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TheGins

@thegins.bsky.social
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Opinionated + passionate about life: people, politics, music, culture. Dog dad. Public radio guy. Occasional writer. davidginsburg.medium.com

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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is Joe Biden's fault, obvs
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This endlessly corrupt regime is at war with voting and democracy itself. The bullshit SAVE Act, the attempts to grab state voter rolls, take over mail-in voting, and now this garbage tell you all you need to know about how much Trump and MAGA hate voters, voting, and American Democracy itself.
propublica.org
This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meta uses a bullshit tax credit to evade $3.9 billion in taxes while MAGA celebrates kicking single moms working 3 jobs off of SNAP and Medicaid AND corporate malfeasance. "All cruelty springs from weakness."
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meta is using a bullshit tax credit to avoid $3.9 billion in taxes for one year while MAGA celebrates taking an extra $60 a month in SNAP benefits from single moms working three jobs. Phony corporatist assholes. Blow up the whole system and start over.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ICE shooting DoorDash drivers in the street for the crime of Being Brown while 7 privileged Ivy Leaguers write essays as punishment for drugging and gang-raping a woman is as clear an example of America’s two-tiered justice system as you’ll ever see.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hell yeah I got Oasis tix for Gillette Stadium next August! Kinda psyched.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
FYI @kutx.bsky.social is celebrating 9-25 Day with all Dolly Parton music and it's awesome. KUTX is one of the best public radio stations in the country. Get on it!
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Finally, the hard-hitting journalism America so desperately needs:
popsci.com
What kind of animal is Gonzo? What kind of animal is Gonzo? The Muppets won't say, so we asked biologists.
Gonzo’s most distinct feature is also his most baffling: his beak. (Or is it a nose?)
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gen Xers wouldn't bring an iced coffee to a job interview because we'd end up having to pee twice during the interview as a result.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Summer ended two days ago, I can’t turn the heat on yet. Feels like it would be a violation of The Masshole Code.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The fact that this abject fucking moron is a Senator is terrifying too. When Alabama sends their people to Washington, they're not sending their best...
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Gonna second this emotion! Common sense idea, which means it's got no chance at present.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How do you atone for intentional sins? #YomKippur
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you ever want to guarantee that I won't communicate with you again, add me to a big group text chat with a bunch of people I don't know about subjects I don't care about.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Streaming International Curesday on KEXP and it's just phenomenal. Check out the full @kexp-playlist.bsky.social, it's wild to see so many deep cuts and covers. All the cool shit on the radio is happening at the left side of the dial. #NonComm #PublicRadio
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Meet your new Ed Sheeran opening act, William Hung:
static.klipy.com
American Idol: William Hung's She Bangs Audition
ALT: American Idol: William Hung's She Bangs Audition
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Given how stupid everything's gotten, I wouldn't be surprised if "Bibberty" ends up being named Word of the Year. (Please tell me this won't happen, @merriam-webster.com)
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since it's #WorldSuicidePreventionDay and the opportunity to get mental health care in America has only gotten worse, I'm sharing this piece I wrote 10 years ago. It's not an easy subject to talk about but it's important that we do. Silence kills. medium.com/@davidginsbu...
medium.com
A Short Note on #WorldSuicidePreventionDay
I didn’t do it.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I was lucky enough to see this show in Boston last spring and it blew me away...and I've seen David Byrne several mind-blowing times. @milesklee.bsky.social nails the collective joy this show delivers. Check out this piece in @flaminghydra.com:
flaminghydra.com
Feel the Byrne
Miles Klee attends a performance at the Hollywood Bowl
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Giving $5K to every American over 18 IS a form of socialism, geniuses There's no hypocrisy like MAGA hypocrisy.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If CoPilot were an actual pilot and Word was the plane, it would crash before takeoff. It isn't just useless; it's degrading the overall quality of writing. I know how to write. @microsoft.com needs to enable an option to turn this worthless piece of shit off.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If you’re in or planning to visit Central Mass this fall, make a point of visiting @newenglandbg.bsky.social. It’s phenomenal year-round, but the current Glass in Flight and Fairy Hollow exhibits are a level up. Little kids especially will be mesmerized.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
She farts when she’s excited and its never not funny (this was taken right after she ripped a pair of squeakers)
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It’s funny how people with bottomless self pity have so little empathy or compassion for anyone else
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died a week after Dolly Parton. Two feminist icons gone at a moment in America when the misogynist MAGA turds are pushing to repeal the 19th Amendment because weak bitchy men are terrified of equality.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“Report undocumented migrants to The Cruelty Machine or we’ll punish poor people in your state even more” sums up MAGA’s hatred of the poor and POC pretty seamlessly www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
DOJ says states have to report undocumented immigrants to get federal funding
The DOJ says that when states accept federal funds to assist low-income families, all state agencies have to report people’s immigration statuses.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
America, where even basic rights to shelter are a contest. A lottery for affordable housing while billlionaires get tax breaks and guaranteed government contracts. Pathetic. the016.com/blogs/12/372...
the016.com
Lottery opens for 10 affordable Worcester condos - Blog View - The 016 - Worcester, Mass.
