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The funny thing is… you could strip AI out of this, and it would apply to an awful lot of Big Bidness Standard Operating Procedure (Sound And Fury Signifying Nothing).

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An important but inconvenient fact to remember about NYPD "work stoppages" and "quiet quitting." When NYPD intentionally makes fewer arrests and does less police work in protest, violent crime goes down 🙂🙃 Read that again. Violent crime goes down when cops quit. And we've known why since 1970

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Drop something SQUARE

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Black trans artist, filmmaker, and activist Tourmaline discusses her new book about Marsha’s trailblazing life.

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A first for my Observer column, after 7 years. A tale of athletic prowess so vivid it must be accompanied with images of the events described. On my performance at a toddler sports day. On the video that everyone I know has now seen. On the anatomy... of a fall. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

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Only people who don’t need benefits deserve to get them

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Pretty simple Dem message: If it’s a good thing to exempt individuals in the two “noncontiguous” states from health care cuts—which the Republicans have conceded it is—let’s do the right thing and exempt Americans in the other 48 states. By defeating this bill.

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One third of Baseball's Sad Lexicon.

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I’m from before the Internet.

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The Trump admin in a nutshell; in order to justify their own mistake, they’re going to release a violent felon with five deportations so he can testify against the guy with no criminal record they mistakenly deported. In other words, the story is always more important than the principle.

submitted 12 hours ago • 109 comments

“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up.

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President Trump slams Senator Thom Tillis who has already been a target in MAGA world and is up for reelection in 2026. Reminder: Tillis, after facing great pressure from Trump world, voted to confirm Pete Hegseth even though he was reluctant to.

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I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

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A Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Production.

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N.B. “cpi (m-l-m)” ≠ Consumer Price Index (Multi Level Marketing)

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No surprise. There are no moderates in the GOP Senate and House -- just proud MAGA and scared MAGA.

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Per this lawyer, the mother of 3 US citizens, among others, has been abducted by “bounty hunters” at gunpoint, brought to CBP, where they demanded she sign deportation papers without seeing a judge. When she refused, she was literally disappeared by the armed “bounty hunters” at the behest of CBP.

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🚨 ICE disappeared a woman on Wednesday night. She was grabbed by men in plainclothes and taken to an unidentified location. ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her. This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.

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🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration just sent Secret Service agents to a journalist’s home—because he tweeted a number. Yes, really. The number was “8647.” Here’s what it means—and why this is the most chilling attack on free speech yet👇

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Second look at strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as basis for government?

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Thom Tillis is trying to decide if he wants to lose in a primary or a general.

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Yes. Target the bots with ads and leave me out of it.

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Ezra Klein on Mamdani, and the future of the issue of Israel:

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation brand identity design by Burton Kramer Assoc. Ltd. A symbol-logo was designed along with a visual identity program for the corporation. Scanned from World Trademarks and Logotypes, Takenobu Igarashi, 1983 www.designreviewed.com/artefacts/wo... #burtonkramer #cbc

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In Tommy Tuberville's home state of Alabama, 23% of all personal income comes from transfer payments from the federal government. Alabama is the tenth most dependent on federal funding, getting $1.80 in spending back for every $1 its citizens pay in taxes. www.al.com/politics/202...

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NPR's Scott Simon remembers the astonishing career of former White House press secretary and long-time public broadcasting journalist Bill Moyers, who died this week at the age of 91.

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I watched a young adult person just struggle his way through counting coin change in a line and we really need a lot of public health information campaigns, a 24/7 public Sesame Street channel, & a moratorium on all education debt. We will get more prisons, eugenics and AI.

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the Star Tribune just called me and told me they would not be publishing the obituary I wrote for my father as it is “unfair to him” and “in poor taste” so here it is and fuck the strib ✌🏻

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One of the many ways you can tell Republicans know this bill is a dog with fleas is that Thune is giving his most vulnerable senator a golden ticket to cast an immaterial no vote

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It took me a minute to get it.

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Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

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(1) Does this mean that any state with an island is now exempt? (2) Not that we needed more evidence that the US is moving away from a rule of law culture, but this BS is an insult to the generality of the law, which is a safeguard of republican liberty.

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they bought that cover slot didnt they

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it is no exaggeration at all to say that these are people who would rather destroy the state's flagship public university than education a diverse cross-section of the commonwealth's students

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Discworld QOTD, from Wintersmith

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The rise of people like Lander and Walz, whose ideologies don't exactly match mine but have the exact right combination of "love thy neighbor" and "fuck you, asshole" attitudes, is massive positive for people who care about left of center politics

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Spotted:

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56 years ago, on the 28th of June 1969, at 1:20 AM, the NYPD raided the Stonewall Inn, one of the few gay bars in the city at the time. They intended to have female officers take patrons they perceived to be women to the bathrooms to verify their sex, to then arrest trans women and drag queens. 1/7

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“Never again for me but not for thee”

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lol

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I think a lot of us had no illusions left about what this organization is, to the extent that we ever had any, but anyone who still retains them has no excuse now They are fascist collaborators. What an obscenity

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Here’s a lovely theatre story.

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Irises in the Morning Light #Art #Painting #Oilpainting #Nature #Flowers #GermanIris #AIpainting

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Ezra Klein & @chrislhayes.bsky.social much more eloquently get at the point I’ve been making about how we need candidates who’ve run their own Instagram accounts — who are a little bit more ~Online~. You’ve got to be a consumer to be a producer. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/o...

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