Barb
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Barb
@spicedrum.bsky.social
· Feb 7
Biden should have let his dog bite more people.
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Politicians are rushing to gift Jeffries with redemption when he hasn't done anything to prove that he believes his constituents are more important than his donors. He hasn't even proven that he has the back of his fellow New York politicians.
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Politicians are rushing to gift Jeffries with redemption when he hasn't done anything to prove that he believes his constituents are more important than his donors. He hasn't even proven that he has the back of his fellow New York politicians.
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Flu is probably going to be bad this year because, although this year's shot includes the types that are circulating, one (H3N2) has very recent mutation surging so you NEED TO GET THE SHOT so your immune system has a fighting chance.
Remember the 800 times I’ve said you cannot contain the “let er rip” attitude to just covid? Humans don’t think like that. This was always an obvious consequence, and it’s their own damn fault.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Flu is probably going to be bad this year because, although this year's shot includes the types that are circulating, one (H3N2) has very recent mutation surging so you NEED TO GET THE SHOT so your immune system has a fighting chance.
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I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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I know I make a lot of comments about Sean Duffy and Theo Von being Real World alums but it hurts my heart to think these assholes got more political traction than Pedro Zamora did.
November 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I know I make a lot of comments about Sean Duffy and Theo Von being Real World alums but it hurts my heart to think these assholes got more political traction than Pedro Zamora did.
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This is what they signed up for when they cashed those checks and gave those endorsements! It's like being a stock photo model. You can't complain later that your image was used in an ad for penile enhancement surgery.
Joe Rogan and Theo Von slam DHS for using Von's image in a video promoting deportation:
"I was like, oh my God, what the fuck are they doing? That's not how you envision the government."
"They were making, like, deportation hype videos with trap beats and shit. What are we doing? It's idiocracy."
"I was like, oh my God, what the fuck are they doing? That's not how you envision the government."
"They were making, like, deportation hype videos with trap beats and shit. What are we doing? It's idiocracy."
November 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is what they signed up for when they cashed those checks and gave those endorsements! It's like being a stock photo model. You can't complain later that your image was used in an ad for penile enhancement surgery.
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Not my toilet so not my shit but were I a sports person, I would find it annoying if I couldn't just tune into the same place to watch a game and offload that mental process to "I know it'll be [here]" instead of haven't to figure it out anew each time
So much so I might just say, fuck it!
So much so I might just say, fuck it!
You will need YES, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, ESPN, Netflix, NBC/Peacock, FOX, and TBS to watch the Yankees next season.
Learn more: https://atmlb.com/4r9W14K
November 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Not my toilet so not my shit but were I a sports person, I would find it annoying if I couldn't just tune into the same place to watch a game and offload that mental process to "I know it'll be [here]" instead of haven't to figure it out anew each time
So much so I might just say, fuck it!
So much so I might just say, fuck it!
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He needs to step back from teaching. And if he doesn't have the common sense to do it himself, an adult authority at Harvard needs to MAKE him do it.
November 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
He needs to step back from teaching. And if he doesn't have the common sense to do it himself, an adult authority at Harvard needs to MAKE him do it.
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I want to make jokes, but I'm still mad. He is STILL taking advantage of a power imbalance to make women uncomfortable! And not one of those female students can speak up about it in class without the risk that this petty, bigoted man will take out his frustrations while grading.
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I want to make jokes, but I'm still mad. He is STILL taking advantage of a power imbalance to make women uncomfortable! And not one of those female students can speak up about it in class without the risk that this petty, bigoted man will take out his frustrations while grading.
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I am BEGGING you to blur the faces of the people who punched fascists during the Michigan anti-Muslim hate rally.
November 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I am BEGGING you to blur the faces of the people who punched fascists during the Michigan anti-Muslim hate rally.
