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Best gas masks “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

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BOYD CROWDER TO RAYLAN GIVENS IN A UNIVERSE WHERE THEY’RE BOTH DOGS: We dug hole together

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his…

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Minnesota, you can end this with about $50,000 in a bag from a lunch slop restaurant

This piece is not just incredible and moving stories from Minneapolis health care workers, it offers a blueprint on how to start organizing and strengthening policies in hospitals nationwide. Share it with the health care workers in your life.

Federal Agents Kill Again; Gunmen Still At Large | Defector On Saturday in Minneapolis, federal agents surrounded 37-year-old Veterans Affairs intensive care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, who’d been filming them in the street with his phone camera as they conduct...

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TONY: Welcome to Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil. Here with me to discuss cancel culture on college campuses is Leon Chang. How are you Leon?

ME (taking a sip of whiskey): yuck. do you have any apple juice mr dookie pill

TONY: Not how it's pronounced

Smoking Behind The Supermarket With You Is A Cozy Rom-Com Manga Now that’s what I call a good slow burn romance

speaking of romance: new romance manga rec from @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social aftermath.site/smoking-behi...

Congratulations to John Roberts

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

~news~: this week I started at The Guardian US @us.theguardian.com as Movement Building reporter, continuing my coverage of protest, repression and resistance against war, LGBTQ rights, policing, labor, and more under Trump.

organizers, advocates—send me your stories! I’m on Signal lex.mcmenamin.68

they are recruiting for the worst, bottom-of-the-barrel chuds imaginable and those chuds are behaving exactly as you'd expect

they're doing it for gender, imo

and i've been hoping to eat a chili pepper that will do this to me ever since

finally, we're living through precedented times

Hey Jon Stewart, jokes about wearing masks aren't funny Critics of the Daily Show host say he's a hypocrite.

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Hi! if you’ve enjoyed any of my writing, performances or dj sets this year, i would greatly appreciate your support! it will be used feed myself and my son (cat with expensive dietary needs)

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bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

yes but also the more interesting points are that (1) dem posturing on immigration mostly hasn’t changed much in the months since, and (2) dems are walking straight into the same thermostatic buzzsaw on trans rights having learned absolutely nothing from this

"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist

My orange kitty Benne and his big brother orange creamsicle kitty Eggsy relaxing together on the couch

Benne and Eggsy appreciation