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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/06/2026
Senegal Rekkkkkkkk
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Kash Patel when Savannah Guthrie’s mom had been kidnapped
Paulie from the Sopranos saying COMMENDATORE with espresso in hand Jennifer Coolidge in Italy in White Lotus Julia Roberts eating gelato in Eat Pray Love Gregory Peck driving a moped in Roman Holiday
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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Mina Kimes: "It's pretty cool that my son and millions of other sons are turning on the TV and think it's normal for a woman to be talking about football behind a desk" ❤️
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gavinv5.bsky.social @gavinv5.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This is America. Uplifting and beautiful scenes Fuck ICE
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We have a goalie fight! Sergei Bobrovsky skates all the way down to challenge Alex Nedeljkovic (h/t @msmambo.bsky.social)
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
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Moon-Watcher @bobsmyusername.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Who has made this 🤣
Buster from the tv show ‘Arrested Development’ holding an arm full of plushies while he looks at his mother Lucille, saying, “these are my awards, mother, from FIFA.“
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gavinv5.bsky.social @gavinv5.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Most entertaining player in the prem
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Jenna Laine @jennalaine.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
So…Aaron Glenn’s sideline celebration is 🔥🔥🔥 with Earth, Wind & Fire attached to it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/08/2025
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The plan? Change none of Pete Buttigieg's policies but give him a beard and run him again in 2028
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Well that’s not ideal
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Reading through some of the top comments on the NYTs latest story about Zohran Mamdani
Yale from New Haven says: “This is insanely low, racist, and desperate. Glad to see they’ve just decided to be a tabloid. It sounds like he clarified it well enough with writing in “Ugandan.” Truly insane (and just unacceptable) that this was framed like this. Or reported at all! Who cares!”

Jennifer from Oregon says: “Please, please do not do hit pieces on this man who is one of the few sources of hope that most of us have in this country. Just stop.”PD from Brooklyn says: “This really does not feel newsworthy, when you see he made his best effort to clarify the check-box identity markers he was offered.”

Paul from Ohio says: “I’m a middle-aged white dude from the midwest. Not a socialist or communist, and never heard of Mr. Mamdani prior to this mayoral race.

But I have to say that the coverage of this guy, including by these reporters, seems biased against him.

Who cares what boxes he checked on a college application for a college to which he did not even get admitted? It tells us some things about some people. But none of them are Mr. Mamdani.”Taylor from New York says: “The media is desperately looking for anything they can use to smear this man. Adams and Cuomo have well-documented scandals that have landed them in legal trouble. How about we focus on the real corruption in this city”Ed the Rabbit from Baltimore says: “So you got a hot tip from a eugenicist and gave him anonymity in order to "out" an Asian person who was born in Africa as a person who checked some boxes on a form and thereby claimed to be "Asian" and "African American" before he officially became American, in an attempt to gain admission to a University his mother already worked at—and failed. 

This is not your finest hour.”

