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Carly Putnam 🦖

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“this short hair quiet slightly angry woman from the middle of the country with a don’t mess with me attitude.” Herds cats at OK Policy. Opinions are mine.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 3h
lol no one talks about the white kids who don't abide by merit. The conversation is ALWAYS about the Black and Brown kids who do.
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Study finds 43 percent of Harvard's white students are legacy, athletes, related to donors or staff
The number drops dramatically for black, Latino and Asian American students with less than 16 percent each coming from those categories, the study said.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2h
Animaniacs evicted.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2h
I am aware of the history of 20th century fascism and grew up around Holocaust survivors. When fascism returns, they said, expect indifference or outright cowardice from 90% of your friends, neighbors and colleagues. AND YET, it still shocks me to see this groveling cowardice in real time.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 5h
It's not really fair that I blame her more than anyone else for Roe v Wade because 50 other senators helped... But she is the only one who got on the senate floor and gave a defensive angry gaslighting speech chiding us for daring to think Kavanaugh would do what we all knew he would do.
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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 3h
Damn, the gasp from the crowd here when the guy in the flannel shirt talks about driving home from a hospital after he and his wife realized it was falsely advertised as in-network
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 2h
I can’t imagine spending any of my one precious life asserting that the president was misunderstood.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 3h
This money is absolutely meaningless to Elon Musk, but it has the potential to completely rewrite your future. He's spent over $36 million in about 4 weeks, and he's adding millions a day. All to corrupt our government to push his agenda. Let your friends know what's up.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My next book has a whole section on the psychology behind "People becoming successful by simply lying about already being successful then charging other people to learn their 'secrets' about how to become successful". This would make a perfect case study, but I doubt the legal team will go with it.
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Lawvers for Andrew Tate have had to admit in
court that he is not a citizen of Estonia as he
previously claimed.
Much of his wealth and status is fabricated, they
said in attempt to convince the court he and his
brother are not a flight risk if released on bail
That included his claims to seven passports.
"The Tates are engaged in several businesses
teaching men how to earn money. It is in their
interest to portray themselves on social media
as uberwealthy." 1/3
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Dmitri. #freeLink @momus.bsky.social · 5h
we're in literally uncharted territory with our climate, and Brazil just elected a legislative chamber full of climate denialists & Amazon destroyers not that we're doing much better
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 5h
The kids are alright...
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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 7h
The LAPD union is spending millions to defeat a half cent sales tax that would fund firefighters www.latimes.com/california/s...
The Los Angeles Police Department's officer union said Tuesday it will oppose Measure FD, the half-cent sales tax measure on the Nov. 3 ballot pushed by the city firefighters' union - setting up a bitter and expensive clash between two of the city's most powerful unions.
The Police Protective League said it plans to spend several million dollars on broadcast and digital advertising as well as mailers to oppose Measure FD, which if approved by voters would direct hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the Fire Department to build new stations, hire firefighters and upgrade
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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 5h
Under Trump’s federalism, states unaligned with the White House have options. You can be extorted, invaded, ignored. And if you cooperate to produce produce jobs/investment, you can have the privilege of being denied political credit.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 5h
Sensational description of Musk.
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Benedict Cumberbatch: Sherlock Hat Tip
ALT: Benedict Cumberbatch: Sherlock Hat Tip
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 5h
“Today is gonna be the day that zibogga zeeba bowza doo” - Liam Gallagher converting to scat singing mid-song
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 7h
they're all just lying, it is tremendous lying, but it is just lying
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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 6h
Read Keri. I don't think Americans realize how improvisational & sketchy these lethal injections are. Even for cocktails w/ some history of efficacy, the drugs are of uncertain compounding provenance or could be expired. & that's before we get to issues with effectively administering the drugs.
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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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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 9h
New fiscal year, new @centeronbudget.bsky.social Quick Guide to SNAP Eligibility and Benefits:
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A Quick Guide to SNAP Eligibility and Benefits
A summary of SNAP eligibility and benefit calculation rules that are in effect for federal fiscal year 2026, which began in October 2025.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 10h
not the important point here but "The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East" is a great band name
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 10h
Children are not your "property." They are themselves. As a parent, you provide safe growing conditions, you share their joy, teach them your skills, and help them through challenges. You are a temporary captain of the ship. It's their ship.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026
Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 12h
Voters in WA will decide whether to protect landmark legislation enacted in March that will generate billions in new annual revenue for schools, child care, & other priorities while also helping balance out the state’s highly unbalanced tax system. www.cbpp.org/blog/million...
