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Katherine ✨ @kmr318.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This has me lmao bsky.app/profile/rach...

Matt Bernius @mattbernius.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Question: I've heard some people react negatively to the term "financial literacy" for a variety of reasons. Does anyone have suggestions for alternate terms?

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Matt Bernius @mattbernius.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Hey all, it's been a while since I posted here. I do plan on engaging a lot more in the weeks to come. Insert funny gif here... Oh, wait, you can do that now!

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a cat wearing sunglasses and a smiley face with the word cool .

ALT: a cat wearing sunglasses and a smiley face with the word cool .

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 05/09/2024

I’m sorry to disappoint, but no federal judge will save America.

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Buffy Summers and Mr. Pointy @buffyann1998.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Well of course. @kenwhite.bsky.social just recorded Serious Trouble.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 05/09/2024

If you think you can do trust & safety better than a pro, give it a try...

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Hunter Biden: mid-fifties, dick has been seen all over the internet Me: mid-fifties, has been seen being a dick all over the internet

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/07/2024

Interesting that Jennifer Aniston is talking shit about JD Vance but had no problem working with his ex

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Matt Bernius @mattbernius.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

Ok, so I finally have the time to figure out how this slightly-less-crappy (who am I kidding--significantly less crappy!) website works. Suggestions always welcome.

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Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 07/05/2024

The public library at its best is maybe the most radically democratic of all public institutions, because it grants to children the same civic status and prerogatives it affords to all other patrons. Fight every attack on a child’s right to be just another patron. 📚

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/05/2024

another one for the "the george floyd protests represented a social reproduction crisis for the nation's elites"

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Marc Channick @marcchannick.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

*David Attenborough voice* and now we see the newly-minted Heterodox Thinker emerge from its cocoon to begin the journey to the right wing grift-o-sphere

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/04/2024

this guy attacks and disparages his colleagues, all but says outright that he doubts the objectivity of anyone who isn’t a white guy, and then flounces when his targets push back

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 16/04/2024

there was a lot of ink spilled over ~2021 seeing the largest recorded increase in homicides. Now we're seeing one of largest recorded decreases in homicides. So... the pandemic was unique, and now we're seeing reversion to mean. www.axios.com/2023/12/28/u...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

One of the major things about Bari Weiss is that she is a huge liar and constantly makes arguments full of deliberate misrepresentations like this:

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Theodoræ Ditsek @theoditsek.bsky.social · 06/04/2024

I think about this Calvin and Hobbes a lot, nowadays.

Calvin's parents, wide awake in the middle of the night after their house was broken in.

MOM: Are you still awake too?

DAD: Mm-hmm. I was thinking.

It's funny...when I was a kid, I thought grown-ups never worried about anything. I trusted my parents to take care of everything, and it never occurred to me that they might not know how.

I figured that once you grew up, you automatically knew what to do in any given scenario.

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.

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Matt Bernius @mattbernius.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

@kenwhite.bsky.social could you put up a Popehat signal for help with this request? A friend is looking for CA-based lawyers & resources to assist someone they know with a serious mental health condition. The individual in question is in pretrial incarceration on charges related to that condition.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

It's been clear for 25 years, but today really underscored that the only consistent principle among the court's conservative judges is the desire for conservative outcomes. Federalism, originalism, textualism -- they're all just a means to an end, readily abandoned when inconvenient.

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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

Murder is down 21.7% in 113 cities with data available through at least January. Still too early to know likelihood it will persist through the year, but does portend a massive national drop this year. Down 21% in 48 cities with data at least through Feb 20.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

SUPREME COURT RULES THAT CLARENCE THOMAS WANTS A WINNEBAGO JET

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

OH MY GOD… A Turning Point rep (Charlie Kirk’s org) tweeted this out and look at the response.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

I think it'll be great to see the RNC take a stand on behalf of meritocracy and AGAINST hiring on the basis of identity by choosing Lara Trump as the next co-chair! www.foxnews.com/politics/lar...

foxnews.com

Lara Trump officially announces campaign for RNC co-chair as Trump loyalists move in

