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Muppet in human form Writer of satire, humor, criticism 📝 in McSweeny's, WaPo, the New Yorker, etc.
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Molly Ploofkins
6 days ago
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
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The real way that AI tools have revolutionized my life is that now I spend precious time searching in vain for a setting that turns them off.
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The Belladonna Comedy
6 days ago
“I used ChatGPT once, so I’m obviously the best prepubescent robot inventor in the history of the world.” By Erica Lies & Leila Sales Full piece:
thebelladonnacomedy.com/if-i-reacted...
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Leila Sales
6 days ago
When I saw the NPR headline "Trump says he's pursuing Greenland after perceived Nobel Peace Prize snub" (🙄🤦🤯), the first thing I did was text
@ericaliesalot.bsky.social
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@belladonnacomedy.bsky.social
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Jessica Kant
14 days ago
This is the sort of thing that defines fascism more than most other aspects. The installation of secret police to monitor everyone for suspicion not of doing anything wrong, but of being the wrong kind of person.
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Jorj, Interim DEITY🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏽
15 days ago
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A wave of new polls shows Trump’s support cratering across the board.
Voters are souring on Trump personally and on his agenda. And it's an election year.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/polling-trump-popularity-policy-immigration-economy-election/
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Rachel Maddow
15 days ago
"License plate readers and personal data from car registrations are only supposed to be accessed for an active criminal investigation... “Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...”
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists
MPR News has looked into reports that federal agents have accessed private data to track and intimidate anti-ICE activists since the immigration crackdown surged in Minnesota in December. Privacy advo...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/13/ice-using-private-data-to-intimidate-observers-and-activists-advocates-say
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✪ Black Fistory Month ✪
16 days ago
White folks. Watch this. Twice if you have to. And don’t just listen to her. Understand what it is she is saying.
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Sarah Lazare
19 days ago
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
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“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...
https://inthesetimes.com/article/minneapolis-renee-good-ice-shooting-labor-unions
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Minnesota Star Tribune
19 days ago
Hundreds of anti-ICE demonstrators are making noise outside the Graduate hotel on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota.
bit.ly/49SpwBk
📷️: Richard Tsong-Taatarii
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Robert Reich
19 days ago
Every dictator in history has claimed that they’ll only use their powers to go after the worst of the worst. Every dictator in history has lied. Donald Trump is no different.
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Laura G Mitchell
19 days ago
This is Minneapolis: Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city. Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.
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Indivisible ❌👑
20 days ago
At nearly 1,200 events across all 50 states and DC, Americans honored Renee Nicole Good and mourned all the lives ICE has taken and destroyed.
#ICEOutForGood
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Acyn
20 days ago
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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Brian Gaar
22 days ago
The fact that all these second amendment "we need ahr guns to resist guvment overreach" losers are now cheering on ICE versus citizens who are standing up to the government (with NO weapons) tells you everything you need to know about the hollowness of their ideology. Sad little scared boys.
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Mo Daviau
about 1 month ago
Today is the last day to order West Virginia University Press books for 25% off. Get Epic and Lovely at an epic and lovely discount!
wvupressonline.com
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Books | West Virginia University Press
https://wvupressonline.com/
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The Belladonna Comedy
about 1 month ago
We’re counting down the best of 2025!
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Found
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’s Epic and Lovely in the wild! Highly recommend—it’s so funny and also epic and also lovely.
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The Onion
about 2 months ago
New Research Reveals Ancient Egyptians Received Significant Help From Parents While Building Pyramids
https://theonion.com/new-research-reveals-ancient-egyptians-received-significant-help-from-parents-while-building-pyramids/
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Katy Maiolatesi
about 2 months ago
I’m so pumped to have my first solo piece in
@mcsweeneys.net
today!! It’s a New Food review and it’s a wild ride. Thank you to
@lukevburns.bsky.social
and everyone in his class for helping me make it so great. Read it here!
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wil...
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Reviews of New Food: Williams Sonoma’s The Grinch™ Hot Chocolate Bomb
I am somewhat of a hot chocolate maven. I normally consume this winter-wonderful drink through powdered packages and hot water, and I know my way a...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/williams-sonomas-the-grinch-hot-chocolate-bomb
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Eddie van helsing
about 2 months ago
They should do MyChart Wrapped
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My whole day is like, “I go to work and look at a medium screen. I walk home and look at bigger screen in between looking at a tiny screen.”
2 months ago
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This Cyber Monday, I our literary icons encourage a gifting economy in this piece I wrote and illustrated
www.littleoldladycomedy.com/all-works/k2...
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Literary Icons Join Buy Nothing — Little Old Lady
MacBeth Give: Dagger. Blade hath grown dull from frequent employ — though not from regicide! Verily, I am uncertain whether ‘tis real or mere fantasy. Moat pickup at the inte...
https://www.littleoldladycomedy.com/all-works/k2k781984yztgq4ubxxczsarnzrb9h
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This Cyber Monday, I our literary icons encourage a gifting economy in this piece I wrote and illustrated
www.littleoldladycomedy.com/all-works/k2...
