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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

great piece from @adamserwer.bsky.social on the “anti-woke” tax that americans now pay as a result of conservative identity politics run amok.

The ‘Anti-Woke’ Tax That All Americans Are Paying

Better broke than woke, right?

www.theatlantic.com

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 8h

maybe you're a nazi maybe you're just slower than a crab in a pot. both are disqualifying

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8h

Tuesdays are a battlefield.

Mars was the Roman god of war.

The Germanic equivalent was Tīw or Tiu (Norse = Tyr).

This is why today is called ‘Tuesday.’

And why it’s mardi/martes/martedì in the Romance Languages.

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 1d

Just insane thing for a NYT editor to say publicly:

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 20h

"One rock? Okay, fine. But every house in the neighborhood? This was obviously a coordinated effort to humiliate our family."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-l...

A Letter to the Parents that Gave My Son Charlie a Bunch of Rocks for Halloween

Fellow parents, I am so angry and drunk right now that I am shaking. This evening, our young son spent several unsupervised hours trick-or-treating...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7h

He's right and therefore should release the Epstein files today and prove that our POTUS would never do a thing like this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Mike Johnson: "Suddenly now, they've somehow convinced themselves that the Epstein files will be damaging to President Trump and Republicans in some way that they've imagined, and so they feign outrage."

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 8h

i actually don’t think the “average” american millennial man had a nazi phase. it’s not some boys will be boys shit. this makes me side eye you and your friend group, sounds like a personal problem

The average American millennial man has been a neocon, a pacifist, a liberal, a libertarian, a communist, a nazi, and I believe now most of us are back around to liberal again. This isn't a defense of platner it's just weird how normal this shit is for guys that age.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 7h

tweet: pixelatedboat
(@pixelatedboat)
tweeted:
The whole internet loves Milkshake Duck, a lovely duck that drinks milkshakes! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the duck is racist

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 7h

I knew if I scrolled long enough I would find out why everyone was suddenly talking about Nazi tats

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 7h

person with full tattoo sleeve: So this used to say JEN but then Jen and I broke up so I went straight out and was like just make this anything else and the guy did this so now it's like a whole design, just anything to cover the Jen thing up

person with nazi tattoo: idk lol

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 7h

Whether it’s Bill Clinton letting a donor sleep in the Lincoln bedroom or Donald Trump completely demolishing the east wing of the White House, neither president showed proper respect for our nation’s most sacred building.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 8h

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 5h

Look, I absolutely believe in the ability of people to grow and redeem themselves for their earlier misadventures and even plain awful shit they did, but you need to *do the work*. There is no redemption without repentance, to paraphrase my good friend Rabbi @theradr.bsky.social.(also read her book)

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M̵͉̿ȁ̶̢͊r̷̰͚̀c̸̡̄́h̶̫͝e̸̢̥̓n̵̲͔̂l̶͔̈́a̴̭͐n̴̺̍̒d̶̞͆ @marchenland.bsky.social · 18h

I am pleased that the only problem I had was I couldn’t listen to NPR on Alexa, but my emergency radio worked.

But yeah, maybe this should be wake up call to us all. It won’t be but it should.

Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 1d

After this Amazon outage today, you can really see the number of services Amazon is running and how that’s a problem. Even my cats’ Litter Robot’s app was affected, 🤨.

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 15h

The whole internet loves buff white populist, who combines left wing ideas with masculine aesthetics prized among reactionaries!

*5 seconds later* we regret to inform you the populist has a totenkopf tattoo

Erdogan Gwan Delilah @socialconcarne.bsky.social · 16h

chat it doesn't look good

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 18h

No mention at all of the fact that Trump doesn't have the legal authority to do this, that plans haven't even been reviewed (because the office is closed for the government shutdown), that the size and cost estimates keep changing, etc., etc.

Part of White House Is Reduced to Rubble. Trump’s Ballroom Will Rise in Its Place.

www.nytimes.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 19h

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19h

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23h

Oh my GOD.

At 4:10 p.m., she texted me: "By the way-everything | ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know."
I responded: "I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect."
Halligan was unpersuaded: "Yes, I do. Off record."
"I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked," I said. "But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?
To my surprise, she kept going: "It's obvious the whole convo is off record. There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never told me about a story."
I didn't respond. It was time to publish my story. I'II text it to her.

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 1d

Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 23h

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass?

me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.”

@nymag.com
nymag.com/intelligence...

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 1d

“Buck naked” is unclothed.

“Butt naked” is unclothed and up to something.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Not to be THAT dictionary, but…

It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’
It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’
It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’
It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’
It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'

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a swarm of Ghostly bugs @facefullabugs.bsky.social · 1d

A Little Sip Of Coffee For Scolipede Please? A Little Sip Would Not Hurt Scolipede. Please Put Cup On Snout For A Little Sip For Scolipede Just A Little Taste

Enormous alpha Scolipede in Pokémon za looking down at my player character’s outdoor cafe table in the silent imploring way only very big dogs are able to do, staring down silently, being Very Good about simply not leaning down and grabbing it

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Ophelia, again @opheliarevived.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so bad but like, I think people just black hole that lots of people just… couldn’t get health insurance?? Or pay extortionate premiums because they had childhood asthma?? And then the preexisting condition sometimes just wasn’t covered at all?!

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 1d

either black holed or were not old enough to have the conversation

"I have money I want to give your company in exchange for health insurance."

"No. Fuck off and die."

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