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Bella Donna

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Swedish-American member of MetaFilter and minced-oath fan. Sweary

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 8h
You Are Morally Obligated To Oppose Genocide And Apartheid Regardless Of Your Religion www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/you-are-mo...
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You Are Morally Obligated To Oppose Genocide And Apartheid Regardless Of Your Religion
Reading by Tim Foley:
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h
About 70 percent, including about half of Republicans, said the president’s cost-of-living policies have been “worse than expected.”
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Trump ran on lowering prices. Now most Americans blame him for them.
An October poll also found that most blame Trump's policies for making affordability struggles worse.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 7h
Salt Lake City's developing a surveillance hub for law enforcement to monitor live streams from drones, Vigilant automatic license plate readers, and other shadowy tech. Centralizing this data would make it even easier to track anyone in Utah regardless of whether they've been suspected of a crime.
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Police drones buzzing across SLC feed a new high-tech crime center. The picture threatens to ‘flip’ civil liberties, a key group says.
As Salt Lake City police develop a real-time crime center at downtown headquarters, civil rights advocates are warning of its threats to privacy.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 8h
Josh Marshall: Wild and ecstatic AI boosterism is just the flip side of the doomerism that predicts our near-term extinction. Both flow downstream from a series of unsupported assumptions and beliefs based on ethical assumptions and values that are simply bad.
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Who Is Behind the AI/Existential Risk Scare?
For years, and especially in the last month or so, we’ve been...
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 7h
2/ I wrote about Sinclair's pro-Trump, right wing extremism here. The company uses long established local news stations to launder it's propaganda. Trump loves it so much he changed the FCC ownership limits for them. jenniferschulze.substack.com/p/trumps-tha...
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Trump’s Thank You Gift to the Nation’s Worst Local TV News Owner
Sinclair uses its nearly 200 stations as a MAGA megaphone. Now it can gobble up even more stations after a recent move by Trump's FCC. That's bad news for local communities & our democracy.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 7h
Sinclair- the absolute worst owner of local TV stations in the country- has a *news* thing on substack hosted by a Liberty Univ grad & former GOP staffer who *reported* for Dr. Phil's now defunct web site? That'll be a hot mess of MAGA bullsh*t. www.axios.com/2026/10/06/s...
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Exclusive: Sinclair launches national news brand on Substack
It's a huge bet for the family-controlled local news giant as it looks to build trust and loyalty among users beyond the TV screen.
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
Get your #Noirvember started early. You can watch it here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB2w...
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Sudden Fear 1952 - Joan Crawford, Jack Palance
YouTube video by K M
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Democrats Abroad @demsabroad.bsky.social · 7h
Meanwhile, #Democrats are actually trying to DO something useful. Unlike the #Republicans who are giving all your money to billionaire oligarchs.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 7h
Calls for the resignation or legal removal of Donald Trump increasing across the US.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 8h
No filter by the way. These roses are PINK.
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Jennifer R. Povey (she/her) @ninjafingers.bsky.social · 7h
Author friends, Australian Literary Network is a scam. Don't give them $150 to spotlight your book. Reader friends, Australian Literary Network is a scam. Don't give them your cell phone number to sign up for their "book club network."
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 7h
You know what "anywhere" includes? THE SOUTH! It's possible! If you actually do what's needed!
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 11h
Believe it or not, oil companies have apparently been lying to us! I know, I'm just as shocked as you are (Gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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The Oil Industry Won’t Stop One of Its Dirtiest Practices, Even After Pledges
Exxon, Occidental and Diamondback are among those touting efforts to end routine gas flaring, but their flames keep spewing pollution around the world.
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 7h
When it's praise music day at the co-op grocery...that's when democracy has gone too far
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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 7h
Lighthouse and Buildings, Portland Head, Cape Elizabeth, Maine - 1927 botfrens.com/collections/173/conten…
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 13h
When Trump posted a video of the Obamas as apes the NYT claimed "it was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware" that he posted it
NYT: "It was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware that the clip had been included in the video before he shared it."
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 10h
Paging the UK....
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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 8h
Like it was a thing he said 3 or so times in that show and it drove me mad and it was incredibly reaffirming to see someone else recognize that lol. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-a9...
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Jamie Oliver's War on Nuggets
YouTube video by Folding Ideas
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 7h
this thread is also a deep metaphor for what our collective migration online has done to communication
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
It's a really interesting failure and shows how the story doesn't work with an American Bond, but is worth watching to see Lorre lazily amble away with the whole thing. You can watch it here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztsX...
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Climax! Casino Royale (TV-1954) JAMES BOND
YouTube video by PizzaFlix
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 7h
La Noria and the ranch on the north side used to be the same ranch until the physical manifestation of the border divided them.
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 7h
I can't think of any event in the last 15 1/2 years that would lead me to think this is a problem
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 7h
Still just aghast at that guy in Scalzi's replies saying that fantasy had it easy bc it didn't require research hahahhahaahhahaha sob
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 7h
This, too, cannot be undone. It is just wanton death and destruction.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
... is Kash trying to hire him?
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😳 Andrew Tate allegedly had Bestiality porn with horse and eel, videos of minors.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7h
