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Monteiro
2 days ago
There are 10 of these left and they’re exactly the same price today as they were yesterday. They’ll most likely be the same price tomorrow.
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2025 Sock of Shit — MULE BOOKS
A cheap xmas stocking full of stuff! Just like when you were a kid. (If you grew up poor like I did.) You get zines, pins, stickers, sugar candy, and shitty toys. You get some stickers designed by Mul...
https://www.mulebooks.com/store/2025-sock-of-shit
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Happy Leftover Pie for Breakfast Day to all who celebrate!
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Marisa Kabas
2 days ago
today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️ drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
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Kate Marvel
5 days ago
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle
6 days ago
Rest in Power to Mother Viola Ford Fletcher. 111 years, the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre. She never got the justice she deserved
www.fox23.com/news/mother-...
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Mother Viola Fletcher passes away at 111 years old
TULSA, Okla. — Mayor Monroe Nichols announced the passing of one of the two last remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Mother Viola Fletcher.
https://www.fox23.com/news/mother-viola-fletcher-passes-away-at-111-years-old/article_cb7b54cc-34af-47e1-b85d-1baece104dfb.html
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Is it me or do people in The Beast in Me drive cars in and out of NYC as fast as people traversed Los Angeles County in 24?
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Skyline cleanse
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Max Berger
7 days ago
The fascist right doesn’t believe that American Jews belong in America. They want us to live in our own ethno-state—not here. People like Zohran believe America is a multiracial democracy in which everyone should belong. It’s insane the latter is treated as antisemitism.
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Lil Snowborbs ☃️❄️
7 days ago
The thing about this that makes me see red is that this decision is death sentence for the entire ecosystem. Not just you and me, not just American people, everyone, every living thing, everywhere, forever
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Ah the consultant class! So lazy they can’t even do their own work.
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How To Read This Chart
8 days ago
Not only are generations fake, they’re also something we basically invented a few decades ago. Compare when generations occurred (shaded areas) with when we settled on their names. From this week’s newsletter:
www.howtoreadthisch.art/ample-exampl...
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Tyler, from the Internet
10 days ago
Remember them when they're gone, but know and see them, and protect them, while they're still here.
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Dustin Mulvaney
10 days ago
Today the Department of the Interior announced they will hold the six offshore lease sales across off of California. I wrote about Reagan’s Interior Secretary James Watt opening up 80 million acres of offshore waters to oil and gas about a year ago. The last offshore lease in California was 1984.
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Robin Marty
11 days ago
21 fucking Obgyns were involved in her care. She was hospitalized three times before 9 weeks. This was murder, pure and simple - a conspiracy to just try to keep her body operating long enough to get her to viability.
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Eliot Higgins
11 days ago
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
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Reuters
12 days ago
Roche oral drug shown to keep breast cancer at bay, boosting shares
reut.rs/4oIPiwV
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Roche oral drug shown to keep breast cancer at bay, boosting shares
Roche's ROG.S experimental oral drug giredestrant has been shown to cut the risk of recurrence of a common form of breast cancer after surgery, boosting the company's shares and underpinning its traditional credentials in oncology.
https://reut.rs/4oIPiwV
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Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages
12 days ago
My last research project showed that many mammals now live in climates different from the ones they occupied for thousands of years. Publishing it made me realize how often important science stays inaccessible and why I now focus on sharing it clearly. Full story ↓ 🧪
#SciComm
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The Climate Study That Changed My Life Forever
How research showing mammals in the wrong climates made me leave the lab for storytelling The last scientific research that I led made me quit...
https://climateages.com/the-climate-study-that-changed-my-life-forever/
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Adam Serwer
12 days ago
The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here
bsky.app/profile/pale...
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Jessica Ellis
13 days ago
I hope men understand that it is very very rare for anyone who is not a woman’s lover, close friend, or relative to stand up for her when another man insults her in a room of other men. It is incredibly unusual. They may not join in the bullying, but they’re unwilling to step in to stop it.
