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sitting in a government reeducation camp talking about how much this fucking sucks some random asshole: and you’re SURPRISED?

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So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be the story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

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"For many government workers, career transitions can be especially daunting because their jobs are often extremely specific, performing functions that do not exist in the private sector." One implication is that govts need to provide stability to recruit people. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

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Fixing what is broke in America is going to not just going to demand courage and hard work, it is going to require some sacrilege. We are going to have to examine and where necessary reject our national myths. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

submitted 18 hours ago • 24 comments

in preparation for when the clock strikes caturday, what is your all time favorite pic of your cat(s)? i’ll go first

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happy pride! I have a sticker in my shop that supports The Trevor Project if you’d like to check it out c: 🌈 superaenbow.shop

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In Virginia’s two biggest cities, both of which went for Harris in the fall, Republican sheriffs are running for election right now with no Democratic or independent opponents. This fits into a broad trend and carries particularly high stakes for local-ICE cooperation: boltsmag.org/sheriff-elec...

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Kind of wild that the New York Times has more sympathy for an influencer who posted child porn than it does for trans children who want to be left alone.

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Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked. But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths. research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...

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Trump insisted to administration officials that a military parade in D.C. take place on his birthday, according to two sources. Several advisors and aides have privately referred to the event as “Donald Trump’s birthday parade.” Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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A teardown of Nintendo's latest console has found the core tech that causes joystick drift is still there. Plus it's even harder to repair than the original. www.wired.com/story/ifixit...

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note that this completely inverts the public justification for the deportation scheme. they claim they’re deporting criminals, but they deported Kilmar without knowledge of a crime, and now that they supposedly found one they’re bringing him BACK.

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Hey, why is the New York Times soft-pedaling a conservative influencer who posts child sexual abuse media on X?

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I haven’t seen anyone else point this out and it’s EXTREMELY important:

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Republicans have gotten a lot more regressive on gender in a very short period of time. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...

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Midnight, June 7 is the deadline to comment on the revised Schedule F, Trump's plan to politicize the civil servants by converting them into at-will appointees that can be fired for the mildest pushback against illegal actions. It's easy - here is how: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/last-day-t...

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they may look close, but he is thinking about canceling her contracts rn

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7 year old giggling: when goku, gets super hungry, he eats like 30 meals in a row Me sounding exactly like Jesse Gemstone: I know how much goku eats

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“The undercover investigators have cursed at students, threatened them and in one case drove a car at a student who had to jump out of the way, according to student accounts and video footage shared with the Guardian.”

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“The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations…”

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Prejudice ‘follows us to the grave’: The segregated past of Chicago cemeteries www.wbez.org/curious-city...

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It's a Howard Morning

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Survivors of domestic abuse often struggle to leave their abusers if they are forced to abandon their pets. Now, in the latest attack on domestic violence services, Republicans are hoping to eliminate a program that helps shelters support survivors' pets.

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Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.

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He's right. "Nothing short of devastating" By @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Don’t be confused: The Senate Republican AI language includes the EXACT SAME AI moratorium as the House bill. Almost word-for-word. This is a complete, 10-year ban on state AI regulation. Period.

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Someone should tell Trump that Elon would feel very owned if he fully funded USAID and the CDC.

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Many of the federal workers being forced out by Trump are Black women who spent decades building a career of government service, only to see those careers shattered in a sudden purge. By @davidmcswane.bsky.social

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to repeat: Trumpism is a half-baked but expansive right-wing utopian revolt against social complexity and the people who make said complexity functional -- and this social complexity scaffolds a comfortable way of life those in revolt depend on and take for granted.

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BREAKING: Israeli attacks have killed at least 22 Palestinians in Gaza today, medical sources have told our team on the ground. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/88pw3j

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These consultants are literally just calling minorities and gay people "bad groups" now. If you don't understand this comes down to "let's crank up the racism dial" I simply don't know what to tell you.

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Having found in my masters thesis that high testosterone individuals prefer being seen as winners even if it means losing money, I had no idea we're talking that much money. If you're a hedge fund manager and want to set up an aggressive tesosterone-based trading strategy, hmu!

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This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

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It is possible to build machine learning systems which punch up instead of punching down.

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Haliburton, as called in: Brazil, France, Iceland, U.S. (in Spanish), Albania, U.S. (ESPN Radio), Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, the Netherlands, Türkiye, Canada, and Croatia:

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The standard pay for an assistant at that level is at MINIMUM $150k a year plus a strong benefits package. I know celebrity executive assistants who get $250k and $300k a year plus benefits and bonuses. He was basically keeping her on an allowance, which, as Rebecca notes, was to control her.

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🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors. The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...

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One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that we should be more concerned about a poor person misusing the welfare system or an immigrant being here illegally than we are about the ultra wealthy abusing the system and cruel people having unchecked power over all of us.

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New, from me: A Brown student built an AI-powered harassment machine of university staff. When the university investigated (and cleared) him, he was presented as a free speech victim. He became a right-wing celebrity, which was his goal all along. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-to-bec...

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