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V @vivek1287.bsky.social · 16h

This is also how my family celebrates Diwali by ranting in lunatic fashion for hours

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump's Diwali remarks: "The autism situation is just crazy when you think of it. You go back 20 years, it was one in 20,000. And now, it's one in 12. Is that hard to believe?"

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16h

TRUMP (FIRST TERM): Look at me! I'm refusing my $400,000 presidential salary—and only making tens of millions shaking down foreign nationals at my DC hotel!

TRUMP (SECOND TERM): Put $230 million in an unmarked bag or the country gets a *fucking* shiv in the jugular. Schnell! Schnell, motherfucker!

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

www.nytimes.com

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21h

Curious about the George Santos commutation? This sheet pan Dover sole recipe was submitted by Santos himself, dating back to his time as executive chef of The French Laundry.

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V @vivek1287.bsky.social · 21h

Most American dirtbags are not Nazis

V @vivek1287.bsky.social · 21h

It’s competitive authoritarian szn

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V @vivek1287.bsky.social · 21h

I don’t think anyone is saying we don’t want to be in a big tent with people who get drunk and get tattoos?

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 22h

Platner appeals because he seems to be a shortcut. Instead of (as @jamellebouie.net says) building local political parties helping people, building trust, slowly building networks and trying to reshape the possible … just elect liberal dudebro and we’ve solved populism!

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V @vivek1287.bsky.social · 22h

My two cents is that Plattner is cooked because his explanation was super fucking slippery and because after Fetterman enough voters and activists know better.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 23h

really did not expect to hearing about nazis all the time in 2025

was just not something i considered tbh

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V @vivek1287.bsky.social · 23h

Irrational hatred of Trae Young but it’s definitely a good choice!

V @vivek1287.bsky.social · 23h

Chicago is also my favorite city I’ve ever lived in. This is a good choice!

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V @vivek1287.bsky.social · 1d

Also since this is a sabbatical year for my Celtics I need a team to bandwagon for. Ideally a good League Pass team that isn’t a serious championship contender. Thoughts?

(Spurs are the obvious choice.)

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V @vivek1287.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yeah. This is the best time of the pro sports year with both NBA/NFL going

NBA @nba.com · 1d

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V @vivek1287.bsky.social · 1d

AHAHAHHAHAHAAHAH “athletically allergic”

Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A Third of ICE-Academy Recruits Are Failing Out

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.

www.theatlantic.com

V @vivek1287.bsky.social · 1d

Isn’t suggesting that the NYT attacked the problem in good faith and landed where they did authentically being too generous at this point? Isn’t the likelier situation that they backsolved to their political project?

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V @vivek1287.bsky.social · 1d

Somehow Ben Solo returned

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V @vivek1287.bsky.social · 1d

Just imagining the sorts of ghouls that make up the NYP editorial board

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 2d

Where this weekend’s millions of protestors messed up was not sitting around at a diner in rural Pennsylvania waiting to be interviewed

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ceej @ceej.online · 2d

they invented a technology that makes you worse at your job while convincing you you’re better at it. also your boss has to believe you’re better at it or else the entire economy explodes. they made the sophon from three body problem in real life

Angelle of Death @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 2d

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

🎁link

David Mullin @rdmullin.bsky.social · 2d

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

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V @vivek1287.bsky.social · 2d

It’s fun to correct people with “I think you mean PRO BOWLER Mac Jones”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

I guess if I *had* to pick my favorite part of the video the president posted where he’s a big boy pilot and he pew pew pews his poop all over everyone, it would be the part where he shits on the American flag?

Trump’s fantasy of having one of his apparently uncontrollable liquid shits land on the American flag

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V @vivek1287.bsky.social · 2d

This is 💯 what I’m feeling today watching this at a sportsbook with all the other games. I’m in Atlantic City so of course the Eagles are drawing the most attention but Drake Maye is easily #2.

Aaron Schatz @aaronschatz.com · 2d

Drake Maye... is this was it felt like to be a Packers fan when you finally realized how good Aaron Rodgers was? Like, how could we be this lucky?

V @vivek1287.bsky.social · 2d

🤝 Reason: values misalignment

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V @vivek1287.bsky.social · 2d

Jacksonville is the London team! How are they the ones who didn’t show up??

V @vivek1287.bsky.social · 2d

*seven thousand six hundred thousands

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