If you're claiming to be held back by trans women in the WNBA, but there aren't any trans women in the WNBA, maybe you suck at basketball a little bit

You see it over and over and over again: The idea that a political party is a Brand, a politician is a Product, and a vote is a Purchase. It is one of the worst, most diseased ways you can possibly approach politics & it has, ironically, become *deeply* embedded amongst the left

Amazing to live in a country where the secret police are handling inter-chud beefs. It's like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7h ago

Laura Loomer is taking credit for Milo getting detained by ICE.

i occasionally make "comrade stalin" jokes because my brain is too kotkincooked, but the thing is that the whole trajectory of the bolshevik movement is worth studying as an exercise in politics and power *not least* because of how horrific and stupid and evil it was

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 4h ago

The Soviet Union was not just imperialist. It was monstrous. And it’s a good thing it collapsed.

Brilliantly done: the photographer focused on Harp, letting Trump fall out of focus. That’s gonna infuriate him lolol.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Natalie Harp is traveling with the president yet again today (Win McNamee/Getty)

71 years ago, an act of racism, hate, and violence took Emmett Till’s bright young life. Today, I’m remembering him and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. May God continue to bless their memory. We must continue our fight to end racism and hate in every form.

Darline Graham said that because her own parents died when she was a kid, people today shouldn't expect "government health care." So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents. It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2148...

What Darline Graham’s Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals

The senator’s parents died when she was a kid. That’s tragic. But it’s also tragic that she’s against the kind of care that could help untold numbers of people avoid that fate today.

newrepublic.com

if you're a normal person please do not play the fucking strip mahjong game. do not let the fun and friendly appeal of something as inoffensive as pornography trick you into playing a game as evil as mahjong

I am more lenient than most on stuff like this but I recognize that a failure to enforce some minimum standard is how you get another broken-windows Giuliani situation once people get tired enough of it.

Milo's gigantic debts are a good angle on why fascists and grifters turn on each other so often; there's no turning off the 'betray' option. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Milo Yiannopoulos 'more than $2m in debt', Australian promoters' documents show

Cache details deterioration in relationship between far right activist and his former Gold Coast-based promoters

theguardian.com

this is 100% correct. This is a 100% correct take entirely. The problem the Jews have with the left right now is not that Jews don’t like left-wing policies, it’s that Jews don’t like kneejerk defense of antisemites who say shit like “The Jews are the ones sending Moroccans into Spain”

ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3h ago

Like, the reason the Jewish community is scared of the left turn in Democratic politics, when historically they basically have *been* the left flank of the party, is entirely because they see what the pro-Palestine camp tolerates being said about Jews in their spaces

I'm so fucking tired of this shit man. "Well I don't believe in the vaccines so the rules shouldn't apply to me, I'm a special little guy" fuck you, how about that We love to reap where we didn't sow, don't we?

Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱@djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 2h ago

So glad I moved from the old town. They're currently shitting themselves because some anti-vaxxer's kid I guess can't go to middle school? You know, because he isn't in compliance with the vaccine policy

yeah, friend of mine is engaged to a mexican citizen and besides the quote here, they just cannot get married and have move to the US because there's no immigrant visa interviews right now

Romeo Kokriatski@vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 4h ago

I'm legitimately scared to bring my wife to the states (she has a multi-entrance visa valid for 10 years) because the Trump regime has shown an eager willingness to arbitrarily change visa and migration policies based on how racist Trump is feeling today.

lest people forget Milo’s pals in the media

Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream

A cache of documents obtained by BuzzFeed News reveals the truth about Steve Bannon’s alt-right “killing machine.”

buzzfeednews.com

Regarding DSA-LA's non-endorsement of Nithya Raman, I think a lot of people on the left don't get that the way you gain clout with politicians is by proving yourself useful to them, not by threatening to withhold hypothetical future usefulness.

You can literally beat up the family of a Republican senator if you’re a white Republican and get less attention than a live streamer does mostly because he’s brown with a Muslim-sounding name.

I usually avoid the term “virtue signaling” but tens of thousands of dollars (possibly much more!) got siphoned away from real aid charities and to various international criminal syndicates because people on this website wanted to publicly perform caring Not good!

Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱@djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 8h ago

It was extremely malignant how you got called a monster for doubting that the obvious botnet was actually going to help Palestinian families, and I assume that Molly Shah left this site for the same reason that Lyle Lanley left Springfield

One of the most aggravating things for me is that getting caught by those scammers is not just a case of money not going to a good cause, it's often actively funding criminal groups who then use that money to do further harm to people.

Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱@djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 8h ago

It was extremely malignant how you got called a monster for doubting that the obvious botnet was actually going to help Palestinian families, and I assume that Molly Shah left this site for the same reason that Lyle Lanley left Springfield

No no, you see *she* would not use her account to do money laundering because of her mental health, but it was totally fine for *you* to use your bank account to engage in a massive structuring/money laundering scheme!

It starts making sense when we consider them to mostly be hipsters who chose politics as their superiority tool over music or movies.

Nothing to see here, just Milo last year saying he contacted "some friends in senior positions at ICE" to go after the Menswear Guy in an effort to get him deported for mocking JD Vance. "Enjoy Vietnam little buddy."

excellent point Dad was one of the families complaining about conditions on the ship! This is retaliation.

U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln Sailor Says Father Was Arrested by Border Patrol (Gift Article)

The sailor, Joshua Aviles, was on his way home from the Middle East aboard the beleaguered aircraft carrier when he learned his father had been detained.

nytimes.com

this is also why Hasan Piker stans are so furious at me for supporting el-Sayed despite saying I disagree with him on Israel, bc if the truth is that normie Dems are still voting for their guy, it means they're not Radical and Cool

I think people really overestimate how much entertainment media changes people’s minds when really people just view entertainment through their existing beliefs and biases

a sub-type of this i've seen is "well, it's a stream, there's a lot of off-the cuff stuff, it's not prepared" and yes, it's true, you have to extend a certain amount of grace to that format but that's why we don't let twitch streamers be The Discourse! it's 7 hours of rambling!

Nobody says that, say, the Turkish government's anti-Kurdish policies means that Americans are justified in bigotry against Turkish-Americans unless they distance themselves from supporting "Turkey"

The Springfield Ohio bullshit is like, the most pronounced and clear cut example of American moral rot I’ve seen in forever. Literally asking Haitians to come to revitalize your hollowed-out community, and then subjecting them to this racial terror and humiliation after they do? Fucking hell

How it started vs. how it’s going.

Somebody could really break new ground by NOT asking El-Sayed about Piker. Maybe even throw in a few specific questions about Michigan or is that asking too much?

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5h ago

Abdul El-Sayed takes issue with Katy Tur wondering why he's keeping Hasan Piker "so close" and "not fully disassociate yourself with him," saying this is "why a lot of people get so frustrated about politics and political media, because it doesn’t actually speak to the challenges they face."

hahahahaha everyone is gonna get so sick

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 9h ago

Trump announces he will loosen regulations on beef processing amid multiple food-borne illness outbreaks: "I am authorizing legal documents to be drawn in order to allow Farmers and Ranchers to be given the right to PROCESS THEIR OWN FOOD. This should move quickly."