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Drew T @dtipson.bsky.social · 4m

Reading One Piece as a Christian metaphor rather than a Black Sails-style Haitian antifascist revolution is insane, to me. Not least of which because it's just a vast & reference-filled story, & also One Piece already DID do the Christ metaphor, they did it with Ussop, it was really funny & good!

GOD USOPP

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Brian Orce @jimnobu.tv · Oct 28

Happy Halloween!

twitter.com/hodgesboi15/...

@hodgesboi15
If I pay $40 for a haunted house I better die
10:51 PM · Oct 11, 2013

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Drew T @dtipson.bsky.social · 9m

I like the season finale of Season 2 of Peacemaker a lot... you asshole, you idiot

Drew T @dtipson.bsky.social · 10m

Hey, hey so we talked about this

I'm not falling for that hot take. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. i refuse to participate in that kind of perversion

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Diamond Hands: Master Bag Holder @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 15m

Please be mad at me. Get triggered!!! Aren’t you mad? Please please please please get mad at me. I need validation please get upset

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Eddie @doctaughtme.bsky.social · 16m

Removing people from this country has never been the only goal for this administration. They want to do that but they also want to do it in the cruelest manner possible. They get joy from inflicting pain during the deportation process.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 29m

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Drew T @dtipson.bsky.social · 14m

I have bought into the theory that his retainers are showing him Sora-style videos in addition to just endless Fox/ONN/etc. His comments about Portland burning just smack of something even more, and dumber, that what they do

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1h

Former Presidents consistently talk about the difficulty of getting good information as President, how everyone has an agenda, is telling them what they want to hear, etc.

Most Presidents make some effort to mitigate that well-known problem, but Trump's like "moar bubble, I want only bubble."

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1h

For my piece today at @zeteo.com i wanted to truly underscore how punishingly stupid american fascism is now. Like, my original proposed headline for this was:

Our Democracy Is Imperiled Because One Old Man Won’t Stop ‘Yelling’ At His TV. zeteo.com/p/trump-addi...

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 30m

John Oliver sounded the alarm this week on how secret donations to presidential libraries provide cover for bribery. We couldn’t agree more.

It’s time to close the library loophole — and you can help.

Read this story and much more in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.

John Oliver rips presidential library loophole

Plus: There shouldn’t be secret law. Pam Bondi didn’t get the memo

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 6h

There are so few academic jobs, and thousands of excellent scholars are all trying to move at the same time due to location.

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2h

This is a good catch. The statutory authorization supposedly being used to transfer R&D funds to regular payroll is, in fact, expired, just like the regular appropriations are also expired.

Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 3h

Not that Trump/Vought/Hegseth gaf, but among other ways in which the law says this may NOT be done:
A) The part of 8005 I've underlined in green says money transferred to another account is "available… for the same time period" as that other account; that other acc't expired on Sept 30.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 29m

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 38m

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19m

TEXAS senate candidate Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social (grandson of a Baptist preacher): “I put my hand on a Bible and swore an oath to the constitution, not the other way around.”

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Drew T @dtipson.bsky.social · 22m

It's often a kindness to THEM, tbh, because the chances of them getting what they want from their rude comment continuing are low.

Not to say that I haven't had some interactions that have started off rude, but grown to be worthwhile, but... that's a grace, not an entitlement

Drew T @dtipson.bsky.social · 24m

It seems like a lot of people have some pretty serious critiques of the piece, whether it be on writing or substance. Perhaps you could respond to those instead of doing this weird "if you disagree, that proves I'm correct" dance

Drew T @dtipson.bsky.social · 24m

Having a different opinion about a piece where the writer has a personal and potentially even professional connection to the subject (while you have a professional/personal connection to the writer) is... the thought police, to you? That's a weird thing to say.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 34m

This is such an embarrassing way to defend an article. “Here’s our new piece. Being mad at it makes it correct! IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, YOU ARE THE COPS.”

Okay, lady, we get it. You like Bari Weiss. That’s legal in America. Nobody is arresting you.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Drew T @dtipson.bsky.social · 29m

blocking early and fast is a great mechanism against people being assholes, and that existing and working well is a big part of why being on this network is pleasant, if I want it to be. The internet literally can bring us every possible view, response, some useful, some time wasters, we need tools

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Drew T @dtipson.bsky.social · 33m

And she attributes it, not to mold, but to a spiritual curse

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

JORDAN: Comey is where weaponization all started. 9 years ago he took the dossier--

BASH: But that's not what he's being prosecuted for

JORDAN: I'm just saying, you want to talk about weaponization, that's where it started

BASH: So this is retribution then

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 3h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 54m

Notable that except sort of with Memphis, red state governors are not even pretending to support the deployment of troops in their states.

Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 1h

Murders per 100k residents:
* Houston 19.0
* Dallas 16.6
* San Antonio 15.9
* Ft. Worth 10.8
* NYC 4.6

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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 1h

Murders per 100k residents:
* Houston 19.0
* Dallas 16.6
* San Antonio 15.9
* Ft. Worth 10.8
* NYC 4.6

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