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One of the leading spreaders of misinformation about the 2020 election. Banned from YouTube for spreading misinformation about COVID.

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Two of the biggest cranks in the country are running the FBI now.

submitted 33 minutes ago • 45 comments

This exactly. The Nazi salute has a clear meaning, and if you don’t want to communicate it, you simply will not do that. If you’re being cute about it, you’ve already crossed the line.

submitted 7 hours ago • 10 comments

Bruce Springsteen ditches Twitter for Bluesky. 1.2M followers on X @officialbruce.bsky.social

submitted 6 hours ago • 21 comments

Wrote about Canada, USA, and caring www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

i don't think NBA should expand, but thats just me I know the economics will eventually lead to an expansion soon

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

Today’s Oaxaca, Mexico wall art. The world understands.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 9 hours ago • 2043 comments

“We fired all the guards at the bank so they’re not roadblocks to anything that happens.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 263 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 1 day ago • 120 comments

Many are asking what should we do now? “We use our power, organize, mobilize, educate…the American story will not be written by who occupies the White House or by the wealthiest among us…it will be written by you, by ‘we the people.’” -fmr VP Kamala Harris receiving the NAACP Chairman’s Award.

submitted 1 day ago • 685 comments

This AM I have re-posted stories from WaPo, the NYT and NPR. The NYT story has multiple bylines and is a thorough factual debunking of an official government communication. You can argue about headlines and stay mad about past errors or you can realize institutional journalists are doing the work.

submitted 1 day ago • 228 comments

If you missed it, went home and wrote about Big Country.

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This was the moment, just over a month ago, when the ADL could've put an end to Republicans doing Nazi salutes. They didn't. They chose instead to provide cover by calling it "an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm." Now the sieg heil salute has been normalized. The ADL literally had ONE JOB.

submitted 1 day ago • 164 comments

1st: vaccines work 2nd: social media companies developed their OG vaccine policies in response to outbreaks like this in Samoa & Bklyn. Not COVID! They boosted good info. They labeled false claims. That got redefined as “censorship” by ppl who profit from lies. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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We talked to employees across the federal government about how they are resisting Musk and Trump. One of the funnier stories is from USDS, where some workers keep putting up a sign that reads "HATE HAS NO HOME HERE" after it's being taken down over night. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

The @nba.com and @nhl.com now have accounts here. That's good. The WNBA still does not. Not good. But the strangest thing is neither of them have posted. Bluesky has 30 million+ users now and let's say with bots, a legit 25M+. Not posting but having an account? Just spectacularly odd.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

NEW: Retailers like Walmart and Target that have rolled back their DEI efforts have seen a big drop in foot traffic, while Costco, a company that continues to invest in DEI, has seen more foot traffic. While correlation doesn't equal causation, still intriguing. www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

submitted 1 day ago • 226 comments

On the Real Ones, w/ @loganmmurdock.bsky.social and @bellraja19.bsky.social: ☹️ Wemby out for season 🫠 The good/bad/ugly of All-Star weekend ➕ Debating NBA expansion 🤬 I rant about dumb aggregators doing dumb things open.spotify.com/episode/3Ive...

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RJ Barrett has been leading his draft class in scoring for a minute.

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1090 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 2 days ago • 493 comments

Larry Diamond, the premier democracy theorist of our times connects the dots on what Trump is doing and shows that they are angling sharply into the abyss of tyranny!

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Bluesky just passed 32 million users. It has achieved the Karl-Anthony Towns of milestones.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 2 days ago • 1005 comments

BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

submitted 2 days ago • 353 comments

This graph illustrates how injuries have effected teams Teams on the top are the most affected by injuries and bottom are the least affected by injuries Metric: LEBRON WAR missed due to players being inactive h/t: @knarsu3.bsky.social @bball-index.bsky.social

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The Ringer's NBA Expansion Week finale: The great @tylerparker.bsky.social goes deep on the Legend of Bryant "Big Country" Reeves www.theringer.com/2025/02/21/n...

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It's NBA Expansion Week at The Ringer! A 🧵 on all of our installments so far... From me: Are we sure expansion is a good idea? www.theringer.com/2025/02/18/n...

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this is just ludicrous www.sbnation.com/nba/2025/2/2...

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the fact that this is just a straightforward retelling of yesterday's events without hyperbole

submitted 2 days ago • 84 comments

Today we joined more than 40 journalism organizations in signing this statement, led by @spj-posts.bsky.social, condemning the campaign underway in Washington to penalize independent reporting on the government and its activities......

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The Ringer's NBA Expansion Week finale: The great @tylerparker.bsky.social goes deep on the Legend of Bryant "Big Country" Reeves www.theringer.com/2025/02/21/n...

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Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need

submitted 2 days ago • 115 comments

It’s time for the Milk Hotel to choose a side

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The Trump administration is expected to layoff more than 6,000 IRS employees. Here’s how that move could impact tax season and possibly delay refunds.

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There are many mysteries and ambiguities in life but the nature of this gesture is not among them. It's a Nazi salute.

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 107 comments

BREAKING: The SEC has dropped its enforcement case against Coinbase. Coinbase spent $46 million to influence the outcome of the election. Now they're already getting their payoff.

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

Every person in Congress should be asked about this over the next seven days. Get the answers on the record. Publicize those answers to the American and global public.

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