Rape is the central pillar of the right-wing agenda, the right to terrorize other people in the most intimate way possible.
Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · 4d agoArmy ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2
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writer. veteran. mainer. habitually curious daydreamer. probably making a playlist real quick.
Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · 4d ago
irony is dead
CNN@cnn.com · 3d agoA new company called PriorityEvac, which launched in June, is offering private evacuation flights from Florida’s coasts. For $1,250 a year, a member is guaranteed a spot aboard an Airbus A320 aircraft to Atlanta for a maximum of two hurricanes per season. https://cnn.it/4cpbgkr
Democrats: You pay taxes. We spend the money on you Republicans: You pay taxes, we spend the money on tax cuts for the wealthy and corporate subsidies This is how wealth is transferred from us to them. The same is true for tariffs. We pay the higher prices, but the corporations get the refunds.
Donald Trump dodged the draft but is happy to post photos of himself in uniform while he sends our kids to die in his war.
Miller is like a walking K-Tel record titled "Golden Classics of Domestic Violence." Track 1: "She's Crazy!" Track 2: "Those Lying Bitches" Track 3: "Parental Alienation Blues" Track 4: "Where's My Due Process?" Track 5: "Actually, She Abused Me" Track 6: "It Takes Two to Tango"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoMAX MILLER: She's 2.5 years old. She doesn't have the ability to articulate what you just said. TAPPER: But you just told me that she said she was scared to go to mommy's house. Now you're saying she's not capable of saying "Daddy kill you"? MILLER: What about due process?
I made dinner for my abuser a bunch of times. You have to play nice while you're planning your escape so you don't get dead. Max Miller is a textbook abuser.
We destroyed Irans military then had to go back to fighting the non existent military but had to stop because we were using too many expensive missiles attacking the not-military because we weren’t flying over the country with no military because their non military was still a threat to our planes.
Ukrainian intelligence confirms what many laypeople on BlueSky had already suspected: Russia is using satellites to help Iran target American bases in the Middle East. And Donald Trump will do *nothing* about this because he cares about Putin far more than he cares about American troops.
contact your senators, please! tell them to vote no on the NDAA until the SAVE America Act text and Section 219 are cut. it’s all so, so bad for what’s left of our democracy.
Putting words in the mouths of dead soldiers is next level
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"
Demons in your blood? Not anymore! https://store.theonion.com/products/demon-guard
Attacking civilian targets is a war crime, and Donald Trump is a war criminal. Impeachment. 25th amendment . Remove Trump from office now and end this war.
“No sirens sounded, because this is not how they sound. Democracies do not die to soundtracks. They die on ordinary weekdays, between the earnings reports, while the country is at work.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner
Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis
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this report is (predictably) unhinged and is clearly intended to set the stage for some Very Bad Shit
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3w agoRubio’s State Department just published a 100-page report identifying Cuba as the locus of Communist infiltration in the US since the 1960s. Absolutely bonkers shit. www.state.gov/wp-content/u...
So you agree? ICE is intentionally terrorizing American communities by violating rights and committing extrajudicial killings, and this has never had anything to do with immigration enforcement.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoHoman: "All the mistakes they say happened in Minnesota -- the mistakes them claim in Minnesota, a lot of them I don't think were mistakes."
I want so badly not to be a doomer but I can’t shake the feeling that the ship has sailed on whatever was left of our democracy
WOW. The Trump admin just barred the FBI from investigating cases where DHS officers get into confrontations with immigrants or citizens. ICE HSI will lead all investigations, yet HSI has no jurisdiction to investigate civil rights violations. The fox is guarding the henhouse.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3w agoBREAKING NYT: Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the FBI would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute DHS agents implicated in violent encounters.
BREAKING: We've lost two more service members in Trump's deranged, illegal, and unnecessary war in Iran.
call me Odysseus because when I want to go home, I’m about to make it everybody’s problem
Fascism is here. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. “Left-wing political terrorism” will mean those who oppose the regime — while actual right-wing extremism is allowed to grow and thrive. We are very far off the cliff, folks.
I'll let others comment on most aspects of the AP story, which clearly depicts the ICE agent David Brouillette as a psychopath, but I just want to refute this one section. Regardless of what Brouillette's family believes about his military service, this isn't true. 🧵
I’m gonna need a bigger eyeroll. are we really doing the red scare again?
Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 4w agoThis is complete insanity. But it’s their new apocalyptic talking point: that we are somehow on the brink of a communist takeover and we need them save us. And they use these end-times warnings as a pretext for power grabs.
Sam Neill insisting on changing the Australian flag in Event Horizon, and the reasoning behind it, speaks to his character so well. For those who don't know, the reason the flag on Weir's costume has the Aboriginal flag, not the Union flag, is because Sam said he hoped by 2047 we'd have changed it.
Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"
19thnews@19thnews.org · 4w agoTrials found that Carevix — a portmanteau of “care” and “cervix" — reduced pain during IUD insertion by up to 73 percent and bleeding by 78 percent, compared to the tenaculum.