Lara Trump officially announced her candidacy for co-chair of the Republican National Committee, a step toward former President Trump consolidating his control over the organization.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

It's not even a pardon. As POTUS, Trump could order the DOJ to drop the cases against him and no court could interfere. This is true even if a jury has already found him guilty, unless he's been sentenced & judgment entered. Under today's timeline, there's no way for judgment to enter by 1/20/25.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

Also, the next time someone tries to blame a reform DA for homicide rates, be sure to point out it is hard for prosecutors to prosecute murders—the crime ALL reforms still go after aggressively, whatever drivel Fox News spews—if the police don’t, you know, make arrests for murders.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

Just finished this podcast. Really well done. Knew that, as with its “terrorism” stings against Muslims, the FBI’s behavior in this case was comically inept. Just didn’t realize *how* inept. These “plotters” were losers. It took the FBI to make them criminals. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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‎Chameleon: The Michigan Plot on Apple Podcasts

‎True Crime · 2024

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

And as @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social’s new book makes clear, that narrative was always a lie.

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

dumbfuck and his dumbfuck audience don’t know that police officers are almost always already indemnified by cities

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

Nikki Haley: Well at least now that Trump has launched a despicable attack on my husband nobody will ever expect me to support him again. Ted Cruz: [awkwardly shifts in seat] Nikki: Oh sorry Ted I didn’t smell you there

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Stu ~Bat Country~ Nugent @thatsextoyguy.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

flight attendant: IS THERE AN ENGINEER ON BOARD engineer: i'm an engineer flight attendant: haha nerrrrrrd

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Look unless I SPECIFICALLY TELL YOU OTHERWISE it would be easier if you just assume EVERY SINGLE FUCKING PERSON IS A TERRIBLE CLIENT

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Yes I recycled this joke verbatim from 2020

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

38-year-old man is arrested for failure to show up at court, is put in jail on pretrial detention for months. Police withheld his HIV medication until he grew sick, lost the ability to walk on his own, and was sent to hospice where he died.

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Man Died After Allegedly Being Denied HIV Meds in California Jail

Lawsuit claims that health care providers denied the incarcerated man critical HIV meds for two months, leading to his death in hospice.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

I want to write a think piece about how the thirst for presidential immunity is part of a larger authoritarian sentiment leading to things like qualified immunity and thin blue line mentality and this mf just tweets it out

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Remains the funniest block of nonfiction on the internet.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

So today I just discovered that The Urban Institute has an AMAZING on-line tool for accessing the Census's Annual Survey of State and Local Govt Finances. I feel like the ASGF is woefully underused, prob bc its format at the Census's website is almost unusable for researchers. Tool is here:

state-local-finance-data.taxpolicycenter.org

State and Local Government Finance Data | Tax Policy Center

Explore and compare state and local government data on revenue, spending, and debt from 1977 to 2021 with our tool.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

The morning paper, January 5, 2024:

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

This is a high quality Bushism, the likes of which we haven’t seen in years

Nikki Haley on twitter: “We have to deal with the cancer that is mental health.”

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 04/01/2024

I know WSJ is Murdoch's rag, but printing Chris fucking Rufo is a new low.

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Matthew Budman, book guy @matthewbudman.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Three years ago today. Remember how outrageous this seemed at the time? It should *still* seem that outrageous.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

I’ve come to realize “Trump broke you” means “in the Trump era I came to realize you have a set of values I don’t share, and I’m disdainful of that.”

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

So, the current 'impeachable offense' is that President Biden knew his son was going to ignore a congressional subpoena Also, many of the Republicans involved in the 'investigation' themselves defied congressional subpoenas last year ....sigh

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

Still some bugs to work out

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

“The Marginal Opportunity Cost of Policing is Too Damn High” lacks the narrative simplicity of “Defund the Police!” but it’s the accurate take on things, esp given how local budgeting works.

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

Kudos to WCNC Charlotte for getting the National Sheriffs' Association on the record botching some basic questions about due process and civil asset forfeiture: www.wcnc.com/article/mone...

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