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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
*Disclaimer: I have a degree. I am not 25 years old. I do work at the paper but I also am Black and from the South. I have heard of masculinity, whiteness and racism. Please interpret my glib social media incredulity as style and not function. Thank you.
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I will never get over the fact that the president of the United States talks and writes like this.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12h
Trump: “I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of ‘Congresswoman’ Marjorie Taylor Greene…”
Donald J. Trump -+ @realDonaldTrump I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of "Congresswoman” Marjorie Taylor Greene, of the Great State of Georgia. Over the past few weeks, despite my creating Record Achievements for our Country including, a Total and Complete Victory on the Shutdown, Closed Borders, Low Taxes, No Men in Women's Sports or Transgender for Everyone, ending DEI, stopping Biden's Record Setting Inflation, Biggest Regulation Cuts in History, stopping EIGHT WARS, rebuilding our Military, being RESPECTED by every Country in the World (as opposed to being the laughingstock that we were just 12 months ago!), having Trillions of Dollars (Record Setting!) INVESTED in the U.S.A., having created the "HOTTEST" Country anywhere in the World from being a DEAD Country just 12 months ago (and so much more!), all I see "Wacky” Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN! It seemed to all begin when I sent her a Poll stating that she should not run for Senator, or Governor, she was at 12%, and didn't have a chance (unless, of course, she had my Endorsement — which she wasn't about to get!). She has told many people that she is upset that I don't return her phone calls anymore, but with 219 Congressmen/women, 53 U.S. Senators, 24 Cabinet Members, almost 200 Countries, and an otherwise normal life to lead, I can't take a ranting Lunatic's call every day. I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they too are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support. She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
November 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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econgeo.bsky.social
Good piece by on economics' elite problem @haugejostein.bsky.social
Read it in pair with my piece on economics' 'race problem'. & you get a more comprehensive account on what is wrong with the "dismal science"
See developingeconomics.org/2021/07/11/c...
&
www.theglobalcurrents.com/p/economics-...
November 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
These people always pitch themselves as savvy Real America Whisperers but constantly talking about how Republicans are right and Democrats are annoying is abysmal electoral strategy.

Talk about how minorities aren't a threat, billionaires are!
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing
November 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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katewagner.wehwalt.net
hello everyone, my friend Ben from my wild Baltimore days has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer — he’s a really great and funny guy and could use some help bc the healthcare system in this country is so fucked up. It would mean the world if you donated: gofund.me/1cac6030e
Donate to Sustain Life-Saving Cancer Treatment for Ben, organized by Nicole Larrett
Late October after having visited my doctor for bloodwork, I was… Nicole Larrett needs your support for Donate to Sustain Life-Saving Cancer Treatment for Ben
gofund.me
November 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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genandgenes.bsky.social
Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor?

Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?

Now available for free!

Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!

Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
Picture of shark sculpture by MICA student Mayali Geyling. Picture of shark sculpture by MICA student Mayali Geyling.
November 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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refrag.bsky.social
"So have you got a new Jurassic Park movie for me?"

"Yes, sir, I do. It's called Jurassic Babies and it's about baby dinosaurs going on an adventure."

