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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 12m

Happy Birthday, Mike Young. You would be turning 58 today. Instead you’re 38 forever. As you used to tell us at ComedySportz:

“Leave them wanting more…”

…and so you did. And we’re all still here right where you left us. Missing you.

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 1h

Antifa Pope just landed

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 7h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 3h

This would require that the economics of our media be based on a metric other than attention.

𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3h

We have to have some kind of cultural movement away from a society organized primarily around lying

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 5h

💯💯💯

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 6h

I have a thousand thoughts.

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 6h

i have long believed there is a biological reality to women’s fertility, which our culture works against- but without adequate social programs to support young women having kids WHILE ALSO building independent sources of income, I don’t know how this works.

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 6h

For those of you not on other apps, I think you should know just how much content is out there celebrating young women having babies very young…

Age and years I had my kids starting at 13

Got knocked up at 16 and haven’t stopped yet

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 18h

It’s almost like George Lakoff has been right for the last (checks watch) 29 years.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 21h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 6h

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 7h

🧵 I'm excited to share that my article "Democratic Backsliding and the Limits of Civilian Control of the Military" has been accepted @thejop.bsky.social.

It answers the question "how ought militaries act when civilian leaders turn on democratic institutions?"

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#CivMilSky #PolTheory

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 6h

Why this app is better, reason #7,936:

X has become all video all the time. It’s like TikTok. But for flat-earthers.

I mean- if that’s your thing…

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 23h

My kid coming home from college for the afternoon *just because* is what my heart kind of needed this rainy Saturday.

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 23h

This is really beautiful!

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Searching for Jackie Merlos: What happened when the Trump administration disappeared an immigrant mother and her four U.S. citizen kids

Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway

Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.

www.rollingstone.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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2000s @popculture2000s.bsky.social · 1d

hey ya! by outkast, 2003

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

n.pr

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 1d

Good question. I really don’t know- other than stock market disaster and resulting fallout.

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re wondering why all of us are being compelled to “integrate AI” into our classrooms, our workflow, and our kitchen appliances…

It’s because the market is all in on tech and they put us in another “too big to fail“ predicament.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1d

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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