From an LA RE perspective -- these guys are all building expensive apartments to be filled with section 8 tenants paying whatever they ask for. Pratt is anti-homeless but also pro-cutting the expenditure to house them, just like Trump. Totally silly imo.

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The LA real estate development guys how have thrown in with him have real grievances that are not totally invalid, they’ve just chosen to adress them by throwing in with a magic bean salesman and not an adult they have some disagreements with, because they are stupid cattle.

Ahh yes, the plan to seed everything with bots and to race bait and fear monger like he's Strom Thurmond. Joy.

New York Post @nypost.com · 2mo ago

Spencer Pratt lays out plan to defeat Mayor Karen Bass in November runoff: 'I could not be more excited'

NO RUSS OKC THUNDER DYNASTY CONFIRMED: EPSTEIN RUINED VIDEO GAMES BONESMASHING LOOKSMAXXERS ARE COMING DUBAI CHOCOLATE IS CIA PSYOP 6 DOLLAR GAS THANKS TRUMP

Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 4mo ago

due to a rift in the space-time continuum, you can send exactly five words to 2016 CHICAGO POPE NETFLIX HAS ADS

Trump went from making insane genocidal threats this morning to hyping the “golden age” of Iran hours later, and he received no concessions in between. He’s an absolute basket case who needs to be removed from power before he follows through on one of his mass murder fantasies.

cuban missile crisis with trump playing both roles

The IRGC tokenizes Jews to make it as though the Jews left in Iran support them. The Jews in Iran do not support them. They vehemently oppose the regime. As do most Iranians. This is disgusting propaganda.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Criticizing Israel is not antisemitic, because Israel and Judaism are not one and the same. Here’s proof:

Lots of tech dudes think the "idea" is the important part of creating, not the creative journey you take through work to give that idea actual meaning. Ideas are the easiest, cheapest and least fulfilling part of it. Giving ideas life through work, and sharing that work with others, is the stuff.

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Seriously it’s like there is a giant chunk of tech people who don’t understand that when you’ve learned how to write, you feel proud, you look forward to doing more of it, you cheerfully neglect your other work just so you can write more

I wrote about old rap magazines, the fight for the future of hip hop’s past, and the impact the digital age has had on history, for @defector.com defector.com/lost-recipes

Lost Recipes | Defector

In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...

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Today is a momentous day for every Iranian. But this is also correct, this is a net evil that is becoming frightening to see.

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 5mo ago

No world leader is safe and no country’s sovereignty is secure under the Trump doctrine of might makes right. The United States has overwhelming force and will use it to get its way, no matter the repercussions or the laws that meant to restrain it. We’ve entered an incredibly dangerous reality.

Israel and Iran, the two countries I consider where I originate from, are at war again.

For now, but that AI bubble is popping and that’s about to be a big problem for a bid like this.

onion person@junlper.beer · 5mo ago

i can only hope they do, but the ellisons literally have unlimited money. it doesn’t matter if they operate at a loss on stuff like CBS or CNN

The 101 course on systems of oppression surely includes the part about how oppression doesn't manifest in the same ways for every oppressed group. At the very least you definitely failed the class if you think Jewish people aren't oppressed.

One of the fun facts about going outside the US is that largely everywhere, unless in the middle of a war, has less gun crime.

Pé 🍺🧿@forevernever.bsky.social · 5mo ago

There's optimism and vibrancy in many places outside of the United States that have been missing from our culture, society and economy for a very long time. It's also shocking when you visit countries that are regularly smeared as "unsafe" by US media... how inaccurate it is.

Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘The trend is irreversible’: has Romania shattered the link between economic growth and high emissions?

Emissions have plunged 75% since communist times in the birthplace of big oil – but for some the transition has been brutal

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Anger.

Free Iran.

My mom has skin cancer now. Early stages, thank god. But also. WTF.

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

This whole month my social life has been dominated by 26 year old narcissists shit talking me.

I desperately need a vacation.

It’s quietly unbelievable that Trumps supporters would defend him as not a racist in 2016-2020

People are forgetting that Bitcoin works on trade. If countries are getting more closed off, it should be obvious that “universal digital currency” would take a hit.

Public sentiment is so anti-Trump and so geared towards the midterms that them announcing ICE will be at the polls will carry the absolute opposite effect. If the economy keeps flagging too? It’s a death knell for the guy. A lot of angry people who would get angrier.

For the moment, he’s the right horse to bet on somewhere. Big chance of him suddenly becoming a bigger crossover star.

Dan@golazodan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Brody King chants have made it to the non-wrestling Reddits, this is getting serious.

This is the appeal of Star Trek. You watch the characters grow together and apart through adversity. The writing is relatively pliable and responsive to this. The space stuff adds surreality and the chance to explore in ways you can’t. And it becomes perfect comfort television.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 6mo ago

this is a thing people forget because they tend to think of their favorite actors as static in terms of skill. everyone on TNG and DS9, including Patrick Stewart, is a WORSE actor in episode one than they were by episode 60. it's good to force actors to inhabit a role longer! They get better at it.

Ahh the life of an ICE agent: you’re not really trained or paid or given benefits, you have an impossible quota for work, you have a bonus you won’t ever collect, you can’t sleep at any hotel chain or eat anywhere and you work for a pedophile. And every day you might be in a riot. What a job.

Petition to change Kid Rock's name to BAWITDABAD BUNNY.

Product of two Jews. Circa 1920 from the Ottoman Empire? Religious persecution And also circa 1977 from Iran? Religious persecution. Also my grandpa was from Lithuania… religious persecution.

virgotex@virgotex.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Genuinely curious: If your family is American, what brought them here? Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture

“Less than two weeks before Jeffrey Epstein’s death in jail, his lawyers and Manhattan federal prosecutors met and discussed his potential cooperation…”

Epstein lawyers discussed possibility of cooperation with prosecutors days before his death, files reveal

Less than two weeks before convicted abuser was found dead, lawyers met with Manhattan federal prosecutors

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pizzagate and qanon were not onto something, they were orchestrated by pedophiles to make accusing people of pedophilia make you look insane so that they could continue doing pedophile shit. fucking christ