“The prosecutors were dispatched to Maricopa and Pima Counties, the state’s two most populous counties, which have been at the center of election conspiracy theories since Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ dispatched criminal prosecutors, FBI agent to monitor Arizona’s primary, documents reveal
The deployments mark a major break from past departmental norms.
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 10h
And this classic You're Wrong About episode really focuses on what really happened to Jessica Hahn, and how it was misrepresented by media:
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 10h
Alright it seems like a lot of people did *not* know that I'm young enough that even growing up evangelical I never heard much about him, so my intro to him was this Behind the Bastards episode pair:
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Part One: The Rise And Fall (And Rise) of Arch-Grifter Jim Bakker - Behind the Bastards | iHeart
<p>Robert is joined by Vic Berger to discuss Televangelist, Jim Bakker.</p><p><strong>FOOTNOTES:</strong></p><ol> <li><a href='https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072VGXQ7T/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF...
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 12h
Okay I've seen at least 2 posts today that describe Jim Bakker as "having an affair with his secretary" or "getting caught banging his secretary" and just...no. He got caught paying her off because he and another preacher *violently raped her*. That isn't an affair, or a simple "sex scandal".
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 9h
for all the crowing about how asking people to not use slurs and to call people the right pronouns is "just like 1984!!!", the rise of terms like "unalive" is a hell of a lot closer to Orwell's depiction of Newspeak imo
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
geekgirl, online zine, sticker (circa 1998) web.archive.org/web/19980110...
a circle: in the middle, the image of a woman's face from many decades ago on a microphone. around the edge of the circle: girrls needs modems! girrls need modems! girrls need modems!
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 7h
Relatedly: Why is NYC jail length of stay still so high? Is this a judge issue (bail decision discretion / state policy), defender capacity issue (strikes), state corrections issue (strikes)? I believe it is not a NYPD discretion (arrest) issue but unsure.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 7h
This reads like an onion headline.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 7h
Nothing to worry about all good
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 7h
It’s amazing, even with two short lines he absolutely wrecks the slight illusion. Even when he just appears, you think “no, no, what the fuck is THIS?” It’s a powerful anti-charisma.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 7h
I didn't know there was a mayor as cool as NYC's mayor. :)
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 7h
Compare Defector’s coverage of this to the worldwide leader in sports™️’ and spend your money/time accordingly.
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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 8h
Ned Flanders got a pedestrian bridge here named after him, I think it's about time some Portland infrastructure got named after Magica Riot characters
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Retro Report @retroreport.org · 8h
4/ #Teachers, access free classroom resources for America’s 250th anniversary on Retro Report’s website: retroreport.org/america-250-...
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America 250 Resources - Retro Report
We’re an independent, nonprofit newsroom creating trusted documentary videos and classroom resources.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 8h
i think the coolest part about the final page of the mr beast book is how clear it is that they have zero respect for themselves or their readers
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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 8h
I’m begging @ifbookspod.bsky.social to please do James Dobson’s “Dare to Discipline” because his decades-long response to “permissive” Dr. Spock and 1960s campus protests is how we got here. www.drjamesdobson.org/blogs/audio-... @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social
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Why Are More Adult Children Cutting Off Their Christian Parents? - Dr. James Dobson Family Institute
Dr. James Dobson long reminded moms and dads that while none of us lead our homes perfectly, millions sincerely strive to raise their children according to biblical principles. Many of those mothers a...
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Ben Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 8h
Librarians used to have cool names for various categories oversize materials. Miniature > Normal > Folio > Portfolio > Elephant folio. (note this is only tangentially related to book formats, e.g. Folio, Quarto, etc.)
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Mykael Wyvern — 🔮🧙🏻‍♂️🐉 @wyvern.bsky.social · 8h
The kicker on this IS a perfect sentence and I don't want to spoil it. But @lifewinning.com needs to see it
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 10h
Midway through my call with @nbedera.bsky.social, I was so shocked I asked: "How are you not incandescent with rage every day?" If you want to understand the Cornell case and why universities fail survivors, read this. You may become furious too. (Gift link.) www.thecut.com/article/trum...
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The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence
The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 8h
I think we need to take misogyny more seriously
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The Not Chaotic Cherub 😇 @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 8h
Today on rich white folks just do not have enough to do:
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 8h
However good you think this is going to be, it’s better. Steve just has Alito dead to rights.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 8h
Stand Up for Science is proud to endorse Jamie Ager for North Carolina's 11th congressional district. A Stand Up for Science endorsement lets you know that a candidate is a champion of science who will keep political and ideological influences out of the scientific process.
Campaign poster for Jamie Ager who is running in North Carolina's 11th District. 

On the right hand side is a photo of Jamie with his hands in his coat pocket, smiling. 

To the left is text that reads "A vote for Jamie is a vote for science and democracy." and "Jamie is a fourth generation farmer concerned about community recovery from natural disasters, affordability for working families, and preserving our environment and culture."

Bottom left corner is a logo that reads "Stand Up For Science Endorsed"
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 9h
"In my 65 years of living, I've never seen the city in such an uproar..." deceleration.news/san-antonio-...
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'March Will Not End Tomorrow': San Antonio Immigration Protest Resists New ICE Facility
Community organizers and local elected leaders join vigil outside 640,000-square-foot warehouse slated to house thousands amid growing ICE violence and deportation enforcement pushback.
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