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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 15h

It sure did, and some of us said so; some, like Susan Faludi, in her book The Terror Dream, wrote brilliantly about such language. More said we were being hysterical. My point isn't "told ya so"; it's that language really matters.

Christopher Noble @bassgardener.bsky.social · 1d

The creation of the DHS seemed authoritarian at the time. The term, "Homeland Security," smacks of jackboots, and truncheons, and faceless predation. These are not a few of my favorite things.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 15h

thinking about how fucked up it is to give kids measles on purpose and then withhold tylenol from them

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15h

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 15h

feel like if you had a super long work day and you get home feeling exhausted but still make the healthy meal you had planned for dinner instead of just eating some slop then there should be a procession in your honour in your neighbourhood, and the mayor should give you the keys to the city

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The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 18h

I remember when Katrina hit New Orleans and the mayor of the ravaged city pleaded hard for federal aid. Bush's incompetence in doing so pretty much finished his presidency.

Now we have the federal guvt force-feeding the NG into cities that have loudly stated they don't want it.

the GOP cant govern

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 16h

100% they have to believe they are going to reign for 1000 years reich because otherwise how can you explain arraigning the former FBI head for a minor inconsistency in senate testimony at the exact minute the current AG is telling the committee "eat my entire ass senator"

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 15d

Please don't call it that

What You Will Need
• Experience: 5+ years as a video editor or producer-editor ("preditor").

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 22h

Samuel Beckett is *cackling* in his grave. 😈

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 1d

If you wanted to script a scenario to perfectly vindicate the work of Jean Baudrillard, it would be Trump II.

A simulacra of a president running a simulation of a presidency, based on simulacra of news broadcast by simulations of news media.

Baudrillard is to Trump II what Foucault was to GWB.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all told these motherfuckers it was OK to let trans people lose their rights. Now they're banking on people letting them abandon everyone who looks vaguely Latino as well as actual immigrants. Who are y'all advocating for moderation gonna abandon next?

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21h

I’m not saying that the Washpost’s new Opinion editor was sent on a mission destroy that section’s reputation.

I’m just saying that if someone were sent to destroy the Opinion section’s reputation, they’d be doing exactly what this guy is doing.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ana Tudor @anatudor.bsky.social · Oct 16

Someone hearted my orbits loader so I just had to scramble to quickly update it to use CSS grid instead of absolute positioning, CSS trig instead of precomputing tan in the Pug & passing it to the #CSS as a custom property & individual transform functions.
On @codepen.io 👉 codepen.io/thebabydino/...

Pastel balls going around on concentric orbits. The bigger the orbit, the more balls on it.

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 21h

There was a massive fire on Chicago’s far north side (West Ridge) this morning, w/multiple fatalities. The National Guard is trained to help communities after a disaster, but they can’t now, even though they’re already here, because residents would be too rightfully terrified of them.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22h

No clearer indication of the right’s moral rot than the swift evolution from angrily denying any association with buffoonish bigots like like Posobiec and Fuentes, to “there’s no harm in having a conversation,” to openly praising and promoting them.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23h

Not the least surprised by this. I’d hope it might finally wake up some mainstream libertarians to what Smith is really about. But it probably won’t.

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Cliff W. Gilmore @cliffwgilmore.bsky.social · 1d

A similar narrative strategy has been used related to extreme outlier examples of people defrauding the collective social support systems. Rather than calling to hold them accountable, they were presented as the norm & used to justify making benefits harder to obtain for those in genuine need.

Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 1d

This is wrong on every level. It’s a rigorous process that can take years. Just because a small number of rotten people faked being blind or paralyzed doesn’t mean the system should be gutted or over 9 million veterans getting benefits smeared. This is so dam irresponsible of WaPo.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21h

Chat is it a good sign that it took national reporters an entire month to finally pay attention to the third largest metro in the country being invaded

Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 1d

I'm really glad more people are realizing how brutal ICE has been in Chicago but it's really weird to see people talking about Rev Black getting attacked like it happened yesterday and not 3 weeks ago. Like, I'm glad people are catching up! But it's very weird.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 1d

I have taken
the freedom of speech
that was in
the Constitution

and which
you were probably
using
for peaceful protest

Forgive me
the courts said they were
so agitating
and so irritating

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d

Something fundamental has broken in the brains of elites. No matter how many op-eds they read, write and publish denouncing identity politics, they still think it's a heterodox viewpoint you can't find anywhere.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d

I had a liberal centrist — a professional — once tell me that they engage with more diversity at a Bari Weiss dinner party than they do in any mainstream media event.

I mention this because, just as it is true in politics at the moment, some of the calls are coming from inside the house.

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 2d

The UK is within spitting distance of having more murders portrayed annually on TV shows and movies set in the country than occur in real life

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, tell me more about Weimar Germany and what came after?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Oh this is not great

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

me: the democrats would be much better communicators if they took some notes from professional wrestling

jb pritzker: does the thing

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

This is quite good.

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Believing the lie is a test of commitment, the wilder the lie, the more intense the commitment. As I keep saying, all this stuff is obviously paving the way for violence. “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities,” etc.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 1d

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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