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Your Friend Michael
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Native New Yorker, Lawyer. 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
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The dumbest thing about all of this is that anyone with a functioning brain knows why birth rates are down. It’s because it’s too god damn expensive to have children. Capitalism is the reason birth rates are down. They’re just too blinded by ideology to see the obvious.

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Sshecky.bsky.social

If anyone has done DNA testing with 23andMe, that company is going under, and all your data will be transferred to whoever the new buyer is. Go in and delete it before that happens.

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The first is about how Democrats should treat Republicans as a normal, respectable political party. The second is a Reagan/Bush/GWBush official who says the GOP is irredeemably broken by "a relentless assault on reality, fused with lawlessness and the embrace of illiberalism."

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Democrats Could Regret Calling Trump and His Supporters ‘Weird’

Peter Wehner
What Has Happened to My Party Haunts Me
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This is a deliberate right-wing wedge strategy to undermine respect for medical expertise and bodily autonomy. Trans kids are the foot in the door. It continues on to banning all abortion and contraception on the federal level, and I don’t want to think about where it goes after that right now.

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KAatherton.bsky.social

A soft jazz cover of Green Day’s “when I come around” Classic Rock stations have played "American Idiot" since the Trump era. In the soft light of the Panera, you understand how your father must have felt, hearing Skynyrd in Home Depot. Aging is a kind of coming home.

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DWdaveweigel.bsky.social

Just my guess: the Chevron decision will go exactly how conservatives want it, but be buried by the same-day Trump immunity decision. The justices aren't stupid. They know how news cycles work and they've done this before. You'll hear about Chevron in a John Oliver segment in a few months.

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Just noting that the big new movie opening next weekend that is going to snap the bad box-office streak is...nonexistent. There is none, because of the strikes. Every Hollywood-in-trouble story between now and the end of 2024 should contain the sentence, "They did it to themselves."

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Civilization

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i'm fuckin dying

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IBiboudreau.bsky.social

Mark Kern got a harassment campaign going to get a Helldivers community manager fired and the studio responded by ignoring him completely, maybe America's top newspapers and elite schools could learn something from a little Swedish studio that made a game about shooting space bugs

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Your Friend Michael
@michaelpg.bsky.social
Native New Yorker, Lawyer. 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
18 followers126 following87 posts