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notalawyer.bsky.social
yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11d
Asking this seriously: has Bari Weiss ever in her career reported out an investigative story?
December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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mordyoberstein.bsky.social
For anyone worried AI will replace all of us.

Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”

I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
December 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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lillydancyger.bsky.social
How many times do we have to prove that giving money to poor people improves their lives
streetroots.bsky.social Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · Nov 21
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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bagleycartoons.bsky.social
Some pig
November 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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lavidagata.bsky.social
This “Can You Hang With the Boys?” attitude excludes women. I learned this firsthand as a sports reporter. Many male sports journalists would get drinks w/ team execs, coaches, even players after games or on off days. If a woman did the same, there were immediate rumors she was sleeping with them.
November 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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swilua.bsky.social
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Joyce Carol Oates & @Joyce..•17h S.• So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world." ratboy genius Follow S... @dogprom 2 LMFAO this fucking ad i just got. joyce BBQ'd his illiterate ass so bad he's pushing ads about how he reads books actually Blinkist @blinkist Ad ••• When he's not building rockets, boring tunnels beneath Los Angeles, or sending cars into space, Elon Musk reads a lot. Here are 9 nonfiction books he thinks we should all read. 9 Books from Elon Musk's Reading List That... From blinkist.com 7:24 am • 10 Nov 2025 • 5,256 Views
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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normcharlatan.bsky.social
Game 3 of the World Series will continue until morale improves.
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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sarahtaber.bsky.social
US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
September 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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gendergoblinhelen.bsky.social
'out of the three mass shootings today'
ourearthaffairs.bsky.social Our Earth Affairs @ourearthaffairs.bsky.social · Sep 28
Iraq War veteran Thomas Sanford has been identified as the gunman who attacked Grand Blanc Mormon church, killing 2 people and setting it ablaze. Out of the three mass shootings today, two of them have been carried out by Iraq war veterans.
September 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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drtomfrieden.bsky.social
More kids died from flu last season than in any non-pandemic season since monitored began 20 years ago. Almost 90% were unvaccinated. Parents: talk to your doctor about getting your kids vaccinated. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
September 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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pierrette1789.bsky.social
All my best to this FEMA employee, and may they succeed in their mission:
"I'M THE TYPE of person where, like, if you push me I'll push back. I don't like to live in a mindset of despair and negativity. When these people do this shit, it just lights my fire. It makes me more fucking mad. This used to be the best job I've ever had, the best environment I've ever had, the best culture I've ever had-and they fucking ruined it. I will never ever forget how much they ruined it. I'm like, fuck these people. They can't get me scared. I will not give them what they want. I will not just leave. I'm going to make it as difficult as possible for these fuckheads." -FEMA employee
September 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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lexmcmenamin.com
new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity.

"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."
How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women
"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.
www.teenvogue.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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tahfromslc.bsky.social
Salt Lake City:
2 KUTV/CBS - Sinclair
4 KTVX/ABC - Newport Television
5 KSL/NBC - subsidiary of LDS church
13 - KSTU/Fox* - E.W. Scripps
14 - KJAZZ/Ind. - Sinclair

Plus PBS Utah and a number of smaller stations.
September 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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benjaminhjohns1.bsky.social
Yes I wonder if there is a shorter way of saying anti-anti fascist?
September 18, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life.

Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’
Infants in Rx Kids in Flint, Michigan, saw lower rates of prematurity and other issues, saving millions in NICU visits
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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racheline.bsky.social
Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
September 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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atrupar.com
Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin?

TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?
September 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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jblainefoster.bsky.social
I spent so long on this for such a stupid joke, do you know how hard it is to do graphic design the exact right amount of bad
September 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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adambonica.bsky.social
He's right, and it's not just Brazil.

Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.
July 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Glenn Beck’s media outlet The Blaze just gave an interview last month to the person who killed the politicians in Minnesota
Blaze Media https://www.theblaze.com Exclusive: Assassination suspect Vance Boelter tells STUNNING inside ... Aug 12, 2025 - Vance Luther Boelter told Blaze News he shot at Sen. John Hoffman and his wife only after they laid hands on him and his shooting arm.
September 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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courtneymilan.com
You also need to say this shit when people get fired for mentioning their personal gender or get roughed up for looking at ICE the wrong way.

Come the fuck on. If you believe this, believe it for everyone.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 11
Chris Murphy: "Our entire democratic experiment is going crumble if people don't believe they are safe when they express their political views."
September 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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airbagged.bsky.social
When Minnesota Democratic State Representative Melissa Hortman was murdered in her home by a gun toting MAGA maniac less than 90 days ago they said nothing. Trump even skipped her funeral and chose to play golf instead. He had the chance to condemn political violent and did not.
September 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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bellaciao007.bsky.social
And this is Trump two days after MN
President Trump told reporters on Monday that he has no plans to contact Minnesota Governor Tim Walz in response to the attacks on two state politicians and their spouses over the weekend • "The guy doesn't have a clue, he's a mess," the president said. "So I could be nice and call him, but why waste time?" • Walz served with one of the victims, State Rep. Melissa Hortman, in the Minnesota Legislature and remembered her as a "great leader and a dearest friend"
September 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM