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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 8d

What a beautiful passage from Lincoln in the Bardo, necessary to take in given today’s news

Page from
Saunders novel Lincoln in bardo wherein Lincoln channeled

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 7d

legit the most feel-good reporting I’ve read all week — go get ‘em, goats

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 8d

There’s still a line, and for that, for today, I am grateful.

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 8d

You know a platform has the juice when you post about your problems and get an actual answer from a total stranger. www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-aler...

www.fsis.usda.gov

Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 8d

I do miss Twitter’s location tagging:

@ Cookout, Cville, VA

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 8d

We used to be a proper country.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 9d

When the supply of available homes goes down relative to demand, prices increase. This is one of the best established findings in housing policy, and policymakers who don't center this aren't going to fix the housing crisis.

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 10d

you know a platform has the juice when you can cop a random lesson on the fly from an expert in another hemisphere

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 10d

For the cheap seats —

Does either coupling or uncoupling make this less terrifying? Asking for a teacher.

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 13d

My most juvenile trait is taking my recycling to my father’s house for Sunday dinner because I can remember that but not to put it out myself.

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 14d

It’s never not election season in Virginia. Hats off to the Fairfax Dems for using ranked choice in their 4-way race for County Board next week!

Fairfax Democrats Using Ranked Choice Voting in Braddock District Primary

Four candidates are vying for the supervisor nomination in Democrats' October 4 firehouse primary.

www.rankedchoiceva.org

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15d

Jimmy Kimmel returns, defiantly:

“Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke…We have to speak out against this because he’s not stopping…He’s coming for our journalists, too…A govt threat to silence a comedian the president doesn’t like is anti-American.”

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 17d

In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich."

A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 18

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 22d

I’m just here to applaud the reference. I was not familiar with your game.

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 22d

92% of Americans say it's very or somewhat important that the media in the US can report the news without government censorship. www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

Bar chart showing the percentage of adults in 35 surveyed countries who say it's not at all important, not too important, somewhat important or very important that the media in their country can report the news without state or government censorship. The chart is based on Pew Research Center surveys of adults in each country, conducted in spring 2024.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 23d

The GOP nominee in a Virginia state House race this fall has dropped out. He says he lost his government contracting job and has no income, so he's had to take a job out of state & move away.

That's... literally what Dems are campaigning on to win VA. www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/gop-nom...

Stone, 45, said he lost his government contracting job abruptly in July and had been hoping to find another position in the Washington, D.C. area. But so far, he has not been able to do so.

"I pressed ahead with the campaign, expecting it to be a short-term issue," Stone said in an email to the Prince William Times. "But now that our family budget is tight due to no income, I have to do what's best for my family and take the job I'm offered."

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 25d

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 25d

If you’re wondering how a culture steps from camps and cages to killing chambers, here it is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 26d

Universities teach people to solve their problems through the 1st Amendment not the 2nd.

Our main contribution — in the long arc of history — is “use your words, not your gun.”

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26d

the person behind this unhinged, anti-factual editorial is set to decide coverage at one of the nation’s major news networks

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Sep 7

For most Americans, the date 1913 means nothing. For Americans on the far right fringes, 1913 has long been a date of great significance. Here’s a piece from the antisemitic rag “American Mercury” in 1957, for example. One of their writers at the time was George Lincoln Rockwell.

Seth Cotlar, mostly now at t... @ • 11/29/22
Replying to @SethCotlar
If Elon keeps heading the direction he is, then Twitter will just become a frictionless vector of evidence-free right wing propaganda like Gab or Truth Social...and the majority of people like me who have no interest in occupying a space like that will stop spending time here.

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CNN @cnn.com · Sep 6

Jerome Adams, who served as US surgeon general during President Donald Trump’s first administration, is calling for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be fired as controversy continues to swirl over his handling of vaccine approvals. https://cnn.it/47s9lKt

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · Sep 5

You hear transportation engineers (especially for state DOTs) say stuff like, "People want to drive. We're not in the business of social engineering." Honey, your profession has socially engineered our society since the 1950s. It's time to invest more fairly across transportation modes

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Sep 5

Imagine a 100m race where we’ve given cars an 80m head start after many decades of building almost ONLY for them. If we then set a transportation goal of “balance” between many more choices in getting around, by definition we have to prioritize the new choices for a while, or they’ll never catch up.

100m sprint race. Bolt is way out in front.

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · Sep 5

Listen I don't advocate doing causal inference with time series data, but we might look into whether something happened in April.

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · Sep 3

Yeah if docs just decided that IUDs do, in fact, hurt like a mother, it’s hard to imagine they’re doing their best with the medieval boob press.

New Guidelines Call on Doctors to Take IUD Insertion Pain Seriously

www.nytimes.com

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