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We could be doing so much better than this. "Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value." -Joe Biden, who never actually wanted people to hold him to that ...

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Yeah, probably. I just try to explain to people that the only way we're gonna be happy is if we take care of each other. If people wanted to take care of each other as an animating impulse, I figure we would have started by now. :-/

08.03.2026 03:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine laying off Matt Zoller Seitz!! For what? More coverage of elite Manhattan preschools? Washed magazine!!!!!!

08.03.2026 02:59 πŸ‘ 83 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

a simple example of this comes from within my own chapter, where an unhoused member routinely has mental episodes from being unhoused (he gets his shit stolen, his shitty temp job fucks him over, he gets stuck two states away with no ticket back, etc) that get him repeatedly stuck in a hospital

07.03.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 208 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the third account I've seen talk about this and ignore when Israel - our ally in *this war* - lied about Gazans blowing up their own hospital less than three years ago, when they blew it up w US munitions...

...in order to instead scream, WHAT ARE WE A BUNCH OF *RUSSIANS*?!?!

08.03.2026 01:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You see this is technically correct, but it doesn't work. Terrorism is when the someone the right demonizes is violent. Anything else is just sparkling political violence. And we can try working the refs on this again, but that hasn't worked so far.

08.03.2026 01:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

07.03.2026 22:55 πŸ‘ 2346 πŸ” 566 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 15

"I understand what you're trying to say but they very much did kill Jesus"

07.03.2026 21:06 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tony West go to Siberia do not pass go do not collect $200

07.03.2026 20:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
One night, she said, Mr. Redzepi spotted her using a phone, which was strictly forbidden during service. (She recalled that she was using it to turn down the volume of the music in the dining room at a guest’s request.) Without a word, she said, he punched her in the ribs hard enough that she fell against a metal counter, and cut her hip on its sharp corner.

She was on the floor, bleeding and in tears, she recalled, but no one said a word as she fled to the dressing room. When a sous-chef eventually came to find her, she said, he asked only if she was OK to return to work. She went back to her station and finished her shift. (An email exchange with her parents confirms that she shared the incident with them at the time.)

One night, she said, Mr. Redzepi spotted her using a phone, which was strictly forbidden during service. (She recalled that she was using it to turn down the volume of the music in the dining room at a guest’s request.) Without a word, she said, he punched her in the ribs hard enough that she fell against a metal counter, and cut her hip on its sharp corner. She was on the floor, bleeding and in tears, she recalled, but no one said a word as she fled to the dressing room. When a sous-chef eventually came to find her, she said, he asked only if she was OK to return to work. She went back to her station and finished her shift. (An email exchange with her parents confirms that she shared the incident with them at the time.)

JESUS CHRIST MAN

07.03.2026 20:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That said, the working conditions at Noma appear to have been "18th century ship of the line..."

07.03.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Any head chef who doesn't have a reputation as being One of the Good Ones is usually some flavor of psycho asshole. They are after all, A Boss

07.03.2026 20:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Here at union square to show w my body that I oppose this slaughter in the middle east. Do you have a plan to do *anything* by this time next week to do something similar?

07.03.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Social media is a turn based strategy game. You have 100 posts left to benevolently manipulate public opinion and solve all of Earth’s problems. If you fail, humanity is doomed and it’s all your fault. You are history’s fulcrum

07.03.2026 19:35 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

They're so much better these days. Some of the ones down the street had iron monkey bars over concrete

07.03.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Its so funny that "doing the end of fight club" would probably poll at like 70+ percent if you polled it. Which is why they don't.

07.03.2026 19:01 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I also enter Dressing Fugue from time to time.

07.03.2026 17:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They should invent a way out that isn't through

07.03.2026 14:34 πŸ‘ 1374 πŸ” 282 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The unspoken wall all these debates run up against is "and that's why we have to vote for Janet Mills" but this part is never said. There's no strategy otherwise

07.03.2026 15:36 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

I was amazed by this. The callousness of the IDF to create 26 new corpses over a pile of bones. To risk their own people! Did the army just need a mission that badly? WTF happened?

07.03.2026 14:24 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just learned that my wife doesn't know what a Shahed is, pray for us.

07.03.2026 13:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wisdom from Jesse Jackson’s service yesterday: β€œYou don’t forgive because they deserve mercy. You forgive because you deserve peace. Forgiveness is an emancipation.”

07.03.2026 13:13 πŸ‘ 605 πŸ” 121 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 7

Also expensive? The giant oil leak of their tanks are ruptured

07.03.2026 05:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So ted lasso then?

07.03.2026 05:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There was a moment on season 3 where she WOKE THE CHEFS UP to demand they make her breakfast and the producers left in just how much everyone wanted to kill her with knives

07.03.2026 05:34 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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it's like these people didn't have group chats smh

06.03.2026 19:05 πŸ‘ 696 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

I also thought she was wrong about invading Iraq

07.03.2026 01:29 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

clinton's plan to beat trump was to elevate him above the rest of the republican field and then coast to an easy victory. i don't think she was right about that

07.03.2026 01:17 πŸ‘ 3690 πŸ” 452 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 5

This *is* just how the economy works now though. Ask the multi billion dollar illegal taxi rings...

07.03.2026 00:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

β€œA DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credibleβ€”and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

07.03.2026 00:20 πŸ‘ 3873 πŸ” 1615 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 71