Photos courtesy of E3 Development LLC WORCESTER — Applications are now being accepted for a housing lottery offering 10 income-restricted homeownership units at The Overlook at Coes in Worcester...
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Where are the "constitutional conservatives" demanding that detainees' 8th Amendment rights aren't violated continuously like this? All the "pro life" MAGA look the other way as the regime intentionally destroys the lives of Black + brown people with as much malevolent cruelty as they can muster.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Okay so Tim Curry makes it TWO 80-year-olds and celebrity deaths supposedly come in threes...
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just for fun sometimes I like to order an iced chai latte at Starbucks but with the Hebrew pronunciation, really getting that phlegmy chhh in there before a blank-faced barista
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Crabby Husky Lady @crabbyhuskylady.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Thank you, Mark Carney, for standing up to fascism.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Happy Birthday, Dad. "Elliott’s gone almost 11 years and it’s still weird. I still hear his voice in my head all the time and I still feel his restlessness in me too, like I’m living out the years he left behind and the years he missed out on and maybe some of the years I missed out on too..."
davidginsburg.medium.com
Elliott at 85 if He Weren’t Dead
My dad would’ve turned 85 Saturday if the cancer and heart disease hadn’t killed him. He was just 74 when he died and even that last…
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'm a lifelong Masshole and have spent considerable time in both places. As such, I can tell you definitively that Maine is way better than the Cape. You're welcome.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Of course Hegseth and the regime deny this. These assholes never take accountability; they point fingers to blame others or deny reality itself via whines of "Fake News!" All the Alpha/Beta/Cuck bullshit was created to help insecure little boys pretending to be men to feel better about themselves.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
How your email finds me:
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Can't wait for the first ICE agent to neuter himself by j/o with electric gloves
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"Here are 7 lessons about leadership I learned when my boss left me for dead on a decoy plane so he could keep his fat ass from getting assassinated..." Karolyin' Leavitt on LinkedIn, probably.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
He thinks he’s Michael but he’s really Fredo.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
You can't afford groceries or gas but The Redecorator in Chief is spending close to a billion dollars of your money to turn the White House into Mar-A-Lago North. Fuck all of you who voted for this fascist asshole.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The irony within all the racist bullshit MAGA throws at @abdulelsayed.bsky.social is that if he were a Republican with the same all-American story otherwise, they'd be swooning..some of them literally.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"While the debate rages about whether ChatGPT is overhyped and slop is too prevalent, AI is making decisions in credit scoring, medical diagnosis, hiring, content moderation, insurance underwriting, predictive policing, and supply chain management." Powerful read: #AI
goodmorningai.news
The AI Backlash Is a Distraction — Good Morning, AI
AI intelligence. All AI, no noise.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
First time reading Barthelme. Absolutely loved this one—funny as hell, moving, and language for the joy of it, blague be damned. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Libertarians are just aspirational fascists who just don't want to be told where to buy their jackboots." Not my quote--I can't find the original author to tag --and man this sums it up perfectly.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Thanks to the indispensable work of @popular.info, now we see the companies condoning spousal abuse and misogyny via continuing donations to the animal Max Miller. MAGA rot runs deep.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"The root of chronic people pleasing is not concern for others. It’s concern for their acceptance and approval." Every word of this piece from @adamgrant.bsky.social is spot-on:
adamgrant.substack.com
The Truth About People Pleasing
Saying no is not a display of disrespect. It's an expression of self-respect.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Billions in taxpayer money to prevent wind farms from getting built, taking away good-paying jobs and keeping energy costs inflated for all of us. MAGA loves corruption and make-believe bullshit, in addition to pedophiles and their protectors www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/c...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration to Pay RWE to Cancel Wind Leases (Gift Article)
It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Weak-ass phony Christian shows his true colors yet again. What a complete fraud of a (tiny little) man.
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
He’s gonna end up making Judge Boxwine Pirro indict whoever installed that “hair” next
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TheGins @thegins.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Fauci is being held in Contempt of Congress along partisan lines while the J6 losers get their convictions erased because Donald Trump is a money-laundering criminal (among many other horrible qualities) and MAGA needs to distract the public from this failed president's bottomless corruption.
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