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It's so difficult to watch Democrats show more sympathy for Donald Trump than for the tens of thousands of Palestinians killed in the last few months.

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Well, well, well. WELL. That whole “protests made cops feel bad so they all quit” narrative? Looks like it was mostly myth. Excited to read this paper by Ben Grunwald, who compiled a huge dataset on post-2020 police employment. Agg decline was 1%… and bigger local declines not tied to protests.

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I see we've reached the "famous artist credibly accused of sexual assault wasn't actually a great artist and you're a chump for liking him" phase. Consider that pretending terrible people can't make great art helps terrible people who make great art whedon their way into vulnerable communities.

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NYT says their performance on Threads today was an aberration, & not indicative of deeper problems they've had with social media. Unfortunately, that hasn't satisfied many observers whose concerns are growing louder. The stakes are too high. For the good of the news, the Times should step aside

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I can’t explain how fucked up it is that Threads created a more hostile atmosphere to the New York Times than we did. Tony the Tiger brand humping website just beat our asses.

Wow. @nytimes.com has closed their Threads account and left the platform after days of getting just shredded in the replies for their handling of Biden post debate. Now they're getting dog piled on Instagram for running from Threads.

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“Oh but Biden—“ Is not Trump. That’s how you end the sentence in the reality in which we live. It sucks and we need to change it, but your choices are the Damp Waffle Administration or Project 2025. That’s it. Sorry.

Ramos doing a very big yawn. He makes an adorable little squeaky sound when he yawns.

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Bonus Discworld QOTD for Pride Month, from Feet of Clay remember, Terry Pratchett said trans rights

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Just a heads up that well known dangerous pest Vic Mignogna has arrived on Bluesky. Anime News Network has good coverage on his history: www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia... Also @gregdoucette.bsky.social has a really good THREAD(naught) on him.

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The Tulsa Race Massacre began on May 31, 1921 and lasted for two days until June 1, 1921. White supremacists killed dozens of Black people and burned the Greenwood District aka Black Wall Street to the ground. There are people who survived this massacre that are still alive today.

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"average president has been convicted of .75 felonies" factoid actualy just statistical error. average president has been convicted of 0 felonies. Felonies Donald, who lives in Florida & commits 34 felonies, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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You can sing "Trump is a convicted felon" to the tune of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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i'm at the taco bell, i'm at the waifu car, i'm at the combination taco bell waifu car

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Just want to point out that the white-guy-doing-blackface-to-examine-racism book that is definitely going to generate a ton of hate-posts on here is ... self-published. So dunk-posts and hate-posts are literally its entire advertising campaign. It's okay to let foolishness scream into the void.

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DMs on Bluesky will not be "end-to-end encrypted" until we are able to do some more protocol work. We have very careful access controls within our systems. If you're extremely privacy conscious, I'd recommend using Bluesky DMs to share your Signal accounts!

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The Washington Post seeing its profits tank does validate my long time belief that major legacy media deciding to relentlessly cater to and platform noxious right-wingers and freaks with bizarre “centrist” views over the last 8 years is absolutely *not* helping them make more money

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I’m watching a Chekhov play and so far there has been no violence but this sign was on the wall at the entrance, so…

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we should call DMs on here "squirts" so everyone who works at bsky remembers Who We Are

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"Police don’t solve serious or violent crimes w/any regularity, & spend very little time on crime control." They spend more "time conducting racially biased stops & searches of minority drivers, often wo reasonable suspicion, rather than 'fighting crime.'" www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the datawww.reuters.com A new report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in contrast to popular narratives.

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The second letter that @questauthority.bsky.social sent to LAPD reps on my behalf. Even more savage than “LOL, no.” I’ve highlighted my fave parts. What are yours?

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Don’t forget all moms are half-price tomorrow.

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Lol

Return-to-office mandates at some of the most powerful tech companies — Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX — were followed by a spike in departures among the most senior, tough-to-replace talent, according to a case study published last week.

Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study findswww.washingtonpost.com In the months following return-to-office mandates, an increased number of senior employees departed Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX, often to work for competitors.

Ramos is considering whether or not to try to go into a new career in ability.

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800,000 imprisoned people in the US produce $10 billion of value each year through their labor. $2 billion for private industry. The state of Alabama alone makes $450 million off the labor of incarcerated workers. We have a word for this. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Cheers to @wyden.senate.gov for consistently being one of the only Senators with a decades-long track record on advancing meaningful legislation that will actually ACCOMPLISH THE GOAL, not "look good in the headlines and actually make things significantly worse in practice".

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With Eurovision eating pain re Israel/Gaza a reminder that the last time the objectively best act won eurovision was 2006. youtu.be/CoXD2CexGrw?...

Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah (Finland) 2006 Semi-Finalyoutu.be Powered by http://www.eurovision.tv Finland: Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah live at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 Semi-Final

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It is now officially fair game to make fun of this little shit

Former president Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, is making his political debut: The 18-year-old has been named to the slate of Republican Party delegates that will represent Florida at the party’s national convention this summer.

Barron Trump makes political debut as Florida delegate for GOP conventionwapo.st Donald Trump’s son Barron, 18 and about to graduate high school, was named as a delegate at large for the GOP national convention in Milwaukee.

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Jack can say he wants “unmoderated spaces” and act like it’s a matter of principle, but it really means “I want to see the content restricted by moderation.” [goose meme] what content motherfucker

Also: unmoderated spaces are a ridiculous idea. We created a shared network for competing moderated spaces to exist. Even if somebody wanted to make an unmoderated ATProto app, I guess they could? Good luck with the app stores and regulators and users, I guess. Checks and balances, not anarchy