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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 7h

This is why I will be openly, defiantly, loudly, proudly, and gleefully trans until the day I die.

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 14h

The semi-stealth vibes are especially notable given the unhinged frenzy on X about data where the biggest-looking spike shows... a difference of about ~80 prep-school students checking "non-binary?"

Yes, Matt. It's all over, you won. Go back to sleep, transgenders are gone... don't worry about them

Matt Walsh post on X declaring that conservatives have "won" now that "Transgenderism is effectively over" due to data gathered by Unherd, which seems to show a drop in students checking a gender box other than male or female

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Moose Jolly Holcomb @reverendmoose.bsky.social · 6h

That first DJ Krush album definitely deserves more love.

Album cover with the words Krush in script.
Photo is black, white, and brown showing a man in a hat among support beams.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 8h

Whole prompt really a barrel shoot for regional rap fans of artists active in the 90s

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10h

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 10h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 9h

that they left em masse, at least, seems like a good sign

Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 10h

NEW for @washingtonpost.com:

Pentagon reporters exited the building in unison Wednesday after turning in their badges, having refused to sign the Defense Department's press policy.

@nancyayoussef.bsky.social called it a “sad day for those who support a free press.”

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 16h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 11h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 11h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Jason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 19h

Still not it

No.. they aren't doing that

She LITERALLY helped RFK get the job by hiding her relationship with him and writing fawning articles as if they were independent

She shouldn't be able to sell a book about her unprofessionalism

prince is sitting on a couch wearing a fur vest and a chain .

ALT: prince is sitting on a couch wearing a fur vest and a chain .

media.tenor.com

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Andrew "TmsT" Kepple @theoddkepple.bsky.social · 18h

Inside you there are two wolves doing their best to support your skin and organs because your skeleton is outside of you, wearing sunglasses and lots of bling and riding a motorcycle while making a rude gesture with one hand and wielding a pistol with the other and speaking in like 6 different fonts

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 18h

rip drew

Painted poster by Drew Struzan for The Goonies which has been edited.

A guy with cow horns and ears and a heavy brow ridge obscuring his eyes hangs from a stalactite as a chain of kids hang on below him, each holding a leg of the person above them as they dangle perilously over oblivion. The cow guy at the top has a lump with handle cow tools in one hand that would have been a hand-hold but has broken free from the rock face.

Title reads "the toolies"

Tagline: They call themselves The Toolies. The secret barn. The old farmhouse. The lost saw. The treacherous lumps. The hidden Prongler. And sloth... Join the adventure.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23h

Six people had their visas revoked due to their social media posts.

Six people are being deported because of what they said online.

Six people have had their freedom of speech suspended.

It won’t stop with these six people.

Either we all have freedom of speech or none of us do.

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 1d

Using the national frame for a candidate like Graham without understanding Maine won't get you far. I'll say this. I know a lot of Maine political folks. Some are my closest friends, and none of them are riding for Mills. The energy is for Graham and maybe Jordan. Also, we have RCV here.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 20h

One of the biggest issues in democratic politics is how the consultants everyone hires sees voters as just a cash machine and they pummel them with messages asking for money instead of activating them for politics. It rightfully makes people extremely cynical.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 20h

Some white folk get really mad at the very idea that someone might want to hear the opinion of a Black person, and not their opinion, in any context. They believe that their opinion should be valid absolutely everywhere.

This is weird.

Don't do this.

Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 1d

Are you Black?

This isn't complicated.

If I wanted to do a survey to learn Spanish speakers' opinion of a new law, question 1 might be "Are you a Spanish speaker?"

Then you bust through the wall like the Cool Aid man: "I am a political science professor! Survey me instead! Take it or leave it!"

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 20h

Counterpoint: The Democratic National Committed not just as dangerous as the Republican Party.

Antifa's Side Chick @postmodernmortem.bsky.social · 1d

People act like I'm crazy when I say that the DNC are just as dangerous as the GOP...but the DNC is literally blocking any enthusiasm or hope that the left could manifest to actually beat facism.

They literally suppress any progressive movement, leader, energy, or momentum that emerges.

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Moose Jolly Holcomb @reverendmoose.bsky.social · 19h

At some point every event decided they wanted the vibes of an early 2000s club, and for some reason it stuck.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 21h

"This gathering is loud, crowded, and hot. You know what would make it even better? Pounding music." -Every event planner ever for some reason.

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Moose Jolly Holcomb @reverendmoose.bsky.social · 19h

This is definitely close enough that why even quibble over the imprecision of language about it. Because the alternative is we have to create a new word that covers those things, like 'schmeading' or something.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 21h

I have thought hard about yesterday’s engagement farming question. My most unhinged literary opinion is that almost everything where you decode meaning is reading: books, audiobooks, comics, social media, movies, video games, television, radio. It all involves decoding an encoded text ergo “reading”

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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 21h

Begging people who should know better to stop using powerpoint as a vehicle for complicated, wordy technical reports

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Gary Panton @garypanton.co.uk · 21h

Obsessed with the look of sheer delight on the women these magazines always insist on pairing their most harrowing headlines with.

The cover of a magazine showing a woman's delighted face next to: TRUE HORROR: MURDERED ON HALLOWEEN - and her boy saw everything

The cover of a magazine with a grinning woman above the headline: RAISED BY A CANNIBAL. DAD KILLED, COOKED AND ATE HIS GIRLFRIEND.

A magazine cover with a smiling woman above the headline: A DEMON MADE MY COUSIN BEDBOUND. Could I set him free?

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Moose Jolly Holcomb @reverendmoose.bsky.social · 19h

Clearly ignoring the headline and going to their happy place... Laughing at salad.

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 22h

social media is for sharing observations that nobody you know will appreciate, like how in the bob’s burgers gingerbread house episode, everyone has relatively modern guns except mr. fischoeder’s ancient friend godfrey, who uses 150-year obsolete cap & ball revolvers

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Moose Jolly Holcomb @reverendmoose.bsky.social · 20h

I can't believe you'd ruin Moxie's life like that.

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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 22h

cat ownership: 'Moxie NO you cannot eat those they are PRUNES'

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