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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Obvious narrative biases pushed by mediocre NYT editors who all "DEI" hired each other "Working class" luxury pickup truck owners, but not POC "Faith voters" but not the most religious group, Black Americans "Elite" doesn't apply to the party of the world's richest families "Midwest" means White

"I mean, it wasn't just the fact that Trump was a gravy train. It's also juxtaposed (against) the most boring administration in modern history. You go from a circus with flaming chainsaws to ... what? An old man watching his dog?"

"I loved covering Trump. It was a great and fascinating story. It wasn't just about him; it was about his movement and the institutions and America. The story was always so dramatic and had these larger than life characters. The stakes often felt very high. I like covering Biden, too, but it just doesn't feel as dramatic."

"We're so back,"one reporter whispered to
another.
All of the chairs in the White House briefing room were filled, and reporters and photographers were crammed into every available nook and cranny. I was standing in

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Saying @RashidaTlaib (D-Detroit) and @IlhaMN (D-Minneapolis) are from the Midwest
is like saying @RepLloydDoggett (D-Austin) is from Texas
or @repjohnlewis (D-Atlanta) is from the Deep South.
C'mon.

twitter.com/_waleedshahid/.. Waleed Shahid @_waleedshahid

"Free stuff from the government does not play well in the Midwest." - Claire McCaskill
1) @RashidaTlaib + @IlhanMN are also from the Midwest.
2) Medicare and Social Security are both technically "free stuff" and they play very well.

TOP TEN BILLIONAIRE FAMILIES BY POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN 2024

DONATIONS SUPPORTING REPUBLICANS
Mellon Family $172 MILLION
Adelson Family $137 MILLION
Musk Family $133 MILLION
Uihlein Family $132 MILLION
Griffin Family $102 MILLION
Yass Family $85.7 MILLION
Singer Family $57 MILLION
DONATIONS SUPPORTING DEMOCRATS
Simons Family $46.6 MILLION
Bloomberg Family $45.1 MILLION
DONATIONS SUPPORTING REPUBLICANS
Koch Family $43.7 MILLION

Federal Aid as Share of State Budget
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Nice parallel with SINNERS.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 27/04/2025

Every Senate Democrat voted to confirm Marco Rubio. Every single one. They should never live that down. Yes, that includes Warren and Sanders and Booker. www.huffpost.com/entry/marco-...

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Marco Rubio And Trump's Border Czar Defend Deportation Of U.S. Citizen Children

Both men said the children weren't deported... they just went with their mothers.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

i would even argue it's pretty common for Americans to see what's happening in Gaza as a genocide. NYT reporters and the visual investigations team have documented aspects of that genocide well. The owners and editors just don't want anyone to call it that.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

attorneys with one of the state's largest public defense law firms are based as hell it turns out only an idiot would consider it a scandal for public defenders to say "fuck the police"

Attorneys with one of the state’s largest public defense law firms formed a group text chat that they named “F*** tha police” accompanied by a pig emoji, court filings show.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 26/04/2025

Just a reminder that no state - not Israel, not the United States, not Russia, not China, not ANY state - has a right to exist. People have rights to exist. But states and governments are legal fictions. As such, their "right" to exist persists only insofar as they serve the people.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

"They want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay the longer hours the reduced benefits the end of overtime and the vanishing pension" ~George Carlin

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Comrade Stephanie @srg.wtf · 25/04/2025

“Andrew Tate is the Amway of hitting women.”- Robert Evan’s (@iwriteok.bsky.social) Perfect encapsulation of one of the most successful and yet still the most pathetic pieces of shit grifters of our time.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

If you take anything away from my post, I hope it's this:

I will scream this until my lungs collapse: Trans people aren’t the problem. Immigrants and refugees aren’t the problem. Progressives aren’t the problem.

The problem is that the majority of Americans can’t afford a $1000 emergency expense. The problem is that most of our paycheck goes to rent and if we have appendicitis, we call an Uber instead of an ambulance. The problem is that we have leaders who see us, the voters, as abstract concepts and not as individuals with our own lives, families, traumas, passions, and priorities.