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With a new flu virus variant circulating, scientists fear more sickness this winter. The vaccine may be slightly less effective but doctors still urge getting one ASAP. n.pr/3X18OZx
Flu season could be nasty this winter
With a new flu virus variant circulating, scientists fear more sickness this winter. The vaccine may be slightly less effective but doctors still urge getting one ASAP.
n.pr
November 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
With a new flu virus variant circulating, scientists fear more sickness this winter. The vaccine may be slightly less effective but doctors still urge getting one ASAP. n.pr/3X18OZx
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I avoid youtube as much as possible and doubly so reaction youtubers but “[usually but not exclusively non-American] people discovering Mr. Rogers” is my favorite genre of anything ever
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I avoid youtube as much as possible and doubly so reaction youtubers but “[usually but not exclusively non-American] people discovering Mr. Rogers” is my favorite genre of anything ever
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An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
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this, all day right now
(unmute, it’s a bop)
(unmute, it’s a bop)
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
this, all day right now
(unmute, it’s a bop)
(unmute, it’s a bop)
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Tim Cook is up first.
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Tim Cook is up first.
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I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.
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Me, repeatedly setting the dial back to "Sabrina Carpenter" as racists and billionaires try to change the White Woman setting to Nuzzi, Sweeney, or Greene.
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Me, repeatedly setting the dial back to "Sabrina Carpenter" as racists and billionaires try to change the White Woman setting to Nuzzi, Sweeney, or Greene.
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The way these two stories are casually listed in one sentence is a perfect encapsulation of just how little Americans are paying attention
November 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The way these two stories are casually listed in one sentence is a perfect encapsulation of just how little Americans are paying attention
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The Republican Party has no idea how to deal with a legitimately pissed off adversary with no skeletons and no ability to be bribed. Releasing those files, even scrubbed, means the multi-party alliance between crooks is over.
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The Republican Party has no idea how to deal with a legitimately pissed off adversary with no skeletons and no ability to be bribed. Releasing those files, even scrubbed, means the multi-party alliance between crooks is over.
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The administration will likely release files with conservate names scrubbed. I'll be honest. I don't care. This is still a good start. Because the minute we rid the Democratic Party of corrupt donors and politicians, we'll be left with clean reps with NOTHING to lose. A legion of "Mamdanis."
Republicans vote overwhelmingly to pretend they want the Epstein Files released. www.axios.com/2025/11/18/h...
House votes to force DOJ release of Jeffrey Epstein files
While the vote marks an important step in backers' crusade to get the files released, significant barriers remain.
www.axios.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The administration will likely release files with conservate names scrubbed. I'll be honest. I don't care. This is still a good start. Because the minute we rid the Democratic Party of corrupt donors and politicians, we'll be left with clean reps with NOTHING to lose. A legion of "Mamdanis."
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is just Nicki Minaj for white women. And like the Barbz, so many of them are about to fall for the bait--hook, line, and sinker.
November 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene is just Nicki Minaj for white women. And like the Barbz, so many of them are about to fall for the bait--hook, line, and sinker.
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I am well versed in American racism and I can tell you that Greene, Mace, and Boebert have neither tired of white supremacy nor the patriarchy and are simply bitter that they are no longer young enough, white enough, attractive enough or useful enough to reap the rewards of Bondi, Noem, and Kirk.
I'd be really curious if someone better versed in feminist theory wrote about what's happening on the right. Because between Greene, Mace, and Bobert, we've got this bloc forming of women who seem tired of serving a patriarchy of sex criminals. And their rhetoric is starting to lean that direction.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for 6 years for. I gave him my loyalty for free. I've never owed him anything. Let me tell you what a traitor is -- a traitor is an American that serves foreign countries."
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I am well versed in American racism and I can tell you that Greene, Mace, and Boebert have neither tired of white supremacy nor the patriarchy and are simply bitter that they are no longer young enough, white enough, attractive enough or useful enough to reap the rewards of Bondi, Noem, and Kirk.
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Around 250 federal border agents are set to descend on New Orleans in the coming weeks for a two-month immigration crackdown dubbed “Swamp Sweep” that aims to arrest roughly 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi, according to documents obtained.
DHS plans to deploy 250 border agents to Louisiana in major immigration sweep, sources say
Around 250 federal border agents are set to go to New Orleans for a two-month immigration crackdown dubbed “Swamp Sweep” that aims to arrest roughly 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and into…
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November 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Around 250 federal border agents are set to descend on New Orleans in the coming weeks for a two-month immigration crackdown dubbed “Swamp Sweep” that aims to arrest roughly 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi, according to documents obtained.
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This was the worst way to find out Keith Olbermann is on bluesky.
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This was the worst way to find out Keith Olbermann is on bluesky.