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Third Summers Brother @hugetinymistake.bsky.social · 1h

This Miranda guy should have some rights

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1h

The nominative determinism of this specific atrocity is off the charts here.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Zoë McLaren, PhD @zoemclaren.bsky.social · 6h

Just finished “The Unthinkable” about survival in disasters. You often have a couple of minutes to exit the plane after a crash. Some obstinate dude in the exit row is a safety hazard.

October Witch Chick @celticdragon1.bsky.social · 9h

Dude sitting in the emergency exit row who refuses to follow instructions is an actual problem that isn't just money. He potentially endangers everyone on the aircraft. Airlines WILL NOT fuck around about this and neither does the NTSB

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 7h

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Zoë McLaren, PhD @zoemclaren.bsky.social · 11h

Overheard in Manhattan: “I got my flu shot but not my Covid shot because they had run out.”

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Flames on the side of my face. @artificialmcb.bsky.social · 13h

It’s a real problem that state level democrats never challenged the power of their internals security forces but instead showered them with military gear & fawned over them every chance they got.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13h

The fact that Fanone had to stop being a police officer because he was so vocal about January 6 should’ve been a big clue for people.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 14h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Zoë McLaren, PhD @zoemclaren.bsky.social · 11h

I once made a nine-minute layover in Amsterdam en route to South Africa. From economy plus to gate. Schipol is amazing.

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Zoë McLaren, PhD @zoemclaren.bsky.social · 11h

My understanding is that it is widely known that the police forces are overwhelmingly pro-Trump…

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14h

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

He also brought out the Katie Porter white board. I'm not mad at it, it's definitely an upgrade but it's so funny to be reheating mamdani's nachos even as he refuses to endorse him.

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 17h

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

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

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 15h

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

Just have to take a beat to say that the people that have long warned about state violence and the militarization of law enforcement were right.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 1d

The acting CDC director has now approved ACIP recs allowing anyone 6 months+ to receive an updated Covid-19 shot after discussing w/ their provider. If you are on the fence about getting an updated shot, read my in-depth take on the evidence we've accumulated on these vaccines. #publichealth

Do additional COVID vaccines really help?

We've accumulated a lot of scientific evidence in the last few years.

open.substack.com

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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 2d

After 4 tries, my children still do not have their COVID vaccines. This search for vaccines... it's starting to feel like 2021 all over again. In the richest country in the world, it shouldn't be this hard to get vaccinated.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to compete with this.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 2d

It's not lost on me that WNBA is majority Black women league and that in light of what we know about #TheDoubleTax, the league is giving CRUMBS to its players.

David Berri @wagesofwins.bsky.social · 2d

Nice to see ESPN quote our New York Times story today.

But the big story here is this sentence:

"According to a report from Deloitte earlier this year, revenues are projected to top $1 billion this year."

If true, WNBA players are getting 2% of revenue!!!

www.espn.com/wnba/story/_...

'Beyond repair': Napheesa Collier, Cathy Engelbert and a WNBA teetering on the brink

Amid the WNBA Finals, two of the most powerful people in the game are locked in a contentious battle -- for public opinion, power and money.

www.espn.com

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