@aintmatt.bsky.social

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

📣 New on the blog! "The Fascists will scream at you for siding with minorities. The Ultraliberals will look down on you for daring to dream. The Moralists will call you an extremist for engaging with politics at all. But these people aren’t your friends, and they’re certainly not your comrades."

THE SUNDAY FRIEND IS NOT YOUR FRIEND

A Critique of Centrist Politics Through the Lens of Disco Elysium

O que está acontecendo no Rio de Janeiro é um golpe muito bem articulado. A mesma Justiça que permitiu Garotinho se manter candidato agora anula sua votação para eleger Douglas Ruas. Esse é o PL, o partido que joga SUJO. Por isso precisamos que passe longe da presidência.

A leftist or progressive US government could create a federal job guarantee with public credit creation circuits, and formalize ongoing balance of payments support for other countries pursuing the same but who are currently bullied by dollar-denominated costs into administering austerity.

Think about the core tenets of American conservatism: a government serving 300 million people and leading the world should be “small” and that we should orient all policy around servicing the rich so that they throw us gruel. It’s fucking stupid and we should say so.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · last wk.

The biggest democratic/liberal mistake of the last 50+ years has been operating like the right has anything to offer America. It was the fundamental problem with Bill Clinton to Obama and everyone in between

When I see the polling, the media fawning, the Australian flags popping up in yards, on fences, yards, I don't understand the lack of alarm. Whatever shape this wave takes, it's coming. We should be very, very frightened indeed.

Worried a fascist candidate may be elected to power, one in particular that has admitted that his "plan" is to basically throw Brazilian sovereignty away and open it to the US in any shape or form, and some weird moves by some US agencies and military have been noted, even by our current government+

its not simply about boycotting meta. one company has made their products indispensable for communication in the modern world. they blocked lulas electoral ads the week before the election. theyre trying to sway public opinion against the victim of a gangrape. states need to intervene.

Jezebel@jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Instagram decided to block my post from getting in front of the right people. Tut tut tut. Oh dear. That doesn’t look great does it?" Pugh wrote www.jezebel.com/florence-pug...

ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.

ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?

Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

theguardian.com