CHINA FOREIGN MINISTRY: “.. Bowing to a bully is like drinking poison to quench thirst. It only deepens the crisis.” @mediaitenews.bsky.social www.mediaite.com/news/china-r...
We have now arrived at the "arresting judges" level of fascism.
“We are expected to believe that this extraordinary haziness on issues central to who should lead the country is somehow exciting and full of promise,” writes John Hewson “It isn’t. It’s simply nothing.”
Peter Dutton’s empty leadership
We don’t have a presidential election system in Australia and yet so much of this campaign and its media coverage has focused on the contest between the two major party leaders. It doesn’t need to be…
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an entire people is being deliberately starved to death
Josie Glausiusz@josiegz.bsky.social · last yr.In Gaza, World Central Kitchen @wck.org is among the last organizations still able to cook meals. The IDF has shut all crossings to shipments, including humanitarian relief. We are now nearing the end of our supplies—and the limits of what’s possible. mailchi.mp/wck/4-23-25-...
Kids dead from measles. that’s who RFKjr was talking about, he’s confused them with autistic people again. Kids dead from measles will never pay taxes, hold down a job, play baseball, write a porm. Kids dead with measles tear families apart. That goof, he got them the wrong way round.
The Dance of the Swans is the best thing you’ll see today
I get the impression that liking Operation: Zero Tolerance is an unpopular opinion. But I did. You could get a whole story in one title, which is what I want in a crossover. Not every title was directly connected, but they all made sense in isolation. That's what I look for in a crossover.
Mahmoud Khalil showcases an ugly thing about America: freedom of speech (and religion) poll very well in the abstract but if you probe with specific examples of things people don’t like the support falls through the floor. The default is “freedom for things I agree with, for the rest, the lash.”
¡Buenos días, Frikazos y mutantes de todo el Multiverso! 🎨 -> Mike Maihack (@mikemaihack.bsky.social)
There isn't enough The Muppet Show commentary in my feed. I'm going to go look for some.
BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight. This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.
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What this means for academics and scientists is simple: Defend them against right-wing persecution. What this means for journalists is simple: Stand with your colleagues against right-wing assault. Don’t just print bad faith arguments from motivated actors. Tell people who they really are.
Fight for every single drop of truth. Don’t let a single lie absorb into the national discourse. That’s the lesson of the COVID era and this moment.
My LCS post my comics to me every month and they arrived yesterday so I got to read Uncanny X-Men 10 today during my lunch break. Apfelkuchen. @gailsimone.bsky.social you brought Oma back to me for a few minutes. Thank you. I've always adored your work.
"oh no I'm just a smol bean senator and I am worried tariffs will harm my constituents; please don't hurt my constituents lord god trump"
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com
Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
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Peter Dutton says up to 36,000 public servants will be sacked to pay for the opposition’s election promise to match Labor’s $9bn Medicare injection.
Sacked public servants to pay for Dutton’s Medicare
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This is Israel's most read daily newspaper, openly calling for genocide and saying there are no innocent people in Gaza. This is who Biden sacrificed the country to arm.
X-Men who? Spidey swings by to get tangled up in Operation: Zero Tolerance in today's new UNCANNY X-CERPTS!
UNCANNY SPIDER-MAN #346: The Story of the Year
Spider-Man mixes it up with Marrow and Operation: Zero Tolerance!
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Another day, another thing Dutton didn’t bother to think about
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
when people argue for giving in to fascism it's generally because they find fascism appealing. 1
David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social · last yr.Among the most commonly accepted and yet utterly baseless political theories out there is the idea that you can "satisfy" nativist urges by giving into some of their demands. How much history do you need to refute this?
one thing I have tried to emphasize in various places is the extent to which fascism is not a binary on/off switch. we see Niemoller today as a brave opponent of the regime, and he was...except when he wasn't.