bergtalent.bsky.social
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Look I have zero excuses for this, but the idea popped into my head and now it's in your head, sorry
March 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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I repeat myself, but every time someone does a "I make $600k and I live paycheck to paycheck" take, we should raise top marginal tax rates by 1%.

Oh, you're in a bidding war for scarce positional goods and bidding higher didn't make you happier? Sounds like income has declining marginal utility...
March 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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This is a good post. I think we'd be better off coming up with a better stat to reflect economic insecurity, as paycheck to paycheck is super ambiguous and doesn't necessarily focus policy change in the right direction
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/19/h...
March 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Every time some elected democrat sucks off Reagan, I think about Duane.
March 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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LMAOOO
No, Democrats, these little auction signs aren't it. You're acting like Wes Anderson characters who don't understand that they're in a Tarantino movie.
March 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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This was the first death from measles in a decade.

In the United States, people had died from all of these more recently than the last reported measles death:

-Eating too much black liquorice
-Homemade rocket ship crash
-Beach umbrella in strong wind

It's unusual

bsky.app/profile/wyde...
Nothing about kids dying from measles is normal. Anti-vaxxers like RFK Jr. and the Republicans who enable them are responsible for every single one of these deaths.
February 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art posted this today and it’s still cracking me up
February 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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When people lack significant tangible power -- as most of us do now in general, and certainly when it comes to changing the behavior of megalomaniac billionaires -- symbolic stands can be important in sustaining the resolve to continue fighting. Or just in sustaining your own sense of self.
February 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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WTF. There's something very wrong with him. With all of them.
After the recent measles-related death of a child, Kennedy minimized the severity of the Texas outbreak.
He said that outbreaks of measles were not unusual, and said that the 18 children hospitalized were for quarantine measures.
A pediatrician said they were admitted bc they couldn't breathe
February 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.

This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
February 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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there is a basic inability to stand up for your own family about Vance that I find his most utterly repulsive characteristic
The husband of an Indian-American wife and the father of 3 Indian-American kids wants to bring back the staffer who posted “normalize Indian hate.”
February 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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- racist DOGE guy (redundant) canned
- federal judge upholds birthright citizenship
- another judge blocks voluntary resignation
- NY state going to court over treasury business
- patel put on ice for at least a week
trump and musk have been taking big L’s all day and it’s important you celebrate them because these people can be beaten
February 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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‘I had no idea voting for a face-eating leopard might work out badly for me, a person with a face.’
“I didn’t expect a Trump win to cause me to lose my job, but that’s what happened...”

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
February 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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dear valued customer—
your president has inexplicably decided that you must put your hands on the hot stove. as your region’s leading provider of stove oil, we must inform you that you will bear the cost of the oil required to heat said stove.
I was assured -- ASSURED -- by Donald Trump that it was the foreign companies who paid the tariff, not me, the consumer!
February 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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From the wonderful Bruce MacKinnon! 🇨🇦

#cdnpoli #uspoli #tariffs
February 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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we have a trailer for What If A Man Was Large, Season 3

in this it appears we will explore the question of "what if a large man encountered another, even larger man"

I hope this show runs for decades
REACHER Season 3 - Official Trailer | Prime Video
YouTube video by Prime Video
www.youtube.com
January 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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It would be good if more people knew this fact
January 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
January 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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At the same time the largest conservative outlets were screaming about censorship, #Meta was internally clocking them as the biggest producers of hate speech on Facebook.

Simultaneously, one employee notes: "We make special exceptions to our written policies for them."
January 8, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Me *orders our food fluently in Italian to impress my date*

McDonalds drive-thru employee: what
December 5, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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This post praising Trump’s anti-vax selections is from the owner of the Los Angeles Times…the same owner who rejected the editorial board’s endorsement of Kamala Harris.

I’m sure there are many fine journalists working at this paper, but the institution as a whole is tainted and not to be trusted.
November 24, 2024 at 5:41 AM