"Wow wow wow– Wow"
drbourbonstein.bsky.social Dr. Bourbonstein Ph. D @drbourbonstein.bsky.social · 1d
And their little laser noises!
November 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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liberalcurrents.com
"Carlson’s interview with Fuentes was full of Nazi fan service, with Fuentes railing against 'organized Jewry in America' and claiming that the fascist anti-immigrant crackdown in Chicago was not brutal enough." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-heritage...
The Heritage Foundation, Groypers, and the Narcissism of Small Differences
Fuentes is the fly born of Heritage’s maggot.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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punkademic.bsky.social
You’ll never find a better distillation of how technology and capitalism fit together in the 21st century.
greymoran.bsky.social Grey Moran @greymoran.bsky.social · 1d
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
YELLEN: “.. businesses feel paralyzed by the uncertainty about policies that represent the strong but really personal whims of a single individual.”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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jwmason.bsky.social
Very exciting news. This is going to be an important book.
November 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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thetattooedprof.bsky.social
Texas A&M is no longer a "university". It's a Vacation Bible School with a football team and parking problems.
brookenewman.bsky.social Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 1d
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
A thread by an A&M professor describing how the new rules will impact faculty. Syllabi must be fed into AI to be checked for content not aligned with approved syllabi; students will be encouraged to report faculty for inaccurate content; and young people are now being told they get to decide what a professor should teach.
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
surlyurbanist.bsky.social
I legitimately staggered each time I am witness to the utter lack of professionalism or respect these cats have…
michaelsderby.bsky.social Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 1d
AP: Bill Pulte associate “provided confidential mortgage pricing data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor, alarming senior officials of the government-backed lending giant who warned it could expose the company to claims that it was colluding with a rival to fix mortgage rates.”
Top Fannie Mae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confidential housing data
A confidant of Bill Pulte, the Trump administration’s top housing regulator, provided confidential mortgage pricing data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor.
apnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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amuzi.blacksky.app
Not sure what I was expecting to happen but that wasn't it 😂
brocklee.me Mr. Brock @brocklee.me · 1d
Now why would he…😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
In this paragraph, we have a heartbreakingly bleak portrait of American society as it actually exists.
That fall, the girl moved to live with a family member in Texas, according to Ms. Wolf. She did not complete her senior year in high school. She continued to work for minimum wage in the food services industry. Ultimately, between the money she made from her interactions with men and in the food services industry she was able to save up enough money to get braces.
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
I understand how paragraphs like this emerge from the editing process, but of course “little attention has been given” to a story no one knew about a minor victim whose identity was protected by a bunch of laws.

As Schmidt says in his post, this is our first encounter with this information.
For all the public furor over Mr. Gaetz - who always asserted that he broke no laws even as the House Ethics Committee found that he violated Florida's statutory rape laws - little attention has been given to the story of the girl, how she came to be exploited and how she has coped with what happened to her and the ensuing political scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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thegatesofmel.blacksky.app
I work for a really cool nonprofit that does amazing work in pushing for affordable, sustainable energy, and we’re hiring! Tell a friend! www.idealist.org/en/nonprofit...
LPSC Education Coordinator / Northern Louisiana Organizer - Job
Alliance for Affordable Energy is now hiring for the position of LPSC Education Coordinator / Northern Louisiana Organizer in New Orleans. Apply today.
www.idealist.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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tamaranopper.bsky.social
Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, "It’s a shame that the concept of the prison-industrial complex has atrophied in the way that it has... the tendency has been to narrow, narrow, narrow, to some notion of, as you said, private prisons and corporate greed."
November 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
Just last year people were writing about this movement as a transgressive counterculture opposing overbearing strictures on their freedom.
radleybalko.bsky.social Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.

Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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ninametz.bsky.social
When I asked Nick Offerman about his facial hair in the minutes 😂

“Ariana Grande can sing like an angel; for me, it's growing facial hair”

Gift 🔗
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/15/n...
Q: Perhaps there was a slight cushion with the mutton chops that Arthur sports. I always assume everything is fake, so maybe those were applied to you each morning, but you seem like someone who would want to grow your own! A: Those are fully my own facial hair. The only time I would use fake facial hair is if I need a big beard and I don't have time to grow it. But 95% of the whiskers I have in my career are my own. Ariana Grande can sing like an angel; for me, it's growing facial hair.
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
god damnit
public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social Health Policy we're going to find out this was really about protecting the filibuster, aren't we November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
November 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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charliearchy.bsky.social
For The Redoubt (@theredoubt.bsky.social), I wrote about Trump's killings in the Caribbean — his "kinetic strikes" — and the euphemisms we use to describe murder. www.theredoubt.net/how-we-talk-...
How we talk about murder
Interrogating the euphemisms used to legitimize state killings.
www.theredoubt.net
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM