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Palestinian, black, trans lives matter. White people chose DEI instead of adhering to Civil Rights Act altogether. We’re still dealing w/after effects of Reconstruction & longstanding, feckless liberal class unwilling to confront fascists. MMT. Punch up.
“Reform….ICE?” *See how ridiculous that sounds? Now do you get it, “moderates?”
steven monacelli@stevanzetti.bsky.social · 5h agoIf ICE can send subpoenas to deanonymize social media accounts, couldn't they have done it for the anonymous and overtly racist account we found is run by one of their own employees who is still working there?
My friend and their family in Gaza are going through unimaginable hardship and need our help. Every donation, no matter how small, can make a real difference in helping them meet their basic needs. If you can't donate, please consider sharing this post.❤️ tinyurl.com/aboamro-family
Woke up to another massive spending fail by AIPAC, to the tune of about $30M+ or so. Good start to the day. #GoSayedbe
I am 💯 in agreement w/this, broadly. The challenge & nuance is when people close to you are the Republicans. When it’s family members, friends you’ve known for years, the math is much harder. I don’t know the answers, other than we don’t talk politics & we keep it light—which is unsatisfactory.
Lest anyone object: If the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee Constitution chaired by Republican Senator Orrin Hatch in 1982 could issue report "The Right to Keep and Bear Arms" willfully subverting 2A jurisprudence and precedent—Dems could surely do this.
Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d agoI know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/
We have to get NBA players away from golf. You are allowed to play golf. But you are not allowed to play golf while being wealthy. That is where other rich guys get you out deep on that green & by the 9th hole they are ushering you through the gateways of NIMBYism & Kalshi shareholding.
The bombing is really intense in Gaza now. Samaa and her family never know when a bomb might hit them, or when another loved one might be killed. They're exhausted from living like this. Please give them some support if you can. Donations can at least ease their worries about food and milk. #Gaza 🍉🍼
Cåråbine à Citron 🍋@carabinacitron.eurosky.social · 5d agoLife in Gaza is no longer measured in days, but in the number of times they survive. Between fear, displacement, and a lack of basic necessities, thousands of families are still clinging to hope. If you can help, don't delay. Your solidarity can make a real difference. chuffed.org/project/1575...
It always boils down to this, for Dems. Imagine if Al Gore hadn’t run such an incompetent campaign. Imagine if Kerry hadn’t run such an incompetent campaign. Imagine if Hillary Clinton hadn’t run such an incompetent campaign. Imagine if Kamala Harris hadn’t run such an incompetent campaign.
Thomas Swords@thomasswords.bsky.social · 5d agoWhen I first got super concerned about the climate (probably because of Al Gore’s movie), I never thought it would get this bad so fast—or that people would be so passive about it.
It will never not be crazy seeing the news all around us basically coalesce around one climate catastrophe after another that the science predicted decades ago, and have none of that matter. Basically, all of it largely and continuously met by our politicians and press with a collective yawn.
Reuters@reuters.com · 5d agoHydropower plants brace for heavy rains in southern Brazil as severe El Niño looms reut.rs/4wxtV5B
This is the perfect, appropriate use of negative partisanship & framing. Every Democratic candidate out there should speak about the vast majority of their opponents in this way. Every single Repub must be characterized, treated & spoken about in the actual way that they exist in political reality.
Jon Ossoff@ossoff.bsky.social · last wk.The congressman will not answer whether he, or his businesses, or his office, or his campaign have been paying a neo-Nazi.
I mean, imagine a liberal campaign donor for the Dems doing this, and then the ensuing coverage, literally every, all the time, for the next few weeks, months, even years? Every Dem would be on a Sunday show immediately having to respond. It's a trite, redundant observation at this point, but jfc.
Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · last wk.SpaceX-owned xAI, the developer of Grok, sued Minnesota AG to challenge a law coming into effect in the state that will ban "nudify" apps, use of these AI image generators to make non-consenting intimate images, aka AI deepfake porn of real people including minors. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/s...
The richest, most powerful people in the world are just a bunch of perverts and weirdos. They have the politics of 14-yr old kids who’ve just read Atlas Shrugged for the first time and they envision all public policy through the lens of their own individual vices. Just a bunch of selfish cretins.
Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · last wk.SpaceX-owned xAI, the developer of Grok, sued Minnesota AG to challenge a law coming into effect in the state that will ban "nudify" apps, use of these AI image generators to make non-consenting intimate images, aka AI deepfake porn of real people including minors. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/s...
The bad guys run roughshod over the supposed global order of rules and order & we're forced to provide endless counterfactuals in the name of discourse to all manner of right wing ghouls' moral panics and completely made-up, fantastical threats that aren't actually happening. F our lives.
Resist 🕎🍉@antizionistjew.bsky.social · last wk.Israeli bombing attack and destroy Al Muttaqeen Mosque in Gaza (Motasem A. Dalloul)
We have gradually normalized allowing the obfuscation & normalizing of right wing lies, ginned up moral panics & outright ignorance of the most vital issues of our time by way of bothsides framing, false balance & capitulation. We focus on trans / immigrant panics instead of climate change & more
Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · last wk."There are growing fears that the heating of the planet is causing the melting of a massive ice sheet in Greenland & that in turn is changing... a vital ocean current that keeps our winters relatively warm & summers temperate" @news.sky.com travels with Prof. @lizbagshaw.bsky.social to #Greenland
Right wingers are always allowed to argue by way of hypothetical and the theoretical, when we can simply ask him to show evidence that NGOs stepped in and did what he says they did. Everything he says here is thought experiment. As opposed to actual Lancet projections based on actual data
Jonathan Harris@jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 2w agoHe's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.
The warm dribble of yellow liquid down my leg sure looks like piss—and I see you standing here next to me—but I accept your explanation that it is in fact, rain.
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 2w agoYes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions
Quick, someone make a funny video à la Southwest “wanna getaway“ with Brad stevens in it
Ron Swanson: I Regret Everything (Parks and Rec)
ALT: Ron Swanson: I Regret Everything (Parks and Rec)
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Iran has always historically been saddled with trying to respond in ways that counter prevailing, Western narratives about terroristic Islamicists gone-awry and "irrational, madman" nation states (which they are not). that is always the broader context for the choices they make, by and large
Good Public Good@kelitupu.bsky.social · 2w agodef interesting question AND in hindsight, so much easier to raise this question now. Ronald Klain, his successor Zients, etc were proxies back then for the calculation on Iran's part, afaics. same people who excusing Genocide then were in charge & i think Iran knew this & appropriately concerned
Our politics and discourse are shaped mainly by a media and political establishment based on vibes, for the most part, and that the gap between our collective self image as supposed empiricists and the actual reality of how much everything is just...vibes - drives me crazy.
Remember, a long time ago, Rubio was sold to the American public as the new, more moderated and serious face of Republican governance and leadership. He was the nuanced, foreign policy wonk who’d lead conservatives out of the wilderness of neoconservatism and foreig entanglements. Welcome immigrants
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoQ: Do you rule out striking civilian infrastructure? MARCO RUBIO: Iran's policy is an eye for an eye. The president's policy is a head for an eye. Honestly. That's what it's going to be. They're going to pay a very heavy price. They are going to suffer more. (Definitely not a yes!)
There has to be some study on this, outlining a broadbase pattern of sexual violence and more as a correlation to personality types who gravitate into police and military careers
Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸@belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 2w agoAnd again.
mitch mcconnell died doing what he loved, keeping a federal office vacant for several months leading into an election
