A letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after he was murdered by ICE.
Trump: "If the Elections in Minnesota weren’t RIGGED, any Republican could win, but they were, and that is why nobody has won there since Richard Nixon many years ago. I thought I won it all three times, only to be disappointed in the end. Vote for Mike Lindell for Governor ... "
It’s one of the true pleasures of the job - historians get to skip the whole “this isn’t the time” commentary and have at it. Graham was a plague on the Senate, a chickenhawk, and one of the most accomplished hypocrites in this country’s recent history.
Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · 4w agoTo be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
Demand justice for Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 4w ago“Now ICE has killed one of our own. Blood stains Canal Street.” Lorenzo Salgado Araujo “may not have been an American on paper, but he was damned well a Houstonian. He lived in Houston for 35 of his 52 years, his family said.” www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
The chances that he will stay in the race to drag us all to hell with him seem woefully underpriced
rose@breadnrosie.bsky.social · 4w agothis is fucking wrecker shit. are you fucking kidding me
Giving up a goal because the keeper Younghoe Koo’d himself Jesus fucking wept
This is what the little word games subscriptions are funding
Ioannis Ziogas@ziogas.bsky.social · last mo.Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.
It’s also the anniversary of the 1st Minnesota’s charge at Gettysburg, suffering the worst casualty rate of any unit in US history
"Not a man wavered"--The 1st Minnesota at Gettysburg
The 1st Minnesota played a critical role in the battle of Gettysburg.
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Angry Staff Officer@pptsapper.bsky.social · last mo.Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
"I am uninformed and loudly angry about it" is the defining ethos of our era, irrespective of political orientation.
You should kill the part of you that cringes, actually. Cringe is a lie by big fascism in order to get you to buy more irony poisoned nihilism.
Obviously a complete and total collapse in security and professionalism and blah blah blah but to be honest I would smile the day these jackals are brought up on national security charges.
Axios@axios.com · 2mo agoSCOOP: Top White House officials believe NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan obtained audio recordings of Situation Room meetings for their new book. Such a taped leak would be a shocking breach of one of the most secure settings on Earth.
Its so funny how reporters talk about "news cycles" and "making a story stick" like they're natural phenomena, and not the choices of reporters and editors (and their bosses) on what to devote time and attention to. If the NYT wants to create drumbeat coverage of a story, they can simply do so.
Dave Weigel@daveweigel.bsky.social · 2mo agoI guess my point here is, if you are going to do Trump-centric messaging with the limited space you get in a news cycle, why this stuff and not corruption? Weirdly hard to make those stories stick, harder if you fritter away time with this stuff.
I do get emotional at this speech every time I read it
"To those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late...The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights"
Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱@djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 2mo agoLet Us Die To Make Men Free is the animating principle of my politics I'm done with pessimism, with politics which looks at the world as it actually is and says "this is no good, this has never been good, it can never be good" What we need more than anything now is a Politics Of Militant Sincerity
Call me Zachary Taylor the way I'm pounding cherries and milk as a post run snack
Its fucking insane that people will argue for hours that Trump and Obama are equally bad and still consider themselves on the left
@zarkzark.bsky.social · 3mo agoKilling civilians is killing civilians. It doesn't matter if it's 1, 10, hundreds, or millions, it's always a war crime and always must be regarded as such. The innocent lives Obama ended are no less valuable than the lives Trump ended.
Well, the important thing is that journalists have once again managed to make themselves the main characters of The News
Alex Shephard@alexshephard.bsky.social · 3mo agohard to think of a more embarrassing conundrum or one that is less sympathetic. hard to think of anything as undignified as the White House Correspondents Dinner, the event the Beltway press deserve
Reading theory:
American Gentry
Local Power and the Social Order
patrickwyman.substack.com
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4mo agoFor years I've been looking for the right guest to do a pod on this. The car-sales model that is dictated by law in the US -- you must go to a dealership & suffer for hours in order to buy one -- is one of the most nakedly anti-social special interest giveaways in history. Needs to be killed dead.
We regret to inform you that the $180K Trump sneakers have been destroyed by an Iranian Shahed. No refunds
Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول@faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 5mo agoTrump on Truth Social.
Big Strong Men with tears in their eyes looking up and saying Thank You president Trump for finally including externalities in the price of gas
"I wasnt drawn to the right by their antiquated, but broadly pro-social marketing, but because they were outwardly evil"
Ty Schalter@tyschalter.com · 5mo agooh fuck off
Jesus said to pay your fucking taxes
Adam Gurri@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 5mo agoAmazing list tbqh -they didn't have modern medicine -is the lesson that we're supposed to perform miracles to costlessly multiply food -no he didn't -Did you even read the Sermon on the Mount bro -"in his region" doing a lot of work here lol
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ALT: a man in a suit stands in front of a cartoon drawing of a rainbow and a sun
media.tenor.com
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoEISEN: What do you say to American who are struggling with making ends meet and don't want foreign wars? WITKOFF: If they have children, think about what this world would look like if you didn't have Donald Trump as the president
