Kombiz Lavasany
@kombiz.bsky.social
Former Twitter dad is now a skeeting dad. I do a lot of political work mainly focused on empowering educators, nurses and workers. Beyond that it's Iran, music and trying to believe i can one day be funny. @kombiz everywhere
I feel like In'Shallah is the mazel tov of Muslim speak. just such a good way of expressing something that it is a universal phrase we use in our distinct ways. for me it's reserved for fatalism. "to have hair again, inshallah" "I'm going to take a quick nap and hopefully not get bothered,inshallah"
✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 7h agostarting my compilation/collage of right wing white dipshits losing their shit over the word “inshallah”
This is a hilarious new way for right-wing influencers to demonstrate they have no friends who served in GWOT
✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 7h agostarting my compilation/collage of right wing white dipshits losing their shit over the word “inshallah”
If you're not terminally online, you might not recognize VDARE, but trust me: VDARE is blatant, overt, not even remotely hiding it white supremacist stuff.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h agoGonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.
Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h agoSCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
FWIW, both of VDARE’s founders were on the masthead of the National Review in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Peter Brimelow was also a staffer for Senator Orrin Hatch. This white nationalist thread has been present in the conservative movement for a long time. Screenshot is from 1997.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h agoSCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
Well, I mean, it was nonsense
Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 21h agoI spoke with 10 CNNers about David Ellison's essay in The NYT, in which he tried to convince the public he'll be a good steward of CNN. Suffice to say, no one at the network is buying what he's selling. “We all have eyes and ears and see what’s happening at CBS." www.status.news/p/david-elli...
I took 20 mg gummy at a wilco show once and I made @damienlavera.bsky.social walk me to the er tent because I thought I was about to die, expressing remorse for not seeing my kids grow up and only before catching the attention of a paramedic did I realize it might be the gummy.
David Earl Williams III@dewforpolitics.bsky.social · yesterdaySen. Bernie Moreno said Rep. Max Miller refused to return his granddaughter’s favorite blue bunny. Reports also show that photos of a syringe and 150mg weed gummies were found in Miller’s bedroom.
yes but does this include the new helipad construction g elliott the people love a new helipad
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · yesterdayOur average of polls at FiftyPlusOne gives Trump a roughly 36% approval rating and 61% disapproval rating — a net -25 — among all adults, and he’s rapidly losing ground. The president set a new record low six days in a row just in the last week: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-08-04...
They got people dying in camps now and they’re happy about it. bsky.app/profile/joho...
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterdayThese guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
no idea why I thought of this today but remember when people had big cd changers in their cars but you had to load the cds in the trunk?
Apparently Hegseth watches snuff films of American strikes and sends some to Trump. it explains repeated second and third strike on targets. including girls school in Minab. Would be telling me to see how view count on the war crime.
"It's about protecting women's sports which, by the way, I hate more than anything in the world."
Sonicscrewdriv4@sonicscrewdriv4.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat sort of delusional BS is this??? www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...
Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
He wants to go back on Real Time so bad this is pathetic
So many parallels: Advances followed by brutal backlashes. Hatred cloaked in concern about "fairness" and "undue influence" on children. Insistence that it's a medical/mental problem. Rage at cultural institutions that "promote a lifestyle." Invective about "special rights." Malevolent statehouses.
Hunter Walker@hunterw.bsky.social · 3d agoI have been thinking a lot lately about how so many of the "arguments" against trans rights are essentially the same as the various fake panics about gay people.
NEW NYT: A freelance reporter has been fighting a subpoena from the Trump admin seeking to force him to reveal his sources for a New York Times article about a failed top secret mission in North Korea, according to people familiar with the matter.L
Justice Dept. Subpoenas Times Freelancer in Effort to Identify Sources
A previously undisclosed subpoena, involving reporting on a failed SEAL Team 6 mission in North Korea, reflects the government’s expanding campaign to investigate leaks of secrets.
nytimes.com
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
It's weird, when you look back on the coverage of Jackie Robinson integrating Major League Baseball, there weren't a lot of these sympathetic pieces about the fans practicing their rights of freedom of speech by screaming the N-word at him. Progress!
The Athletic@theathletic.com · 4d agoSpeaking for the first time since ralliers began assembling in support of her stance against transgender participation in women’s sports, Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said this was an opportunity for the WNBA to uphold its values of diversity and inclusion. nyti.ms/4fHr4Qn
It is “funny” that there are bums who wake up every morning and think to themselves, “i want nothing more than to simp for the pedo slaver aristocracy of the antebellum south”
A reminder of what Abraham Lincoln thought of the Know Nothings, the party that championed "heritage Americans" and attacked immigrants in his day. quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5d agoAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
New essay: why I wrote a novel about growing up Iranian-American in a Kentucky bourbon town. Soccer, silence, and a Persian phrase that explains more than I expected it to. davidshams.substack.com/p/a-thousand-touches-writing-my-way #debutnovel #IranianAmerican
A Thousand Touches: Writing My Way Through the Hyphen
Local enough that everyone knew us. Foreign enough that no one quite knew what to do with us. That's what it meant to grow up in Bardstown, Kentucky — and it's why I wrote a novel about it.
davidshams.substack.com
He just signed an AI content/training deal with Newsmax. He is not a responsible player in the information scape.
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 6d agojournalism is just repeating the things various high-level executives say without context, correction, or cues that the speaker might not be a competent or reliable narrator
The U.S. very strongly controls the heart-shaped herb supply
Asperas Bompar@asperasbompar.bsky.social · 6d agoWakanda tariffs going to get doubled now
What “they” did to your kids. Remind me again, who was president in the spring and fall of 2020 when the majority of in-person school closures happened?
It is reprehensibly scandalous that the US Senate called a hearing so MAGA could pillory Anthony Fauci with these imbecilic lies instead of addressing the war in Iran; the rising cost of gas, groceries and utilities; the lack of affordable healthcare; or Trump’s widespread corruption 97 days, folks
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Ron Johnson claims the the "injection injured" are committing mass suicide
This is horrible. My sister is a lungcancer survivor. These subsidies help her pay for her meds.
Miss Aja@brat2381.bsky.social · 7d ago