Robin from Greenpoint says: “Yep. More qualities about Zohran that I identify with. More nuances I see reflected in more New Yorkers.”
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani.
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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
choose your fighter www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Despotism v capitalism: PSG v Inter is clash of styles on and off pitch | Jonathan Liew
Champions League final features opposing tactical approaches and two radically different ownership models
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James Nalton @jdnalton.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
FIFA's adoption of dynamic ticket pricing for the 2026 World Cup explains its new-found fondness for the United States and a sporting culture where high ticket prices are celebrated. This weekend's Morning Star column.
Morning Star newspaper page with the headline FIFA has fallen for the US sporting experience.
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john freiler @johnfreiler.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
if you're still a congressman when you die, you get to be a congressman in heaven and do the really good insider trading up there. why is everyone pretending not to understand this
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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 23/05/2025
I wrote about the Biden hullabaloo. newrepublic.com/article/1953...
All told, Biden was able to pursue another campaign out of Democratic deference, careerism, and complacency. There was no spell he cast over the party; nothing he himself did to stupefy and paralyze its leaders. Up and down the ladder, the shrewd and the merely timid, all of whom knew full well that he shouldn’t  run again, each took measure of the situation and figured it was safest to do nothing until doing nothing became untenable—and for several weeks afterward.Prominent Democrats speaking out about all this a year ago would have been meaningful. Today, it means nothing. Denouncing Biden’s run now ⁠that he’s a political nonentity⁠—out of office and perhaps very near death⁠—isn’t taking a brave stand against the internal culture of the Democratic Party. It’s a reflection of it: a wholly cost-free and substantively empty way for opportunists to perform independence from the party now that the coast is clear and there are no toes of consequence to step on. Biden ran again, and is being condemned for running again, for the very same reasons.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The American Keir Starmer
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I get "freedom = cars" in so many places but to me, a New Yorker, having a car seems so stifling. You have to figure out where to park, how to get gas, how to get home if you have 3 beers. What's actually freeing is being able to walk places and having trains that run wherever I want to go
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2025
the strongest case for socializing the ownership of capital is that the current owners of capital are idiots
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Ok I know this is old-man irritability but I don’t care if Mahmoud Khalil has a pregnant wife, I don’t care if he and his wife are childfree, I don’t care if he’s in a fucking polycule with a hedgehog and a jar of mayonnaise, NOBODY should be detained for protected speech, including singletons.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/03/2025
warner is 72 and has been serving in the senate since 2009. get him out
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/03/2025
these people are hopeless. i hope they all get tea partied next year
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Taking a super nice train in Italy for $45 and thinking of how cool it is that our taxpayer money back home will buy Ethereum to bail out David Sacks.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Stephen A. Smith's call for the Democratic Party to clean house seems relevant today: "The Democratic Party is in a bad state right now. The whole damn thing needs to be purged. I'm dead serious. They need to go. Those strategists fire every damn one of them. Get rid of them."
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gavinv5.bsky.social @gavinv5.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Young progressives should just start a new party. Would rather lose every election than support these geriatric losers or puppets like Jeffries.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Marco Rubio is like having Tom Wambsgabs as Secretary of State, a man whose ambition is to be an empty suit, on board to take any stance, say anything, whatever the boss wants, and sponge up some of the pain that comes back, all for the trappings, the title, the plane rides, the suits, to be there.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
New Yorker's editor-in-chief David Remnick expresses frustration with Democratic Party leadership, asking "when is the opposition going to come?" He then criticizes Hakeem Jeffries' remark that one shouldn't swing at every pitch, saying: "What pitch are the Democrats going to swing at finally?"
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Trump just issued an executive order titled: ADDRESSING EGREGIOUS ACTIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA It says "the United States shall promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation"
the United States shall promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscationSec. 2.  Policy.  It is the policy of the United States that, as long as South Africa continues these unjust and immoral practices that harm our Nation:
          (a)  the United States shall not provide aid or assistance to South Africa; and
          (b)  the United States shall promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation.

     Sec. 3.  Assistance.  (a)  All executive departments and agencies (agencies), including the United States Agency for International Development, shall, to the maximum extent allowed by law, halt foreign aid or assistance delivered or provided to South Africa, and shall promptly exercise all available authorities and discretion to halt such aid or assistance.
          (b)  The head of each agency may permit the provision of any such foreign aid or assistance that, in the discretion of the relevant agency head, is necessary or appropriate. 

     Sec. 4.  Refugee Resettlement and Other Humanitarian Considerations.  The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take appropriate steps, consistent with law, to prioritize humanitarian relief, including admission and resettlement through the United States Refugee Admissions Program, for Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination.  Such plan shall be submitted to the President through the Assistant to the President and Homeland Security Advisor. Sec. 5.  General Provisions.  (a)  Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect: 
          (i)   the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or 
          (ii)  the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. 
     (b)  This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations. 
     (c)  This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
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gavinv5.bsky.social @gavinv5.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Brain dead take
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Just got this tip from an airline pilot
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 30/01/2025
*INITIAL FAA REPORT SAYS STAFFING WAS NOT NORMAL AT TOWER: NYT www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
Staffing was ‘not normal’ at airport tower, according to a preliminary F.A.A. report.
By Sydney Ember and Emily Steel
(New York Times) --
Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” according to an internal preliminary Federal Aviation Administration safety report about the collision that was reviewed by The New York Times.
The controller who was handling helicopters in the airport’s vicinity Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from its runways. Those jobs typically are assigned to two controllers, rather than one.
This increases the workload for the air traffic controller and can complicate the job. One reason is that the controllers can use different radio frequencies to communicate with pilots flying planes and pilots flying helicopters. While the controller is communicating with pilots of the helicopter and the jet, the two sets of pilots may not be able to hear each other.
Like most of the country’s air traffic control facilities, the tower at Reagan airport has been understaffed for years. The tower there was nearly a third below targeted staff levels, with 19 fully certified controllers as of September 2023, according to the most recent Air Traffic Controller Workforce Plan, an annual report to Congress that contains target and actual staffing levels. The targets set by the F.A.A. and the controllers’ union call for 30.
The shortage — caused by years of employee turnover and tight budgets, among other factors — has forced many controllers to work up to six days a week and 10 hours a day.
The F.A.A. did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Click Here to see the story as it appeared on the New York Times website.
Copyright 2025 The New York Times Company
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
AI startups captured 46 percent of ALL venture capital funding last year. The reason DeepSeek humiliated them is not that they needed more money!
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Sorry you can't afford to own a home, we had to beat China in the race to develop a better plagiarism app
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
if any Democrats besides AOC want to weigh in about the misrule that's already been prevalent over this first week that'd be pretty cool
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