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scotian @scotian.bsky.social · 4h

especially funny to learn this at roughly the same time Bondi did her aggrieved "sir, I am a prosecutor!" theatrics in that senate hearing

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 10h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 9h

Losing the war on woke

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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scotian @scotian.bsky.social · 9h

millennials are calling it the "Zoidberg" variant

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9h

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

the NYT's Harvard thing is genuinely weird. imagine being obsessed with the politics and social standing of a school you went to three decades ago

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 9h

Shocked, just shocked, by this important scoop on front page of today's NYT. /s/

Based on report that came out ... nine months ago

And behavior long predating that

("Skip a class? Perish the thought!!" Says anyone who ever worked on a college newspaper, which covers a lot of people in the media.)

NYT front page headline: "Harvard Finds Skipping Class Part of Culture."

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 9h

The President of the United States is living in an alternate reality and it's long past time for media outlets to start talking about it.

We're beyond "Trump said without evidence." Trump is governing a world that only exists in his warped mind.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 10h

A reliable fascism indicator is how many C-tier companies cave preemptively to the possibility of a benny johnson tweet with three sirens

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 11h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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scotian @scotian.bsky.social · 10h

[record scratch, freeze frame]

yep, that's me. you're probably wondering how I got here, all frowny sitting behind the presidential seal

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scotian @scotian.bsky.social · 10h

hooting and hollering at the pitch to investors

“Spoiler alert! The secular elites who currently reign over late-night tv are about to find out the joke’s on them!” Ziklag’s pitch email read. It lauded Metaxas, a conservative radio host and author who was an eager proponent of the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen, claiming: “His comedic bent has gone largely unnoticed until now that is…”

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scotian @scotian.bsky.social · 12h

having the right message goes hand in hand with being a credible messenger and it's checking both of those boxes that sets Pritzker apart from many other potential 2028 nominees imo

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scotian @scotian.bsky.social · 12h

growing up I spent my time on forums where the chief goal for many was simply to have the most posts and maybe that's all profiles need, a big post counter

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 12h

Still waiting for a more efficient explanation of everything than "Everyone got brain damage from Covid": the airline executives charging a $155 predatory premium for legroom, the guy deciding to customize his own flight experience, the chain of command aborting the whole flight—busted mind-traffic!

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 13h

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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scotian @scotian.bsky.social · 14h

just do it like the opening of Die Hard with a Vengeance except there's no Samuel L. Jackson or police nearby to effect a rescue

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15h

I love how Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House and #2 in line for the presidency, is always like, “What? News?! I never read or hear anything that happens in the world, anywhere. I’m totally offline. What even is ‘social media’? They play news all day on TV!? Wow! That’s a surprise!”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17h

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scotian @scotian.bsky.social · 16h

for all Apple's talk about how much computational photography helps capture great shots, my iPhone sure loves to lock focus on mesh screens behind the subjects I'm quite obviously attempting to photograph!

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Consumer Time Capsule @consumertc.bsky.social · 17h

Can you even claim to be a McDonald's fan if you don't wear this incredible sweatshirt everywhere you go? (1995)

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 17h

If you look at the sheer insanity of what government officials and agencies openly post on XShitter, it becomes abundantly obvious how much the press is complicit. If Dems did even a fraction of this poasting it would be saturated in news coverage.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 18h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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scotian @scotian.bsky.social · 17h

modern conservative praxis — even the ones who still label themselves progressive conservatives — is almost uniformly to take best practices the rest of the world has learned and do the exact opposite, either out of spite or idiocy (usually both)

scotian @scotian.bsky.social · 17h

thank goodness we don't have tolls impeding anybody's commute!

Matt Brand @mattbcbc.bsky.social · 18h

We have HUGE back-ups on the Circ headed for the Mackay Bridge, HFX BOUND.

The circ is backed up past the Big Mall in Dartmouth...

Pretty sure it's because of the collision on Barrington - because traffic is slow coming off the MacKay, headed for Barrington #HFXTraffic

scotian @scotian.bsky.social · 17h

thank goodness we don't have tolls impeding anybody's commute!

Matt Brand @mattbcbc.bsky.social · 18h

We have HUGE back-ups on the Circ headed for the Mackay Bridge, HFX BOUND.

The circ is backed up past the Big Mall in Dartmouth...

Pretty sure it's because of the collision on Barrington - because traffic is slow coming off the MacKay, headed for Barrington #HFXTraffic

Matt Brand @mattbcbc.bsky.social · 19h

We've got a collision on Barrington Street.

That's near the intersection with Devonshire, near the HFX Shipyard.

Traffic is getting backed up between there and the MacKay Bridge #HFXTraffic

scotian @scotian.bsky.social · 17h

comparing the vote share and seat totals to the actual 2015 results (and assuming this chart has some basis in reality) suggests the Liberals might have benefited from greater vote efficiency in 2015 — sort of the opposite of what happened in the Ontario provincial election this year?

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