All we should ever be talking about is Leonard Leo, tbh. Talking about Leonard Leo will convince more people we need court reform. That man bought the fucking Supreme Court.

Tom Carter@thcarter123.bsky.social · 5h ago

Astonishing. The only mention of “Loser Leonard Leo” in Kansas vote so far is Talking Points Memo. Do legacy media reporters not know or are they in on the con & think Leo involvement is irrelevant? WE are reporters. WE decide what readers need to know. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kansas-...

John Oliver might be the closest thing to openly anti police and anti carceral on such a large, official platform in our country

Police Surveillance Technology: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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good night, gamers

The burden is always on us lefties to welcome them, debate them, compromise with them, find middle ground, and generally make them comfortable. It’s totally one directional. No one is calling for Truth Social to make any room for us.

Periodic reminder that there is no such thing as a fiscal conservative. Because how comfortable or uncomfortable they are with a subsidy depends entirely on who gets the money. Texas receives $33 billion a year in oil subsidies. No fiscal conservative complains about that.

copyright claims released! here is my 53-minute video essay on John Wick. it's called With the Animals. youtu.be/IlCPnaJyZL4

John Wick: With the Animals

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"Our Governor just signed legislation that protects children from accessing adult material online. This event mocks the very protections so many have fought for by exposing preschoolers to adult material that is not only inappropriate, but far beyond their level of cognitive development." The book:

The firestorm of age-verification laws have done almost nothing to prevent minors from accessing porn online. What they have done is give the state a powerful tool to harass speech they don't like by declaring it pornographic or "harmful to minors."

This is why you kill Confederates and Nazis. It’s not about political disagreement, it’s about them wanting you and everyone you love dead or in bondage.

Is anyone changing their diet due to cyclospora? I have been foregoing fresh veggies, but it doesn't feel good in the long term. Yesterday, I decided choosing a burger over a burger over a salad for "health" reasons was silly.

Stuntin on all y'all who said my boy McConnell was dead

Los Angeles: sports capital of the world@theamitie.bsky.social · 3d ago

I think this is real

A white supremacist superpower has been ruthlessly and sadistically oppressing a nearby developing island nation – that’s never committed an offense against it – for decades. For absolutely no rational, justifiable reason whatsoever.

Reuters@reuters.com · 3d ago

Cuba's national electric grid collapses, plunging island into darkness reut.rs/4fKWwgK

Here’s a question for you - off the top of your head, what actual demands has the US made of Cuba in exchange for ending the blockade? Do you know?

I've come to the realization that people like Carville just can't stand that the bedrock of the Democrat voter base is non-white women and are so sick of it that they're willing to rip out everything the party claims to stand for to change it

It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.

Raccoons Hourly@raccoonhourly.bsky.social · 3d ago

He is so good at this

This is such a good way to state the problem. I'm actually excited about the possibilities of AI, but everything about the current implementation is clearly sinister.

vortex_egg@vortexegg.com · 4d ago

For me, LLMs are clearly powerful machines, but everything about their construction and deployment in society by the people constructing them appears oriented around achieving a political project that deeply conflicts with my values or a vision of a future I want to live in and dont have a choice in

Some motherfuckers need to read Winner. Like, it’s been clear from the jump that AI adoption has been a political project or in service too political projects and those projects have been universally shitty extensions of white supremacy and other structures of oppression.

vortex_egg@vortexegg.com · 4d ago

For me, LLMs are clearly powerful machines, but everything about their construction and deployment in society by the people constructing them appears oriented around achieving a political project that deeply conflicts with my values or a vision of a future I want to live in and dont have a choice in

They keep trying to tell us that "it's complicated," but what's hard to explain about this?

Prepping some files and really sad this one I wrote in 2023 isn't going on the CV www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-...

If Elected President, I Promise to Slaughter Mickey Mouse

“If killing one universally beloved cultural symbol isn’t enough, I’ll use my pudding-slick fingers to choke every character that brought even a shimmer of j...

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This is outrageous! We specifically said "Stay woke". Cancel this otter.

In Otter News@in-otter-news.bsky.social · 4d ago

BREAKING NEWS: Look at this otter. He's sleeping!

As much as radicals get criticized for being "unrealistic," demanding entire demographics facing literal genocide always maintain mild rhetoric and actions is an absolutely delusional level of conformity to expect. I don't think that gets said enough.

You are a mark if you are getting propagandized to build more jails and arrest even more people at a time when all of the governments OWN MEASURES show violent crime having significantly decreased over the past years.

In general the ones labeled radicals are by far the least brutal among us. Normalcy is a war economy. Radicalism is placing value on all human life. It’s the great embarrassment of the status quo. Its reliance on brutal, unending, unpredictable death machines as order & normalcy.

So Yet another great example of why this guy is super fuckin’ stupid He’s gonna run for president. He wants to fast track a monopoly into the hands of a media empire that’s expressly interested in dedicating the full force of their resources to crushing specifically him And they will. Mercilessly

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 5d ago

when it comes down to it - @gavinnewsom.bsky.social bends the knee to big money and billionaires. This time he is bending the knee to billionaire monopolists - pushing for a media merger helping the right wing media project.