The kind of shit that makes your blood boil. "The third time Anna Liedtke was subjected to an illegal strip-search in Israeli detention, female prison guards forced her on to her knees, covered her mouth to stop her screaming and raped her" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

‘They want to break our will’: Gaza flotilla activist tells of rape in Israeli detention

Anna Liedtke files criminal complaint in Israel over alleged attack by female guards and says abuse was intended to silence campaigners

theguardian.com

You don’t have to like us for it, but “hey, when you constantly shit on urbanists and try to shred the safety net out from under us it makes it harder for me to convince my urban lefty friends to support the aid our communities need” is a good argument you could raise with your rural neighbors.

So this fucking coward disabled replies and quotes because they don’t want to hear that they aren’t actually the one paying for their healthcare or utilities.

It is uncommon but I am indeed asking. Was it okay to condition Medicaid and Medicare funding to rural hospitals if they desegregated? Was there a better option?

Worth keeping in mind this is probably more common in your church than you’d like to think.

Is it too late to get fired for disrespecting Charlie Kirk, because despite my prudence on the matter thus far, I did in fact find him to be a singularly unpleasant individual in life.

Sorry, the what act?

A “jewish state“ has always meant a jewish supremacist state and it always will. We can’t play footsie with this shit anymore. www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/s...

The only appropriate response, really.

USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST@blockedforthispost.bsky.social · last mo.

I'll pray for you

see they have me on TV because I'm smart and know a lot, not for my looks. This may be hard for you to understand, as an anonymous loser whose life has nothing going for it.

This is lazy tokenism and wrecker bullshit, and no, it does not matter why she thinks she’s doing it.

The thing about Platner discourse is that no matter how righteous it is to hate him, there is a difference between the most contempt-laden image of him you can construct and the facts on the ground. You may choose otherwise but it’s dumb to fault anyone trying to put the latter before the former.

Seems like we just don’t all have the same concept of a fun and open conversation. But, by all means, go to X and enjoy all the free expression Elon Musk will allow.

Orange🍊Jay@orangejay.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I scroll your X timeline for 30 seconds and immediately find you praising a meme made by a racist.

Just a cordial request here: I don’t want anything to do with loli. If it’s important to you that I show some deference to it or to people who consume it, please just block. No questions asked. It’s clear that we have nothing to discuss.

i have been whining about platner for about five months now, and intend to continue whining about him, but now that we are both whining about the same thing, should i expect the slightest hint of introspection from the people whose candidates i have dutifully punched the button for for twenty years?

Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“Pharisee Press”

Looks like Stancil’s in a petulant left-punching mood today. Time for a mute spell.

The problem with Red Americans is they think nobody else in the world is real. When you say TACO after we double tapped a girls’ school or make our allies deploy a tripwire force against us, you’re just the other side of the same coin. Strength is not the eagerness to kill.

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Please stop saying TACO. We’re talking about an ungodly number of people who could die or maimed. It’s not time for cutesy little internet slang. We have to get away from this bizarre desensitization.

It’s good that the WSO is safe, but I’m not trying to be edgy when I say this feels unworthy of celebration. This is an illegal, immoral war of aggression and we are killing people for defending their homes.

I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

“military aged males” got normalized as a viable target for war and it’s pretty much a racialized fiction meant to justify indiscriminate murder.

Lotta people on this site still feel really self-righteous saying despicable shit about people in public and then smol beaning when they respond without blocking out their username.

If you are exhausted by reading criticisms of Trump, there's an obvious solution. You can log off. Just literally do anything else besides post on social media. Rather than lecturing the entire rest of the universe that we aren't producing the kind of reading material you'd prefer today.

"How can we guarantee Iran will stop if we don't completely take control of the situation?" This is going to be difficult for policymakers from a declining superpower to hear, but most countries kind of have to work this out by compromising rather than insisting on complete and total submission

Still waiting for the Brave Blossoms to put three of these dudes in the front row.

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL@edsbs.bsky.social · 5mo ago

That little dude is strong as HELL

Someday they’re gonna tell you this man hates white people.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 5mo ago

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Here’s a good question to ask about the Biss allegations. Here is his accuser’s description of what inspired her to come forward now: “If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign…” What specific behavior on the part of Biss is being characterized this way?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lon... Bet you guys haven’t seen a building that looks like a basket before.

classic sign of someone who doesn’t think deeply about politics is they cannot imagine the agency of actors outside of their social millieu

In support of this, I think this is the other side of the coin of “stranger danger” moral panics. It’s kind of like horror movies. You want to believe everyone’s safe inside and the villains are out there. But usually, the call is coming from inside the house.

ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact · 5mo ago

I understand there’s a broad perception, because I can see people’s subtweets, that I and people who say things like this are deranged and extrapolating from personal trauma I am telling you this is a convenient, comfortable thing for you to tell yourself and it isn’t true

It doesn’t matter how liberal you think your church is. It doesn’t matter if they’re LGBT affirming. If you’re doing shit like this you’re no less a bigoted, chauvinistic dogmatist than any evangelical.