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The Onion @theonion.com · 22h

Area Man Afraid Some Woman Might Come Out Of The Woodwork To Hold Him Accountable For Something https://theonion.com/area-man-afraid-some-woman-might-come-out-of-the-woodwo-1820345646/

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 22h

We live in the most evil country in the world.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23h

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 21h

Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h

$5M in Shein stock is crazy. to put it in perspective, a child would have to work three billion hours in a Shein factory to earn a 1/10000th of this

WIRED headline reads: Trump's FBI pick Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock from Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 20h

The number of liberal white guys absolutely spiraling out when you say “hey having a Nazi tattoo is bad” is also pretty bad

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pixelkitties🐭 🦆 @pixelkitties.bsky.social · 20h

Social media and the parallel evolution of “cringe” has robbed the world of whimsy and color.

There were times not long ago when the absurd and outlandish could fire our imaginations.

Never forget what they took from you!

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 19h

study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

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Posts by Emily K 🐸🐸 @posts.by.emilyk.art · 19h

Jeff Bezos collected the Child Tax Credit last year because billionaires claim they don't make money by taking out loans against their wealth instead of actually spending it

He collected the fucking Child Tax Credit

Buy that whole foods sushi with SNAP

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19h

“Oh poor people can buy popsicles with food stamps” shut the fuck up the government gives perverts a trillion dollars in government money each year for pervert factories for billionaires the fucking popsicles are none of your fuckin business

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19h

“Oh poor people can buy popsicles with food stamps” shut the fuck up the government gives perverts a trillion dollars in government money each year for pervert factories for billionaires the fucking popsicles are none of your fuckin business

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 19h

"Schumer’s abstention only serves as yet another illustration of how detached Democratic leadership has become from the desires of their base, who crave drastic change." newrepublic.com/post/202554/...

Chuck Schumer Walks Out Rather Than Say if He’s Voting for Zohran

The Senate minority leader says he’s still talking with Zohran Mamdani, despite the election being just days away.

newrepublic.com

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 19h

Seeing conservative commentators joyfully mock poor people and their children horrified at the prospect of going hungry really puts a laser focus into how completely full of shit they were while clutching their pearls over “political violence”.

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 19h

Making the active choice to withhold emergency funding and starve large swaths of the country is “political violence” and it should be reported and viewed as such

Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 19h

Seeing conservative commentators joyfully mock poor people and their children horrified at the prospect of going hungry really puts a laser focus into how completely full of shit they were while clutching their pearls over “political violence”.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 18h

It’s insane to talk through this shit out loud. “Children should starve because it might make their moms less likely to sleep around in the future.”

R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social · 23h

Evangelicals are hot for starving kids.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18h

There's no question that the @nytimes.com has ACTUALLY openly campaigned against Mamdani. Everyone in the city saw it. Why would they be trusted to report honestly on anything if he wins? The answer is they would not.

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bites u @bitesu.kawaii.social · 18h

centrism is doubly insidious as in a single breath, it abandons any goals and principles in favor of "compromise" and at the same time abandons the fight for political power, or, rather, concedes it to the right. it is an encapsulation of everything that is wrong with liberalism.

ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · Jun 27

Centrism is one of the most ideologically rigid currents in American political life, yet it's one which always manages to position its demands for political purity as 'pragmatism' and conformity to its own brand of extremism as "compromise."

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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 18h

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

ICE shooting a food bank worker in the back is a little on the nose for the current moment

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 18h

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say

Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.

www.latimes.com

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Mike DeCillis @mikedecillis.bsky.social · 17h

"HOW WILL ZOHRAN PAY FOR FREE BUSES" screamed the Staten Islanders who have a free ferry

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16h

I hope future generations recognize how quickly and strangely the contours of what counts as a political scandal changed for this president.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 16h

i know it’s critical & it matters & don’t fucking lecture me but i seriously fucking hate reading trans histories sometimes because things are moving along okayish & then right right right they let everyone die & then everyone was dead & then it was the 1990s: decade of transsexual punchlines.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 17h

"Why don't people support welfare programs?"

Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.

White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky

Race and Redistribution in the United States: An Experimental Analysis∗ Jesper Akesson, Robert W. Hahn, Robert D. Metcalfe and Itzhak Rasooly† February 12, 2022 Abstract It is often argued that many White Americans oppose redistributive welfare policies because of animosity toward Black Americans. While a host of observational studies lend credence to this view, it has not yet been rigorously tested using the tools of randomized inference. In this study, we do exactly this by conducting two incentive-compatible experiments (n = 9, 775) in which different participants are randomly given different information about the share of welfare recipients who identify as Black and White. Our empirical analysis yields four main findings. First, most respondents greatly overestimate the share of welfare recipients who are Black. Second, these exaggerated beliefs reduce support for welfare among White respondents, a causal claim that we establish using treatment assignment as an instrument for beliefs. Third, just making White participants think about the racial composition of welfare recipients––holding constant their actual beliefs––reduces their support for welfare. Fourth, providing accurate information about the racial composition of welfare recipients does not influence support for welfare (relative to not receiving any information).

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 15h

Jonathan Greeblatt is so mind numbingly racist and incapable of focusing on anything of importance that he apparently thinks Huda Mustafa, a Palestinian contestant of Love Island, is the same person as Huda Kattan, founder of Huda Beauty.

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1/ Hey, Huda Beauty - glad to see you taking action here. But curious, why wasn't her antisemitism enough?
Huda Beauty pulls partnership with 'Love Island USA' star Hu...
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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 15h

it is not remarked upon enough that these guys just genuinely and sincerely hate america and hate americans

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 16h

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

But here’s the most uncomfortable truth of all: the parasites that have taken over so much of our country—pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros–funded police abolitionist district attorneys, hipster trust fund socialists—are some of the least impressive people in the history of the world. The Uniparty would never have achieved what it has in this country without a great degree of rottenness, of decadence, of torpor, of complacency already

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 14h

I'm not Jewish.

But growing up in NYC has taught me pretty acutely that Jewish people are not a monolith.

And watching Jewish identity flattened to "people who love Israel more than they hate sexual assault" this election cycle has been wild.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 1d

If ICE agents begins harassing voters on the way to vote on Tuesday, we need local prosecutors to charge the ICE officers with state law crimes. We need to send a message for 2026 that they will be swiftly arrested.

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