profile events drives attention, jolts low-propensity voters out of their information ruts, and compels them to really take sides.” Yep, @gregsargent.bsky.social.

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 8h

any random moderately successful small restaurant creates 20 jobs

imagine how many little businesses that $38 million could spawn if we *correctly* allocated that capital to *actual job producers* (which are always small business)

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13h

"For instance, CNBC found that one Microsoft data center in Illinois received more than $38 million in data center sales tax exemptions but created just 20 permanent jobs."

www.cnbc.com/2025/06/20/t...

In race to attract data centers, states can forfeit hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue to tech companies

Amazon, Meta and Google are among the beneficiaries of state tax exemptions for data centers that help power AI.

www.cnbc.com

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 8h

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on President Donald Trump saying that him and Chicago Mayor Johnson should both be "jailed":

"He's a coward. He says a lot of things to the camera. He likes to pretend to be a tough guy. Come and get me. Come and get me."

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 14h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 9h

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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404 Media @404media.co · 9h

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Pedro Gonnet @pedrogonnet.bsky.social · 12h

Well worth the long read.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Ed Kane 🇺🇦 @3dkan3.bsky.social · 14h

Very true....

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 1d

This here’s a man of the people.

Former Cubs pitcher Lee Smith on why he always walked so slowly out of the bullpen when he was called - he heard the grounds crew got time and a half of the game stretched past 4:30 pm.

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Balthasar Glättli @bglaettli.bsky.social · 2d

KI frisst Strom: Bis 2028 wird über 50% der Energie in Rechenzentren für KI verbraucht - sagt die MIT Technolgy Review. Das kleinste Meta-Modell braucht 57 Joule pro Antwort, das grösste 3’353 Joule. Der Energiehunger explodiert.
#KI #Energiehunger

www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

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Lynzee Loveridge @annlynzee.bsky.social · 1d

"To become mature is to become kind" is actually beautiful.

Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 1d

Makoto Yukimura was worried that Vinland Saga's farming arc and "I have no enemies" moment was a gamble that readers wouldn't like. I told him about the J. Cole meme from the Kendrick Lamar and Drake rap beef. This is how he reacted.

If “I have no enemies” has become a meme and people remember it, then maybe people will understand what I’m really trying to say through the story, which is that humans are immature, but we can mature. To become mature is to become kind. This is the foundation of what I’m trying to say, but it really has to be much shorter for people to remember. But it does give me hope that people remember these short phrases as memes. Then, one day, it will click in their mind what I was trying to really say in the first place.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

She is not doing well

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Schiff: This is supposed to be an oversight hearing when dozens of prosecutors have been fired simply because they worked on cases investigating the former president.

Bondi: What about the fires in California? Are the riots in LA serious?

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

Lawless Russell Vought thinks he can nullify a law by deleting it from an FAQ

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

www.govexec.com

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der Freitag @freitag.de · 1d

Das Hamas-Massaker am 7. Oktober 2023 in Israel hat das Sprechen über den Antisemitismus verändert. Aus Sicht unseres Autors greift der Antisemitismus jene Juden besonders an, die Israels Regierung kritisieren (F+)

🔗 www.freitag.de/autoren/tome...
📝 Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus (@tomerdd.bsky.social)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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