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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 8h

“every parade has a right to exist”

onion person @junlper.beer · 10h

saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever

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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 14h

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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 14h

if your policy positions comport with your longstanding beliefs and political record AND you’re comfortable engaging on a human level outside of scripted/televised events then I think there’s not a lot to wonder about here

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19h

Zohran Mamdani is a trained performer who has an extremely disciplined and laser-focused ability to recite on-message talking points in response to any question, and yet voters overwhelming praise him as being especially "authentic" compared to other politicians. There's a lesson here!

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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 14h

I dunno, I feel politicians already overcater to frustrated middle-aged men

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15h

Is there an OnlyFans model for politics? on.ft.com/4n5EVSh | opinion

Is there an OnlyFans model for politics?

Willing to hold increasingly outrageous opinions for clicks? There’s an online audience out there for you

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 14h

He's so close

Josh Barro: Mamdani won for the same reason he’s winning the campaign: He’s the only candidate with a coherent vision that addresses New Yorkers’ concerns about affordability, and who actually seems to want to be mayor. This campaign has been painful for me as a political centrist because Cuomo, the purported standard-bearer of the political center, has no vision and is the architect of many of the state-level policies that have led to the disorder in the city he now decries. (And he also has personal behavior problems.) Sometimes your side deserves to lose an election; this feels like one of those times. As for Sliwa, Trump’s dig at him as “not exactly prime time” is unfortunately apt.

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St. Simeon the Pumpkin Spice Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 22h

J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI.

MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 14h

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Jun 17

lmfao

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 17h

good news! Claude no longer tries to kill people if you put it in extreme situations. bad news! It does this because it knows it's being tested. assets.anthropic.com/m/99128ddd00...

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 19h

You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on.

Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 22h

dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 17h

[warning: mild NYT games spoiler] I hate it when connections has a red herring answer set that is actually cleverer and harder-to-find than the correct purple category

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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 19h

let’s circle back later and touch blocks

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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 20h

always liked this anecdote

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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 1d

He did the tweet

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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 1d

this is like a negativland sample list

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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 1d

extremely underrated band. Discovered them a couple years ago

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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 1d

He did the tweet

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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 2d

in the mode of “every accusation is a confession”, turns out MAGA has their own Great Replacement in mind

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Breaking News: President Trump is considering an overhaul to the U.S. refugee program that would favor mostly white people, documents show.

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly white people who say they are being persecuted.

nyti.ms

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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 2d

thread

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 2d

lmao they're charging $299 a year for four issues

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 2d

I assume you’ve seen his now-famous “Frying of Latke 49” script edits

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 2d

always? in word *and* deed?!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 2d

When Israel was first accused of deliberately restricting the flow of aid, it was strenuously denied and called a “blood libel” (with Hamas was blamed for hoarding) and now we’ve totally normalized the idea of humanitarian aid as a bargaining chip

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Israel limits aid and keeps Rafah crossing closed in dispute over hostage remains

Tensions still high as Israel accuses Hamas of breaching agreement by withholding bodies of 24 hostages * Gaza ceasefire – live updates The fragile ceasefire in Gaza faced its first test on Tuesday when Israel said the flow of aid into the devastated Palestinian territory would be cut by half and the crucial Rafah border crossing with Egypt would not open as planned, accusing Hamas of breaching the US-brokered agreement by withholding the bodies of Israeli hostages. On Monday, Israelis celebrated the return of the last 20 living hostages in Gaza and Palestinians rejoiced at Israel’s release of nearly 2,000 prisoners and detainees as part of the ceasefire’s first phase. Continue reading...

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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 2d

first and last headlines here seem related

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