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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 10h

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

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usagibrian @usagibrian.bsky.social · 7h

The Phantom.
Slam Evil!

a man in a purple suit is petting a horse

Alt: Billy Zane as the titular character in the 90s movie THE PHANTOM, based on Lee Falk's long-running comic strip. A man in a purple bodysuit with a cowl and a black mask covering his eyes and is dismounting his white horse, Hero.

media.tenor.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 8h

Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 7h

See also: the last 20 years of Silicon Valley.

umbran.bsky.social @umbran.bsky.social · 16h

"Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good."
- J.R.R. Tolkien

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 8h

Fan service for donors

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

noteworthy that rather than funding experiments into challenging conservative message domination on the local level or building between-election outreach capacity at the state level, centrist donors are throwing millions at what amount to online factional battles among a couple dozen people

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 21h

it is mostly driven by this guy who represents large dollar donors.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 8h

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No, mayors don’t balance the budget. They’re not in shirt sleeves with a green visor lining out items on the spreadsheet. That’s not how city administration *works*. Offices of the Budget, Auditor, Finance, etc all exist for REASONS. It’s an Executive Roll, not Accounting.

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RedTheRam 🔜 MFF, MCFC, AO @redram.bsky.social · 12h

Sorry folks for reposting this but someone’s fursuit head ended up at Goodwill. It might have been a fursuit head stolen at TFS?

Can we get some reskeets so hopefully someone recognizes it?

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usagibrian @usagibrian.bsky.social · 8h

Game over!

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Bones Hyland's Homeopathic Cold Relief @wellburrowed.bsky.social · 23h

None of these states has universal free school meals

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 23h

The University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education has won $1 million to train teachers and administrators in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware on how to best integrate artificial intelligence into their schools.

More AI training is coming for Pa. N.J. and Del. schools, thanks to a $1M grant Penn got from Google

Penn is already piloting a "Pioneering AI in School Systems" program in Philadelphia. Five more school systems across the region will be chosen to get the program for free.

www.inquirer.com

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usagibrian @usagibrian.bsky.social · 8h

Classic one-panel cartoon of a dog at a keyboard speaking to another dog saying, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
It has been modified to read, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're not the former mayor of New York."

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 12h

i love how so many of you are joyfully reposting “No one is saying the tattoo isn't deeply offensive. Nazis are bad. But” onto your timelines

you’re doing a fantastic job at spreading propaganda to your followers

i must’ve seen it at least 20 times

you can’t BUY that kind of marketing

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It's me, Nico. @nicasio.bsky.social · 11h

Like, Dems do not have to go truffle hunting in the deep forest to locate another white guy in Maine who is willing to run for senate and has never been a fash mercenary. Literally they have one already! He's even got a fluffy dog!

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 14h

I want to gently push back on this: not being able to read complex writing is not the same as being a low information citizen. Many people can comprehend the topics involved just fine if they are presented in an accessible and understandable manner.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 15h

There is not a single day that goes by that i don't think about the vast majority of Americans reading below a sixth grade level

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18h

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 10h

If someone from the Times reached you at SockDaddy420@gmail or whatever, thinking you were Bill DeBlasio, it would be sheer malpractice to NOT fuck with them

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11h

This colossal Times of London/de Blasio screwup gets more amazing at every turn.

Scoop via @maxtani.bsky.social

www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Three people familiar with the situation told Semafor that Hurley reached out to an email address the reporter believed belonged to the former mayor of New York. It's unclear where he got the address, or who it actually belongs to.
In a state nent shared with outlets including Semafor, a News UK spokesperson blamed the debacle on whoever that email address belongs to, saying the paper had "apologised to Bill de Biasio and removed the article immediately after discovering that our reporter had been misled by an individual falsely claiming to be the former New York mayor."

Part of the push came from the top. As the New York mayor's race approaches, The Times of London has accelerated its push for more, and largely hostile, coverage of Mamdani. That campaign has been driven internally by Margi Conklin, a New York Post veteran who was most recently managing editor at The Free Press, and who assigned the de Blasio piece, per two people with knowledge of the situation.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 22h

Lots of reporting on SNAP getting the details wrong.

SNAP is not set to run out of money on November 1. There’s money in the contingency fund to pay benefits.

The Trump admin is illegally refusing to deliver benefits on November 1, despite having funding to pay benefits.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 11h

Waiting for a train and there are ads up everywhere saying “What if government worked like your favorite app?” And I can’t express how revolting that is to anyone who’s actually Online

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usagibrian @usagibrian.bsky.social · 10h

Anyone who thinks there's not a spredsheet for FIFA athletes so they can alter the game odds is kidding themselves.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 17h

Can you even imagine being an Olympic athlete right now, knowing your whole fucking athletic career might end in a moment with a gestapo agent savagely beating you while you're in the US

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 1d

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14h

Tolkien understood masculinity to a level Elon Musk and fascist tech bros can NEVER understand.

All the shit they do in Call of Duty he did for real in the mud and blood of the Western Front.

He came out of that rejecting all of the macho bullshit they claim it teaches you.

Fuck 'em.

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pockets and sedition @yoboseiyo.bsky.social · 12h

i have to wonder what that will be. because they managed to both sides kidnapping people seeking asylum and then separating them from their children, *dissappearing THE KIDS* and sending the parents back to the place they fled, during the first go 'round. like, is there a limit or line? i doubt it.

Jameslet @jamesh1977.bsky.social · 15h

Unfortunately, before we get to that point we’ll have a session of incredulous hand wringing from the press after Trump does something so truly monstrous, they can’t both sides it.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 13h

As I told the AI czar or whatever the other day, "If anything, OpenAI should be paying us to beta test its flawed and dangerous software."

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 13h

As I understand it, if this doesn't pass, the CTA, Metra, and PACE, all face massive cuts. Possibly half of the service being discontinued.

If so, I don't think any politician who stood by and allowed this to happen is going to have a political career going forward. Including Pritzker.

Streetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org · 13h

Argh, Gov. Pritzker reportedly isn't down with the proposed revenue sources in SB 2111, so the House transit champions need to go back to the drawing board. Let's hope they can get a bill passed tomorrow to help avoid cuts and layoffs need year! 🤞

@chicagocta.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org

House transit bill ‘not going forward,’ Pritzker says as he opposes new revenue forms

Article Summary JB Pritzker spoke out against multiple proposed new revenue sources to fund public transportation, including a tax on

capitolnewsillinois.com

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 13h

What substance?

He's never been in politics before. He has no track record. He's made shit decisions (even if there weren't the racist, and sexist, remarks, and the Blackwater, and the dubious choices about the tattoo, and how to handle it).

When it comes to substance, he sucks.

Francesca Fiorentini @franifio.bsky.social · 19h

I've often said that in a political choice where one has to be perfect VS being human (mistakes, past transgressions) most people will choose being human and bristle at the idea you must be perfect. It's why the left loses. But on the substance, Platner passes the smell test.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 14h

I would love one theorist of "why the democratic party should go right on immigration" to 1) look at what Clinton and Obama and Biden actually did, and 2) to reckon with the fact that despite those overtures, Stephen Miller now has a goon army doing forcible deportations without due process

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Achai @achai.bark.how · 1d

please yall, adult is for porn, graphic media is for isis beheadings. please stop labeling your porn as graphic media.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15h

was trying to work out why people were posting their passwords and then I realized it was potential Dutch electoral coalitions

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