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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 2h

I say we're 6-12 months max away from the domestic ag workforce being prisoners

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 2h

Nothing about this movie romanticizes leftist revolutionary movements. If anything it shows just how much that shit sucks. It's why there aren't many IRL

Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 3h

‘“For this movie to make any sense at all, one has to believe the United States, today, right now, is a fascist dictatorship,” wrote David Marcus at Fox News.’

Damn, this movie must make a lot of sense.

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 13h

People look at me like a pervert when mix cheez-its and microwave popcorn

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 21h

perfect

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 22h

Love that "cancelled" has expanded to include "all of my coworkers hated me so I quit"

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 22h

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1975375120123478491
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Corey Walker
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 22h

GOP consultants: "Our favorables are cratering with Hispanic voters, how do we turn this around given our gerrymanders depend on 2024 levels of support?"

Trump: "I'm gonna drone strike Bad Bunny"

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 22h

if you find yourself yelling at Kat over this you're ngmi

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 23h

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 23h

fine ill do it

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 23h

I don't understand how this guy fucked 20,000 women

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

fellas is it gay to live in a city

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 1d

A party allergic to governing

Wes Miller @getwired.com · 1d

Unreal.

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 1d

lmao

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 1d

If you told the supreme court in 2000 that their decision would lead to Donald Trump doing Smoot-Hawley 2.0, Al Gore would have won the election

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Even in countries that chose *not* to impose retaliatory tariffs on US spirits, our spirits exports have plummeted. Exports to UK and Japan declined >23% YoY, while exports to the EU were down 12%.
Canada did retaliate - and US exports there fell 85%.
www.distilledspirits.org/wp-content/u...

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 1d

I am declaring the Jacksonville Jaguars America's team

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 1d

a man wearing a blue jacksonville jaguars shirt covering his face

ALT: a man wearing a blue jacksonville jaguars shirt covering his face

media.tenor.com

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 1d

What the fuck did I just see

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 1d

Lawrence with an absolute dart

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

you could give an infinite number of reactionaries an infinite number of typewriters over an infinite timeline and they would never invent a sesame street

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 1d

It doesn't need to be specifically this GOP as we know them but look to New York or Hawaii when a party has no real threat to unseat them from power. They stagnate and/or become too diversified to do big things. Competition in politics is important.

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 1d

That she thinks there's a lane for non-MAGA conservatism in today's America is wildly naive. That there will be a post-Trump resurgence of what? Compassionate conservatism? Third wayism? Good luck with that.

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 1d

Hell yeah negatively polarize local security forces

Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 1d

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 1d

"it's legal because OLC said it was"

yeah have fun with that

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 1d

bluesky: we give you moderation tools so you can make your experience here whatever you want, which is why we don't ban transphobes

also bluesky: just don't use those tools in a manner that makes us sad

carrion🐛 @carrion.bsky.social · 1d

just don’t create a moderation list, bluesky said that’s bad

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 1d

Man seeing smart people post unverified slop from Twitter that was probably slop from Facebook is disheartening

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 1d

I think the shift the right took away from traditional media a decade ago is likely happening with the left right now. Not sure who the target audience is now, but the quest to find them is gonna look stupid

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 1d

Between Weiss and Ellison it certainly feels like the media environment is going to continue its drift away from popular opinion on the question of Israel/Palestine

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