Why was Flaco Lopez the *only* Argentina player not to disrespectfully turn his back on Spain’s World Cup celebration? Because he plays for Palmeiras, which actively teaches its players not to be petulant man-children.
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The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve
The country in the world with the most Japanese people, facing off against the country with the second-most Japanese people, in the country with the third-most Japanese people.
richard nixon was to the left of every democratic president of my lifetime. this is not a defense of richard nixon.
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Maybe unpopular opinion but I think a lot of Dems would prefer to keep their seat in a minority gov't without redistricting as long as they can serve until they're 800 years old without any interruptions 🤗
Staten Island traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. The truck belongs to James Giovansanti, who lives and works there as an NYPD officer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...
To Protect And Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets Yet Remains On The Force - Streetsblog New York City
One of the city’s most-dangerous drivers is an officer with the NYPD, which does nothing to stop his reign of terror on Staten Island.
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The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
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Here is the cover of a report from the ACLU in 2016, which found that at least 56 individuals died in ICE custody during the Obama administration
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 6mo agoHillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."
"It's another thing for The New York Times to report this. I think they put a stamp of legitimacy on medical falsehoods. They also legitimized anti-trans hate, really." Very important comments from @billiejsweeney.bsky.social. transnews.network/p/a-directiv...
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
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you're a terrible assortment of unremarkable and incestuous extraction class brunchlords
Every Trans Suicide Is A Murder By Those In Power
Every Trans Suicide Is A Murder By Those In Power
News came this week that transgender athlete and student Lia Smith took her life at just 21 years of age.
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Cantankerous Old Bastard@venevidiexequi.bsky.social · 9mo agoCool story. Sorry, people not being able to compete in sports is simply not on the scale of consideration when others in our tent are literally losing their freedom and their livelihoods. You can pretend all you want that rational disagreement is "throwing you under the bus", but it's bullshit.
dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
Party hacks love off-year elections, because only the party regulars vote, and low turnout favors incumbents.
Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends - defector.com/free-press-r...
Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector
It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...
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A story that seems too good to be true, especially in these depressing times! www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-lif...
Bookstore to Open in Former Macon Hardware Digs
Pulitzer-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is teaming up with Bed-Vyne's owners to create a literary salon in the Bed Stuy building.
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In the last 2 weeks MAGA aligned people have done 2 attempted mass shootings of a gay bar and pride center in Arizona and Texas, murdered 2 teenage girls for mocking Charlie Kirk, and torched a judge's home. Meanwhile, the government mobilized the military to go after the left.
Is the issue here that they should have provided Blue Book citation to the Holmes opinion? I feel like this is sort of like Frankenstein's monster beef--everybody knows what you're talking about you don't have to be pedantic.
Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 11mo agoHey @nytimes.com, do you have literally *any* First Amendment experts on staff, because this is embarrassing. Glad you're speaking up about this, but feels like you should... not make basic mistakes like this? cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social
@jay.bsky.team how do you feel about willful disinformation on your platform? disinformation meant to encourage hatred of trans people and stochastic terrorism?