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A hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is. Two wheels good, four wheels bad. Ex Sociology adjunct turned Accounting nerd. North of Boston, near witches. Born into a 321 PPM world. He/Him. Aurë entuluva.
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When you see union issues depicted on US-filmed, scripted TV shows, it's a good time to remember that nearly every single person who made that show possible is a union member.
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
Having been in Ireland for long stretches this year, it’s clear Irish see an engineered famine by an occupying army/nation as an echo of the 2 British-imposed famines that killed so many on their own land. They remember.
Seems an appropriate day to promote my favorite Arkansas museum - the Southern Tenant Farmers Museum which is all about the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Happy Labor Day! encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/sout... stfm.astate.edu
Non-zero chance he still thinks that.
Seems like as good a time as any to reshare my story on the Coffee County voting system breach, which details the key role Giuliani played in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
I guarantee you that on Saturday afternoon this dude was sure he was a “responsible gun owner.”
Also, “quitting” was a really important precedent.
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
Proud to be on the “less likely to be evil” list!
I am eagerly looking forward to the opportunity to write the obituary.
Obsessed with the absolute shade of referring to Giuliani as “Former Masked Singer contestant”
I am amused that Mamdani is seen as a raving communist for suggesting mid-tier FDR type reforms and there's an actual Eugene Debs dude running for Senate in Maine and he's not freaking out anybodyyyy oh yes. Shit. He's white. Sorry, I just got it. Go about your business.
dress for the job you want
The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.
His banner alone is worth the follow.
Assume you heard Seth has a challenger? bsky.app/profile/beth...
They make a desert and call it peace.
Alright so this may not be common knowledge but Walter Reed’s helipad is off of Palmer road in the bottom right of this picture. … Palmer road is open and accessible right now from the other direction. That would not be true if a VIP was inbound. Good lord.
bluesky is dying and there's only one way to save it: by putting on a community theater production of My Neighbor Totoro.
A misdemeanor with no jail time for killing a man while trying to play a hate video in his car. Only a cop could get this treatment. Only a cop would ever get offered this kind of deal.
And yet a trace of the true self resides in the false self
"We need to reform zoning codes in order to increase housing supply" and "we don't want to step into the business of local government" and "dense cities are dangerous hellholes that we must pacify militarily" are three propositions that don't hang together at all
If Edith Wilson was the tragedy, Laura Loomer will be the farce.
So Woodrow Wilson and Trump may have more in common than just racism.
I keep thinking how the worst political sin ever - Borking - consisted entirely of accurately describing the predictable outcomes of Bork’s know policy preferences. Republicans literally want policies that kill people, but somehow we are not supposed to say that out loud.
And they think Kirk cheating was clever.
the american mind cannot comprehend the kobayashi maru
If you refuse to vaccinate your dog for rabies, you should lose the right to have a pet.
the thing I think people don’t want to deal with is that it’s not Bluesky v Twitter, it’s Bluesky v Substack
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The enemy is the visa regime. It is beyond ridiculous the amount of paperwork required for an American to visit China or a Chinese citizen to visit America, let alone work or study, and this artificial separation imposed by our governments leads to artificial separation among our peoples.
I have never seen a single news article about whether or not Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer or Kristen Gillibrand need to assure Muslim New Yorkers that they're against Islamophobia and anti-Arab / anti-Asian bigotry
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one way to understand why very rich people so often go mad is to realize they have long been surrounded by the kind of persuasive but truth-indifferent sycophantic affirmers that OpenAI and its peers have only recently made accessible to the rest of us.
We don't know that Melania is tossing Loomer's lingerie out that window, but we don't know that she is not doing that, either.
HEY NYC! The great @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social dancing on the @jcod3.bsky.social float at the West Indian Day Parade! #CuomoCouldNever
Happy Labor Day 🙂
Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
My who knows how many great grandparents came here fleeing starvation during the Blight and my great grandparents came fleeing civil war after the Easter Uprising, fuck anyone who wants to make it harder for the current or next generation to do the same.
Who's the worst cartoon character? I vote Henry, the dad from Dennis the Menace. He's a mask deliberately invented to whitewash the identity of his creator, Hank Ketcham, one of the worst men to ever make comics. It's gonna take a thread.
