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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Brilliant. But this made my brain hurt as I tried to figure out how they did it. Wait until you see the credits.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "You've done well," she says. "By telling men to dress gay, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home in a walkable neighborhood

Someone on Twitter writes: "Unfortunately die work wear or whatever is a psyop to turn men into women . Cuz why the hell else would he be telling them to dress that gay"

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?" Why, you may also ask, did voters not buy the (correct) message that Trump represents an existential threat to 🇺🇸 democracy? 🧐🤔😬🤷‍♂️ Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

"I picked the cotton, and I carried it to market, and I built the railroads, under someone else's whip, for nothing. For nothing." The great James Baldwin in his 1965 debate against William F. Buckley, Jr. at Cambridge Union.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing." The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care. One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:

propublica.org

When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance

In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be chea...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I said this on the show, but something that hasn’t sunk in, I think. We haven’t had a “new” president who is sworn in and is immediately a lame duck in the nation’s entire history. When Grover Cleveland was sworn in a second time we didn’t have the 22nd amendment!

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Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

There’s a tradition from jolly old England of getting everyone together on or near the winter solstice and intimidating the local rich guy into giving you booze and treats uh, “in exchange for blessings” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassail...

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Wassailing - Wikipedia

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

They’re going to shutdown the government before they even have a chance to run it.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20/12/2024

A widespread shortage of a beloved brew in Britain has led one pub to distribute ration cards to customers. Employees at another pub wheeled kegs through rain just to obtain a small supply. A distributor said the drought could lead to the end of some businesses.

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Guinness is running dry in U.K. pubs. Is a social media challenge to blame?

Ahead of the holidays, U.K. pubs are running out of Guinness, which skyrocketed in popularity alongside the social media challenge “split the G.”

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I’m less worried about parents seeking gender affirming care for their kids than I am about parents purchasing guns for their kids.

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TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com · 14/12/2024

every year around christmas time the ballet dancers who play the rats in the nutcracker come out with a series of unexplained banger tiktok videos and anyway this is my favorite part of the holiday season

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

My rage goes back and forth from "What the fuck is wrong with Americans?" to "Fuck them all - they'll get president and the country they deserve." The fact is I will probably be fine no matter what. But I wanted OTHER PEOPLE to be fine.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

We are about to be a part of the most vivid and vicious expression in modern times of the richest among us grabbing as much as they can for themselves, no matter how much pain they cause. Out of this must come a renewed and intensified opposition and commitment to the common good.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The GOP is apparently planning on passing a reconciliation package with as much as $120 BILLION in border-related funding. To put that in context, if you add up ever single Border Patrol budget from 1990 through 2024, adjusted for inflation, it's $121 billion. That's THIRTY-FOUR YEARS of funding.

Incoming GOP leader John Thune is actively seeking ways to make next year's border and defense package deficit-neutral, if not deficit-negative.

Why it matters: Despite pushback from House Republicans, Thune is full steam ahead on his two-part reconciliation plan for next year, sources tell us.

The border portion of the first reconciliation package — which also includes energy and defense — could be as much as $120 billion, a source familiar told us.

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cate @buny.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

It's not the age of your Constitution, it's how you use it

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Don’t worry a modern first-world democracy can’t fall to an authoritarian takeover [reads news feed] okay fine but THIS first world democracy can’t fall to an authoritarian takeover, our traditions and institutions are too robust and oh lol look at that weird dude wrapped in a flag carrying a cross

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

It took four decades to go from Ronald Reagan's lazy, childish talking point about government to the dismantling of the modern administrative state. Who knows how long it will take to recreate everything we'll discover we actually liked & needed once we needlessly & childishly destroy it.

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Scooter @scooterw.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This movie is fantastic and surprisingly moving. Probably not the story you’re expecting, not told the way you’re expecting. Glad it’s now streaming on Netflix for a wider audience. m.youtube.com/watch?v=FFYf...

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KNEECAP | Official Trailer (2024)

YouTube video by Sony Pictures Classics

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

A potential partner must have the correct level of enthusiasm about the Muppets. Too little and their hearts are devoid of joy. Too much and they are into an extreme kink so disgusting only a theatre kid could imagine it.

