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Excited to announce our first issue, featuring fiction by Olivia Cheng and Crawford Hunt and poetry by Andrew Maxwell, Maura Pellettieri and Lev Xue (@onlyfansforpets.bsky.social). Link in bio!
April 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Excited to announce our first issue, featuring fiction by Olivia Cheng and Crawford Hunt and poetry by Andrew Maxwell, Maura Pellettieri and Lev Xue (@onlyfansforpets.bsky.social). Link in bio!
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“Television often represents mass shootings without actually showing dead bodies or wounded victims. Max’s hit hospital drama felt an obligation to portray these procedures accurately” (Today’s piece by @mvalentine.bsky.social ) #thepitt
The Pitt and the Presentation of Mass Shootings in Mainstream Entertainment
In its series finale, the hit medical drama takes on the chaotic tragedy of a mass shooting
armedwithreason.substack.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Television often represents mass shootings without actually showing dead bodies or wounded victims. Max’s hit hospital drama felt an obligation to portray these procedures accurately” (Today’s piece by @mvalentine.bsky.social ) #thepitt
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President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador offered to jail convicted criminals deported by the U.S., a move that won praise from Secretary of State Marco Rubio despite questions about whether it is legal or even possible.
El Salvador Offers to Jail U.S. Criminals in Notorious Mega Prison
Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised President Nayib Bukele’s “unprecedented, extraordinary” proposal to accept any convicted criminal deported by the United States.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:03 AM
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador offered to jail convicted criminals deported by the U.S., a move that won praise from Secretary of State Marco Rubio despite questions about whether it is legal or even possible.
I called Austin’s non-emergency number to report this pile of shipping palettes in the middle of a busy street. They told me to hang up and call 9-1-1.
February 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I called Austin’s non-emergency number to report this pile of shipping palettes in the middle of a busy street. They told me to hang up and call 9-1-1.
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Just a little "consideration for services provided" between the billionaire president's corporation and the man he handpicked to occupy J Edgar Hoover's old office www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
Trump Media gifts Patel, McMahon thousands of shares
Trump Media called the gifts in the filings "consideration for services provided" in 2024.
www.politico.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Just a little "consideration for services provided" between the billionaire president's corporation and the man he handpicked to occupy J Edgar Hoover's old office www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
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Objectively funny they're slapping a 50% tariff on the country where we get 57% of our imported roses from 2 weeks before Valentine's Day.
January 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Objectively funny they're slapping a 50% tariff on the country where we get 57% of our imported roses from 2 weeks before Valentine's Day.
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Drives me nuts when I think about all the eggs I ate in my life and what they’d be worth now if I’d held onto them instead.
January 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Drives me nuts when I think about all the eggs I ate in my life and what they’d be worth now if I’d held onto them instead.
What’s the German word for the awkward feeling you get when your academic department is hiring another faculty member who basically has the same name as you?
January 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
What’s the German word for the awkward feeling you get when your academic department is hiring another faculty member who basically has the same name as you?
Student: with the holiday and the snow day, this was just a three-day week. But for some reason it feels longer.
Me: yeah, for some reason…
Me: yeah, for some reason…
January 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Student: with the holiday and the snow day, this was just a three-day week. But for some reason it feels longer.
Me: yeah, for some reason…
Me: yeah, for some reason…
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Seeing people talk about the "DEI" orders but not much on the fact that they have added an A for "Accessibility" - ie, Disabled people. They are targeting disabled people too. And it looks like they are coming for the ADA.
January 23, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Seeing people talk about the "DEI" orders but not much on the fact that they have added an A for "Accessibility" - ie, Disabled people. They are targeting disabled people too. And it looks like they are coming for the ADA.
I guess that old lady can afford her refrigerator apple now?
January 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I guess that old lady can afford her refrigerator apple now?
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January 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Is the war in Ukraine over? I was told it would be over by noon Tuesday.
January 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Is the war in Ukraine over? I was told it would be over by noon Tuesday.
The mayor of New York—a Democrat—says that he has “made a deal” to not publicly criticize Donald Trump, in exchange for access.
Who else has made this kind of deal?
Who else has made this kind of deal?
January 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The mayor of New York—a Democrat—says that he has “made a deal” to not publicly criticize Donald Trump, in exchange for access.
Who else has made this kind of deal?
Who else has made this kind of deal?
We are living in a Paul Verhoeven movie from the 80s.
January 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
We are living in a Paul Verhoeven movie from the 80s.
A judge appointed BY Trump is blocking the Justice Department from showing a report—to Congress!—about Trump’s known criminal misconduct.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
Judge Stops Justice Dept. From Releasing Report on Trump Documents Case
Judge Aileen M. Cannon said prosecutors should not be allowed to share the report outside the Justice Department, adding that it contained information that had not been made public.
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
A judge appointed BY Trump is blocking the Justice Department from showing a report—to Congress!—about Trump’s known criminal misconduct.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
Spent a few seconds on Twitter. All the right wingers are talking about is who is and is not on “the arrest list.” They believe the Trump administration has compiled a list of “enemies within” to arrest immediately. Basically it is just anybody who has been critical in any way of Trumpism.
January 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Spent a few seconds on Twitter. All the right wingers are talking about is who is and is not on “the arrest list.” They believe the Trump administration has compiled a list of “enemies within” to arrest immediately. Basically it is just anybody who has been critical in any way of Trumpism.
I am abstaining from posting on Meta’s platforms, due to Zuck’s embrace of fascism and oligarchy. But I briefly visited my feed to see how
the morning-after inauguration was being represented there. Not one single image of the world’s richest man giving a Nazi salute. NOT because nobody was posting
the morning-after inauguration was being represented there. Not one single image of the world’s richest man giving a Nazi salute. NOT because nobody was posting
January 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I am abstaining from posting on Meta’s platforms, due to Zuck’s embrace of fascism and oligarchy. But I briefly visited my feed to see how
the morning-after inauguration was being represented there. Not one single image of the world’s richest man giving a Nazi salute. NOT because nobody was posting
the morning-after inauguration was being represented there. Not one single image of the world’s richest man giving a Nazi salute. NOT because nobody was posting
That headline should be “Trump Pardons Treasonous Cop Killers.”
President Trump's move to pardon nearly all of the 1,600 rioters charged with storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 would effectively undo years of efforts by federal investigators to seek accountability for the mob assault on the peaceful transfer of power after Trump's loss in the 2020 election.
Trump Grants Broad Clemency to Jan. 6 Rioters
The extraordinary pardons and commutations extended to those who committed both violent and nonviolent crimes on Jan. 6, including assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy.
nyti.ms
January 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
That headline should be “Trump Pardons Treasonous Cop Killers.”
I am old enough to remember when Republicans thought executive orders were bad.
January 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I am old enough to remember when Republicans thought executive orders were bad.
I asked AI to recreate what I witnessed at the Trump inauguration:
January 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I asked AI to recreate what I witnessed at the Trump inauguration:
Americans gave Trump a pass on the 188,000 additional deaths caused by his mishandling of the COVID pandemic, but held Biden accountable for the global inflation the pandemic caused. We are a myopic people.
January 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Americans gave Trump a pass on the 188,000 additional deaths caused by his mishandling of the COVID pandemic, but held Biden accountable for the global inflation the pandemic caused. We are a myopic people.