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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1h

Alright I figured it out - this is Milhouse behavior. She is Bari Weiss's Milhouse and doesn't have the juice to pull off the Bari Weiss stuff.

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1h

This is information that you couldn't waterboard out of me, what is up with this lady?

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...

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 2h

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 41m

ORLY share.google/25inp4pBSl2V...

Kathy Hochul’s redistricting push gives her a needed boost

The Democratic governor is winning support from her party’s left-flank after embracing partisan gerrymandering.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 1h

For example here, did you know that Manhattan, The Bronx, and Brooklyn are counties subject to the VRA? If SCOTUS wants to kill the remainder of it, do they not think a NY congressional map could be built to wipe out every single Republican seat in the state by running every district thru NYC?

Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 1h

The second cardinal sin is thinking that agency only goes one way. "We'll get to gerrymander our states to lock out our opponents!" works both ways and there are a lot of GOP seats in firmly blue states that will get nuked too if they want to go down that path.

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Drunk On Mystery @drunkonmystery.bsky.social · 1h

What's funny is that I listened to a podcast interview with Thomas Jane where he complained about this exact problem almost 20 years ago, and it's only gotten worse since.

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

So I think the issue here is the industry has forgotten how to make mid budget films

It’s all either low budget horror or AAAA $300 million tentpoles

'One Battle After Another' Projected to Lose $100 Million Theatrically as 'Smashing Machine' and Others Also Struggle Due to Oversized Budgets — Variety

Every Monday morning, Virginia-based cinema owner Mark O'Meara pores over grosses to see how the newest releases are playing in his area. Last weekend didn't offer much to celebrate as some well-revie...

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 48m

Of whose money?

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2h

OpenAI has pledged to spend $1 trillion in the next five years.

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 50m

Kiley's best chance of raining in Congress is to switch parties and right soon.

justicetoall.bsky.social @justicetoall.bsky.social · 3h

🚨 Mike Johnson’s nightmare: Kevin Kiley is unhappy with the speaker and has nothing to lose..
The California Republican has emerged as an outspoken and fearless critic at a crucial moment for the speaker..
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Mike Johnson’s nightmare: Kevin Kiley is unhappy with the speaker and has nothing to lose

The California Republican has emerged as an outspoken and fearless critic at a crucial moment for the speaker.

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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 · 1h

"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...

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

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MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 1h

A few bad apples SPOIL THE BARREL. FOR GOD'S SAKE, THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE SAYING IS THAT A FEW BAD PEOPLE CAN FUCK UP AN ENTIRE ORGANIZATION. PLEASE FUCKING MAKE A NOTE OF THIS.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 2h

I also care that she's trying to *cash in* on this persecution complex surrounding her blatantly unethical behavior.

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 2h

Believe it or not, I don't and never cared who she was having sex with, I cared that she carried on a personal relationship with her subject against policy and didn't inform her editor. I don't care that she's a slut, I care that she's an unethical person in regards to her job

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 4h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 2h

a man in a suit and tie drinking from a glass

ALT: a man in a suit and tie drinking from a glass

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 2h

So you're saying we must have kings if we want paychecks? Yeah, buddy, you might want to read about the American revolution.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 2h

No kings no paychecks is literally one of the dumbest political slogans I have ever heard.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2h

I think one of the biggest cleavages in our society that no one talks about is the division between those that think powerful people must be held to a higher standard than non-powerful people and those who think powerful people should be flattered and sucked up to.

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ZorrolittoTheElder / Melissa @zorrolittotheelder.bsky.social · 3h

Lolz, ain’t no way he will beat her.

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 2h

There's a 73% chance Vance was a lurker.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 2h

Not as much anymore, but it was very common in the mid-twentieth century when the stereotype was forged. And bluing agents are still available, even if people don't use them very often. mrsstewart.com/pages/whiten...

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 2h

Like they said, you don't want Dems to win. So fuck off. Enjoy fasicsm.

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

Something that a lot of people either missed or have forgotten is that over the past two years there's been a massive gap between what people *intended* to communicate and how their words were heard, and that contributed to the phenomenon discussed below.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3h

in hindsight it makes sense to see cancel culture as a harbinger of the end of shame rather than an excess of it. "shame" presupposes stable social norms and a sense of what one did wrong and how it could have been avoided. not suddenly a thunderbolt from zeus thrown at random people

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 3h

Also, as you get older your lenses tend to become more yellow, leading to colors getting washed out, especially once you reach your seventies. So a little bit of blue wouldn't look like enough; the hair would still look yellow. So you add a bit more until it looks right...to you.

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 3h

a woman in a purple cape with the words second one on her face

ALT: a woman in a purple cape with the words second one on her face

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

/3 But a huge plurality, at least, of the modern GOP is of the opinion that noticing bigoted trash is more un-American and destructive than BEING bigoted trash: that dehumanizing fellow Americans based on immutable characteristics is morally superior to criticizing anyone for doing that.

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