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Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 2h

LEAVE THEM AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GRAVE THEY DUG FOR YOU

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 1h

Reminds me of this excellent sign that I saw at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Georgia.

Piano, which once belonged to Little Richard, with a sign on it saying "Do not attempt to play Little Richard's piano. He will know."

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1h

Breaking news: Jim Comey has a trial set for January 5, 2026 — but his lawyers will try to disqualify Lindsey Halligan, the attorney President Trump appointed at the very last minute to indict the former FBI director.

Comey's team will try to have the case dismissed for "vindictive prosecution."

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 1h

NANCY AND SLUGGO PANEL
By ERNIE BUSHMILLER

NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE WALKING SIDE BY SIDE SO THEY CAN BOTH WEAR A PAIR SUNGLASSES AT THE SAME TIME.

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Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social · 1h

Germany will not support Chat Control - a law which proposes to scan all messages people send even on end-to-end encrypted platforms - Justice Minister said today. German stance likely dooms the measure. Signal had threatened to leave the EU if Chat Control became law
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Germany will not support 'Chat Control' message scanning in the EU

“Random chat monitoring must be taboo in a constitutional state,” Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said as German officials signaled they will not vote for a controversial EU proposal known as ...

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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 1h

CNN: The judge presiding over the prosecution of Jim Comey has agreed to Comey’s request to schedule a near term trial. Comey asked for a Jan 12 trial date. The judge went with Jan 5. Comey is counting on the gov’t not being ready for trial. A good bet.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2h

Weird. It’s almost like making accusations generates friction which generates news which rallies your supporters.

2 Key Democrats Come Out And Say It: Trump Has 'Some Kind Of Dementia'

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 11h

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

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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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 1h

the shrivelled holy relic hand of margaret clitherow

a shrivelled mummified hand in a case made of brass and glass

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Miriam/Markus (she/her, he/him, ze/hir) @magerightsactivist.bsky.social · 3d

If saying LLMs shouldn't exist is eugenics, kicking a rock is animal abuse.

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 3h

If you're a reporter in DC lobbing questions about who's gonna perform at the Super Bowl to the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, you're just a shit stirrer and a hack.

Plenty of things in Mike Johnson's wheelhouse you should be asking him about. Bad Bunny ain't one of them.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2h

It doesn’t help that TikTok and instagram have decided I have adhd and constantly push me adhd influencers all the time LOL 🤪

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2h

Sooooo many people have tried to tell me I have ADHD and I’m like no actually I have clinical anxiety and a mood disorder and surprise we share a shit ton of the same symptoms not everything is ADHD and perhaps if we stopped gatekeeping our diagnoses we could help each other.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2h

As a neurodivergent person who has a SHIT TON of ADHD symptoms but does *not* have ADHD I very much appreciate this conversation and I wish more people would acknowledge this.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 12h

our brains do a lot of things and sometimes they do things because of the environment around us and those things are a pretty natural response to what is happening!

it's just sometimes our brains do them when it's not a natural response and you know it's not better/worse just different!

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 12h

I think that the thing that made this starkest for me was when covid lockdown hit and suddenly no one around me had any executive function and I was like "oh no they don't know how to cope with this after a lifetime of practice like I do" and it wasn't that everyone else suddenly had ADHD!

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 12h

Similarly, if a neurotypical person recognizes a characteristic of themselves in a neurodivergent person doesn't mean that they are neurodivergent!

People contain multitudes and that's ok! we don't need to internet diagnose each other!

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 12h

I'm going to say something that is going to get me cancelled probably but IDC.

Neurodivergence exists on a continuum of human behaviors. If a neurodivergent person recognizes a characteristic in themselves that they see in another person that doesn't mean that person is neurodivergent.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2h

But yes, cutting wages is sure a strange economic response to a labor shortage!

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2h

I think agribusinesses are secure in the belief that the indentured servants they bring over and house (and now charge for that housing) will get to cycle in and out, just as Trump's Mar a Lago guest workers did.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2h

I mean read this, the Trump administration in an official document is saying that Americans won't ever pick crops and America won't have enough food to eat because of ICE raids!
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As a result, employers are facing significant economic harms, the filing claims. And incredibly, given the administration’s unceasing rhetoric to the contrary, the Labor Department definitively rejects the idea of Americans replacing the missing workers. “The Department does not believe American workers currently unemployed or marginally employed will make themselves readily available in sufficient numbers to replace large numbers of aliens,” the filing states, adding that agricultural work involves “a distinct set of skills and is among the most physically demanding and hazardous occupations in the U.S. labor market.” (For what it’s worth, nearly half of all agricultural workers are native-born, and significantly more than half are U.S. citizens, according to Department of Agriculture data.)

The Labor Department even claims that broadly advertising agricultural jobs, which is required under the H2-A rules, has not led to a boost in applications from U.S. workers. This is a bit of a fiction; workers who apply often do not receive jobs, and nobody is really checking to see if applications are coming in. “The system isn’t set up to prove that there’s a labor shortage of U.S. workers,” said Costa, of EPI.

In the end, the Labor Department concludes, the only way to protect agricultural employers from disaster and consumers from rising prices and food shortages is to slash wages in the H-2A program to make it more viable to bring in workers. This is an odd response to a workforce crisis, since cutting wages across the sector will likely drive existing workers to look elsewhere for jobs. In fact, farm employers in Florida fear that H-2A foreign workers won’t apply for these jobs anymore because the wages are so low. (There were 384,900 H-2A applications last year.)

But the filing states, “Without swift action, agricultural employers will be unable to maintain operations, and the nation's food supply will be at risk.”

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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.

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine if the Times were this bold with political headlines.

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 2h

The idea that Arch Manning is "college football's first flop" is so odd I thought this piece (or at least the headline) was satire.

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 17h

Many people are having a bad year, but Arch Manning is having one of the worst.

Is he college football’s first flop?

🔗: http://dlvr.it/TNXZyv

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