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Ramiro Cibrian (Open for work) @wisak.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Was a pretty quiet birthday. My partner made an incredible apple pie for me and we played the first 6 episodes of Dispatch. Not bad. 🍽️

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

If your religion says you can’t do something then don’t do it. Don’t get the law to force other people to conform to your religion. Muslims can’t drink alcohol but I’ve never heard of a Muslim going to the Supreme Court to get neighborhood bars shut down.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Was Faith a 12-year-old?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

still thinking about the Montana knife maker who said you don't have to worry about tariffs if you buy american. and then three months later, he realized he imports swedish steel and german equipment. and even MiUSA equipment costs $100k more now because of tariffs

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

“everglades concentration camp” is right there, and more descriptive

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The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠🏔️ @getmoresmarter.com · 01/07/2025

It's a feature, not a bug

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/05/2025

another thing that is quire evident is the aesthetic distaste for rowdy and strident protest and rhetoric that you see among some elite opinion-makers.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.”
• The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives.
• The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000.

Each point represents a federal agency:
• Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs.
• Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs.

Key Observations:
• Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates.
• Notable targeted agencies include:
• HHS (Health & Human Services)
• EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
• NIH (National Institutes of Health)
• CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
• Dept. of Education
• USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development)
• The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies.
• A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size.

Takeaway:

The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology.

Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/01/2025

There's an egg shortage in the bay area due to bird flu issues, and we've tried a few times to buy eggs in the last few weeks with no luck. I went to Costco this morning right as it opened and was able to buy some. But the woman in front of me loaded her cart with *53 cases* with 2 dozen eggs each.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 21/01/2025

The RTD Board has a performance committee meeting today at 8:30 AM where we will be discussing this year‘s goals and if you would like to weigh in, I highly encourage you to attend! www.reddit.com/r/Denver/s/v...

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From the Denver community on Reddit: Critical opportunity Tuesday to tell the RTD Board what you think of new GM/CEO goals (on Zoom)

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 20/01/2025

Very excited to have joined @getmoresmarter.com to talk RTD and the politics of public transit. Look for the episode this coming week!

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Make Article I great again

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

One of the very cool things about this case is that the court called one of the original framers of the MT state constitution to help interpret it because our constitution is only 50 years old and Mae Nan Robinson Ellingson was 24 years old when she helped write it.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Buy the ticket, take the ride...

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Whoa—the Montana Supreme Court holds that its state constitution protects the right to "a stable climate system," and strikes down a law that barred consideration of greenhouse gas emissions when permitting new fossil fuel projects. juddocumentservice.mt.gov/getDocByCTra...

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I've never met Dilan, but I signed this letter because I believe in student journalism, The Stanford Daily and a University's responsibility to its students. There is no reason Stanford should push for the prosecution of a student journalist who was just doing his job. bsky.app/profile/bgru...

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 07/12/2024

My Dad lacks confidence as a hardware store Santa, but he is greatly admired by his subordinates. He has Lowes Elf Esteem

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I legit think the cynical promotion of this this is one of the most brazen acts of public evil I’ve ever seen because there is *no tradeoff* in any way that counts, there’s no complicated externality, it’s just fucking letting people, mainly children die for the hell of it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/11/2024

(secret to reliably flaky biscuits is to grate the frozen butter and to do about four folds total)

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Ideological messianism, prizing loyalty over competence, a dedication to outsourcing government functions to enrich political allies, a conviction that propaganda can overcome the bleakest realities, blithe dismissal of empiricism of any kind

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Yeah, I still think he chickens out and claims victory like this

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 26/11/2024

@pfrazee.com please create a “make everything dark” option where the layout backgrounds are true black and all bright images are auto inverted.

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Alex Jaffe ➡️ NYCC @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

You used to call me on my self-own

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Sassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Jesus was at Walgreen’s again.

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God @thegodshow.com · 23/11/2024

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

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Gaijin Mommy @gaijinmommy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Holy fuck a swan just tried to eat my camera.

The open beak of a swan, mostly. Possibly an epiglottis somewhere. In the far right, the swan’s partner looks on disapproving. An afternoon sun low in the sky. Arakawa Shizen Park.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 23/11/2024

Out of the top 18 movies ever in terms of domestic opening weekend, 17 of the 18 are made by Disney

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Lolo @loloverruled.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

I don’t want to go back to therapy so I’m just going to up the number of times I say “that’s showbiz” each day

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

I’ve made a lot of jokes about the J.D. Vance sparkling water story from Hillbilly Elegy, to the extent that it probably sounds made up, but you owe it to yourself to read the real thing if you haven’t

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 01/07/2023

the oceangate ceo was better at his job than elon

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Rob @robrousseau.bsky.social · 01/07/2023

I tried to play off the Elon ruining twitter thing as being funny, "let it burn" etc but it actually just fucking sucks and is sad. pre-Musk twitter was garbage but it was our garbage

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/05/2023

Tucker Carlson just announced on Twitter that he is relaunching his show ... on Twitter

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 09/05/2023

I told my friend that I would give him my first invite code, sadly none have materialized yet. I doubt this will work, but I figured for his sake, I should give it a shot.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 05/05/2023

Waiting for #CoLeg to vote on the major Land Use Bill #HB23-213 final passage in the State House

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 02/05/2023

challenge accepted.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 01/05/2023

The worst feature of bluesky right now is the images. Text only is wonderful. And while I use the DMs a lot on Twitter, I can’t help thinking that it’s actually nice to not have them on here.

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 01/05/2023

only thing that scares us is people being cruel to each other. so right now we're having a blast but very focused on that problem

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 01/05/2023

@pfrazee.com how soon will Federation be available? If I want to set up my own instance, it seems like the app allows it, but there’s no documentation on how to do it.

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 01/05/2023

Genuinely one of the worst Democratic senators of my lifetime, and that’s saying something in a world where Joe Lieberman exists

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Chris Nicholson @chrisfnicholson.com · 28/04/2023

Today is a good day for Jamba juice

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 28/04/2023

normalize being nice and friendly. and giving other people the benefit of the doubt. and listening to what they have to say

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