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Millionaires’ Tax Before Washington Voters Supports Vital Investments, Makes Tax Code Fairer
On November 3, voters in Washington State will decide whether to protect landmark legislation enacted in March that will generate billions in new annual revenue for schools, child care, and other...
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Mr. Buddy @alexfirer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Instead of Harry Potter everyone should read The Power Broker. And instead of going "which house am I in" go "how many parks would Robert Moses make for me given my race, class, and general personality"
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Every time someone claims the data tells the story all on its own god kills a kitten
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Carly Putnam 🦖 @cputnam.bsky.social · 12h
Once had a partner back out of funding a small communications campaign around a topic when they learned we used Census Data for the underpinning research: “What would we be paying you for, then?” (The question turned out to be a rhetorical one)
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 13h
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With Talarico now the slight favorite in the race, national Republicans have flooded Texas' airwaves with commercials to save Paxton's flagging campaign. That makes sense. Any Texan who has turned on the TV in the past few weeks already knows that Talarico is "for they/them" and seen the ad where a Latino boy gets hit with a Transgenderification Beam and turns into a beautiful woman. But much of the nation was confused about why they, non-Texans, were seeing this stuff while trying to watch the Philadelphia Eagles-Los Angeles Rams game on Sunday.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 13h
Too bad no one funded a sex cult focused on climate change! The different media dynamics between the very real threat of global warming (aloofness) and the imagined AI machine apocalypse (alarm) should be studied in great depth.
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Carly Putnam 🦖 @cputnam.bsky.social · 13h
Also on @bookshop.org and presumably other retailers!
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Last Will and Testament Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 13h
At last we have created Network 54 from the classic Cyberpunk TTRPG adventure, Don't Create Network 54.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 15h
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dear America.gov, Go fuck yourself. Dan
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Carly Putnam 🦖 @cputnam.bsky.social · 14h
What Moves the Dead by @tkingfisher.com, accept no substitutes. The seduction of decay! Mouldering old houses! Malevolent fungus! Zombie rabbits!
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think it's bad that the promotional pathway from "professional athlete" is turning into "modern-day Renfield who procures victims for Dracula"
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
i propose a new nicolas cage national treasure film
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why is my search engine buying nuclear power. Why are there like six companies that own every facet of life now.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump's crass incivility gets a scolding from one of the icons of the South Carolina GOP.
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Carly Putnam 🦖 @cputnam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Screencap reads: “I understand things get more intellectually demanding at an Ivy League university: What if you’re at a fraternity? What if your friends are involved? What if you find out through Snapchat? What if helping would make things socially awkward? My son has not yet encountered these advanced ethical problems.

“He does know how to use a phone.”
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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Carly Putnam 🦖 @cputnam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And when you put a thin skin of icing on that log of hay it becomes like even passably good
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Carly Putnam 🦖 @cputnam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Everything else aside we have archaeological sites of what were recognizably gyms going back like a really long time
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 06/10/2026
Prove it.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
To be fair, this is what economically anxious voters who cared about inflation voted for (if you live in Pennsylvania you might die)
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Guest Opinion | Some will remember Dennis Hastert for his child molestation or for making Congress even more partisan than it was under Gingrich. I'll choose to remember him for the laughs we shared at the House Gym and our many political junkets to Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Rest in peace, Denny.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
oh… that dan sullivan lol
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
taking his granddaughter to the karoake joint and pretending to know the ethel cain song she is belting out
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is being passed around as a total misrepresentation of what he said. Trump was saying - as he often does - that costs for Americans are a small price to pay for preventing Iran from getting nuclear missiles. He was saying ‘let them take out LA or SD’ as an example of what could happen then…
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
will you people shut the fuck up
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
again i am trying my hardest but
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Colorado GOP Gov candidate Victor Marx says he's not a domestic abuser. Marx says his recorded comments about slamming his wife into a door causing her to cry and throwing his toddler across a room have been taken out of context.
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Once again: If Dems do well in November, absolutely everyone should interpret it as a definitive statement that the US electorate rejected a disgusting smear campaign against trans people.
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