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remember how Riley Gaines’ swimming coach raped a bunch of her teammates? then when her career path became TV Nazi she defended him and he claimed he was being targeted for standing up against trans women in sports? anyway she cares deeply about women and girls being safe.
Odyssey this. Odyssey that. We Odyssey ICE abolished.
*standing up on the plane* Die Hard is just The Bad News Bears with all the kids as aspects of Walter Matthau's character, all in the body of Bruce Willis. I'm not speaking abstractly about common traits of underdog narratives in cinema. I mean: DIE HARD IS JUST THE BAD NEWS BEARS WITH ALL THE KI—
Mo Ryan@moryan.bsky.social · 6d ago*standing up on the plane* No, getting together a TV couple with will-they/won't-they romantic chemistry is NOT a mistake. You may be listening to conventional wisdom about the TV show Moonlighting, but as has been comprehensively shown by an array of critics, that program's problems had nothing t-
"I hope that this shares with people that are incarcerated on Rikers, that they too are a part of this city. The World Cup has been a magical moment for the entire city. These are New Yorkers, and they will be New Yorkers when they get out of Rikers. They are New Yorkers today." ♥️♥️♥️
Mamdani watches World Cup semifinal match with Rikers Island prisoners
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w agoThe beautiful game. The people’s game. Throughout this World Cup, we have been reminded of a simple truth: football belongs to everyone. So does the joy and community it creates. Yesterday, I joined New Yorkers on Rikers Island to watch England take on Argentina.
That unnameable feeling where the first word I see on the 🐝 is a pangram which is not on the list.
Seems like no one hit any home runs on the last ball in the first round of the homerun derby. And I'm pretty sure it's because someone at TMobile cravenly wanted to avoid any possible association with gay or women's issues and decided to call it "the Magenta Ball."
Saddened to hear of the untimely passing of Lindsey Graham, whose quick wit, charm, and facility with banter were irreplaceab— wait shit that’s Lauren Graham. Is Lauren Graham okay? She is? Oh thank god.
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
Amy Klobuchar’s eulogy for Lindsey Graham was 390 words long. This was 390 more words than she has said in support of trans people
Try to live your life so people don't read about your heart attack and think: "Nah. I hope he shat himself to death."
It makes me want to scream that these women are having to go public in graphic detail about their sexual assaults because the pundit brains were willing to overlook the fact that this man is the embodiment of a walking red flag
Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 4w agoGraham Platner should be prosecuted for his criminal sexual assaults
We will be reading and hearing a lot of things framed as,“…since COVID” in coming weeks. Most of it won’t mention the political and corporate backlash to massive (popular) public spending during COVID that got us here. But you and I will know.
(Kiddo has been complaining all day about how long this car trip is taking, but we have stopped and plied her with fries and ketchup and her mood is much improved) Kiddo: (Brightly) Time to get BACK IN THE CAR!!! Me: Oh, now you're anxious to get in the car? Kiddo: I'm not 'anxious,' I'm 'EXCITED!'
Patriotism asks you to fight for values and an ideal. Nationalism asks you to fight for a person or group. There's a difference, and it matters.
Major events are planned and executed by the highest eschelons of Theater Kid. Predominantly women and gay men. No shit they wanted nothing to do with the DC event. Everyone is discovering what happens when you have straight men attempt to plan entertainment.
America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
A friendly message to MAGA folks on this 4th of July weekend: you are the most traitorous, unpatriotic, anti-American, insurrectionist pieces of shit walking the earth right now. Fuck you.
Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.
Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"
The only use for AI is lying. Everything it is proposed to do is just lying by other means— it just the obvious propaganda uses but even the small insignificant things, like summarizing a document you should have read or replying to an email you can’t be bothered to read—it’s all lying.
Once again, there is no gender equality without our trans community. There is no feminism without our trans community.
Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last mo.The Supreme Court's first decisions are the trans athlete cases. By a 6–3 vote, the court holds that Title IX and the equal protection clause do NOT stop states from excluding trans women and girls from female sports teams. The three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Sorry I was absent from my job as the Baby Healthcare Slasher. I had depression for reasons that I’m sure are entirely unrelated to that. Anyways back to my job giving everyone infectious diseases and driving teenagers to suicide.
Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.
Nancy Armour@nrarmour.bsky.social · last mo.The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant
If the Supreme Court can reverse a 95 year-old ruling for a country that is only 250 years old, I need you to UNDERSTAND this country still has no idea what it is or what it stands for other than it’s constant push-and-pull to oppress Black people and eliminate Native people.
Went for a hike while listening to @chanda.blacksky.app's excellent "The Edge of Space-Time" and was rather delighted by her discussion of measuring distances in minutes or times in feet, because my planned hike was going to be exactly two liters of water long.
The call is coming from inside the House.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Mike Johnson: "Right now the foundations of America are under violent and unprecedented attack"