We are all somebody’s child but when representatives forget that, when they start to only view their district from the window of their Capitol office, we become ants. Our votes become numbers in a game. And our struggles become hindrances to our representative’s job security.

Removal from reality is most often an accident. It’s just a common side effect of our political culture. Congress should be a job like any other, but the pomp and circumstance gives our elected officials an excuse to detach. The ones who haven’t fallen into that trap have only managed to do so through purposeful planning and frequent trips home. They treat empathy like a muscle, flexing it as often as possible to ward off apathy. But this should be the norm, not the exception. If not for moral reasons, then for strategic ones.

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Fantastic and necessary piece from @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social (deleted earlier post because typo) stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

Here’s the truth: White Americans — white men especially — who didn’t need to compete against a broad-based pool because of gender and racial discrimination; who have long enjoyed access to neighborhoods and networks, jobs, clubs, and government programs that systematically excluded others; and who continue to enjoy the presumption of expertise even when they are far outside their depth — have long been the original beneficiaries of race and gender-based affirmative action in this country.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

this doesn't really have legal force but it would make it clear in any instance where Trump does this that what we'd be witnessing is an invasion

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yuriimagination.bsky.social @yuriimagination.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I hope so because RFK is trying to dehumanize the autistic community & is more worried about them not having a job or paying taxes.

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Tee Vixen Sutton @vixenbite.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

i think people are missing the forest for the trees with this one. RFK Jr wants complete centralized knowledge of every American's health in order to exact control on what medications are allowed and in order to fabricate "evidence" for each and all of his nonsense theories.

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Ghoul Fleshman @glennf.com · 19/04/2025

If gender were not performative, why do so many people become angry, livid, foaming at the mouth threatened when you don’t play the part they expect you to? If it weren’t performative, nobody would care because your behavior wouldn’t cause them to question theirs.

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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

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B.Gardiner @naturevotesblue.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/04/2025

Going to have a dozen fruit trees because fruit trees rock

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/04/2025

Fuck lawns. When Mercy and I finally have enough money to buy a house (lol lmao) I'm planting a giant garden and growing squash and flowers for butterflies and bees and feeders for hummingbirds

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Guys, this is David Brooks in the NY Times. If it's like this 90 days into this presidency with people who wouldn't be caught dead saying it last year, imagine it in two years. Something good is happening, we just have to lift everybody up so they can see it. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement. Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power.

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Whistleblower's report “exposes systemic corruption, retaliation, contract violations, and union collusion” within the Cook County DOC. It presents not only a personal account but a “documented pattern of institutional abuse that impacts both officers & detainees.” unicornriot.ninja/2025/whistle...

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Whistleblower's Account of Corruption and Administrative Abuse Within Cook County Jail - UNICORN RIOT

Read the exposé "Beneath the Badge: Corruption and Administrative Abuse Within Cook County Jail" from a whistleblowing corrections officer.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/04/2025

Evergreen but fuck AIPAC now and forever.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 16/04/2025

And this is why I am antizionist.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 15/04/2025

12 Dem Senators and 48 Dem House members voted for the Laken Riley Act—allowing US Govt to deport immigrants on the mere accusation of a crime. As you see those 60 Dems complain about Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, or Kilmar Abrego Garcia, among many more—please know they enabled this fascism.

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Gady Epstein @gadyepstein.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Highly disturbing story about DOGE but this detail is particularly chilling www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

The new revelations about DOGE's activities at the labor agency come from a whistleblower in the IT department of the NLRB, who disclosed his concerns to Congress and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel in a detailed report that was then provided to NPR. Meanwhile, his attempts to raise concerns internally within the NLRB preceded someone "physically taping a threatening note" to his door that included sensitive personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone, according to a cover letter attached to his disclosure filed by his attorney, Andrew Bakaj of the nonprofit Whistleblower Aid.

The whistleblower's account is corroborated by internal documentation and was reviewed by 11 technical experts across other government agencies and the private sector. In total, NPR spoke to over…

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Poseur @poseur.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

As my former prof would say, "a right without a remedy is no right at all."

