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Twin Cities. Librul. Fuck cancer, and breast cancer in particular.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3h
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 17h
Any smoke for the Republicans claiming they're running against communists?
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
But it had pockets.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Interesting flirtation technique. Does that work for you?
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Maybe Skydance can put it up on pay-per-view. MAGA must be entertained.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If they wanted to allow users to abuse their AI, they would have given it a woman's name.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Conservatives will DEI in ways that they accuse the left of doing but that the left never actually does.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's a reasonable question. But so many of these guys (mostly guys) are lawyers and definitely know better. They just assume their followers are stupid, and that assumption continues to work for them. For some reason.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When and how did the Council accuse anyone of gang rape?
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I see Vance had a press conference this morning. Did anyone ask him about this?
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not just a garden-variety dumbass -- a super dumbass. Super unintelligence, if you will.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Count me in the proud 1%, then.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“She asked the powers at NASA to let her add a safeguard to prevent that error in a real flight, and they laughed it off as too unlikely… When an astronaut did make that blooper during the Apollo 8 mission, it caused necessary navigational data to vanish, and they called Hamilton in to get it back.”
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I was going to say "when you abdicate your responsibilities" but you beat me to this by 5 seconds.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Too bad we can't change laws in this country.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You'd have to pass a law. Like the one we passed in 1929. And that wasn't the first time we added seats. I understand that it's never going to be completely even. I'm not advocating for fractional representation. But it can be fairer. history.house.gov/Historical-H...
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The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives
On this date, the House passed the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, fixing the number of Representatives at 435. The U.S. Constitution called for at least one Representative per state and that no ...
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm not suggesting anything of the sort. I'm saying that Wyoming's population should set to be the size of the average congressional district, which would add something like 150 seats the last time I bothered doing the math.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nah.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
California population divided by Wyoming population = ~67.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If Wyoming gets a representative at 589K, then that should be roughly the size of every congressional district. 18% is too big a deviation to be anywhere near fair.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We can cap districts at the population of Wyoming. My congressional district is ~18% larger in population than the entire state of Wyoming, which dilutes my representation for absolutely no good reason.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We tore down monuments to people who thought you were less than human, Marco.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I mean, the common people are welcome to listen to the wind domestically or something.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Elites: AI is going to eliminate your job and possibly kill all humans. Also elites: Why U no have kids?
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It is literally Easy Mode, which is something none of our nepotism-baby politicians will ever realize.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He's the garbage.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Plus that money was never taxed in the first place. Taxes need to be paid on it! The most fucked-up thing I've learned about climbing the economic ladder has been that there are many perks/breaks/incentives offered to people who don't fundamentally need them. It should be criminal, not encouraged.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Exactly. I understand that the parent could have done a Roth conversion at some point to save the kid some bucks, but the kid is still going to end up with hundreds of thousands of dollars that they didn't earn and they can pay the goddamned taxes on it. GREAT problem to have.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So... pay the tax. What's the problem?
24/7 Wall St. headline:
A Retiree Who Dies at 82 With $700,000 Still in an IRA, Never Having Converted a Dollar, Leaves a Daughter in Her Peak Earning Years Ten Years to Pay Tax on All of It
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The party of small government.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Learning will absolutely happen. Compute costs will drop and laggards -- who aren't spending trillions on data centers -- get the benefit of learning what enterprise and consumer users are willing pay for.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He's mad that bigotry is being called bigotry, and that's infringing on the rights of bigots. And he cites the gay wedding cake case... that was won by the baker? I think it would be easier for the rest of us to understand if he could outline which sins are worthy of cake and which aren't.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That economic populism is frequently a whites-only affair.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Leak details racist chat group of college Republicans" www.miamiherald.com/news/politic... No, not that one. abc7ny.com/post/new-yor... Not that one, either. www.politico.com/news/2025/10... Nope.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, I sent your mistress' calendar invite to your wife. That's on me. Would you like to see a list of potential smoothing-over gifts at Printemps?
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No, you see, high gas prices back then after something Putin did was Biden's fault. High gas prices right now after something Zelenskyy did... is also Biden's fault. Totally consistent!
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's not just Israel. When we toppled the Iraqi government, there was a brief period when Bush admin officials pondered instituting an HMO-based private health system there. It was quickly scrapped, because locals would have rightly rioted. So your tax dollars paid for universal care in Iraq.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As long as third-country deportations are still available, I think we've just found a solid use for them.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I was momentarily incensed by the headline but then I noticed it was TPM so I figured it was a joke.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bernie's campaigns.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We learn from failures. There were ridiculous overvaluations in the early B2C days of the Internet, but after the first movers went bankrupt the next wave was able to figure out what to do. My only comfort in the AI boom is, barring bailouts, the first movers are going to seriously suffer.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
AAs are good for this as well. You'd be surprised (or, maybe *you* wouldn't) at how much Hollywood gets wrong about basic restaurant cooking.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's part of the media's way of keeping us from governing. Republicans can barely hold a chamber but it is their right to claim the mantle of middle America. We, on the other hand, never have a mandate.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Any chance we'll get an opportunity to see the "I'll never rape again" essays from those college students? I'm dying to know if they're AI-generated.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Responded and blocked? Brave of you.
Simpsons meme: "We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas."
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm well aware, as a brown person, that I owe my right to vote to the tears and blood of generations of Black Americans. I subsequently take that hard-fought responsibility incredibly seriously.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's not too much to ask for people to take more interest in their situations. We can see your voting rates. "But gerrymander" = has nothing to do with statewide office. "But suppression" = if Bubba is keeping you from voting with a shotgun, fine. If it's inconvenient and you don't, that's on you.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There's a chicken/egg aspect to this. We've watched journalism fail repeatedly over the last decade in deep and fundamental ways. I have no confidence that subsidizing that failure will result in less failure.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Alito's originalist definition of "ohana" in U.S. v. Stitch was a low point of that term.
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thewritingchef.bsky.social @thewritingchef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
10/7 was an obvious failure of conservative policy and they've tripled down on their failed policy.
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