Chris Smith

Chris Smith

@levin86.bsky.social

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Is this something people are saying?

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

look i was a bernie supporter so i've had to reconcile the fact that a lot of his online supporters were dumb as rocks but certain platner enthusiasts are really not doing their candidate any favors by advancing the "all american men have a nazi phase" argument

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I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.

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Once these Let Billions Suffer voters see how gruesome letting billions suffer gets they will surely come crawling back to the Let Millions Suffer party and we’ll finally be able to win elections without catering to those troublesome Nobody Should Suffer radicals

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Replying to @vaginamuseum.bsky.social

So there you have it. Could you read braille with your clitoral glans? Maybe, if all circumstances are perfectly met. Should you? We'll leave that up to you. Please let us know if you try it, we're a Vagina Museum, we collect these sorts of stories.

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A key component of conservatism is that, if given the chance, everyone would be as shitty as conservatives would be.

Jake Wittich@jakewittich.bsky.social

Ex-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spouts transphobic talking points to Bill Maher. "Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."

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Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social

I know the material reasons for the rise of fascism. I also think another reason - which doesn’t get talked about as much because it’s embarrassing that humans can be that naive - is that when you are financially comfortable but bored, abstract cruelty can give you a sense of purpose.

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If you are a scientist or policy expert working on something related to climate or the environment, and your work has been impacted by these cuts, either directly or indirectly, and you want to tell @thebulletin.org about it, you can email me jmckenzie@thebulletin.org (or jsmckenzie@protonmail.com)

Slashing federal funding for scientific research will have catastrophic impacts far beyond the laboratories where government research funds are spent. "How the Trump administration could end a century of American scientific dominance," by @adamsobel.bsky.social.

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democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

a stammering Tom Homan on AOC: "She's the dumbest congresswoman ever elected to Congress."

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Replying to @vanoreo.bsky.social

like, trump is an evil piece of shit but he is actually following through on the evil shit his voters want! not incredibly shocking he has the hitler vote locked down!

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The Act makes sense if you start from the premise of (1) police are very good at arresting only criminals and (2) the immigration system is efficient and doesn't leave people with messed up statuses. If you believe either, please also know I am the bank account inspector and I need your login info.

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I recommend no fewer than 4 copies of any beloved book. A paperback for traveling and lending to friends, an eBook for reading with greasy snack fingers, an audio book so you know how the characters' names are actually pronounced, and a pristine hardcover to be buried with you like a pharaoh

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UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty just sent a memo to staff (leaked to me) hailing late CEO as “one of the good guys” who had “a profoundly positive impact on the lives of so many people.” Witty adds: “He was certainly one of the smartest guys. I think he was one of the best guys.”

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Related to recent discourse™, I've noticed how becoming anti-woke and/or anti-trans produce brain rot across every field of human inquiry. Once a person goes down that route, they become incapable of producing thoughtful / interesting commentary on any issue, even if they had in the past.