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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28m

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

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cailin @cailin.gay · 6h

Realistically your options are to continue letting traffic enforcement be the responsibility of an armed gang of racist losers you have a 31% chance of getting shot by anytime you come into contact with them, or a camera that mails you a ticket you can pay online. Choose wisely

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cailin @cailin.gay · 6h

I think my least favorite leftist talking point is when people say speed cameras etc are bad because they’re “part of the surveillance state.” Okay genius since the cops refuse to enforce traffic laws at all anymore I guess we should continue to let drivers plow into like, children walking to school

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 2h

I think it’s also “I own a ride share service and do not want to pay for human employees (who are bad drivers and often problematic)”

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collie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · 6h

She slept with her source and all she got out of it was a Vanity Fair job and a book deal.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 18h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 21h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a real water is wet scenario here

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

Ok, since many people are obviously not reading the article, here's a pertinent figure from it showing the top actions to reduce emissions.

A horizontal bar chart titled “19 climate-friendly choices, ranked” shows actions individuals can take to reduce their carbon footprint, ordered from most to least impactful. The x-axis represents projected impact in tons of CO₂ equivalent per capita per year (tCO₂e/cap/yr), ranging from 0 to about 2.5. Each action is color-coded by sector: transportation (blue), energy (orange), and food (green).

Go car-free – highest impact (blue bar extending to about 2.5 tCO₂e).

Fly less (blue, about 1.5).

Shift to renewable home energy (orange, about 1.4).

Switch to EV or hybrid car (blue, about 1.2).

Go vegan (green, about 1.0).

Walk, bike, or take transit more (blue).

Make energy-efficient renovations (orange).

Use clean cooking equipment (orange).

Go vegetarian (green).

Shift driving habits (e.g., carpooling) (blue).

Increase telecommuting (blue).

Shift to regional/seasonal diet (green).

Move to energy-efficient home (orange).

Decrease food waste (green).

Eat less meat (green).

Use less energy at home (orange).

Reduce packaged food, dining out (green).

Use energy-efficient appliances (orange).

Compost – least impact (green, under 0.1).

A note clarifies that these are meta-analytic estimates of greenhouse gas reduction potentials, drawn from 659 estimates across 47 academic journal articles. The average person emits 6.28 tonnes of CO₂e per year, though this varies widely by income and country. Wealthier populations may emit up to 110 tonnes per year, while lower-income populations may emit as little as 1.6 tonnes.

Source: WRI, based on data from Ivanova et al., 2020.

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 1d

“Actual person” vs “nobody” is not a real election

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 1d

We had an election. Kim Jong Un won it.

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 2d

I was joking

Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 2d

We should go back to the runner up in the presidential election being the VP

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 2d

You can’t have a primary that is “this guy vs nobody” and expect “nobody” to win

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not “dem voters didn’t vote” it’s “dem politicians didn’t want to challenge the leader”

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody actively challenged him in the primary though!

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think anointing the VP a few months before the election was any better

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 2d

I think they were right!

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 2d

Almost like they should’ve held a primary and let voters decide instead of tossing a sacrificial lamb to the wolves

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

me after attending a protest

Jeff Goldblum running out of a store with a bunch of shopping bags in his hand. He's dressed fashionably in a tan jacket, black shirt, gray trousers, and black loafers.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 2d

SB 79 will not apply on the Tijuana side of the California-Mexico border. Please stop DMing me about this.

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Jake Gotta @jakegotta.bsky.social · 2d

Wow no way! I totally thought TikTok was good for kids brains!

NPR @npr.org · 2d

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens. n.pr/42BJyMB

Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2d

bernie sanders' appearance on fox news helped fox news' mission of misinforming the public. it doesn't work. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 2d

It's impressive that polls continue to favor the Dems on the shutdown when Beltway flat-out blames the entire thing on them—with zero responsibility assigned to Republicans. Here's an example from today.

Capitol Hill crossroads. Back home, Congress faces a critical moment. Especially the GOP-run House, which has pretty much given up any pretense of relevancy during this impasse. An institution that voluntarily shuts itself down for weeks in the midst of a huge clash over federal spending — something that impacts all Americans — isn’t playing a real role in governing.

Yes, the House passed a CR 23 days ago. But Senate Democrats, who instigated this crisis, have rejected it seven times now. So maybe it’s time to go back to the drawing board.

We’ve told you that the cumulative impacts of a shutdown grow the longer it lasts, and that’s the case here.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 2d

What could make a community of white, affluent boomers so livid? In a shocking twist, the reason is exactly what you think it is. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

‘Not going to suck it up’: What turned this former hippie town into the angriest place in California?

The local rancor is focused on plans for a six-story, 243-unit apartment building near the town center. The School Street project is universally loathed. Almost everyone believes it to be out of place in a town where one-story and two-story buildings are the norm, and they worry about the impact on parking, traffic and fire safety.

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