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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

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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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 6h

We need more live theater it will fix everything except (at the cost of everyone being more annoying)

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 6h

Rest Eazy

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 7h

I'm sorry, and now MSNBC and CNN are working with Antifa and are now supporters of domestic terrorism?

The next time someone talks to me about the goddamn midterms I am going to put my fist through a wall

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 7h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 8h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 7h

Evergreen

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 8h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 7h

I'm never going to make a deadline again, I turn off my phone for 5 hours to try to get work done and turns out all the worst people in the world had an Antifa Press Conference where they are openly broadcasting their intent to murder and imprison dissidents

Do I have that about right?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 9h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 9h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 8h

Zod & friends standing in a dirt road in Superman 2

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 8h

I should also confess that then I get a little bit sad

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 9h

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 9h

The original trilogy (I think 3 is deeply flawed but still feels like a legit part of the canon) is gold and everything after doesn’t exist as far as I’m concerned

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 10h

I didn't know Mamdani's wife was a comics nerd! New York, you have to vote for him now because I need at least one person in comics to have good health insurance.

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · Jun 25

This is Zoran Mamdami’s wife’s portfolio site and she is very good

HOME | Rama Duwaji

Rama Duwaji is a Syrian illustrator and animator based in Brooklyn, NYC.

www.ramaduwaji.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 12h

Every time Melinoe says “see you at the crossroads” to a shade I compulsively blurt out “so you won’t be loooooonely”

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 12h

I FUCKING CANT

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 12h

Zoidberg, a red squid alien that everyone finds unfairly disgusting, giving bedroom eyes

Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 12h

To be clear, I think in a few years at most all of these companies will realize this was not a viable transition, but the interim is devastating!

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 12h

Difficult to express the added insult & fatigue it causes when job hunting that about 1/3 of the listings I see are training an AI to do the job so they can fire you later. Sometimes even stealthily inserted part way through a job description!

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Call of Cthu-Luke @llobrow.bsky.social · Apr 24

therapist asked what kinds of posts I make online. like c'mon man, I'm not here to get THAT vulnerable

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 13h

Indeed!

McBain from the Simpsons doing standup comedy saying “that’s joke”

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 13h

Once again, it seems you and I are the only smart good ppl

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 13h

You’re welcome

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