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Em @emwils.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Yeah man SCOTUS ruled in 2022 Shinn v. Ramirez that actual innocence is secondary to procedural concerns, we've become inured to the idea that it's acceptable for people to be tortured in jails and prisons, all predicated on the idea that criminality is something that's inherent, not just made up.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 15/04/2025

Okay then we can deftly send her to a Salvadorean torture gulag and see how she likes it

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Séamas Aloysius @seamusaloysius.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

"Take him anyway." I don't even recognize my country anymore...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/04/2025

A former Colorado sheriff’s deputy was sentenced to three years in prison on Monday for the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man who called 911 for help as he was experiencing a mental health crisis on a mountain road in 2022.

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Former Sheriff’s Deputy Is Sentenced to 3 Years in Killing of Colorado Man

Andrew Buen was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in February in the 2022 killing of Christian Glass, who was experiencing a mental health crisis on a mountain road.

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pammageddon.bsky.social @pammageddon.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This isn’t about immigration. This is testing the law against active duty military operations on US soil. This is pre-staging US military to deploy to demonstrations. The Posse Comitatus Act strictly limits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement.

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NPR @npr.org · 14/04/2025

According to the U.S. Army, soldiers won't be arresting people suspected of being in the country illegally, and instead will offer "logistical support" to Border Patrol agents.

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Troops arrive at the border to help with enforcement despite fewer migrant crossings

According to the U.S. Army, soldiers won't be arresting people suspected of being in the country illegally, and instead will offer "logistical support" to Border Patrol agents.

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Whitaker @protime-fitness1.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

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M.A. Sheppard @river-observer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Famously the people who were right about "the Democrats should stop supporting genocide or they will lose the election" had zero effect on Democratic policy

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Sacha 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️♾️⚒️ @queercommie94.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Every single Senate Democrat voted for him. Every damn one of them enabled this.

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Rachel (she/xe) 🇸🇬 | Autistic As Fxxk ♾️ @autisticasfxxk.com · 14/04/2025

This Autism Acceptance/Awareness Month, please remember our neurokin who lost their lives to systemic racism and ableism. Rest in peace Victor Perez. And I still haven’t forgotten Ryan Gainer, who we lost last year. 💔

Background is purple with a crumpled paper texture. On top, text reads, “They should still be here.” Below the text is a cutout photo of Victor Perez, a 17-year-old Puerto Rican Autistic teen, and a cutout photo of Ryan Gainer, a 15-year-old Black Autistic teen.

To learn more about the pervasive and systemic problem of police violence against Black and Brown neurodivergent and disabled people, check out @StimPunks’ excellent trove of resources at: StimPunks.org/Policing

Please help Victor Perez’s family if you can: GoFundMe.com/f/Justice-For-Victor-Perez

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Shoe Queen of Atlantis @salomekjones.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

For those who think my posting this means I agree, yes and no. But mostly I posted it for us, for Americans to see that we can ask more of our politicians, or universities, our institutions. We can demand more of them. The world thinks they're being idiots. We who've given them so much, demand more.

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Actually Ghostface @vantablackpharaoh.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

"When do we strike?" Oh... the strikes are already happening.

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

GIGANTIC YELLOW WARNING: we don't serve transsexuals. HAPPY REGULAR WEBSITE: care. no matter what. can't make this shit up man

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*On Friday, April 11, 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sent a letter to Medicaid agencies directing them to not provide Medicaid dollars to any clinics that provide Gender Affirming Care services. At this time, Planned Parenthood Arizona is pausing Gender Affirming Care services as we continue to review and evaluate this order. We are committed to keeping our patients updated about the services we provide and will communicate further once we can provide more information.

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🔩All Hallow’s Joan🐈‍⬛ @screwedjoan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

legal hrt is getting squashed out this year, full stop. try to get your cis friends to understand this is genocidal in intent. people will die and they know it and they want it and these orgs are willing to allow that so they can continue to operate as sycophants.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

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