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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” -- James Baldwin, who died #OTD 1987

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 31/07/2024

Every time another basic income pilot like this concludes - the results are "unprecedented." It's almost like it's time for it to become universal or something.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦I Just Don't Care About Being Nice Anymore @purelyrick.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The Mexican President is putting up an exponentially stronger fight against Trump than our own elected leaders. Let that sink in.

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Microplastics Sommelier @eephus.biz · 22/11/2024

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

lady of sophistication @janky_jane
Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario
Andrew Beatty V @AndrewBeatty
Replying to @janky_jane
I once ordered a taxi in Belfast for a night out. The driver pulls up to my house and just says "yer not going out like that. Go back in and change, I'll turn off the metre." | swear I was wearing normal jeans and a normal jacket.

Matthew @MrWeir
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I once wore a silver jacket to college, turned up late for class, said 'sorry I'm late', lecturer said, 'that's ok' then waited til I was halfway across the front of the full class before following up with 'trouble with the spaceship again was it?'.
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My sister was in France sporting a new trench coat, thought was so stylish, but went into an Irish bar and got called Inspector Gadget by the first guy that saw her
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was wearing my super-fashionable short trench coat. My friend took one look at me wearing the jacket and said,
"Where are we off to now. Columbo?"

Eoin O Neill
@eoinjoneill
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Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes "furk me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80's"

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@dufflest
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I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it.

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I wore a white, wool turtle-neck jumper to the match once and a fella in the pub said 'Where have you parked the U-boat?'.

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Father McGee 🍁 @drinksmcgee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Captain: I'm really nervous about giving this speech. Sun, rubbing his shoulders: Don't worry, big guy. You got this.

Sun flag looking like it's giving a boat captain a back rub.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 20/11/2024

My latest is in @thenation.com, writing about how Democrats scapegoating trans people is grasping at straws following the 2024 election, and certainly disheartening to see:

thenation.com

Trans People Shouldn't Be Scapegoated For Democrats' Failures

Politicians and pundits are stoking a backlash to trans rights in the wake of the election. They're playing a dangerous game.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It’s really something to watch the Party whose supporters poop on the floor in the Capitol and wipe their feces on the wall tell us which bathrooms to use.

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Scooter @scooterw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Finally a cabinet pick we can all agree on!

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Meet Trump’s new Secretary of Education nominee Linda McMahon

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

New reporting: According to two sources with direct knowledge, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were credibly concerned that they could face governmental and legal harassment from the incoming Trump administration. www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/m...

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‘Morning Joe’ meeting with Trump was driven by fears of retribution from incoming administration, sources say | CNN Business

According to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, Scarborough and Brzezinski were credibly concerned that they could face governmental and legal harassment from the incoming Trump administ...

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It’s not the immigrant that’s picking strawberries and broccoli that’s dangerous, it’s the one who bought an election so that Donald Trump could stay out of prison and now thinks he owns the USA.

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Scooter @scooterw.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Can someone show these graphs to RFK, JR?

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Scooter @scooterw.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

“How many soldiers is the life of one gay man worth?” Turns out it’s 7. Hilarious lol

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I never want to hear a Republican talk about law and order ever again.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

When Obama nominated Tom Daschle -- a congressional leader with three decades of experience working on federal health care policies -- to be HHS secretary, the senator had to withdraw because a donor provided him with a car. If only he'd beheaded a whale! www.theguardian.com/world/2009/f...

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Senator Tom Daschle withdraws as health secretary nominee

Former senator Tom Daschle came under scrutiny over failure to pay $140,000 in taxes

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 15/11/2024

buying twitter for 44 billion is a bad deal, but buying the US government for 44 billion is actually an amazing deal

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Past mass deportations “resulted in lower wages and employment for native-born workers, partly because some businesses couldn’t operate without immigrant labor … It had a particularly pronounced effect on care sectors: A shrunken supply of child care meant that fewer mothers could hold jobs.”

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

If anything, we’re probably under-imagining how disruptive and different the next decade or generation of America will be. I sketch out here two scenarios (not mutually exclusive) about the peril and challenge ahead: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/two-scenar...

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Two scenarios for the years ahead

What if America Doesn’t Meet This Moment?

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

James Baldwin on optimism

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

We spoke to an ex-marine here in Tennessee about when he would really start to worry. His answer: “When he starts firing generals.”

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