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Kim LaCapria 🧿🌶🤘

@kimlacapria.bsky.social

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Always folklore, fact checking, and disinfo. Sometimes lifestyle/shopping. Sea witch, widow, Lokean 💖 and proud parent 🏳‍🌈 May or may not be notable 🧿

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Kim LaCapria 🧿🌶🤘 @kimlacapria.bsky.social · Feb 17

update! you guys, i made my first bracelet, do you like it? i told you i was gonna make crafting everybody's problem ❤️

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3h

important note from libcrusher:

Reactivating temporarily to send a warning.
Since I got doxxed, it appears the same doxxing ring has targeted several other users. I learned that they were banned this week, only for Elon to, apparently, personally unban them. I feel obliged to warn everyone about my experience.

It wasn't just my personal information that got published. Someone, somewhere, got my passwords too. For my banking accounts, brokerage accounts, venmo, etc.
Most of which had different and unique passwords. All these attempts started the day i got doxxed, and have sporadically continued since.

If you know anyone who's been doxxed by this group, you need to have them change all their passwords on every website immediately. Ensure 2FA and any other security measures are in place everywhere.
And, wherever possible, document and report it. Frankly, if you're a lefty of any note, do it now too

If anyone was also a victim of this or knows someone who was, there are ways to reach me. I wish I could go into more details right now. But until that time comes, protect yourself.

I will be deactivating in 20 minutes.
Hopefully, that's enough time for the warning to get out.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4h

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...

www.thewrap.com

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Kim LaCapria 🧿🌶🤘 @kimlacapria.bsky.social · 3h

ugh it's giving gray gardens tbh

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

this ballroom is the best evidence that trump doesn’t intend to leave

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 3h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Kim LaCapria 🧿🌶🤘 @kimlacapria.bsky.social · 3h

the problem with journalism today is clearly that it is too unkind to the wealthy and powerful

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 5h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4h

Quite a day.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 5h

There’s more of us than there are of them. They can’t control us. They can’t stop us from voicing our dissent. Thugs and thuggery is not a winning future, even if they think so. See you at No Kings.

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Kim LaCapria 🧿🌶🤘 @kimlacapria.bsky.social · 4h

a third thing i'd add is there's a cross-section of people like this who adopt racism to fit in, we don't know how big the group is, and this foregrounding of it is a factor in its renewed proliferation

it's not good people are impressionable to extremism, but that also is a generalized trait (+/-)

Micah @rincewind.run · 4h

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

Kim LaCapria 🧿🌶🤘 @kimlacapria.bsky.social · 4h

CUNY/SUNY education is such a good value, too — FIT (my alma mater) was a direct line to the best jobs in your major/industry and they'd fall on your head before graduation, and staff were active working in their industries

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

CUNY is the nation’s largest urban public university system and an engine of social mobility for the city's working class.

But like so many of our public institutions, Andrew Cuomo subject it to years of disinvestment and neglect as Governor. That record cannot be forgotten.

Cuomo’s controversial CUNY record resurfaces as affordability concerns dominate mayor’s race

Advocates, union leaders and lawmakers have criticized his previous push to cut state aid.

www.politico.com

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 5h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Politico @politico.com · 5h

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 5h

It’s funny to see Olivia Reingold complain about her ex-friend who comes from “media royalty” when she herself is media royalty. Dad was NBC Asia top brass and then bought six local CBS stations. She’s a Columbia legacy, and Michael Barbaro interviewed her for a WaPo puff piece when she was 10.

By Michael Barbaro
Celia and Olivia Reingold, owners of a District-based toy company, registered for the world's biggest toy show this year, convinced they would make strong connections across the industry. With more than 80 products, their company, they reasoned, was ready to play ball with the toy business's biggest players.
The toy fair's organizers didn't see it that way.
It turns out Celia, 13, and Olivia, 10, are too young to attend. Citing a longstanding policy, organizers of American International Toy Fair said it does not allow anyone under 18 to enter the conference, which ended yesterday in New York.
The girls said they are baffled by the policy.
"I don't think it's very fair," Olivia said in an interview yesterday. "We are managing our own business."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5h

I’m not mad about it but I’m deeply confused that we’re getting a Twitter exodus today of all days

thought we’d basically reached the point that there was no line that place could cross that would chase anyone off of it at this point

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

Federal Judge blocks shutdown layoffs.

DOJ lawyer refuses to defend cuts, merely argues jurisdiction.

Judge: “This hatchet is falling on the heads of employees all across the nation, and you're not even prepared to address whether that's legal?”
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

UPDATE: A federal Judge has imposed a temporary block on RIFs during the shutdown, saying the Trump administration has:

taken advantage of the lapse in government spending, in government functioning, to to assume that that all bets are off, that the laws don’t apply to them anymore and that they can impose the structures that they like on a government situation that they don’t like. And I believe that the plaintiffs will demonstrate ultimately that what’s being done here is both illegal and is in excess of authority.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 8h

CNN is covering prediction market odds from an online casino as if it’s actual polling data

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Micah @rincewind.run · 7h

I have been to two No Kings protests and they are filled with normies and people with funny signs and families and they are just the most wholesome protests imaginable

that's all people are going to see, man - their friends and neighbors out there saying we don't want this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

The most powerful force in American politics today is anti-establishment rage at a system that’s rigged against most people.

Democrats should ignore the carping of corporate-backed Wall Street Democrats and embrace Zohran Mamdani and other young progressives as the future of the party.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Sunny Hostin to Cheryl Hines: "The problem is that your husband is the least qualified HHS head that we've had in history. I think that's very dangerous. He has spread a lot of misinformation, chaos, and confusion."

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 5h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 5h

Brown rejected the compact!

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

www.brown.edu

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 8h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 9h

"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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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 7h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 7h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h

On some level, it's genuinely hilarious that Republicans have gone from making these nuanced arguments about how wokeism stifles free thought, or how racially disparate outcomes aren't indicative of racism, etc. . . . to just straight up defending weird dudes who say "I love Hitler."

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