I’m a former artillery officer (cannons, not rockets, though) and let me tell ya—this is bad. I can’t even put into words how fucking stupid this is.

CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterday

U.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters

Can we stop pretending he’s good for the left? He’s a fucking campist antisemite.

Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · 3d ago

This guy has anti-Semitic brain worms (among many other species of brain worm) and he needs to be treated as radioactive by every Democrat.

Hello, paging Deleuze and Guattari and the desire for microfascisms.

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d ago

So no I'm not surprised by: "the administration’s latest move was developed in partnership with university leaders, primarily the Association of American Universities, which represents dozens of top research institutions including all eight Ivy League colleges." 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

During the course of Trump 2.0, I’ve had the recurring feeling that we’re living through a time that’s all too familiar to the First Red Scare. Thanks to @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com and @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com for helping me get this article ready for publication!

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 3d ago

“The moment in which we find ourselves is not without precedent. For nearly 150 years, antipathy—if not outright hostility—toward grassroots activism that takes aim at the status quo has been the norm.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-third-re...

Lol I just got tickets to go see Slavoj Žižek in November.

Bjørn hits the nail on the head. Islamic terrorism is far-right, just cloaked in different language. Bring the same energy for combating this as you do for Nazis.

Bjørn Ihler@bjornih.bsky.social · 5d ago

I often wonder why people (in particular politicians) tend to position Islamic inspired extremism on the opposite end of some sort of spectrum from far-right extremism - when reality is that there's more that unites them than divides them. On that and more here: revontulet.co/insights/pre...

This isn’t the dunk you think it is.

Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 6d ago

AIPAC may have bought our election in Illinois, but we're not going to let that happen in Michigan. 5 days left to make them panic. Vote for Abdul on or before August 4th.

How tech companies see AI features that literally nobody asked for

Geoff Brumfiel@gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 5d ago

BREAKING: Google has rolled back its tool less than a day after it launched. Updated story coming soon.

It’s a three-way tie for “most punchable face” between Hassett, Tucker Carlson, and JD Vance.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

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This may be due to my recent foray into left politics in general, but good lord there are some real assholes among the DSA types that are guided by juvenile, utopian visions of the world that are just detached from reality. There’s a few prominent figures who embrace the “so you hate waffles?” vibe.

My girlfriend can roll her eyes all she wants whenever I get a new book in the mail, but now I can just tell her it’s my contribution to preserving knowledge from AI corruption.

Lock Down Your Life@lockdownyourlife.com · last wk.

Suddenly has the urge to turn every room into a library after reading about those companies destroying millions of books.

Who could have guessed that the racist paramilitary kidnapping people because of racism were racist?

Tina Vasquez@tinavasquez.bsky.social · last wk.

Text messages and videos obtained by the ACLU show that federal immigration agents who carried out last year’s raids in L.A. referred to Latinos with slurs such as “wet” (wetback) and “tonks,” reportedly derived from the sound a flashlight makes when hitting a migrant’s head.

Gotta be honest here, but seeing as I’m only 31, sometimes I feel out of place talking or writing about events that happened before I was *politically conscious*. I was 15 when the Tea Party Movement started. Didn’t know shit about it until I was in grad school.

Highlights of my very last work trip just days before my last day: - Outbound flight delayed seven hours - Kiosk couldn’t print my bag tag - Plane hot as fuck - Delays cause me to miss first day of the conference - Go to wrong hotel Inshallah tomorrow goes better.

I wonder what Kyle Kulinski will have to say about this.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:

Don’t forget that the focus on Springfield was a result of a racist conspiracy theory spread by Blood Tribe, a Neo-Nazi group, then amplified by the then-future President and VP. JD Vance famously said he didn’t care whether or not it was true.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last wk.

TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...

As I’ve said before, going back to pen and paper has done wonders for my writing. Syntax, clarity, prose, all of it—better than starting on a computer.

Damon Young@damonyoung.com.au · 2w ago

Nope. No, you haven’t.

Fun fact: I got a media request from Berenson one time asking about how many J6 defendants had marijuana in their system during the insurrection.

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · 2w ago

Alex Berenson has also been a Reefer Madness-style quack for years.

Everything really is interracial cuck porn.

Joshua Erlich@joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 2w ago

this post is the entire intellectual framework of the American right

I always wondered if he was like this when he was still coaching.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Tuberville on Mayor Mamdani: "Put handcuffs on him ... send him to Gitmo"

Vance Boelter, the guy who killed Melissa Hortman and her husband in Minnesota last summer, is set to be sentenced today. The government is asking for a life sentence.

Do you think the ADL will add this to their tracker?

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w ago

NYC’s small business owners have said it over and over: endless paperwork and uncertainty has made getting their stores up and running too difficult. So we’re cutting red tape, eliminating redundant permits (did you know you need a permit just to serve some ice cream?), and speeding up inspections.

Killin’ y’all on that lyrical shit Mayonnaise colored Benz I push miracle whips

Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2w ago

They’re still going to try to deport his ass or he’ll “die of natural causes” in detention.

Texas Tribune@texastribune.org · 2w ago

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to not deport a witness in the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by a federal immigration agent earlier this month in Houston. bit.ly/4weFC0S

A list of things the Trump administration thinks is a Cuban, communist-funded, astroturfed campaign in opposition to: - Data centers - Genocide - Police brutality - Livable wages - Non-interventionism - Corruption - Dismantling social safety nets - Mass deportations - White supremacy List goes on

Billionaires will spend more money in months than they would have been taxed over the course of years, and people will still think they're "geniuses."

Watching de- and reterritorialization of the meaning of “terrorism” in real time is wild.