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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 2h

A lawyer was on here telling me she got escorted out of a town hall with Elizabeth Warren because she asked her about unanimous consent, Warren lied to her, she said that was she lying, and then was escorted out.

That stuff is really really important. It shows what these people are about.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 2h

These people say a lot of words that sound very lefty. This is what they are good at.

Sometimes they genuinely don't know how to mechanically to turn it into reality and most of the time they are just being cynical and pandering for votes while winking at special interests.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 2h

My big picture take is I think progressives need to get a lot better at questioning their progressive leaders because they are all part of the problem and everyone is too afraid to peer under the hood because it might ruin their "champions".

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 9h

where's Lemmy?

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11h

Mamdani is winning a plurality of the NYC Jewish vote, so the Jews going to hear him speak inside this synagogue are more representative of NYC Jews than the ones protesting outside.

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 17h

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 13h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 11h

this feels like a wild further development in the ironic/surreal greeting card category pioneered by Lionel and Joanne Ziprin--did you ever see any Inkweed Press cards?

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 14h

Things To Do While Getting Well, illustrated by Mike Strouth (1971)

Practice your speech for when people ask, "How are you?"
Cartoon style depiction of a bedridden girl rehearsing an upbeat "Oh, fine!" response to the question "How are you?" as a humorous tip for handling visitors during illness.

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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 2d

Today it is a tool to appease, wield influence, and maintain alliances, to make a stance for “the free world” against Russia and its allies, to stroke the egos that drive geopolitics, while maintaining the optics of standing up for peace and human rights.

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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 2d

From a principled perspective on peace and human rights she’s not the ideal candidate. However, that is not necessarily what the Nobel Peace Prize is about. In today’s geopolitical puzzle, the Prize is primarily a political tool. Does that delegitimize the prize? Absolutely.

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 16h

Is this the same thing as patrol car cops saying they'll drive if he wins? Aren't beat cops going to walk anyway? I digress.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 17h

Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same.

They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 1d

This is absolutely true. And also the least self-aware article ever, from the publication that brought you “The Gaza Famine Myth.”

What do you think it’s like to watch your child starve to death?

The Free Press @thefp.com · 3d

The first time one of your children is seriously ill or hurt, you pass through a portal into a new world. You learn to recognize fear in its purest form—hot and metallic, writes Abigail Shrier for The Free Press.

Abigail Shrier: When Your Child Is Sick

The first time one of your children is seriously ill or hurt, you pass through a portal into a new world. You learn to recognize fear in its purest form—hot and metallic, writes Abigail Shrier for The Free Press.

bit.ly

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 1d

Oof, yeah a fucking vile history.

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed, it's a measure of test-taking ability.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 1d

"research generally concluded genetics play a very strong role in determining intelligence as measured by IQ tests...but for twins with “very dissimilar” educational experiences average IQ difference was 15 points, approaching the average difference between random unrelated individuals (~17 points)"

PsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · 1d

Major IQ differences in identical twins linked to schooling, challenging decades of research

A new study in Acta Psychologica reveals that schooling largely explains IQ differences in identical twins raised apart. When their educations are very dissimilar, their IQ scores can be as different as those between complete strangers.

www.psypost.org

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 2d

Why would you get the weird idea that opposing kings is the same thing as opposing America? Unless....

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile starts... now.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 3d

The first artist there Neil Zarama has an amazing biker metal aesthetic

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

Insurance companies can often be aggressive with their denials because “they don’t expect people to come back,” one health care advocate said.

The lesson is simple, another expert told us: “Appeal, appeal, appeal, appeal. That’s all you have.”

By @deldeib.bsky.social

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

www.propublica.org

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

There's nothing at all wrong with being Palestinian, and using "Palestinian" in this way is deeply racist against Palestinians, but it is also antisemitic, because it defines Jewishness as something that can be granted and removed for political reasons.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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