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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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It's fashionable now to trot out Nixon being ahead of his time on Russia, China, etc - for good & ill I helped start it - but nobody talks about the last chapter of In the Arena, which is pretty much a no-holds-barred attack on elderly politicians who won't get off the stage & go demented in public.
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
It's fashionable now to trot out Nixon being ahead of his time on Russia, China, etc - for good & ill I helped start it - but nobody talks about the last chapter of In the Arena, which is pretty much a no-holds-barred attack on elderly politicians who won't get off the stage & go demented in public.
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You have to be cold. You have to force yourself. As much as possible you have to operate on interests, not feelings. Which is difficult because hate is a feeling. So you can't look it directly in the eye at first. You step away, clear your mind, try to discern your classes of enemy.
Sir, how do you learn how to hate?
September 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
You have to be cold. You have to force yourself. As much as possible you have to operate on interests, not feelings. Which is difficult because hate is a feeling. So you can't look it directly in the eye at first. You step away, clear your mind, try to discern your classes of enemy.
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welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
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This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.
Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
October 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.
Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
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MAYOR: Did you do that sculpture solemnly honouring our civil war dead
SCULPTOR: Sure thing boss, real sexy just like you asked
MAYOR: What
SCULPTOR: Sure thing boss, real sexy just like you asked
MAYOR: What
Des Moines has you all beat
September 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
MAYOR: Did you do that sculpture solemnly honouring our civil war dead
SCULPTOR: Sure thing boss, real sexy just like you asked
MAYOR: What
SCULPTOR: Sure thing boss, real sexy just like you asked
MAYOR: What
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there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
September 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
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to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech
September 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech
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I had no wish for him to be murdered, but I’ll harshly judge anyone who flies their flag at half staff for that hateful extremist or talks about honoring his memory. There was no honor in his life.
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I had no wish for him to be murdered, but I’ll harshly judge anyone who flies their flag at half staff for that hateful extremist or talks about honoring his memory. There was no honor in his life.
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My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.
September 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.
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Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
I think this calls for a strongly worded letter.
No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.
September 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I think this calls for a strongly worded letter.
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Jack Antonoff: and I guess that's how we sorta landed on the bedroom pop feel of Midnights
Andy Reid: [wiping blue cheese dressing from his mustache]
Andy Reid: [wiping blue cheese dressing from his mustache]
August 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Jack Antonoff: and I guess that's how we sorta landed on the bedroom pop feel of Midnights
Andy Reid: [wiping blue cheese dressing from his mustache]
Andy Reid: [wiping blue cheese dressing from his mustache]
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this is how I found out
August 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
this is how I found out
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the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education
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August 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education
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This is Tuffy. He is the only example of taking up the whole sidewalk that is not only justifiable, but encouraged. 14/10 (IG: mypittuffy)
August 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This is Tuffy. He is the only example of taking up the whole sidewalk that is not only justifiable, but encouraged. 14/10 (IG: mypittuffy)
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Sadly, most able-bodied people don't realize that you can make any stairs accessible to wheelchair users by just painting a wheelchair on the stairs. So easy. So accessible.
August 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Sadly, most able-bodied people don't realize that you can make any stairs accessible to wheelchair users by just painting a wheelchair on the stairs. So easy. So accessible.
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as hard as it is to imagine political solutions to the current moment, it’s even harder to imagine how we could be expected to comfortably share a society with these fucking babykillers
I recently looked up the Arabic translation of some of the names of the emaciated children used in coverage of the alleged famine in Gaza.
It turns out that many of them were sick before the war and have long, complicated medical histories. Our reporting shows they do not represent the average.
It turns out that many of them were sick before the war and have long, complicated medical histories. Our reporting shows they do not represent the average.
August 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
as hard as it is to imagine political solutions to the current moment, it’s even harder to imagine how we could be expected to comfortably share a society with these fucking babykillers
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If you’re wondering how ICE recruitment and training is going under Kristi Noem—South Park already nailed it.
August 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
If you’re wondering how ICE recruitment and training is going under Kristi Noem—South Park already nailed it.
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Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”
Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
August 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”
Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
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new fear: if i die and my family makes an ai of me because they miss me, it will never, ever tell them how deeply insulting to my memory what they've done is.
August 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
new fear: if i die and my family makes an ai of me because they miss me, it will never, ever tell them how deeply insulting to my memory what they've done is.
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Breaking News (2030) | The Supreme Court's swing vote Emil Bove broke with the court's left flank, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, and concurred with Justices Aileen Cannon and Dana White that Mecha President Trump could reallocate all remaining Medicaid funds for more torture drones for Alligator Alcatraz.
July 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Breaking News (2030) | The Supreme Court's swing vote Emil Bove broke with the court's left flank, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, and concurred with Justices Aileen Cannon and Dana White that Mecha President Trump could reallocate all remaining Medicaid funds for more torture drones for Alligator Alcatraz.