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Literary Icons Join Buy Nothing — Little Old Lady
MacBeth Give: Dagger. Blade hath grown dull from frequent employ — though not from regicide! Verily, I am uncertain whether ‘tis real or mere fantasy. Moat pickup at the inte...
https://www.littleoldladycomedy.com/all-works/k2k781984yztgq4ubxxczsarnzrb9h
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I watched all of Stranger Things and the boy thing I understand is that now they have three dragons
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Dan☄️👽🚀
3 months ago
John Oliver's season finale was great, glad he focused on public media, and how important it is to fund. Red states tend to benefit from it the most. He has an auction site up to help raise money,
johnoliversjunk.com
, which even has an actual Bob Ross painting on it (but it's at 1 million).
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Last Week Tonight
Help Public Media Company c/o Partially Important Productions, LLC spread the word about Public Media Company C/O Last Week Tonight!
https://johnoliversjunk.com
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
3 months ago
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
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The real flaw in the new Lily Allen album is that now I’m just at work singing “Pussy palace, pussy palace” out loud.
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Gregory Pratt
3 months ago
NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.)
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
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Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability
The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/chicago-woman-collision-ice-accountability/?lctg=64878560258254F155C4F504CF&utm_email=64878560258254F155C4F504CF&active=no&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.chicagotribune.com%2f2025%2f11%2f03%2fchicago-woman-collision-ice-accountability%2f&utm_campaign=trib-chicago_tribune-daywatch-nl&utm_content=curated
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gwen howerton
3 months ago
this is Austin erasure
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Aaron Rupar
3 months ago
Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."
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abc
4 months ago
I've always been critical of the professoriate's tendency to dismiss entire states as unlivable. But holy hell, I'd rather work at Costco than take a faculty job in Texas or Florida right now. Reminder: one of the easiest things you can do to support faculty in these states is JOIN A FUCKING UNION.
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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦
4 months ago
🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2
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West Virginia University Press
4 months ago
🚨‼️ EVENT ALERT‼️🚨 WVU Press welcomes author Mo Daviau to Morgantown in joint event at WVU’s Colson Hall with author and WVU MFA graduate Kanza Javed. Can’t wait to see you there!
#morgantownwv
#event
#reading
#booklover
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Because nothing says “nightmare” like plantar fasciitis—Scary stories from me in
@pointsincase.com
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Because a Friday afternoon meeting by request is the stuff of nightmares, I wrote you this piece out now in
@pointsincase.com
on the scariest tales for the grownups:
www.pointsincase.com/articles/sca...
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Scary Stories to Tell Adults in the Dark
A New Ache: Jonah awoke one morning to find his feet had been possessed.
https://www.pointsincase.com/articles/scary-stories-to-tell-adults-in-the-dark
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Doghouse Reilly
4 months ago
They built this technology with this use case in mind.
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Mark Jacob
4 months ago
In Chicago, we haven't forgotten about Silverio Villegas González, the father of two shot to death by ICE 8 days ago. A Biden administration policy called for body cams “in all aspects of ICE enforcement activities.” But Trump's ICE is a masked, unaccountable goon squad. There's no video, ICE says.
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ICE officers in fatal Chicago shooting weren't wearing body cameras
Advocates and family members of a man shot and killed by an ICE officer after he allegedly dragged the officer with his car had called for video to be released.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-officers-fatal-chicago-shooting-not-wearing-body-cameras-rcna231727
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C. Robert Cargill
5 months ago
To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.
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AAUP
5 months ago
"Enough is enough. Texas must allow faculty and college students to explore freely the breadth of human knowledge, and administrators must support us in that time-honored quest." – Pauline Strong, President
@utaustinaaup.bsky.social
#AcademicFreedom
#AcademicSky
@texasaaup.bsky.social
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Manufactured outrage is killing academic freedom in Texas | Opinion
Enough with the "gotcha" attacks like the recent firing of a Texas A&M instructor. Let professors teach. Let students learn, writes Pauline Turner Strong.
https://www.statesman.com/opinion/columns/your-voice/article/manufactured-outrage-killing-academic-freedom-21051721.php
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Peter Labuza
5 months ago
Beyond cancelling Kimmel's show are about 200 writers and crew members in LA who just lost their full time gig.
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David Howe
5 months ago
I have no love for Charlie Kirk. I've been eye rolling for the past week while everyone on both sides have praised him for his "free speech" views. That said, its deeply ironic how much he would hate the crackdown that is happening in his name of anyone who speaks about him in any unflattering light
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ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show indefinitely over his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s death
ABC has suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely following comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s killing.
https://share.google/sOblV5Rt3REbh1hjQ
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shauna
5 months ago
in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.
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Kevin M. Kruse
5 months ago
The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.
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Lupita Nihongo
5 months ago
We have truly crossed a new threshold when The Man Show Guy is too far left of a voice for our current set of chauvinists to tolerate
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Kath Barbadoro
5 months ago
i do not think americans want to live in a culture where jimmy kimmel is considered too edgy for television
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Lindsey Cormack
5 months ago
Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
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