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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 7m

It’s funny that this post implies that if you are annoyed that coffee is more expensive you are just not being rational about it.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2h

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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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 32m

katherine dee is herself a reactionary who has written for TERF blog fairer disputations. her bio there cites her work at american conservative, unherd, and the washington examiner. interesting how the bio she chose here doesn’t reflect that bias. the work itself features no actual citations

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

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Wineless Cat Mom @nicoleoking.bsky.social · 49m

Plus, not naming Angus King is just whiffing a layup

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 3h

Republicans want people to believe that a young man who is too “lazy” to work who plays video games all day, never misses a Medicaid covered doctors appointment and fully utilizes that benefit 💀

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Spiffy @spiffypeach.bsky.social · 2h

This will kill foster care age-out kids who dont have insurance through their parents until age 26 like the rest of people do. That is the majority of adults under 26 who aren’t insured.

Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 3h

You’ll cut off the handful of able bodied people without dependents and won’t save hardly anything because they cost almost nothing to insure in the first place. This is just mean. It’s not economical

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Kelly Bluebook @cheatlines.co · Jul 2

lander is a blue Pilot G2 guy. he might be my persona (fursona of a person ofc) bsky.app/profile/brad...

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · Jul 1

Happy Fiscal New Year to all who celebrate!

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 2h

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3h

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 19h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 2h

I think the human brain is just subject to information overload in general these days. We're trying to run Elden Ring on a Commodore 64 meant to run "Where monkey get next banana?"

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 14h

my best guess as to what’s going on with gender and society is that all the discourse around abortion + trans rights bubbled up and caused heterosexuals to start thinking about gender en masse, along with all the other stuff, and the untenability of it all just isn’t something normies can handle

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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 13h

THIS motherfucker broke my sense of time way before fucking Covid.

It's been TEN YEARS of either a) CONSTANT Trump b) Trump background unpleasant noise but not gone + Covid.

Of course we're all mad here.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 9h

"We can table this argument until I see you in hell" is an all timer hater line

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 10h

One thing I am glad this did (might not be accessible in the UK alas unless you have Means) is just absolutely go in on that nonsense "does it really count as starving children if the children are also sick for other reasons?" thing the Free Press did.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 21h

yeah i don't think i ever appreciate how well constrained Trump was during his first term and how everyone kinda assumed that would happen again without putting in any of the work

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

The siren call of electoral strategy and analysis partially crowded out work on things like law, organizational resistance, and protest. I blame myself, too

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Julie Novkov @jnovkov.bsky.social · 5h

Kevin has done the math. You need to be listening to what he has to say about the Louisiana case.

Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 5h

We now know that in the aftermath of Shelby County there was an explosion in vote dilution (via annexations) in once-covered municipalities. As ever, keeping our eye on the local level will be of paramount importance. Unfortunately, the decline of local media will make this v difficult

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 11h

Everything they do is performative bullshit for their hateful propaganda campaigns.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 19h

excessive hgh has negative cognitive effects, including upregulation in fear memory formation

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 12h

Man of all the people to make that allegation about the actual progenitor of Israeli impunity is…sure one of them

Marble Liberal @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 12h

Taylor Lorenz is extremely antisemitic, she was also claiming the Jews killed jfk for not supporting Israel and sent her followers after contra about it

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 15h

When you’ve lost Newsmax…

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 18h

it is really remarkable how everyone discounted her as a lightweight bound to crash and burn

Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 18h

it's hard to get mad at Kamala over anything except Gaza because otherwise the party treated her horribly and she nearly saved them from oblivion anyway

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 22h

The other fun one is where people retcon the joe biden being forced out by leftist posters rather than like a bunch of dem insiders leaking to the times axios and other rags starting early spring 2024. like pelosi was leaking this shit by march and most of the ones pushing it early didnt want harris

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Erisie @er1si3.bsky.social · 16h

"There are homophobic voters in America, but far fewer of them than there used to be. Republicans in Congress no longer rail against same-sex marriage."
No, you stupid motherfucker, this is verifiably wrong!
abcnews.go.com/Politics/sup...

Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling

10 years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to all same-sex couples, it will consider whether to take a case asking it to overturn the decision.

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Greg Howard Jr @forthefuturepac.com · 16h

Dammit!

share.google/L6O0hXnjhEsi...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

"im not owned! im not owned!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 16h

The National Guard’s mostly quiet walks through Washington, D.C., are expected to cost a little more than $200 million, USA Today reported, and that’s the figure just for the D.C. National Guard, not for the eight states that have sent troops.

A Very, Very Expensive Way to Reduce Crime

The Trump administration’s National Guard deployments are highly inefficient.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 19h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 18h

this is because they were pushed to r/frenworld by reddit mods. reddit moderation policy gave them all permanent babytalk brain

big neutrals @boymoder.meangirls.online · 23h

why do modern nazis speak like they're on r/rarepuppers it's so fucking soy. how do you type this out without killing yourself

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 5d

OH THANK GOD.

The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 5d

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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