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msmountebank.bsky.social
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That no one senior from the current administration attended this is appalling. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/u...

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It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

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Here's a fun thing that a top donor to Andrew Cuomo's super PAC just told me.

submitted 5 days ago • 258 comments

not sure that’s the right job for you then just quietly

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Heads Up #MelbWeather folk, thunderstorms incoming.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

That feeling when one of your favourite restaurants posts RFK-esque, anti-vax adjacent content to their Insta

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

👀

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Writing about the unexpected time I had dinner with Malaysia's Mahathir and his wife, and I need to explain why my brain immediately went "don't say 'recalcitrant'" in a repeated loop.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

i think these professional antivaxxers are literally demonic www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 7 days ago • 243 comments

While Pezzullo would make Machiavelli blush, the answer to 'why has the ABC got X on?' is almost inevitably 'they were available at 3 hours notice for free.'

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Another terrible Canberra sunset.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Be good to get an update from @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social on the Signal group chat.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

We're living in a world of PrEP and effective, well tolerated anti-viral treatments and knowledge that undetectable viral loads = un-transmissable. A world where HIV is not a death sentence, a world where plwhiv aren't shunned from living their lives. This will change that.

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amtrak’s marketing team gets it

submitted 9 days ago • 458 comments

‘Because science is not magic. But magic isn’t magic, either.’ On the pure charlatanism of the MAHA movement and other medical fraudsters (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...

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The OP made me roll my eyes so hard I can now only look at my ceiling

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The Problem of the Christian Assassin (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...

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Pens down. We have a winner.

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

Very normal behaviour (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...

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Duuuuuuude www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...

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This police decision may have saved a lot of lives (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

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Best sign

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It'll be two years, this Monday night. Time, at last, to write about Agnes.

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Minnesota, Known for Political Civility, Reels After Shooting (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

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Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name Genie: okie dokie

submitted 16 days ago • 64 comments

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

submitted 16 days ago • 218 comments

As it was obvious they would. A huge waste of parents' money by lawyers who saw an easy payday.

submitted 17 days ago • 53 comments

💔(gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/w...

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Harris Yulin, character actor and Broadway star, dies at 88

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

Sly Stone and now Brian Wilson, in two days. Two of the most significant forces in American popular music, gone like that. Brian's "Smile" show at the Sydney Opera House still resonates. Full of joy and wonder.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Test Match cricket tonight sportsfans. Nice.

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Moira Deeming offered John Pesutto chance to avoid bankruptcy on condition Liberal party assured her preselection. Payment of $2.3m in #defo costs Pesutto owes would have been delayed until 2027 under deal, which wasn't accepted by Liberal party. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #springst #auslaw

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Neale's Game. Cmon Dees!!! #afl #deespies

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What an incredible career. Set builder for the Sammy Davis Jr Show and the Rat Pack to 50 years of SNL. (🎁link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/a...

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Slowly turning into Samuel Beckett.

submitted 24 days ago • 12 comments

They’ve found that poor little girl’s body. I hope those two monsters get put away for a very very long time and suffer. #PhoebeBishop 😢💔

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

the tech right suddenly discovers due process

submitted 25 days ago • 81 comments

I hate the live blogs on ninefax newspapers where entries don’t have fucking links! Fix it, it’s idiotic!

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

well, one thing that’s happened recently is that a big chunk of conservative men turned into MAGA authoritarians instead of genteel Romneyites. that’s a risk you notice!

submitted 30 days ago • 51 comments

I understand that many people on the left think that associating Trump with conservative views is a shortcut to delegitimizing everything about conservatism, but Trump is no conservative; the MAGA movement is Big Government, Nanny Statism for white people.

submitted 28 days ago • 109 comments

Yet another day to remind: Only fools think the Russians are winning But Ukrainians can, still can, always could — if we committed to a strategy of supporting Ukrainian victory to anchor the revitalization of strategic democratic forces against the rise of authoritarian powers.

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

Lovely hour long audio on the making of BBC’s Pride and Prejudice www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

The Devastating Book Erica Jong Always Knew Her Daughter Would Write | Molly Jong-Fast’s unsparing account of her famous mother’s decline into dementia, and their life together, is just turning the tables. 🎁 link www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/s...

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