The Tapeworm that Starved to Death in RFK's Brain
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The Tapeworm that Starved to Death in RFK's Brain
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This is several days old. But amidst so much else id missed it. That’s a stunning number. No wonder they about-faced. Reminder of the power of consumers in oligarch era, not subject to the same kind of targeting.
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I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts

bsky.app/profile/did:...
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If you have a website, and a signup page, and you intentionally break copy-paste on the password fields, you deserve to shart yourself during a staff meeting.
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-it didn't communicate anything about what I thought beauty was. The painting said *nothing*. It was a reproduction of a reproduction of something that I have never seen or experienced.

He told me the purpose of art was to communicate something about *me* to my fellow human being. It is not a game-
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-of transliteration, it is the terror of being known.

I was wide awake after that.

I thanked him, as a student thanking their master, and asked to be excused. Then I went into the bathroom and fucking bawled my eyes out.

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Your regular reminder, if you are a person for whom the TSA body scanners do not work well -- because of gender, sex, size, disability, any reason at all -- there IS a way to avoid getting patted down at the gate, but you MUST say the correct words. Do not use the words "opt out" for any reason.
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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"G-d have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing." is also a banger.
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Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
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A rare example of indoor environmental mimicry, this specimen demonstrates the remarkable ability to disguise itself as a throw pillow
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Very helpful field guide
Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull”

First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.

With me so far? 1/x
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As you enjoy picking and carving your #Halloween pumpkin, remember the farm workers who labored to grow and harvest them. Let's give a big thanks to the Salinas CA farm workers who harvested these pumpkins that have ended up at local pumpkin patches and area stores. #WeFeedYou
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I think we should talk more about reparations
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like so many days since the blitz, today was terrifying. but the terror is outpaced by the burning hot solidarity of parents blocking school streets, hundreds of neighbors walking patrol, bicyclists chasing SUVs broadcasting whereabouts, and whistling winemoms bringing the fire of one thousand suns.
everybod's in a pond...
The trend is real, but this NYT analysis at the Congressional district level has big ecological bias

Poor *areas* vote Republican, but it's often the richer *individuals* within those poorer areas that are most Republican

And many poor *individuals* rich blue urban *areas* vote Dem
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Homeless sweeps are so cruel.
The city of Seattle wasted over a million dollars last winter on renting rooms they never lent to the homeless because someone high up wanted the project to fail.
It makes me sick.
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.

(Published Dec. 2024)
“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...
projects.propublica.org
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I guess by "top" CBP/ICE agent could mean anything, from reading at a 5th grade level to realizing the Constitution has amendments to being able to do 10 sit-ups without puking to being able to unholster one's weapon without shooting two of your compatriots.
all of this...
Please read the following statement by Executive Director Audrey Sasson, condemning the flood of racist and Islamophobic attacks this week against @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

We call on our City and State political leaders and organizations to condemn and forcefully reject these smears. (1/5)
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I love that this is literally just

we realized we weren't connecting with Black people so we tried talking to more Black people and Black people like us much better now
"Black organizers had noticed gaps in the campaign’s strategy for reaching Black voters. To address them, they led canvasses in working-class Black neighborhoods...By early October, Mamdani had taken a commanding lead over Cuomo among Black voters"

hammerandhope.org/article/zohr...
Will Zohran Mamdani Win Over Black New Yorkers?
Five people talk about their experience of the Mamdani campaign — from the inside and the outside.
hammerandhope.org
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“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits
I would assume they didn't take it seriously - everything is abt them NOT having to follow the law, with no consequences.
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again saying the political response of local police depts probably worth following given Trump's efforts to federalize policing
Chat is it a good sign if the cops are publicly disavowing the regimes actions on Twitter
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