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mettabhavana.bsky.social @mettabhavana.bsky.social · Jan 29

We may detect bullshit, yet inevitably face Brandolini's Law: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than the energy expended to produce it.” An effect magnified by bullshit amplifiers within corporate media, and on social media platforms.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103.

12 days of work in 103 days.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 12h

Ugh. Teen Vogue has been neutralized.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 13h

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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NetworkforDemocracy @simple-truth.bsky.social · 1d

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 's message is resonating with young people nationwide.

Mamdani's youth support goes beyond New York. For many, he's now a national leader

Zohran Mamdani's focus on affordability concerns has energized many young voters around the country, who say he speaks to some of their most pressing economic concerns.

www.npr.org

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mettabhavana.bsky.social @mettabhavana.bsky.social · 6h

In grown-up countries, refusing to swear in an elected representative, can't/doesn't happen. Just as, in grown-up countries, the government can't/doesn't just “shut down.”

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

Grijalva: I do think that Speaker Johnson misplayed his hand.

There are people all over this nation who were out there with signs that said, “Swear her in.” They wouldn’t have even known about me otherwise.

Thank you for highlighting how corrupt the system you’re protecting really is.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 7h

The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums.

He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up.

How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?

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Rosie de Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 6h

A recent study found public toilet seats often have fewer microbes than the door handles, tap knobs and toilet flush levers.

"The mobile phone is the perfect vector to transmit toilet-derived contaminations to the whole of the community."

Worried about germs in public toilets? The seat isn't the worst part

Public toilets are a "microbial soup" and there are things you should be doing to protect yourself — including not taking out your mobile phone and never hovering over the seat.

www.abc.net.au

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mettabhavana.bsky.social @mettabhavana.bsky.social · 1d

#QuackAlert Alec Zeck is an Army systems engineer and “Olympic-level handball player.” Not a medical doctor. He may be a chiropractor. This is not made clear. What's clear is that he is a snake-oil salesman and grifter. 2/2 www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2021...

Instagraft: Covid conspiracy theorists selling silver spray and $50…

The Bureau has identified more than 100 Instagram accounts using the platform to make money through spreading misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines

www.thebureauinvestigates.com

mettabhavana.bsky.social @mettabhavana.bsky.social · 1d

Dude is incapable of education, but difficult human births are unusual amongst primates because of evolved upright walking and larger human heads, hence our species babies have to rotate awkwardly through the birth canal. If that's “god's glory” at work, god's a total bastard. #obstetricaldilemma

mettabhavana.bsky.social @mettabhavana.bsky.social · 1d

Is it just me, or do these two look uncannily like Stephen Miller and Pam Bondi in about a decade's time? #Doppelgängers

mettabhavana.bsky.social @mettabhavana.bsky.social · 1d

“Cough up, gov, or give back the bags of fruit!”

Disrated, declassed, disgraced, novice commoner Andrew Windsor now faces the ultimate indignity. Forced to pay his tailor's bill.

(If I recall my P.G. Wodehouse, the greatest humiliation for the English upper classes).

PS: #satirealert

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 2d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Newsom: "He is not screwing around. He's changing the rules. He's rigging the game because he knows he'll lose if all things are equal. He did not expect California to fight fire with fire."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

I don't resent poor people who use food stamps to buy another soft drink.

I resent rich people who take away the funds for food stamps to buy another yacht.

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 2d

After 6 months of a Reform council in Kent, these voters are NOT at all happy with what they are seeing!

www.instagram.com/p/DQhVo8ljFt-/

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I’ve been indicted. But I don’t want people to lose sight of what got us here.

Thank you for having me, @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @allinwithchris.bsky.social to discuss why these atrocities need to end and why there needs to be real accountability.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Newsom: I cannot wait for all the punditry. Historic victories all across the United States of America. Proposition 50 winning by double digits. A new governor of New Jersey, a new governor in Virginia.

I’ll end as I began: thank you for giving a damn.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

perfect optics event to hold right as 40 million americans will increasingly struggle to get food with SNAP benefits expiring

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 1d

These Little Piggies Make A Fist

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These Little Piggies Make A Fist | Crooks and Liars

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

What he said: 💯 🎯

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Kash fired the guy he thinks outed him for taking another private jet flight to see his girlfriend sing.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 2d

It was great being back in Norfolk to help get out the vote for @abigailspanberger.com for Governor.

Virginia – Abigail Spanberger cares about your freedoms, she will fight for your rights, and she will work every day to make your life a little bit better.

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Washington State Democrats @wadems.org · 2d

Local elections shape our communities, but when one candidate can outspend everyone else by $240K, it shows why we need to keep fighting to get big money out of politics. Local elections shouldn’t be for sale.

Tech guy sinks $250K into Seattle suburb’s council elections

Jeff Lyon's spending is extraordinary, especially in a city of less than 10,000 voters where the biggest news in recent years was the closure of a garden store.

www.seattletimes.com

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d

Here are my three truths about climate:
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.

www.gatesnotes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

Tech companies are pouring money into AI, and they’re not making it back. Matteo Wong and Charlie Warzel on how everything could come crashing down:

Here’s How the AI Crash Happens

The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.

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