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When Bill Maher has the knives out then you are doing it right. Rep. Crockett knows exactly what she’s doing and I suspect is just loving living rent free in Bill’s head.

And putting the euphemisms aside the push is for more white babies. Pro-natalism is racism. I doubt this administration would be gleefully pushing for more kids of color. Full stop.

This will cause real damage downstream. To the current administration “merit” reads as “white” and typically “male”. This will cut out a lot of talent and the impact will be felt. Shortsighted doesn’t even begin to describe it.

Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 09/05/2025

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Happy 70th Birthday to The #Muppets! Is May 9 the day the Muppets debuted? Nope, but it's still a big date in Muppet history--and the Jim Henson story--nevertheless. Here's the story of how they got there. Take a walk with me. /1

Jim Henson sitting in a crowd of Muppets, c. 1975 or so, with his arm draped around Kermit.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

if it isnt aoc, bernie, crockett or a couple others, the dems go "while i acknowledge my colleague's concerns on x, i support a bipartisan y and believe that we should maybe sort of kind of do..." and people zone out. understandably.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

My observations on this are a little mean and a lil sad but what’s most standing out to me is .. it’s only two years in And most of it was via a culture bomb And .. Sam Altman et specifically used a form of crypto racism directed at the studies these students are disrespecting

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Relentless @relentlesspursuit.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Accurate. Also applies to the same question when “poor” is replaced by “Black”.

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I never could have guessed I'd be saying this, but... We need to get Elmo his motherfucking job back.

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It seems that many/most who are identified as woke just happen to be Black. That’s not an accident imo.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

If this period has shown nothing else it has demonstrated how utterly feckless and unprepared the Democratic leadership is. There are exceptions in the rank-and-file but the leaders are clueless. Full stop.

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Walz: We don’t need to run government like a business, because we’re not in the profit-making business. We’re in the business of improving lives and looking toward the future. And second, this guy has a proven track record of being an absolute failure.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 05/05/2025

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

As Gabriel Byrne says in Miller's Crossing: “I'd worry a lot less if I thought you were worrying enough.” We must hope that the administration is worrying enough about #India and #Pakistan, and can find the competence to help deescalate the situation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The unfolding conflict between Pakistan and India needs to be handled with the utmost care and competence.

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They won’t. Here’s a hint though. It’s the racism.

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

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1. Wall Street titans are supposed to be these big tough guys, but Lutnick makes me wonder how many are just pathetic lickspittles waiting for the right master to kneel down for 2. "Human pinky ring" is my new favorite term for Lutnick, we should all use it

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Cash is king apparently.

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So that’s about 156 Million dollars lost. All in a month. So much for efficiency.