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Geoff NoKings @dontinnovate.bsky.social · 25m

Worth watching (again): youtu.be/k0CzXi9e66M?...

The Dictator’s Speech (Clip) | The Great Dictator (1940) | TCM

YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 5h

One of the biggest issues in democratic politics is how the consultants everyone hires sees voters as just a cash machine and they pummel them with messages asking for money instead of activating them for politics. It rightfully makes people extremely cynical.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

The more people turn out this weekend, the more obvious the lie here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Bessent: "This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title. No Kings equals no paychecks."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2h

A Bronx family lived without utilities for over 6 weeks after they were shut off without explanation.

The landlord, despite receiving severe violation notices, didn't fix the problem.

HPD couldn’t turn the utilities back on, so it issued the family a vacate order.

These Bronx Tenants Lived Six Weeks Without Water and Power. The City’s Fix? A Vacate Order

The plight of the Ramos family reveals the weaknesses in the City's system to protect tenants from unlivable conditions—and from being put out on the street.

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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 21h

Our new review article examines the parallels between COVID and AIDS, including the social impacts

www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused ...

www.ajpmfocus.org

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 41m

I see the intolerant echo-chamber media elite as a net positive for public health because without them some people would have to throw themselves in front of a bus to slake their lust for victimhood

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 2h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 3h

Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 1h

Bari Weiss launched her own path to stardom with the argument "it is oppression to dislike me for being bad" and now we will get to see what an entire media ecosystem built with that philosophy looks like

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 2h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 1h

Hundreds of federal employees’ jobs have been cut during the government shutdown — though many of those affected may have no idea — according to documents filed in federal court in San Francisco.

New filings detail chaos of mass federal employee firings amid shutdown

Hundreds of federal employees’ jobs have been cut during the government shutdown — though many of those affected may have no idea — according to documents filed in federal court in San...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4h

The regime is obviously worried about the No Kings rallies. Give them reason to be: Show up!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Bessent: "This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title. No Kings equals no paychecks."

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 1h

Rural health care providers are already stretched thin by a shortage, and now they have to waste precious time debunking medical misinformation?!

In rural America, scarce doctors battle misinformation as they practice medicine

Conspiracy theories about health fill a vacuum created by the lack of doctors in many rural communities. Meanwhile, doctors in these areas say patients have become increasingly distrustful and sometim...

www.npr.org

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 2h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2h

It's not just that they hate cities, it's that anti-urbanism is a kind of organizing principle across all policy areas, across their entire ideology.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Ciattarelli: "We've got an underdevelopment crisis in our suburban communities."

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h

Just a feckless, feeble, snot flap of a man

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2h

Enough with the beating girlfriends stuff, let's talk about something serious.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1h

Unreal stuff from the guy who is unflinchingly loyal to the Insurrectionist-in-Chief - you know, the President who pardoned the January 6 insurrectionists and wants to mandate “Ashli Babbitt: Blood Martyr” as a new national mythos.

I know we're not surprised - but let us not forget to be shocked.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 2h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 1h

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16h

Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the most important redistricting and voting rights case of the term. Democracy Docket isn't just covering it for the day. It has been covering this case for years.

Support its vital work to help keep you informed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Jeffries: "I remind all of these corrupt individuals, these sycophants -- the statute of limitations is five years. The American people want accountability, deserve accountability, and will get accountability."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

Border Patrol propagandists filming their operation yesterday

📸 @mkaplanphoto.bsky.social

Feds in camo with tear gas launcher, rifle
One agent in olive has what looks like DSLR camera
Nondescript man in black shirt red hat with matching gas mask filming with larger camera

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3h

#4 👍

Zohran sitting in the corner seat on a subway.

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