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michael spins @michaelspins.bsky.social · 28d

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#coltrane #myfavoritethings
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My Favorite Things

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 5h

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

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michael spins @michaelspins.bsky.social · 40m

same, also for bigoted and hateful content

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d

i know the desire to fight with these sick freaks is strong but resist the urge and just block. it’s better for your brain.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 50m

I absolutely believe that the DHS distro of ICE footage is *intended* to function as the circus, but I also question the efficacy.

Spectacle is not the same as circus.

The circus has sadistic elements, sure, but it is not PURE sadism.

Pure sadism has a much narrower entertainment appeal.

Jodontchaknow @jodontchaknow.bsky.social · 57m

I think , unfortunately, these ICE raids, et al, ARE the circus for his supporters. Some of them, not all, but a good chunk, are happily starving as they get those brown people out of ‘their’ country. It’s absolutely evil and it makes me afraid for the good people who live in these red places.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 46m

As the US flip-flops on the path to peace, Europe’s ‘coalition of the willing’ rallies round Ukraine

From unanimity on a reparations loan to the unpredictability of Trump, EU leaders will gather this week with agreement on ending the war still fraught with hurdles

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OuterBoroPrincess @outerbororoyal.bsky.social · 5h

They got Claudine Gay out of the Harvard presidency over a footnote.

Chaos Cherub @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 6h

Ngl, seeing “you’re holding the nazi tatted racist white man to impossible standards” as a Black woman, aka the demographic ACTUALLY held to impossible standards, pisses me off deeply. The bar is so low for them and they still can’t clear it, but we’re “ideological purists” for pointing that out.

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michael spins @michaelspins.bsky.social · 1h

Not surprised most of the “nazi tats no big deal” coming from folks who still dwell on the nazi site

michael spins @michaelspins.bsky.social · 1h

Isn’t usually the courts who decide whether a party is owed money and not a criminal defendant?

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1h

All these people are saying “wait to you think he’s REALLY a Nazi,” and my response is “no I think it’s more likely he’s an irony-poisoned edgelord douchebro, another group that’s absolutely ruining the fucking country.”

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

"From our vantage point as a fundamentally innumerate body of milquetoast thinkers who are wrong about everything, holding fewer sincere beliefs is the key to electoral success."

The Partisans Are Wrong: Holding No Sincere Beliefs Is the Way to Win

“Moving to the center would enable Democrats to confront [Trump] more aggressively and effectively because voters would see them as credible.” — Fr...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15h

The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will be publishing regular public health alerts to replace the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which has been paused due to the federal government shutdown.

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lou💋⚜️ @lowlow.bsky.social · 6d

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#PhotOctober
#Photography

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🎶 When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by ...
...You'll see the sun come shining through for you ...
Smile ... 🫂

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Un ciel très nuageux et une paire de lunettes de soleil flou.

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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 5h

In other autocracies the dictator had massive approval early on and for quite some time, able to get firm grip on power for years. Trump is flailing and in danger of seeing his party lose elections. The GOP is in a bad place. Let's make it even worse for them.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 2h

this is the most Dave Matthews way to meet Dave Matthews possible

Hairybusiness @hairybusiness.bsky.social · 2h

He's a genuinely nice guy! Met him the first time at the WTO protests enjoying some steel drumming in an alley

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michael spins @michaelspins.bsky.social · 2h

hey nytimes you got the recession you were cheering for a couple years ago-

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11h

All the things folks pretended were happening in 2022-23 under Joe Biden are actually happening now under Donald Trump

Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 13h

Highest credit card delinquency since the financial crisis 14 years ago.

Add that to home sellers outnumbering homebuyers, consumer confiance plummeting, consumer spending plummeting, inflation increasing, growth decreasing unemployment increasing… a brewing storm.

Good economic news all around👍👍

michael spins @michaelspins.bsky.social · 2h

well Seinfeld did note that people named Bozo and Jeeves seem to have their courses set

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Josh Crough @smokeycrow.bsky.social · 2h

Glasgow’s proving that protected bicycle lanes on direct routes/main streets between destinations, not zig-zagging side streets, creates a situation where you get more bikes than cars. #bikesky #yyjbike

When Bikes Outnumber Cars: What Scotland’s Cycling Surge Can Teach North America

Scotland’s largest city reached a milestone that would make any transportation planner in Portland, or Montreal do a double take.

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Architecture @architecture.bsky.social · 2h

Canadian Pulp and Paper pavilion, William Kissiloff, Montreal, Canada, 1967

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Michele @funnymichele.bsky.social · 2h

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michael spins @michaelspins.bsky.social · 2h

the notion of anyone caving to threats from Vance is lol

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 2h

As a Senate candidate, Fetterman guaranteed voters he’d be a reliable Dem, not another Manchin or Sinema.

Constantly. It was his core promise to primary voters.

Liar.

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michael spins @michaelspins.bsky.social · 2h

Michael Rapaport is a d-list actor at best, I only ever hear him occasionally on the Stern show now and even they don't seem to like him that much, he sounds exactly like the type of person who would write that.

michael spins @michaelspins.bsky.social · 2h

can't wait to rid my state of this genocidal ghoul

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 12h

btw, both trading away the rights of trans folks and saying nazi stuff is nbd because you think these helps win elections are two sides of the same coin and it is wrong morally, ethically, and politically

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