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dangbeetle.bsky.social
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Somehow this is not surprising. Treating children as if they are magically immune was always a bad idea. Schools need proper ventilation and vaccination schemes. Mask up, get vaccinated. boingboing.net/2025/06/19/n...

Spotted by the Barclays Center. Very curious who’s paying for this 👀

The chapter of RFK’s most recent book - that he wrote to defend his belief that COVID was actually a weapon designed to target white people and spare certain groups like Jewish people - in which he talks about how he does not believe germs actually cause disease is called “The White Man’s Burden.”

She doesn’t really wanna

Approaching a priest and seeking absolution in the bathroom cuz you feel bad about doing a fascism is wild

"This case highlights the significant threat posed to U.S. citizens by frequent ICE errors, which are exacerbated when local law enforcement agencies participate in immigration enforcement...” www.bet.com/article/6rdn...

Me: It's unwise to be charmed by politicians and you should never treat them like fictional characters you root for uncynically. Also me: What if Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander were both mayor and had Bert & Ernie beds in Gracie Mansion?

when we scream and shout about doing things, this is what we mean. got popped and still went back again? hell yeah brother

I don’t think it’s possible to understand the Biden administration and Trump round 2 without recognizing that there was a growing fifth column of bosses — and journalists sympathetic to bosses — determined to ensure that the social movements of 2020-2023 could never, ever happen again

What is the etiquette for commissioning someone to knit a sweater with a pattern I bought from someone else? If I do it myself it’ll take like 10 years

In addition to the smears on Zohran being the cynical, Islamophobic fumes of 9/11 stoked by oligarchs, they make New Yorkers who take them seriously look like absolute pussies. Imagine being afraid of a Bronx Science grad

There are many people worth reading on the NYC mayoral race but of those worthwhile people @maxrn.bsky.social is the best www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Man if I get disappeared by some goon wearing chuck’s I’ll be extra mad

Two good dudes who should be ranked 1 and 2

germans believe that if they just replace "jews" with "muslims" in their racist fantasies and help israel perpetrate its own atrocities, then they will be absolved of their guilt for the holocaust

It would be Adams 2.0 and he hates us all

During the 2017 Alabama special election, Alex Jones, who notoriously calls everyone to his left a pedophile, said Roy Moore was being attacked just for "telling a girl she was pretty" and that's what the people going "Cuomo's not perfect BUT" sound like

That Clyburn thinks Andrew Cuomo is part of the future of the Democratic Party - and points to his character!!! — is the problem with the current Democratic Party leadership in a nutshell. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/n...

incommunicable contemplations

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Mr. Mamdani do you agree that Luthen was right

~15% of people who *die* in front of you can be brought back to life if high-quality CPR is started immediately. It’s a skill that you definitely want to have.

It is no different from congestion pricing panic, or open-gangway train panic, or bus lane panic, or containerized trash panic, or take your pick of a thousand issues these change-averse losers were WRONG about. They are ALWAYS WRONG. My god the rotten reactionary core of this city is exasperating.

the complaint here seems to be “the extremely rich children of NYC are class traitors”

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

Everyone pack up and go home, I've found the best possible tourist trap gift shop purchase.

No: never saw such a book; heard of it, though.

Shout out to my Yiddish teacher Zach!

This is the thing that gives the game away - there are plenty of people you could tell people to vote for instead. Hell, you could tell them to vote for the current leader of the City Council! But it’s not about that, it’s about painting the people who want to do more as unserious.

Oh noooo

Brad’s biggest sin to a lot of these people is that he recognizes the humanity of the Palestinians and is therefore too progressive in their minds, even though he’s otherwise the very model of the kind of policy-minded technocrat they say they want.

Gristedes more specifically retains the distinct rotting-meat smell that most supermarkets had in the ‘80s and that has been generally eradicated due, presumably, to better sanitation.

every nationalism is the same at bottom