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Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

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Oh yeah, these are going on the stop signs in the neighborhood

Everything in the media this week about Biden makes a lot more sense when you remember that Biden’s term is boring to media execs. They want back the wacky despotic reality TV guy who drove their ratings / subscriptions / “engagement” / click-thru rates for four years.

Can “Berhalter out” be the thing that *finally* makes Sports Bluesky happen?

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Good for her. Do it.

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i hate to have one of these at all but my big "WE DRANK FROM THE HOSE" opinion is that people younger than millennials really can't imagine what coming of age in a time of media scarcity meant - like, I would read about records and movies and not actually be able to see them for YEARS

Who is ready for some Saturday afternoon football? Let’s go Dortmund! #UCL #UCLFinal #BVB #BlackYellow

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you can't get more right than this RIP 👑

Steve Albini’s take on Tool in a Reddit AMA is maybe my favorite of many exceptional offhanded putdowns. RIP to a true indie legend.

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Two newborn twins were diagnosed with a rare disease and are in need of a one-dose treatment that would save their lives: Zolgensma, a $2.1 million drug. Their parents’ insurance cut the coverage of the drug the day after they were born

Newborn twins fight rare disease, family says it’ll cost $4.2 million to save their liveswww.wbtv.com New parents in Kansas City are fighting to save the lives of their newborn twins. They said the boys have a rare genetic disease that will cost the family millions of dollars to treat.

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Sharpen the guillotine, friends.

A few pics from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, with bright green spring colors fully in view. #photography #nature

Sunrise from Blackberry Farm in Walland, TN. #photography #spring

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Tell ya what. If Arizona is going to start enforcing laws from the 19th century, how about they start with this one prohibiting the carrying of firearms in public, especially in proximity to places where people vote. firearmslaw.duke.edu/laws/act-of-...

post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana or pearl jam or soundgarden or alice in chains

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Roger examined the ocean. Then he examined his life. Not once had he ever broken a rule or challenged authority. But now, it was time for this “good boy” to cross the line. Time to go rogue.

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Splendidly efficient letter to the editor of the Washington Post criticizing their ruinously misdirected Trump coverage. Pass it on. #ThePressIsTheProblem cc @dangillmor.bsky.social @jayrosen.bsky.social

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Get your updated vaxx, folks www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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welp since the influx of newbies has reignited Blocking Discourse, I guess it's time to drop this one again

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The Feast Of Bacchus, by Phillips de Koninck, 1654, 📸 by Kathryn Riley

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My dad was watching 60 Minutes and they were talking to a guy who was like "I think working from home is bad for people and it's bad for society" then a few minutes later it was like "his company owns 3 million square feet of office real estate" 🤔

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Remember that ALL this anti-trans horseshit is 100% manipulated garbage from trash people trying to create a scapegoat. Inflation isn't caused by trans folk. Neither are war, racism, or pandemics. But now the mother****ers who DO support that shit want you to be mad at trans people. Don't, please!

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This is excellent news: “A growing consensus is emerging that receiving multiple doses of the COVID vaccine before an initial infection can dramatically reduce the risk of long-term symptoms.”

Vaccination Dramatically Lowers Long Covid Riskwww.scientificamerican.com Several new studies reveal that getting multiple COVID vaccine doses provides strong protection against lingering symptoms