RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
MiracleMoan@miraclemoan.bsky.social · last mo.RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
MiracleMoan@miraclemoan.bsky.social · last mo.
You know what gives me constant, low grade anxiety? It ain't women in hijabs or hearing Spanish on the street. It's daycare that costs as much as a mortgage payment and cancer treatments that cost as much as a yearly salary.
Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · 4mo agoSohrab is turning that big dial that says racism.
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“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”
The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit
The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment
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MAGA has always been a cult, but the fight with the Pope represents something much larger taking place. Christian Nationalism is settling into place as a post-Trump religious movement that supports neo-fascist brutality at the end of American Empire. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-christ...
The Christian Nationalist Schism: Fascist Religion at the End of Empire
The fight between MAGA and the pope is a preview of something much larger and more dangerous
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.
Carly Goodman@carlygoodman.bsky.social · 6mo agoExtremely evil/cursed take from the WaPo this morning
I do wonder at what point we will stop talking about prevention and begin focusing on what mediation is possible. Because we're not going to prevent climate change. That much is clear now. If we have not yet passed the tipping point, we are set to do so before we get our collective sh*t together.
We're returning home. And you have been terrible guests here. You have an obligation to Tribal Nations to help restore, protect, and assist our efforts as we lead to heal our land. You can't just give us it back trashed, without giving us time, attention, and resources. But today, I celebrate.
"the US government has been remade into a tool for the immediate satisfaction of his wants and desires no matter how absurd or nihilistic they may be." Dark realism from @davidrlurie.com www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-excu...
Trump’s military excursion, into an abyss
The evident fact is that the president is nuts.
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The nature of war has been changed by the genocide in Gaza. The status of hospitals, medics, journalists, aid workers, churches and residential buildings has been changed by repeated, unpunished violations. We’ve entered a dark chapter for the whole world.
Does anyone with remotely any amount of leverage have a plan beyond some combo of?: - wait it out for midterms - handful of GOPers miraculously grow a soul - it happens
Every single person needs to read this piece by @andreapitzer.bsky.social. It's important that we truly contend with the concentration camp reality in America. Every single word here is backed up with facts and historical analysis. As always: something sounding extreme doesn't mean it isn't real.
Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
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Is it @startribune.com policy to refer to anyone confronting ICE as a protester? This obscures the nature of what people are doing. We're not protesting ICE. We're constitutional observers documenting human rights abuses by agents of the state.
Dem leadership will be screaming "Don't take the bait!" all the way to their prison cell.
A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 9mo agoMike Johnson comes out against additional guardrails on ICE as Democrats call for it. “I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
Unfortunately, this is the part where I remind people that Black 10th graders get beat up by cops every day. This is the part where I remind people about modern civil asset forfeiture, where US police steal more value from people (mostly Black) than every form of theft other than wage theft.
Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 9mo agoIt is in no way “law enforcement” to beat up an American 10th grader and steal and sell his possessions.
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The ethnic cleansing program of the U.S. government exists outside of, and is not restrained by, any kind of law
Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 11mo agoBeyond depraved: "Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts. But Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras the next day."
Feels like every time you report on the feds announcing these kinds of charges you must immediately list all the similar ones they just drop after lying about defendants for months
Federal prosecutors dismiss charges against woman shot by Border Patrol agent in Chicago
Federal prosecutors have moved to dismiss charges they brought against a woman shot by a Border Patrol agent last month amid a federal immigration crackdown in the Chicago area.
apnews.com
This Transgender Awareness Week, we come together to celebrate the resilience and bravery of the transgender community in the face of relentless attacks. My message to you is simple: I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.
hey I think maybe someone needs to say out loud that actually sucking another man’s dick is literally fine whereas raping children is instant death, like are we maybe not doing this one *just right*?
they reopened the government for a promise to do this over again in a month
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 11mo agoUPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.
In short, the right doesn't waste much time whining about "Why doesn't the press cover this!!!" Instead, they make the press cover it.
🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social · 12mo agoA huge part of this is shamelessness. But we also have to be honest: the Hunter thing didn't just happen. Trump used every lever of government—especially the GOP and the House Oversight Committee—to make it happen. And it still wouldn't have meant shit without Murdoch/Musk media obessing on it.
“oh here, i have it queued up on this tablet for you already” how i expect reporters to reply to the “havent seen it” replies from republicans
Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12mo agoQ: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
We are one of the bluest cities in the country. If national Democrats won't stand up for us, who will they stand up for?
Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · last yr.begging democrats to fight right now like portland is as important as jimmy kimmel
“DOGE, he said, began acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time.”
The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...
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