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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 34m

This would be GREAT paired with my article in doctors in the Klan in the 1920s.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7h

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 59m

BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 2h

Yes exactly. It sucks.

glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 2h

And this is the problem with our durable middle class is that it’s predicated on exploited labor and environmental degradation.

glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 2h

People really be out here saying beef should be cheap and it shouldn’t. It’s just sad that the reason it’s expensive is corporate greed rather than fair wages and animal welfare.

The Bearded Educator @literarybeardo.blacksky.app · 3h

Fucking dork

glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 2h

People really be out here saying beef should be cheap and it shouldn’t. It’s just sad that the reason it’s expensive is corporate greed rather than fair wages and animal welfare.

The Bearded Educator @literarybeardo.blacksky.app · 3h

Fucking dork

glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 3h

Counterpoint thats a fair price for ground up animal.

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 2h

Yes and the reason why things were cheap was exploitative labor practices mixed with inhumane factory farming and sadly further corporate greed is why things are getting more expensive.

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 3h

It’s a shame that none of these price increases mean the labor to produce is getting a raise but people should have been skeptical of cheap meat.

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 3h

Counterpoint thats a fair price for ground up animal.

Sinnamon Love @sinnamonlove.blacksky.app · 3h

The cost of beef is outlandishly high. $13 for a lb of ground chuck round is absolutely unacceptable.

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 3h

I wrote about LAPD has been using the same technology since 2022 in 2023. I updated it to include their most recent “audit” of it which found there’s been no impact on the public’s privacy. Other California depts use Penlink, too:

www.joeyscott.xyz/the-lapd-is-...

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 4h

Do Zionists still think protesting outside a synagogue is antisemitic?

Screenshot from Tali Goldscheft:

PROTEST today at 1 pm!!! 📢📢📢

At the same time as hostages are hopefully being finally released, Zohran Mamdani is speaking at CBE (Congregation Beth Elohim) in Park Slope.

Beyond outrageous.

A major protest by the Brooklyn Jewish community, including CBE congregants and former congregants, will be taking place.

IN BROOKLYN? Join us, rain or shine!!!

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 3h

This is my synagogue & the conspiracies about why Zohran is appearing today are wild First, all major candidates were invited. (Sliwa is speaking tonight.) Was he supposed to come over the high holidays? Can't imagine people would've been okay with that. It's 3 weeks before the election. It's fine.

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 4h

Do Zionists still think protesting outside a synagogue is antisemitic?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4h

1) I once again take this opportunity to remind you: to keep its basic functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

2) is...is it happening?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 4h

Kinda feeling like torrent downloads could come back again.

mike @sonuvafitch.bsky.social · 5h

‘Piracy Is Not A Victimless Crime’ warnings on blu-rays hit a little different in the era of AI

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h

Anyone know who is working on countering ICE recruitment of people of color? I'm wondering if there's a current issue campaign focused on this that has also enlisted artists and cultural workers.

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(◕ᴗ◕✿) 📷🚲⚾️ @gatodejazz.bsky.social · 4h

Because this country wastes all our money on cops and military. We are not a country for people but a country for violence. And they won’t tax the wealthy properly. Greed and violence is what this country loves more than anything else.

Michael Schneider @michaelschneider.com · 5h

The GDP per capita of Portugal is about 1/3 that of the US.

Yet they have infrastructure like this — high speed rail — that costs 1/10th per mile compared to the US.

The life expectancy is 4 years longer.

And we’re supposed to be the wealthier country. @thetransitguy.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

Manchin and Manchin-enablers really tripped up Dems political hopes and its wild everyone blames “the groups”

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

“Conditions started to deteriorate in 2024 after pandemic-era subsidies expired. Hiring slowed, and high prices weighed heavily on low-income earners. Black households were the only racial group last year in which median income fell and the poverty rate rose, according to the Census Bureau.”

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

“The African American unemployment rate has surged over the past four months, from 6 to 7.5 percent, while the rate for white people ticked down slightly to 3.7 percent. On top of a slowing economy, the White House’s actions have disproportionately harmed Black workers, economists said.”

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Mr Halloween @jarjarfan69.bsky.social · 4h

It is vitally important that we keep increasing the budget for these guys so that they can continue to perform at a high level.

NBC News
(Immigration)
Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic

Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.

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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 4h

We are literally throwing money to deploy military, for a domestic terror threat that doesn’t exist. Yet last night families couldn’t feed themselves in the USA. Disgraceful

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 4h

WE HAVE TO COLLECTIVELY CALL THESE PEOPLE STUPID! They are idiots. They have a limited capacity for understanding. Calling them weird was so good and that mother fucking consultant that told Walz to stop deserves to be shunned from society.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 5h

their pitch to voters: you’ll have a better spot in the hierarchy than you do now. dems pitch is “we’ll be competent managers and reward various interest groups whose causes may align with your values.” if you ask me, dems could do better. the bar is so low man. we can’t keep losing to these fuckers

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

and this is in turn tied to what they think america is supposed to be: a rigidly hierarchical and patriarchal society dominated by a religious and business elite

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 5h

EV's are a bandaid on a massive structural and cultural problem

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 23h

If cars are so bad for our health, our cities and the planet, why can’t we quit them? Three new books argue it’s time to really try.

‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It.

A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.

bloom.bg

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 5h

Look congress already sucked shit before trump and we have to be honest about that.

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 5h

A cafe will have a blt for $23 and like that’s an incomplete sandwich.