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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 22m

Late to this, but if you aren't willing to stand up for trans people that puts you on the side of the villains. There is no excuse and no "strategy" that justifies it. Either stand with people under attack from the state or get out of the way so someone with a working moral compass can step up.

Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 2d

gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1h

I completely understand the ennui experienced by the average person in our modern age but it's very funny to be like "This sucks I wish I was a farmer in the 1400s"

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Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 4h

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

bring on the headless horses @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 4h

sting? fucking STING? who in 2025 wants to see solo sting? this has to be a joke

www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

NFL Succumbs To Bad Bunny Criticism And Announces Special Super Bowl Concert With Sting

In an unexpected bid to calm the frenzy over Bad Bunny headlining the 2026 Super Bowl show, the NFL has introduced a special feature.

www.yahoo.com

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 3h

An image of early Swiss reformer Ulrich Zwingli followed by an iMessage that reads, “Hi Jack, it’s Ulrich. I’m reaching out to real reformed Patriots. We’ve done a lot to remove corruption and preach the gospel clearly, But we can’t stop now. We need YOU to stand with us against superstition. Can I count on you to eat a sausage this Friday?”

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 10h

The worldview requires that there be external and internal enemies and soft traitors who must all be disciplined by hard men doing purifying violence. You cannot say "look we got rid of the enemies for you, are you happy now?" That fully, fundamentally misunderstands everything going on here.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 10h

It's not confused and it's not hapless. They got what they wanted and got the center-right to establish it as the new common m normal. Then, consistent with the behaviour of all right wing racists for the last century, they refused to take yes for an answer and upped their demands.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 10h

More confusion from the hapless Philp/Lam team

“It is now our formal announced policy to restrict benefits to anyone who is not a British citizen. That is policy.".

Obviously, that would mean tearing up the Conservatives' own Brexit deal with the EU.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Tories deny they have thrown out plans to toughen up indefinite leave to remain

Plans to retrospectively remove the settled status are no longer Tory policy, a spokesman suggested on Wednesday.

www.independent.co.uk

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7h

We literally do disagree about this, though. Some politicians want to take food from children and some politicians don't. Pretending this "isn't political" just allows the child-starving ghouls to get away with it.

Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!

We can disagree about policy. But we should never disagree about whether a child deserves to eat.

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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 16h

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

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usagibrian @usagibrian.bsky.social · 13h

The Phantom.
Slam Evil!

a man in a purple suit is petting a horse

Alt: Billy Zane as the titular character in the 90s movie THE PHANTOM, based on Lee Falk's long-running comic strip. A man in a purple bodysuit with a cowl and a black mask covering his eyes and is dismounting his white horse, Hero.

media.tenor.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 14h

Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 13h

See also: the last 20 years of Silicon Valley.

umbran.bsky.social @umbran.bsky.social · 22h

"Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good."
- J.R.R. Tolkien

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 14h

Fan service for donors

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

noteworthy that rather than funding experiments into challenging conservative message domination on the local level or building between-election outreach capacity at the state level, centrist donors are throwing millions at what amount to online factional battles among a couple dozen people

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1d

it is mostly driven by this guy who represents large dollar donors.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 14h

subtweet alert system

No, mayors don’t balance the budget. They’re not in shirt sleeves with a green visor lining out items on the spreadsheet. That’s not how city administration *works*. Offices of the Budget, Auditor, Finance, etc all exist for REASONS. It’s an Executive Roll, not Accounting.

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RedTheRam 🔜 MFF, MCFC, AO @redram.bsky.social · 18h

Sorry folks for reposting this but someone’s fursuit head ended up at Goodwill. It might have been a fursuit head stolen at TFS?

Can we get some reskeets so hopefully someone recognizes it?

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usagibrian @usagibrian.bsky.social · 14h

Game over!

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Bones Hyland's Homeopathic Cold Relief @wellburrowed.bsky.social · 1d

None of these states has universal free school meals

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 1d

The University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education has won $1 million to train teachers and administrators in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware on how to best integrate artificial intelligence into their schools.

More AI training is coming for Pa. N.J. and Del. schools, thanks to a $1M grant Penn got from Google

Penn is already piloting a "Pioneering AI in School Systems" program in Philadelphia. Five more school systems across the region will be chosen to get the program for free.

www.inquirer.com

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usagibrian @usagibrian.bsky.social · 14h

Classic one-panel cartoon of a dog at a keyboard speaking to another dog saying, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
It has been modified to read, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're not the former mayor of New York."

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 18h

i love how so many of you are joyfully reposting “No one is saying the tattoo isn't deeply offensive. Nazis are bad. But” onto your timelines

you’re doing a fantastic job at spreading propaganda to your followers

i must’ve seen it at least 20 times

you can’t BUY that kind of marketing

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It's me, Nico. @nicasio.bsky.social · 17h

Like, Dems do not have to go truffle hunting in the deep forest to locate another white guy in Maine who is willing to run for senate and has never been a fash mercenary. Literally they have one already! He's even got a fluffy dog!

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 20h

I want to gently push back on this: not being able to read complex writing is not the same as being a low information citizen. Many people can comprehend the topics involved just fine if they are presented in an accessible and understandable manner.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 21h

There is not a single day that goes by that i don't think about the vast majority of Americans reading below a sixth grade level

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 17h

If someone from the Times reached you at SockDaddy420@gmail or whatever, thinking you were Bill DeBlasio, it would be sheer malpractice to NOT fuck with them

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17h

This colossal Times of London/de Blasio screwup gets more amazing at every turn.

Scoop via @maxtani.bsky.social

www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Three people familiar with the situation told Semafor that Hurley reached out to an email address the reporter believed belonged to the former mayor of New York. It's unclear where he got the address, or who it actually belongs to.
In a state nent shared with outlets including Semafor, a News UK spokesperson blamed the debacle on whoever that email address belongs to, saying the paper had "apologised to Bill de Biasio and removed the article immediately after discovering that our reporter had been misled by an individual falsely claiming to be the former New York mayor."

Part of the push came from the top. As the New York mayor's race approaches, The Times of London has accelerated its push for more, and largely hostile, coverage of Mamdani. That campaign has been driven internally by Margi Conklin, a New York Post veteran who was most recently managing editor at The Free Press, and who assigned the de Blasio piece, per two people with knowledge of the situation.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of reporting on SNAP getting the details wrong.

SNAP is not set to run out of money on November 1. There’s money in the contingency fund to pay benefits.

The Trump admin is illegally refusing to deliver benefits on November 1, despite having funding to pay benefits.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 17h

Waiting for a train and there are ads up everywhere saying “What if government worked like your favorite app?” And I can’t express how revolting that is to anyone who’s actually Online

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usagibrian @usagibrian.bsky.social · 17h

Anyone who thinks there's not a spredsheet for FIFA athletes so they can alter the game odds is kidding themselves.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 23h

Can you even imagine being an Olympic athlete right now, knowing your whole fucking athletic career might end in a moment with a gestapo agent savagely beating you while you're in the US

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 1d

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 20h

Tolkien understood masculinity to a level Elon Musk and fascist tech bros can NEVER understand.

All the shit they do in Call of Duty he did for real in the mud and blood of the Western Front.

He came out of that rejecting all of the macho bullshit they claim it teaches you.

Fuck 'em.

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