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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h

Trump historically wore Brioni, an Italian luxury company that makes suits in Italy. Here he flashes a Jos. A Bank label, a US company that long offshored its production to China and Bangladesh. They carry an associated label called Joseph Abboud, which is made in US. Curious he didn't choose that.

Donald Trump in a navy suit. He's opening the jacket, so you can see the label.

A close up of the suit label says Jos. A. Bank.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 12h

Very worthwhile to follow @zacheverson.com if you're trying to stay up to speed on the Trumps' crypto machinations.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It seems clear to me from the elided text he meant that higher gas prices are a small price to pay compared to the possibility of Iran taking out a major U.S. city (presumably with an atomic bomb). I’m not endorsing that view or its underlying premises. But it seems to me that’s what he was saying.

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

tell me the vibe you are seeking and i will recommend you a gay romance novel (pls note if trashy is ok)

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cities are terrific. It's why most people want to live in them.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Jamie R Bedford @jamierbedford.social · 06/10/2026

It's unfortunate that "rouesing" is not a typo

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just comparing the stenographic account of fantasizing about catastrophic mass casualties with the one shot full of drama and high stakes of an obvious gaffe.

Bayliss Wagner
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After justifying the Iran war as necessary for "keeping the world safe," Trump suggested there could be strikes on the United States, including certain cities in California.
"They could take out a city," he said. "Let them take-Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego."

coin-toss election, where any small shift theoretically could be decisive, Mr. Biden has twice caused headaches for his vice president with ill-timed gaffes. His latest, during a video call with Latino supporters on Tuesday night, forced Ms. Harris to spend part of the last Wednesday of her campaign distancing herself.
Mr. Biden was denouncing racist comments made by a speaker at a recent Donald J. Trump rally when he appeared to call supporters of Mr.
Trump "garbage." He later explained that he meant that "the hateful rhetoric" from the Trump surrogate was
"garbage," not his supporters generally.
But Republicans, expressing umbrage, quickly pounced on what they hoped
wo be olio mc

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A. Cosmographer @acosmographer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, if he means Greater LA that's gonna hit LAAFB. And Pendleton is somewhere between LA and SD. So that's three branches he's pissing on. lol but also lmao

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MadKatsMum @madkatsmum1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wonder how the over 100k active duty military feel about this comment in San Diego??

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites

Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online
King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?

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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 04/10/2026

If you need to teach a class on AI slop, you can get very far with these tags and the paper below which includes slopolicies (policy responses to slop). • www.404media.co/tag/ai-slop/ • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

I remember when Obama criticized Fox News and all of DC's Very Important People spent *weeks* taking to their fainting couches at the horror of it.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There is a tendency after high profile sexual violence to turn every conversation to prevention. Resist that temptation. It allows perpetrators and those who enable them to escape accountability. And every prevention program is undermined by a context where violence happens without consequence.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Oh it would have to be a well qualified nominee who clerked for a SCOTUS justice and went to Harvard for sure" even if your actual stance is "we will stonewall literally any trump appointee and refuse to put them on the calendar"

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dems honestly should just lie about this right now so Alito (a dumb guy who doesn't actually know how anything works) doesn't figure out that he needs to retire in the lame duck if the GOP loses the Senate

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

past a certain point of wealth you stop thinking anyone else has a right to correct you about anything, and that all of your arguments can be won on the basis of "I have more money than you do" this doesn't exactly lead to "benevolent" in practice

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026

the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There’s a lot of talk about reports of sexual violence on college campuses. Here’s a quick thread on what a “report” is—and the system schools have created to ignore them.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And I’ll say it one more time, just to be super clear: Consent training is not comprehensive sex ed. Consent is one portion of a good comprehensive sex ed program, but consent out of context is not enough.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Comprehensive sex education does reduce sexual violence perpetration. But the most effective programs are in a K-12 environment. This is a fight we should be having with public school districts and state legislatures.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

but either way, you ideally want your future voting coalition to include more people than it did in an election *which you lost* so y'know. gonna have to get some people who went the wrong way onside.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026

ugh, can't believe the woke bluesky mob is scared of bold political thinking, just because it comes from a money launderer who keeps moving headquarters to stay ahead of basic financial regulations

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026

The purpose of teaching is to deliver that correct knowledge to students while showing them how much remains unknown and contested. Why would we do research if we weren't supposed to communicate what is true to others? Oh yeah - this is why they want to end humanities & social science research.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026

I find this claim, which is now common in right-wing ed discourse, really astonishing. It rests at the core of the post-truth vision of "viewpoint diversity": we should not teach the conclusions that research shows to be correct; rather, we should validate empirically discredited ideas just because.

Fostering this civic orientation does not mean teaching students the “right” way to think or act
according to a preferred political or moral perspective. A transformative education is premised
on developing sound judgment, not on delivering correct conclusions.

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 04/10/2026

this is 90% of the problem with AI messaging. a bunch of computer touchers were told they were the smartest boys and were compensated in a manner that reflected it. then a huge part of their job was replaced by a beep boop robot (because programming *is* 1s and 0s via language) and they went insane

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

theatlantic.com

A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Measles outbreaks could leave thousands vulnerable to infectious diseases for years. Those who survive measles experience immune amnesia and an increased susceptibility to infections. I spoke to the reporter for this article as one of the many experts interviewed. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/meas...

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Measles outbreaks could leave thousands vulnerable to infectious diseases for years

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

TLDR: SSI surveillance indicators do not yet match emerging recognition that SSIs are a complex/wicked problem, with over 60% of indicators focused narrowly on antibiotic administration. We hope this review will provide a basis for better integrated, more nuanced, and more effective SSI efforts. 🤞🙏

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Barry Hunt @barryhunt008.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Now, if we could only normalize measurement of exposure (contamination levels in air at surgical site, implants & instruments), set target levels (eg - <5 CFU/m3), & introduce standards & Engineered Infection Prevention (EIP) interventions to achieve the targets... Thx for the tag ☺️

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Notable that this could be especially problematic for children with disabilities. Assets can disqualify you for critical social welfare benefits-including SSI and Medicaid.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The timing might be a coincidence, but Trump is trying to get as many checks out the door as he can before the midterms. $90 to seniors. $1000 for health insurance supports. Could be this is part of that push. Look for some sort of Trump announcement where he boasts of giving kids $1000.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just on normative grounds, it is bad, bad, bad not to give people opt-out options of any government automation process. The point is to change the default, not to compel participation.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This week's video: Here in NC, we have a state senator with a 21,000+ acre farm. Where workers just kinda.... keep dying.

youtube.com

Does This Farm Keep Working People To Death?

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026

@cfiesler.bsky.social points out the resource asymmetry between one random Twitter user posting fake news vs a dozen legitimate news orgs having to write stories to rebut the lie.

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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026

At a panel on AI slop and got this email. This is the cost, making hundreds of thousands of people a day try to decide if they are talking to a real person or not.

Hi Damon,
I know you are likely not actively job searching, so l will keep this brief.
Your progression from digital newsroom leadership into product management, particularly building McClatchy's product organization and establishing its first Product Design and UX Research teams, stood out for a very specific reason.
1 am a Sr Executive Search Consultant working with leading organizations across media and technology, and I am currently conducting a search for a Director of Product at the New York Post.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...

fortune.com

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune

The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Again, this is not about the literal taxes. This is about power. They have no problem paying the tax. They wouldn't feel it. What they are worried about is a well-funded government, and a well-to-do middle class. They can't have that.

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