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The most glaring double standard in American politics today is that if a Democrat said 1/10th about GOP-leaning areas what this guy says about cities on the daily there'd be a media dogpile so swift and vicious there'd be nothing left of their bones for the hyenas to pick at.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h agoTrump: "You see it in the blue states run by Democrats -- everything is filthy dirty all the time. The cities stink The sidewalks are loaded w/horrible stuff. I don't want to use the term bc my wife hates it. She hates it when I imitate no men in women's sports, when I do the weightlifter."
Out today: Nearly 2,000 juniors across 16 high schools in Houston ISD were pulled from Algebra II and placed in a remedial math course. At some schools, as many as 70% of juniors were similarly demoted into less challenging classes. It wasn't due to poor performance ...
The ‘Houston Miracle’ Shell Game
How Houston ISD’s takeover regime inflated school accountability ratings by systematically holding back certain students
texasobserver.org
i can’t help it, this is such a hysterically, comically corrupt fucking presidency, just comic book villain levels of cartoonish corruption
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoLombardo on Trump: "When the press and media runs him down, they think about 'he's taking care of his billionaire friends.' But those billionaire friends provide jobs. And unless you take care of them, those jobs are absent."
It’s a Klan Rally. These people only have to hear a name that their lizard brains process as sounding Arabic and hate immediately pours out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h agoLOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently
This is just rank Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, based on the bigoted idea that there is something inherently scary about a president with the last name "El-Sayed." It is incumbent on all of us to call it out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
Taking my time to really listen and learn from the very valid concerns of the MAHA movement:
Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 12h agowe should hear MAHA out about this they might be onto something
Trying out the features in Claude for education. Join me as I see how it "helps" me write a research paper. My chosen topic: "AI and education". /1
As Jane shows, telling students it’s OK to use AI for brainstorming or outlining is telling them to use AI to think and write for them. It is to also telling them to cheat and helping them cheat.
Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 16h agoTrying out the features in Claude for education. Join me as I see how it "helps" me write a research paper. My chosen topic: "AI and education". /1
President Donald Trump’s administration has detained more than 50 spouses and parents of U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families, an AP investigation has found.
AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents
An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.
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its very telling that the mainstream media narrative is that dsa has wacky and unreasonable positions when the republican party position is that abortion should be banned, latino families should be put in concentration camps, black people should be shot by cops and transgender people shouldnt exist
If this very short story is new to you, read it. Just read it.
Aaron Meyers@aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 2d ago"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury
chat can anyone verify that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold
The second Trump era has, if nothing else, been a good illustration of the idea that the people at the top echelons of society, in finance, law, higher education, politics, etc., are often the most credulous fools you can imagine.
Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · 2d agoLook, they're not gonna stop doing it until it stops working
Deeply fucked that “regardless of what genitals a little girl has, I don’t think adults should demand to look at them” is considered a radical freak position in some corners
“We should return to an older and more accurate name for the Civil War: the Slaveholders’ Rebellion. If a country unquestioningly adopts language that obscures its bloodiest crimes to absolve their worst perpetrators, how can we expect successive generations to remember the new assaults on democracy
Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)
To face our own history, we must be honest about it.
nytimes.com
Perfect example of this IRL. Political science says he'd drop out. Gender studies says he runs as an abuser bsky.app/profile/theb...
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
My daughter said Worf's formal sash makes him look like he's the birthday girl and she insisted I make this image.
Platner: credible accusations if abuse. Dems: “You’re out” Max Miller: pours boiling water on his wife, holds a gun to her head and fractures their daughters collar bone Jim Jordan: “he is a great man, I’m working to get him re-elected” Never let them tell you both parties are the same.
His plan is to let it rip through the population, kill the undesirables, and strengthen the gene pool. Because he is a eugenicist, a bigot, and a crank.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoBASH: How do you prepare for next pandemic? RFK Jr: We did almost everything wrong B: But what about now? K: We need to protect our rights B: ? K: During covid we dismantled our rights B: But I'm asking what *to* do K: You were part of the problem B: You want to sit here and attack me?
One thing a lot of ppl don't realize is that most of the free world has liquidated the material basis for a creative slacker class, and this is a large part of why mass media has become so sterile. Your art has to pay your godawful rent from Day 1 and you can't take risks with the rent money.
NeoTiamat@neotiamat99.bsky.social · 4d agoWhat made so many cultural centers of the past - interwar Paris, 70s NYC East Side, 90s Seattle - was that young artists could live and feed themselves on a pittance, leaving them time and energy to work on their art.
In any society, there will be a large number of people who are dispositionally conservative, which is fine and even good. There will also be a small, but significant number who are outright authoritarians. A good electoral system will silo the latter and allow the former to govern without them.
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 4d agoIt’s not a panacea, but the fascists are getting 20-25% of the vote & aren’t dominating politics in multiparty systems. Also, Americans love to point to 🇮🇱 & 🇬🇧, which are two of the worst-designed parliamentary systems. Anyway, more & stronger parties are absolutely a bulwark against fascism.
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Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Texas' failure to provide AC in its prisons has always stood out to me as one of the darkest expressions of our society's desire to be cruel to those under our power. Truly a moral failure of our people.
gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 5d agoOne of the biggest opponents of air conditioning in Texas prisons, as I wrote a few years ago, is now the Mayor of Houston: www.chron.com/culture/arti...