“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin, “Notes on the House of Bondage”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h ago

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

4 3 3 But also, weak/strong and black/dairy are two completely different axes.

B_Rye989@brye989.bsky.social · 2d ago

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"Happy" "There Will Come Soft Rains" Day, to all who celebrate

On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer

The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...

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Seth will be irrestrainable when he wishes to conquer the heart in this his name of beer. He confuses the heart to conquer the heart of the enemy, the evildoer, the male and female dead person. (WWO)

explain to me again why jack palance is considered the villain in "shane."

Majestic lion-bodied, human-headed beasts in your area want to trap you with riddles tonight

My "Irish Measurement Systems Flowchart" was warmly received by r/Ireland so I'm reposting it here having fixed one error, but without many smaller additions suggested, might do a v2 some time later! #speirgorm

this issue was just in front of the Supreme Court, and the case was the state of West Virginia against a middle school girl. which side sounds braver to you?

The easiest possible layup for a President at war with another country would be to explain that they are attacking us. Trump won't do that because he views Minnesota as a bigger enemy than Iran.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."

[Homer sits backwards on a chair] let me tell you about ANOTHER giant brute who was being beaten by Nobody

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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UEFA figured it out? UEFA? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.

Waterparks Tears Down Warped Tour with Unreleased Anti-ICE Anthem

You should not have to buy a passport to vote. You should not have to order a new birth certificate to vote. You should not have to prove your citizenship all over again when the government already knows you are a citizen.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

Richard Waite@waiterich.bsky.social · last wk.

Post a perfect album from the 90's that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains

A lot of you have never watched either "Farewell, My Concubine" or "Shanghai Triad" and it shows

Dawn@502eire.bsky.social · 2w ago

there is a recurring prompt around what’s the best that anyone has ever looked on camera and I never have an answer but I’m watching right now and I think it’s gotta be George Clooney in Ocean’s 11

Canadian experts found 34 cases of orcas offering prey and other items to people who were on boats, and on shore in four different ocean incl 6 fish, 5 mammals, 3 invertebrates, 2 birds, one reptile, and one seaweed. In almost every case the whales presented the prey and waited for a response.

Craig's my rep, and I'm furious with her. But here's the thing: she works her ass off, while Flanagan is walking for Senate. Flanagan's campaign doesn't contact volunteers or distribute literature or signs; meanwhile Craig's motto seems to be "wherever two or three are gathered, I am with them."

Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · 2w ago

Minnesota - Dem Senate Polling: Flanagan: 40% Craig: 40% SurveyUSA / July 20, 2026

That was a fucking murder, Madison. You all saw it with your own eyes. I grew up in that neighborhood. I know how Madison thinks about itself. Show up, demand justice, and prove it true.

Black men gunned down in broad daylight by police is common. By now, I know that there isn’t a video that can shock us into meaningful action. America has accepted this as something we cannot change, but the reality is Black men are dehumanized to the point where their murders don’t matter.

Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · 2w ago

I won’t share the video of the public execution by police of a yet unnamed Black man in Madison, WI. With four white Madison cops on him, one cop pulled out his firearm and shot the victim in the head at least three times at point blank range. 1/2

Glad that “The Odyssey” has allowed Christopher Nolan to return to the central motivating preoccupation of his career: protagonists running away with Anne Hathaway.

Hear me out, what if Nolan tried to keep the linearity by cutting the timeline down to a day and setting it in Dublin

More Americans have been killed in the Iran war Trump started than in the Afghan withdrawal Biden was handed and completed. The implications for America’s geopolitical situation is much worse with attacking Iran than leaving Afghanistan. But going by tone of coverage, one would think the opposite.

If you’d like to know a bit more about my fave Basque fam: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Iñaki Williams: ‘My parents crossed the desert barefoot to get to Spain’ | Sid Lowe

The striker tells of his parents’ remarkable journey, rejecting Ghana and playing a record 203 league games in a row

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I resigned from Google DeepMind bc it broke its founding promise by selling AI to the military without restrictions against killer robots or mass spying. For months, I worked to stop this but watched powerful ethicists and institutions choose silence. Here's what happened. 🧵

Free idea for your genetically engineered dinosaur themepark: people-sized doors that the giant theropods can't fit through. Worker falls into the enclosure, you let them out the people-sized door. Boom, 90% of your problems fixed, right there.

Broke: midsommar is a movie about bad relationships Woke: midsommar is a movie about white supremacists Bespoke: midsommar is a movie about how grad students should be killed