Patrick

Patrick

@cleverturnip.bsky.social

Alabama transplant in Chicago.

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My favourite pics from last night

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING WaPo: Brazil's right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro just effectively conceded defeat to the incumbent left-wing president — minutes after Trump indicated he would not intervene on his behalf.

gotta be the part on this live version of Ry Cooder playing How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live--the part from 1:10-1:35 where it transitions from Bobby King's gospel chorus to Flaco JImenez's accordion and the Mexican sax www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaJz...

youtube.comHow Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live (Live)YouTube video by Ry Cooder - Topic
Nick J Mascisaurus Rex Sr.@bridgemusicbunker.bsky.social

Tell me about a part, a moment, a time stamp in a song that has you like this.

ry cooder is basically Peter Gabriel but for guys who got really into folk music in the 60s. on a lot of his live sets with the Chicken Skin Band on youtube, there's inevitably some old guy in the comments posting something like "THIS BAND COULD CREATE WORLD PEACE."

bigoted-ass messaging from people who try to paint their prejudice as smart and strategic. this is loser shit. no one has ever respected it, this is Millard Fillmore shit

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

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there’s no such thing as “strategic bigotry.” I know this because there is no amount of money you could pay me to become a bigot. the democrats who do this agree to do it because they’re bigots

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

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again: This man doesn't wash his hands after he takes a shit

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"

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a significantly better argument than "republicans were right about elian gonzalez" is the existence of near constant violence at the southern border and repeated federal purges of immigrants under INS. of course adults like AES are interested in avoiding replication of that system.

former blizzard game dev@jazzpomegranate.com

this was our immigration system before ice

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I think there should be a deeper look into how association with historical figures is some kind of vapid shortcut to contemporary associations in some circles of partisanship, and what it functionally does and doesnt do but also... It is something where JB reverence doesnt ever manifest JB deeds.

neuse river hag@neuseriverhag.bsky.social

why is john brown the litmus test for performative and shallow politics. he died for that shit. you people should be getting super into lewis tappan

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the space DUI occupies is low key one of the most insane things about car culture. it's both heavily stigmatized for obvious reasons, while also sort of tacitly generally accepted as common practice to the point of legally requiring BLACKOUT ZONE BAR & GRILL to have a minimum number of parking spots

ben fryback@bfryback.bsky.social

this is a first: "don't build a protected bike lane/pedestrian crossing because a drunk driver will hit it"

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HOW HARD IS THIS TO UNDERSTAND? WE ARE HOLDING CHAMPIONS NIGHT DURING THE 2026-2027 SEASON. THERE WAS NO CHAMPIONS NIGHT FOR 2025-2026 BECAUSE WE WERE ELIMINATED DURING THE CONFERENCE FINALS.

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social

The Knicks free shirts tonight are... interesting (via @ky-carlin.bsky.social)

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If Zohran Mamdani or Abdul El-Sayed had used the word “Shylock” as an insult, the ADL would be attacking them by name relentlessly. But Donald Trump used it, so we get a generic condemnation of the word without any specific reference to who actually used it, and with no assumption of intent.

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There is no sympathy for taking your daughter out of school when you took other people’s kids to concentration camps 🤷🏻‍♂️

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

The ICE officer who faces charges for road raging in Minneapolis (pulling a gun on a random motorist who blocked him from driving his unmarked SUV on the shoulder) broke into tears on the stand and said he was under a lot of stress, ok?

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Emphasizing again that we cannot treat this as just business as usual. This is the President of the United States openly attacking an entire ethnic group.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You go up to Minnesota -- number one place in the entire country for the sale of Mercedes-Benz. And Somalians are buying them. They come here with low IQs and no money and they get rich. Do we feel stupid? Our fraud division is getting them all."

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Orthopedic surgeon: Can we admit this knee replacement to medicine? The patient took atenolol in 1998 for 2 months. Orthopedic surgeon who is an NFL team doctor: Don't fall asleep or you'll die.

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The man who asked the question is a literal white nationalist operative who is suggesting El-Sayed is a terrorist and these fucking twerps are like “He came off a little smug”

Dean Obeidallah@deanobeidallah.bsky.social

‘Not an Appealing Quality!’ Democrats on CNN Panel Rip Abdul El-Sayed Over ‘Cockiness’ The same pundits who tell female candidates to "smile more" now tell the Muslim Senate candidate to be more respectful to the white bigot who smears them with lies. #STFU www.mediaite.com/media/news/n...

James Carville was calling people Judas for endorsing Obama over Clinton in that primary btw

your regular reminder that james carville thought that obama's 2008 win meant that democrats had secured a generational majority that would render the republican party obsolete. so you don't actually ever have to listen to him

apart from all that, the Hillary Clinton 08 primary after Obama actually caught steam was an exercise in "just how racist can a 21st century Democratic presidential candidate get." Everything thrown at the Bernie campaign about this shit in 16 was projection

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this is the type of shit David Byrne says directly into the camera in True Stories

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG SAYS HE BELIEVES MOST PEOPLE IN GERMANY WILL MOSTLY WORK INSIDE A DIGITAL TWIN OF THEIR COMPANY, BUILDING DIGITAL CARS WITH DIGITAL BRAINS, WITH AI ROBOTS BUILDING ROBOTIC CARS INSIDE ROBOTIC FACTORIES

btw jan crawford is from a part of alabama so psychotically racist that even the rest of alabama is a little ashamed of it (cullman county)

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

This is a really striking tweet.

I am also from Alabama, and I've known some great people from Cullman, so I'm not saying there's like geographical determinism here. But if she's from Cullman and says shit like this...she's just a straight up lifelong racist

I'm also reminded of this NPR piece from 13 years ago when their ombusdman publicly scolded a reporter for correctly calling Center for Immigration Studies (founded by a white nationalist!) "right-wing" www.npr.org/sections/pub...

npr.orgGetting The Bedfellows Of Immigration Policy RightThe Center for Immigration Studies is happy to court controversy in the current debate over immigration. The influential Washington think tank favors greater immigration restrictions. But when a Morni...
Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social

This 2022 piece by Jeremy Peters In the New York Times was hilarious bullshit when it was published but now that Musk is literally bankrolling the entire Republican Party it’s a fucking laugh riot.

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On March 25, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said in a news conference, "The lawsuit today challenging the categorical withholding of all evidence from a state for criminal investigation is unprecedented in American history."

FOX 9@fox9mn.bsky.social

A new pause in federal cooperation is again slowing Minnesota's review of the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and the shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis.

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"ilhan was also investigated by biden, where there's smoke there's fire" yeah ilhan has been subjected to 8 years of bipartisan dedication to punishing her for being black, muslim, somali, and pro-palestine, and in that time the government has surfaced precisely 0 evidence of wrongdoing