The Devil is an interesting card for the first quarter. Also anyone making fun of this, do you bet on games? This is no more ridiculous than placing money on a game you’re not playing in. Just sayin’ 🤷🏻♀️
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Pronouns: she/her/hers "It's dark enough already; I don't need to add to it." -me Former hockey blogger & podcaster; now mostly a casual sports fan. Just doing my own thing in New England, but originally from rural western Washington State.
Drew a few tarot cards ahead of Pitt-Virginia Tech, because why not? Q1: The Devil Q2: Page of Wands Q3: Empress (reversed) Q4: King of Cups
I'll just say that a guy joking about being a tough guy and holding hands with another guy so they can make a PSA about flu shots is so obviously one thousand times more studly than our idiotic defense secretary who thinks it's about pushups and making fun of beards.
An *HBCU* band battle? Damn. That might be worth watching if it's going to be streamed somewhere.
Sickos Committee@sickoscommittee.org · 32m agoY’all.
📮 New USPS cost cuts could delay your mail ballot. In most states, late means it doesn't count. 61% of planned zip codes will be affected for midterms. Search for your zip code here: https://demdock.com/4rMi8Ps
With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.
'Handful' of G20 countries reject US stance on excess industrial capacity reut.rs/4zxmpsT
'Handful' of G20 countries reject US stance on excess industrial capacity
A "handful" of G20 trade ministers rejected US calls to curb excess industrial capacity and "non-market" policies, the US Trade Representative's office said on Friday, exposing divisions within the group of major economies.
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Yeah, damn man, can’t imagine why people would be upset about losing bodily autonomy. A real mystery!
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 1h agoNot so sure Republicans want the Dobbs decision back in the spotlight like this as the Midterms approach…
Charles Rennie Mackintosh was one of the major designers that helped inspire the Arts & Crafts movement (1880-1920), which was a precursor of the Art Nouveau style. It started as a criticism of industrialization, & heavily romanticized pre-industrial life when everything was hand-crafted.
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2h agoA 'rare and beautiful' lantern designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh is to be sold at auction this month along with several other of his works
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Modern society places more importance on feelings rather than on logic. It places an individual's emotions (usually fear) above the good of the community. So all discussion devolves into "my feelings are important" & completely skips the "what happened, & how can we fix it" part of the conversation.
Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 8h agoYou have to accurately assess the problem to create proper solutions
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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in video form, this is adorable
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago"I'm supposed to be tough. What happens if I faint?"- here's fun footage of Curtis Sliwa & Mayor Mamdani getting their flu shots together, including Mamdani offering to hold Sliwa's hand 😆 (Sliwa takes him up on it!) (Flu season is approaching and NYers can find free flu shots at nyc.gov/healthmap)
wonderful reminder of the funniest dynamic of the mayoral race, where sliwa clearly liked mamdani and was delighted to see him humiliate cuomo also, more politicians should do this! get your flu shots!
Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · 6h ago"I'm supposed to be a tough guy," Curtis confided. "I can hold your hand," the mayor offered "What happens if I faint?" Sliwa asked. "I've got you," Mamdani assured him, grabbing his hand as Sliwa received his flu shot. abc7ny.com/post/nyc-may...
New Fox poll of Texas has Talarico +7 with registered voters and +2 with likely voters. This is striking: *He's winning half of working class *In mid-60s w/Latinos *Winning 22% of non-MAGA Rs (!) The kicker: Non-MAGA Rs *disapprove* of Trump New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
New Fox Poll—a Disaster for Trump—Rattles Fox Anchors: “Wake Up!”
They were freaking out on Fox News Friday morning over a new Texas poll. A look at the internals shows they had every reason to.
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Vance's fraud crackdown may raise costs for US health insurers, enrollees reut.rs/4AFQqrz
Vance's fraud crackdown may raise costs for US health insurers, enrollees
A crackdown on Obamacare health insurance could raise prices for US consumers and insurers by removing healthy, low-cost enrollees, adding pressure to a shrinking marketplace.
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Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures "If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal. It was just that, when you came to explain it to a third party, it sounded odd."
Micah@rincewind.run · yesterdayDiscworld QOTD, from Unseen Academicals “But, it was a funny thing: every day something happened that was important enough to be on the front page of the newspaper. She’d never bought it and seen a little sign that said ‘Not much happened yesterday, sorry about that’.”
This guy has been doing everything he possibly can every day to use his position of SecDef to tamper with the midterms, from speaking at Republican campaign rallies, to giving partisan political speeches to troops, to this. Do all federal employees get a day off to vote?
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
just wanna re-up the part where I wrote that many immigrants in Maine have been sheltering in place since January for their own safety, with ICE still operating in the area. it is October.
Lex McMenamin (they/them)@lexmcmenamin.com · yesterdaywhether or not it stayed in the headlines, ICE's on-the-ground presence “shocked the whole system” (in one advocate's words), changing life for Maine communities. many immigrants have been effectively sheltering in place since Jan, relying on grocery drop-offs and volunteers to take kids to school.
In some ways, the biggest difference between me and a person who is "successfull in media" is this clip right here. Thompson is summoning every ounce of her strength to sit there and listen to sports praise of a sexual predator. I'd... lose my shit and get fired.
Timothy Burke@bubbaprog.xyz · 8h agoiso cam on Charissa Thompson as she's forced to listen to praise of a rapist