One sign of the rise of male supremacy and the decline in women’s status is the ubiquity of online porn lingo in casual speech.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d agoIt was this one, and, yes, I do believe that was an All In first.
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Former long time bookseller and head book buyer, former lecture agent, occasionally pretend to be a cyclist. Have been grumpy since probably the age of 15.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d ago
A masterpiece. And it has some of the all-time great John Sayles lines, which is saying a lot. The one that never leaves my mind is David Strathairn as the sheriff saying of a person he dislikes "I wouldn't piss on him if his heart was on fire."
Derf Backderf@derfbackderf.bsky.social · 2d agoMATEWAN is film that all of you should watch. It's a masterpiece that's more relevant now than it was in 1987.
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
I don't take seriously anyone from any segment of politics that looks at their positions as an orthodoxy that must be adhered to completely. That is not politics - it's religion.
this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
I’ve known @jeremymoss.bsky.social for 20 years. He’s one of the finest, most dedicated public servants Michigan has ever had. This is a disgustingly, blatantly antisemitic attack by one of his primary opponents.
People need to get it through their heads that whatever they *might* have “actually” meant a couple of years ago, when leftists say “AIPAC” or “Israel” NOW they often mean (((Jewish))) just as when MAGA says “DEI” they mean “Black.” If you can’t get that I don’t know what the else to say.
It’s completely nuts that Trump won by less than 2M votes with near universal media help and worldwide rage at incumbents and the media treated this like a permanent sea change towards MAGA and now less than 2 years later he’s the least popular President in history and there’s no media reckoning
Four and a half new minutes of Tom Waits shittalking a bug? PLUG IT STRAIGHT INTO MY VEINS
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Hurling F-bombs at an 85-year-old scientist who won’t fight back doesn’t make you tough. Staying silent after your own daughter accused Rep. Max Miller of holding a gun to her head, pushing her against a wall, and fracturing your granddaughter’s collarbone makes you a coward.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.
man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
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Jonathan V. Last@jvl.bsky.social · 2w agoWorst part of the new @status.news report is that the Bari Weiss team appears to get its view of what is actually happening in the world from Twitter. They were asking Vega to include things that *weren't real* b/c they didn't know any better. www.status.news/p/cecilia-ve...
Obviously people can criticize the left or object to left positions. (people on the left who flirt with abandoning Ukraine suck and should be hooted down, as just one example.) 1
They died serving our country. They should be honored, not erased. Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Hawaii Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Texas Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of New York Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of North Carolina
The fact that we almost did not get this movie about a little guy taking on a corporation focused only on profit because the studio decided to axe it for short term profit is frankly too much for me right now.
Every Film Now@everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 2w agoFinal trailer for ‘COYOTE VS. ACME’ has been released. In theaters August 28. #CoyoteVsAcme
Fuck this guy forever. Hundreds of thousands of the world's poorest people have already died because of his casual cuts and so many more are doomed. He is one of mankind's most evil figures.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit
Nolan also should’ve cast a half-goddess born from an egg to play Helen of Troy. But in classic woke Hollywood fashion, he cast a human. Pitiful.
McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 2w ago"It is clear that Hollywood has no interest in historical representation and is instead focused on pushing a single agenda—putting as many white people from the Greater Boston area in television shows and movies as humanly possible."
The average swing voter hears this and thinks you’re speaking Urdu
Voice in the Wind from Cascadia@voiceinthewind.bsky.social · 2w agoThese swing voters really believe that our corporate oligarchy will protect them economically and ignore the fact that it is politically unstable, inherently corrupt, and unsustainable.
As Much As You Can, by Constantine Cavafy And even if you cannot make your life the way you want it, this much, at least, try to do as much as you can: don't cheapen it with too much intercourse with society... Translation @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social soundcloud.com/yahia-lababi... #poetry
As Much As You Can, by Constantine Cavafy - read by Yahia Lababidi
As Much As You Can, by Constantine Cavafy And even if you cannot make your life the way you want it, this much, at least, try to do as much as you can: don't cheapen it with too much intercou
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I like the cut of this lady's jib. I said in 2019 that I'd vote for Bernie Sanders if that's what it took, but my point at the time was "don't put anyone in that stupid position when Joe Biden is *right there*"
Tara@tatabug.bsky.social · 2w agoThe thing that no one on the left seems to grasp about former Republicans/Never Trumpers is that all we really care about is beating Republicans. We would absolutely vote for DSA candidates if the choice is a Republican. The only reason we care about DSA is when it keeps a Democrat from winning.
This is such a beautiful thread. Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3w agoAntifascism looks like Pedro Pascal. It looks like Alex Pretti and AOC. It looks like 600 priests, imams, and rabbis in the cold streets of winter Minneapolis. Antifascism is gorgeous.
Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.
ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer
An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.
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