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Kyle Trowbridge @kyletrow.bsky.social · 4h

stfu

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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Barchart @barchart.com · 1d

% of subprime auto loans that are 60 days or more overdue on their payments hit an all-time high of 6.4% 🚨🚨🚨

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 7h

Trump just bombed six more people in the Caribbean, for a total of 27 civilians who have been killed so far by the US military. It’s illegal for the military to target civilians who do not pose an immediate threat. This is murder.

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

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Kyle Trowbridge @kyletrow.bsky.social · 7h

The one I use is not listed as part of the study. And there are plenty of good options here to choose from.

It’s pretty hilarious to me though that one that promotes itself as the “clean” option is off the charts full of lead

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 11h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

Kyle Trowbridge @kyletrow.bsky.social · 8h

When I was growing up, we thought billionaires would do something cool and terrifying ideas— I.e., bring dinosaurs back, but all we get are billionaires with lame and terrifying ideas.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 10h

Well, everyone knows the Founding Fathers hated kings. What this administration presupposes is... maybe they didn't.

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Kyle Trowbridge @kyletrow.bsky.social · 11h

You’re saving God? That would be impressive if it wasn’t so blasphemous.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 12h

Paper under review for 6 months at a journal

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Russell Cohn @russellcohn.bsky.social · 1d

Wanting more housing is apparently a thing you can blame on the Jews now.

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Kyle Trowbridge @kyletrow.bsky.social · 1d

Whoever comes out of the AL will be my team in that series. If I had to choose one here, I guess I would choose the poo crew.

Kyle Trowbridge @kyletrow.bsky.social · 1d

Dodgers/Brewers as a Cubs fan:

a cartoon character says tell them i hate them in front of a building

ALT: a cartoon character says tell them i hate them in front of a building

media.tenor.com

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Kyle Trowbridge @kyletrow.bsky.social · 1d

Happy I caught this one

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Kyle Trowbridge @kyletrow.bsky.social · 1d

This list will change tomorrow

Kyle Trowbridge @kyletrow.bsky.social · 1d

After some remove, and seeing the movie twice, updated PTA:

Phantom Thread
The Master
There Will Be Blood
Magnolia
Boogie Nights
One Battle After Another
Licorice Pizza
Inherent Vice
Punch Drunk Love
Hard Eight

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Kyle Trowbridge @kyletrow.bsky.social · 1d

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

i do not have a lot of tolerance for people whining that Netanyahu fucked Biden over in order to get Trump in office so he could do whatever he wanted. yeah. he absolutely did that. that was obvious before 10/7.

there is no person on Earth more incompetent as a foreign policy thinker than Biden

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 1d

Whispers: this is why political scientists have to study civil society and social movements & take them seriously as *THE* bulwarks against authoritarianism.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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Kyle Trowbridge @kyletrow.bsky.social · 1d

WASP and llama, pictured here

Kyle Trowbridge @kyletrow.bsky.social · 1d

Rosie Candido (lover of fashion and fitness, less sure of llamas, gf of this wasp)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

America is imperfect, but foreign leaders did not use to assume that the President's family was a key means of leveraging their shared interest in corruption.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Kyle Trowbridge @kyletrow.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. The crisis of liberal democracy was not simply that liberal parties lost (only one post-war Liberal party in one western country could be seen as its dominant party, and it’s not the Democrats), it’s that their main competition also values or at least pays lip service to “liberal-democracy.”

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 1d

So basically this is Iranian Hostage Crisis 2.0, just with a 9-month delay in the payoff for no particular reason.

Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like confirmation

Then Mr. Trump won the presidency back, and the Biden administration was determined to get a cease-fire in place by January, before it left office. It drafted a peace plan, much of which was quite similar to the “20 point plan” Mr. Trump recently issued. There was slow progress: More than 130 hostages had been released by the time the January cease-fire took place.

“We handed over a cease-fire that silenced the guns, had hostages coming out and aid going in, along with a day-after plan to make it permanent,” Mr. Blinken said. But when the new administration took over, “the moment was squandered,” he added. “Israel and Hamas went back to war for eight months.”

Israeli officials tell a different story. Mr. Biden was a lame duck, they noted, and disengaged. Mr. Trump was a known entity, less likely to lecture Mr. Netanyahu in private or public. They put their money on a new president, and a new negotiating team

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Kyle Trowbridge @kyletrow.bsky.social · 1d

These people can only think in top-down hierarchy and transactional politics, and can’t fathom ordinary folks doing this for love of the game (freedom).

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Kyle Trowbridge @kyletrow.bsky.social · 1d

heck of a run

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