Just basking once again in the wonder and glory of this one.
@massgovernor.bsky.social, @tommyvitolo.bsky.social, Senator Creem…we need to do this here in the Hub of the Universe.
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Trump's tax return is an absolute mess, from what little we know about, so I would assume the estate plan is also a mess, was last updated in the early aughts, and cuts at least one disliked child out entirely
Is this the same President? I sometimes forget he was President before, because nobody in the media can remember back more than a few days, choosing to reprint press releases instead.
the fatal flaw with the Bluesky is dying proposition is that it ignores the broader truth that I am also dying, as are you, and everybody you know. By dying Bluesky lets us know that it’s one of us, that it shares in our beauty and our pain. Grow or die? No, there is no “or.” Bluesky understands
I also don’t delete contacts, and I’m old, so when I open the list a solid third are in “who is this person?” territory. Another third are things like “banker I worked with 20 years ago and have not spoken to since.” And some must be dead.
If people think all the dreadful things public figures are doing and saying right now will be remembered, don't be so sure. History is what power wants us to remember.
This seems important:
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Protest against Bike Lanes on Washington Street Pilot in Newton, Mass being organized on Tuesday Sept 2, "planning being kept quiet to avoid a counter-protest by the biking community" From r/bikeboston
Obviously.
Counterpoint: youtu.be/wxiMrvDbq3s?...
“There are those who would try to refuse the worker any effective power to bargain collectively, to earn a decent livelihood and to acquire security. It is those shortsighted ones who threaten this country with class dissension…” — Franklin Roosevelt, Sep. 6, 1936 www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
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Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
When the Great Khan has power drop into his hand like an over-ripe fruit, we need to replace the terrible Pledge of Allegiance with a daily recitation of the “Give me your tired…” lines.
Eugene Hütz absolutely 100% believes in his schtick so hard he makes you believe too and I think that’s beautiful
That song goes so fucking hard.
Fuck any anti-American motherfucker who can read “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” and not feel proud.
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They can keep that heritage, if the rest of us can have this one back:
The start of a new school year is a good time to emphasize the benefits of an active school run (walking, cycling) over kids being driven to school. It's healthier, more fun and it makes kids more indepentent and happier! Plus, it saves countless car trips to schools every morning. #BackToSchool
In this Ohio diner, cancer research is what astrologers do for people born in late June and July. But they do know this: President Trump's landslide 49% of the vote gives him a clear mandate to defund America's scientists.
This is why I found it so funny the ivys and snob schools rolled over so fast and got double fucked for doing it. These are the same people getting duped putting 50 grand in a shoebox. Rich and priveleged Americans are the easiest people to scam and bully because they've never deal with it before.
Sweet Jesus.
“He seemed restrained. Today was truly presidential.”
I mean, my god, none of us need that image
Snitty is correct here.
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
Tolkien, unlike that other dude, knew the importance of communication networks in pre-modern societies.
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The police version of the crash, as relayed by a local Manchester reporter, is unsurprisingly quite different from what Giuliani's spokesman says. The whole thing is even more murky now, however. manchester.inklink.news/rudy-giulian...
As much as I scorn my town, “the King unwilling” is a hell of a follow-through to “Incorporated 1752”
spring hill, somerville
When your whole caper turned on the belief that federal judges don't work on Labor Day weekend
Brilliant
This whole thread is just appalling. The hearing arises from the Trump admin conspiring with a foreign country to violate a federal court order in the middle of the night so it can deny due process to children who escaped dangerous circumstances.
Well that was an autocarrot fail.
Social co strict ion fails slowly, then all at once.
I just can't help but wonder what kind of people are piloting aircraft full of children who are being flown to another country without due process. It's a choice. Flying aircraft for ICE and DHS is a choice.
Imagine being more hated than Pharma Bro.
Thank you for your service.
I don't think this deserves a Nobel Peace Prize
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
The first paragraph shows the setting, Warren. In this specific case, that setting is “drunk enough to be in a dream-like, semi-hallucinatory state.”
Joan Jett.
the story for how giuliani got hurt is super sketch but it does include “911” so i respect his commitment to the bit
On a scale from Marco Rubio to Pete Hegseth, how shitfaced was Rudy?