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I miss Defenestration.
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Constantine
19 days ago
1 in every 130 cases of breast cancer are in men. Men have breast tissue. Men even have mammary glands and can get ductal cancers. 3,000 men each year may not sound like much, but it's everything if you're one of them or love one.
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Abu Aardvark
19 days ago
“Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers.” The stories will get worse over time as censorship erodes. But we knew and didn’t stop it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/10/israeli-soldiers-breaking-ranks-gaza-civilians-human-shields
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jamelle
19 days ago
it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
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Catherine Rampell
20 days ago
now they've done it
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves
The Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of the tariffs it has levied.
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/italy-pasta-trump-tariffs-e38d86a6?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqfToHRk1iL-53cOw3t0OqZC7KfGQS0sDBRyxSUk1bMuxpmrO_6ZVxa2ug_sFqw%3D&gaa_ts=69121b06&gaa_sig=s7HhH2-4IB5Qvmz2M0h4l9_QIo3iZUCFetjVzXsQH035GIGsTgVWhGMbXYDPHaP-DYr4ueFvwYBAo5tI64CvjA%3D%3D
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
21 days ago
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Lee Morgenbesser
21 days ago
Like I fucking said.
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Brad Lander
21 days ago
Fight don’t fold.
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Wajahat Ali
21 days ago
Thanks to
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21 days ago
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Oliver Willis
21 days ago
Millions of Democratic voters on Tuesday: Fight these guys. Fight them. Senate Democrats: We heard you loud and clear and we will give in
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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
23 days ago
"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it."
www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
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How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ.
The AI industry's most important product is not a chatbot or a video generator; it's the story the AI industry is telling about itself
https://www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/tech/ai-bubble-burst-popping-explained-collapse-or-not-chatgpt
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Isabel
23 days ago
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
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Bobby Kogan
25 days ago
Wow, huge credit to Katie and the rest of the nutrition team at
@centeronbudget.bsky.social
. USDA has now issued revised numbers because CBPP caught them either accidentally or intentionally making huge errors that would severely underfund SNAP, in direct violation of court orders.
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Tyler King
25 days ago
Don Bluth is the reason elder millennials are fucked up in our feels. He broke us over and over again and we let him.
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He still thinks water flows down from Canada.
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Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
25 days ago
For many in the Asian American community, the refugee program was their immigration story. Yet President Trump wants to rewrite the message at the base of the Statue of Liberty to say: “White people only.” This betrays everything America stands for. Op-ed in English and Vietnamese in bio.
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Elizabeth Spiers
26 days ago
He has declared war on Trump and made people excited about being New Yorkers. I’m already proud to live here and my god, that was the best NYC pride, don’t fuck with us speech I’ve heard in my lifetime
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Santiago Mayer
26 days ago
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑
26 days ago
If we learn nothing else tonight, please PLEASE let's learn that the American people were NOT won over by an absolute firehose of the most vile dehumanization of trans people. Please
@democrats.org
, for the love of God and all that's holy, let's FINALLY start refusing to throw ANYone under ANY bus.
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Ana Marie Cox
26 days ago
We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
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This is what winning bigly looks like.
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Charlie Warzel
26 days ago
wrote this 364 days ago
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What do we do? Stand up, fight back!
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Erika Hall
26 days ago
Libbing out so hard I just saluted a bus
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imessage gonna have to stop autocorrecting to "Zoltar"
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CAWP
26 days ago
Alicia Johnson has been elected public service commissioner in Georgia's Second Public Commission District. She will be the first Black woman to serve in statewide elective executive office in Georgia.
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Rabbi Sara Zober
26 days ago
Hey Dems, look who won in NYC and elsewhere (VA, GA). ACT ACCORDINGLY AND START SUPPORTING PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES!!!
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Brad Lander
26 days ago
Who is wise? One who learns from all people. Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world. (Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers)
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